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My Swine Flu Solution

       I have figured out how the bumbling, stumbling, federal government and their buddies at the CDC should have handled the BIG SWINE FLU non-CRISIS.  
       They should have done...nothing.  Sorry, B.O., that this didn't turn out to be the chance you hoped it would be for you to declare a national emergency (though you did declare it one, it fell flat) and grab even more power for the guv'mint.  The swine flu is turning out to be, for the most part, a milder flu than the seasonal flu often is, and all the time and money wasted on tryng to ram through a vaccine for every living creature in the country would have been better spent on the now-in-shorter-supply seasonal flu vaccine.  Or just give the $$ to the people and let them spend it on Theraflu or hot toddies.  Probably would've been more helpful.
        The fact is, the population would have been better served if it had been exposed to the swine flu, allowed to acquire it and build a herd immunity to it, and then when and if it came around again, even if it were more virulent, we would all be far more immune than we will be after this little experiment in government inefficiency.  Herd immunity comes from a disease actually infecting a certain percentage of the populace, and not from random vaccinations fired at the citizenry here and there, but not nearly everywhere.  There is some disagreement on how much vaccines ever contribute to herd immunity, but suffice to say that with a milder form of flu, you will build up more immunity if people get it than if they don't.
         My grandson had it, as did numerous friends and relatives--all recovered without incident and are now able to spread around their little antibodies whenever the opportunity presents itself. I think that my children, two of whom were little tots at the time of the first big SWINE FLU non-CRISIS, still had some immunity from that last visit by the virus to the U.S.  Much was made of the illness at the time, but once again the vaccine did not do all it was supposed to and in fact proved more dangerous to many people than the flu itself.  It looks as though enough people acquired it to provide some herd immunity to it at this juncture.  I and a goodly portion of my family spent hours cooped up in a cabin with my grandson spewing swine flu virus all over the place (at the time, we didn't know that's what he had), and not one of us got it from him, from the three-month old to the 67 year old.  He had a week of feeling crummy and then bounced back like healthy six-year-olds tend to do from most things.  Thank God, and I sympathize profoundly with victims who did not recover or who lost loved ones.  That happens every year with the seasonal flu as well.  But the government overreacted, overreached and ended up looking like the fools they generally are.  
         Don't misunderstand me: my whole family gets a flu shot every year, and I gave them for Mollen Clinics for years.  But this was a manufactured crisis with the flames of panic fanned on a daily basis by the government, the media and the CDC.  It is fine to try to be prepared for an illness, and to manufacture as much vaccine as possible, and to distribute it to those most at risk, but in this case the people were led to believe that this was far more serious and deadly than it was--and I know that people knew it because I heard a doctor on CNBC at the very start of it all say that this was a relatively mild flu and people shouldn't be inordinately frightened about it.  Big, overblown promises were made by the administration and were never going to be kept--and people who really did need the vaccine didn't get it, and many who didn't need it got it, including the Gitmo goons.  Or so I heard.  If that's true, well someone's got some more 'splainin' to do. 
         Anyway, I think it would be good if everyone tried not to worry too much, took good care of himself or herself and of course--because you are too stupid to know this and need the guv'mint to instruct you--wash your hands children and don't cough on people.  I do take issue with coughing into your elbow though--if you hold babies all day long, as I do every chance I get, that's right where the baby's head is.  Duh. They can't even get that right. Wishing you all a happy, healthy Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Who knows if I'll write anymore before that. 
   
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We Have Nothing to Fear...

                   ...but the ostriches among us, with their heads in the sand and their imaginary boogeymen taking the place of what they should really be afraid of.  Hey, you guys, while you're down there, dig us up some oil, will ya?                                                                            
                   Let's elaborate on the actual threats facing us these days.  Um, first of all, after the Fort Hood murders, is islamic terror. Did you think they were done?  Obviously they are not, and I want them all--all muslims--out of our military and frankly, our country.  As I mentioned in my previous post, their dogma does not allow for them to accept and live by our Constitution.  We are freedom and life.  They are subjugation and death.  We are the sanest society on earth, with the glaring exception of our 20% lefties.  They are the craziest.  The twain ain't going to meet.  Out.  Compared to these psychos, Republicans don't seem all that scary.  "Climate change" ( I can barely write that without laughing) seems downright benign.  Second hand smoke, unpleasant-- but as a threat to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not even worthy of a blip on the radar. 
                   Then we have the Mao worshipping czars of Obamaland.  For those of you who are products of 40 years of left wing indoctrination in our public schools and our institutions of higher propaganda, Mao is credited with murdering at least 70,000,000 Chinese in his quest for world power and communist dominance.  Now, I realize Anita Dunn or whatever her name is (I think she is called the Communications Czar) is a complete dingbat, but that doesn't change the fact that you and I are paying her unvetted little psychopathic self a handsome sum of U.S. dollars to spout her crap all over the place.  You dummies voted in a whole bunch of Karl Marx lovers, and you are going to pay the price along with the rest of us.  Just hope that Congress and B.H.O. pay the price in a much bigger way in 2010 and 2012.  Or, get used to the government running EVERY aspect of your life in the name of "health."  If you've been to a doctor lately and given a history, you may have been asked if you own a gun.  Yes, they are trying to make gun ownership a "health" issue.  My answer to Dr. Nosy would be 1) None of your business and 2) Why don't you ask about dogs, which injure far more people each year than guns owned by responsible people? Not criminals, responsible people.            
