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http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/02/the-feminist-shaming-of-fertility
Sad the legacy of Sanger doesnt get as much publicity as it should.
Road trip to Asheville NC [The Cove and Billy Graham Conference Center/marriage conference]. Looking forward to meeting Elvera and that old USAF guy she’s hung out with all these years
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Chas, check my link at the end of last night Whirled Views.
Sawgunner, will you ask Mrs. Sawgunner to give Chas a big hug and tell him it’s from me?
I have Women’s Council of Realtors today so I will be a little scarce.
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My favorite realtor saying “And the seller pays all closing costs!” (Or adds the costs to the final price of the house!)
You go grrrrl and stop off for some great chow at Bambinelli’s when your conference is finished.
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Sawgunner, I’ll send you an e-mail later this morning. Weather is supposed to get colder around here.
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QoD. If I can chage attitudes, that would be a different question. I think it’s about “things”. I would meke it impossible to send images in real time. Something to permit rapid transmission of still photos but not enough for TV.
With all the good TV has done, it’s net effect is bad.
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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1990/41/9041414
Wow. Just as well. Had Rick had the backbone to stand up and assert Biblical morality doncha know he woulda been disinvited to every political function around? In 2008 he was even a moderator for a debate between BHO and McCain.
And to assert Scriptural standards of morality in California? Well in some places you could have protesters in your parking lot if not in your pews. In other places you might get a Molotov cocktail tossed thru your stained window.
But I guess since Ricky no longer poses a threat he can count on being on The View, Ellen, Oprah etc.
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Is it just me or did the ardor some Roman Catholics feel for Barack OBama just take a sudden nosedive?
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It is a wonderful day.
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I think I’d like to change this: that truth would be revealed sooner rather than later, in all these miserable circumstances people I know find themselves in.
Or we just get rid of Satan all together.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290450/two-decades-too-late-henry-olsen
Superb analysis of the Santorum phenomenon.
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I’d like to change the politics of food and water distribution so there would always be enough for everyone in every country.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290603/unconscionable-editors
On the one hand I think it is wrong for the govt to tell religious organizations (e.g. Catholic run or affiliated colleges or hospitals) that they may must not impose any type of creedal requirements on employees. Yet at the same time I’m thinking if you pursue a vocation in a Catholic college or school or hospital you presumably already agree with the organization’s higher tenets or else you’d ply your trade elsewhere.
So do these institutions with at least some Catholic oversight (command and control as we army folks say) hire and retain folks who arent expected or required to go along with the church’s teachings on abortion/contraception? I’m thinking of this more along the lines of any church or parachurch ministry even NEEDING to offer stuff its adherents would not ordinarily want by virtue of their voluntary association with the organization. In one sense this is as sensible as requiring a Mormon organization to offer drug detox or smoking cessation treatment for folks at BYU. If you’re a Mormon you decline to do a lot of things, namely illegal drugs or tobacco smoking.
If you’re a truly serious Catholic you probably accept and live by your church’s teachings on marriage, contraception etc.
If someone needed birth control so badly yet she worked at a Catholic college, presumably he or she would get it via a private insurance policy or pay out of pocket for it.
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Good morning!
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Greetings Esther, for such a good morning as this
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Yes, it is a lovely sunny morning here, with clear blue sky. Though I miss the diamond dust snow that is usually covering the ground on a February day.
QoD: To combine several things into just one, I would change the world’s attitude toward children, from conception to adulthood. That would lead to changed practices regarding the unborn and better protection of children from abuse, neglect, and enslavement.
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If I could change one thing, I think I would make people place great value on self-sufficiency, on an individual and local basis. This would solve a lot of problems with the U.S., and make people more prepared for the problems that couldn’t be solved.
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If I could change anything I would prevent the parents Mohamed from ever meeting.
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I opened the window yesterday evening (to clear smoke) and forgot to close it. I also turn the heater off at night to save electricity. Result: frozen pots of water that were supposed to soaking off the burnt stuff.
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Everybody’s wishes seem to boil down to making Satan stop working.
Somaday that will happen A thousand years of peace and prosparity.
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We were WONDERING why it was so cold!
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21 is a continuation of 19
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Why is it that as soon as 2012 came about the media and Obama start to say we are having job growth?
