Better check your math. . .

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/04/02/millions-could-get-surprise-tax-bills-under-obamacare-if-they-dont-accurately-project-their-income/

If marriage doesn’t matter. . .

One of the reasons gay marriage has such strong support among the young is they don't believe marriage matters anyway, so why not let it not matter to everyone? When was the last time you attended a wedding where the couple hadn't either been living together, or had 1 or 2 children accompany them? The wedding isn't a commitment; it's just another party. Fewer and fewer weddings are held in churches--check any bride's magazine.

A “hippie chic” ceremony at Ohio Stadium and reception at Dock580

Georgian style mansion

$9900 wedding place near San Diego

Conservative values; yet they vote for politicians who will kill brown babies and bless gay marriage

Interesting to watch and listen to the black Republicans/Conservatives on the Beck show tonight tell about their growing up years on the plantation--they thought George Wallace was a Republican; they thought the KKK was a Republican organization; they thought if you were born black you must be a Democrat. Hosted by Dana Loesch, a conservative talk radio host, CNN contributor, and guest host at TheBlaze TV .

Our falling fertility rate

"Chinese women have a fertility rate of 1.54. Here in America, white, college-educated women—a good proxy for the middle class—have a fertility rate of 1.6. America has its very own one-child policy. And we have chosen it for ourselves." Replacement rate is 2.1.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578270053387770718.html

Take responsibility? Not going to happen.

On racism—Dr. Ben Carson

http://bureaucraticslave.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/white-liberal-democrats-resort-to-their-centuries-old-playbook-by-lynching-dr-ben-carson-a-black-man-i-just-wanted-to-be-clear-a-time-honored-family-tradition-of-the-leftist-jacobin-poli/

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/02/13/the-stoning-of-dr-ben-carson

http://www.mofopolitics.com/2013/04/01/ben-carson-white-liberals-are-the-most-racist-people-there-are/

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/02/16/hannity-special-dr-ben-carsons-plan-for-saving-america/

Two step campaigning—he’s a master

Monday Memories—the Senior project

                

When I was in high school we had to write a 25 page report as a senior paper in American history class. I chose to analyze the 1956 presidential election between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, using  the popular news magazines, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report.  They had run against each other in 1952, so it was a rematch.  I must have talked my mother into subscribing to all of them, because there were no copy machines in 1956, and I think I cut up the magazines for the election articles.  I collected the articles in the summer hoping I'd have that topic approved (it was).

I see that Dr. Deandre Poole got his PhD in 2009 writing on those three magazines' treatment of Obama in the 2008 election (I think we can guess what that was).  Dr. Poole plans to turn his dissertation into a book. Why didn't I think of that? It's not a tough project. Poole is the genius who had his students write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper and then stomp on it. A Mormon student refused and was threatened with suspension. Why the whole class didn't walk out I don't know. Poole, active in the local Democratic Party, has been put on leave from his intercultural communications class at Florida Atlantic University; not for being stupid, but for his safety.  I seriously doubt anyone planned to hurt him, but FAU sure got some heat.

http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/national/Florida-Atlantic-University-Jesus-stomping-stirs-outrage-among-Floridians

New Wendy’s flatbread grilled chicken sandwich

If you get it on Asiago bread ($3.99), it will be 530 calories, instead of 370 for Smoky honey mustard ($3.49).  Looks tasty.

Sliced chicken breast (all-white meat) grilled right in their own kitchens
Spring mix of 9 different types of fresh greens
Fresh tomatoes hand-sliced

http://flatbreadgrilledchicken.aboutwendys.com/

Sports injuries and injuring for sport

Kevin Ware's injury yesterday was called gruesome and horrific by hardened sports reporters. Coaches and players openly cried and fell on the floor. The audience screamed at the sight. Yet. Unborn babies who could live outside the womb, are sliced and diced everyday trying to push away the instrument that chops their flesh and bones. For that we are told it's a woman's choice. It's a right. And there are meanies and fanatics trying to stop the pain and agony the babies experience.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/sports/ncaabasketball/kevin-wares-gruesome-injury-shakes-and-rallies-louisville.html?_r=0

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2013/03/31/kevin-ware-joe-theisman-broken-leg-injury/2040749/

At book club today we're discussing "The Girls from Ames" a non-fiction piece following a group of 11 women from their pre-school friendships to their 40s. The first to have an abortion (p. 85) was Kelly, who with her boyfriend decided she wasn't ready to parent in college. When I read that I wondered if she knew that an abortion during a first pregnancy puts a woman at higher risk for breast cancer. By the last chapter we have a description of her breast cancer (p. 282) and worries about deformity and whether she's still attractive to men.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120217/LIFE/302170010/-Girls-from-Ames-author-dies-tragically

Rejoice.

Being a Christian photo.

I love the Grammarly.com advice

Government take over of health care is increasing costs for all

Health and Human Services head Kathleen Sebelius (I'm embarrassed she an Ohioan—our former governor’s daughter) now admits the government take over of health care will raise costs for everyone. She underestimates, in my opinion; apparently she doesn't see those "subsidies" as costs to us, only as “rich benefits” to the formerly uninsured. Regulation is affecting every facet of the economy and raising costs even more. Insurance costs are soaring, and the big kick in hasn't even started yet. California increase 60%. Washington 51.9%. The young voters who supported Obama will really be kicked in the teeth. What a mess. http://www.humanevents.com/2013/03/27/hhs-secretary-finally-admits-obamacare-is-raising-insurance-costs/

Things could have been different—lives could have been saved.

