My set of Revere Ware is probably about 40 years old, but I only learned to use the steamer basket within the last year. Smack my head! Can't believe how easy this is. I used to boil green beans to mush and they were still tasteless and hard. 7 minutes. That's it. It's never too late to learn those new tricks, ladies.
Today we're meeting with our financial advisor, Dave. My tax deferred account says I have to spread this out almost another 24 years (only my uncle Leslie Weybright has lived that long in my family). But that assumes Obama doesn't decide that taking our income is not enough, he wants our wealth. Is it fair that I put away 15% of my income every month I was employed, in addition to the state required pension withdrawals, and some other twit was out getting her nails done, night clubbing, or taking fabulous vacations. Shouldn't she, in the president's reasoning, get some of my common sense?
"[Obama’s] solution to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more," Rubio said of the president. "And the idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them."
Yes, it’s the old, failed way—FDR tried for over 10 years and kept us mired in a Depression--and they say conservatives are stuck in the past.
Rand Paul in his response said something like, “What the president fails to grasp. . .” then something about hard work. Look guys, this president is not dumb and he knows exactly what he is doing and has the steps laid out to destroy initiative, self-reliance, the rewards of hard work, and anything else the founders had in mind.
There are still many unanswered questions despite what Obama’s PR machine reports. (Jay Carney says all questions have been settled.)
Are they being protected? Hidden? Imprisoned?
Are they dead? Never existed?
Homicides are at an all time low. Even one murder is too many, but when ever we start to make progress, be it racism, disease, accidents, poverty, suicide, homicide (all of which are at all time lows according to government stats), there are groups whose jobs depend on keeping the issue alive and in the public view. It would "disarm" the left if they were to report that we are not a horrible, awful country that needs their fix.
The Constitution guarantees due process for American citizens. The drone program used against Americans is illegal. Where are all those pro-bono, hot-shot lawyers who rushed to Gitmo to protect the rights of non-Americans who were captured in combat? (Whom the president has left in limbo, by the way.)
I ticked off 17 problems with his first year, and remember, in those days he was still against gay marriage.
Carnival comes from Latin and means "to stop eating meat." In the 1500s, "carnival" time was the last three days before the Christian season of Lent. Lent is 40 days (Sundays aren't counted) before Easter of repentance and moderation or fasting in the Western church tradition. It was the last chance to eat meat until Easter. Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday, when the cooks used up all the fat before the Lenten fast. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, when Christians go to church and have the sign of the cross made on their foreheads from last year's palms from Palm Sunday (usually purchased because it is very hard to make your own ashes, at least at our church).
Woot. That ought to scare Kim Jong-un. Nuclear device set off right before the State of the Union speech so he can thumb his nose at the peace prize prez and the Vietnam war protester.
In 2009 Obama dithered and dawdled over the troop surge in Afghanistan, and consequently, he lost an opportunity to succeed, and had lost more American lives in 27 months than all the years of Bush. The media have been pretty silent on not only the deaths, but the failure of the surge. There’s not much good to report about this president, and the media cover for him all the time. It’s very frustrating. The only things he’s really good at are, 1) getting out the vote, 2) defaming and lying about his opponents, whether Romney, the Tea Party, the GOP or other Democrats who ran against him. Oh yes, and Fox News—he’s got a real bee in his bonnet about anyone who speaks truth.
When deaths are reported, they are a decrease. But even I can count this as 1214 in 3 years.
Black children and teens accounted for 45 percent of all child and teen gun deaths in 2008 and 2009 according to Children's Defense Fund, but were only 15 percent of the total child population. These children are either killed in their homes or neighborhoods by other black people—usually a male. Some of the cities they lived in have very strict gun laws--like Chicago. So why did the President wait for the Newtown tragedy to address gun control?
About 40% of the legal abortions are for black children, and most Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority neighborhoods. The President considers PP his political ally and is the only politician in the U.S. who would not vote to give medical attention to a born alive aborted baby--a baby that has a good chance of being black. So where is the racism in the U.S. if not the federal government? If not in the heart and soul of this president?