I find is it very intersting that all the reports from the media leading up to the start of 2012 was if the jobs were not created Obama would most likly not win in 2012… Then over night some how people started hiring…
When I hear these reports I wonder if Obama is hiding the true numbers and media knows aobut it and are also refusing to report the truth.
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13. I worked for a Catholic organization in a part of the country where Catholics are a minority. They had no choice but to hire non Catholics. We did not have to sign any sort of statement. We didn’t have to follow their rules but neither did they have subsidize us breaking them.
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They have been saying that for a while. Remember all the hoopla about “saved jobs”?
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I remember people claiming reduced unemployment last year too.
I think Obama wants to be remembered as the next F.D.R.: pulling us out of the Great Recession.
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I was going to say, I would change that Eve ate the forbidden fruit and Adam foolishly followed suit. However, then somehow God would not be glorified in the way He will be now. He, in His wisdom, knew what He was doing. Nothing’s changed in that, so, I guess, I would just change that I would see that truth and be able to live by it.
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Certanly the election helps, but I don’t think this is new.
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Amen, Ki
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Lot goin’ on this morning. I guess we’ll start with this one, some good news. Unless you happen to be pro-abortion, then it’s the beginning of the end to hyperventilating liberals.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/08/10355099-texas-begins-enforcing-strict-anti-abortion-sonogram-law
“Fewer abortions? Better-informed patients? Insulted women? The impact of a controversial new Texas law that requires women to have a sonogram – and listen to a description of the fetus as well as its heartbeat – at least 24 hours before they can get an abortion is far from clear.
Texas state health officials began enforcing the sonogram provision – which critics say is the most extreme sonogram-related law in the nation – on Tuesday.
Reaction has been decidedly mixed.”
““The emotions range from confusion to anger to being quite emotionally upset by it. Having to hear the position described of fetal development is not something they are wanting to endure,” said Rochelle Tafolla, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which has three centers that provide abortions.”
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And here’s a piece Ron Paul fans are sure to love…..NOT. But hey, I found it amusing. Oh and the only reason Paul hasn’t won a state yet is because of vote fraud in the primaries. Yep, when you play around with the conspiracy nuts, you get conspiracies.
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10358155-super-pac-supporting-ron-paul-is-operated-by-a-911-truther
“As Libertarian Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul looks for a state he can win, some of his supporters have turned to a new theme: voting fraud.
A Super PAC supporting Paul has pledged to monitor the vote in all the remaining states, using an army of exit pollsters to fight what it calls results that are “outrageous, unacceptable and patently un-American.” The group, called Revolution PAC, has spent half a million dollars supporting Paul with videos, webcasts, online ads, direct mail, billboards and radio ads in primary and caucus states.”
“The leader of the group, its founder, chairman and treasurer, is Gary Franchi, a promoter of conspiracy theories and sophisticated social-media entrepreneur in the resurgent movement known as the Patriots.”
“Franchi has supported the 9/11 Truth Movement, which supports the idea that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, werean inside job to create a pretext for a reduction in American liberty, or at least involved a cover-up, with the World Trade Center brought down by a planned U.S. demolition, instead of terrorist-controlled airplanes.”
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Esther 4:14,
We did that the other day! While I was out exercising, the five year old in glasses thought his pillow train should see the fire up close and laid it against the glass on the wood stove. One of the children noticed the smoke, hubby told them to open the windows. When I came down, I noticed the smoke but it was nearly gone and did not notice the windows. They were full open for a couple of days and I was stoking and stoking trying to get the fire hotter. Until the children asked if they could close the windows….
What got burned in those pots???
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Mumsee and Esther. I don’t understand none of that. It seems a person would notice that something was wrong. But one time, I was about 30 when my dash lights wouldn’t work on my ‘50 Chevvy. I went for months not able to see my dashboard at night. Then, while fooling around, I noticd that I had turned them off. I did’t realize that you could dim or turn dash lights off at the time. I felt so stupid.
Then, one time (I never told Elvera this, don’t nobody mention it to her.), in Williamsburg Va., we were walking from Campbell’s tavern where we had dinner. -contiued, running out of space.
I usually cut and past long things if I know I’m gong to do it.
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I see Amphipolis is back. Welcome back!
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It was night. We were walking from the Tavern. I made a turn and we got lost. We followed a road for almost a mile until I saw a familiar landmark. When we got back to our condo, I noticed that I had a map in my back pocket. I still get angry at myself about that.
