Proud Boys trial

They've got a conviction on 4 Proud Boys claiming seditious conspiracy for January 6. I'd like to link to a conservative truth site, but have scanned nearly 100 entries, there were none. From Mother Jones to Guardian to Politico to all the alphabet media. Of course, no one cares about them--the goal is to convict Donald Trump and put him in jail so he can't drain the swamp, members of which also attended the riot on January 6.

Joe Biden and the neo-patriarchy

Joe Biden is a bad person. He particularly doesn't like women, adult or child, born or unborn, related to him or not. I'm not blowing the whistle or talking about his gibberish or hair sniffing (although others are on his criminal financial dealings). It's obvious by his behavior.

• He pushes abortion, at any time for any reason all through the pregnancy.
• He advocates mutilating underage girls so they can become part of the patriarchy and be sterile so they can't reproduce.
• He endangers women by putting them in the hands of the cartels to bring them across the border for sex work.
• He puts young women at risk by letting men invade their restrooms and locker rooms.
• He doesn't recognize his own granddaughter, whose rights are currently in litigation.
• He strips women athletes from grade school through college of their rights to win a race, a ribbon or scholarship so those awards can go to men in dresses and eye shadow, from swimming to discus to bike races.
• Austin Killups was an over 25 loser who took up racing late; then decided he couldn't compete against men, so he took a few hormones to lower his testosterone (a rule) and beat the ladies in their bike race. Transgender cyclist Austin Killips sparks debate after winning UCI stage race (yahoo.com)

Joe's OK with that. He hates women. From the tiniest and most helpless to the strongest (who don't want to be called names). 

 Get over him, ladies of the Democrats. Stop voting for Joe. Start standing up for yourselves. Fight the neo-patriarchal crimes and stick up for women.

The J-6 trial sends a message

The J-6 trial was a filmed terrorist drama played out to tell Trump supporters or any conservatives and anyone who slavishly watched it that they better behave and not protest about anything, or they can expect the prison terms, house arrest and vile treatment. The only person killed was a female veteran protestor, shot by police. Yet if you read any "historical" account, it will still say 5 died.

 Tucker showed his 3 million viewers the video of guards letting people in and the "rioters" taking photos, and we might have seen more if Fox hadn't stopped him. I hope someday he can finish the job, but both parties seem to be terribly afraid of him. Need to shut him up. There are 30,000 video files according to NPR. 1,000 people being investigated. Nine terabytes of information.

 
How does this compare to the hundreds of people who died during the months after George Floyd's death with billions in property loss, and businesses destroyed? That had a message for America, too. Do what you want, we'll stand down because your neighborhoods don't matter. Your safety isn't important. The J-6 protesters didn't get that sort of treatment. How do their crimes compare to the crimes of the pandemic? There must be hundreds who should be in jail for those crimes. And what about the crimes that the government agencies committed to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop so his pop could win the election? It has terrible information about Joe.

 
Yes, J-6 trial was definitely a message to anyone who asks too many questions about the war, the border, the pandemic, the crime family in the WH, the climate scam, the child abuse in the schools, the gender clinics and doctors, the bank failures, the supply chain, the raging inflation, and the debt and deficit.

NPR's biased account of March 23, 2023 is frightening. One person has been acquitted. Majority have not been tried. "The defendants who haven't received any prison time are often fined, and sentenced to a combination of probation, community service and home confinement, depending on the nature of the case. The vast majority of these defendants are charged only with "parading or demonstrating in a Capitol building," which is a misdemeanor."

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/1165022885/1000-defendants-january-6-capitol-riot?

VAWA is not protecting women

Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA 2022) "is a federal law originally enacted in 1994 that today protects individuals who are survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, regardless of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It includes protections for survivors who are applying for or residing in covered housing programs."

Passed in 1994 with bi-partisan support, it is now a paper tiger as far as I can see, and just duplicates other laws about violence. It gets hoop-la in the media when it's renewed because of its name. Women/woman terms are no longer used. Over time in the reauthorizations, same sex couple violence and transgender violence and elder abuse and child abuse were added. The terms are now victim, survivor, person, spouse, partner and member of household. Some changes also were made in wording so that illegal immigrants had protection, services, and grants to non-profits. It's now just one more government give away to pay salaries of state and local bureaucrats and to keep the lights on at the non-profit skimmers. 

With the current renewal (signed by Biden) VAWA 2022 certainly does nothing to keep women safe from men in their locker rooms or from theft of their prizes in athletic competition. Someone should rename locker rooms  as "housing."

Book Club Selections and suggestions, for 2023-2024

Each May our book club selects nine titles for the next September through May reading period. And today was that day.   This year’s selection list was very strong, so I’ll list them all, but first the nine choices. And who would have thought there was anything left to be said about Abraham Lincoln?  I don't know much about flowers, but look forward to reading about the flower designer at the White House who served many first ladies. Having just survived Covid, the Pale Rider about the 1918 pandemic will probably be riveting. Or maybe not. . .  I didn't recommend any titles.

