The Contraception President

Stopping economic growth before it becomes viable.

“From Occupy Wall Street to Wisconsin, from Trayvon Martin to Chick-fil-A, the goal of these manufactured conflicts has been to divide and conquer the electorate by emphasizing group rights over individual economic welfare.
Obama can't win on the economy. He can't win on foreign policy. He can't win on any aspect of his administration. All he can do is stir up violence and then promise to heal the country in his second term while winking to all the representatives of the grievance groups. It's not a new game, but the Democratic Party has never played it quite this baldly in a national election. And if it succeeds, then national politics will have finally been reduced to the level of a Chicago election.”

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-most-divisive-campaign-in-american.html

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

I wrote this blog last summer, but I published it in my other, other blog, and don’t think I put it in this one—at least I can’t find it.  Hymns bring back many memories.  This one reminds me of my sister, Carol.
We sang that old hymn at the dockside service at Lakeside last Sunday, Sept. 4.  Published in 1887, it tells of the assurance of God's steadfast care and guidance in tough times, and offers the peace of a relationship with him.  I grew up in the Church of the Brethren where I don't recall we sang anything that had a beat--and then in 1974 became a Lutheran and they missed out on those twangy camp songs too, being mostly ethnic Scandinavians (in our synod).  The first time I heard it was in Flat Creek, Kentucky in 1956 where my sister Carol was a volunteer church worker through Brethren Volunteer Service.  Because she was only 19 at the time, and I was her "little" sister, I was stunned at the level of spiritual and social responsibility she had.  Like riding horseback into the mountains to provide Sunday school in areas that had no passable roads; working in the garden and taking care of chickens (and plucking them) for food for the staff (I think there were 5 people living in a little house); helping the local women with sewing and. . . leading hymns like this one.  In that area of the country it was sung like a dirge and a capella--not peppy and clappy the way we did it at dockside with an electronic organ. Carol went to be with the Lord in 1996, but every time I hear "Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms; leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms," I think of that amazing, fearless teen-ager.  Now I keep track of her 5 grandchildren (4 teens) on Facebook, Will, Jenny, Rachel, Catie and Chris.

Carol's BVS unit 1955. Wearing white blouse, looking between two women in the second row. She also helped flood victims in Pennsylvania, canvassed a neighborhood in Denver for a church plant, and was a "guinea pig" for the NIH. In 1957 she entered Goshen College in Indiana where she got her RN

A Note from my brother-in-law:

In 1940, my parents sent me to work on a farm of a distant relative-by-marriage. At that time we lived in uptown Mnhattan, New York but the dream was to leave the city at some point and start a chicken farm. I ended up near a little village on the Eastern Shore of Maryland called Trappe and worked hard and long for Graham Price and his wife Adeline and two daughters that whole summer. I didn't learn much about chickens but Graham had 7 acres of tomatoes and I learned the rigors of that crop many times over.
Graham belonged to a group I had never heard of called Pilgrim Holiness; we went to church every Sunday morning and every Wednesday evening at a little town called Oxford, which was almost on the Chesapeake Bay.

One Sunday morning they sang a hymn that I - a baptized and confirmed United Lutheran Church in America boy - had never heard called What a Fellowship. And when they would sing the refrain: Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms, the ladies would lift their arms and swing them back and forth in the air. I remember I couldn't wait to get back to the farm that day to write my mom and dad and tell them of the experience.

And yet, now in the Brethren Hymnal Supplement, hymn number 1081 is What a Fellowship and it is a hymn we sing frequently. In fact, I have arranged it as an anthem for soprano/alto chorus with optional congregational participation. And even more interesting is the fact that the text was by Anthony Johnson Showalter, a very distant relative of Vernon (and Jean) Showalter who go to the Mount Morris Church of the Brethren.

Everything comes around.
Nel

Remember Minnesota

"By making this choice, Mitt Romney is declaring war. There will be no evasion, no triangulation, no attempt to mask what is at stake in this election. Instead, Romney and Ryan will directly confront Barack Obama and call him to account for putting us on a ruinous course.

This will alter radically the dynamics of the race. The money spent by Obama trying to demonize Governor Romney will prove to be money entirely wasted. The election is not going to be about Mitt Romney. It is not going to be about the sexual revolution. It is not going to be about Bain Capital. It is going to be about the failed policies of Barack Obama, about their dangerous character, and about the sober, sound alternative the Republicans represent. ...