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cliff hanger, Chas…
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Chas, in those conditions a map doesn’t do me any good. I’m just not that much of a visual person. More than once in Chicago I pulled out a map and studied it and studied it, then finally chose a direction to drive and chose wrong. I finally learned that for me the only thing that works is continuing to drive until I know where I am. The night before I go somewhere I can look at a map and plot out where I’m going (turn right at 7th Street, turn left at Hickory Ave.), but once I’m lost a map is useless. I love mapquest because it puts it in words and I no longer have to look at a map at all.
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Esther and Roy,
I’ve posted a bunch of stuff about the Obama admin fudging the unemployed numbers. Here’s another good read on the subject.
http://biggovernment.com/waysandmeans/2012/02/08/reality-check-multiple-experts-find-the-official-unemployment-rate-is-missing-a-whole-lot-of-unemployed-people/
“1. Congressional Budget Office (January 31, 2012)
“The unemployment rate would be even higher than it is now had participation in the labor force not declined as much as it has over the past few years….Had that portion of the decline in the labor force participation rate since 2007 that is attributable to neither the aging of the baby boomers nor the downturn in the business cycle (on the basis of the experience in previous downturns) not occurred, the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 would have been about 11?4 percentage points higher than the actual rate of 8.7 percent.”
2. Ezra Klein, The Washington Post (January 6, 2012)
“Unemployment is 8.5 percent — and, if not for the millions of discouraged workers who have left the labor force since 2008, it would be nearer to 11 percent. It’s nice to add 200,000 jobs in a single month, but, as this graph from the Hamilton Project shows, at that rate, it will take well over a decade to fully recover from the Lesser Depression.
3. Jay Cost, The Weekly Standard (February 8, 2012)
“The job growth over 2011 only kept up with population growth, so if the labor force had remained constant (relative to population) over the last year, the unemployment rate would have stayed the same. But we all know that didn’t happen, meaning the number of people in the labor force, as a share of the adult population, declined. The result is that the unemployment rate gives the false impression that the labor market is actually getting better, when in fact it has only stopped getting worse. If we correct this by assuming a constant level of participation in the labor force, we get a very different picture. The following graph holds labor force participation constant, as it was in January 2009 (when Team Obama produced that infamous graph showing the unemployment rate never rising above 8 percent). That is the ‘shadow’ rate, which is compared to the official rate.”
4. Hamilton Place Strategies (January 2012)
“How is labor force participation looking today? At 64 percent, it is well below the peak of 67 percent during the dotcom bubble, and significantly below the steady state of 66 percent we saw during the 2000s. Given the Baby Boom retirement and other demographic shifts, CBO projections expected it to be declining – 65.3 percent at the beginning of 2012. We are now 1.3 percentage points below that demographic estimate, the equivalent of 3.2 million “missing” workers. If the “missing” people were in the labor force, the unemployment rate today would be 10.4 percent, not the current 8.5 percent.””
Fuzzy math is fine if you’re trying to fudge imaginary numbers. Not so much if you are one of the real unemployed who is no longer counted. You still have no job, but the Obama admin doesn’t care about you, just re-election.
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You have to understand, Chas, that we don’t keep our home particularly warm. We believe in jackets and hats and gloves…
I do hope Phos was able to thaw out when she got back to Canada.
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Chas, Cheryl, y’all need a GPS. I could not have gotten through basketball season without it.
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This must be what Obama means by “Hispanic Outreach”. Most would call it bribery or fraud.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/01/usda-hikes-discrimination-awards-for-hispanics/
“The U.S. government’s minority cash giveaway for “discriminated” farmers has reached a new level, with an improved process that makes it faster and easier for Hispanics to get awards much larger than previously announced.
The goal is to make amends to those who suffered discrimination when seeking farm loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the agency charged with doling out billions in reparation money. A few years ago black farmers got $1.25 billion to settle discrimination allegations and last summer the Obama Administration announced a new pot of “compensation” cash—$1.33 billion—for women and Hispanics.
Originally, under that plan, Hispanics who felt they were victims of USDA discrimination could get up to $50,000 to make up for their suffering. To get the word out the feds launched an impressive bilingual advertising and public relations campaign that includes national outreach tours by top USDA officials as well as Justice Department bigwigs because that agency is sort of overseeing it.
