UN tries to push "sexual rights" on member states

On 8 June, at the ‘High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS’ the Member States of the United Nations adopted the ‘Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast-Track to Accelerate the Fight against HIV and to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030.’ The meeting is one of the most influential gatherings of the international community on the issue of HIV/AIDS and occurs every five years.

“ADF International fully endorses the underlying aim of the Political Declaration adopted this year, namely to end the AIDS epidemic,” said Elyssa Koren, Director of UN Advocacy for ADF International. “Unfortunately, UNAIDS and some Member States took the opportunity to try and advance so-called ‘sexual rights’ and other agendas in direct contravention to the will and sovereignty of the majority of countries. It is unacceptable to pursue controversial ideologies at the expense of the millions who suffer as a result of HIV/AIDS.”

"Although certain [UN] Member States fought tirelessly for the inclusion of a reference to “reproductive rights” tied to “human rights,” this ultimately was rejected. “Reproductive rights are in no way part of the internationally recognized body of human rights,” said Koren.

“Member States were clear on the fact that responsible sexual behaviour affirming the innate dignity of every person has proven most successful in ending AIDS in their respective national contexts. Regrettably, so-called ‘UN-experts’ took the liberty of warning Member States against the inclusion of any language on abstinence or fidelity in the document, incorrectly asserting that  these terms are representative of a ‘failed social experiment.’”

The battle of the outsider egos and outsider voters

"Two stories in the past 48 hours cement my view that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the vanquished Democratic candidate for president, and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, share the same DNA. These two stubborn outsiders believe they are their campaign’s best political mind. And the damage that outsized and misplaced view of their capabilities has done on their respective quests for the White House is plainly apparent. . .  Reading about Sanders’s maladroit micromanagement of his campaign immediately brought to mind that of Trump’s, which has been on full display the past two days. "

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/06/08/this-is-how-bernie-sanders-and-donald-trump-are-the-same-person/?

Bernie isn't a Democrat and Trump isn't a Republican. Both are dragging people in who have never voted, and seriously and sadly, I have to say are know-nothings. We live in strange times.
 

Sauerkraut memories

When I was a child we lived in Forreston, IL which had an annual Sauerkraut Day and people would come miles for free kraut and hot dogs. The town smelled awful for days. I didn't care much for the dish, and still only occasionally have it on a Rueben sandwich or hot dog. Lots of health benefits, so maybe I'll give it another try, even without the Merry-Go-Round and gypsies.

Did Obama ask?

Isn't it illegal to inquire about a potential appointee's or employee's sex life and behavior?  How else would Obama know the practices of his peeps? This is from 2 years ago from his Office of Personnel management (OPM);

 "President Obama has appointed more than 300 openly LGBT professionals to serve in his administration -- more openly LGBT presidential appointees than all previous administrations combined. They include: John Berry, Ambassador to Australia and formerly Director of OPM; Rufus Gifford, Ambassador to Denmark; Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President of the Import-Export Bank of the United States; and Kathy Martinez, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy at DOL.

The President has also appointed more than a dozen openly gay Federal judges. They include Elaine Kaplan, a judge of the U.S. Court of Claims and a former Acting Director and General Counsel of OPM."  

And then there was that ambassador to Libya. The one Hillary lied about.

Victoria Woodhull for President

Listening to CBS rerun Hillary's gushing announcement about the historic moment in history, my husband looked really puzzled. Reaching back to deep history (he was in high school in the 1950s, Arsenal Technical High School, Indianapolis), he said, "Wasn't there a woman many years ago who ran for president?" "Yes," I said, "Her name was Victoria Woodhull." She was born in Licking County, Ohio, and had a rather interesting, chaotic life which included Wall Street brokerage, free love movement, legalization of prostitution, going through several fortunes, journalism, and numerous husbands.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull

  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/victoria-woodhull-first-woman-presidential-candidate-116828

Why does Obama want to destroy women's sports?

Women athletes, including lesbians, need to start speaking out against transgender, fluid gender, two spirit nonsense LGBTQ radical agenda. It's not transphobic to point out men naturally have testosterone and the equipment to produce it. A lot of it. Women have a little, but we have a lot of estrogen, and that allows us to have more fat, which allows us to be healthy mothers. We have wider pelvises which allows us to give birth, but makes us run a little lopsided and "throw like a girl."

