https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Bysn8u1QI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7LGoHV3aKs
They sound like President Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvAqPigWBMk (Lou Dobbs, 2016)
Monday, April 09, 2018
Sunday, April 08, 2018
$1.75 Billion collected for student fees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=J3BD8Qfpw50
Fees are used to fund many things, including ideological groups the students may not agree with.
Thursday, April 05, 2018
About the caravan, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, People without borders, and the churches
“Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the group in charge of the annual “migrant caravan,” launched its effort during Holy Week by invoking the Stations of the Cross with biblical costumery and prop crosses. When they’re not serving as human traffickers masquerading as human rights activists, these travel agents for amnesty busy themselves constructing shelters along their illicit pathways that span the globe. Catholic groups have sponsored and subsidized such nation-sabotaging campaigns for decades.”
Michelle Malkin, a Catholic, has thoughts on how churches are aiding and abetting this: http://www.theconservativeinsider.com/caravans-churches-and-criminal-sanctuaries/?
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Ugly as sin, but they don’t age
“In the world of animal models, naked mole rats are the supermodels. They rarely get cancer, are resistant to some types of pain, and can survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen. But perhaps their greatest feat, a new paper suggests, is that they don't age.”
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/naked-mole-rats-defy-biological-law-aging
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/551627/animalism-the-naked-mole-rat/
Republicans continue to fund fetal research
“In December 2014, before the newly elected Republican Senate could take office, the House Republicans cut a deal with President Obama and the lame-duck Democratic Senate. It funded all federal departments except Homeland Security through fiscal 2015.”
“According to these NIH estimates, it spent $40 million on "human fetal tissue" research in fiscal 2008; $63 million in 2009 (including $22 million added by Obama's stimulus); $79 million in 2010 (including $24 million from Obama's stimulus); $66 million in 2011; $71 million in 2012; $67 million in 2013; $76 million in 2014; $80 million in 2015; $103 million in 2016; and a record $107 million in 2017.”
This “donor” tissue from elective abortions can be from 20-24 week fetuses and is being transplanted into lab animals.
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/funding-aborted-baby-parts-research-under-gop?
Disgusting. Disgraceful.
And yes, Trump signed the recent bill—the paragraph denying NIH this money to use fetuses from induced abortions which was in the original House version was taken out of the Senate version. He must have known what was in it. Much worse than tweeting. You can’t build an army with dead fetuses.
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
DACA, the Wall, and the Caravan
A wall won’t help much if the gangs and criminals come in legally, as they have been doing. Remember the 2014 unaccompanied minors story? Glenn Beck rounded up volunteers and money from his viewers to go to the border to help them. I think churches rushed to help the poor “children” [received federal grants to feed and house and put them in schools] who’d been sent on ahead by parents, or who were supposedly joining parents already here. With no ID or birth certificates, our ICE agents had to accept their word about their age. I remember seeing some footage and just shaking my head at the idea these were children or teens.
Ninety nine members of MS-13, a violent gang that recruits among Hispanic youth, have been arrested by ICE in the last 11 months. They all were “unaccompanied minors” in that disastrous Obama program (I think it was legal, based on a loophole). 64 of the 99 had special “Immigrant Juvenile Status,” which as I understand it is a step toward legal immigrant status for those who have entered illegally. Some had committed murder in their home countries. Obviously, given the crazy illegal immigrant laws and the bizarre sanctuary cities (and states) protecting them, a wall won’t mean much.
The current caravan that Trump is talking about in tweets is made up of central Americans, which Mexico allows to pass through but doesn’t want because they want only light skinned people, and are already sending its brown people north so they can send home billions in remittances. Mexico’s immigration laws are stricter than the U.S. So are Canada’s. After these caravans make it to the border and get a hearing for refugee status, they disappear into our population and rarely return for a hearing. Another loophole—our immigration law about returns doesn’t apply to non-contiguous countries like Honduras and El Salvador—only Mexico and Canada.