This month the USDA quietly increased the amount of money that each discriminated Hispanic farmer can collect by five times, to $250,000. The agency also announced an “updated claims process” that simplifies and speeds things up so the victims can get their government cash faster. Victims are encouraged to participate in the simplified process and are assured that there is no filing fee or other costs.”
The over/under on how much of this makes it’s way to Obama’s re-election campign coffers is 10%. I’d take the over if I was a bettin’ man.
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KBells and Cheryl. Before GPS, I was driving thrugh Greensboro and didn’t know where I was. Totally unfamiliar with the town. But I had a map and a 13 year old granddaughter. Jennifer took the map and led me to the destination. I’m still proud of her.
Elvera is also a good navigator.
My profession was cartography.
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Here’s a good one for Soxs fans, or should I say Yankees fans. It’s sad that this clown thinks playing the race card should get him a pass.
“Former Red Sox pitcher Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd admitted on Wednesday that two-thirds of the time he was on the mound, he was under the influence of cocaine.
“Oh yeah, at every ballpark. There wasn’t one ballpark that I probably didn’t stay up all night, until four or five in the morning, and the same thing is still in your system,” Boyd told WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Jonny Miller in Fort Myers, Fla. “It’s not like you have time to go do it while in the game, which I had done that.
“Some of the best games I’ve ever, ever pitched in the major leagues I stayed up all night; I’d say two-thirds of them,” said Boyd, who spent eight of his 10 major league seasons with the Red Sox. “If I had went to bed, I would have won 150 ballgames in the time span that I played. I feel like my career was cut short for a lot of reasons, but I wasn’t doing anything that hundreds of ball players weren’t doing at the time; because that’s how I learned it.””
““All of them didn’t rally around me,” he explained. “All of them knew and the ones that cared came to me. The Dwight Evans and Bill Buckners… It was the veteran ball players. Some guys lived it… They knew what you were doing, and the only way they knew was they had to have tried it too.”
Boyd explained why he believes he got a worse reputation than some others.
“The reason I caught the deep end to it is because I’m black. The bottom line is the game carries a lot of bigotry, and that was an easy way for them to do it,” Boyd said. “If I wasn’t outspoken and a so-called a ‘proud black man,’ maybe I would have gotten the empathy and sympathy like other ballplayers got that I didn’t get; like Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Steve Howe. I can name 50 people that got third and fourth chances all because they weren’t outspoken black individuals.””
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Oooops, forgot the link in #43.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/02/08/former-red-soxoil-can-boyd-admits-to-pitching-under-influence-of-cocaine/
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Somebody gave us a GPS thing but I can’t find it.
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More corruption from Obama’s favorite bundler and his taxpayer money scam. And we get stuck holding the bag, while he continues making money off our money.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/8/solyndra-sold-assets-cheap-for-fast-cash/?page=1
“Fast running out of money, solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC last summer sold off nearly $60 million worth of inventory for less than $20 million in cash to a newly formed corporate entity closely tied to the company’s biggest investors, records show.
Backed by $535 million in federal loan guarantees but burning through the little cash it had left, Solyndra made its first sale in late July to a corporate entity that had been formed just a day earlier. Three more transactions followed over the next few weeks with the same buyer, Solyndra Solar II.
By the time the last sale took place on Aug. 29 — two days before the company announced plans to file for bankruptcy — Solyndra had sold off a total of $58.1 million worth of inventory for $17.5 million, according to documents Solyndra attorneys filed last month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
The sales began at a time when Solyndra officials were trying hard to assure lawmakers and the public of the company’s prospects amid increasing questions about the company’s financial health. Inside the company, the sales transactions show, officials were moving fast to raise cash and buy Solyndra more time.”
“Solyndra Solar II was formed in Delaware by affiliates of Solyndra’s debtor in possession lender — investors Argonaut Private Equity and Madrone Capital Partners — as well as other debt holders, bankruptcy and government records show. Another special-purpose entity, Solyndra Solar LLC, was formed to purchase the company’s accounts receivable.
Argonaut is the investment arm of a foundation headed by billionaire Oklahoma businessman George Kaiser.”
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Good ideas for change. I think I would not change anything in the world that glorifies God, and since He gets all the glory from his creation, what could we change?
Though on cold days I would like it warm, and hot days I would like it cool. Imagine Adam and Eve living in a perfect world where temperature was never a problem.
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So, a big meet-up for Chas and Sawgunner? Don’t get lost.
