Colin Kaepernick, the ungrateful millionaire

 

Colin Kaepernick has a white birthmother, white adoptive parents, and with nature and nuture gifting him every advantage in a country where the sky's the limit he is an NFL millionaire several times over.  The only guy missing in his internet bio is the sperm donor, so guess who he's identifying with. His career was faltering with injuries and poor stats, so last week he decided he was just too tired to stand for the national anthem with his non-millionaire team mates on the 49-ers, and instead would become rejuvenated and rebranded with the #blacklivesmatter thugs.

http://www.biography.com/people/colin-kaepernick-21132801

When I'm an old lady (years from now)

When I'm an old lady, I'll live with each kid
Joanne Bailey Baxter (see comments in this blog)
 http://suitableformixedcompany.blogspot.com/2005/04/when-im-old-lady-and-live-with-my-kids.html

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When I'm an old lady, I'll live with each kid,
And bring so much happiness just as they did.
I want to pay back all the joy they've provided.
Returning each deed! Oh, they'll be so excited!
When I'm an old lady and live with my kids.

I'll write on the walls with reds, whites and blues,
And I'll bounce on the furniture wearing my shoes.
I'll drink from the carton and then leave it out.
I'll stuff all the toilets and oh, how they'll shout!
When I'm an old lady and live with my kids.

When they're on the phone and just out of reach,
I'll get into things like sugar and bleach.
Oh, they'll snap their fingers and then shake their head,
When I'm an old lady and live with my kids.

When they cook dinner and call me to eat,
I'll not eat my green beans or salad or meat,
I'll gag on my okra, spill milk on the table,
And when they get angry I'll run if I'm able!
When I'm an old lady and live with my kids.

I'll sit close to the TV, through channels I'll click,
I'll cross both eyes just to see if they stick.
I'll take off my socks and throw one away,
And play in the mud 'til the end of the day!
When I'm an old lady and live with my kids.

And later in bed, I'll lay back and sigh,
I'll thank God in prayer and then close my eyes.
My kids will look down with a smile slowly creeping,
And say with a groan, "She's so sweet when she's sleeping!"

Burgess Owens on Liberalism

"I believe…… in the concept embodied by the words…."We the People"…that our country stands as the most unique among all the world’s societies because it was not founded on we the blacks, we the whites, we the Christian, we the Jews, we the Moslem, we the Buddhist, we the old, we the young, we the rich or we the poor …but WE THE PEOPLE. Though different we have, through the power of unity and adherence to concrete core beliefs, found the common thread that defines the American Way." Burgess Owens, NFL 10 seasons, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders.

 

EpiPen, Hillary and the Media

The latest EpiPen story is one more way to not tell Hillary's story as far as I'm concerned. There are hundreds of companies who buy influence in government regulations to protect their products. That female CEO whose salary they were so outraged about is a Clinton Foundation donor. Why would a drug company seek favors? Planning ahead for when she is given the White House after losing it in 2008.  EpiPen, a very cheap product, is protected by our own federal government. 

Let's not lose focus here. Mylan is not the problem. Lots of prices go up 400% in 9 years, even at the local level, like licenses to braid hair, or walk dogs, or to prepare salads in a cafeteria, so it happens right in your own community to protect various trades.   Why is the College Board allowed to decide who goes to college with the ACT and SAT? What are their qualifications? They don't have any. It's a money train for the owners. The "architect" David Coleman who gave us "common core" to dumb down our students, is now President of College Board. What sort of increases do the publishers get?  We were forced into electronic medical records even before Obamacare--it was part of the "recovery" money of ARRA.  Bill Gates has lobbyists too.  My husband had an appointment in early July with a specialist a few miles away from his internist, yet she didn't have the scans 4 weeks later.  We could have walked the records to her office faster.  It's a huge government give away to IT companies. The EpiPen "scandal" is nothing in comparison to the billions we paid for EMR.

Obamacare has also driven up costs and prices, so the TV reporters could do a bit more digging about price increases and not go for the low hanging fruit and look for Hollywood celebs to boost their ratings while hiding from Hillary's scandals. Twitterverse is not news; it's bullying.

http://wqad.com/2016/08/25/epipen-manufacturer-blames-400-percent-product-price-hike-on-health-care-system/

http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/david-coleman-again-demonstrates-he-doesnt-get-education/

https://stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/alternatives-to-satact-to-be-available/

Heroin trafficking by Mexican drug dealers

Heroin Trafficking in the United States, Congressional Research Service, Aug. 23, 2016. "While there are at least eight major Mexican drug trafficking organizations operating in the United States, the Sinaloa Cartel is the most active. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) notes that Mexican criminal networks “transport the bulk of their goods over the Southwest Border through ports of entry (POEs) using passenger
vehicles or tractor trailers.” In passenger vehicles, the drugs may be held in secret compartments; while in tractor trailers, the drugs are often comingled with other legitimate goods." 