I’ve read the “other side,” the Trump-hater, no borders side. Essentially, they confirm all this, but with outrageous, ridiculous, paranoia.
I don’t eat lamb, even with an interesting history
An article in a nutrition newsletter encouraged me to eat more lamb. No thank you. I also don’t eat veal. http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=117
“Sheep were among the first animals ever to be domesticated by humans, occurring more than 10,000 years ago. The domestication of sheep most likely started out in the Middle East, in what is now Turkey. As a source of not only food but also textiles (wool), sheep were introduced and became popular throughout many regions of the world. The Romans introduced sheep into Great Britain, where lamb remains very popular, over 2,000 years ago. Lamb was not introduced into the Western Hemisphere until the early 16th century when the armies of the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés brought sheep with them on their explorations.
What was most prized by early civilizations was not the meat obtainable from sheep but rather their wool. In Babylonia, Sumaria, and Persia, the raising of sheep for their fleece became an important industry to such an extent that flocks of sheep were used as the medium of exchange between countries engaging in barter. In Greek mythology, fleece from sheep—known as "the gold-haired winged ram"—played a pivotal role in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, as the quest for it related to Jason proving his worthiness of kingship to King Pelias. Since ancient times, lamb has been regarded as a religious symbol. It was commonly used as a sacrifice, and a symbol of sacrifice, in many religions including Judaism. In many countries, lamb is a traditional dish at Easter in commemoration of the Last Supper at which lamb was likely served. Jesus is often referred to as the "Lamb of God."
Lamb is a staple in cuisines throughout the world including Turkey, Greece, New Zealand, Australia, Africa, and countries of the Middle East. In the U.S., per capita consumption of lamb is much lower than in the rest of the world, averaging 14 ounces per year. By contrast, world consumption averages 4 pounds per person, African consumption averages 5.5 pounds per person, and consumption in Australia and New Zealand averages 25 pounds per person.
Lamb farming reached its peak in the U.S. in 1884 with 51 million head of sheep. Today, lamb farming involves about 6 million head. The U.S. produced about 161 million pounds of lamb and mutton in 2011 (as compared with 50 billion pounds of all red meats, including veal, beef, and pork). Australia, with 70 million head of sheep, and New Zealand, with 32 million head, export more lamb than any other countries. In 2011, for example, these two countries combined exported nearly 1.4 billion pounds of lamb. Half of all lamb consumed in the U.S. is imported, and within this category of imported lamb, nearly 68% comes from Australia and 30% from New Zealand. “
This history doesn’t mention it, but sheep were used as dairy animals before cows were. http://www.sheep101.info/dairy.html
“Sheep have been raised for milk for thousands of years and were milked before cows. The world's commercial dairy sheep industry is concentrated in Europe and the countries on or near the Mediterranean Sea. The dairy sheep industry is in its infancy in the United States. There are approximately 100 dairy sheep farms in the U.S. They are found mostly in New England and the Upper Midwest. There are several large commercial sheep dairies in New York and California.”
There are over 50 English words for sheep and 11 years ago I wrote a blog about them. http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2007/07/thursday-thirteen-13-words-for-sheep.html
A head turning voice—Roseanne?
Every time this ad for an Ohio candidate comes on the TV I turn my head to watch because of her voice, which sounds like Roseanne Barr.
Consumer electronics and other stats
In the Consumer Electronics market, 39.0 % of total revenue will be generated through online sales by 2021. In 2017 it was 29%. Other statistics: https://www.statista.com/outlook/15000000/102/consumer-electronics/europe#
Also: 84% of Americans celebrate Easter. According the statista.com. Unfortunately, probably not in the way intended (only 51% attended church) celebrating the Risen Lord.
Americans have mixed feelings about the news environment—they are more positive about videos (58%), the internet (57%) and news aggregators (57%), than they are about cable news (44%), political leaders using social media (45%) and social media in general (42%).