So you two (or you 4) have met before or not? I only closely follow the female meet-ups. The guys don’t do so many. Why is that? Say hi for me!
Mumsee’s story is funny.
It’s summer for a day here in Southern California today. Then it’ll cool off again back into the 60s.
But today’s supposed to be 79 degrees with high surf. As Mumsee says, sweater weather for us. I’ll need to hunt down my sandals again here pretty soon.
I always loose them between summer and spring. Or at least one of them. But I did finally get one of those handy-dandy shoe organizer hanging thingies for the closet a few months ago.
Tess now sits and “leaves it” when I put her food dish down. It’s one of the exercises in obedience class this time and one I really hadn’t done with her before. But this morning I tried it for the 2nd time as I fed the dogs — and she obeyed! She’s such a good dog.
As for what to change in the world, Louise’s idea is good.
But I’d go for a true spiritual revival.
In turn, that could and would change all sorts of things, amen?
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I wonder if you could you get sunburned in the garden?
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And Chas’s story about not knowing he could dim the dash lights reminds me of a friend from Argentina who now lives in Missouri. She didn’t know about the defrost mechanism in her car, so she carried a towel on the seat next to her to wipe the window when it frosted. Of course, where she came from cold was not an issue.
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Mumsee, 45 — You are a very funny person, you know that?
(I meant that in good way, not as in you’re “odd” or anything.)
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And here’s further proof, as if you needed it, that the anti-war, anti-gitmo left during the GWB years was all a load of manure.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/08/oh-my-majorities-of-liberal-democrats-now-support-drone-strikes-keeping-gitmo-open/
“Pity poor Glenn Greenwald, who thought the left’s opposition to Bush’s counterterror policies was based on something more profound than crude partisan tribalism. Why he thought that, I don’t know: The writing was on the wall when the anti-war movement started dying even as Obama geared up for a surge of tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan. In fact, I’ll bet O now regrets banning enhanced interrogation so soon after his inauguration. At the rate we’re going, we might be seeing 60+ percent support among liberals for waterboarding too.
The poll shows that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and 67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats — support keeping Guantanamo Bay open, even though it emerged as a symbol of the post-Sept. 11 national security policies of George W. Bush, which many liberals bitterly opposed.
Obama has also relied on armed drones far more than Bush did, and he has expanded their use beyond America’s defined war zones. The Post-ABC News poll found that 83 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s drone policy, which administration officials refuse to discuss, citing security concerns…
But fully 77 percent of liberal Democrats endorse the use of drones, meaning that Obama is unlikely to suffer any political consequences as a result of his policy in this election year.
Support for drone strikes against suspected terrorists stays high, dropping only somewhat when respondents are asked specifically about targeting American citizens living overseas, as was the case with Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni American killed in September in a drone strike in northern Yemen.
The most generous spin you can put on this for the left is that it’s not so much that they’re gung ho for these policies as that they trust Obama won’t abuse them. Some, for instance, might have opposed them initially simply because they feared that the programs would be expanded in terrifying ways under the dreaded neocon imperialist warmonger Bush. I remember in the last few months of his presidency reading comments online wondering if he’d declare martial law and cancel the election; when you’re that paranoid about a president, you might be inclined to oppose his every move on everything simply to tie his hands as much as possible. One he’s gone, replaced by the smiling Unicorn Prince, the anxiety eases and opposition sags. That’s partisanship 101: Our guy’s one of us and therefore his intentions are good, so if he thought it was important to drop a bomb on Awlaki, eh, I guess he had his reasons. It’s not that they’re endorsing Gitmo, in other words, it’s that they’re endorsing O’s good faith and responsible stewardship. Again, this is the charitable spin.”
Can you say hypocrites? How about liars? Yeah, I knew ya’ could.
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Peter, I don’t think I had much of a working defrost option in my old, rickety VW bugs now that I think about it. There was a heater, no A/C naturally.
My 2007 Jeep feels so modern to me.
Defrost, A/C, a gazillion windshield wiper settings. It even has “heated seats.” !!!! Ahhh.
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Donna,
I’m jealous. You’re talking about temps in the 70’s and I’m looking at snow in my yard which fell last night. A low of 16 is forecast for tonight.
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The Real AJ – Ron Paul’s strange claims about bases and troops overseas.
