I knew he was demented, I knew his followers were grasping and gasping, but I never in a million years could have believed a Democrat who lived through the glory days of the Civil Rights movement, who personally knew and approved of KKK members of Congress, who helped pass much of the legislation that has oppressed blacks for 4 decades could compare MLK with Floyd, who was high on drugs and committing a crime when he encountered a bad cop protected by a Democrat administration and his union.
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020
Big storm June 10
Lots of excitement the evening of June 10. We must have had 50 golf carts stop by to look. Our street was the hardest hit and 2 beautiful trees were lost. Dorothy Crutchfield’s cottage. We lost power and the internet, but by noon on the 11th we were back in business. Yes, not one was hurt and no cars were crushed, but replacing 100 year old trees won’t be easy.
On statues and political parties
"A statue of the late Senator Robert Byrd (D - West Virginia) stands in the U.S. Capitol. Some 55 bridges, highways, dams, and other facilities in Byrd’s state carry his name. These honor Byrd’s 51 years in the Senate, including 12 as Democrat leader, as recently as 1989. Byrd told the late Fox News anchor Tony Snow this about race relations in March 2001: “There are white n*****s. I’ve seen a lot of white n*****s in my time; I’m going to use that word.” Byrd led the 83-day Democrat filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and spoke non-stop for its defeat for 14 hours on the Senate floor. Byrd also was an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, for which he recruited some 150 fresh Klansmen in the 1940s. Why have Democrats not cleansed the Capitol of this former Klansman’s image, and urged West Virginians to do likewise?"
Deroy Murdock, Aug. 27, 2017.
It’s not the police
It's not the police; it's not systemic racism; it's not "white flight"; it's the Democratic administrations of our major cities. The police forces are integrated, the state and local governments are filled and often run by blacks, the education accomplishments are awesome, blacks are making bigger strides in longevity and health advancements than any other group, there are over 120 wealth transfer programs from the federal government being doled out to raise living standards, and black performers, athletes and celebrities are just as unequally wealthy as any other elite and admired group.
There's just no one left.
It's the Democrats. No matter the color of their skin, the country from which their grandpa escaped, or the God they worship, or the gender they claim, they always push bigger government as a solution to all problems.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06/10/the-true-plight-of-black-americans/?
Cases going up, or more testing?
Businesses started slowly opening weeks ago around the country and some states never completely shut down. Street protests and looting have been sudden with imported rioters; many anti-Trumpers and anti-police clutches didn't bat an eye because an opportunity presented itself. They jumped right in waving their #itwasnotme signs. But which is being blamed by which group for the sudden jump in cases of corona virus? It depends on how much you hate Trump.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Systemic racism
Clever term. Very common today.
All encompassing if it's a system. That means we're all a part, even liberals and leftists . . . whether black, Hispanic, Asian and white.
Even if your 19th Irish and German ancestors or your post WWII immigrant Baltic or Jewish grandparents had no part in slavery or Jim Crow;
even if your parents came here from Nigeria or Kenya or Somalia along with a few million other African immigrants in the last two decades;
even if you live below the poverty line.
That means any one of the 130 income transfer programs--TANF, Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, housing, utilities, CSFP, school breakfast, lunch and snacks--of the last 55 years of the so-called "War on Poverty" are racist in intent, design and outcome. Both parties. They were totally bi-partisan.
If racism is systemic, that's you. Right? You haven't been living off the grid in a cabin in the Rockies with no internet, running water or electricity, not if you're reading Facebook or Twitter or the Washington Post.
So if you've been marching smugly expressing your first amendment rights while denying me mine, or posting blather banners and yard signs about racism and how much you care, pointing fingers with 4 pointing back at you--
Ask what has
- your union,
- your academic department
- your "woke" corporation,
- your bank,
- the real estate firm you hired,
- the church you belong to,
- your profession,
- your pension plan,
- your state and local government,
- your candidates and PAC,
- your apartment management firm,
- your senator or representative,
- your gardener or house cleaner,
- your favorite restaurant,
- your investments manager,
- your whole/organic market,
- your elitist club that only the best people belong to. . .
done to contribute to the system.
Of course, to do that, you'd have to be self reflective. You'd have to toss out some of the Kool-Aid you've been swallowing from the very people who have used these programs to lie to you. There is no growing income inequality; there is no rampant racism from the police; black people are not being slaughtered by white people; and under Trump, minorities were making huge strides. You'd have to acknowledge that something or someone, call it the swamp dwellers if you wish or blame George Soros or the Communist underbelly of this country, it really doesn't matter. You've been poisoned, and it is like sepsis, and that poison is systemic, and you're doing it to yourselves if you're allowing these groups to make you grovel, wear African stoles, kneel, toss bricks and riot.