Monday, April 02, 2018
Look away, look away liberals
“In 2016, 4,300 people were shot in Chicago—one person every two hours. . . .If 4,300 white people had been shot in any city of the country, there would be a revolution. But because the victims were black, it would be dog-whistle racism to call attention to them. Racism once consisted of ignoring black-on-black violence as a fact of nature that was beneath concern. It is a bizarre twist in contemporary liberalism that drawing attention to the black victims of street crime is now the racist position. This deflection has come about in order to avoid acknowledging that the perpetrators of this crime are black, too. So it is better to look away entirely. “
Heather MacDonald https://www.city-journal.org/html/looking-away-urban-crime-15722.html
Coffee congestion
- Delays waiting in line at the coffee shop for your daily latte, cappuccino or mocha cost U.S. consumers $4 billion every year in lost time;
- The typical coffee drinker loses more time waiting in line at Starbucks than in traffic congestion;
- Delays in getting your coffee are likely to increase because our coffee delivery infrastructure isn’t increasing as fast as coffee consumption.
Is this a joke? People actually research this?
Well, yes, it was published on April 1—April Fool, but it did follow the same methods used to determine traffic congestion costs.
http://cityobservatory.org/the-cappuccino-congestion-index-2/
Given the constant hateful reports, this is hard to believe. Bezos must try harder to defame.
Rasmussen notes that "Trump's overall job approval rating is now running ahead of where Barack Obama's was at this stage of his presidency."
Rasmussen: Trump Approval Hits 50 Percent | Newsmax.com
Falsified cancer research at Ohio State
From the Columbus Dispatch:
“A prominent cancer treatment researcher at Ohio State University has resigned after an investigation showed he intentionally falsified data or acted recklessly in his review of data on more than a dozen occasions, affecting eight scientific journal articles.
Ching-Shih Chen, a professor in Ohio State’s College of Pharmacy, resigned in September after the university’s research misconduct review, the university announced Friday.
Approximately $5.9 million in grant money was tied to research related to Chen’s misconduct findings, said Ohio States spokesman Chris Davey.”
I wonder if OSU has to give the money back.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/04/01/2003690449
From the Wall St. Journal—benefits to the Trump presidency
“Much of the media is too consumed with hatred of Donald Trump to appreciate that there may be some benefits to his presidency. But for good and for ill, so far he is largely keeping the promises on economic policy that he made as a candidate in 2016.
The Washington Post is in a rhetorical war with the President, but give the Post credit for noting that at this point in his presidency the rust-belt revival he promised appears to be underway:
As he ran for president, Donald Trump promised to lift up regions of the country that had been left behind by the economy. “I want to go into the neglected neighborhoods, the failing schools, the forgotten stretches of this nation, and unlock their potential for all of our people,” he said in September 2016.
The argument proved persuasive — many of the nation’s most economically distressed regions voted for Trump.
Now the early returns are in: In the first year of the Trump presidency, places that voted for Trump are doing better economically than at the end of the Obama administration... not only are these counties adding jobs, but also job growth has accelerated the most in counties where Trump earned the most votes, according to a Washington Post analysis of Labor Department data.
In other words, even if the counties that supported Trump most are still struggling relative to the rest of the country, they’ve experienced the largest reversal of fortune.”
Personally, I doubt that any president could succeed for long with the hatred being lobbed at Trump by the media and culture snobs. The Democrat media would be more than happy to see the economy fail as long as they could blame Trump.
Tim Scott
Politico isn’t so liberal that you have to avoid it or feel we’re going to hell in a handbasket, but I found this paragraph a bit odd. The writer is interviewing Tim Scott, a black Congressman representing North Carolina’s Republicans. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/16/senator-tim-scott-black-republican-trump-profile-217237
“Yet in the age of Trump, he is coming to terms with an uncomfortable truth: The fixation on his color is a feature, not a bug. No matter his achievements or aspirations, Tim Scott is sentenced to exist in America’s collective political subconscious as a black man first and everything else second.”