In 2011, 323 murders were committed with a rifle and 356 with a shotgun, while a staggering 496 were committed with hammers and clubs.
In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 vehicle crashes, killing 32,885 and injuring 2,239,000.
I'm so sick of the GOP/conservatives making excuses and not reading their own research. Romney lost because evangelicals and conservative Catholics stayed home. There. Just look at the states and how evangelicals voted in 2004 for Bush. They didn't vote for Obama in 2012; they just didn't vote. Whether it was because Romney was a Mormon, or they just like to pout when they can't get their own way from a field of candidates in the primaries, or they cling to conspiracy theories swirling the internet, I don't know. Running off in 10 directions chasing amnesty, votes from Hispanics, downplaying abortion issues, ignoring the debt, or coming out for gay marriage is just plain silly. If you're not any better organized around what you believe in, you deserve to lose.
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican, 10 February 2013
BENEDICTUS PP XVI
I'm not happy with what this man, Chris Dorner, has allegedly done, but he deserves a trial, not a drone death authorized by the state of California or the federal government to be jury, judge and executioner. We let convicted criminals put forward years of expensive appeals, and this guy won't even get arrested? Drones had been used domestically for surveillance in 2011, but this is the first they’ve been used armed. Also, remember the Aurora shooter had booby trapped a building. How do we know this man doesn’t have information about traps or bombs he has set around California, which if he’s killed before capture will never be known?
It’s so crazy we’re having a “national conversation” about gun control when the government has gone berserk on drones against Americans. The first amendment is not about worship, it’s for religious freedom, and that includes not forcing contraception and sterilization on Christian churches, schools and hospitals. The second amendment is not for hunting rabbits, it is to protect the people from this very thing, but even a closet of assault rifles won’t protect a citizen against a drone. The fifth amendment protects people like Dorner, who are SUSPECTS. Obama is shredding the Bill of Rights—first, second and fifth, so far. What’s next? Will he reinstate slavery?
And please pray for the safety of our niece and her husband who are with the LAPD and engaged in this manhunt.
Dr. Benjamin Carson spoke at the 61st National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC at the Hilton Washington International Ballroom. Many Conservatives cheered and thought he really told the administration about health care (advocates for Health Savings Accounts), but really, it’s just a rousing patriotic speech with his own rags to riches story and is mostly about the important of education, reading, and a mother who refused to be a victim. He and his wife established a foundation to help children and have awarded over 5,000 scholarships. Watch the whole thing—you won’t be sorry. Every school age child should see this speech and stop looking to NFL players with 8 baby mamas for inspiration.
“Jesus is my role model. . . “ Benjamin Carson.
Why are recent college grads underemployed?
Three of the top four areas of growth 2010-2020 require less than a high school degree, Retail Salespersons 706,800; Home Health Aides 706,300; Personal Care Aides 607,000.
In the three occupations “retail sales person,” “cashier,” and “waiters and waitresses” there are more than 1.7 million college graduates employed, and the other fourteen occupations listed in the table employ almost one million more college graduates. There are, of course, many other occupations requiring little education with significant numbers of college graduates, such as taxi drivers (36,945 have college degrees—15.4 percent of the total), and parking lot attendants (16,138 have at least a bachelor’s degree—12.9 percent of the total).
Alexis de Tocqueville reminded the nation that in 1830, 36 members of Congress were born in that tiny state of Connecticut, supplying 1/8th of the representation, although it was only 1/43rd of the population. How? By people leaving that state and moving westward to become rich landowners and then becoming legislators. I guess wealth and Congress have a long relationship.
Alexis de Tocqueville also noted that as Americans moved westward to achieve freedom, land ownership, and wealth, "the progress of man is so rapid that the desert reappears behind him. The woods stoop to give him a passage, and spring up again when he is past. It is not uncommon, in crossing the new States of the West, to meet with deserted dwellings in the midst of the wilds; the traveller frequently discovers the vestiges of a log-house in the most solitary retreat, which bear witness to the power, and no less to the inconstancy, of man."
Sometimes I think this about modern technology. Like my “not-so-smart” phone. Good enough for me even if it is a log-house in the deserted woods that he spoke of.
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