Plan to restrict free speech

A proposal sponsored by the Obama administration at the United Nations that purports to seek protection for "freedom of opinion and expression" actually is a call for a worldwide crackdown on freedom of speech and a mandate for nations to ensure "that relevant national legislation complies with … international human rights obligations" – a clear threat to the First Amendment, according to critics.

The resolution was submitted recently by the United States and Egypt. It was approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council as a first step in its process through the international organization.

It demands that all nations condemn and criminalize "any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence." Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation told WND the issue is not about free speech at all but about installing international precedents to stifle any criticism of Islam.

Full story at World Net Daily.

The United Nations has become a totally worthless organization, filled with petty tyrants and dictators who won't obey our laws when their here strutting their lies, and don't allow any freedoms in their own countries, from which people flee to come here to find what they don't have at home. Now Obama wants us to become just another third world, banana republic where everyone can be equally poor to fit his narcissistic personality. Unfortunately, he's succeeding.

Changing sheets listening to Fox

Fox News was on in the background while I was changing sheets today. Sounded like news to me. Can't imagine what the WH is so in a snit about. The stories I heard were H1N1 vaccine--reasons to get it, who, where, etc. That was an interview with a doctor. Story about Christopher Dodd wanting more rules for banks. Straight line reporting, quoting him--didn't even point out his ethical failings and his sweetheart deals. Then there was a science feature about a blob robot, again an interview with an expert. It appears the White House can't tell the difference between opinion and news. Probably watching too much ABC, NBC, NBC and CNN--because on those channels, you really can't tell. Today the Fox Business Channel starts for us on our cable service--we enjoy Neil Cavuto on regular Fox and look forward to seeing him and a few others on the Business Channel, like Dave Ramsey, Elizabeth McDonald and John Stossell.

People who demean Fox News don't recognize unfiltered, non-Katified news, and don't notice that the panels have more than one viewpoint--sometimes 3 or 4! Oh, the horror of it. It's not Obama 24/7!

Socialism sells. . . then kills

Joe Wilson and his opponent have now both raised $2 million for their campaigns. His "You Lie" statement of truth energized both campaigns. The Democrats are now the party of the fat cats, rich energy moguls going green, foreign born lobbyists and smelly Euro-socialists, in addition to their usual supporters, Hollywood celebrities and the public librarians. So they have a lot more money than we do.

So time to chip in, Conservatives. Yes, both parties are full of pork-fed liars, but for now, getting Congress out of the clutches of the White House Statists is important. These are very deep pockets among the Obama crowd. I used to think it wasn't ethical to get involved in other states' elections. But that was before we knew the extent of Soros, ACORN and the Chicago machine.

Joe Wilson for Congress blog.

Photo from Stop blaming capitalism for socialism's failures at But now you know.

Captured CO2

Last week there was a dust storm over Australia that dumped tons of red dust in the ocean. The dust contained nutrients which fed huge blooms of phytoplankton. Those tiny plants provide food for larger ocean creatures. The plankton has captured about 8 million tons of CO2. This will be deposited on the ocean floor. That's one month of emissions from a dirty coal-fired plant in China making energy conserving light bulbs for Americans so they can sit in dim rooms feeling good about themselves for not using American clean coal mined here in Ohio and other Appalachian states providing good jobs. The DC and California greenies don't like the ocean doing the natural CO2 capture and storage primarily because they can't make any money that way or tax it.

Ohio State sets new enrollment records

According to OSUToday: "Ohio State has set new records this fall – in the size, quality and diversity of its student body. There are new records in the number of students attending the Columbus campus and several regional campuses. New autumn quarter enrollment figures show a 2.7 percent increase in Ohio State enrollment, with a record 63,217 students on all campuses and a record 55,014 on the Columbus campus – a 2.4 percent increase. Across all campuses, there are a record 49,915 undergraduates including 9,510 new first-year students — providing more students than ever access to higher education." Read more: the full report (51 pages) or the press release http://osu.edu/news/newsitem2575

The library has now moved back to the main campus, so in order to go there, I'll have to compete for parking again. I loved having it on Ackerman Rd. The ACK STAX. I think I used the library more those 3 years than all the other years in my retirement (9).

Cash for Oldsters

"No one ever went broke underestimating political cynicism, but these days even we can't keep up: On Wednesday [Oct. 14], President Obama announced that he wants to send every American senior a $250 check.

"Even as we seek to bring about recovery, we must act on behalf of those hardest hit by this recession," Mr. Obama said. Of course it's a mere coincidence that these checks are being proposed, and probably passed, just as Congress is about to vote on health care."

So says Review and Outlook at Friday's WSJ. Keep in mind, only the opinion page in the Wall Street Journal is conservative--the news section follows like a puppy at Obama's heels. (Nice doggie, good doggie, here's a bone, now don't bite or I'll bury you with the other chickens in the Fox Den.)

