The phony outrage

The American voter is so shocked and outraged by Trump's vulgar behavior. Not. What they pay to see.

"Without discounting the grossness of what Trump said 11 years ago, the protestations from the same class whom I have watched my entire sentient life deny the existence of the concept of obscenity (while injecting it into every sphere of public life) over his vulgarity do seem a bit, shall we say, rich. To put it another way, if you spend several decades undermining standards, traditions, and values, calling "Piss Christ" art, celebrating misogynist/vapid/degrading rap and pop "lyrics" as music, and promoting low reality/celebrity 'culture' as something to strive for, you're gonna get some side effects." – James Morrow

Has Nina Burleigh apologized to American women for saying disgusting things about us?

Did Nina Burleigh ever apologize for treating the President of the United States like a boy toy in a women's magazine?

"The president's foot lightly, and presumably accidentally, brushed mine once under the table," Burleigh writes. "His hand touched my wrist while he was dealing the cards. When I got up and shook his hand at the end of the game, his eyes wandered over to my bike-wrecked, naked legs. And slowly it dawned on me as I walked away: He found me attractive."

She adds: "I probably wore the mesmerized look I have seen again and again in women after they have met him. The same silly hypnotized gleam was displayed on the cover of Time magazine in Monica Lewinsky's eyes."

In an interview, Burleigh, now a New York freelancer, said she in no way felt harassed or pressured by the president but that it was "not unusual for women" to swoon over him. What is unusual, for a journalist, is Burleigh's sexually charged declaration of support for Clinton. "I'd be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal," she said." Washington Post, July 6, 1998, quoting Mirabella magazine essay she wrote.

Her full quote, not used in that WaPo story: "I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs." 

So, just as Hillary Clinton threw millions of women in a bucket as deplorable, this Time reporter wanted all American women to perform oral sex on the president. Who's more lewd--this obscure female journalist or the famous Donald Trump? Do you know any pro-life women who would prostitute themselves like this for a magazine article or even write such evil? Is that how to get published? 

She got a lot of flack--after all it was 1998. But she wasn't very good at prophecy, claiming there would be no problem if a man had written about a woman.  'Wake up, ladies! Were we ever to get a female President, Pete Hamill or Norman Mailer would never be so savaged and maligned and ridiculed for writing about the woman’s charms. On the contrary. They would be paid a king’s ransom by Esquire for performing the service." http://observer.com/1998/07/my-spin-through-the-cycle/

Both Clintons should return to Haiti and shovel mud

Hillary Clinton failed Haiti as Secretary of State. Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation allowed their donors to do the rebuilding (U.S. tax dollars paid them) instead of those non-profits that had experience. They didn't listen to the Haitians about what they needed. To make way for the new industrial park the Clinton promoted as a "model," hundreds of farmers were removed from their land and given meager compensation in return. Many are now unemployed. The State Department and its partners said the park would create 65,000 jobs when fully operational.  Nearly four years later, there are just over 9,000 employees. Workers that Circa spoke with make the equivalent of $3.81 per day.

 Friends of the Clintons made out like bandits. The Haitian people still suffer. Now we've had Hurricane Matthew--don't believe anyone who has donated to the Clinton Foundation, or their relatives.

 http://circa.com/world/haiti-storyline

Back from Lakeside--it was gorgeous

Beth Sibbring photo, October 7, 2016

We're back from Lakeside, but did catch the leading Fourth Estate/Fifth Column of ABC this morning and they have all of a sudden turned into prudes, who never heard or never said a sexist, obnoxious thing about a woman. Who knew? These are the same reporters who swooned over Bruce Jenner's new breasts and hormone enhanced body. These are the folks who say biological sex means nothing, it's just a feeling. A man who's been married 3 times, owns casinos and says nasty things is not my idea of an ideal candidate. That said, up against a woman who managed a "bimbo eruption" squad for her husband's affairs destroying their lives and careers, whose ex-president husband then made millions while she was Secretary of State and then sold herself for $250,000-$500,000 each time she took money from a government that oppresses women, Trump is still the better of the two to choose the next Supreme Court.

With Donald Trump we know the media will be hanging on every word--he'll be the most watched president ever, whereas with Clinton we will have even more bad policies, appointments and misspent money glossed over than with Obama.

Donald Trump made lewd comments. Wow. I thought from reading social media that only women did that, taking selfies with their girl friends out on the town Friday night at a bar raising their drinks and then posting to Facebook. Lips pursed in a kiss; cleavage busting out all over. Those are not photos for mama or grandma.  I've been scrolling past and not commenting, but I guess I should have blocked them or demanded an apology.