                   How about nuclear Iran? North Korea? Pakistan?  Do those warrant a heart palpitation or two?  No?  More worried about trans fats or a nuclear Israel?  I vote for Israel to have twenty times more nukes than they have and the rest of the middle east to have none.  North Korea, I'd just drop the big one.  Every time I say that, my husband nearly has a coronary, but at some point and in some places (Afghanistan?), a prudent course might just be to eliminate the negative and don't mess with Mr. In-Between.  I'm only kidding, sort of.
                    Your country, children, is being destroyed by your government.  They feel entitled to more and more power over you and over every business and enterprise that has contributed to our economic well-being.  Your elected representatives are not listening to you.  They are not interested in your thoughts or wants.  They are on the biggest power trip in history, and you are going to have to kick them off that train if America is to survive in an even slightly recognizable way.  I already feel like I'm living in a different country.  USSR, or at the very least, wimpy, immature, self-centered Europe. 
                    The secular goon squad is destroying YOUR freedom of religion, unless of course you are muslim.  There is no separation of church and state in the Constitution.  There is nothing that allows the ACLU to deny you your right to express your religious affiliations in the public square.  That doesn't constitute a state sponsored religion.  How dopey are you?  Our country is founded on Judeo-Christian values, and if that disturbs you in some way, by all means feel free to pout and stomp your feet, and then just shut up.  Not your call.
                     How about your country being run by a complete incompetent in the White House and a completely left-wing bunch of thugs to aid him in his quest for absolute power and absolute corruption?  No, the lefties are afraid of Michelle Bachman.  As far as I know, she doesn't want to run your life, your business or your health care.  She would love to protect your feedoms though.  Scary.
                     How about, for decades, the politicians pretending that Saudi Arabia is our "friend," so we can prostitute ourselves for their oil, while they fund radical islamic mosques and imams to preach, in our own country, death to our own country.  Hmm?  The environmentalists who have forced the wimps in the government to cave to their bullcrap and prevented us from becoming energy-independent from the Arabs.  Does that rattle your cage at all?
                     My fears are all based in stark reality, and the evidence that they are real is overwhelming.  The left worries about people who want to preserve the America we conservatives love and issues based on junk science.  Wow, I'm sure glad they're in charge.  As soon as the murderer in Texas finished his little adventure, thanks to a CIVILIAN cop, the media and the government jumped on the "he was the victim of the bad, bad military and bad, bad America, etc. etc. etc.", ad nauseum, and refused to let the word "terrorist" leave their lying lips.  I wonder, as a military dependent who grew up living on bases, why weren't these people, or someone in the room with them, armed to the teeth?  Are we so P.C. now that we cannot allow our military to be armed at all times?  Do they not know they are the bullseye on the targets of jihad?
                    Fire Congress, with a few exceptions, but not many, as soon as you can.  Fire Obama and his cohorts in 2012, and learn from your OneBigA**MistakeAmerica.  NEVER elect lefties.  They don't love your country, and they sure as heck don't love you.  That 20% is now running your government and you better stop them or you will learn, once and for all, the REAL meaning of "fear." 
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Gimme Backlash!

            In my opinion, the U.S. Constitution (which I am pretty sure Obama and the Democrats either haven't read or don't comprehend, but that's another topic) trumps "religious freedom" when the "religion" in question fosters anti-United States and certainly anti-United States Constitution ideology.  Islam's core beliefs are contrary to everything our Constitution stands for and promises to the citizens of this country.  Muslims don't believe in or support our Constitution, and therefore they deserve NO protection for their crazy, destructive death cult.              Our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantees our right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  The Preamble alone is so foreign to the islamic dogma that one could argue that there is no way muslims could EVER live by our values and laws.  They want to bring their garbage from wherever they came from and institute it here, as they've managed to do in the UK and other supposedly western countries.  I'm afraid I have to give that one a big, fat, American NO.
             While our military fight for our freedom and our way of life, islam promotes subjugation, male dominance, female enslavement, and murder as a political tool.  Hardly celebrates life or the pursuit of happiness, does it?  I see no reason that such a psychopathic and profoundly anti-human rights ideology should be offered a place at the table in this country.  If the left is so fond of separation of church and state, it must grant that a so-called religion that tries to undermine the state and its laws at every turn should have no expectation of protection here.  Islam can go and live and kill and enslave and torture and be as sick and depraved as it wants in countries where everyone thinks those are great ideas.  We don't live that way, nor do we wish to be told we should tolerate anyone else living that way.
              I've already heard the whining from muslim organizations, worrying about "backlash against muslims" after the horrendous terrorist attack at Ft. Hood by one of their own.  (Hey, if McVey was a terrorist, this guy is a terrorist.)  I'd love to see some backlash!  I wish the wimpy Christians (and I am one), especially the pastors and priests, and the Jewish rabbis, would call for clamping down on the loony imams in the mosques here in America who are calling for the destruction of America and Israel and urging their followers to kill us all.  I'd like to see all muslim garb outlawed. I'd like to see people reject and ridicule this relic of the dark ages for what it is, and stop pretending it is a religion deserving of respect.  It deserves nothing but contempt for the way it has destroyed every country and society it has managed to take over.  It deserves nothing but contempt here in a free society where women have the same rights as men and no one is subject to dominance by another person unless he or she likes it that way.  It is deserving of nothing but contempt for promoting the idea that killing one's own child, as the nut job in Phoenix did a couple of weeks ago because she was too western, is a fine and noble thing to do.  Any culture which fosters such hatred between parent and child, as well as between spouses--for any man can kill his wife (or sister, or mother) if SHE displeases him or brings "dishonor" on the "family" by acting human or something is deserving of nothing, NOTHING but--say it with me now--CONTEMPT. 