This will help the Republicans in Senate and House races immeasurably, for it will give Romney and Ryan coattails -- now, without a doubt, the candidates in these other races have something concrete on which to run: repeal Obamacare, pare back the entitlements state, reform our system of taxation, and put our fiscal house in order. No one will doubt the capacity of the Republicans to rule.

I have predicted that Romney will win by a landslide. The choice of Paul Ryan means that Romney has chosen the path that will maximize the significance of his victory and its impact on the races for seats in the House and Senate. As in 1980, this is going to be a national election -- in which local particularities count for much less than usual."
http://www.ricochet.com/main-feed/Romney-s-Declaration-of-War

The Ryan Plan, myths, lies and facts

Now, let’s compare the Ryan Plan with the Democrats’ plan.  Ooops. Someone is a no show.

Who will pay for Obamacare? People like me and you.

“How much will ObamaCare actually cost us? 90% of the burden will be funded by new taxes that will fall upon individuals making between $9,500 and $200,000!” Over one third of the burden will fall upon people with incomes between $9,500 and $37,300, whose ObamaCare tax will be a flat $695 beginning in 2016. That makes the ObamaCare mandate tax a very regressive tax.   Well over one half of the burden will fall upon people whose incomes put them squarely in the middle class. This breaks the President’s 2008 campaign pledge to not raise taxes on the middle class, which he defined as individuals making less than $200,000 a year, or households with incomes less than $250,000.   http://www.mygovcost.org/2012/07/25/the-mandate-tax-burden-of-obamacare/

Here’s an article on the penalty tax. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-is-the-obamacare-penalty-tax-2012-7

I’m not too worried about his broken promises.  He lies so often, the promises don’t matter.

Obama and the 1%

Christians should be happy that Obama has finally acknowledged the wording of the First Amendment is "freedom of religion," and not changed it to just "freedom of worship" (the Soviet constitution wording), and that he has had his arm twisted into saying that it is our Creator and not the government that gives us our rights. Culturally, he is still very naive, having been raised in a Muslim, not Christian country. Yes, he said it to American Muslims, the 1%, but it's a start. Maybe someday he'll say it to Christians, the 83%.

And he's not even in terrible error about Muslims and the founding of our country [it's odd that he holds up Jefferson owning a Koran--I own a railroad table, and that doesn't make me an engineer]. Arab Muslims attacked and enslaved African blacks by the millions and sold them to the European slave traders, so in a way, they helped create our mixed society.

President Obama: "Of all the freedoms we cherish as Americans, of all the rights that we hold sacred, foremost among them is freedom of religion, the right to worship as we choose. It’s enshrined in the First Amendment of our Constitution — the law of the land, always and forever. It beats in our heart — in the soul of the people who know that our liberty and our equality is endowed by our Creator. And it runs through the history of this house, a place where Americans of many faiths can come together and celebrate their holiest of days — and that includes Ramadan."

Christians need to speak to other Christians about their involvement in and support of crimes against the unborn

Mennonite Germans worshiping with English Quakers in Philadelphia were the first Americans to speak out against the practice of slavery in 1688, and particularly were against their fellow Christians engaging in the "traffic of humans."  They recalled the days when the Turks (Muslims) were capturing Europeans on ships and selling them as slaves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1688_Germantown_Quaker_Petition_Against_Slavery

Who knew there’d be math on the test!

Paula Priesse writes: “Poor O, he didn’t know there’d be math on the test. And poor media. Might now have to discuss icky stuff like jobs, Obamacare, energy independence, cutting deficits & entitlement reform. But being O’s lapdogs, they probably won’t. As for O’s campaign of no ideas and no scruples, expect 3 more months of pure garbage. Like Romney “murdering” a man’s wife & Ryan throwing granny off a cliff.”

Your head will split with all the numbers Obama can't even imagine, but Ryan understands.

Help turn the country around with Romney and Ryan

Paul Ryan on the current president

Let me say a word about the man Mitt Romney will replace. No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation. And, in his first 2 years, with his party in complete control of Washington, he passed nearly every item on his agenda. But that didn’t make things better.
In fact, we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair.
...

This is the worst economic recovery in 70 years.
Unemployment has been above 8 percent for more than three years, the longest run since the Great Depression. Families are hurting.
We have the largest deficits and the biggest federal government since WW II.
Nearly 1 out of 6 Americans are in poverty--the worst rate in a generation. Moms and dads are struggling to make ends meet.
Household incomes have dropped by more than $4,000 over the past four years.
Whatever the explanations, whatever the excuses, this is a record of failure.