The winners

September 11   And there was light (biography of A. Lincoln) by Jon Meacham (leader undesignated)

October 2    To America; personal reflections of an historian (memoir) by Stephen Ambrose (Peggy)

November 6    House in the sky (hostage memoir) by Amanda Lindhout (Gail)

December 4    Once upon a wardrobe (historical fiction, C.S. Lewis) by Patti Callahan (Linda)

January 8    My first ladies (memoir) by Nancy Clark (Mary Lou)

February 5   Sisters of Sinai (history, 19th c.) by Janice Soskice (Carolyn)

March 4     Pale rider (history, 1918 flu) by Laura Spinney (Isala)

April 1     Soul Survivor (selections of writers) by Philip Yancy  (Marti)

May 6    Fifth Avenue story society by Rachel Hauck (leader undesignated)


Other suggestions, not selected

Home for Christmas (anthology) published by Plough

The burning pages (mystery, Scotland) by Paige Shelton

So help me God by Mike Pence

The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown (children’s book)

Holdout by Graham Moore

The Spy and the traitor by Ben Macintyre

Money saving for Seniors

Have you seen those PennySaver USA sponsored ads? The last one I saw was "irresponsible spending seniors do." They are click bait--they are hawking spending, not saving. But money saving really depends on your quintile. Until Covid, we had a regular Friday night date to eat out. We got out of that habit, and now it's more like 2 or 3 times a month, and we don't really miss it. We never were big spenders, enjoying the time with friends or each other. But let's say with tip the bill was $60, so cut that out of your monthly expenses x2 and it adds up. Going back to the house for dessert with friends after dinner, really saves you some cash. Someone in the 5% group might give up a vacation to Europe to save money. Joe has been a disaster for our grocery and gas bills--what have you done to cut back, if anything?

Why can't they find the leaker? More serious than J-6

If they stopped investigating parents protecting their children from porn and CRT, maybe DoJ could find the leaker of the Dobbs decision   Alito: Dobbs Leak Made Supreme Court Justices ‘Targets of Assassination' (breitbart.com) ". . . the leak was designed to mobilize external pressure on the justices to intimidate one or more justices into changing their votes. The Supreme Court marshal’s investigation did not uncover enough evidence to accuse someone of being the leaker." Alito thinks he knows who it was.

18 USC 1507 Picketing Or Parading Statute

Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.  See full statute at…https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2010-title18/USCODE-2010-title18-partI-chap73-sec1507

Dinner, last day of April

Let's return to the real reason we have social media. Photos of our meals. This is Sunday dinner today: pork tenderloin, butternut squash, mashed potatoes, coleslaw on leaf lettuce and mixed fruit--pineapple and blueberries. I love my Mountain Ivy dishes from Blue Ridge Southern Pottery (Erwin, TN) which I bought at the Lakeside archives sale store in 2018. The pattern is a little older than me, and the pottery closed in 1957.

United Nations wants sex with children to be justified in law

“Principle 16” of the global body’s March report, released for International Women’s Day, lays out the basis for what the U.N. considers “consensual sexual conduct.” It says:

The enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them. Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity, and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.

Failing to Create Brotherhood of Man, UN Promotes Sex With Children (dailysignal.com)

Alphabet agencies in the federal government--most armed

 ATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

 BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs 

BOP Federal Bureau of Prisons 

CBP U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

DEA Drug Enforcement Administration 

DHS Department of Homeland Security 

DOD Department of Defense 

DOJ Department of Justice 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency 

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation 

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation 

FDA Food and Drug Administration 

FLEO Federal law enforcement officer 

FPDS-NG Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation 

FPS Federal Protective Service 

FWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 GSA General Services Administration 

HHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 

ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

IRS Internal Revenue Service

ESO Law Enforcement Support Office 

NIH National Institutes of Health 

NPPD National Protection and Programs Directorate 

OECA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 

OIG Office of Inspector General 

PSC product or service code 

SSA Social Security Administration 

TIGTA Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration 

TSA Transportation Security Administration 

USMS U.S. Marshals Service 

USSS U.S. Secret Service 

VA U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

 VHA Veterans Health Administration

GAO-19-175, FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammunition, and Tactical Equipment

16,000 miles

I learn a lot at the gym. The exercycles are about 2 ft. apart. So, I could overhear the conversation of 2 retirees, maybe 10 years younger than me. So, I learned about the karaoke places and where to go ball room dancing in Columbus, OH. I also learned which local bands (really crazy names) have split or are having problems with venues. One guy had lost 30 lbs, but was having eye problems, so all the directions to the venues he told his friend involved side roads because he doesn't do freeways anymore. There were the usual complaints about safety, so they are both shopping in the daytime. Seems they don't like President Trump personally, but when they ran down the list of policies and programs like immigration and military, they were right smack in the middle of MAGA.