How is this different than what Donald Trump has claimed about our border and about Mexican criminals infiltrating legitimate businesses and been criticized as a racist for reporting the problem?  Yet it is the research of the U.S. Congress division. What is the plan of the "regular" GOP to stop this? Chat across the aisle a few more years with Democrats while Hillary is President? http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44599.pdf

Hillary Clinton is definitely outside the mainstream

Why don't the media ever say "Hillary is outside the mainstream?" The only time I knew such a crook was when we were visiting prisoners at the old Ohio Penitentiary in the 1970s.

 I remember a charming, handsome young man in his mid-20s--Jack, I think--who told me he was there on his first offense. Before I could shake my head at the cruelty of the system (because O.P. was indeed an awful place with a reputation of terror and abuse), he chuckled and assured me it was just his first conviction. He had been leading a financially successful life of crime since before his teen years, and when business was bad, he pimped for his wife. She didn't visit, so he was always happy to see the "church ladies." Really, he did far less than Hillary, who's been pimping the U.S. citizen for years.

The story about the Clinton Foundation, Russia and a uranium mine came out in 2015. Don't know why no one jumped on this (actually I do--it's called mainstream media) at that time. The Clinton Foundation is money laundering for foreign interests. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/08/memo-sheds-new-light-on-clinton-russia-uranium-scandal.php

Pants on fire by Ramirez

Binghampton University of New York hates white people

Residential Assistants at Binghamton University in New York are undergoing a new kind of training for the 2016 school year. The program is called #StopWhitePeople2k16.

Now why would universities want to depict minorities as victims? Follow the money. There are enormous grants available from practically every department in the federal government for academic slush funded departments in gender studies, black studies, women studies, disabled and differently abled studies. Grants for minority library students, grants for black women, grants for foreign students of color, grants for Asian graduate students, grants for residents of Appalachia, grants for specific tribes of American Indians, grants for victims of crime, grants from the USDA, EPA, NIH, HHS, DoJ, BLS, DoEd, so on. Federal money is floating state education. If they were to lose their victims, they wouldn't be able to have 3 vice presidents in charge of victimhood. The main cost of price increases in higher education has been at the administrative level, and for that, federal money is needed to supplement tuition increases.

This story was reported by a Columbus radio station, and when I checked, the story has been pulled from the original link. Gee, I wonder why? Maybe Binghamton's alumni association, mostly white, said, OK, I guess you don't need our donations?  So I can't give you the original link.  It's probably out there on other news sources.

Displaced workers, BLS report today

Is this good news or bad news? Democrats will say it's better than the last report. So I suppose it depends if you were one of the 66% who were reemployed. Republicans will say at what job and where and at what wage? Increasing minimum wage sure won't help those displaced workers. The recession was over in June 2009.

(Aug. 25, BLS report) "From January 2013 through December 2015, there were 3.2 million workers displaced from jobs they had held for at least 3 years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was down from 4.3 million workers for the prior survey period covering January 2011 to December 2013. In January 2016, 66 percent of workers displaced from 2013 to 2015 were reemployed, up from 61 percent for the prior survey in January 2014."

The transgender scam

"In 2002, 61 percent of Fortune 500 companies included sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination policies, and just 3 percent included gender identity within those policies. By 2014 those number had risen to 91 percent and 61 percent, respectively." (International Business Times, Dec. 9, 2014.)

So 61% of Fortune 500 companies have bought into the myth that sex is not biological but a decision, fantasy, identity or dream, something we put on or take off. What a sorry mess this agenda has brought down on us, encouraged by our federal government, academic institutions and some churches. And it is women who will be hurt the most as men who have stalled in the career track become transwomen, a woman by choice/decision, or men begin to compete in sports against women previously protected by Title VII and Title IX, specifically written with the word "sex" and reinterpreted by faceless bureaucracy. To be transman or transwoman does not require shots, surgery or counseling, as we've seen from recent bathroom edicts, but only "identifying." But even with genital, chest and facial surgery, even with mascara and designer dresses, he's still a guy in every cell and body part..

 

So that would make "conversion" therapy OK because homosexuality is a decision or mental disorder and can be reversed?

Our anniversary present

This is our anniversary painting, Cloudwork by Rick Dziak.  Most years this is what we do, although last year was a bit more expensive with a trip to Spain where we celebrated with Martti and Riitta Tulamo.  I walked down to the hotel to meet the artist with a check after talking to his wife, and while I was there a man was being celebrated for his 80th birthday by a bagpiper named Patrick. Fun to watch and hear.  I checked the internet for "bagpiper for hire" and there are many sites.