Obama and the border—fences, school finances, and Fast and Furious

I'm confused here about the border fence between Mexico and the United States. I think I saw an ad or speech where Obama was taking credit for getting that completed. I can't imagine that plays well with his base, but maybe the undecided? Then when I looked it up, I found an article that said it was about 90% completed in Jan. 2009 when he took office, and another that said 4.3 miles have been finished since he was in office. See? This is how the man’s lies work. He’s a dream weaver (as in DREAM plan for illegals to go to school more cheaply than your kids.)  Yes, it's been almost completed since he took office (conservatives can smile), but virtually all of that was Bush's fault (so his leftist base can't blame him). Same with Osama bin Laden's death. He was found and killed (conservatives smile) using the policies and techniques employed by the Bush administration, all of which Obama voted against (leftists love him). Then he steps up and takes the credit, and doesn't blame Bush for this one. Unfortunately, too many Americans don't realize that the Big O is a Big Zero when it comes to the truth. Fast and Furious hasn’t made it’s way into his speeches or political ads, but I sure hope Romney grows some and mentions it.

The Daily Beast roars on

The Daily Beast (Newsweek's collaborative online smear machine) is reaching all the way back to Ryan's high school year book to find something negative to say. Wow. Now that's deep for folks who can't find Obama's college records or even anyone who was in class with him! "Since 2008, Newsweek has undergone a series of internal and external contractions designed to shift the magazine's focus and audience while shoring up the title's finances. Instead, losses at the newsweekly accelerated: revenue dropped 38 percent from 2007 to 2009. The revenue freefall prompted an August 2010 sale by owner The Washington Post Company to 92-year-old audio pioneer Sidney Harman—reportedly for a purchase price of $1.00 and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities." Wikipedia Tina Brown is in the mix/mess somewhere.

I'm ready for a change, are you?

Now the political ads, which we’re seeing about every 5 minutes, will really get going.

Ohio is a swing state, so we see a lot of ads the rest of you don't. Money won't be wasted in Chicago, where even the dead vote Democratic and ACORN will chase down anyone else. The Obama ad writers have 2 styles, slash and burn. When they aren't out and out lies, the truth part is buried so keep in BS you're afraid to dig. One of my favorites is the contraceptives for Obama ad.   Big Pharma must be ecstatic. Did you know contraception changes the lining of the uterus making women more susceptible to STDs? Or the more contraception, the higher the abortion rate? That the pill increases the rate of cervical cancer?  That it increases breast cancer.  STDs and pregnancy can send poor women to Planned Parenthood to build their coffers and pay their high salaries. Do you know that the drug companies test them on 3rd world women who are clueless about their dangers, side effects, or failures? But Obama has increased our debt by over 450% since Jan. 2009, so what else is there to talk about except free contraception?

2016 the movie starts today

John David Ware, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, now doing film (168 Project) in California

I just saw "2016-Obama's America." Narrator Dnesh D'Souza has a unique point of view, having come from a similar experience of colonialism at the hands of the British. D'Souza predicted much of Obama's behavior in his book, so there must be something to his analysis. Riveting and informative, the film explores our president's frequently bizarre actions: reckless spending as we teeter on the edges of a Greece-style meltdown, redistribution of wealth, provoking class warfare, passing bills that not even he knows what is in them, shutting down oil drilling and the Keystone oil pipeline in the US, but giving money for drilling to Brazil and other countries, supporting domestic anarchy via the Occupy Movement, turning his back on or being cold to our longtime allies--Egypt and Israel, NOT supporting the rebels in Iran, doing NOTHING to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, and making secretive pacts with Russia as he works to weaken US nuclear superiority). It's hard to believe that a US President could ever compile a record like this. It's harder still to understand what benefits proud, hard-working people can derive from 4 more years of Obama. The film reveals much about the way Obama grew up and what/who shaped him. It reveals the great conflict in Obama's ideas versus traditional American ideals and how unlikely was his rise to power. Though he seems like a even-tempered person, you can really get a sense of the bitterness that colonialism engenders. The film also points out Obama's mastery of the politics of perception and appealing to different groups at the same time. D'Souza says that America felt good about electing it's first Black president. A second Obama term, the film argues will make for an America that is unrecognizable compared to the one we have known. From his Facebook page.