Yes, let's have that "conversation." Tell us what you have done that was racist and how you personally plan to change. I'll wait.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Good reading and research–Conservative
Our Favorite Conservative sources
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- American Greatness
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- Hollywood in Toto
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- Hot Air
- Hugh Hewitt
- InstaPundit
- Jewish World Review
- Law and Liberty
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- Liberty Daily
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Media
George Floyd memorials
I didn't watch the memorial service for George Floyd, but I've seen clips of the speakers and singers (depending on which cable channel you watch, some are edited to throttle hate and emotions, and some to give the message of redemption in Christ). I'd seen articles about him in the Christian media--he had from all appearances, made a commitment to Christ and had tried to help others like him who had prison records. He wasn't an anarchist
It's a bridge too far for me to pretend how black Christians feel when they see a man eulogized whose crimes were against blacks, and for which he served a number of prison terms. I won't pretend to know the terror of the black pregnant woman he threatened with a gun to her belly nor understand the haters consumed by a photo of our President with a Bible, but revel when celebrates grabbed photo ops at Floyd's memorial. He was high on drugs (autopsy) when he committed his last crime, but the trial for that certainly wouldn't have been death. Like Chauvin he deserved his day in court. Neither will get that. These are crazy times.
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Why they want to do away with the police
Before you decide if defunding police is a good idea, take a look at what the rioter, looters and thugs did to store owners, by-standers, reporters, police, truck drivers, homes, etc. And keep in mind that blacks are 6x more likely to be the victims of crime and need the police than whites. Apparently those black lives don’t matter. Do you want to live or own a business in these neighborhoods?
links to rioting/attacks before the thought police delete them.
Man stomped and stoned for trying to defend a bar from being looted
Destroying store and beating unarmed woman and her husband
Beating and stomping guy on the ground Santa Monica
Restaurant manager beaten and stomped for trying to defend his workplace
Stopping, beating and stomping a truck driver while protesters yell to kill him
Protesters attack a media member and then pummel him
Chasing guy and kicking him in the face for defending flag in Portland
Police officer beaten on the streets
Car runs over a cop
Protesters set homeless man’s belongings on fire
Throwing fireworks at the cops
Looting a FedEx truck then looter gets dragged when truck tries to escape
Chasing and beating guy with red had
Rioter sets himself on fire while trying to set a building on fire
Fireworks thrown into CNN hq / Police officers
Protester runs over the cops with an SUV
Destroying/looting/setting on fire Old Navy
Guardhouse in front of WH set on fire
Dozens of cars destroyed/torched near CNN hq – Atlanta
St Louis neighborhood on fire
Building on fire while self-proclaimed Mexicans say **** white people
Destroying police SUV
Near a torched car audio speakers propaganda that all crime is legal
Destroying/looting bank in Montreal
Pharmacy destroyed/looted in Dallas
The remains of whole neighborhood destroyed
Destroying stores – Dallas
Destroying police SUV – Austin
Police SUV torched LA
Looting target/beating disabled person in Minneapolis
Future apartment building destroyed with fire in Minneapolis
Looting pharmacy – Minneapolis
Destroying business in Minneapolis
More businesses on fire in Minneapolis
Ransacked Target Minneapolis
Building burning in neighborhood Minneapolis
Boy drove car into a store
Post office looted/destroyed
Minneapolis third police precinct set on fire
More buildings on fire Minneapolis
Autoparts Store getting destroyed/looted
Autozone on fire
Looting in Minneapolis
Adults loot with their children
Cars torched – Minneapolis
Looting an ATM in Minneapolis
Remains of destroyed/looted Cub Foods
Business and stores on fire in Minneapolis
Brenda Lenton’s home and belongings destroyed by a fire – Minneapolis
Aftermath of whole neighborhood being set on fire in Minneapolis
Nashville city hall set on fire while rioters cheer
Fox reporters chased out with projectiles thrown at them near White House
Attacking drivers Tulsa, Okla
Setting St. John’s Church on fire
Destroying/looting stores Montreal
Destroying/looting store in Downtown Oakland
Bar destroyed/Trying to loot a safe
Stolen Bulldozer in Oakland
Two police SUVs torched in Seattle
Multiple cars torched in Philadelphia
Ohio Statehouse being destroyed
Trying to breach Justice Center/central police precinct Portland
Destroying/Looting Justice Center Portland
Looting small business in Portland
Destroying/looting small business Portland
Looting Louis Vuitton store
Driving stolen cars into stores – Portland
Destroying Chase Bank – Portland
Setting Chase Bank on fire – Portland
Destroying/Looting Apple Store – Portland
Looting in St. Paul
Looting Shoe Store
Looting apple store
Looting North Face store – NYC
Nike Store being looted – NYC
Looting in Union Square – NYC
Looting T-mobile store
Shop owner saves store from looters with a firearm
Business owner defends his store from looters with a firearm
Monday, June 08, 2020
How will you promote racial unity?
