How can legalization of same sex marriage affect my own marriage?

Writes Stella Morabito on April 6:  This is #6 of her 10 points

[Same sex marriage]  is the vehicle by which all civil marriages may soon be abolished, including yours. When children are no longer considered central to state purpose, marriage becomes nothing more than a contract between any two (or more) people. A reversal of DOMA could give force to an emerging movement called "singlism," which argues that the state should cease recognition of marriage because it is discriminatory against those who do not have partners.

Furthermore, the un-defining of marriage is only one part of a package deal that includes the transgender push for the un-defining of gender. This is already happening under the radar through laws that define gender identity only on self-perception: seeing yourself on any given day as male, female, both, or neither. If that goal is achieved, the reduction of your "marriage" to social and legal gibberish will be complete. And as we become more isolated from family bonds in the eyes of the state, the state becomes freer to define our humanity.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/ten_qa_on_same-sex_marriage_canards_and_evasions.html

TB is making a strong comeback

There is now a TB strain that is totally drug resistant (TDR-TB) to add to the extensively drug resistant (XDR-TB) strain, identified in 2006, and the Multidrug-resistant TV (MDR-TB), which emerged in the early 1990s.  Those in the U.S. and Europe who have any of these difficult to treat strains of the old disease that was once thought conquered, have recently been in South Africa, but it has also emerged in India (2012), Iran (2009) and Italy (2007). 

In the U.S. MDR-TB accounted for 1.3% of the 10,528 cases of TB in 2011, and there were 6 cases of XDR-TB.  One woman who returned to TN from South Africa with XDR-TB had a strain that took 2 years to treat, including 90 days in isolation.  Eventually, she was cured.  Most people in the U.S. who have TB are foreign born, or were born into communities where the foreign born live.  Others at risk are homeless (aka undomiciled in NYC), substance abusers, and people with HIV.

Emerging Infectious Diseases, March 2013

JAMA, March 20, 2013

So incest is like homosexuality? It will never happen, liberals claimed—just about a week ago.

Columbia professor David Epstein [who used to write articles about Sarah Palin, not complimentary] pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempted incest [Attempted?  It went on for 3 years.] on May 10th, the Columbia Spectrum reported.

Epstein, who is still employed at the university, was originally charged with felony incest after it was discovered he was having what appeared to be a consensual relationship with his daughter, 24, in December.

Hormones now available over the counter for teens

The war on women has moved to the war on teens.  No woman should be self-prescribing a medication with toxic ingredients that amount to a year's worth of contraception in one dose. It's pretty silly to worry about plastics in baby bottles or beef and chicken laced with hormones, and then ingest this pill loaded with hormones ready to act on a not yet mature teen reproductive system.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/05/pro-life-groups-slam-morning-after-pill-ruling-girls-will-be-exploited/

http://www.webmd.com/drugs/drug-17833-levonorgestrel+oral.aspx?drugid=17833&drugname=levonorgestrel+oral

These instructions obviously were written during a time when children needed a prescription for this drug.  Also, the instructions are rather complicated. Teens should be reporting the assault to the police, not browsing the shelves at CVS.

SIDE EFFECTS: Nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain, tiredness, dizziness, changes in vaginal bleeding, breast tenderness, diarrhea, or headache may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.Tell your doctor immediately if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: lower abdominal pain.A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, seek immediate medical attention if you notice any of the following symptoms of a serious allergic reaction: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.In the US -Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.

The March job numbers

663,000 people left the workforce in March and only 88,000 jobs were added, but somehow the Obama administration paints a happy face on this because by destroying the will to work in so many Americans, Obama somehow wins. It's too late to blame Bush so I suppose now it will be the sequester he agreed to in order to raise taxes.

Obama's former economic advisor Austan Goolsbee called it a "punch in the gut." The stock market agreed. I call it another failure of his policies. The "recession" was over before the first stimulus dollar was out the door in 2009, and still he can't make the formula of higher taxes + more regulation + more government take overs work. That's why he's dancing on the Sandy Hook graves--it's all he's got.

Friday Family Photo—Easter in Indianapolis

I had my 2nd eye surgery a week ago Wednesday. Now I'm as blind with glasses as I used to be without them. I've always been able to see my mother when I looked at my hands; now I see her when I look in the mirror.

Does she or doesn’t she?

                  

Do you remember the first time you colored your hair—not to experiment over the bathroom sink, but to have it done professionally?  From the 1950s to the 1970s, the number of American women coloring their hair rose from 7 percent to more than 40 percent, so when I was young hair coloring was just a bit edgy, or for the elderly.

I had my brown hair with a few strands of dull gray “high lighted” with blonde probably in the mid to late 80s, because I recall the children  were grown and gone.  I was being picked up in Rockford at the bus by my parents and I was sort of concerned about what my mother would say.  She said nothing.  So finally I asked her what she thought of my new hair color, and she took a closer look.  She said it looked just like my hair did when I was a child so she hadn’t noticed—that’s sort of the image she had of me.  Dad didn’t notice either.

So I continued.  Depending on whether I had a curly perm or straightened it, sometimes it looked blonde, sometimes highlighted. Then in the late 90s I switched to light brown, over all color, but occasionally had it high lighted, like this photo from 2002—which looks completely blonde but which was actually high lights a bit over done.  A few times I tried to do it myself to save some money, but the mess and the poor results were not worth the savings.  One time a professional got it way too dark and there was nothing I could do.  It was sort of a dark, reddish brown.  I just had to live with it.

                        

When I turned 71, I decided to let it grow out and see what it looked like.  My kids don’t like it at all—makes them feel older, and I noticed immediately that people treated me different, as though I were more frail and less intelligent.  Oh well.  It saves about $500 a year.  See the Easter post (Friday family photo) for the results.