              Freedom of religion ends where it runs headlong into our most precious document, the U.S. Constitution now being trashed by the Obamabots.  Our laws and values come from Judeo-Christian theology, though we are a secular government, as designed by our brilliant Founding Fathers.  Nevertheless, when they made a provision allowing for the freedom to practice one's religion, they didn't intend for the country to be destroyed and the People's rights to be demolished in the name of said freedom.  We need some backlash.  We need to ask ourselves if muslims EVER belong in our military, since they are then being asked to defend values they do not, obviously, believe in.  I say no.  My Air Force officer dad, a lifelong military man, would say no.  I imagine the familes of the 13 dead in Texas would say no.  We must stop being so open minded.  Our brains have fallen out.  Backlash!  Love the sound of that word.     
     
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Let's Talk Diversity!

            My friend Benjamin wants to know if I am in favor of diversity.  Here's my answer: not as defined by the lefties.  Diversity means separating the races, maintaining the cultures of origin of people who come here--no assimilation allowed--and honoring even the most horrific of practices of EVERY group EXCEPT Americans.  They do not approve of diversity of opinion or thought, and indeed will shout down any attempt to express an opinion which differs from their radical leftwing dogma.  Ask any conservative who has tried to speak on an American college campus how he or she was treated.  This is one area where the difference is blatant:  conservatives do not heckle or attempt to silence leftie speakers as lefties do to them, with very rare exceptions.( Don't DARE bring up Joe Wilson. He was not heckling, he was overwhelmed by the emotion of the moment--listening to the lies just got to be too much.  You go Joe.  You're a hero to many of us.)  So diversity in this area is a joke. Lefties don't so much think as simply parrot the slogans and bumper stickers they have been indoctrinated to "feel" are somehow sacred.  You disagree with them, you'll soon find out how "diverse" they want you to be. They do enjoy a bit of moral diversity of course--just so it doesn't include Judeo-Christian morality. Anything else is fine--atheism, islam, wicca, voodoo, satan worship, okay!  But don't bring up that foundation of our nation, the Judeo-Christian value system.                                                                                                                             
            Diversity, children, is not what made this country the unique, wonderful country that it is.  You know that sloagan on our coins, E Pluribus Unum? Know what it means? It means, "out of many, one." It is in that phrase that our greatness, or former greatness, is found. We welcomed people from everywhere, and invited them to be AMERICANS. Until the left began to preach diversity, a person could come here from anywhere and BE one of us, truly one of us. No need to hyphenate. You might try that in some other country, but it won't happen the way it always happened here.  We didn't care where you came from, or what you were before; if you wanted to be an American, and if you embraced our values and our way of life and our love of freedom, you were an American before you could say "I love capitalism!"  Try that in, for instance, the Netherlands.  You can move there all right, and live there, and even be a citizen, but you can't be "Dutch." Only the Dutch can be Dutch. Thanks Bruce Bawer.                                             
            I'm married to a man who came here at 18 from Germany with $40 in his pocket and very little English. In the years that followed, he worked his way through university, embraced the American dream, married a cute little American girl, became a citizen--and became an American.  He would be the first to tell you that America opened its doors and invited him to come right in--and be ONE of us.  Be with us.  Be part of us.  He didn't expect anyone to speak German to him, nor did he wish to remain a GERMAN in America.  He is an American through and through, and though he still speaks German and visits his family in Germany, he is in no way a German-American.  Diversity be damned.  The left is the group which separates people by race, gender, class--you name it, they call it diversity and use it to divide and destroy.  They hate this country and all it stands for, because it doesn't fit with their vision of utopia where everyone is the same as far as thought and dogma--but multicultural in any way which undermines America.  A country which has no common values, common language, common goals is a country which has no hope of surviving for long.  Someone once wrote that democracies, or republics in our case, do not last long because they destroy themselves from within.  Spectacular success leads to spectacular apathy and laziness eventually, and the lessening of ambition and the desire to do for oneself and be an independent grown-up.  America has certainly been spectacularly successful, and is now on the downward slide toward the pathetic society that Europe has become.  The left is determined to destroy that which they don't understand, and have never understood.  They are the educated, spectacularly ignorant vehicles of our eventual downfall.  If conservatives don't stand up and if capitalism is allowed to disappear, America will disappear too, and a sad day for the universe that will be.  I agree with Glen Beck that we should write our memories and thoughts about what our country was when we were young and as we grew up, so that our grandchildren will know how unique their country was. I did that once, in a blog post for my granddaughter. What failures we experienced we have dealt with and for the most part fixed.  We were never perfect, but we were the best, by far the best, and I lament our demise.