Three Pinocchios
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/ron-pauls-strange-claim-about-bases-and-troops-overseas/2012/02/08/glQApZpqzQ_blog.html?=z1
Paul needs to lupdate his rhetoric.
153 countries with U.S. military personnel, actually more than the 130 cited by Paul. But only 11 countries actually house more than 1,000 U.S. military personnel.
As evidence of the United States occupying “so many countries” or the “all this money” spent on the military, Paul’s statistics barely pass the laugh test. He has managed to turn small contingents of Marine guards into occupying armies, and waste dumps into military bases. A more accurate way to treat the data would be to say that the United States has 20 major bases around the world, not counting the war in Afghanistan, with major concentrations of troops in 11 countries.
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President Obama rescinded an order from President Bush that federal workers be informed of their right to challenge how their money is spent, and polls show many workers are unaware of their rights.
Furthermore, the administration completely disbanded the federal unit in charge of auditing the largest unions. Officials says there will be zero audits in 2012.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/08/congressional-panel-wades-into-union-dues-battle/#ixzz1luEZhUm0
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Snow! AJ has snow!
Snow is so pretty.
I was going to take my dogs back to the mountains for at least a day trip again this year. But we’ve had some really warm temperatures early this year. There was snow on the mountains a couple days ago, but with the warmer temperatures we’re getting again now I’m not sure there’ll be much of it left.
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Louise,
Paul sometimes seems to stumble on expressing what he really means. Sometimes it’s hyperbole, sometimes an honest mistake. Here’s another example, or at least I hope it is. I’ll make no other comment on it, but I will give you the link.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/07/ron-pauls-curious-position-on-abortion-in-cases-of-rape/
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Louise – If the is the case then RP is also talking about closing the embassy around the world. Which then shows he is really talking about is withdrawing from the world as you and me and other have been saying all along.
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the real Aj – that is just RP double talk, he does that all the time in the debates.
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Thanks AJ, I hadn’t seen that.
I actually found Paul’s explanation of “honest rape” less problematic than his theoretical ambiguity as an excuse for abortion to be on the safe side. I appreciate all that he has said and done for the right to life, but his position on “honest rape” cases seems contradictory to his profession. Maybe it was simply his well-known hyperbole and he needs to explain it better.
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KBells, my hubby has a GPS, which he used to navigate around Nashville. (I actually provided him an excuse to buy one.) I haven’t learned to use it, though.
Donna, Misten has been sitting to be fed since she was a puppy; we trained our childhood dogs that way. One thing it does is keep dogs from begging for food; the most they’ll do is sit and look at you. (She has to lie down if she does even that much, though; she’s expected to ignore my food while I’m eating.) She is very good about sitting as long as I expect her to for food, even if I leave the room or turn away from her for a while. She forgot that for a while when she moved here, but has relearned it. (The other day I made her sit outside, and I closed the door and came inside. A minute or two later I stepped outside and she was still sitting. She’ll only be that dedicated to a sit if she knows food is involved, though.)
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AJ, I can’t say exactly what Paul is saying here, but I do know that medical advice in case of rape is to go to the emergency room for a cleaning–which will help lessen the chance of disease. I would guess that he is saying that–if the woman has happened to conceive, then yes, one could term the cleaning an early abortion (before implantation), but that isn’t the purpose of the medical visit and really can’t rightly be called an “abortion.” I think it’s also likely to remove the sperm before conception could happen. But again, that isn’t the purpose of the cleaning, and one can be totally pro-life and in favor of doing that.
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Louise and Cheryl,
I couldn’t either, that’s why I offered no comment. It doesn’t sound like what I know Paul position to be on abortion. I couldn’t tell if he was misquoted or mispoke.
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Cheryl, if a major technophobe like me can learn to use a GPS I know you can.
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A woman who is raped should call the police and go immediately to the hospital. The ER has a “rape kit” which is used to gather evidence to be used against the perpetrator. She may have other wounds, which I won’t go into, which need to be attended to. In addition, she probably will need some sort of counseling and that can be arranged, or at least she can pointed in the right direction from the hospital.
The percentage of women who get pregnant from a rape is very small–something like 1%–owing to the trauma. Any woman who has been raped deserves courtesy, time and kindness. Shame and pretending it didn’t happen can do a lot of emotional damage.
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the real Aj – I notice in the debates when RP was challenge he came across in a way that sound like he was saying to different things at the same time.
