Night Time is the Right Time--the Huxtable family

October 10, 1985, the Huxtable family entertained Cliff's parents with lip-synching the Ray Charles classic, "Night Time Is the Right Time." Episode #27. Never was another consistently good show on TV for the whole family. Loved the clothes.

Cosby Show sing Night Time Is The Right Time by Ray Charles
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Obama loves a teachable moment

". . . and there’s no better one than Obamacare’s six month anniversary (September 23). Pay attention, class: The central piece of Barack Obama’s presidency is a law that was passed by a narrow partisan margin over a public outcry—a law that increases dependency on government and will do untold damage to American health care. Repeal of that law will presumably require a Republican president in addition to a Republican Congress, so the homework assignment for 2013 is tough but worthwhile. Repeat after us: Don’t let Obamacare reach its third birthday." Matthew Continetti

Obama's Reading List

Where is it? The media ridiculed President Bush for being such a dunce--until they learned about his reading list which was primarily history, biography and political science, but included Camus. Then the non-reading reporters chastized him for not reading topics more liberal, or not a different title by an author. Here's the stunned Richard Cohen of WaPo:

"Bush read 95 books in 2006 alone. In 2007, he read 51 books and as of last week, he had read 40 in 2008. . . [Karl] Rove appreciates that he's written a caricature-buster. "In the 35 years I've known George W. Bush, he's always had a book nearby," he writes. "He plays up being a good ol' boy from Midland, Texas, but he was a history major at Yale and graduated from Harvard Business School. You don't make it through either unless you are a reader.""

So today we get "Obama's Rap Palatte " and Thomas Chatterton Williams questions why he's being praised for his "updated" selection, referring back to a Rolling Stones article, although even 2008 articles featured his i-pod so he'd appear "with-it."

Hip-Hop. Jay-Z, little Nas and Lil Wayne, to name three. Rapping about pornography and drugs, violence and murder, and of course, dissing women.

But yes, bloggers say Obama does read. (I googled it), although not as much or as widely as Bush. He can list his favorites (including his own titles) and his current reads, which don't overly impress me, but hey, it's better than my TBR list. But I refuse to listen to music that disses women and for a wife and 2 daughters, it's not a good idea for him either.



Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote Losing my Cool about how reading helped him escape many of the negative aspects of black culture.

The Kirwin Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity

I've been looking through the programming, publications and propaganda put out by the Kirwin Institute here at Ohio State University in Columbus and find nothing but hopelessness, divisiveness, anger, and hatred. Why are we employing people to constantly be stirring the pot? Were there not enough academics in the Black Studies, Women Studies, Social Work, Public Health, etc. departments to do this? I read one heart breaking piece on the black women, forgotten, being pulled out of the Anthony Sowell property in Cleveland a year ago. No mention that the killer was a black man--just condemnation of a racist society that cares so little when a black woman disappears. No mention that a few had never been reported missing by their families.

Some samples, just in case anything were resolved, to continue the employment of the staff:

Social justice issues are never static and new challenges and issues are constantly emerging [so we can keep our grant money flowing?].

In addition to our core research areas, the Institute has several emerging research initiatives that are responsive to new issues that have profound impacts on racial and ethnic groups. . . Our work operates on the premise that opportunities exist in a complex web of interdependent factors, and that to alleviate inequities in any single area, we must first consider the entire structure that supports these inequities. [We're on a roll--let's see how far we can go with this web!]

Inequality has a geographic footprint. We have pioneered the use of maps to communicate the history and presence of discriminatory and exclusionary policies that spatially segregate people [Let's draw in academics from geography and urban planning.]

You get the idea. This is a funding scheme that will never end.

Cal baseball's demise is Title IX fallout

This is happening because of Title IX, but that isn't mentioned in the article.

According to Saving Sports, a blog devoted to Title IX:

Five teams eliminated at Cal. Baseball, Men's and Women's Gymnastics and Women's Lacrosse will be eliminated at the end of the season. Men's rugby, the only varsity program in the entire country, will be downgraded to "varsity club" status -- which in essence is an accounting device to get the team's players off the books to help with Title IX enforcement.

Cal baseball's demise shocks big-league alums

As seen on TV--terrorists for global warming

Children are executed in a British global warming terror commercial which has to be the most evil, most cause-defeating ad ever created. After 2 children do not agree with the teacher to encourage their families to reduce their carbon footprint, they are blown up, splattering the other children with body parts. Hard to imagine any ad agency this stupid. It's British, not USA, but the hard sell for global warming is about the same.

I guess it's true--you can't fix stupid.  It's called the 10:10 campaign.

Whatever happened to Shirley Sherrod?