In 2005, or whenever he said these terrible, sexist things, I think Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were still pledging that they believed marriage was between a man and woman.  Surely there is some video of those terrible, homophobic things being said by these progressive, socialist politicians.

Bigotry on the left

Clarence Thomas is the only black Justice currently sitting on the United States Supreme Court, and only the second to ever do so, but his life and accomplishments have been ignored at The National Museum of African American History and Culture except for a negative reference.  Is it racism? Bigotry?  Is it because he’s a Republican, the only party that consistently advocated full rights for black Americans? The party that tries to save black babies from the abortion machine of Planned Parenthood?

“Unfortunately, by ignoring the contributions of Justice Thomas, the National Museum of African American History and Culture implies that there’s no room for a black man who dares to challenge conventional wisdom of the Left. It also ensures that visitors will learn nothing about one of our nation’s most significant jurists.” http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog, October 4, 2016

Brennan asks Hillary about body image

FYI: Brennan is a paid child actor, daughter of a Pennsylvania state senator, Daylin Leach, a Democrat, performing at Hillary's Townhall yesterday. I heard a clip of this farce on the radio yesterday. Even before checking it I knew it was phony and a written script. No one is allowed to speak to the Great Madam Secretary without the right credentials.

"Hi Madam Secretary. I'm Brennan and I'm 15 years old. At my school, body image is a really big issue for girls my age. I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look. As the first female president how would you undo some of that damage and help girls understand that they're so much more than just what they look like?"

 Today we got our flu shot and while in the waiting room I went through a stack of magazines. I picked up the October issue of O The Oprah Magazine and every model in every photo was thin-- fashion, food and furniture. Oprah was all bundled up for the cover, but the last page had a photo of her walking and she looked 50 lbs thinner than the last time I saw a photo (several years ago). I'm not sure young women read her magazine, but they may read Self and Shape which both use women as close to anorexic as I've seen while calling them healthy and physically fit. That, my dear Democrat plant Brennan, is why young girls have an unhealthy body image. Not Miss Universe who made this story up about 6 months ago--at least that's when she remembered it.

 

Faux outrage

 The price of celebrity professors is paid for by student loans. "Harvard pays the adjuncts who teach many of its undergraduate classes an average of $11,037. Elizabeth Warren, who likes comparing the salary of a company's employees to its CEO’s, isn’t comparing the $429,981 that Harvard paid her before she ran for office to an adjunct’s salary. And unlike a CEO, all Warren did was show up for a little bit and then go back to her real business as a lawyer and government consultant." (Frontpage Magazine, June 12, 2014)

What does Judeo-Christian mean, by Dennis Prager

 Dennis Prager, March 30, 2004

What does Judeo-Christian mean:

The United States of America is the only country in history to have defined itself as Judeo-Christian. While the Western world has consisted of many Christian countries and consists today of many secular countries, only America has called itself Judeo-Christian. America is also unique in that it has always combined secular government with a society based on religious values.

But what does "Judeo-Christian" mean? We need to know. Along with the belief in liberty -- as opposed to, for example, the European belief in equality, the Muslim belief in theocracy, and the Eastern belief in social conformity -- Judeo-Christian values are what distinguish America from all other countries. That is why American coins feature these two messages: "In God we trust" and "Liberty."

Yet, for all its importance and its repeated mention, the term is not widely understood. It urgently needs to be because it is under ferocious assault, and if we do not understand it, we will be unable to defend it. And if we cannot defend it, America will become as amoral as France, Germany, Russia, et al.

First, Judeo-Christian America has differed from Christian countries in Europe in at least two important ways. One is that the Christians who founded America saw themselves as heirs to the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, as much as to the New. And even more importantly, they strongly identified with the Jews.

For example, Thomas Jefferson wanted the design of the seal of the United States to depict the Jews leaving Egypt. Just as the Hebrews left Egypt and its values, Americans left Europe and its values (if only those who admire Jefferson would continue to take his advice).

Founders and other early Americans probably studied Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, at least as much as Greek, the language of the New. Yale, founded in 1701, adopted a Hebrew insignia, and Hebrew was compulsory at Harvard until 1787. The words on the Liberty Bell, "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land . . . ," are from the Torah. Vast numbers of Americans took Hebrew names -- like Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather (kattan in Hebrew means "little one" or "younger").

