Slavery is bigger now than in the 18th century

Tomorrow night Glenn Beck will be doing a special on sex slavery, and reported on the Cleveland case tonight of the 3 girls held hostage for a decade, but the special had been in the works for months. We like to think slavery in this country ended with the Civil War, but in fact, it's a bigger business today than in the 18th and 19th century. It involves a lot of children, and includes boys for the gay trade. The newer term is "Trafficking in persons," but slavery is slavery, and it also includes labor. Julie Clark of UALC has a special ministry for releasing women from prostitution. Her organization is called DOMA. http://www.domaconnection.org/learn/who-we-are/

Gay babies were aborted?

"In the eight days since NBA player Jason Collins announced he was gay, the news media have covered the story in 2,381 places. But in the first eight days of the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his “House of Horrors” abortion business, the media covered the story in 115 places, meaning that Collins’ “gay” news received more than 1,970.4% more news coverage." CNSNews.com.

About 40% of the babies in Gosnell’s clinic were black, and we can assume at least 2% were potentially gay, since that's the national figure. Maybe the pro-life people just aren't using the right argument that a murderer of babies deserves more new coverage than a basketball player who made 4 points his last season and needs some publicity to help his career.

The President’s pep talk while campaigning

PRESIDENT OBAMA to OSU graduates: "Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. . . they suggest that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted."  May 5, 2013

Is Obama talking about how American history and political science are taught in public schools and our colleges that drives parents to home school? Is he talking about FDR imprisoning almost a million German, Italian and Japanese American citizens during WWII? Or is he talking about broken treaties with Indians? Is he talking about Bill Ayers and some of the Communists in his White House and our elite universities who constantly bad mouth America? Or maybe Rev. Wright where he attended church for 20 years and said, God Damn America in his sermons. It was governments killing their own citizens in the 20th century that caused the biggest loss of lives--not wars between competing political systems. Citizens always need to be vigilant.

What’s best in Columbus?

           

We've been living in Columbus since 1967. This morning when I read the (614) magazine "ColumBest" I felt like I moved here yesterday. Only recognized a few places/people voted Best with which I'm personally familiar. Like OSU, First Watch, Old Bag of Nails, Schmidt's, Wexner Center for the Arts, Mid-Ohio Food Bank, Market District, Huntington Bank, and Carfagna's. You can pick up a copy (free-circ) at Giant Eagle, and probably other stores.

That said, the last page (p. 134) editorial (hard to read white print on black paper) is beyond naive. It's about the Boston bombing. Not a word about what motivated the Tsarnaev brothers, and we all know what that was--Islamic jihad. He uses the analogy of Americans feeling like they live in a pressure cooker to the bomb fixings they used.  Really lame. He called them shysters, charlatans, and sh*ts. Deluded, foul and misguided. Every name except what they are. Shame on you David S. Lewis for not digging deeper.

Hand hygiene is not a no-brainer

“Healthcare workers also need to learn the proper technique for hand hygiene. People are supposed to rub their hands together for a minimum of 15 seconds when washing their hands. When Renee Watson, RNC, BSN, CPHQ, CIC, manager of infection prevention and epidemiology at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta asks physicians and staff to mime rubbing their hands together to wash hands in a training session, however, they usually drop off around seven or eight seconds. Even people who think they wash their hands for the full 15 seconds typically do not meet that minimum in the training exercise, she says. Awareness of both the proper technique and one's execution of this technique is therefore critical to ensuring hand hygiene compliance and preventing infections.

Another important lesson is the difference between soap and water and alcohol sanitizers, according to Ms. Watson. Alcohol hand sanitizers are more effective at eliminating pathogens except when hands are visibly soiled, when the caregiver has blood and body fluids on their hands or when they have worked with specific organisms that require mechanical removal — for which soap and water should be used, she says. “

4 essentials of hand hygiene

What if we’d had a truthful media on Sept. 11, 2012

Watergate created a storm that brought down Nixon. No one was killed. He just wanted to win reelection so there was a cover up of a break in. Obama and his staff did something much worse on Sept. 11, 2012, and tried the same cover up, only the consequences were much more serious. The media kept quite. "What difference does it make," "It was a long time ago." His followers are so blind, I suspect he could have been reelected even if he'd told the truth.

The President’s daughters have protection—the Secret Service

Plan B is for everyone else.

The President isn't the least bit worried that his teen daughter will buy the legal drug levonorgestrel to prevent pregnancy after illegal intercourse now available with his blessings to very young teens OTC without parental knowledge. They've got the protection of the Secret Service on their dates. That trumps any birth control. I don't think any guy will be taking advantage of their youth and inexperience. It's the same attitude he has toward guns--he and not thee.

Plan B because common sense is uncommon

Washington Redskins

While debating the issue of the Washington Redskins as an appropriate name for the team, maybe more people should look at what the federal and state governments actually DO to REAL Native Americans who have been receiving cradle to grave government assistance for all of my life time. The only ones who do well are those who choose to either be a government lackey bureaucrat, or leave the subsidies behind and live free and responsible in society without Big Brother hovering.  But then that's true of most people; their situation is just a little more obvious since it's been going on longer. Look at any government program for health, education, military, children, nutrition, elderly, housing, etc. and there's a special siphon for Native Americans plus thousands of grants to non-profits who live off these Americans.