           If by diversity you mean the "cultural" expressions of the likes of Serena Williams, Kanye West, Al Sharpton, 
illegal aliens who have refused to obey our laws and speak our language, Asian gangs, islamic terrorists amongst us, the lack of respect for AMERICA that is perpetrated by the left in the name of "diversity," when diversity is actually the last thing they really want, then nope, can't use it.  When one of my friends retired from teaching after 25 years in public schools, she said that she had become weary of being told that some minority kid (take your pick) telling her to go f++k herself was a "cultural expression" and that to punish it would be to disrespect that culture.  Remember ebonics?  I do.  Do you think any of this diversity garbage has made for a better society and a more civilized populace?  Ha! If you think that, HA! I've been around just a tad too long to buy that load of, hmm, how can I put this in a civil fashion? Malarkey.  How's that?  Even my grandmother would approve.  When I hear the lefties and the idiot RINOs carrying on over Joe Wilson's absolutely legitimate protest as he listened to B.O. lying his head off, I just have to laugh. When it comes to crass, low-class, uncivilized, vulgar behavior and rhetoric, NO ONE can top the left.  Remember Jennifer What's Her Name saying on her TV show that she hoped someone would shoot Clarence Thomas in the head?  That's civility for ya, leftie style.  Diversity. Their version of diversity, I spit on.    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
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A REAL President of the USA

                 ...would have spoken very differently than B.O. did.  He would have lauded the vast numbers of people who have let their thoughts and opinions on his health care ideas be known in no uncertain terms.  He would have said, "I can see, from the response of a majority of the citizens of this great nation, that I have been on the wrong track in terms of health care reform.  Obviously, the people feel strongly about this issue, and they have every right to expect me to do their bidding.  Therefore, I am calling a complete halt to any plans for health care reform at this time and dealing with more urgent matters, or should I say URGENT matters, since the health care issue is a manufactured issue with absolutely NO urgency whatsoever.  I know that it is the American PEOPLE who have made this country great, with their independence, creativity, freedom and ambition, and far be it from me to try to strangle all that AMERICAN spirit by making them all dependent on a bloated, inefficient, and, yes, CORRUPT government.  I don't know what I was thinking (head slap, like on the V8 commercials)!  Well, I've learned my lesson, and I bow to the will of the people I am supposed to serve.                                                                                                                                
                 "And while I'm at it, I've decided to rethink my highly unpopular positions on some other lefty favorites, like late term abortion and nationalizing EVERYTHING from the banks to the auto industry.  It's pretty apparent that none of what I've cooked up so far has worked, and my wacky ideas have, in fact, made everything worse.  SO once again, I'm listening to the American people, and I am reversing my immoral, ignorant, know-nothing plans and stopping the bleeding of money that we don't have into black holes that do not benefit from the imaginary money anyway.  I've decided maybe I WASN'T the one we were all waiting for, and plan to fade into the background accordingly.  No more B.O. loony left.  From now on, I will stifle my Marxist tendencies and try to act like a PRESIDENT OF A FREE COUNTRY, instead of a dictator in some 3rd world communist country.
                  "Since it has come to my attention that a majority of Americans identify themselves as conservative, rather than liberal--who'da thunk it?--I have decided to adhere to the capitalist, conservative, Judeo-Christian principles and values that made this the greatest country ever to exist on the planet.  I have decided to stop apologizing for imaginary wrongs done by America, and stop pretending that there is another country or culture ANYWHERE that has ever come close to being the shining light that this country is and has been.  I have decided to stop bowing to dictators from repressive, psychotic and evil societies, whether they have tons of oil or not.  I have decided to actually BECOME a Christian, and give up the ridiculous singing of praises of islam, a religion not of peace, but of destruction, hate, and torture.  I plan to support Israel to the fullest extent possible, and to tell Bibi to 'go for it' in both building settlements and dropping the big one on Iran's nuke facilities. 
                  "In short, I'm a new man!  I have woken up to the realities of this country and the rest of the world.  I have come to realize that I am a product of Affirmative Action, and a woefully unqualified one at that, when it comes to being the president of the greatest country on earth.  I plan to listen to the American people on every issue, and to tell Pelosi and Reid to knock off the crazy socialist babble.  Apparently, the USA isn't interested in becoming Europe or Canada!  Imagine that!
                   "While I'm at it, I've decided to put the kabash on coddling illegal aliens and acting like we can't survive without them.  From now on, no freebies whatsoever for this bunch, and no jobs, or benefits of any kind.  Bring on e-verify!  Get 'em out of my country!"
                   That's what a REAL president of the USA would say.  But we don't have one of those, do we?  No, we have a would-be Marxist dictator with designs on our freedom, our money, our lives, our privacy, our safety and our Constitution.  And those designs are, right down the line, the absolute WRONG ideas for America.  Finally, most people have regained consciousness.  Hope it isn't too late. 
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Enjoying Ramadan, Are We?

     I heard excerpts from Obama's laudatory, indeed, lovefest of a speech at the "celebration"  Ramadan dinner at the White House last night.  It seemed to go on, and on, and on, and along with Laura Ingraham I wondered what sort of celebration of Christianity's most important holiday, Easter, went on at the White House this spring.  (Cue crickets chirping.)  Apparently, it consisted of an Easter egg roll and the ceremonial reading of "Where the Wild Things Are," a traditional Easter text if there ever were one.  Anyone else a little creeped out?  I know I am.                              