Our pastor (on-line because UALC is still on lockdown) asked the congregation how God was leading them to promote racial unity. Here’s my response to my small group.
“I am trying to promote racial unity by publicizing that the statistics on blacks and police are false; that some form of this anti-white, or black lives matter version rolls around every 4 years, and it is now an election year. I won’t claim that God is leading me, but I will say years of being a librarian, an OSU faculty member and a liberal Democrat have certainly brought me to my views, and I hope God was in there someplace.
If you were going to look at the damage of lead paint in child brain development, you would most likely begin with a data base of children who possibly could have been exposed to lead. Then from that subset of children you would move on to demographics and health studies. But that’s not how the left treats crime statistics. Instead of using a subset of people (all races) who have police confrontations because of their criminal behavior, they use the statistics of police-involved deaths and measure that against the percentage of all black males in the population—6%. Probably 99% of black males over 50 have no involvement with police, but they are factored in. So if 25% of those shot by police are black, but 6% of the population is black, it’s called racist. However, about 40% of the confrontations with police are with black males, and about 50% are with white males, particularly young—say, 18-30. For as long as the DOJ has been keeping statistics, blacks have a higher rate not just of violent crime, but a much higher rate of being victims than whites do. So in terms of criminals being shot by police, white criminals have a higher rate of police deaths and higher number than blacks.
This is where the media come in. When was the last time you watched news reports 24/7 when a white man was shot by police in commission of a crime. And yet it is much more frequent than for blacks. The people who suffer the most from these every 4 years lies are black citizens. After Ferguson and Baltimore, both of which ended in race riots during the Obama years, crime soared in the black neighborhoods and those black business people and home owners left as quickly as possible pulling out their values, talent, education and investments and moving to the suburbs. Blacks are then told only more government programs and voting for Democrats can save them.
So that’s what I’m posting on my blog and on my Facebook page and on the two e-mail discussion groups (managed by men I went to high school with) I’m in. You’re welcome to disagree, but I’ve got the research. I’m not by any stretch saying there’s no racism, only that it’s being used for political gain, and you can hear the same outrageous claims that have always fueled racial hatred, like moral depravity, born bad, etc. I’d like to present as a small piece of evidence Candace Owen’s testimony in Congress on hate crimes. https://youtu.be/xlF7z0uHolE She’s black, conservative, pro-life and Christian.
The demands are increasing
The city council (Democrats) of Minneapolis is announcing to the world not to come there to invest, to do business, to be a tourist, to send your child to college or to have your conventions or meetings. They can't protect you from the gangs that have plagued the city or the assaults and rapes. It's just not worth it. Stay home. After many years under Democrat control the city is just a mess of racist government, racist police and racist leisure venues. It's racism with a smile, even though they've elected Somalis and blacks and women to the highest offices. It was all just a farce. The council which includes blacks, a transgender person, and females admits to systemic racism, and they, all of them, be part of the system.
Once they got police and mayors to kneel and show fealty, they upped the ante. Get rid of the police. Did liberals never read about the "show trials" (aka The Purge) of the USSR?
“The show trials were not held in secret but were, as their title suggests, in the open with foreign journalists invited and were there to prove to those in the USSR who were interested that ‘enemies of the state’ still existed despite the ‘Red Terror’ and that state leaders such as Stalin were at risk. There is little doubt that those who faced a show trial were going to be found guilty” https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/the-show-trials-in-the-ussr/
Driving while black
There's talk about police stopping people "driving while black." Having raised some teens, let me tell you that happens to whites, Hispanics and Asians also. Usually there is a teen driver, male, a snappy, loud car (either modified or just a bad muffler) alcohol involved, other kids as passengers as a distraction and the police may have saved some lives. We've gotten those calls after midnight to come to the hospital.