A group of us seniors was talking Sunday evening in our home. Actually, we aren't the "hardest hit" at all; one observed that we have all lived at a much reduced, simpler lifestyle when we were younger--it is no sacrifice or terror for us to reenter that territory like it might be for children and grandchildren who have enjoyed all the perks and materialism that a booming free market economy offers, and much of it sterile and unspiritual to boot! Also I know couples my age and older with 5 and 6 pension streams, their two or three homes and cars are paid for, and their "gotta have it" odometer is no longer functioning. A few born in the 20s and 30s remember the Great Depression, but most remember their parents' stories and advice. We are the fortunate generation, not the hardest hit.

In a recent e-mail, the ever vigilant Murray observed:

Now remember, the reason to rush the [stimulus] Bill through without reading it was to avoid a another crisis to go along with the housing bubble burst that was ALL Bush's fault. So why has only about 15% of the $787 billion stimulus been released? Gee, I thought rushing this money into the economy was the key point. But wait, take another look at Emaneul's statement again [never waste a good crisis]. They don't want to waste a crisis so therefore what's the best strategic plan for the Obama team? (not for you & I silly) It seems to play out like this. They are trickling the money into the economy and plan to dump 2/3 of it in just before the next election. So let's see, 1/3 over the first two years and then wham, 2/3 just before the next election. Hmmmmm! Who does that help?

In the meantime, in order to keep the peasants at bay, they will extend unemployment benefits. Thus they will be using your tax dollars to enable them to delay the so called stimulus money until THEY can best take advantage of it while the masses are beating the bushes looking for jobs. I guess the rush wasn't so important after all !!

This is the kind of deception and lying that we've become used to but shouldn't be comfortable with. It's like the other day when things weren't going well for Obama so he says he wants to give S.S. recipients $250 checks to offset no COLA for 2010. (your congressman gave himself a $4,700 raise on his 174,000 dollar salary) Obama throws out crumbs with your tax dollars so he can milk it for all it's worth. In this case he's hoping to get the seniors off his back by waiting to cut the checks until right before the midterm elections. Hmmmm! This must part of the transparency he promised.

It's just like his ObamaCare. If it passes Heh,Heh,Heh.... benefits won't start for the uninsured until 2013 after the elections. Why? Because that's when we find out just how bad this plan is and how much it's really going to cost after it's too late. Why do I say it's bad? Well, if they won't bother to read it, won't post it on the Internet and use trickery to calculate the cost, what other conclusion can you come to? Besides, the 4 things that need to be in any healthcare plan that would lower the healthcare costs aren't in it. In fact, the largest cost to the healthcare industry (free healthcare for illegals) is being totally ignored as are the illegals themselves. That in itself tells you this package stinks. Today I find out that one of the ways the Democrats used to help lower the overall cost of the healthcare bill was to take some of the expensive provisions out of the Bill and put them in a separate bill to pass. Ahhh, isn't transparency wonderful? Isn't this the kind of information that should be exposed on the 6 o'clock news or make the headlines?

The latest polls show that 54% oppose and 35% are for the healthcare plan. But that doesn't matter. We're dealing with what Obama wants. The Obama team has ignored us at the town hall meetings, tea parties, our e-mails and the March on Washington. Obama stages his own town hall meetings and runs them like he's campaigning. Welcome to ObamaWorld!

New editor in blogger

For several days I tried "new editor" in the basic posting template at blogger. Didn't like it. When I copied and pasted text from another source, I couldn't control the paragraphs; I couldn't see what I was editing; there was no spell check, had to use IE's; sometimes in the window things ran off the margin. Really, I could see no advantage. Still haven't seen a correction to the label problem (2000 limit) and I've read through the discussions at the blogger.com forums. Some people seem to be in worse shape than I. So I continue to use the labels I have and hope someone fixes this problem. If you don't have an "Anita Dunn" label there's really no work-around.

Monday Memories--giving Caleb the boot

Last week I posted a photo of me hold newborn baby Caleb. Here he is now at the party for him before he leaves for Army Reserves Boot Camp. His mom is a fabulous hostess, and it was great to see all the friends and relatives and catch up on what everyone is doing.

We will all go together when we go

It's about the bomb, but listen and think about freedom of speech and press. If the President can attack and take out one, he can take them all.



And we will all go together when we go.
What a comforting fact that is to know.
Universal bereavement,
An inspiring achievement,
Yes, we all will go together when we go.


And then think about the President cozying up with our enemies--leaving us defenseless. Yes, this 1959 song is sounding quite appropriate.

HT Tsedek Tsedek

Dunn explains how it's done

How to keep the press in your pocket and suppress all other views.