 
Meanwhile, my log sheet rolled over to 16,000 miles yesterday. I think I started tracking in January 2015 and I record both walking and cycling. 

Missing Fox because Tucker is gone?

 I enjoyed two day-time Fox shows--Outnumbered at noon, and The Five, at 5 p.m.  I'll drop them both now that Tucker has been fired.  I enjoy the Newsmax morning show, Wake up America.  Good hosts, and interesting panels. Rob Finnerty. Veteran News Anchor Rob Finnerty Joins Newsmax TV | Newsmax.com

A friend on Facebook has some recommendations:

Get a Rumble account - you can watch on Roku or your PC. Great shows that tell the truth like In The Litterbox with Jewels and Catturd. Flyover Conservatives, American Media Periscope, The Pete Santilli Show, Uncover DC, Redacted News, Thrivetime Show, The Prather Point, Benny Johnson, The Mel K Show, and the list goes on and on. I watched Tucker from time to time but haven't watched Fox since they called AZ early in the 2020 election. If you watch on your PC, you can participate in the chat. Norma - you'd love putting in your 2 cents worth. I participate in the chat but my Rumble account name is not my real name but is something clever. No one in the chat goes by their real name.

And I forgot Steve Bannon's WarRoom. Another place to watch shows is Frankspeech.com (Lindell TV). You'd love Brannon Howse. Can watch on Roku and PC.

Tucker--best in the business

"Carlson, 53, was the best in the business — the most interesting, the most provocative, the most compelling, the most scathing personality out there — and no one else was even close. The numbers bore that out, week after week after week. But in a numbers-driven business, the Fox News potentates decided that their mild and moderate sensibilities were more important than calling out the wrongness of the world around us: the nihilism of the Left, the cognitive decline of the American president, the wickedness and cultishness of the transgender movement, the incessant race-baiting of the Democrat Party, the craven DEI obsessiveness of corporate America, the socially engineered destruction of our military, the corruption of the FBI, the two-tiered justice system that pervades us — we could go on. And Carlson did go on. And on. And on."

https://patriotpost.us/articles/96777? Douglas Andrews

Conservative websites and media sources

 Most of the links on the right sides of my page are out of date or defunct.  I'll use this list to revise, but it's  a lot of work.  Perhaps it would just be easier to keep the new list here. Stand by for some craziness as I try to figure out the coding (html) about which I'm a little rusty.

Our Favorites

• American Greatness
• American Mind
• American Story
• American Thinker
• Aspen beat
• Babylon Bee
• Belmont Club
• Churchill Project
• Claremont Institute
• Daily Torch
• Federalist
• Gatestone Institute
• Hollywood in Toto
• Hoover Institution
• Hot Air
• Hugh Hewitt
• InstaPundit
• Jewish World Review
• Law & Liberty
• Legal Insurrection
• Liberty Daily
• Lileks
• Lucianne
• Michael Ramirez Cartoons
• Michelle Malkin
• Pipeline
• RealClearPolitics
• Ricochet
• Steyn Online
• Tim Blair

Media

• American Spectator
• Breitbart
• City Journal
• Claremont Review of Books
• Commentary
• Daily Caller
• Fox News
• FrontPage Mag
• Memeorandum
• MEMRI
• National Review
• New Criterion
• New York Post
• Spectator World
• TownHall
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Free Beacon
• Weekly Standard

News about Tucker lit up the Internet

 One of my favorite podcasts. PBD.

EMERGENCY Podcast | Reaction To Tucker Carlson Leaving Fox News & Don Lemon Being Fired By CNN - YouTube

Some suggestions floating around the internet

 A Lakeside friend, Susan Hanselman, posted this on Facebook.  Generally, I like my advice to have a source, but some of these are worth checking out.  If I can verify, I'll link.

DID YOU KNOW?

1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.
2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die years earlier.
3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime.
4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.
5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.
6. If a part of your body "falls asleep", You can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head.
7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - food, attractive people and danger.
8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side.
9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odor.
10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.
11. There are so many kinds of apples, that if you ate a new one every day, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.
13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t.
14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.
15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia.
16. Our brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb!!
17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 minutes to boil 1.5 liters of water!!
18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell!!
19. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!
20. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.
21. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
22. When you wake up in the morning, pray to ask God's guidance for your purpose today.
23. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
24. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli, and almonds.
25. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
26. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts and things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
27. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
28. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
29. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for everything.
30. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
31. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
32. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
33. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
34. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
35. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'
36. Help the needy, Be generous! Be a 'Giver' not a 'Taker'
37. What other people think of you is none of your business.
38. Time heals everything, except grief. Grief is a sign of Love.
39. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
40. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. Each night before you go to bed, pray to God and be thankful for what you accomplished, today. What if you woke up this morning and only had what you thanked God for yesterday? DON’T FORGET TO THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING.
43. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed!
COPY & PASTE to your timeline.

