White House Briefing—going badly for Carney

Poor Jay Carney. Benghazi is far worse than Watergate, and yet he tells US to check our history (Tuesday, May 14, press conference). Has to stand in front of the nation which doesn't believe a word and then gripe that the Benghazi tragedy is just a political side show by the Republicans, that the IRS story is an "if" and that Obama doesn't support the leaks snooping by Department of Justice and Eric Holder, his best bud.  He lamely whines about the "worst recession since the Great Depression." (That's code for this is all Bush's fault.)

Obama made clear yesterday he has been lying through his teeth about who did what when by "rewriting" the history of the last 8 months. On Sept. 25 he was still blaming a video for Sept. 11 attack. Hillary blamed a video in “comforting” the families and swore to get the film maker; Rice blamed a video on 5 talk shows. They all knew it wasn't true. Then he repeated that lie when he knew it was a planned terrorist attack and not a video when he told it on Sept. 25 at the United Nations, which he circuitously denied yesterday:

"That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. Now, I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity. It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well -- for as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith."

Why doesn’t Obama speak out about the biggest news story? Because

When Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, he voted against legislation that would have protected children born alive after botched abortions on a number of occasions. That's why there is not a peep from him about Kermit Gosnell (who was found guilty of 4 murders yesterday)  snipping the spine of born alive babies. He believes in the intention of the abortion, not the result. He was quick to speak out on an gay NBA player who'd hid in the closet for 20 years, quick to call Sandra Fluke about her demands for birth control at a Catholic university, and quick to malign the Boston police on behalf of his buddy Louis Gates, whose neighbors had called about a break-in.  But defend a helpless baby? No.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/kermit-gosnell-found-guilty-murder

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/jury-in-kermit-gosnell-trial-hung-on-two-charges/2013/05/13/b4444bdc-bbda-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/19/gosnell-abortion-clinic-worker-admits-snipping-spines-of-10-babies/

Worse than Nixon’s enemies list—and much bigger

Maybe the news about the IRS being used as a personal tool for the Obama campaign to put up road blocks for fund raising for patriot groups will cover up the news about 1) Benghazi cover up and gun running, 2) Department of Justice snooping and listening in on reporters, 3) the ghoulish Kermit Gosnell abortion murders, and 4) the news that 17 of the nation’s largest insurance companies indicate that with Obamacare, on average, premiums will grow 100% when the law is fully implemented.  Some will soar more than 400%.

Some conservative talking heads are speculating that with three huge scandals (not counting the insurance cost increase since we’ve known for years that would be a disaster), the Obama administration is in trouble. I don't see it. Democrats are incredibly loyal, much more so than Republicans. I used to be a Democrat and when I became a Republican in 2000 it was a big shock to see what wafflers Republicans are since Democrats will go to the grave wrong, but proud to be a Democrat.  Romney lost in 2012 not because of the youth vote or the Hispanic vote but because Republican and Libertarian Christians stayed home and pouted. It's very frustrating. There's a streak of perfectionism in evangelical and fundamentalist Christians that won't be moved.

It’s hard to keep track

IRS snooping on conservatives.  Justice snooping on reporters. Cover ups of Benghazi.  Whistleblowers intimidated.   But . . . he has enough time to call and congratulate a gay basketball player for finally coming out of the closet after a season in which he scored 4 points.

The President is in CYA mode

It's not often you can catch the President in 3 lies in just one paragraph of a news conference. Who believes him that the IRS is an independent agency? It's part of the Treasury Dept. which means (his) Executive branch. He said, "if it is true," but the IRS representative already admitted it late Friday afternoon hoping it would be buried the the week-end news dump. He said he read about the IRS scandal in the newspaper, but his chief counsel had known for 3 weeks that the sh*t was about the hit the fan. Where in the world is this guy when all hell's a popping and why do his staff hide things from him? He knew about the gay basketball player who made 4 points last year and called him.

The earliest reports of harassment by the IRS began in the fall of 2009 by patriot groups, 9/12 groups and others. Lengthy forms requested not only names of board members, but names of their family members; screen shots of their participation at social networking sites. Some of these groups are very small--maybe 20 people in a community. So they just didn't apply for the tax exempt status rather than hire a lawyer. It was pure intimidation and harassment and against the law.

Have a lovely day

Had a lovely brunch at our daughter’s home.  Photos are just so-so.

In 2000 the Dutch legalized prostitution

“Twelve years on, and we can now see the results of this experiment. Rather than afford better protection for the women, it has simply increased the market. Rather than confine the brothels to a discrete (and avoidable) part of the city, the sex industry has spilt out all over Amsterdam — including on-street. Rather than be given rights in the ‘workplace’, the prostitutes have found the pimps are as brutal as ever. The government-funded union set up to protect them has been shunned by the vast majority of prostitutes, who remain too scared to complain.

Pimps, under legalisation, have been reclassified as managers and businessmen. Abuse suffered by the women is now called an ‘occupational hazard’, like a stone dropped on a builder’s toe. Sex tourism has grown faster in Amsterdam than the regular type of tourism: as the city became the brothel of Europe, women have been imported by traffickers from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia to meet the demand. In other words, the pimps remained but became legit — violence was still prevalent but part of the job, and trafficking increased. Support for the women to leave prostitution became almost nonexistent. The innate murkiness of the job has not been washed away by legal benediction.”