The consequences included a strong Old Testament view of the world -- meaning, in part, a strong sense of fighting for earthly justice, an emphasis on laws, a belief in a judging, as well as a loving and forgiving, God, and a belief in the chosenness of the Jews which America identified with.

The significance of this belief in American chosenness cannot be overstated.

It accounts for the mission that Americans have uniquely felt called to -- to spread liberty in the world.

This sense of mission is why more Americans have died for the liberty of others than any other nation's soldiers.

It is why those who today most identify with the Judeo-Christian essence of America are more likely to believe in the moral worthiness of dying to liberate countries -- not only Europe, but Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. That is why America stands alone in protecting two little countries threatened with extinction, Israel and Taiwan. That is why conservative Americans are more likely to believe in American exceptionalism -- in not seeking, as President Bush put it, a "permission slip" from the United Nations, let alone from Europe.

The second meaning of Judeo-Christian is a belief in the biblical God of Israel, in His Ten Commandments and His biblical moral laws. It is a belief in universal, not relative, morality. It is a belief that America must answer morally to this God, not to the mortal, usually venal, governments of the world.

That is why those who most affirm Judeo-Christian values lead the fight against redefining marriage. We believe that a pillar of Judeo-Christian values is to encourage the man-woman sexual and marital ideal, and to provide children with the opportunity to benefit from the unique gifts that a man and a woman give a child, gifts that are never replicable by two men alone or two women.

That is why those who most affirm Judeo-Christian values are unmoved by the idea that the war in Iraq is moral if Germany, France, China and Russia say so, but immoral if they oppose it. We ask first what God and the Bible would say about liberating Iraq, not what Syria and other members of the U.N. Security Council say.

That is why those who most affirm Judeo-Christian values believe that war, while always tragic, is on more than a few occasions a moral duty. Nothing "Judeo" ever sanctioned pacifism. Of course, the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah yearned for the day that nations will beat their swords into plowshares. But another Hebrew Prophet, Joel, who is never cited by those who wish to read the secular value of pacifism into the Bible, said precisely the opposite: "Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, 'I am strong!'"

And that is why those who want Judeo-Christian values to disappear from American public life affirm multiculturalism, seek to remove mention of God from all public life, and make Christmas a private, not a national, holiday.

The battle over whether America remains Judeo-Christian or becomes secular like Europe is what this, the Second American Civil War, is about.

If it's not this, then it must be that by Steve Aunan, guest blogger

• Not all Christians are good, so Christianity is evil.
• Not all Muslims are terrorists, so Islam is peace.
• Not all men are rapists, so we live in a rape culture.
• Motherhood is the most important work, so the only job allowed for women is motherhood.
• Some speech is hateful, so free speech is hate speech.
• Conservatives are not Progressives, so Conservatism is destructive.
• All Progressives are conservationists, so spending is conservation.
• Not all citizens save for retirement, so those who do must pay for those who don't.
• Some people can't get a state ID card, so voter fraud doesn't exist.
• Some people vote 12 times in one election, so voter ID is racist.
• The batteries in all electric cars use precious metals from strip mines, so politicians say the coal industry must die.
• Tens of millions of people stop looking for work, so they are not unemployed.
• American taxes make people on welfare wealthier than 99% of the world's poor, so America hates the poor.
• Americans hate the poor, so America must pay the world.
• Western capitalist democracies are the cleanest nations on earth, so CO2 is a pollutant.
• Every living mammal exhales CO2, so humans are parasites.
• There are more men than women in science and technology jobs, so college is sexist.
• There are more women in college than men, so women need safe spaces.
• People who support the police and safe neighborhoods are deplorable, so people who burn down their neighborhoods and shoot police are freedom fighters.
• One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist, so Americans are terrorists.

I could go on forever like this, so I'm a hater.

The Climate Change scam

I live in Ohio and see evidence of climate change all around. There's coal to the south of me and the Great Lakes to the north of me, with rich farm land in the middle. The state used to be under a glacier called the Illinoian about 300,000 years ago and more recently the Wisconsinan, about 24,000 years ago. Our two huge ancient rivers, the Erigans and the Teays were destroyed by glaciers. No smoke stacks, no algae from farmers, and no people messing things up, just sun, ocean and earth movements. Lake Erie didn't exist yet. About 14,000 years ago the glacier retreated and gouged out Lake Erie for us. 

We are not in charge here although we do have a serious responsibility to take care of planet earth (and she's not our "mother," btw) and need to cooperate in keeping our lakes and rivers clean so we can use them. Taxing us to send money out of the country to some global get rich bureaucracy is a waste.