See the film. It starts today.
http://2016themovie.com/​trailer/

Friday Family Photo--Today's Guitar recital

A very mixed group of guitar playing wannabees took a class together at the Rhein Center in Lakeside today. The class presented a recital this morning. I believe this oneis "You are my sunshine."

Lou Prichett went from scared to terrified in 3 years

His first letter to President Obama went viral.  The updated one from 2012 is excerpted here,   http://www.canyon-news.com/artman2/publish/Point_of_View_1136/They_Never_Expected_Govt_To_Offer_Anything.php  .

In April 2009, I sent President Obama and the New York Times a letter titled "You Scare Me" because, as a candidate, he promised to "fundamentally transform America." Now, after observing his performance for over three years, he no longer scares me---he terrifies me for the following reasons:

FIRST: He has done more to damage America's standing in the world, to lower the standard of living in America, to impoverish future generations and to shake our faith in the country's future than any other American president in history.

SECOND: With a compliant Democrat congress, a lapdog media and a weak, almost nonexistent Republican opposition, he has shattered the American dream of job security, home ownership and rugged individualism for millions of Americans and has poisoned and divided our civil society with his politics of envy, class warfare, race warfare, and religious warfare which he is using as fundamental building blocks for his 'socialist' agenda.

THIRD: Culturally, he remains totally out of touch with traditional American values. This has absolutely nothing to do with race or where he was born, rather it has everything to do with where, how and with whom he was raised, schooled, educated, trained and associates with still today.

FOURTH: He has surrounded himself with naive academicians, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats and socialist-leaning czars who arrogantly think and behave exactly as he does. People who offer no balanced suggestions or devils advocate positions and think in lock-step with him that big government is the answer to all our problems.

FIFTH: He not only encourages but aids and abets in the unionization of all American industry, the albatross around the neck of the free market. In turn, they provide the money and muscle to intimidate his opponents.

SIXTH: He has increased the national debt by over 30% in just three years. If re-elected and this rate of increase continues, America will be burdened with an unsustainable $20 trillion dollar debt which will result in the country's financial death. Recovery will be impossible - America will be the Greece of 2016.

SEVENTH: Given his fanatical adherence to the 'environmental' and 'man-caused global warming' fringe, he has deliberately discouraged U.S. fossil fuel exploration and production while wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on solar, wind and algae experiments. He refuses to accept that oil, gas and coal are not America's enemies, they are America's assets which, if properly managed, could make us energy independent within a generation.

EIGHTH: He views the U.S. as a power in retreat which abused its World dominance. Therefore, he systematically apologizes round the world. Last March he whispered to Russian President Medvedev "... this is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility." Just what is the secret that Obama and Putin are concealing from the American people until after the election? With what other leaders has he made similar secret agreements?

NINTH: And finally, after all his missteps, bad decision making, poor management, and zero leadership, the fact that he has the audacity to seek re-election should terrify every American.
I predict that if re-elected, future historians and political interpreters will look back at the eight year period 2008-2016, and conclude "the 44th President of the U.S. allowed the takers to overpower the payers which resulted in the greatest economy in history vanishing from the face of the Earth." Farewell, America. The World will really miss you!"

It is my hope and prayer that this letter will also go viral and serve as a 'wake up' call to Americans of all political leaning, convincing them that never before in U.S. history has so much depended on Americans understanding that we are facing one of the greatest crises in U.S. history. Convincing them that this election will be won not by letters to the editor, political speeches or radio and TV soundbites.

No!!! it will be won by those with a conviction, with a belief and with a willingness to pay the price in helping put the most enlightened voters in the polling booth on November 6.

Let me end on my favorite quote which I think is very appropriate for each of us today:
"TO EVERY MAN THERE COMES IN HIS LIFETIME THAT SPECIAL MOMENT WHEN HE IS PHYSICALLY TAPPED ON THE SHOULDER AND OFFERED THE CHANCE TO DO A VERY SPECIAL THING, UNIQUE TO HIM AND FITTED TO HIS TALENT; WHAT A TRAGEDY IF THAT MOMENT FINDS HIM UNPREPARED OR UNQUALIFIED FOR THE WORK WHICH WOULD BE HIS FINEST HOUR."