A terrible threat

We must not let the Democrats take back the House.

Pawn Stars slot machine at Hollywood Casino in Columbus

"Love their show. Hate the casino that Ohioans voted down several times. When Penn National moved it out of the Arena district to the depressed Hilltop, it passed. Construction workers got jobs, prostitution increased, but usually these places bring in their own people for the best paying jobs. This is just glamorized organized crime regardless of whom they bring in for entertainment. Columbus will pay in social costs down the road. I think the excuse was we could keep all that money in the state.

                   

When was the last time you checked your shut off valves?

Check your shut off valves. We're remodeling 2 bathrooms; toilets and shut off valves will be replaced. And while we're at it, we'll have our other shut off values also replaced. A neighbor with an identical unit the same age (1977), had one break a few days ago at night, and the damage wasn't found until morning. It will be some extra cost we hadn't planned on, but will be worth it.

Highline Classic

Choose your weapon—cell phone or rifle

Distracted driving, aka talking texting on a cell phone, is estimated to cause 333,000 total injuries, and 2600 fatalities annually. (JAMA, vol. 309, no. 9. p. 877)  In 2010 there were 358 murders involving rifles. (Wikipedia)  Gun violence has been dropping for 20 years (DOJ, Bureau of Statistics), while cell phone deaths have been increasing. The President is proposing new federal restrictions on gun ownership, which won't affect criminals at all, only law abiding citizens. And he is giving away cell phones.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/guntime1.html

So the government is actually killing people with free cell phones! The federal government gives away "Obama phones," a misnomer since the program was begun under Reagan in 1984 (Lifeline) with land lines so the poor would have a phone, and Bush expanded it to cell phones in 2008. Mean old nasty Republicans who didn't care about the poor.

Who remembers

I remember eating at the Woolworth's in Dixon, Illinois when shopping with my mother. I checked on line and it opened in 1914 and closed in 1988.  Which means she may have eaten there when shopping with her mother.  This photo is not that store—it wasn’t that large, but I think they all looked similar.  The Dixon store had a bad fire (according to Lee Co. history) in 1943, and was rebuilt.  As I recall, there was also a Woolworth’s in Champaign, Illinois.

How long?

This image was used at an advice column to illustrate a reader’s problem with her housemate who doesn’t take out his garbage.  How long before the advice columnist is accused of being anti-Muslim?

http://www.amydickinson.com/post/47101378108/piles-of-garbage-cause-temporary-insanity

Why I don’t contribute to the University of Illinois—Bill Ayers

Terrorist Kathy Boudin who killed 2 policemen and a Brinks guard teaches at Columbia University and terrorist and Obama buddy Bill Ayers has retired from teaching education at the University of Illinois (Ayers raised her son). When the U. of I. sends me an appeal for money, I return it with a note about Ayers and why I'm not giving them money. I hope Columbia graduates do the same.

The same progressives who want Americans who haven't hurt anyone to disarm, welcome these gun toting educators who actually killed people into the classroom to teach young Americans.

How to create a new housing crisis

The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) evolved to the mess that gave us lower standards for mortgages and the meltdown of 2007. Now Obama wants one of his own and is pushing loosened standards for credit and home ownership again. Now all we need is packaging the loans and selling them. What a concept.

http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2013/04/obama-administration-wants-to-loosen-home-loan-availability-for-people-with-weak-credit.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/blog/morning-edition/2013/04/obama-urges-banks-to-loosen-credit.html

The education of poor and minority children hijacked again

It's no wonder McDonald's is asking for a Bachelor degree for their cashiers if the schools are teaching that we have a racist, sexist, homophobic society instead of teaching kids math, science, reading, grammar, and speaking in complete sentences. This is a travesty for poor and minority children to have their education hijacked by social change agents. http://www.examiner.com/article/teacher-training-program-focusing-on-white-privilege-exposed-wisconsin

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Maybe they are looking for management material to hire from within?

I watched Wendy’s train a young man in a jobs program about 20 years ago. He started with wiping tables and sweeping floors, and his trainers sat in a booth and checked his work. Then he moved to the kitchen where he prepared orders then eventually got to cashier. I thought he was developmentally disabled when he started, but in a year’s time, they’d brought him up to bachelor degree level.

Maryland Teen testifies about her gun rights

http://gunssavelives.net/blog/fifteen-year-old-young-lady-leaves-maryland-anti-gun-politicians-speechless/

Obama is out campaigning on the graves of the Sandy Hook children again.  He ignored all the dead children killed in Chicago in 2012.  "You owe it to the children who died at Sandy Hook, . . ." President Obama on the campaign trail. What about the 107 black children who died in Chicago in 2012, the city with very strict gun laws, a city with no civilian gun ranges and bans on both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, Mr. President.

Our handsome president has a slight deformity

Sequestration did not cause a rise in poverty!

Poverty at highest levels since the 60s and the sequestration that Obama agreed to is to blame? That's ridiculous. The standard for poverty has widened, and deepened, so now with a low income, the redistribution scheme called the war on poverty that gave them food stamps, housing, WIC, EITC, Medicaid, college support, TANF, bringing the income of a single mom with 2 children to about $60,000 can hardly be called poverty.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302997/U-S-sees-highest-poverty-spike-1960s-leaving-50-million-Americans-poor-government-cuts-billions-spending.html

More income inequality under Obama?  That’s a no brainer.  The more wealth you transfer to the lower income from the middle class, the less likely they will be to move themselves up the income and career ladder.  Then more in the middle class slip into the low income group.  It’s almost as if it was done by design!