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Donna @57: It is so weird this year. We have never had this mild a February in my memory (which, admittedly isn’t very long). However, in Europe, they are having extremely cold temperatures and huge amounts of snow: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/world/europe/europe-struggles-to-deal-with-cold-and-snow.html
It is like we are getting the Gulf Stream instead of them. I wonder if it anything to do with the earth shifting slightly on its axis from these incredibly strong earthquakes, or just larger weather cycles.
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Well, Ron Paul does seem to play fast and loose with military statistics.
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GPS story. We were traveling to Williamsburg a year or so ago. I had been ther a couple of dozen tmes and knew the way. So, I wasn’t using GPS.
Except we were coming from the south.
I missed the I-295 turnoff onto I-64 and trying to correct it found myself lost in a section of Richmond.
What to do?
I got my GPS out of the trunk, hooked it up and she told me how to get on I-64 without calling me a dummy.
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Phos, it’s probably due to weather patterns. Jet stream, etc.
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About preventing conception after rape – since it takes several hours before fertilization happens, it is worth a try to remove/kill the sperm. However, Ron Paul did seem a little confused – more estrogen would actually encourage fertilization.
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KBells, I wasn’t saying I couldn’t possibly use a GPS, just that I never even had access to one until a few months ago, and I haven’t had any real need for it since then. (I knew Nashville fairly well, and when we were together–the only times I had access to the GPS–he was driving. Now I’m learning my way around my new hometown–two smallish towns, actually–and only once would I have found GPS helpful, and that time I called my hubby and he helped me figure out where to go.)
Now, if I ever have to be the one to drive to church, I may well want the GPS–the route is a bit tricky, and so far my mental attempts to memorize it while he drives seem to be incomplete. I pretty much have to drive somewhere myself before my brain kicks in.
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More proof that Holder has been lying under oath before Congress.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/dea-agent-other-fed-agencies-aware-of-fast-and-furious-in-2009/?singlepage=true
“In what appears to be an exclusive for border issues-focused Fronteras, Michel Marizco reveals information that seems to directly undermine the Department of Justice’s insistence that Operation Fast and Furious was a localized and compartmentalized plot within the Phoenix ATF and Phoenix U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In sworn testimony in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder continued with this stance. Holder was supported by congressional Democrats who cited a lack of evidence of corruption — corruption that the Oversight majority speculated was a result of the DOJ refusing to hand over the majority of the documents and witnesses requested.
Retired DEA official Tony Coulson was in charge of DEA-Tucson during Operation Fast and Furious. He now states that his agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement were not only aware of the gunwalking plot, but that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were actively interdicting the plot, confiscating weapons the ATF was walking to Mexican narco-terrorists:”
““In 2009, 2010, I became aware that ATF was walking guns into Mexico,” Coulson said. “I also learned that Homeland Security Investigations, then ICE, actually interceded on more than one occasion where they seized weapons at the ports of entry when they were heading southbound contrary to ATF’s plans.”
There was serious friction, Coulson claims, between ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the ATF in Phoenix. When Coulson took the gun walking to his bosses in Phoenix, he was told the lead law enforcement official in Arizona — U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke — was already aware of it.
Coulson reveals not just the extent of how widely Operation Fast and Furious was known of within federal law enforcement, but that the gunwalking plot was actively opposed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that interdicted the ATF-run weapons shipments on multiple occasions.
Coulson’s information opens up an entirely new group of federal law enforcement officers for interviews by congressional investigators. Investigators could get an idea from interviews with DEA and ICE agents just how widely Operation Fast and Furious was known of among the branches of the Obama administration.”
It’s time to charge Holder with perjury and remove him.
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AJ, the administration depends on Holder. He’s here untill Jan. 2013. If beyond that, we’re sunk.
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Around here, the GPS goes according to the city plat map. Well, a block south of us is a “street” on that map, but is actually a stairway going up the bluff. Many friends call us asking how to get to our house when their GPS tells them to “turn left” at the stairway. If they would go with the directions we give them, which is to turn left a block earlier, then turn right onto our street, they would not have the embarrassment the GPS causes.
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Peter is correcr in that you have to be alert in using GPS, In Hendersonville it will have you going the wrong way on a one way street. She always hollers “recalculating” as I drive down King St., a 20 mph street that is perfectly timed for 30 mph.
She wants me to go down a street that has five 4-way stop signs.