Is her 15 minutes of fame over? The last news I can find about her is dated August 24 and she'd turned down a new job at the USDA and was going to lie low for awhile. I don't know if Obama ever apologized to her or not, but I doubt that firing her was Vilsack's idea. As it turned out, or turned up after her name kept appearing, she and her husband were involved in some payout from the government that needed further investigation, so I think she's smart to disappear for awhile. And consult with her lawyer.

Some new regulations came out of this, and number one is, well, I'm flummoxed that it wasn't in place: "1.) The department should follow existing resignation protocol and review all relevant facts before making a decision." I mean, even political appointees deserve some fair play.

The rug

There's a lot to think about in this simple video.

Helping Wisconsin stay competitive in the global market

Somebody needed to help--might as well be me. Yesterday I bought an 8 oz tub of Rondole spreadable cheddar with horseradish. My goodness that is yummy on Ritz crackers. Not everyone enjoys reading the genealogy of American companies--but I do. Even the companies the libs love to hate, like McDonald's or Wal-Mart started out small with a better idea and better product until they were hated by competitors and socialists.

But what about Rondole Cheese? Here's what I found out and have pieced together in a few minutes.

At around the turn of the 20th century, three cheese factories were established in Wisconsin's rural North Central region--the Hamburg Cheese Manufacturing Co., the Cornbelt Cheese Factory and the Riverside Cheese Factory. These were known for producing outstanding bulk cheeses.

As these factories were handed down through generations of family ownership, competition became increasingly fierce, but not from one another. Family-run cheese companies were under pressure from cooperatives and large processors that had taken cheese production to new levels. Modern manufacturing facilities, huge investments in research and development, and even larger investments in marketing and distribution were challenging the capabilities of many family-operated companies.

In 1969, in an effort to remain competitive, Hamburg, Cornbelt and Riverside merged to create Wisconsin River Valley Cheese Inc. The new concern constructed a manufacturing plant on 80 acres in central Wisconsin, where production would continue on the high-quality cheese products for which the three predecessor companies had become known. Production began in 1970, but just two years later, Wisconsin River Valley Cheese was purchased by Connecticut-based Anco International. In 1974, the company was renamed InoFoods and the Rondele brand was born.

In 1974, InoFoods introduced its first product, a soft spreadable gourmet cheese named Rondele. Soon after its introduction, Rondele began competing favorably against the European imports that had long dominated the spreadable category. Kraft acquired InoFoods in 1990 making enhancements to the production facility, but in 1996, its focus on gourmet cheeses changed and sold InoFoods to Vermont-based Waterbury Specialty Foods.

Waterbury's interests were then acquired by the independent Rondele Specialty Foods, which re-established the product line, refocused distribution and initiated manufacturing initiatives, while driving brand equity. Facilitator Capital Fund, a Wisconsin-based private equity fund, and a group of private investors acquired rondelé in 1998. In late 2004 Lactalis USA, a subsidiary of Groupe Lactalis, the world's 8th largest dairy manufacturer, which included President’s brand, acquired Rondole Specialty foods.

In August 2010 it was announced that Lactalis American Group, which operates manufacturing plants south of Merrill and in Belmont, Wisconsin, received $57,000 in Dairy Manufacturing Facility Investment credits for the $2.7 million expansion at both locations.

“Agriculture and dairy are the backbone of Wisconsin’s economy – contributing more than 10 percent of the jobs in Wisconsin and about $59 billion to our economy every year,” Governor Doyle said. “The Dairy Manufacturing Facility Investment Tax Credits we are announcing today are helping Lactalis stay competitive on the global market, so that it can continue to thrive and support jobs here in Wisconsin.”

To support breast cancer research--the pink glove dance

This is a great video. St. Vincent Medical Center in Providence. Love the final shot with the janitor.



When you donate for any disease cause, just be sure it really is for research and that the sponsoring agent isn't taking a huge cut. Education and information is nice, it's important, but it doesn't cure anyone.

Not even close

Glenn Beck Restoring Honor, August 28, 2010

Tides supported One Nation rally, October 2, 2010

The One Nation Working Together demand more rally on October 2, had both required attendance and paid transportation and it couldn't even come close to Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally on August 28, 2010. This is an aerial shot--you could have flown in a few Tea Party rallies and still had plenty of room. Obama just can't draw a crowd anymore, and besides, he left town.

Sweden's Political Landscape: In Muslim Neighborhoods, Firemen and Emergency Workers Refuse to Enter Without Police Protection

We are in the midst of being innundated with political ads by phone, TV, radio and internet. How would you like to live in Sweden which has 7 political parties and governs with alliances that can fall apart quickly. The Sweden Democrats party isn't very old (although I don't know how old any of them are) and appears to be more nationalistic than the others--looks to me like this is their Tea Party. Sweden now has about 1/9 of its population as immigrants, so I'm guessing the politically incorrect nationalists are starting to look a bit better to the liberal Swedes.