Those words, spoken by Winston Churchill over 70 years ago, are very appropriate for the Tea Party Movement today.
For if each of us is prepared and is qualified then November 6, 2012, just might be our and our Country's finest hour as we reclaim this "shining city on the hill" from the ravages of Obama Socialism.

IT IS NOW OR NEVER FELLOW PATRIOTS --GOD HELP US IF WE FAIL!
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Lou Pritchett is the author of the open letter "Obama, You Scare Me" which went viral in 2009.

The Cardinal turns the other cheek

We're supposed to “take a deep breath, relax a second, and think carefully about” Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s invitation to President Obama to speak at the upcoming Al Smith Dinner. It shows Christians can treat adversaries with respect and honor says Edward Mechmann.   And no national leader in my memory has treated Christians more poorly than this president. From his support for abortion for any reason, including gender and disabilities, to announcing embryonic stem cell support at a Catholic university, to his phony war on women, to his flip flopping on marriage, to his sitting in the pew for 20 years of a pastor who preached hate whitey--he doesn't like us much.

http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=15789

Spiritual but not religious

It’s not trendy or politically correct to say this, but I am religious, not spiritual.  I am a Christian; Jesus Christ is the head of the church, not me, not my inner thoughts, energy source, feelings, body contortions, and no other guru who is a flash in the pan with a webpage.  I’ve always been a bit puzzled by those who claim more personal wisdom than a 5th century Pope or a 16th century reformer, or even their own local church government, given how far removed they are from the founders’ work.   Even Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament to provide a structure for the church Jesus established 2,000 years ago, didn’t rely on his own personal experience.  He had many years of being taught and grounded in the Scriptures of the Jews, and after his experience of meeting the living Christ after his resurrection, he spent a lot of time in training with the disciples who worked with Jesus during his ministry on earth and who already had a “church structure”  of meeting together for prayer, sharing bread, evangelizing and service. When the Holy Spirit revealed something to him to pass along, he had some depth and learning to test it.  The New Testament is full of lists to define various appointments, gifts, personality characteristics of leaders and roles in the church—Romans 12:-6-8, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 4:11, Acts 6, 1 Timothy 5:17, Titus 1:7-9, Acts 20:28, 1 Peter 5:2, 1 Peter 5:1-5, etc.  In fact, other than the topic of hell, there are few topics as well covered as how to structure the church, so religion must be important to Jesus.

How much of this $900,000 for “Improving the Health of People with Disabilities” will get to the people with disabilities?

“The Ohio State University Nisonger Center and Ohio Department of Health were recently awarded a $900,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to promote health, prevent chronic disease, and increase the quality of life among people with disabilities.”  These are extremely vague goals; I assume there are specific diseases that disabled people have that are different than the general population (measles, mumps, polio, tetanus, shingles, chicken pox, etc.) and specific quality of life markers in the contract. Essentially, this is a monitoring and surveillance program—i.e., there’s nothing new—no new services, no research, no . . . nothing. The goal of the CDC is to “reduce disparities” and not to help the disabled.*

There are so many fingers in this pie, it is difficult to imagine that anyone except the direct researchers, bean counters, and university and government staff will benefit.  First of all, when a federal government grant comes to the university, close to 50-60% is taken off the top to cover university overhead—this is everything from parking lots, utilities. janitors, food service, debt, and social events for deans and faculty.  But keep In mind, that the amount started out bigger than $900,000 because each agency whose hands/offices it passed through also took their cut for overhead.

The employees of the following agencies and organizations must be paid before a disabled person receives a dime’s worth of service, and even then it is monitoring services that they already have had from earlier programs. I used to be an employee of Ohio State University and The State of Ohio Department of Aging.  It’s a very nice living for many well-educated people.

Federal

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

State

Ohio Department of Health Division of Family and Community Health Services

Ohio Emergency Management Agency (EMA)

Ohio Department of Health’s Division of Prevention

Ohio Department of Aging

Ohio Disability and Health Program (ODHP)

Ohio Office of Health Preparedness

State Universities

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Nisonger Center Health Promotion / Healthcare Parity

The Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center

University of Cincinnati UCEDD at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Associations/non-profits

Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)

Ohio Association of Community Health Centers

*Through public health efforts, such as surveillance, research, and health promotion, CDC aims to reduce health disparities and the incidence and severity of secondary conditions, including additional physical or mental health conditions that occur as a result of having a primary disabling condition. CDC http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/pdf/AboutDHProgram508.pdf