She says: "Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.


"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.


"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama'schief campaign manager.


"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.

HT Chicago Ray


Here's Plouffe (Obama's Campaign Manager) keeping the press out of the National Press Club

Reading Mao isn't the same as admiring Mao

"Taking its cue from the White House, CNN, the 4th most popular cable news network and fact-checker of Saturday Night Live skits skewering the president (even Jon Stewart snorted at that one), picks up the canard and runs with it.

But it's not just Dunn, a Democrat, who has used Mao as someone she reads.
Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog group, points out that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, also a Fox News contributor, quoted Mao in a 1995 Roll Call profile.

"War is politics with blood; politics is war without blood," Gingrich said, citing Mao.

Karl Rove, another Fox News contributor, wrote in a December 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed that President Bush "encouraged me to read a Mao biography."

Sometimes people read books to understand the depravity of their opponents and those who would destroy them. After all, lots of Republicans like Rove and Gingrich have read Mao, right along with Rules for Radicals and Dreams from my Father."

CNN's lame excuse

Emboldened White House

Those of you who think the White House is just acting a bit like a snotty, rebellious child caught with his hand in the cookie jar, ought to wake up and see the seriousness of Obama's henchmen attacks on a news agency

The White House stopped providing guests to "Fox News Sunday" after host Chris Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in August. Dunn said fact-checking an administration official was "something I've never seen a Sunday show do." "She criticized 'Fox News Sunday' last week for fact-checking -- fact-checking -- an administration official," Wallace said Sunday. "They didn't say that our fact-checking was wrong. They just said that we had dared to fact-check."

Each day I am getting more and more chilled and concerned by this mess you guys elected for us. It doesn't even sound like my country any more.

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A grieving father blogs. . .

Robert J. Avrech is an Emmy Award winning screenwriter, an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. He writes the blog, Seraphic Secret. His son died of cancer at age 22 in 2003. He writes that time has not healed.

It's not health care reform

This op-ed piece in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette finds the real problem, and it's not insurance:

Health care costs too much in our country because we deliver too much health care. We deliver too much because we demand too much. And we demand it for all the wrong reasons. We're turning into a nation of anxious wimps. I still love my job; very few things are as emotionally rewarding as relieving true pain and suffering, sharing compassionate care and actually saving lives. Illness and injury will always require the best efforts our medical system can provide. But emergency departments nationwide are being overwhelmed by the non-emergent, and doctors in general are asked to treat what doesn't need treatment. In a single night I had patients come in to our emergency department, most brought by ambulance, for the following complaints: I smoked marijuana and got dizzy; I got stung by a bee and it hurts; I got drunk and have a hangover; I sat out in the sun and got sunburn; I ate Mexican food and threw up; I picked my nose and it bled, but now it stopped; I just had sex and want to know if I'm pregnant. . . . Our society has warped our perception of true risk. We are taught to fear vaccinations, mold, shark attacks, airplanes and breast implants when we really should worry about smoking, drug abuse, obesity, cars and basic hygiene. If you go by pharmaceutical advertisement budgets, our most critical health needs are to have sex and fall asleep."

HT Kat

Medical marijuana

I'm sure most conservative commentators and bloggers will jump all over Obama for this one--the new federal guidelines. Not me. Maybe there is no benefit, maybe medical marijuana is just another placebo, but we'll never know until there are large clinical studies, and there won't be any if we make criminals out of the doctors and patients who are trying to ease chronic, debilitating pain. It certainly can't be worse or more addictive than some of the prescription medications like Oxycontin. Is this another follow the money fight? Now let's see if the state and federal regulations can control this as a medical treatment. Probably not.

Need a fact checker

Our church went to plastic communion cups years ago, not for sanitation but because there weren't enough ladies left in the altar guild to wash them when the congregation grew. Some congregations/denominations are doing away with the common cup due to fear of disease transmission. Somewhere years ago when I first started serving communion (and we do occasionally have common cup in small services), I heard that someone had tested a common cup against the individual glass cup, and found more germs on the glass due to inadequate washing and storing. Anyone know more about this? I would think the alcohol will kill some germs, although not handling the bread so much would make sense.

Obama's military expenditure projection

"To carry out the Obama administration's defense plans, the Pentagon will need its non-war-related spending over the next 18 years to average 6 percent more than the amount sought in its fiscal 2010 budget request, according to CBO testimony Wednesday before the House Budget Committee.

Despite efforts to cut unnecessary programs and otherwise rein in defense budgets that have spiked since 2001, the Pentagon still will need roughly $567 billion annually, in constant 2010 dollars, for its base budgets between fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2028, Matthew Goldberg, CBO acting assistant director, told the panel. That figure, which does not include war costs, marks a $33 billion increase over the fiscal 2010 base defense budget request. . .