Disparities in health. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/su6001.pdf

Homeland security. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/iga/dhs-tribal-resource-guide.pdf

Did you know we have tribal colleges and universities? http://www.collegefund.org/userfiles/2011_FactSheet.pdf

Even with all the gov't assistance, there's no accurate way to compile statistics because these are separate from other gov't programs. http://childwelfare.ncaiprc.org/documentlibrary/2010/03/CA&N%20briefing%20paper.pdf

One thing I noticed in reading about the various programs serving American Indians was that the statistics were rather old, considering how carefully watched they are by the government.

Things have changed since I attended the U. of I.

This is a photo of University of Illinois students studying for finals. I have no idea where this is on campus, because it certainly wasn’t there in the 60s.

The House of Representatives

No constitutional requirement limits the size of the House to 435 representatives (as set in 1911), in fact, if we followed the Constitution (one representative for each 30,000 citizens) we'd have over 9,000 representatives in the House. But that's the sort of power that was intended for us, the people. The power now resides in the Presidency first, and the Courts second. The people come in last. In the 18th century Americans didn't want a king; now apparently they do. We’re upside down.

“I love you,” Obama said.

By now you've heard the "God bless you" ending of Obama's speech at Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider, last Friday. Have you heard his first sentence? "I love you." It was off teleprompter and shouted out as he greeted his enthusiastic, cheering sycophant audience. He thrives on this type of devotion--and these days, with an anemic economy, expanding wars, smudged red lines, what's a guy to do but get cheers from the lowest common denominator? Is there another leader in history so eager to personally destroy his subjects before they can vote against him? His denigration of marriage and putting road blocks at every turn for Christians whether in health care or the military or education is just the unraveling of what we used to be.

Planned Parenthood performed 333,964 abortions in fiscal 2011, an increase of 4,519 from the 329,445 abortions it did in 2010. Abortion is not its only service, but it is the big money maker. PP assets are $1.2 billion, and still it gets our tax dollars.

Obama didn't use the word "abortion" even once in his 12 minute speech, but used "health" 27 times. Planned Parenthood is not about health--except in the sense that the Gulag was a hospital, or Buchenwald a rest home for tired workers soon to die of overwork.

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/04/29/obamas-planned-parenthood-love

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0427/With-Planned-Parenthood-speech-Obama-jumps-into-abortion-debate

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/04/30/unholy-alliance-between-obama-democrats-and-planned-parenthood/

Spine snipping doesn’t count as murder

Anyone can see this is a baby

Abortion at 23 weeks is not uncommon.  The child can live outside the womb.  Sure it needs help to survive, but so do I and I’m 73.

In Columbus, the three abortion clinics have all had health and code violations.  They are not safe for women, and they are lethal for the babies in their wombs.

Jason Collins made 4 points last season

           

This could be a real career boost, but did he really need the president jumping in?

The growing threat in Syria

Assad's thugs vs. jihadi thugs (of various bands). A monster against demons and devils. What we do know for sure is Obama will not make a decision. He's had more Americans killed in Afghanistan in 4 years than Bush in 8 just from his waffling in 2009. I don't want more Americans to die for these people's civil wars and idiotic beliefs. Let the Arabs go in and help. Let them find there are no WMD.

The great [sic] Thomas Friedman in 2003 recommended for the 40 year dictatorship in Syria: “if President Bush really wants to achieve his objectives in Iraq, he may have to sup a little with Yasir Arafat, the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/opinion/long-spoon-diplomacy.html?ref=basharalassad

Buttermilk bacon pralines

I haven’t tried this recipe, but it certainly sounds yummy.

Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 tablespoon light corn syrup

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon coarse salt

4 tablespoons butter

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup chopped pecans

1/2 teaspoon orange zest

4 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled

Directions

1. In a heavy deep saucepan, combine the sugars, the buttermilk, corn syrup, baking soda and salt. Cook slowly over medium heat for about 20 minutes, until the mixture reaches 235 on a candy thermometer.

2. Remove from heat and add butter, vanilla, pecans, orange zest and bacon and beat with a wooden spoon until creamy. Be very careful - this stuff is HOT.

3. Drop by teaspoonsful onto a silicone mat or buttered parchment paper. Let stand for 30 minutes or until cool and firm.

http://www.framedcooks.com/2011/06/buttermilk-bacon-pralines.html

Architects and Engineers may be losing money through inefficiency

June Jewell, a CPA and owner of Acuity Business Solutions consulting, says the architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works for easily lose $100,000 each year through inefficient and ineffective practices.

“Of course, sometimes the waste is much, much more – and this goes for larger and smaller businesses,” says Jewell, author of “Find the Lost Dollars: 6 Steps to Increase Profits in Architecture, Engineering, and Environmental Firms,” (www.FindTheLostDollars.com). “The problems are usually so fundamental to a business that they will never see why and how they’re bleeding money; they’re too close.”

