Tuesday, July 28, 2015

For my readers who call me a racist because I don’t like Obama’s policies

Right Wing News's photo.

Obama is bi-racial, raised by white grandparents in an affluent home, and attended private schools and colleges.

The other six men are not bi-racial, and their families have a long history with the race struggle in America and probably have ancestors who were slaves, unlike the President.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Receive forgiveness

Sarah Palin's photo.

Cecile Richards defends Planned Parenthood

98% of Planned Parenthood’s services to pregnant women are abortion; so how do they go on national TV and lie with impunity? It's not about women's health (a euphemism for abortion), it's about revenue. Abortions are expensive. CEO gets $1.50 for each abortion; the clinic workers have a quota to fill each month.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/153699-exposing-the-planned-parenthood-business-model

Can you imagine the evil, demented mind of Cecile Richards? http://www.christianpost.com/news/planned-parenthood-president-cecile-richards-compares-pro-lifers-to-murderers-141968/

These videos aren’t edited to be dishonest—they edited out chit chat and clinking glasses over lunch.  The entire transcripts were published; there are 10 more coming.  These people—there are no words to describe their hate filled hearts.

ELCA pastor comes out to youth conference

"Bishop Kevin Kanouse, leader of the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, [disapproved of] the denomination’s decision to accept gay pastors who are in committed, monogamous relationships [in 2009]. Kanouse voted against the resolution, but says he’s staying in the church and urges others to do so."  But 6 years later he acknowledges he's gay and comes out to a youth conference. Married 40 years with children, he claims the Holy Spirit led him to announce it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lutheran-bishop-comes-out-as-gay-after_55b6637ce4b0074ba5a54ac5

It still baffles me that librarians, who came out many, many years ago and lived openly with their partners and enjoyed great careers, are braver and more honest than pastors, movie stars, NFL players, and reality show stars.  Must be the money—librarian salaries are quite low. I just have no sympathy for this man who lied to his wife, family, church, friends and then actually back stabbed other gays with his vote just a few years ago. Disgusted.

Winners and losers in the minimum wage increase

Moving to a $15/hr minimum wage isn't necessarily a win-win for society: Because low-wage workers get less work experience under a higher minimum-wage regime, they are less likely to transition to higher-wage jobs down the road.

"The key intellectual upshot is that, despite what some people want you to believe, the laws of economic gravity have not been suspended. You can’t impose costs on some without trade-offs for others. You can’t intervene in the market without unintended consequences. And here’s a haunting fact that seems to make sense: Raising the minimum wage will produce winners among job holders from all backgrounds, but it will disproportionately punish those with the lowest skills, who are least likely to be able to justify higher employment costs."

David Brooks

This is most certainly true

Animal Welfare League's photo.

Right now our elderly cat isn’t well, and we’re doing everything we can to tempt her to eat and drink.  I wonder if she’s just kidding around and enjoying all the extra attention?

Sunday, July 26, 2015

The race-based wealth gap

What happens with employees investing in 401(k)s? The investment behavior of  9,600 Alcoa workers was examined between 2003 and 2010 for racial differences.  Outcome:  Blacks and Hispanics invested differently than whites.

  • Black and Hispanic employees were less likely to participate in the plans at all
  • minority contributors to the plans chose safer, low-returning assets like money market accounts than riskier fare like stock or bond funds
  • minority employees were more likely to make early withdrawals from their accounts, or take loans out against them
  • black salaried employees were less likely to participate in the plans than Hispanic or White salaried employees

Yet, at the end of the article, despite showing investing behavior was different,  the author still concluded “it’s important to keep in mind that racial inequality can manifest itself in many different ways, including some with the potential to perpetuate the disparity in our retirement years.”

http://qz.com/343369/racial-disparities-can-be-found-even-in-our-401k-accounts/

Will the Clintons pull it off again? Don’t be stupid, Republicans

Republicans should not be fooled. If Democrats wanted to run the perfect candidate to spoil the 2016 election for Republicans, it would be Donald Trump. The few issues he's right about is just a trail of bread crumbs to the big bad wolf of more Democrat statism.

The President’s trip to Kenya

I'm glad Obama finally made a visit to Kenya, birthplace of his father. His attention to anything "African" has been poor. Like President Clinton, President Bush made two separate trips to Sub-Saharan Africa. On one trip he visited three of the poorest countries in the world: Liberia, Rwanda, and Benin. He also made huge strides in HIV treatment and Trafficking in Persons (slavery) prevention. Under Obama, those programs have really limped along after great strides under Bush. I think many Africans expected more from Obama since he is half African, but were very disappointed. He's ignored Africa's problems, especially its fight against radical Islamists for the most part. Making a hash tag about kidnapped girls from a Christian school in Nigeria got his wife a lot of warm fuzzy points on the internet, but didn't save any Christian children.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/boko-haram-mocks-bringbackourgirls-hashtag-campaign-in-latest-video-9604307.html

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/07/01/kenyan-leaders-slam-president-obamas-gay-rights-comments

http://tbo.com/news/church-of-the-brethren-brings-altruistic-message-to-tampa-conference-20150712/

Friday, July 24, 2015

There’s more to Easter Island heads than meets the eye—bodies

http://www.idealistrevolution.org/easter-island-head-discovery/

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We’ve been thinking for all these years that they were just heads, however all along, the sculptures have secretly had torsos, buried beneath the earth.  Some 70 feet tall and 270 tons.

http://www.eisp.org/5454/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/easter-island-head-bodies-293799

Hulk Hogan, John Kerry and Nicki Minag

I see they are going to ruin Hulk Hogan's career because he used the N word some time in the past. About 45 years ago (after he'd met with the enemy) John Kerry was back stabbing every VietNam soldier before Congress after a tour of 4 months and a self inflicted wound, and yet he managed a career move where he gets to back stab all of us including blacks, Asians, and Hispanics with the Iran deal. Where's the outrage from the word police? And black Nicki Minag gets rich on lyrics like "You a stupid hoe, yeah you a you a stupid hoe" and calling women she doesn't like lab rats and bitches. And please, don't tell me that's her art.

