Friday, November 10, 2017

Clinton/Comey worse than Watergate

Former Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom unloaded on James Comey, Robert Mueller, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama Thursday, charging that major crimes "20 times bigger than Watergate" are being swept under the rug while Attorney General Jeff Sessions "is in a coma."
 
Appearing on Fox News' Varney & Co., Kallstrom told the host that it "was obvious to anybody that knows anything" that former President Barack Obama was not going to let James Comey indict Clinton.
 
"It turns out -- unfortunately -- he was a political hack," Kallstrom said flatly. "I think he maybe started out in an honorable way. His opinion of himself is sky high --  just an unbelievable guy with just an arrogance about him…. It got him in trouble because I think he thought he was Superman and he found out that he wasn’t."
 
Kallstrom blamed the Clintons for Comey's descent into hackery.
 

Friday Family Photo--Happy Birthday Marines

Happy birthday to the U.S. Marine Corps, founded Nov. 10, 1775 in a tavern in Philadelphia. My dad, (1913-2002) was a Marine in WWII, and the photo is me in 2007 pointing to his name on a monument in Forreston, IL where he was American Legion commander.

http://myplace.frontier.com/~ricksplumbing/forrestonillinois/id9.html

https://www.visitnorthwestillinois.com/what-to-do/history-and-heritage/forreston-veteran-s-memorial.html

Another memorial, this one in Oregon, for fallen soldiers, dedicated in 2015.

http://www.oglecountynews.com/2015/11/16/fallen-soldiers-memorial-dedicated-on-veterans-day/a24oy96/



Thursday, November 09, 2017

It seems a few times a week I see a reference on social media or a news story about priests and child sexual abuse. Especially now that there is a lot of attention directed at high profile Hollywood entertainers.  It's part of the toxic, anti-Christian atmosphere we live in (some of it, to be honest, promoted by anti-Catholic Christians), even though it is far more common for a child to be abused by a school teacher than a priest. The Roman Catholic church is a big target, but the prejudice affects all Christians.

"Based on key studies done in recent years, abuse by priests amounted to about 11,000 cases over a period of 50 years, or about 220 abuse cases per year. However, based on a major 2004 study by former Hofstra University Professor Charol Shakeshaft done for the US Dept. of Education (Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature ), there were 290,000 cases of child abuse in our public schools over a 10 year period, or about 29,000 cases of child abuse per year committed by public school employees, mostly teachers. In other words, for every one case of child abuse by a priest, there were 130 cases of child abuse by a public school employee. What’s surprising is that in spite of the fact abuse by public school employees occurs more than 100 times as often as priestly abuse, this is rarely, if ever, discussed in our media or newspapers. Why is this ?" https://afany.org/2016/05/01/child-abuse-huge-problem/

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2004/03/10/26abuse.h23.html

http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/660375.pdf

Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Democrats are concerned about divisiveness

After 9 years of marches, protests, burning down buildings and disinviting conservatives to speak at colleges, after whiners unfriending relatives on social media, prepared scripts on what to talk about at Thanksgiving, 90 minute CNN specials on how awful the president is for not being Obama, constant Russia, Russia, Russia talk, sneers about faith, sympathy and prayer when an atheist carelessly left out of the NICS database kills Christians, calling the nuclear family "white supremacy," ridiculing western civilization . . . Democrats and Never Trumper non-Democrats announce their concern about divisiveness in the nation and again virtue signal after state and local elections . Duh!

Gun Control

"It's amazing that Sutherland Springs reignites the gun control debate, when it should ignite the "Why Are Christians Being Targeted" debate."  Rex Tillerson tweet.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/11/07/dana-loesch-we-need-enforce-gun-laws-are-already-books

She [Loesch] revealed that 38 states report fewer than 80 percent of felony convictions to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which means there are seven million felony convictions that are unreported.

There were so many fails in the gun law protections we have in the Sutherland Springs church massacre.  He was never reported despite having been in a mental facility, he had threatened his military superiors, he had beaten his wife and infant son, he'd abused animals.  All the gun laws failed.  Plus during the 8 years of Obama, the FBI and DoJ were not working together and did almost no adjudication of the offenders.  There's no way to stop the Sandy Hook shooter who kills his own mother and uses her guns, but there is a way to stop those who have already been fingered who try to purchase guns.

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Two church shootings, two gun law failures

"Despite having previously admitted to drug possession, the man, Dylann Roof, 21, was allowed to buy the .45-caliber handgun because of mistakes by F.B.I. agents, a failure by local prosecutors to respond to a bureau request for more information about his case, and a weakness in federal gun laws." July 10, 2015, New York Times

Two church shootings. Two screw ups in background checks. But Democrats won't pray for victims because they want more laws for criminals to not follow.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/06/democratic-rep-walks-out-of-a-moment-of-silence-for-shooting-victims-to-post-on-facebook/  Seth Moulton said the same thing after LasVegas.