      What's going on here?  Well, other than the fact that Obama is a Muslim, I think our local talk show guy Barry Young is also correct:  he is trying to pacify the Wahabbi (sp?) sect of Islam so they won't blow us up.  The Saudi's have been trying this for years, and their reward is a suicide bomber blowing up one of their princes last week.  Yeah, that worked!  So now B.O. is going to try HIS hand at sucking up to them, because it worked so well.  Didn't it?  DIDN'T IT?
       I don't know about you, but I am getting mighty sick and tired of his yammering on about how much the muslims contribute to America.  What a load of tripe.  If you consider honor killings, subjugation of women, dressing females up in tents and disrupting work places and schools with their ridiculous demands for prayer time, well then yes!  Those are some swell contributions!  As for the rest of the world, should we, dare we, bring up murdering and torturing women who show an ankle, anyone who disagrees with the demands of the religious police,  honor killings (that pesky one again), blowing up innocent people everywhere they can infiltrate, including fellow muslims, their vow to eliminate the Jewish State (and us!) by any means necessary? Their hatred of homosexuals (hate that too, don't think we should kill 'em), their sick, psychotic view of life and their love of death--gosh, do I need to go on?  DO I?  I hope Christians and Jews are paying close attention.  He is now about to beam his mug into every school in the country  in a blatant, naked attempt to indoctrinate the NEXT generation into his socialist/communist agenda and his opinion that America is a bad, bad country (not to mention ISRAEL) which needs to be remade into his dream world.  Utopia!  Health care for all (inferior, rationed, expensive-beyond-belief health NON-care), everyone thinking alike, acting alike, eating alike, and all paying homage to the Dear Leader, just like they did (if they wanted to live) with Mao, Hitler, and Stalin.  Yeah, that's what I want my grandkids to be exposed to.  I'm not sure if Christian schools will participate in this outrage, but if they do I hope my kids keep THEIR kids home that day.  They can read the Constitution or something.
       
    
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For You, Mrs. AL (Always Learning)

          Your last comment on my blog humbles me.  I so appreciate your input.  I must tell you though, that my granddarlings are not really in my debt.  If anything, I am in theirs.  They have given me so much, just by their very presence here on earth, not the least of which is a strong sense that we have an eternity to look forward to and that good-bye is never really good-bye.
            They've taught me, beginning with my first grandchild, the meaning of a zen moment.  That I can see that eternity in their eyes, and when my granddaughter's big brown eyes locked onto mine, at the age of ten months, and the world actually STOPPED, in a busy mall, that I should never doubt again. I have always said that as my first grandchild, she taught it all to me, and she is still my little teacher 11 years later.  The five who have followed, three of whom are still infants, have each taught me something too, but it all happened first with Amber.  One day not long ago, her mother said, "Amber has an old soul." She does.  I was stunned, for I thought that I was the only one who knew that. If you've ever known a child like that, you know what I mean.
                I know that I loved and adored and appreciated my own children, but I was busy and conscientious about raising them right, and distracted, and, though I remember special moments with them I don't have the sense of that eternal connection that I felt with Amber.  I do NOW, with my daughters, but I think it is because one of THEIR daughters opened my eyes.  It is hard to explain, but I have to try.  I know that other grandparents are reading this and saying, "YES!"  I am not the only one.  But I am uniquely blessed, and I am just smart enough to know it.
                 So Mrs. AL, I want to tell you that you too mean something important to me, as do all the people who bother to read and comment on my posts.  I have written two books which are in the Library of Congress.  I have another which will be submitted soon.  They were written for my first three grandchildren, and are not published but are simply indicative of the depths of my feelings for them.  I wish I'd written three books for my children, but it never occurred to me.  I hoped I was doing a good job, I would have lain down and died for any and all of them, I thanked God for them and still do, for they are lovely and loving daughters to their father and me, and we are so grateful and happy to have them.  But still, something else happened with Amber, and from then on I was on the lookout for it.  Little moments that might go unnoticed, little looks that might be too fleeting to pay attention--but now I know.  I wonder if they sense it too, and I believe that yes, on some level they do.  The older three are busy children now, with school to go to and life to live, but somewhere in their dear little hearts they know they are connected to me for all eternity, and that our family will always be somewhere together.                                     
                I hope and pray that I will never be short of zen moments with grandbabies.  I loved being a nurse, but anything I did as a nurse pales in comparison to anything I did as a grandma.  My husband is my partner in life and my love, and my daughters are as dear to me as anyone could ever be.  The grandchildren are the gravy and the icing and the above and beyond.  I am indebted to them and to their parents.  It's a wonder to me, how I got to this beautiful place and all I had to do is sit back and enjoy it.  I went back to church after many years partly out of gratitude for this place, and partly because the state of the country and the world was making me NUTS.  So every week I have an opportunity to thank God for the good that I have and the good that I see.                                  
                Far from being in my debt, my cherubs have simply made life a constant source of wonder and gratitude, and that debt is mine to pay--only it is so huge I doubt I will ever make a dent.  Thanks Mrs. AL, you provided me with the food for the above thoughts.
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HERE'S A FUN IDEA! LET'S BE EUROPE!