"During the last several decades, massive immigration-flows to Sweden have transformed the country to the point where immigrants, many of whom refuse to learn Swedish and integrate into Swedish society, now make up almost 20% of the country's total population. Of the 9.4 million Swedes, roughly 1.5 million are foreign-born. In addition, there are an estimated 1 million children of immigrants, 100,000 illegal immigrants, and 50,000 more asylum-seekers awaiting clearance. Further, about 100,000 additional immigrants enter the country each year.

In Malmö, Sweden's third-largest city, almost 40% of the population is foreign; and some immigrant neighborhoods in the city have unemployment rates exceeding 60%. In Malmö's mostly Muslim Rosengard neighborhood, fire and emergency workers refuse to enter without police protection. An immigrant-fuelled crime wave affects one of every three Malmö families each year, while the number of rapes has tripled in 20 years.

Highlighting the increasing assertiveness of Sweden's Muslim community, the Muslim Council of Sweden recently dispatched letters to each of the major political parties in Sweden demanding special legislation for Muslims in Sweden. The demands included: the right to specific Islamic holidays; special public financing for the building of mosques; a demand that all divorces between Muslim couples be approved by an Imam; and that Imams should be allowed to teach Islam to Muslim children in public schools."

At least in Finland the immigrants learn Swedish, just like the Finns do. I wonder if on her next trip with 40 of her closest friends, Michelle might want to be a guest of Sweden? Might open her eyes. Then she could talk to her husband.

Sweden's Political Landscape: In Muslim Neighborhoods, Firemen and Emergency Workers Refuse to Enter Without Police Protection :: Hudson New York

Happy Blogiversary to me

This is my 7th blogiversary. Yes, been blogging for 7 years. Began October 3, 2003, then back filled to October 1, because it just didn't look tidy.  Do you realize how hard it is to find an image of a blogiversary cake with a candle shaped like a 7?  I guess not very many people make it this far--especially not if they have 12 blog.

Now that I've changed my template, all the colors are wrong for the headings, links and side-bars. Sighs. Too bad. Why should my blog be better coordinated than my closet?

Obama and Afghanistan

Remember when Democrats were trying to destroy Bush's credibility with our allies by showing the lack of a unified commitment in Iraq by claiming Afghanistan was the good war, the right war, the war of necessity, the central front in the war on terror? Yes, and Candidate Obama jumped on that train, until the surge worked, and the war became a non-issue during the 2008 election. He can go all over the country, from backyard barbeque to left wing campus, complaining about Republicans blocking his brilliant ideas, but can't deliver a decent address on the War in Afghanistan--his war of choice, a war where's he's told the enemy his plans for withdrawal. He's left it up to Rolling Stone and Bob Woodward to fight his battles for him. Is there any doubt about his plans for our country?

Charles Krauthammer - Why is Obama sending troops to Afghanistan?

For the common good--a progressive health plan

Our current Democratic administration has had to apologize for another Democratic administration (FDR, Truman)--the infecting of a brown race, Guatamalan Indians, with syphilis for research in the 1940s. And why was the researcher combing the archives surprised? Have you seen what the Woodrow Wilson administration ("I will keep us out of war") did to women who wanted to vote? Or what FDR did to loyal Americans of certain ethnicities (Italians, Germans, Japanese)--putting them into camps or spying on them? How the Democrat administrations beginning in 1932 continued to experiment on black men with syphilis until 1972 even after penicillin could have cured them?

And don't you believe it when Francis Collins, NIH, says there are strict prohibitions in place today to prevent this. Oh really? There is a lot of HIV testing going on in the U.S.A. on poor women, mostly black. They don't give them the retroviral drugs--they refer them for that--they use the data they gather (funded by fat gov't grants) from them to study poverty, parenting, relationships, etc. Vaccinations for HIV is being tested on African women--probably can't do that in the U.S.A.

And what about withdrawing DDT from the market before there was a viable alternative because a novelist, not a scientist, (Rachel Carson) testified before Congress? Environmentalists and their fellow travelers in the various progressive administrations have killed more African children and adults with malaria than the 18th century slave trade.

So why do progressive politicians, both Democrat and Republican, do this? It's for the "common good," which means, what do individual lives or individual freedom of choice matter as long as you (the government, the academic) have a better plan for the larger group. So what if a few hundred or thousand poor African women die or infect their children during experimentation--it will help Africans in the long run. So what if penicillin could have cured those black men. It would have interrupted the data set and researchers' published articles in peer-review journals, which surely would help the larger population. And what does the life of an unborn child, or 50 million unborn children, mean if you can bring more women into the board room and the university?