Sonya Carson has died

From Dr. Ben and Candy Carson:
Today, November 6, 2017 we lost my dear mother, Sonya Carson. Although she came from an impoverished background with very little formal education, she somehow understood how success was achieved in our society. If anyone had a reason to make excuses, it was her, but she absolutely refused to be a victim and would not permit us to develop the victim mentality either. Whenever we made an excuse, she quoted the poem "Yourself to Blame." The poem is included in this post. May she rest in peace.
Yourself to Blame by Mayme White Miller
If things go bad for you
And make you a bit ashamed
Often you will find out that
You have yourself to blame
Swiftly we ran to mischief
And then the bad luck came
Why do we fault others?
We have ourselves to blame
Whatever happens to us,
Here is what we say
"Had it not been for so-and-so
Things wouldn't have gone that way."
And if you are short of friends,
I'll tell you what to do
Make an examination,
You'll find the faults in you...
You are the captain of your ship,
So agree with the same
If you travel downward
You have yourself to blame

 


 

 


How and to Whom?

It seems the advice is "if you see something say something" (serial killer Devin Kelley). How? To whom? Easy to say, hard to do. The lowest scum of the earth in the U.S. has rights that can't be taken away. Who commits a mentally ill person to treatment, and does it work? How do you report a relative who lives under the same roof?   I wonder if Rand Paul had reported his hostile neighbor; did the ex-wife of the TX killer have a worthless piece of paper on file; how many have tried to have a driver's license taken away from an elderly parent--unsuccessfully; a barking dog? Good luck.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/06/how-was-texas-gunman-able-to-buy-firearm.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/06/man-hailed-hero-for-chasing-texas-church-gunman-after-massacre.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bystander-shot-devin-kelley-twice-before-suicide

http://www.westword.com/news/texas-church-killer-devin-kelley-and-colorado-springs-connection-9667697

Sunday, November 05, 2017

Chocolate deviled eggs

At first I thought, "How ridiculous!" but then lots of chocolate desserts contain eggs. Chocolate just follows me around. When I got home from Meijer's on Tuesday, I found in my grocery bags Devil's Food donuts, chocolate peanut butter Cheerios, and chocolate peanut butter flapjack single serving cups. Watch out for other shoppers throwing things in the cart when you're not looking.

Ingredients
6 hard boiled eggs
3 Tablespoons cream cheese
3 teaspoons unsweetened, dark cocoa powder
1 ½ Tablespoons confectioner’s sugar
1 ½ Tablespoons heavy cream
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of salt

Directions

Peel and halve eggs. Remove yolks and mash in a bowl.
Add the cream cheese, cream and vanilla to the yolks and thoroughly mix. Add the cocoa, sugar and salt and continue to mix until well incorporated and smooth. A food processor will simplify this process.
Fill the whites with the mixture.
Garnish with shaved chocolate and a bit of sea salt.
Cocoa and sugar amounts may need to be adjusted slightly depending on personal taste and the percentage cocoa used. Accordingly, the amount of heavy cream may also need to be adjusted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEy8cDtrQyM&feature=youtu.be

Saturday, November 04, 2017

Bad posture exercises need a wall

Aging causes poor posture--at least that's my excuse. I have to really think to sit or walk with good posture. When I look at Silver Sneakers' instructions to correct this, they always suggest doing something with a wall. I have doors, windows, rooms with chair rails, wide openings, banisters, furniture either floating or against the wall and maybe 50 paintings, but no wall space for doing chin tucks, corridor stretches, hands against the wall, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJspJaFL_l8   This is not Silver Sneakers, but the moves aren't difficult and some are sitting or standing (without the help of a wall).

Friday, November 03, 2017

The Clinton scandals continue to expand

 
1. New paper trail on Uranium One.
2. Donna Brazile's book
3. Hillary admits the fake dossier was her campaign's, but acts as if it was no big deal.
4. Revelations of the struggling finances of DNC (see #2) taken over by Clinton to get the nomination.
5. Testimony for senate by Google, Twitter, YouTube reveals high tech tricks to help Mrs. Clinton

Where in the world is Jeff Sessions?  Hiding?

Thursday, November 02, 2017

Keep your kitties indoors, please.

“Cat lovers in the U.S. own about 90 million cats, bringing much joy to tens of millions of families.  There are also, however, an estimated 60-90 million unowned free-ranging cats in the U.S., cats which may be hit by vehicles, preyed upon by other animals, and can contract – and spread – a variety of diseases. 

