Sunday, January 31, 2010

Just plain CRAZY!


With the death of reclusive J.D. Salinger last week, we have been inundated with media thoughts about his novel,
The Catcher in the Rye.
When my oldest child was in high school in Texas, he came home one day with this novel. Required reading in 10th grade. He had read some of it and was grumbling about how he didn't like it at all and how he could not relate at all to the main character, teen Holden Caufield. He told me how his teacher explained to the class that this young man was full of teenage angst and confusion, like most, if not all teens of the same age. My son told me he thought Caufield was "just plain crazy".

I had not read the book, having graduated from a college prep, Catholic high school where we studied the classics. I can recite Shakespeare from memory, and remember much about the Canterbury Tales, as well as "Sir Gwain and the Green Knight. But I had not read this famous novel by J.D. Salinger. So I read the book. It was a quick read and I came away with one very clear conclusion. This young man, Holden Caufield was not just full of teenage angst and confusion.

He was JUST PLAIN CRAZY!!!

Maybe J.D. Salinger felt that way too. Soon after he wrote the book, he locked himself away from the prying eyes of the world. He wouldn't discuss it, make appearances or in any way promote his novel. Maybe he understood that it had all become Just plain crazy!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

sneakie little devils

Here is our dear leader, speaking to Republicans and telling them what was "SNUCK IN" to the health care bill. Oh snap!!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Geert Wilder

Geert Wilder is the leader of the PVV party in the Netherlands. This is the People's Freedom party. He is on trial for speaking about the dangers of Islamic fanatics. Nothing he has said is untrue. But he is on trial because he has "on numerous occasions" offended a group of people. Offended them by telling the truth. By reading passages out of the Koran. But quoting Muslim clerics as they spew their hatred for Jews and other "infidels" It's beginning in the Netherlands. It must stop there, or we all will be in troule...

Here is his opening speech at his trial.


Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Sad news, but not surprising.

I work with young, single mothers every day.


This is the truth. I have been aware of this for a long time now.
Seeing it in print makes it very difficult to get up and go to work in the morning...




Wednesday, January 27, 2010



Teen Pregnancy: Bogus Problem, Bogus Solution [Robert Rector]


The Guttmacher Institute recently released a report raising alarm over a one-year increase in teen pregnancy. “Safe sex” experts quickly pinned the blame on abstinence education.

This is a bit hypocritical. In the decade after the federal government began its meager funding of abstinence education, teen pregnancy fell steadily. Safe-sex experts never linked that decline to abstinence education. But when the news went bad, they swiftly identified abstinence programs as the culprit.

But did teen pregnancy actually rise in 2006, as Guttmacher claims? It depends on what you mean by “teen.” For most people, “teen pregnancy” implies pregnancy among high-schoolers, girls under age 18. According to Guttmacher’s own data, the pregnancy rate for 15- to 17-year-old girls barely changed, and the rate for girls 14 and under (the group most affected by abstinence programs) actually dropped.

By contrast, the pregnancy and birth rates for young adult women aged 18 and 19 rose sharply.

The rise in pregnancies and births in this age range is part of a much larger story: the collapse of marriage and explosive growth of out-of-wedlock births in lower income communities.

Between 1997 and 2007, the percentage of births outside of marriage rose from 32.4 percent to 39.7 percent of all births in the U.S. Very few of these non-marital births occurred to minor girls; most were to less-educated young adult women aged 18 to 26. Since non-married moms are less likely to postpone childbearing than those who patiently wait for marriage, it should be no surprise that the ongoing collapse of marriage in low-income communities would lead to a bump in the birth rate among 18- and 19-year-olds.

In the grand scheme of things, the issue of “teen” pregnancy is dwarfed by its much larger cousin, the disintegration of marriage. Marital collapse is a catastrophe for taxpayers and society; the welfare costs alone exceed $250 billion per year. As noted, little of this problem results from teenagers getting pregnant in high school. Of the 1.7 million children born out of wedlock in 2007 only 136,000 (or 7 percent) had mothers under age 18.

“Teen pregnancy” is largely a red herring, hyped by the Left because it supports their agenda of condom promotion and permissive sex ed in the schools. Of course, condom proselytizing is a bogus answer to real social problems. Contrary to conventional wisdom, lack of access to birth control is not a significant factor contributing to non-marital pregnancy among teens or non-teens.

Harvard sociologist Kathryn Edin recently conducted a survey of lower income men and women who had experienced (or, in the case of men, caused) one or more non-marital pregnancies. The survey asked whether the individuals had, ever in their lives, been in a situation where they wanted to use birth control, but could not afford it or could not obtain it. All answered no.

Many laughed at the suggestion that their pregnancies had been caused by a lack of access to contraceptives, noting that contraceptives are abundant and aggressively promoted by schools and clinics in their communities. Of all the non-marital pregnancies reported in the study, not one was caused by lack of availability of contraceptives.

The explosive rise in out-of-wedlock births is due not to a lack of contraceptives, but to a crisis in the relationships of young adult men and women in lower income communities. Couples no longer see the need to be married before having children, and they lack the skills to form stable relationships. Ironically, young non-married parents yearn for eventual stable marriages and healthy families, but they utterly lack the skills and understanding to fulfill their aspirations.

Another irony: One of the greatest sins of abstinence-education programs (in the Left’s view) has been their effort to teach low-income youth that it is best to marry before having children. This affront to political correctness has outraged the Left and has been a principal motivator behind the drive to remove abstinence education from the classroom.

Next year we can expect the out-of-wedlock childbearing rate to top 40 percent. A chilling number, but one which won’t affect the Left’s campaign to promote bogus issues and bogus solutions.

— Robert Rector is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.


01/27 11:10 AMShare

Pants on Fire

Biden, hope,
Watching the president's state of the union address.
Will he ever stop blaming Bush for everything?
We should all blame Bush... for keeping us safe for years after 9-11.
We should all blame Bush for keeping our taxes low.

Right now he's talking about "doing it together" as far as the Dems and Republicans. But even in this speech he has blamed the Republicans for all the ills of this country. He's right now saying he's not interested in blaming the other guy, as he has just blamed the other guy at least 6 or 7 times in the last 20 minutes. He's making no friends on the other side of the aisle. He's blowing smoke...cause his pants are on fire...as in liar, liar...

Now he's going to make lots of buddies in the military. We need all the resources we can get, Michelle and Biden are going to support military families. Did he tell you his health care plan will cut military health care and raise premiums and co pays. Limits will be placed on physical therapy for veterans and their dependents. So if you are a vet who has a stroke and need months of physical therapy...oh well, You really don't need to use both hands, do you? These cuts to retired military who have served many years and were promised benefits that are eroding like the beaches in California.
Pants on fire!
60 minutes of I, I, I, me, me, me...and he's still going.

"Values that built our nation..." How about One Nation under God, In God We Trust. He didn't mention those values.

Now he's whining about how we have all misunderstood. The Hope and Change he promised...remember that? Well, he can't do it alone. So it's our fault that he is not successful. Well now, that is a blame I will gladly accept. There is a change. People are becoming more aware, more involved, more vocal. People who up until now have sat back quietly and watched the political process from the sidelines. These people are saying NO...No...No. We won't quit, we will fight to keep our country from the change Obama hopes for.
Lets see how well he and the Dems work with the Republicans in the next few weeks, if it happens, how long it lasts. I don't believe it for a minute.
Pant on fire!!!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

ENOUGH!!!!!

These were taken a couple of days ago. Before todays snow storm. Oh yes, 4 more inches at least today. Tomorrow, high winds, temps barely reaching 0 and wind chills in the negative teens and/or twenties.