I've been stopped 3 times--got my license when I was 16 and am now 80. First when I was a teen, second when I was middle aged, and third when I was old and stupid. I was at fault all 3 times. And it's possible those are the only 3 times I really shouldn't have been doing wrong things while driving because I'm pretty careful and don't drive much. That said, I have seen hundreds of accidents while on the road and am always thankful when I see the police have arrived to help, to get the ambulance on the scene and to move ahead the gawkers and people in a hurry around the scene of destruction and death.
I say a prayer and then forget until the next time.
Sunday, June 07, 2020
I’ll never be a movie critic
The last two nights I watched movies I’d never heard of—Sex and the City (2008) and Uptown Girls (2003). I’d planned to blog about the fashions, actually. But when I started researching them, I learned that Brittany Murphy who played the goofy nanny for Dakota Fanning’s character in Uptown Girls had died mysteriously in 2009. And also her father had mafia connections and that’s why she used her mother’s maiden name. So I decided being a movie/fashion critic is harder than it looked. And I gave up. It’s easier to try to figure out why anyone would vote for Joe Biden.
https://extratv.com/2019/12/20/brittany-murphy-a-look-back-at-her-mysterious-death-10-years-later/
Holy Trinity Sunday
Today is Sunday. June 7 is Holy Trinity Sunday. I’ve checked on line and even ELCA and Episcopal church which both support abortion are providing worship at home liturgies and scripture selections. The Catholics use a different selection, and I like theirs better. Although 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 "Greet one another with a holy kiss" will jump out--we may never even shake hands again! This selection was done at least 2 years ago, but is ironic today.
Normally, I would be dressed and ready for church, as we used to call it, and I’d be one of two or three women wearing a dress or skirt. Instead, at 8:30 I was dressed in my gym clothes and ready to go to Lifetime Fitness, which opened a week ago. My church UALC is still closed.
What the lockdown has taught me is I don’t need to go to church—I only have to turn on my computer, and if I don’t like the UALC selection (I never watched after the first try when I was asked to register before watching) I can find great music and dynamic speakers with a click of a mouse. In fact, their submission to the lockdown without a question has taught me I may never need to make the effort again.
After my workout, I went through the McDonald’s drive thru and got a sausage biscuit. At home I enjoyed it and sang a hymn by Horatius Bonar in my squeaky voice which used to be soprano but now is tenor:
“Glory be to God the Father,
glory be to God the Son,
glory be to God the Spirit,
God Almighty, Three in One!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Glory be to him alone.”
Horatius Bonar was born at Edinburgh, in 1808. His education was obtained at the High School, and the University of his native city. He was ordained to the ministry, in 1837, and since then has been pastor at Kelso. In 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland. His reputation as a religious writer was first gained on the publication of the "Kelso Tracts," of which he was the author. He has also written many other prose works, some of which have had a very large circulation. Nor is he less favorably known as a religious poet and hymn-writer. The three series of "Hymns of Faith and Hope," have passed through several editions.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872
The Hymnary.org website use has gone up 40% since April 2019, and I think we know why. You can support this fine service by making a donation, a tax-deductible contribution by sending a check to Hymnary.org at 3201 Burton SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546.
Defund the Columbus police?
I don’t know how many cities are going to take the demand to defund the police seriously. I just glanced at one TV channel’s report for June and found these stories. None of these stories deal with racism or race, and one story is an unsolved killing and all are at 10TV. https://www.10tv.com/article/police-17-year-old-shot-inside-vehicle-southeast-columbus-2020-jun
Do protestors and BLM activists really want no police in their neighborhood?
- Police are investigating after a man, 39-year-old Dale Kendig, was killed in a shooting that happened Sunday morning in southwest Columbus.
- Officers responded around 7:50 p.m. to the 5500 block of Chatterton Road on a reported shooting of a 17 year old boy.
- Reward money renewed: James Stennies was killed on April 17, 2017 at the Miracle Car Wash in Reynoldsburg. He was shot several times. Police believe it may have been an attempted robbery, although when Stennies’ body was found in the parking lot, his wallet and cell phone weren’t taken. His car was still in the wash bay with the keys inside.
- Three men are now facing felony charges after being accused of aiming laser pointers at Ohio State Highway Patrol aircraft. According to court records, 31-year-old Brynt Gunn aimed a laser into the cockpit of an OSHP helicopter while in his vehicle.