Sin has a way of doing that—makes the bad worse.

You can cross Holland off the cruise list.

When he was a Senator, he grasped the problem

Liturgical abuses in Latin America

“In Latin America, beside the beautifully and carefully celebrated Masses associated with the major popular devotions, liturgical abuses are still alive and constitute a massive problem in the region.

It is not a situation of omitting or changing the rubrics here and there. The liturgical problems are much more serious. They consist of events like priests “concelebrating” the Mass with the youth at the rhythm of tropical songs in Colombia; “consecrating” cakes with Guayaba marmalade in Venezuela; a “reggae” Mass in Panama; or a priest celebrating with vestments portraying Batman and Robin while squirting holy water with a green-and-red water pistol in Mexico.”

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-and-the-liturgy/#ixzz2SzPmeBDx

Welcome to happy clappy Protestantism.

Democrats aren’t blind—just devoted followers

"The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews." [Today's Washington Post] Now, do you recall the comments Obama made at OSU’s graduation  a week ago about those who fear tyranny in government? And the IRS goes after patriot groups because they aren't leftists?

I was a Democrat when Nixon fell from grace and resigned. Watergate was a burglary; no one died. He did the honorable thing—something unknown in government today—to protect the reputation not of himself, or his party, but the office of the presidency.  I didn't know a single Republican who stood by him--they were ashamed that such disgrace had fallen on their guy. Not so with Democrats and Benghazi. I don't know a single Democrat who has abandoned their slavish devotion to Obama. It reminds me of abused wives/girlfriends who keep going back for more after they get out of the hospital and he's released from jail.

Waiting for new glasses

My cataracts are gone, but I’ll need some sort of prescription so that I don’t have to carry around reading glasses (currently using 3 pair, and seem to always be looking for them).  The first few weeks my close up vision was fine, but has slipped some, and distance still has some astigmatism.  When we were at the lake 2 weeks ago, I found a pair from 1989. I’m still adjusting to color—particularly anything in the blue spectrum. According to what I’ve read, some people with cataract removal experience more purple.

Synonyms of hubris

Self-important, proud, vain, smug, arrogant, high and mighty, superior, stuck-up, snobbish, self-satisfied, bigheaded, narcissistic.

Friday Family Photo—Mother’s Days past

From my daughter, 1976, Texas Ware Melamine

From my son, 1977, same project, probably the same teacher.

My handmade card for my mother, probably 1947, second grade in Forreston, Illinois.  Folded with message inside. Not sure who would have cut out the silhouette.

The guest room closet re-do

We’re remodeling the two upstairs bathrooms which has meant rearranging everything in the closets.  The guest room closet will now just hold out of season coats, the Christmas boxes, and some storage.  For the storage, I’ve purchased matching green boxes, the same color as the the guest bath walls.  Now, I’m repacking things into them.

Repacking the boxes of cards and letters saved over 50 years—now that’s a job.  I’ve done this before, and sent back to the writer, many letters.  But there are many notes and letters inside these cards.  For some reason I was writing little notes to my husband back in the 70s. I don't know the dates or situations (some sounded serious). I did find this written on the back of an envelope.

A young mother was trying to comfort her daughter when her pet kitten died, saying, "Remember, dear, Fluffy is up in heaven now with God." "But Mommy," the girl sobbed, "What in the world would God want with a dead cat?"

How many pregnancies result from assault rape?

Let's look, using the figure of 200,000 rapes each year—and that’s a high figure (figure for 2004-2005 was around 64,000). 

• Of the 200,000 women who were forcibly raped, one-third were either too old or too young to get pregnant. That leaves 133,000 at risk for pregnancy.
• A woman is capable of being fertilized only 3 days (perhaps 5) out of a 30-day month. Multiply our figure of 133,000 by three tenths. Three days out of 30 is one out of ten, divide 133 by ten and we have 13,300 women remaining. If we use five days out of 30 it is one out of six. Divide one hundred and thirty three thousand by six and we have 22,166 remaining.
• One-fourth of all women in the United States of childbearing age have been sterilized, so the remaining three-fourths come out to 10,000 (or 15,000).
• Only half of assailants penetrate her body and/or deposit sperm in her vagina,¹ so let's cut the remaining figures in half. This gives us numbers of 5,000 (or 7,500).
• Fifteen percent of men are sterile, that drops that figure to 4,250 (or 6,375).
• Fifteen percent of non-surgically sterilized women are naturally sterile. That reduces the number to 3,600 (or 5,400).
• Another fifteen percent are on the pill and/or already pregnant. That reduces the number to 3,070 (or 4,600).
• Now factor in the fact that it takes 5-10 months for the average couple to achieve a pregnancy. Use the smaller figure of 5 months to be conservative and divide the above figures by 5. The number drops to 600 (or 920).
• In an average population, the miscarriage rate is about 15 percent. In this case we have incredible emotional trauma. Her body is upset. Even if she conceives, the miscarriage rate will be higher than in a more normal pregnancy. If 20 percent of raped women miscarry, the figure drops to 450 (or 740).

Now, then, many women who become pregnant through assault rape choose not to compound the crime by killing the baby, and they don’t abort.

http://www.christianliferesources.com/article/rape-pregnancies-are-rare-461

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-and-variation/2012/08/20/here-is-some-legitimate-science-on-pregnancy-and-rape/

V-E Day, May 8, 1945

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.