                  My husband's family all live in Europe, and so he reads the German papers online and speaks with his family quite often about the happenings on the Continent.  The latest fact he's gleaned from his reading and speaking is this:  in Germany now, long-term unemployed folks make more money than working people.  Ain't socialism grand?  I think I've mentioned before that many Germans go on unemployment for several years before they retire, even if they are able to find jobs, because they feel they "deserve" to be paid not to work.  I understand the French have similar feelings.  Isn't that just precious, expecting Big Nanny to support your slothfulness and never giving a thought to WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS now that you people no longer marry or have children.  Indeed, socialism leads to a distinct tendency to remain immature and selfish and to refuse to take on anything which requires one to be a grown up, responsible person.  Spouses and children are SO tiresome, making all sorts of demands and all. So guess who are reproducing like rabbits (but don't want to work either)?  
                  Europeans are waking up (perhaps a little late) to the problems of giving people stuff they should be earning for themselves and then finding yourselves unable to CONTINUE to give people stuff because NO ONE is interested in working.  Talk about removing incentive, removing pride, removing ambition from your population.  And now,  the American Left, behind the 8-ball as always, has decided that European socialism is the way to go, just when Europe is finally beginning to see the error of                                                                          its ways .                                                                                                                                                                                                
                   And make no mistake, socialism is a replacement for liberty.  As someone very smart once said, the government that gives you everthing has the power to take everything you have.  This particular administration seems to be showing a marked interest in sticking its nose into every aspect of our lives.  I don't WANT their version of "health care," which is not about health and not about care, but about POWER and MONEY.  Their power, your money.  If you have one living brain cell, you must be able to discern that trying to control the health care system in a country this size is a ridiculous idea for an inept, inefficient, unqualified bunch of bureaucrats.  Even the tiny little European countries with socialized medicine are turning people away in droves and refusing care to anyone they deem "not worth it."  It is about cost, and only cost.  The idividual has become the society. He has no right to expect, pursue, purchase or arrange any care that Big Nanny decides is too costly or which Mr. Citizen is not entitled to because he isn't worthy, whether by virtue of his age, his circumstances or the lack of treatment options one finds in a government run health system.  Health system. What a joke.                                                                                                                     
                    I don't want us to turn into Europe.  I know that our health care system is the best in the world, by far, and that allowing the federal government to take it away from us will mean the death of it.  Already there is a change in the policy on flu shots--people over 65 will no longer be considered a priority in obtaining flu vaccine, as they have always been in the past.  Now they're a liability, not a treasure.  Now they are going to be expected to suffer and die so the government can save money.  And then spend it on illegal aliens.  Wow, are you Obama fans still on board?  Any of you over 65?
                     Your doctor does not want to work for the government, as I pointed out to you.  Doctors in the United States have the idea that THEY should decide how to treat patients. They already have to deal with HMOs and lawyers. Do you think they need to have to put up with bureaucratic bull too?  Many of them will not.  Many young people will decide not to try for medical school because in the long run it won't be worth it.  I've been an RN for 29 years.  I see the way the wind is blowing.  If this kind of bill passes, just kiss the superior American health care system good-bye. And kiss Granny and Gramps good-bye too.  Especially if Granny and Gramps are registered Republicans and haven't made a point of bowing down to worship the king.  Over 80% of Americans are happy with their health care and insurance.  We're going to screw that up to guarantee a few million uninsured (many by choice) some mediocre or worse health care?  Let the marketplace work.  It will, if given a chance.  ALL Americans need to stand up and scream NO to this travesty, and stop it in its tracks.  Even Democrats will be expected to die a bit early eventually, as more and more money gets sucked into the giant bureaucratic sinkhole and there is less and less for actual medical treatment.  Do you get it??                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                     I'll take liberty any day over "equality."  Liberty can lead you into greatness or into corruption, but there are choices there.  Lack of freedom leads to exactly what Europe has now: dependence, immaturity, and eventually the collapse of the society because no one wants to work and succeed and be adults.  A society with no adults doesn't last long.  Besides, we have equality of opportunity here, and that is what America has always been about.  Equality of outcome is a foreign concept to real Americans.  You get out of life pretty much what YOU put into it. Or, on the other hand, what Big Nanny decides to give you.  Or not.  Let's be Americans, and keep our health care system as a market driven system, where costs can be reduced with competition.  Where it's been tried, it works.  And keep the damn government out of your life and mine.                                                                                                                                                                                              
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MINNESOTA BLOCKHEADS GIVE US THE WRONG END OF CALIGULA'S HORSE

       Back in the day, Children, when I studied Greek and Roman history, I learned of the crazy Roman Caligula, who made his horse a senator.  In the modern day, we have a whole state, called Minnesota, by whom we have acquired another--possibly the worst--senator, who is not a horse, but certainly would qualify as a part of a horse's anatomy. Thanks Minnesota!  I asked my husband for an explanation of this phenomenon, and he said that Minnesota is "full of blockheads."  I can't think of a single way to disagree.
          So now we have a government completely out of control, run by loony lefties and Marxist morons.  Once again, thanks Minnesota!  We will end up with an unqualified, dare I say downright, um, stupid Supreme Court justice, the largest tax increases in history to fund the biggest scams in history (global "climate change"), the largest debt in history, an attempt to ram socialized medicine through before anyone has a chance to figure out what it really means (I believe it was Mark Levin who declared this a war on seniors, and it most definitely will be), and unprecedented unemployment.  We already have a president who is cozying up to terrorists and abandoning Israel, who thinks he should make nice with Syria though he demands nothing from them, who apologizes for all sorts of imaginary wrongs committed by the United States of America, of which he is, tragically, president, and which he despises. 