Because black lives matter
So the angry protesters/rioters have moved on from the myth of "systemic racism" to "defund the police." And liberal whites are helping endanger the black neighborhoods in misplaced guilt. Even those who stayed home in the comfort of their privileged man-caves, are cheering the rioters on. Oh so brave, those white liberals. The limp, weak blue boy-mayor of Minneapolis had to leave the protest in disgrace because he would NOT agree to defund the Minneapolis police, ONE of which killed a suspect who had become unreasonable (autopsy showed drugs) while trying to pass a counterfeit bill.
Let's see how that works:
- No police when a woman is assaulted or raped.
- No police when homes and apartments are broken into and granny's TV and cell phone are stolen in a sweep for a few dollars for drugs.
- No police to investigate the child pornography ring preying on the most vulnerable.
- No police to call when mom's purse is snatched while she's looking at the fruit display at the Korean market.
- No police to stop the speeders going 90 mph near your child's school.
- No police to rush into a bombed building to carry our survivors.
- No police to keep the neighborhood businesses and grocery stores safe and accessible.
- No police to call when your sister is patiently waiting in line at the bank and some goons rush in claiming her rights don't matter, only theirs.
- No police to direct traffic and walk the perimeter of the sports or music venue so the privileged masses can pay $160 to see their favorite black athlete or entertainer.
- No police to help rush that pregnant mom to the hospital, but who end up delivering the baby near the exit ramp.
- No police leagues to provide a healthy outlet for fatherless boys and girls through competitive sports.
Most violent crimes are committed by whites (by the numbers there are more of them) and in confrontations with police they are killed or put out of business at a higher rate (their crime rate is lower) than black criminals. But let's just unleash them and call it “black lives matter.”
Norma
Saturday, June 06, 2020
It’s a crazy world
This is not my essay—I copied it from a cousin on FB. It said copy and paste, which I almost never do, but it reflects most of what I’m thinking. We (or at least the Democrats) seem to have lost our minds.
We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!
• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
• Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.
• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
• Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
• Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.
• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus.
We are living in an upside down world for sure.
Too many believe the lies
What's the point? The lies have been told so many times, who will believe the truth? No one ever said "Hands up, don't shoot," but it is the truth if you say, "All lives matter" you can get fired because that means you don't believe the systemic racism myth. And "Snitches get stitches" was also a slogan from Ferguson that showed up in the DoJ report.
Larry Elder says, "In order for the Democratic Party to maintain the 95 percent monolithic hold they have with black voters, they need to create scenarios of anger and fear against so-called “structural” or “institutional” or “systemic” racism. We know their motive."
"A recent Harvard study concluded that 1,332 police shootings over the 2000-2015 time frame reveal that blacks are actually 20 percent less likely to be shot at by police than whites despite the fact that blacks and whites are just as likely to be carrying a weapon." Also, a different study reveals, “Whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks [to] die at the hands of police. Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”
Remember each victim group watches what happens with blacks, then they co-op their movement. So we will see first women marching and demanding more laws, then gays (and I've already seen a lot of rainbow flags in the marches), then transgendered—their group grows daily as teen-agers discover they have been misgendered. It's going to be a long rest of the story
https://www.larryelder.com/column/ignorance-facts-fuels-anti-cop-movement/
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/fryer_police_aer.pdf
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883?
Did the churches have options?
There have been many times in history when churches (the people) needed to go underground, and they grew. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church," and so forth. But now all they've done is contribute to the steady loss of the "nones" who already believed they could worship at a concert or stay home and play with their computers. Like some of the businesses that were forced to close and scatter their employees, I think we'll see mass closings. Wealthy churches like UALC had options, and one would have been to graft in some backbone in Christians who have been losing ground for 30 years and caving to the culture.
Systemic racism or systemic forgetting
Systemic forgetting and blaming by Democrats, not systemic racism is the problem. Especially Joe Biden.
Forget the failures of their 20th century policies and blame the 17th century.
Failing schools.
Building more public housing.
Buying votes.
Raising taxes.
Colluding with media.
Creating diversity to divide.
Destroying families.
Aborting black babies.
Encouraging rioting.
Opening the borders.
Attacking nuns and bakers.
Restricting religious freedom.
Destroying the private health system.
Packing the prisons.
Detroit. Chicago. LA. Ferguson. Baltimore. Minneapolis.
Deflect, lie, steal and destroy.
The cure for racism offered by Democrats is always more government run by them. More control. It's a plan to fail by the very ones who caused the failure.
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