Testosterone enables men to develop larger skeletal muscles as well as larger hearts. Men also have a larger proportion of Type 2 muscle fibers, which generate power, strength and speed. Testosterone also increases the production of red blood cells, which absorb oxygen, giving men an even greater aerobic advantage. (Livestrong.com) This doesn't change just because some group in wigs and mascara starts yelling about their rights.

In some sports, it might not make a lot of difference, like tiddly winks and gymnastics (we're more flexible), but if you've got an athletically talented daughter, speak up now, write your Congress person and demand justice for girls and women, before this administration destroys women's sports.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/347443-athletic-differences-between-men-women/

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/06/biological-male-allowed-compete-female-high-schoolers-alaska/

 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/obama-transgender-rights-schools-222922
 

He claims capitalism hasn't helped the poor, we need socialism

Why do you think capitalism has so poorly served the lower income and poor? Have you ever seen a list of the consumer goods that even low income people can afford in the U.S.? The typical poor household (in 2011), as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there are children, especially boys, the family has a game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation. The household has a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave, also a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker. Do you know any low income people who don’t have a smart phone? (We don’t.)

 

I don’t know about you, but in 1960 when we set up our first apartment, we had a 10 year old car, b&w TV (gift from my in-laws), a refrigerator and stove (bought used) from this list, and we didn’t think we were poor, just newlyweds. Now we’re retired on pensions, and we have everything on this list, except the gaming systems.  We bought our first color TV in 1967, at $375, which would be about $2700 today’s money, and you can buy an HDTV set for $200 today. Same with computers and printers. I now have a desk top computer, a wireless printer, a laptop, an i-pad, a nook and an i-pod for less than my first computer in the 1990s.

The poor in U.S. also have larger houses than socialist countries and even before Obamacare, the poor reported not having a problem with healthcare, since we already had 5 systems to take care of them, plus ERs in hospitals were required to take them.

 

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty

 

The poor have less than the top 20%, true, no trips to China or Mongolia, no celebrity parties like the Obamas go to, no BMWs or Lexus in the drive-way, instead they probably go to Disney or 6 Flags or Cedar Point, but compared to poor or even socialist countries, U.S. people living at the poverty level (government standard) have a lot, and it's because of competition and capitalism, and that is increasingly being done overseas because of the enormous number of regulations and hostile business environment in the U.S., and the hostility of our government toward our golden goose—capitalism.We've become consumers instead of workers who consume. 

 

During the Obama years, only the top 20% have made any gains in wealth, everyone else has been flat, so those socialist and regulatory burdens are working well for the wealthy, and not so good for the rest of us.

UTIs and the elderly

A friend of ours has recently had a long siege in the hospital then a nursing because of a simple infection--urinary tract infection.

"Elderly people with serious urinary tract infection don't exhibit the hallmark sign of fever because their immune system is unable to mount a response to infection due to the effects of aging. In fact, elders often don't exhibit any of the common symptoms – or don't express them to their caregivers.

UTIs in the elderly are often mistaken as the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's, according to NIH, because symptoms include:

• Confusion, or delirium-like state
• Agitation
• Hallucinations
• Other behavioral changes
• Poor motor skills or dizziness
• Falling"

 https://www.agingcare.com/Articles/urinary-tract-infections-elderly-146026.htm

My mother always recommended cranberry juice or cherry juice.  And mothers, at least mine, are always right.

 http://www.aplaceformom.com/senior-care-resources/articles/elderly-urinary-tract-infection

When cleaning up in the yard . . .

look out for these plants.  I recognize the one on the far left--that's poison ivy--and I've seen it around our cottage, and sprayed it.  The other two I'm not so sure.  I think I've seen the poison oak too, and probably thought they were "volunteers" from an oak tree.

Cohabitation is not good for children

Cohabitation is not marriage. Children do about as well as they do in single parent households even adjusting for income and education. Access to two adults is not the same as parents.  If you remove sex from the justification for cohabitation, it will not happen, regardless of what the couple (usually the woman) uses.  Some countries have institutionalized cohabitation--don't live with your girlfriend in Canada--the state will come after you after you've moved back to the U.S. unless you've agreed to a contract that denies your commitment.