"In the realm of climate scientism, the rule seems to be: If the facts don’t support your argument, talk louder, twist the facts, and insult your opponents. That’s certainly what self-styled global warming “experts” like Al Gore and Bill Nye are doing. Rather than debating scientists who don’t accept false claims that humans are causing dangerous climate change, they just proclaim more loudly. . ." Dr. Willie Soon.

 http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Ice_Age_Ohio

 http://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon

The Hillary Clinton ads about children

Grief recovery, what is helpful and unhelpful

“Allow me to share my current personal observations, as a way of stimulating your own reflection… John Eldredge, Ransomed Heart Ministries, reflecting on the death of a good friend and colleague, as posted on Facebook

Helpful: Generous amounts of sunshine. Gardens, the woods - everything living and green. Long walks. Lonesome country roads. Swimming. Beauty. Music. Water. Friendly dogs (I’ve never understood it when someone says to me, “Yeah - we’re not really dog people.” That’s like saying, “Yeah - we’re not really joy people”). Chocolate. Kindness. Compassion. Not expecting myself to produce the same level of work I normally accomplish in a day. Yard work. Building a fence.

Unhelpful: Grocery stores. Malls. Television. Traffic. Draining people wanting to talk to me (friends and family are at this moment wondering which category they fall into. It’s quite simple - draining people are those who live out of touch with their own soul, and thus mine). Airports. The news - especially politics. Social media. Your typical dose of movie violence.

Do restaurants need to post "No phone" signs?

We went out for dinner last night to celebrate an anniversary with our daughter and son-in-law at Houlihan's in the Kingsdale shopping center.  We had expected it to be crowded because it was a home game day, but were pleasantly surprised that at 5 p.m. there was no problem with service. I was wearing my new scarlet and gray outfit (OSU colors) which was a birthday gift.   I had a very lovely meal of petite filet mignon, grilled asparagus, garlic green beans, wine and a tasty salad. Near the end of our meal I noticed a beautiful young couple come in--they may have been dressed for Arlington's homecoming--the short swingy formal dresses are so popular. Within a minute of sitting, she whipped out her cell phone and began scrolling.  He reached over and gently tapped her hand and she put it down face up on the table, and in about 2 minutes picked it up again, all while chatting with him and occasionally showing him something she thought was funny. She could have stayed home in t-shirt and shorts and read her phone messages. It would have been a lot cheaper--and less rude.

And then the big shocker.  She apparently had a shoe problem or maybe a toenail was irritating her, so she brought her knee up above table height and was fixing whatever was wrong. I hope this was Dutch treat, because the young man deserved better.

Clinton, ISIS and Syria

Clinton's legacy. . . a failed policy in Syria. Hundreds of thousands killed, mass graves and chemical warfare with products possibly from supplies buried in Iraq--the U.S. hasn't even tested them, although they've been begged to, and I think you can guess why. U.S. has made over 6,000 airstrikes on ISIS (10 months ago figure).

Obama's war has now lasted 2 years longer than Bush's. Where's the outrage? Congress has supported both (although Democrats went all soft and squishy on Bush after they signed on endangering our troops). Clearly there are chemical weapons being used by ISIS--they didn't make them.


http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2016/march/city-of-shattered-dreams-what-happened-to-the-people-of-sinjar

The Hyde Amendment and Tim Kaine

September 30 was the 40th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment which is estimated to have saved 2 million lives. You probably didn't see anything on the news because our media are controlled by forces that don't care about life issues. The Democratic Party’s platform promises to repeal of the Hyde Amendment because it “impede[s] a woman’s access to abortion.” It also promises to continuing funding Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider that receives half a billion in our tax dollars which are then laundered to payback various members of Congress during their campaigns. Hillary Clinton is also in favor of moving backward on Hyde. Vice-Presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who is "I'm a Catholic, but" has said he will subordinate his support for Hyde to Clinton’s agenda against it if their ticket wins in November.

 If Hillary doesn't win, I guess Kaine continues to support Hyde to save his own political hide. Before the DNC convention, ""My voting position on abortion hasn't really changed," Kaine said in the interview aired Sunday. "I support the Hyde Amendment. I haven't changed that." 