Economists: Extend Bush tax cuts for wealthy, middle class

Someone agrees with what I said 2.5 years ago. Keep the Bush tax cuts--don't let this man further destroy our economy through take-overs, bail-outs, and shut-downs. If you want to change things, Mr. Obama, how about having everyone pay at least some taxes? There are 70+ programs already to redistribute money from the middle and top to the bottom--and no one ever got out of the bottom quintile by depending on the government.

Economists: Extend Bush tax cuts for wealthy, middle class - Sep. 19, 2010

Obama's plan for the economy--written June 10, 2008

"We'll be hearing a lot about the economy from Obama. Being a Democrat, he'll of course propose new taxes while rescinding the Bush tax cuts. Being a Marxist, he'll aim high (or is that low?). Marxists as you'll recall if you were schooled before 1990 (when they disappeared from every country outside the Americas and from our school books), believe there are only exploiters (capitalists) and the exploited (workers). You can view a tape of Obama's pastor if you're fuzzy on the details--Black Liberation Theology is Marxism in black face. So in a country where most people aspire to be either rich capitalists after their college daze, or taken care of after their drug haze, and there is virtually no poverty, just a gap between the bottom quintile and the top quintile, the Marxists may be entering the golden age. An age when the government will finally succeed in destroying private property, marriage, unborn babies, religion, and national borders. (We've actually got a good head start on this, so it shouldn't take much.) It didn't work in poor, uneducated countries across the pond, so maybe it will in one of the most successful and richest. It could even be Obama's secret weapon to fight illegal immigration! Who would want to come here if it's more of what they left?

It's really going to help a lot to tax the oil companies' profits and take away their tax incentives instead of deregulating, which would allow for drilling or refineries. Money in alternatives? I'm sure of it, and so are they! They're smarter than our Congress so I'm guessing they're just waiting until Congress sweetens the deal after show and tell. I'm looking forward to that wind driven car going 5 mph between battery plug-ins. And all those products we use made of petroleum--I guess we'll cut down all the trees, or make them out of cotton, or wool or dirt. Those of you sweltering on the east coast right now, get used to it. AC will definitely be out. . . except for government officials, former veeps from TN and NC senators in giant houses."

I nailed it, didn't I?

Has Rahm Emanuel ever read American history?

For some reason he thinks Obama has had "the toughest times any President has ever faced." George Washington? Andrew Jackson? Abraham Lincoln? Franklin Roosevelt? Unbelieveable!!!!

The road to serfdom with Yuri N. Maltsev

From Marx to Obama. This speech by Yuri Maltsev was given at Kenosha College in Wisconsin, the land of Bob LaFollette who said, "I saw the future and it works," although to "work" millions would have to be shot, starved, tortured or frozen to death in Siberia. The speech is about 33 minutes and quite entertaining and well paced, although very sobering, because he's talking about Marxism--a philosophy that killed 160 million people in the 20th century. Obama has not kept his Marxist ideology a secret--he's written two books, but I guess Americans don't read, or they have become so blasé they think they are too sophisticated to be taken in.

Maltsev defected to the United States in 1989, and he says today it is not the same country it was 20 years ago. Even the church he attends isn't the same--now it is the Church of Doubt. He says that in the United States first civil society must be destroyed for Marxism to succeed. That wasn't necessary in Russia because the Czars had already destroyed it, so the people welcomed Bolshevism. Religion and family has to be destroyed for Communism to work here. He points out the book, "And not a shot is fired" as the "how-to" manual for totalitarian takeover of an elected parliamentary system.



Tyranny will not come as a black shirt. It will come with an apple pie.

Trans fat in New York

In Ohio, we were told we just must have gambling because all the gambling money was going to West Virginia or Michigan or someplace out of state. Therefore, it was essential that we too rob from the poor so that the rich can play.

Well, why doesn't this apply to donuts for New Yorkers? If a New Yorker wants to get a decent donut, he has to drive to New Jersey or some other state!

"On December 5, 2006, the Board of Health approved an amendment to the Health Code to phase out artificial trans fat in all NYC restaurants and other food service establishments. It is now in full effect. The phase out of artificial trans fat in restaurant foods took effect in two stages. First, as of July 1, 2007, NYC food service establishments have been prohibited from using oils, shortening and margarine containing artificial trans fat for frying or as a spread that have 0.5 grams or more of trans fat per serving. The second and final deadline was July 1, 2008. As of July 1, 2008, all foods must have less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving if they have any artificial trans fat. Packaged foods served in the manufacturer's original, sealed packaging are exempt."

It's been over two years now--are New Yorkers healthier, or are they making underground trips to neighboring states for trans fat items they can't buy in their own state?

New York City's War on Fat
New Jersey Bakers