Meanwhile, spending on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan still makes up about 35 percent, or $154 billion, of the total defense budget request for fiscal 2010. Long-term estimates on war spending hinge largely on whether and how many additional troops President Obama decides to send to Afghanistan.

Daggett also noted that each U.S. soldier deployed to Afghanistan for one year costs about $1 million. By comparison, one Afghan soldier costs $12,000 annually.

Meanwhile, the current monthly "burn rate" in Afghanistan is $3.6 billion. But that would grow to about $7.2 billion -- or the same rate that the United States is spending monthly in Iraq -- if Obama decides to send in 50,000 additional troops, he said." Link

White House goes Palin with Sotomayor

"Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen for her.

Sotomayor made the comments when she appeared at her 30th Yale Law School reunion on Saturday. . . Sotomayor talked about shopping for clothes to wear to her acceptance ceremony. Government officials, however, told her to bring five suits and they recommended which one she should wear."

Source: Newsmax

Maybe the parties do this with male candidates too, and they just don't make the news because people don't care? Pin stripe or plain; yellow tie or blue stripe; tiny flag pin. What do you think, Mr. WH Clothing Czar?

800 U.S. war dead in Afghanistan

Since October 1, 2001. Think about that. That's less than the murder rate in most major American cities (see Forbes, "America's most murderous cities"). It's far below the death rate for teen drivers and passengers (16-20), which is something like 5,000 a year (NHTSA)! If the soldier is your son or daughter, father, husband, brother, then the totals don't matter. But I think war protesters ought to think about totals. The Iraq War protesters extended the war, just like they did during the Vietnam era. It gives courage and resolve to the enemy and makes little difference to the people in government. The Iraq War had the backing of many Democrats in Congress, until they decided there was political capital in changing their minds and blaming Bush saying they were misled. That's an ugly thing to do. Either they are liars or easily intimidated wimps. Maybe both. And now we have a President who doesn't believe in victory, waffles on Afghanistan and has changed his mind on Sudan, endangering every military family and America's security in general. And Democrats are still divided, still trying to blame Bush.

But back to the numbers. Did you know the recession has saved lives? Yes, less driving, fewer deaths. Fewer in 2008 than 2007--down 9.7%--and 2009 will probably drop even more. And motorcycle deaths are increasing--probably some folks trying to save gasoline! And did you know that the decade following 1995 when the speed limits went back up (had been 55 mph), studies show an additional 12,500 people died and about 36,500 injured through 2006, even though overall deaths are going down due to safer cars, more seat belt use, and alcohol crack downs.

So why does the media and special interest groups try to get political mileage out of 800 deaths in 9 years, and pretty much ignore 12,500 deaths in 10 years which resulted from societal pressure and special interests? Are those families grieving less because the white cross is along interstate 70 or Rt. 64 and not in a military cemetery? Also, a new study shows that texting increased the danger of driving by 23.2 times--taking your eyes off the road is a lot more dangerous than talking on a cell phone. So what's up? Why is one story so much more compelling, more political, and yet the carnage is so much worse on the highways? [from "Studies probe US traffic injuries, deaths" by Mike Mitka, JAMA, Sept. 16, 2009, p. 1159-1160 using figures from NHTSA]

Kiss and Tell Books

If I'd never known about Bwabwra Walters affairs, or that McKenzie had sex with her father, I would not be impoverished. I wish these attention seekers would just stay in the closet of family secrets. So too with the people who guard the Presidents. I think its a bit creepy. They aren't too kind to Jimmy Carter, but at least the revelations sound like what we all guessed in Ronald Kessler’s book In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents they Protect. My other two examples, not.

Carter is portrayed as a phony according to the agents interviewed by Kessler. Carter would put on a show for the public to convey himself as a common man, but it was never anymore than an act. For instance, we are told that when Carter would make a point of carrying his own luggage in front of the press, he was really carrying empty bags. He expected others to carry his real luggage. Unfriendly, Carter “didn’t want the police officers and agents looking at him or speaking to him when he went to the [Oval] office,” explained an assistant White House usher. “The only time I saw a smile on Carter’s face was when the cameras were going,” one former agent told Kessler. After his presidency, Kessler reports that when Carter would stay at a townhouse maintained for former presidents in D.C., he would take down pictures of other presidents and put up more pictures of himself! “The Carters were the biggest liars in the world,” one agent told Kessler of the Carter era. Carter, not surprisingly, denied to Kessler through a lawyer many of the allegations in the book. from Hot Air

Sigh. If he'd just kept building houses instead of trying to have a 2nd and 3rd term while others were in office, he probably could have recovered from his record and been a well-loved ex.

HT Sister Toljah