Then NARAL and Hillary's campaign manager came after him, and Woot! he changed his moral values concerning life. And don't clutter my comments window with stories of Trump's flip flops. We all know that, and we also know no one elected him to anything in the past based on his promises and religious convictions. We know Hillary has flip flopped in order to get elected and lied about even very small things.  She can't resist a lie if it looks good on her.

http://www.lifenews.com/2016/09/30/hillary-clinton-vows-to-repeal-hyde-amendment-and-force-americans-to-fund-abortions/

More on fish oil--tips from a librarian--me

Several days ago when I posted about bursitis and Fish Oil someone asked me about brand or dose. I've found 2 good articles, and if you're linked to a Public Library with databases, here are the titles, "Groundbreaking study reveals new mechanism behind fish oils' health benefits," Life Extension, Sept. 2012; and "Report: Maximizing Omega-3 health benefits," Life Extension, June 2014. Both articles have extensive bibliographies--over 200 citations between them. Covers metabolic syndrome, asthma, COPD, cardiovascular disease, cognition (happy to know it might stop cognitive decline of aging), and cancer. The 2nd article talks about using both fish oil and Krill oil (I thought they were the same). 

Penny pincher tip: when I print from a database off site, I always check the page arrangement, and sometimes depending on layout, you can save 4 pages of printing. 

The database I used was Ebsco's Alt Health Watch, and the only limiter I used was Full Text because I don't like to read on screen and knew I'd print if I found something.

Saul Alinsky, docu-drama

The EWTN Original Documentary “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” a chilling look at the impact of Community Activist Saul Alinsky, whose “Rules for Radicals” still wields a huge influence on American culture – and the world will be shown again at 10:30 p.m. ET, tonight Saturday, Oct. 1. At 9:30 there is an interview with the film's producers by Fr. Mitch Pacwa, who was himself a community organizer as a young man and he is interviewed in the film. See for yourself how the ideology of the followers of Alinsky (like Obama and Clinton) looks down on us little people. What we deal with today has its roots in classic Marxism. The interview with the producers at Arcadia Films is also on YouTube.

Democrats, the party of choice, had none

"According to Politico, [Trump's] attack plan includes accusations of "ethical red flags" at the Clinton Foundation, including criticism of a uranium deal approved by Clinton's State Department after her foundation received large donations from people with stakes in the deal; Clinton's relationship with Irish telecom billionaire Denis O'Brien; Clinton's six-figure speaking engagements; and a 2009 deal over disclosing the identities of American account-holders that the State ...Department concluded with Swiss bank UBS, a Clinton Foundation donor."

The Republicans elected their candidate through a long, bloody primary contest which eliminated some highly qualified people and threw the old guard into a frenzy, both inside and outside the beltway. The Democrats did not get to elect their candidate, the ultimate insider, because she was chosen and anointed by the DNC with only poor old Socialist Bernie to temporarily become a Democrat so he could run. If there are honest or better qualified Democrats somewhere out in the states, we never heard from them. Her multiple scandals also envelop Obama, so I doubt that the FBI or IRS or SCOTUS will ever bring her to justice for her pay to play schemes.

We are unapologetically a banana republic, but instead of bananas we export corruption to keep our leaders wealthy and in power. We have no moral standing to criticize Putin, or Rouhani or Netanyahu or even Kim Jong-Un.

Everything is still green in Ohio

but it won't be long.

What is common sense?

 The joke is that common sense isn't very common.  But what is it?

Pew Research has studied the effect of religion on every day life and decisions, and arranged it by state. The percent of adults in Ohio who say they look to religion most for guidance on right and wrong is only 33% and 47% say they look to common sense. However, in 2007 it was 27% look to religion and 57% to common sense. Maybe the recession sent a few of them back to church.  Only 32% of Ohioans say there are clear standards of right and wrong, whereas 66% says it depends on the situation. 

For my generation "common sense" probably was the values and ethics handed down by parents and grandparents, which they most likely learned in church.  My parents were born in 1912 and 1913, they both grew up on farms, attended one room schools, and neither one had any choice about going to church, and in those days that meant worship with adults.  They heard about how treat their neighbor and the poor, they knew from observation and lectures about an honest day's work, they were told the wages of sin is death.  My siblings and I heard a similar message either in church, at school, or from our parents and it was reinforced in club activities like Girl Scouts and 4-H or church choir practice and in our friends' homes.

   If you look at this topic on the internet, where I found this picture, you'll find all sorts of negative comments on how religion and common sense conflict.  I don't think so. Everything from saving for the future, to being faithful to family and friends, to working hard, to staying in the race, to the importance of cleanliness and good health, to speaking truth is covered in the Bible, and probably in most religions. If you're prejudiced and cherry picking, you can probably make your point, but if you look at how life generally works out, religion is the winner.