Calls for more gun control

Within minutes the Louisiana theater tragedy had been politicized by the gun controlists. I don’t recall them saying much when an illegal alien felon shot a woman walking with her father in San Francisco.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/12/19/mass_shootings_in_america_northeastern_criminologists_james_alan_fox_monica.html

But it’s a myth that mass shootings are on the increase.  News 24/7 makes it seem that way.   And that’s not the only myth this research busts. Especially more laws.

And, perhaps most dispiriting, the authors argue that pretty much every policy proposal intended to reduce mass shootings has been worthless. Increased funding for and access to mental health treatment? A well-meaning idea, but likely ineffective in preventing mass murder, given that, “with their tendency to externalize blame and consider themselves as victims of mistreatment, mass murderers see the problem to reside in others, not themselves,” and thus would likely avoid all opportunities to receive psychiatric help. Would renewing the 1994 federal assault weapons ban do any good? Probably not: “a comparison of the incidence of mass shootings during the 10-year window when the assault weapon ban was in force against the time periods before implementation and after expiration shows that the legislation had virtually no effect, at least in terms of murder in an extreme form.”

I bought a copycat Feta cheese

Real Feta cheese is made with goat or sheep's milk, according to this article, but I bought a "copycat" Feta made with Buffalo milk from Bulgaria. Didn't know there were buffalo in Bulgaria, but apparently the Indian breed has spread around the world. From 1962 to 1990, Murrah buffaloes from India were imported into Bulgaria and a new population of buffalo was created by upgrading the local buffalo.  https://www.marketdistrict.com/foodie/foodie-focus/a-betta-feta

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Black lives matter

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Self-Compassion-Based Eating Awareness Training

That’s the title of a workshop.  Supposed to teach one to trust her taste buds and loose weight, but with “mindfulness” (aka Hindu meditation).  Ha. Self compassion for me meant slices of cheddar on crackers, and baking lots of cookies.

I trusted my taste buds and “felt my hunger” 3 years ago and put on 30 pounds, which I’ve now taken off the old fashioned way—eat less, move more.

Truth overruled by Ryan Anderson, it’s not over

Summary:  Marriage is, as the author Anderson explains,

“a human institution which predates the state. Why did it form? In order to make men and women responsible to one another, and to maximize the outcomes for both the adults and any children which result from their union. As such, "Marriage is society's least-restrictive means of ensuring the well-being of children."”

“Once you move away from the original purpose and definition of marriage, you enter a world in which the institution is infinitely plastic. Which means that if you support same-sex marriage today, you need to be comfortable with whatever marriage will be defined as tomorrow. And there will be future redefinitions.”

“With marriage now redefined, we can expect to see the marginalization of those with traditional views and the erosion of religious liberty. The law and culture will seek to eradicate such views through economic, social, and legal pressure. With marriage redefined, believing what virtually every human society once believed about marriage will increasingly be deemed a malicious prejudice to be driven to the margins of culture.”

The tactics of gay activists came out with the book’s release.  Protests without having read it, no honest discussion even though it should appeal to honest gay couples who respect their own marriage, and even that of others. In short, religious bigotry and intolerance on display for why the book was necessary.

Regnery Publishing
Paperback • 2015 • $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-62157-451-4

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

The ongoing Planned Parenthood scandal

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The unedited Planned Parenthood video will be released. They insist that “crunchy” is part of clever editing, and the doctor’s comment about a Lamborghini. They may regret being so snooty about "out of context" and "edited." May show without a doubt who they are for those who were in denial. The MSM are quick to be quiet, except to defend PP and call “donation” of “tissues” and “specimens” a generous act.  Creepy people completely without a moral center.

How much government control?

What and how much should government control? According to these circles, we currently have socialism-lite. Not quite Europe, but getting there. In my life time, the federal government has taken over education and energy, Social Security was Depression era, whereas for my grandparents it was just roads, police, military, courts. All else was handled privately or by churches and group associations (usually ethnic or religious to protect their own groups like Lutheran Swedes) with homes for elderly and orphans, or there was some at the county level of government, for instance, my grandmother received benefits for the blind from her county. The control is getting tighter, squeezing out private initiative. If you look at employed blacks, they have lowest small business, and highest government employment but still have the highest unemployment and dependency on government. This template has left out prisons, always for the state, and a huge industry.

Keep in mind, the biggest killer of citizens is not war with other countries, but death by government.

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Martin O’Malley, left of Hillary, Democrat candidate for President

In 2008, construction was completed on the 757-room Baltimore Hilton, a $305 million publicly-funded hotel spearheaded by Baltimore’s mayor at the time, Martin O’Malley. The hotel, in seven years of operation, has never turned a profit. The best year of operation saw a $2.9 million loss.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/omalley-pushed-for-publicly-funded-hotel-thats-been-hemorrhaging-money/

I looked at the website: $159 starting. Wow. Sounded great, so I went to booking, and couldn't find a single room at that rate. I don't think this is a place for lower income, retirees so public funding is supposed to bring in people who can spend money. But I guess no one wants to go to Baltimore where the police can't protect them.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/10/baltimore-cops-on-soaring-crime-rate-the-public-wanted-a-softer-police-force-and-now-theyve-got-it/