So which party traffics in skin color? Democrats. Who has the fixation on race, color, gender, sexual orientation (or advocates for no recognition that there are sexual differences) , income status, and religion (or advocates for no religion). Democrats. Who believe children of immigrants should have special privileges that citizens don’t have, but would abort them denying them life if the mother wanted that? Democrats. Which party protects people who demand no borders thus endangering the very victims it elevates? Democrats.
Sunday, April 01, 2018
Facebook and Obama in 2012
Did Facebook violate Federal Law by giving Obama campaign free access to our data?
“The type of data that the Obama campaign was mining from Facebook is a more sophisticated version of the type of data that has long been provided by professional direct mail marketers—something pioneered by Richard Viguerie.
Viguerie, for example, has detailed personal data on “12 million conservative donors and activists” to whom his company sends letters and emails on behalf of his clients. He provides information to campaigns looking for votes and money, and to nonprofit and advocacy organizations raising funds.
Political campaigns must pay for these services. Under a Federal Election Commission regulation, giving a mailing list or something similar to a campaign is considered an “in-kind contribution.”
So if Facebook gave the Obama campaign free access to this type of data when it normally does not do so for other entities—or usually charges for such access—then Facebook would appear to have violated the federal ban on in-kind contributions by a corporation. And the Obama campaign may have violated the law by accepting such a corporate contribution.”
The Trump campaign paid for its marketing information; Obama didn’t. And that’s illegal.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/28/facebooks-favors-obama-campaign-may-violated-federal-law/?
April is national poetry month
My brother in law is very clever and loves a good rhyme. So I sent him my poem about April, and he responded in kind.
What’s more scary than a right wing zealot?
A former liberal, Harry Stein, writes:
“Extreme right-wing zealots are the second-scariest thing out there,” Stein says. “Extreme left-wing zealots, who would impose their view of what’s appropriate thought, scare me more, because they have a hell of a lot more institutional power, mainly through the media and the universities.”
Although that sounds quite contemporary—just like what’s happening at campuses with Black Lives Matter and Antifa and teen agers marching on Washington with the financial backing of Oprah and Planned Parenthood, he wrote that 18 years ago in a book about why the essayist and novelist got “left behind” by liberals. He was a “red diaper baby” (someone whose parents were members of the Communist party and very sympathetic to the ideas) who began rethinking his politics in the early 80s when he discovered he was condemned and ostracized by fellow leftist for questioning some feminist dogma about child care after he became a father.
He went on to write “How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace)” and now almost 20 years later writes for conservative media. Link to C-Span interview is below. https://nypost.com/2000/05/30/old-fashioned-liberal-who-got-left-behind/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?158396-1/how-accidentally-joined-vast-wing-conspiracy
Rosanne beats out Stormy
I was never a fan of the Rosanne show—when it came on the rerun channel, I always changed. Too much whining and yelling. So I didn’t watch the remake redux which has the media mavens all a twitter with hate and angst. 18.2 million viewers, a comedy with some poignant moments and it beat out Stormy (prostitute) interview in the numbers and rating game. From what I’ve heard on the filters, it shows family can disagree on politics and still love each other. Who knew?
“Most of the sparring is between Roseanne and younger sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf), who shows up at the Conner home after an angry year-long estrangement wearing a pussy hat and sneeringly greets the family matriarch with, “What’s up, Deplorable?” By the book hilarity ensues.
“Aunt Jackie thinks every girl should grow up to be president,” Roseanne informs her granddaughter, in their most heated exchange, “even if they’re ‘Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire.”
“I think we know who’s a liar and who’s on fire, Roseanne,” counters Jackie.
Jackie doesn’t like it one bit when, before saying grace, her sister asks if she first wants to take a knee, and concludes the prayer by thanking the lord “for making America great again.””
https://www.city-journal.org/html/more-deplorable-please-15800.html?
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