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Off the top of your head, does anyone know if Viagra is part of the free health care mandate?
And does this change anyone’s opinion about the need to include free birth control?
How about accupuncture or any other non-Western-traditional form of medical care?
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HELLOOOOOoooooooooo…………?
Where’d everybody go?
Oh well, time to make dinner anyway. Shrimp with olive oil, little bit of low-fat, low sodium butter, some lemon juice, italian seasonings, chopped brocolli and cauliflower, little red pepper chopped up, some red onion too, all sauteed and served over angel hair pasta. Small green salad and tomatoe on the side. Dinner baby, that’s how you do it. You should probably be writing this down. See you in an hour. 
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I know I should be happy about the 25bn settlement, but I am not. Most of these people will get $2,000 and that’s just not enough. Someone — a lot of someones — should go to jail.
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I had some driving to do today so I had my iPod playing. This song came up and reminded me of Chas and Sawgunner meeting today. Donna and Michelle have met. Phos went to Mumsee’s. I may get to meet Adios next week. I am planning to meet LShaffer in May. For those of us who won’t get to meet this is for you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Yx-cAkc-Q
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NJL, WHAT is going on with BOA? They are getting nit-picky. Documents I have signed as the broker they are sending back demanding that Guy sign them. They are wanting me to change dates on HUD’s without changing costs.
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The latest, and probably the last, update on the Juarez situation. This is just in case you speak Spanish and want to hear how beautifully Sonia did in her press conference last night. Thanks for your prayers.
“Wanted to let you know what is happening. I can see that people have shared the El Paso Times article…thanks so much. You can see the news article at http://www.elpasotime.com.
“Sonia’s news conference is available to view at http://www.diario.com.mx. It is in Spanish but is very thorough with her side of what happened and her status. There is also an interview of her sister, Paula, that does not show her sister but does show little Josue.
…
Sonia is with Josue at the hospital now. They are planning to move Josue to a hospital in El Paso, probably this afternoon. He is doing okay physically but is struggling with his physical limitations and coming to grips with what his life is going to be like in the near future.
Thank you for your continued prayers and encouragement.
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Corrected link on the horrifying news article:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_19920229?source=rss_viewed
I don’t even have words.
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Tonight, after the repeat of Sunday’s Downton Abbey in which the aristocrats and servants try to get lives back on track, and the revelation of a wounded officer surprises everyone, one of my PBS channels will also re-air an “Raccoon Nation” where experts attempt to determine if they are actually becoming smarter by overcoming the obstacles we use to discourage them. You think?
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That is, whether or not the raccoons are becoming smarter – not the experts
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Kim #81. Great song. I used to hear that when I was a kid. Long before your time. I’t sssociated with the Carter Family, but we don’t know who wrote it. Probably an old mountain song like lots of them.
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Michelle 84 – me either – speechless.
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AJ, that does sound tasty. But since I seem to be the only one in the family who ears shrimp, I doubt I’ll ever make it.
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Cheryl,
Just substitute the shrimp with chicken. I make it that way too. Still very yummy. Also with no meat at all is still very good.
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What a beautiful night it is here. Balmy, a huge moon suspended over the harbor … Great night for a dog walk. The cat wanted to come (again), though, so we had to get her put back into the house before we finally got started.
Embarrassing situation at work today. We picked up a story for our website that originated out of one of the local TV stations and was getting wide play (Drudge, etc.) about how the county supervisors had banned Frisbee and football on L.A. beaches (with a $1,000 fine).
Turns out the story was reported wrong — long explanation, but we all had egg on our face.
The hazards of the digital news age.
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Yep.
From one of the smartest politically conservative blogs around:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/is-2012-slipping-away-from-the-gop.php
Yes, the incumbent is weak. But ….
“Nevertheless, if you are a Republican, the vibes are very bad. The presidential primary season has turned into a disaster, in my view. … it is hard to escape the sense that the Republicans are blowing it.
“So, do I think the 2012 election is slipping away from conservatives, Republicans, and the American people? Yes, I do.”
I was sorry to read this, but it’s mirrored my own uneasiness almost exactly over the past few months.
(I don’t like or entirely agree with what he has to say about Santorum. But … I do share his skepticism about Santorum’s chances in a rough-and-tumble general election in which most people’s focus is the economy. I like him but I am not at all confident he’d be someone who could beat Obama.)
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