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Cocoa Butter Skin Cream

I noticed a close out at Marc’s today for $.89.   I read the label carefully (I don’t eat or put on my skin things made in China, or with only a “distributed by” on the label.)  We pay big bucks for FDA and USDA, and I intend to take advantage of that.  Anyway, seems to check out fine, and it has a wonderful fragrance.  Just a touch will do it—my first try I had to wipe some off.  Made in Canada, and the parent company is in the UK.

“Delon skin cream line products are based upon botanical remedies. Our philosophy derives from combining the decades-old wisdom inherent in botanical, herbal and floral treatments with modern ingredients and formulations. Using natural herbs and pH-balanced, many biodegradable formulas, each product is carefully formulated to deliver all the benefits of each unique blend. All of our products reflect our ongoing efforts to preserve the earth's natural resources by being environmentally friendly and cruelty-free. “

On the internet prices ranged from $4 to $8 for this size.  So I’ll probably never see it again.

Young women need to use their lady smarts, not their lady parts as recommended in the last election

“The growing gap is not between classes, but between families of married couples and unmarried women with children. Women can virtually eliminate poverty by 1) finishing high school, 2) not having babies as teen-agers, and 3) marrying the father of their children. If her husband takes a job, any job and keeps it, he will almost guarantee their success.

There is still plenty of opportunity in this country--illegals who flood over our borders seeking it is proof of that. But young women need to get smart and stop listening to musicians and boyfriends who call them "Ho" and "bitch" and get down to the business of saving their future children with some backbone and pride.”

Excerpt from a blog I wrote in 2007

Dialects by region

I’ve taken some dialect quizes on the Internet, and usually come out north or sort of Canadian.  If I'd grown up around here (central Ohio), "drug my feet" would be my preference. But I grew up in northern Illinois, west of Chicago, and there I’d look like something "the cat dragged in."  I also put an R in “wash” and “Washington,” which embarrasses my children.  This map is a bit different than some I’ve seen, but it does feature Ohio.

A have a lot of self control. . . but

I have some amazing stories, but on the off chance these people read my blogs, I’ll restrain myself.

Teresa Tomeo broadcasting from Poland. . .

"It is amazing to me how much Poland is becoming, God help us, like the United States. I thought they would be much more willing to hang on to their strong Catholic heritage, given what they have gone through in the last century. But instead they too associate 'freedom' with sexual license and radical feminism, and also are becoming more materialistic."

Democrats love most millionaires

The makers and the takers

"Conservatism can thrive without progressivism. Progressivism cannot survive without conservatism. In short, a progressive worldview built on redistributionism, must have something to re-distribute. Without the efforts of the makers, the takers and their enablers are dead in the water. The most remarkable aspect of this last election is that Democrats ran on a platform that amounted to biting the hand that feeds them, and still prevailed. . . “

Arnold Ahlert

But it wasn’t enough

Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows the President knew.  He just didn’t have enough faith in his supporters that they would stick with him if they knew about all the lost weapons and running guns to Syria.  Oh man of little faith.  There’s no way to dislodge your loyal, true blue lackies.

Monday Memories—March 1987

Both my sister and my brother and their families moved to Florida in the late 1970s, thus giving all of us a destination for winter vacations.  My parents weren’t exactly snow birds, but in the early 80s they did get the hang of spending a few weeks and renting an apartment.  Recently a post card has surfaced from my Aunt’s estate, probably mailed from a shorter visit, and so we have a 25 year old account of what they were doing in Florida in March 1987 written by my mother to her sister.

“Had a good trip down.  Stan, Casey and Heather met us at the Sarasota airport.  The weather is quite cool, but sunny.  Carol will take me to the spa for swimming several mornings.  Howard has browned up at the ball park with Stan.  Attended Church of the Brethren again with Greg, Cindy and Ron.

String concert Sunday Eve.  My old cello is back from repairs and Heather ready to take lessons.

We will be home Thursday nite.  Having a great time.”

Planned Parenthood big Obama donor

When an organization like Planned Parenthood is suspected of not just fraud, but criminal cover-ups, falsifying medical information, violating safety standards, encouraging prostitution and sex trafficking, medical malpractice, sex-selection abortion, accepting racially-motivated donations, and huge profits, this is no longer about abortion. It’s about accountability.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/15/planned-parenthood-millions-in-medicaid-fraud-15m-for-obama-campaign/

No matter, it will be the Republicans’ fault

Christians shot themselves in the foot

Romney would have won if Christians had not stayed home on November 6. Conservatives, many of whom are evangelical Christians, tend to sit on their hands, and many weren't thrilled about a Mormon as their candidate. So if we need to put some blame out there, it's on us because we didn't talk to or convince our neighbors and friends that we needed a pro-life, moral man of character in the White House.  I did my part.  And you?