Thousands of Chinese are desperate to get into USA

Greta Van Susteren was in Necocli, Colombia interviewing for Newsmax Chinese illegal immigrants about to go through the Darien Gap jungle in their struggle to get into the USA. They are looking for political asylum. The cartels make millions off desperate people. She asked them why they were taking such risks. They really believe there is freedom here. 

Has anyone told them about Joe Biden?

What's in your kitchen? Fresh, frozen or processed, April 21

 Refrigerator

• Yellow pepper
• Red pepper
• Red leaf lettuce
• Baby spinach
• Green beans
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Peas, frozen
• Olives
• Broccoli
• Cantaloupe
• Pineapple
• Blue berries
• Strawberries
• Red grapes
• Grape Tomatoes
• Oranges
• Cheese, cheddar, American, Parmesan, Cream
• Whole Milk
• Half and Half creamer
• Eggs, fresh and hard cooked
• Butter
• Orange juice
• Apple cider
• Pork loin
• Ham
• Hamburger
• Bacon
• Sausage
• Salmon
• Condiments
• Frozen tater tots
• Ice cream cups, vanilla
• Frozen biscuits
• Homemade sandwiches, meat and cheese on buns
• Chocolate cookies, bakery

Cupboards

• Bananas
• Sweet Potatoes
• Russet Potatoes
• Pretzels
• Soda crackers
• Walnuts
• Rice brown, pasta
• Canned soups, various
• Canned beans, corn, peas
• Canned fruit pieces, various
• Fruit juices, single serving
• Cake mixes, various
• Cheerios
• Oatmeal
• Oat Bran
• Raisins
• Tea bags
• Tea, herbal
• Coffee, decaf
• baking supplies, spices, condiments
• Olive oil
• Coconut oil
• Vinegar
• Cocoa, dark 100% Cacao
• Honey, local

Dear brothers and sisters,

Moms and Dads, nieces and nephews, grandmothers and grandfathers, daughters and sons, masters and mistresses, he and she, him and her, guys and dolls, chicks and dudes,

Ours may be the last generation who will be allowed to notice, say, write or shout that men and women are different and those differences matter. Whether we believe we were created by God or by biological evolution, we know it wasn’t by Marxism, a failed 19^th century political ideology that promotes victimhood and resulted in the deaths of 100 million.  If you have a daughter or granddaughter who is a talented athlete, she will no longer be able to compete for honors and scholarships as she is forced to shower with and compete against the least talented men with testosterone, skeletal and muscular advantages instead of the best prepared and hard-working women.  Chest feeders and birthing people are the most recent terms to demean women with words.  Forget Ho and Slut and Babe.  The records with my primary physician say my sex is “unknown.” Birth records of new babies now say “assigned.”

A bill to protect women athletes has been passed in the House which will be defeated in the Senate because there is a powerful movement to destroy women. This movement is promoted by the White House.  When 6 people, 3 adults and 3 children, were murdered in a Nashville Christian school by a woman ill enough to kill 9 year olds to announce she was a man thus destroying her real protective nature, did our White House respond with sympathy, grief and horror?  No. That very week in March the White House announced solidarity with a Trans Day of protest. To this day, the killer’s manifesto hasn’t been released,  protecting the transagenda and the party that promotes it.

More bad ideas on the economy from Biden--housing

When I first heard this on the radio, I thought it must be a joke.

"As part of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency’s push for more affordable housing, home buyers with good credit scores will be forced to pay additional fees on their mortgages. Starting on May 1, the federally backed mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will establish new loan-level price adjustments with private banks nationwide. Those additional fees will be used to subsidize home buyers with risky credit scores."

I switched to another station and heard the same story.

"Under a new Biden administration rule, home buyers with good credit will soon be forced to pay higher mortgage rates to subsidize loans issued to higher-risk borrowers."

So I went to the internet, to the "old media," and looked up FHA

"Mortgage industry specialists say homebuyers with credit scores of 680 or higher will pay, for example, about $40 per month more on a home loan of $400,000. Homebuyers who make down payments of 15% to 20% will get socked with the largest fees."

Am I the only one who remembers the 2007-2008 and the Fannie and Fred complicity in the housing bubble after millions who couldn't handle a mortgage plus all the costs and responsibilities of home ownership helped the economy go belly up and hurt the poor and middle class even more? The government wants to punish people who pay their bills and save to buy a home? Yike! All government bad ideas come from academe. I wonder which failed Socialist professor came up with this one.

I am so non-Bidenary. He's absolutely the worst of the worst presidents we've ever had. He's beginning to make Barack Obama look good. Yes, he's that bad.