"The only thing that would have changed the outcome, potentially change the outcome, is something that so many people don't want to hear and that's self defense. That if someone there had a concealed carry, if someone had been armed, they might have had a fighting chance."
-Sen. Rand Paul, on gun control legislation.

Friday family photo—my horse

Not mine—but cute.

              

Just me and my horse, 1952, on a trail ride.

Martin Luther on John 3:16

"This is our Christian Creed, and in conformity with it we confess: “I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered and died.” Let heathen and heretics be ever so smart; hold firmly to this faith, and you will be saved. It follows, then, that whoever believes in the Son of man, who was born of Mary, who suffered and was buried, will not be lost but is a son of God in possession of eternal life. Devil, sin, and death will not be able to harm him; for he has eternal life."

          

Leading from behind—the politicians on gay marriage, polygamy and legalizing pedophilia

Obama consistently supported traditional marriage and DOMA in public statements up to shortly before the 2012 election. So did Rob Portman and Hillary Clinton until the last few weeks. Used all the same words conservatives use. No one on the left called Obama or Hillary a bigot, hater or homophobe. Portman, of course, was different, he is a Republican and always was a target for hate. Politicians have led from behind, cowering, on marriage. TV and movies led the way.

Some states have no age limit for marriage if the child has parental consent. Sharia Law says girls as young as 12 can give informed consent. NAMBLA wants laws on age of consent thrown out so they can molest young boys without getting into trouble with child authorities. This can of worms will only get bigger and squishier.  Let’s see how long politicians will resist polygamy.  It’s big on reality shows like Big Love and Wife Swap. 

Legalizing  molestation of children has already begun—today’s school sex education materials is what the FBI warns about in hunting down perverts. Planned Parenthood gets money to indoctrinate children into become their life time customers in the PREP program. "PP follows the same business model as a drug dealer: Young children are encouraged to masturbate and explore their bodies with mirrors to introduce them to sexuality. Hichborn says of the graphic pictures used to “educate” pre-pubescent children, “If a dirty old man showed these things to a ten year old in a park, he would be arrested. But when Planned Parenthood shows them to kids in a classroom, it gets government money.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/27/obamacare-funnels-75-million-to-planned-parenthood-to-push-sex-on-kids/

The haters and bigots swing into action

Dr. Ben Carson, a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, has been "uninvited" as a speaker to graduating medical students at his own university. Too conservative. Also, he is black and with his own money funds a scholarship program for poor black children. Reminds me of when the open minded librarians protested that Laura Bush, a former librarian and then First Lady, would be a speaker at ALA (2006). Each year the ALA sponsors the completely phony, trumped up Banned Books Week. Then they try to ban a speaker, the most famous librarian in the country.

Is "bullying" wrong no matter who the victim is? Or is it only wrong if the victim is gay, obese, skinny, unfashionable, nerdy, or a minority? What if the victim is bullied, shunned and called names because she is Catholic, or he is Baptist, or she is old, or he is white, or they believe in traditional marriage, or they don't want to pay for behavior which they consider sinful, like an abortion?  Is it bullying when powerful, wealthy people threaten to take away various amendments of the Bill of Rights from the masses yet retain them for their private use? Is publishing names and addresses of people who have broken no laws, indeed, followed them to the letter, bullying? Intimidation, bigotry, terrorizing, telling lies, and fomenting fear and suspicion is a behavior dependent on the intent of the perpetrator, not the morals or beliefs or race of the victim.

Laura Ingraham debates a Know Nothing from Boston University

A student who apparently was involved in a condom distribution demonstration at Boston University was up against the much more experienced and knowledgeable (and Catholic) Laura Ingraham last night on Fox. I’m a Lutheran and even I could spot this activist’s fallacies for why the BU rules should be flaunted even though she could go to any college/university she chose. It’s the same as Sandra Fluke and Georgetown.

1.  She tried to base her cause on statistics about how many Catholics use contraception (the figure she gave was much higher than any I’ve heard) and therefore the church was out of step.  Try telling that to a policeman the next time you’re going 75 in a 35 mph zone and because everyone else was doing it the law must be wrong. Or when you get caught cheating on a test and your excuse is everyone cheats.

2.  She tried to argue that the Catholic church ruling on contraception was recent and therefore to her that seemed a good argument that it didn’t need to be followed by the university. Usually, young people say a rule is too old—she’s saying it was a recent ruling.  Wrong again. Humanae Vitae ( Of Human Life)  written by by Pope Paul VI and issued in 1968 (long before this young lady was given life by her parents) reaffirmed the teaching of the church.

http://www.lauraingraham.com/

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life.
by Thomas Jefferson written to Thomas Jefferson Smith, Feb. 21, 1825

1.  Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
2.  Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3.  Never spend your money before you have it.
4.  Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5.  Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6.  We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8.  How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
9.  Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.