There are several nooks and crannies in which firms are apt to lack efficiency. Jewell reviews three general areas where most of these firms can turn unnecessary losses to gains:

• Company culture: While the culture may vary somewhat from one firm to another, architectural, engineering and environmental firms share some of the same characteristics. One is that their founders tend to go into business because they’re creative people who love what they do -- not because they’re business people. So they don’t focus on profits, and they tend to be casual managers with regard to employees’ time. Shifting the culture to a focus of being profitable is not only necessary for sustaining the business; it allows creative people to do more of what they love.

• Ineffective practices: Of course, there are many moving parts in an A&E firm, which means there are many potential areas for improvement. That includes customer service, time management, marketing, strategic planning, accurate budgets and estimates, and the cost of lost opportunities. Failure to create an accurate, meticulous job estimate, for instance, can have multiple consequences, from having disappointed clients to jeopardize projects to losing money because time, materials and other costs were not accurately forecast.

• Systems & IT: This is the third way to improve business management and increase profits. Technology is able to help companies leverage their resources more effectively, yet many of them are still using outdated software and non-integrated systems. By looking at systems as a strategic investment that can help them to be more competitive, they can realize a great return on investment (ROI) from their projects. While the transition from old to new software has its cost in time and work, the efficiency gained in future work production is worth it.

“I’ve worked with hundreds of A&E firms in my 28 years of consulting, and I see these shared problems so often, I offer what I call ‘the $100K Challenge,’ ’’ Jewell says. “That’s a guarantee that I can work with any business that’s doing a few million dollars a year in business and find $100,000 they’re losing in profits.”

In this post-recession economy, she says, it’s vital for firms to tune up their business management practices in order to thrive.

June R. Jewell is a CPA and CEO of Acuity Business Solutions and has written a book, Find the Lost Dollars.  Ginny Grimsley of News  and Experts supplied the article.

Media are criminally silent

Conventional wisdom isn’t too wise—by Harris R. Sherline

• Terrorism is best addressed by U.S. disarmament, negotiation, law enforcement and foreign aid.
• Nick Berg’s death was the fault of the American military.
• Abu Ghraib is an indictment of American culture.
• The Israelis are the real villains in the Middle East.
• People in other countries hate us for good reason.
• Islam is a religion of peace.
• Truth is relative and facts are not reliable.
• Columbine was the fault of the military industrial complex and the NRA.
• Racism is a Republican pastime.
• Most of the problems in the world can be laid at the doorstep of white American males.
• Hollywood is enlightened.
• Violence begets violence, except on TV and in movies and contemporary music.
• We invaded Iraq primarily to secure access to oil.
• It is criminal to expect people to work, earn a living, take care of their families and take responsibility for their own actions.
• Capitalism is obviously inferior to socialism.
• The American Republic is a failed democracy.
• 9/11 was something America deserved for her crimes against the third world.
• The U.N. will save us.
• Europeans are smarter and more sophisticated than Americans.
• President Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condolezza Rice and Colin Powell are all liars.
• The earth is warming so we need to shut down industry and ride bicycles.
• The spotted owl is more important than jobs and wood products for home building and thousands of other products.
• Castro is just trying to do the right thing. If he has done anything wrong, it’s America’s fault.
• The killing fields in Cambodia were America’s fault.
• Sudan is America’s fault.
• The Israelis are squatters. They created a Palestinian ghetto.
• We should try to understand Hamas and Hezbollah because after all they are simply trying to free the faultless Palestinians.
• Americans are the bad guys.
• Christians are bigots.
• Radical Muslims are just different.
• The real reason for the Patriot Act is to erode our civil rights so the Republicans can take over.
• Republicans manipulate election results by electronically manipulating polling places.
• There is a vast right wing conspiracy to rule the world.
• Rwanda was just a misunderstanding, a lack of information, and confusion about the definition of “genocide.”
• Hillary Clinton would make a great president, because, well…just because, and she’s a woman.
• Tax cuts are only for the wealthy.
• Criminals just need more understanding.
• Entitlement programs emerging out of Johnson’s Great Society will solve the poverty problem.
• Who needs God when we have our own brains to rely upon!
• Public education should be in the exclusive hands of the NEA because they have master’s degrees.
• Everything is relative.
• Truth is an illusion.
• If you’re wealthy, you’re a pirate.
• There is no such thing as evil, except making a profit in business.
• Vietnam was Nixon’s war.
• God is a crutch manufactured by the intellectually lame.
• People in the Third World are always right so long as they oppose America.
• Tolerance is paramount, but it’s rational to be intolerant of conservatives and Christians because they’re either nuts or selfish or both.
• Diversity is to be celebrated as long as you agree with us.
• If you disagree with leftist philosophies you are an uneducated moron.
• This item appeared at American Daughter Media Center, July 13, 2011.  Harris was 85 in 2008, so I’m hoping he’s still writing, because there’s a lot of knowledge about conventional wisdom there.