Global impacts of cat predation are documented: a minimum of 33 extinctions and a decline of at least 142 species of birds, reptiles, and mammals; mortality of an estimated average of 2.4 billion birds (~69% from unowned cats), 12.3 billion mammals, and hundreds of millions of reptiles and amphibians. Cats can also pose a threat to public health from potential transmission of diseases, most significantly Toxoplasmosis.”

Peter Marra , PhD, Director, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center at the National Zoo, Washington, D.C. Co-author (with Chris Santella) of Cat Wars – The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer, Princeton University Press, 2016.  Speaker at Ohio State, November 7, The Environmental Professionals Network Breakfast. https://epn.osu.edu/events/november-7-2017-epn-breakfast-club

https://www.statista.com/statistics/198102/cats-in-the-united-states-since-2000/

http://www.bradfordlicensing.com/documents/pets-fact-sheet.pdf

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation/pete-marra

Remembering Andrew Breitbart--what fun.



Some who hate on Breitbart.com forget that Andrew Breitbart, the creator of it who died at 43, helped start Huffington Post, which I don't even read any more because it's too wild and wooly. He learned all he knew about liberals from working with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYNk2dRjX8 Now they hate on Steve Bannon, but Breitbart the man changed the world of internet news.

The panel on Red Eye grieving the loss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqEPe9emsU

“The least tolerant people you’ll meet everyday. . . are liberals.” Andrew Breitbart.  This is such fun to watch.  “I had dinner with the 1%—Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn.”  He dates the end of the Democratic Party as 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuySonCfbc

Exposing the Occupy movement, the people who wanted to be the Tea Party of the Left.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU8dKkS1Kmg

How will this police shooting be played out?

Another black man shot by police, Luvelle Kennon, 27. Will there be riots by Black Lives Matter or investigations about the race of the police officer? He took a female teacher hostage (a grandmother) for over 7 hours, beat up another teacher in Riverside, California elementary school.  When this goes into the Washington Post data base about crime, race and police, it will be white police kill black man.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-riverside-classroom-barricade-20171031-story.html

And in Colorado, three people were killed by a gunman in a Walmart. Haven't caught the perp, but looking for a white man possibly driving a red sports car.  But there was a gleam of light about the goodness of people. " [Jay]Thompson [18 yo Walmart employee] was standing in the parking lot of the Golden Corral with no coat when Manny Colmenero stopped and asked if he was cold. When the teenager said yes, Colmenero took off his own coat and gave it to Thompson — and told him to keep it." Something beautiful in a terrible tragedy. 

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/01/thornton-shooting-walmart/

In the annals of stupid parenting, an American family has been rescued after being taken hostage by pirates who took over the ferry they were traveling on with their two toddlers.  Who takes a toddler and 7 year old down the Amazon River?  Our kids complained if we took them to art shows at Capital.

"The Harteaus had recently been living in the southern Brazil city of Florianopolis. They have been using a website to document their journey around South America, which began in 2012 as a plan to travel to Patagonia in their Volkswagen van and return to California one year later." The father is an artist.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-family-harteau-rescue-brazil-jungle-amazon-river/


Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Yesterday: The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing entitled: “Extremist Content and Russian Disinformation Online: Working with Tech to Find Solutions” October 31, 2017. https://www.c-span.org/video/?436454-1/facebook-google-twitter-executives-testify-russia-election-ads

Isn’t it odd that they don’t investigate the disinformation and slanderous opinion of other “bad actors” like Washington Post and New York Times or CNN and MSNBC, or even our own PACs?
And why just Russia? Do they think that Canada or Germany or Israel never try to influence Americans who get their news from social media? Are we to believe that the United States is never guilty of trying to influence the elections of our friends and enemies? Or American technology funded foundations push contraceptives and abortions on other cultures? 
 
Who in Facebook or Twitter or Google Corporations should judge “inauthentic activity” or valid social communities for blacks and Muslims? By their own testimony, possibly 5% of the ads/comments/tweets, etc. are false, fake, malicious. And if a black woman subscribed to a fake "pro-Trump" sponsored site directed at blacks, did she change her vote from Hillary to Trump, and is there any way to know?

Are these ads worse than any of the stuff I'm seeing right now on my local TV as the election date comes close on school and drug issues in Ohio. How will those companies prevent people who just don't like Trump or conservatives from having those comments or tweets blocked by complaining? It happens.

Our own media gave President Trump billions of “free” publicity during the 2016 campaign—because they hated him, ridiculed him and told lies about him. Apparently, middle America and fly over country ignored them. I’m sure they can ignore Russia, too.
Note: because of the youth of the tech executives, be prepared for every sentence to have an uplift/uptalk/rising inflection as they testify.