"For most of the latter-half of the twentieth century, divorce posed the greatest threat to child well-being and the institution of marriage. Today, that is not the case. New research—made available for the first time in Why Marriage Matters—shows that the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's lives in today's families."

"Cohabitation is playing a growing role in children's lives. Children are now more likely to be exposed to a cohabiting union than to a parental divorce. The report indicates that 24% of kids born to married parents will see their parents divorce or separate by age 12, while 42% of kids will experience a parental cohabitation by age 12."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc3cox_GsIk

http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2011/08/16/453980/229607/en/New-Report-Cohabitation-Not-Divorce-is-Now-Driving-Rising-Rates-of-Family-Instability-in-America.html

Communications survey results

Our church provided a very nice analysis of a survey today on how each congregation (three campuses, multiple services based on music style) communicates.  The service we attend (traditional with liturgy, hymns, and choir, communion twice a month) is 83% of adults over age 55. 39% is over 75. The age survey starts at age 18, and all services together at UALC  are 56% over 55, with 13% over 75. (If the survey included children, the results would be different.) One feature showed the number at each service that uses smartphones, and I was surprised that our traditional service had so many with smartphones.  Must be that under 65 group. Still, our printed newsletter and church announcements were the winners in communication with e-mail next.  At first I was puzzled by that, but realized almost all the small groups and committees communicate by e-mail.  The traditional service also scored the highest in feeling connected, and had the longest attendance length--68% had attended 20 years or longer.

What's wrong with Adam Silver?

North Carolina is set to host the 2017 NBA All-Star game, but in a meeting with reporters today, commissioner Adam Silver said that the game will have to be moved if recently enacted anti-LGBT laws are not changed. 

• Transgenderism is far more dangerous than smoking or drinking sodas or using drugs, so why is the commissioner pushing a dangerous, high death rate life style?
• Forty-one percent of transgendered individuals attempt to take their own life, according to the Weekly Standard. That's more than 25 times the national average. 
• The average life expectancy of a transgendered individual is about 32 years of age (some sources say 35), according to the blog Transwoman Times.
• A survey found that 2.64 percent of trans people are infected with HIV — more than four times the national average rate, according to Live Science. 

I'll leave it to you to google the details. I did and it all checks out (most figures are higher), except for the far left sites which want to blame you and me for this and deny the statistics, or say the sample is just too small (the only time you'll see that from the left).

The same people who say we'd never know when a transwoman uses our restroom, also say they can't find jobs because of the gender issue and have to become street walkers and get AIDS. Yes, folks, it's not messing with biology and pumping their bodies full of hormones and chemicals, multiple surgeries, and mental co-mobidities, it's oppression by you and me.

Obama vs. Jefferson

 

When President Jefferson arranged for the Louisiana Purchase he assured the Nuns of the Order of St. Ursula that the principles of the Constitution and the government of the United States would be sacred and inviolate for them, and that they would be permitted to govern themselves according to their own voluntary rules without interference from the civil authority. He praised them for their wholesome purpose of training up the younger members in the way they should go, and that his office would protect them. "I salute you, holy sisters, with friendship and respect." Letter to Ursuline Nuns of New Orleans, July 13, 1804. 

All Christian churches taught against contraception until about the 1930s, when one by one they followed the lead of the Anglicans. But the Catholic church has never wavered. President Obama knew that when he railroaded the ACA through Congress with no Republican support. It's too bad that President Obama, who has sued Little Sisters of the Poor for not violating their religious beliefs, can't assure 21st century nuns of the same protection of the Constitution and his office that President Jefferson did.

Who is anti-women?

If you look deeply, everything the Left/socialists/Democrats offer/demand is anti-family, anti-fertility and therefore, anti-woman. Whether it is

•  free contraception,
• abortion on demand,
• suing nuns and colleges that won't comply,
• offering sewage for entertainment which exploits our minds and bodies,
• same sex marriage,
• the lie of sex reassignment/third gender,
• the military draft of women,
• the siren call of a career during our best years,
• the importation of brown women to bump up the country's fertility rate (now below replacement) while cleaning our offices and houses,
• heavy college debt borrowed from the government that demands years of labor from us during our fertile years, or
• creating both an unnatural, hyper-vigilant child centered society or an anti-child atmosphere when we women can finally focus on our first calling.