           My, we are in a pickle, aren't we?  I just want to go on record as saying that I expect, if the debacle known as "health care reform" (a misnomer, if ever there were one) goes through, there will be rationing of health care beyond your wildest imagination.  Your doctor, Honey, doesn't want to work for the guv'mint.  They've made an unholy mess out of Medicare and will do likewise for the rest of the country, while kicking seniors and chronically ill people to the curb in the name of "lowering costs" and "covering everyone."  Trouble is, this sham of a bill won't do either, and Obama is once again lying through his teeth and assuming he can still charm the pants off the dummies in the country.  As a nurse, I am dismayed at the tilt to the left that I am seeing in my nursing magazines and online journals.  Those who are pushing for "reform" are talking up "focusing on preventive care," and let me tell you what that means.  That means, WE (the government) will tell you how to live, what to eat, how much exercise you must do, what you can drink, and what treatments we WON'T let you have if you don't behave.  If you smoke, and you get cancer, you were naughty, and Nanny Government is going to send you to your room without supper.  And without chemo. Don't mess with Big Brother.  Nurses should be fighting this travesty with every weapon they have, as should doctors, hospitals, drug companies and, for Heaven's sake, PATIENTS!  That's YOU people, and you better get going before the wimpy Republicans cave and the supposedly moderate Democrats do too.  If you are in the district of either of those entities, call, fax, e-mail and go visit and make your voices heard.  Otherwise, get ready for the culmination of the biggest government power grab in history.  It won't be pretty.
        Heard Obama talking today about the government deciding whether doctors are doing their jobs adequately, and paying (or not paying) accordingly.  So some bureaucrat with zero medical knowledge or expertise wants to tell actual doctors how to treat patients and deny them payment if said doctors do not toe the mark.  DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? 
        If we can hold them off for another year or so and get rid of some of the biggest loons in Congress (I fear Minnesota's horse's a$$ will not be up for re-election then, though I can pray I guess) before we are stuck with this (non)health care disaster, we might have a ghost of a chance to save at least one part of this once-great country.  The reason over 80% of Americans are satisfied with their health care (the latest polls state) is that we have the BEST health care system in the world.  No one is unable to get care, whether or not he or she has insurance.  If we go to nationalized health care, people will die in huge numbers as a DIRECT result of it.  Either stop it, or you damn well better stay healthy.
       America, wake up, wise up, speak up.
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CLASSLESS, SOULLESS, GODLESS...AND CLUELESS

                Don't you think that those four adjectives just about sum up the current president of the United States?  As each day goes by, I am constantly astounded and dismayed at his incompetence, his naivete, his dishonestly, his inability to make a single rational decision and then stick with it, his profound ignorance when dealing with monsters such as Chavez or the Saudis, his complete cave-in to the far, far left, his obviously false claim of being a Christian, his out-of-control narcissistic psychopathology.  It is more than worrisome--it may portend the death of America as we know it.  Or knew it.  What a disgrace to have ended up with THIS as a (non)leader.                                                                             
                Almost more than my utter disdain for this pea-brained pretender is my great disdain for the lemmings who voted him in.  That so many American voters could have become so stupid in only a generation or two is discouraging beyond words.  As Dennis Prager has pointed out,  the two main differences between the current generation and past generations are:  more people have gone to college, or are going to college, than at any time in history, and TV.  And thus we have the explanation for the dumbed down people who voted for a guy with no experience, no accomplishments beyond what affirmative action could supply, no prior jobs, no knowlege of history, global politics, health care realities or human nature, no respect for life or liberty and no clue what he is doing. And unseemly friends in low places. Unfortunately, he is also a guy who is so enamored of his brilliance that he thinks he has only to smile or squeeze someone's hand and that person is his forever.  He's the king of the world!  He's a legend, as Clint Eastwood once said, in his own mind.  Frightening and sickening.    Of course I do keep the door open to the idea that ACORN and similar "community organizations" finally pulled off what they tried so hard to pull off in 2000 and actually stole the election.  I would almost rather think that than know  there are truly that many dunderheads out there with the right to vote. 
                 I don't want to hear any blather about buyers' remorse.  It's too late.  You idiots--Catholics, college students, teen-age goofballs (no one under 21 should be able to vote unless he or she is in the military or has been working since high school and NOT going to college), sappy left-wing women (and "men"), who love convicted murderers but hate unborn babies--none of you or anyone else who voted for this train wreck has ANY room to complain.  You didn't bother to investigate him, and you fell for a bunch of gaggingly vapid words on a teleprompter read by, but not written by, this puppet.  Wonder who is pulling his strings?  The far left loons with money.  YOU figure it out.  On the other hand, if you voted for him and DON'T have buyers' remorse, you are hopelessly, hideously anti-American, and you don't deserve this country or its bounty, you don't deserve its military protecting you (but not for long!), you certainly don't deserve any of MY money, and I really, really want you to go live in Europe or Iran or California (as soon as it becomes its own country) and see how things go for you.  You are responsible for the death of America, and the world will be poorer for it. 