Warn America, not Republicans

“Pundits warn Republicans better pander to groups Obama won big, such as minorities and single women. In 1960, 1 out of 20 babies were born out of wedlock. That figure today is 4 out of 10. (below) When LBJ started his “War on Poverty” black unemployment was 8.1%. 47 years and 16 trillion dollars later that number has almost doubled. Traditional values are mocked on TV, Christianity is ridiculed and fathers are often the buffoons in the family. And on November 6th, the “hip” candidate with a disastrous record beat the “square” candidate with a record of success. So pundits, this is not about race or gender, it’s about culture. And if we continue to lose this battle, it’s not Republicans you need to warn, it’s America.”  Paula Priesse

Notice a dip around 1996?  That was welfare reform, but Democrats were successful in getting most of the benefits restored piece by piece.

There was a press conference on September 11, 2012—but not by Obama

Something else happened Sept. 11, 2012. Netanyahu of Israel said speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem, “Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”

Little did he know, or we know, that on that day, our moral authority to say anything about what was going on in the Middle East had been shattered. That was also the day Obama turned down a meeting with Netanyahu and then left the next day for a visit with Jay-Z and Beyonce, after a full day of watching the bombing of our embassy in Benghazi in real time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/world/middleeast/united-states-and-israel-engage-in-public-spat-over-iran-policy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Two slip ups in one press conference—the first since March

Also, about this press conference, neither the President nor his media pals brought up the bombing currently going on in Israel, our closest ally, at least until the Obama administration, in the middle east.

“At one point he said: “And we’re after an election now. I think it is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I’m happy to cooperate in any ways that Congress wants.” It was, of course, just as important to find out what happened in Benghazi before the election, but we should be grateful to the president for giving us this inadvertent glimpse into the role politics played in his thinking about Benghazi before he was reelected.

The president, perhaps realizing he had made a revealing slip of the tongue, went on to insist that he’d been providing information all along. But in response to a question about criticism of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice from Senators John McCain and Lindsey ­Graham, the president slipped again. “For them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Ben­ghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous.”

If Susan Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” why then was she sent out to represent the administration in multiple television interviews five days after the attacks?”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/susan-rice-s-talking-points_663527.html

Questions about Benghazi-gate

Perhaps this has been addressed in the Benghazi-gate investigation, but I haven't seen it. The reason the CIA was there was to recover weapons which had fallen into the hands of al-qaeda, and which were being funneled to Syria to support anti-regime forces there. OK. Now brushing aside the deaths of the Americans (who were there for that purpose), are tons of weapons still being moved to Syria and are there still Americans in Libya attempting to either run guns or find weapons? The cover up is only part of the story (because of the election), but isn't what we were doing there also important to investigate? It looks like Congress wasn't consulted on any of this.

Another question I have about Benghazi-gate has to do with Jill Kelley, the Lebanese born Floridian socialite who parties with military big-wigs and is a close friend of Petraeus and his “betray us” wife. The FBI got into this, so we're told, because Kelley asked a friend who was in the FBI to find out who was sending her masked e-mails. Tell me how common is this and do we need to be concerned about the FBI, or any agency of government/police, checking up on private individuals as a favor for friends? And yet, asking for ID when voting is a violation of something imaginary?

While that FBI guy was doing something for a friend, another FBI guy much, much higher up saw no need to alert the President that the head of the CIA could be involved in something that could impact national security. Really? What sort of instruction do FBI members get on responsibility, authority, morality, lines of reporting, and the history of love affairs in national security going back to Cleopatra?

40 years of Roe v Wade in 2013

Over 54 million dead babies, and we still are arguing about it.  This excerpt was written in 1971, before its passage.

Now some people want to argue that legal enactments against abortion are similar to the legal enactment of laws governing the private lives of citizens. This is simply not the case. Laws concerning abortion have been made, not to change the hearts of men and women, but to protect the unborn child. Analogically, the civil rights law has been enacted not so much to make whites love blacks as to make them accord blacks those rights which are their just due.

This is common sense to most of us. We should, for instance, be utterly dumbfounded to hear someone argue that he doesn't believe a black man is human, and therefore this government has no right to legislate laws restraining him from shooting blacks. In the same way it is just as absurd for someone to argue that laws prohibiting the murder of the unborn child should not be legislated because that person does not accept the unborn child as being fully human.

http://www.journal33.org/m-frank/abortion.htm

Now things have changed a bit since this was written.  Most pro-abortion Christians I know admit abortion is taking a human life.  Where they go from there is just plain evil.

Obama is pursuing decline

“I could go to a hundred American campuses and say: ‘America’s the rogue nation in the world. It’s America’s nuclear arsenal, not Iran’s that’s the problem. We should put the leash on America.’ And I’d get thunderous applause at Berkeley, Oberlin College, Yale.

“So there’s plenty of people on the left who have this sort of ‘let’s shrink America’ ideology,” Author Dinesh D’Souza

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/dsouza-2012-obama-reelection/2012/11/17/id/464528?s=al&promo_code=10C81-1#ixzz2CWmdMcZy