Latest terrorist came here on diversity visa

Why do we have "diversity" visas? [NYC Uzbeki jihadist] for special treatment? We have probably hundreds of ethnic and racial groups who are now citizens or with green cards, plus some 800 American Indian tribes with whom the Government has treaties and millions of Americans particularly millennials who are mixed race. The U.S. has more Nigerian Americans than all the Africans who came here in the 3 centuries of the slave trade, but they are all lumped into "black." In the census "Hispanics" is a made up word that includes many countries--even Brazil--completely ignoring their own unique cultures and languages--and "Asian" which also can be hundreds of countries. Ironically, Uzbeks are "white," with all that privilege we white folks are supposed to have. Many of those who come with hopes for a better life have been turned into victim groups and radicals by the leftist politics of our government and political movements of special interests, especially through "multiculturalism" policies and programs in our colleges.

 "The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) makes up to 50,000 immigrant visas available annually, drawn from random selection among all entries to individuals who are from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The DV Program is administered by the U.S. Department of State (DOS)." https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/diversity-visa

This guy won the lottery, but I doubt if the families of the 8 dead bikers are feeling good about that.   Why are people from countries with "low rates of immigration" more important than the immigrants and descendants of immigrants who are already citizens? They'll need jobs, government benefits and a community, same as all the rest of us. Why are they more special?

I don't think it matters that it was Chuck Schumer's idea to have a diversity visa lottery, but I do think it's important that he and some other politicians feel the need to dilute the racial make up of the U.S. when that is happening naturally -- millennials and their children will greatly increase the mixing of European heritage with those of other continents to about 50%. Why is he against the descendants of the English, Germans, Irish, French, Spanish, Italians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Russians, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, and particularly Christian groups who built the most multicultural country in the world? (That's a rhetorical question; we all know the answer.)

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Who influenced the election?



Who had more influence--the MSM spending billions in 2016 talking about and ridiculing Trump, or Russian disinformation trolls on FB spending thousands? Trump got so much free advertising from MSNBC and CNN and the broadcast media, he should have added them to his staff.

And which country spends more trying to influence other governments and cultures in trade, agriculture, military advisors, NGOs, education, Peace Corps, entertainment and family planning (aka contraception and abortion)--Russia or the U.S.A.? If you guessed Russia, you are wrong. And to suggest that Trump supporters were influenced by Russian ads on Facebook and Twitter means someone didn't pay attention to Hillary's awful campaign and policies.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13896916/1/donald-trump-rode-5-billion-in-free-media-to-the-white-house.html

All Hallows’ Eve

How long before the triggered haters and bigots (THAB) realize October 31 is the Eve of All Saints Day or All Hallows' Eve? November 1 is the day we recall and honor the whole people of God--Christians here and those who have gone on to be with Jesus (For all the saints who from their labors rest. . .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgwq7f2FpNk) . THAB on the left are being triggered by little kids dressing as princesses, pagans and hoboes (boys in drag dressed as girls are OK), so I expect they will soon follow the trail of some Christian cults that deny the holiday altogether.

"In 844, Pope Gregory IV transferred the feast (of martyrs) to November 1st, timing it around the harvests to be able to provide food for the pilgrims. Some scholars believe this was to substitute a feast for the pagan celebrations during that time of year. Pope Sixtus IV in 1484 established November 1 as a holyday of obligation and gave it both a vigil (known today as "All Hallows' Eve" or "Hallowe'en") and an eight-day period or octave to celebrate the feast." CatholicCulture.org

Monday, October 30, 2017

Manafort's background has been out there for some time

"The so-called conspiracy against the United States mainly involves Manafort’s and Gates’s alleged failure to file Treasury Department forms required by the Bank Secrecy Act. Specifically, Americans who hold a stake in foreign bank accounts must file what’s known as an “FBAR” (foreign bank account report) in any year in which, at any point, the balance in the account exceeds $10,000. Federal law also requires disclosure of foreign accounts on annual income-tax returns. Manafort and Gates are said to have controlled foreign accounts through which their Ukrainian political-consulting income sluiced, and to have failed to file accurate FBARs and tax returns. In addition, they allegedly failed to register as foreign agents from 2008 through 2014. . ."
The real collusion is Clinton, DNC and FusionGPS and the phony dossier of which Mueller was a part when he was in the Obama administration. Unfortunately, for Americans watching broadcast news and MSNBC, they are still in the dark. Yesterday Democrats who didn't run away from reporters were saying everyone does opposition research and today they are saying, Oh my gosh look what a campaign employee did--talked to a Russian about Hillary's e-mails (Papadopoulos).
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453244/manafort-indictment-no-signs-trump-russia-collusion

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