The ultimate goal is to destroy the nation by weakening its strongest building block.Women.

What went wrong with Obamacare?

What went wrong? The rate of increase in health care costs was decreasing under Bush. Now it's increasing again.

"Health care is unaffordable for most Americans. To have any hope of affording even minor medical procedures, Americans rely on health insurance or public coverage to pay much of the cost. About 88 percent of medical bills are paid for by an entity other than the patient. As a result, health insurance has also become unaffordable. The average employer plan costs American families $17,545 per year. A Bronze plan from the exchange for the average middle-age family costs $12,000 per year with combined annual deductibles of $8,000 to $13,000. Provider networks are so narrow that any major procedure is surely to result in out-of-network charges that can be astronomical."

 http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-obamacare-health-care-gold-rush-is-bankrupting-america/#

Snopes wins again. . . it's fake

This is going around the internet as the winning entry in an art contest in the Netherlands

 

But Snopes says no, it's false.  The art is real, but the words and information is false. The artist is Friedrich Kunath of New York, the title of the display (several pieces) is called Tropical Depression. My own interpretation is that when you plant anything you better plan to water it. http://www.snopes.com/melting-pot-multiculturalism-artwork/

http://contemporaryartlinks.blogspot.com/2010/10/friedrich-kunath-tropical-depression.html

Newsweek called it in 2012--the first gay president

"House Republicans asked the departments of Education and Justice to clarify their transgender bathroom directive for public schools, but the Obama administration isn’t answering. Now, a congressman from North Carolina is rebuking the White House for pulling “a political stunt.” . . . "

The guidelines are vague and the President is stonewalling the Republicans, although he’s being very vocal about how he’s protecting yet another victim group, ignoring the 99% of us who know t...hat gender isn’t fluid or a feeling. It’s biology. And the leftists who are usually so adamant about scientific evidence (even when it contradicts them as in global climate changes that go back millions of years), are saying without a shred of evidence that feelings, desires, surgery or hormones can change one’s gender.

The same liberals who decided the right to privacy (which isn't in the Constitution and had to be cobbled together from other decisions) meant the right to kill an unborn child, now are determined to claim that child who makes it through to birth has no rights to the binary gender system which humans have followed since the beginning of time because it might guarantee her some privacy in the locker room.
 http://dailysignal.com/2016/06/01/obama-administration-keeps-house-republicans-waiting-on-transgender-bathroom-order/

By the end of his term, the president will be out of the closet, either as a gay man, or a transwoman. His eagerness to transform attitudes and values to make this acceptable goes beyond his desire to change the health system, ruin the military and destroy the fossil fuel sector. If you think that is insulting or mean, then you must be homophobic or transphobic.

Designing failure

"If we were to chuck every single educational “innovation” visited upon us by political hucksters in the last eighty years, and simply teach what was then considered the norm for a person with a half-decent background in arts and letters, and call it “classical,” we would at once stanch the bleed from our enrollments and give our young people a standard deviation or two over their schooled counterparts." Anthony Esolen

I wasn't in school 80 years ago, but I was in first grade 70 years ago (first grade and sixth grade in both Forreston and Mt. Morris due to family moves), so what would I bring back?

• Bible reading and prayer to start the day, and as children learned to read, they did it. I think we said the Pledge to the flag. No one was converted if their family already didn't attend church, but it did set the tone. Each child had a New Testament in the desk provided by the Gideons. Today police would be called if they tried that, even though under the first amendment it's still legal.
• Money collected for savings bonds and we each had our own book (this extended well beyond WWII).  The stamps were 10 cents.  Not sure what poor children did. Very early we learned to watch our "savings" grow with pretty stamps. Today it would be considered discriminatory against immigrants or bad form to be patriotic.
• 
• Phonics, reading aloud, diagramming sentences to understand grammar and spelling bees. I really didn't enjoy being in front of the class, but I did learn from this to face my fears.
• Recess and physical education through all grades. We were a hot, sweaty mess.  Probably less hyperactivity in those days.
• School assemblies where we would gather for a lyceum event (speakers,magicians, inspirational, music, drama). The blind pianist was a favorite, I remember.
• School wide musicals. Classroom art instruction although we didn't have art teachers and the music teacher served several rural schools.
•  
• Story time by teacher and resting after recess (for younger children)--I remember this through 4th grade. Loved those stories. My first exposure to The Wizard of Oz.
• In room parties when moms brought cookies and we occasionally saw a movie. Halloween, Valentines and Christmas parties.  Principal read the Luke version of infancy story to the whole school.
• In the 2 elementary schools I attended, there were no cafeterias--I either walked home for lunch or brought a packed lunch which no one inspected for the USDA approval. If we had allergic kids, I didn't know about it.
• School wide vaccination programs--if there were religious exceptions, I wasn't aware of them. Small pox in kindergarten and polio in 7th grade.
• Math instruction even someone like me could understand.
• Geography and history, beginning with the world in the lower grades, then the nation, then the state and county.

There were other things that I hated then, and would hate now.  

• Team or group projects where my grade depended on the slowest and most irresponsible person in the group. I was a good student, and hated this.
• State testing--we didn't do as much then as they do now, but I hated it. Usually lasted a day. I was never a good test taker and it caused a lot of anxiety.
• No special instruction for slow students.  They just dropped out after a few years to work the farm with dad, or were passed along and aged out at 16 in 7th or 8th grade. 
• Grading each others work.  This was demeaning for both good and poor students.  I would sometimes "cheat" for the other guy, even if I wouldn't do it on my own, just so he could pass.
• Weighing in front of class (I think our height and weight was recorded on our report cards). 
• Mean teachers who bullied students. Yes, it happened then and probably happens now. I never experienced this because I was an excellent student and didn't cause trouble.

Can you be fashionable in jeans?

 No use crying over old fashions and modesty that will never return, but it was so much easier to be attractive when we only wore jeans for cleaning house or picnics or playing softball. I assume this is an ad to encourage larger women to buy more jeans. Notice anything? All these women are gorgeous, young and well proportioned with long hair and beautiful skin. That leaves out about 3/4 of the female population. It's marketing--always remember that. It says, if you buy me, you too can look good, just like the ads with the skinny waifs. Nothing wrong with that as long as you understand the game.

Go to any workplace--choose the cafeteria so you don't know who works where.  Notice the difference in the clothing of the men and women.  Men will always look better dressed and more professional in khakis and a sport shirt than women dressed the same way.  And in jeans, there's just no contest. Dress for the job you want.

 
















 
I googled "career clothes large women," and found a few suggestions, all feminine and professional without looking slutty, but if you google "fashion large women" the images are just awful.

    

Obama's transgender power play

"Title IX is the 1972 law banning sex discrimination in schools. It has always allowed schools to provide “separate toilet, locker rooms, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.” The Obama administration has unilaterally rewritten Title IX’s core premise. One’s “sex,” says the administration, is no longer defined by biology, but rather reflects one’s “gender identity.” And gender identity is “an individual’s internal sense of gender,” which “may be different from or the same as the person’s sex assigned at birth.”

Not only has the Education Department redefined the word “sex” in Title IX’s prohibition on “discrimination on the basis of sex,” it has also reimagined the meaning of “discrimination.”

 http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-were-suing-over-obamas-transgender-power-play-1464734185

Every day I see something new on normalizing pedophilia which will be the next "rights" push. What is wrong with these people? They are obsessed with sex.

The same day the Obama administration also announced that all hospitals who receive federal funds of any kind (including Medicare) must accommodate transgender folks and provide sex change operations and abortions or face legal action from the Justice Department.

“As bad as the ACA is, it’s laughable to suggest that when Congress referred to ‘sex’ in Section 1557 it was referring to anything other than biological sex,” stated Ken Klukowski, attorney with First Liberty Institute and Breitbart News legal editor.

“This is Orwellian,” Klukowski wrote at Breitbart. “But beyond that, it is an unconstitutional assault on the First Amendment that the Obama administration is forcing their rejection of biological fact onto people whose faith teaches that ‘man’ and ‘woman’ refer to what they have meant for thousands of years, and that God purposefully created them that way.”

 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/obama-tells-hospitals-do-abortions-and-sex-changes-or-youll-lose-federal-fu