                 No class--crass, ignorant, bowing to dictators and disrespecting western leaders, disrespecting our mililtary and all they do for us. No soul--you can't have a soul and not want to protect the innocent souls about to be born, or already born, but unwanted.  No God--I am surprised that his tongue doesn't catch fire when he asserts "...as a Christian."  He is so, so NOT.  There is nothing Christian about him.  Muslim, atheist, satanist, maybe--but not Christian.  And clueless?  No need to explain that one.  He is showing us every hour of every day and every time he opens his mouth.  Disgraceful. 
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Innate Morality: Ever Met a Baby?

          I'm pretty sure I heard Christopher Hitchens say something today about people not needing reigion because it has "nothing to do with morality, and humans are born with an innate sense of what is right and wrong."  Hoo boy.  I may be paraphrasing; I HOPE I'm delusional, but it sounded like that is what he said.  I can only assume that not only does Mr. Hitchens have no children, but that he has never actually met one either.  I, on the other hand, have known quite a few human infants and children, including three of my own, and I am here to tell you that the only innate sense humans have at birth is "GIMME!" Gimme milk, gimme sleep, gimme attention, gimme Mama.  Babies are not born good, nor are they born bad. They are born innocent, but they are no more born with any innate sense of morality than they are born with a degree in math.  And anyway, if one is an atheist, who in the world has determined what is moral or not?  You?  Me?                                           
          I know Dr. Laura commented on whether one can raise moral children without religion, and I have purposely not watched her video on the subject, because I want to put down my own thoughts first.  I can attest to the fact that I have never encountered a baby or child with an innate sense of morality.  On the contrary, if you are going to try to raise children with only YOU as the Higher Authority, it's going to be Lord of the Flies at your house and I don't want to be your kid's teacher or neighbor or even live in the same city as you.  I've seen these kids roaming the malls and streets and schools like hungry little monsters, demanding and whining and stomping their little monster feet and terrifying their parents and everyone else in their path.  These are the kids whose parents have decided to be their friends and not to try to force anything on their little darlings or frustrate them in any way.  When they realize that their children are lying, stealing, cheating, smoking dope, swilling booze, failing in school and just generally wreaking havoc, they are going to do what, exactly?  It's a little late for "because I said so."  Though that worked for me on a number of occasions, it was mostly because my children already knew I wasn't their friend.  For years I was referred to here and there as a "mean mom."  Good for me.                                                                                                                                         
             I didn't take my children to church.  I had been a Presbyterian, but that church didn't really speak to me as I felt my church should.  I figured I knew all the stuff, and I could just sort of infuse it into my kids without actually doing the formal church/Sunday School thing.  I think now that was a huge mistake, though my children all turned out fine.  They missed something though, and now we have all come back to church as Lutherans and all my grandchildren have always gone to Christian School.  I would hate to offer my children what I guess the atheists must be offering: um, nothing means anything (how can it, if we are just random collections of cells who happened to get hatched onto this earth with no plan, no purpose, no soul?) and you're just here by accident, but hey, you shouldn't murder anyone or steal or cheat because, um, well, my innate morality tells me those things are wrong.  Oh yeah?  Who says?  If atheists are teaching their children to behave morally, it is because of our Judeo-Christian values that they have any sense of what morals ARE.  Also, if one is truly an atheist, why does one feel the need to write a book called "God is not Great," since by one's own admission one does not think there IS such a thing as "God."  I don't believe in fairies, and I have yet to feel compelled to write a book about them, since I don't think they exist.  I feel like I am running around in circles on the hamster wheel.  Lefties often make me feel this way.  Sigh.                                                                                                                                     
             ANYHOO, I am thrilled to be back at church, for the world is an ugly place to try to navigate on one's own without some framework of higher values and a sense that there is meaning in life.  It amazes me that anyone could look into her child's eyes and not see something more than a mere human, attached to earth, never to soar above it all.  No wonder atheists are crabby and morose.  Most religious people I know are happy, kind, thoughtful, helpful and grateful.  The few atheists I've heard often sound angry and irritable.  And from a strictly practical point of view, I really think the United States must refute Odumbo's claim that we "don't consider ourselves a Christian nation" (notice how he threw "muslim" in there, as if that psychopathology is equal to Judaism or Christianity), because as we can plainly see, countries and people who believe in nothing are no match for nuts who believe strongly in SOMETHING.  Check where Europe is going, and let's not go with them.  Great Britain has abandoned the Anglican Church for islam dressed up as appeasement and political correctness, and before you know it England and Germany and France and Holland will all be overrun by and subjugated to islam.  Why not?  They have nothing to counter it with.                     
            As for an innate sense of right and wrong, which is where I started--if you do not TEACH your children morals, they will be amoral.  It is not human nature to do the right thing.  Human nature is what we must try to rise ABOVE, and our religious foundation is truly helpful in that endeavor.  I don't care what Christopher Hitchens thinks, or what any atheist thinks for that matter.  I see no point in his trying to denigrate the faith of the majority of the people in the country he chose to be a citizen of.  As I told my nephew in Germany when he wished for the "death of the fundamentalist Christian movement," be careful what you wish for.  When the Christians move out, islam moves in, and while I cannot for the life of me remember any roving bands of fundamentalist Christians attacking people, cutting off their heads, raping them or torturing them, drowning women in swimming pools for being seen with men who are not related to them, locking women in padded rooms and leaving them there until they go mad and die,  ALL those things happen when islam rules, and perhaps one might, if one thinks hard, be able to see a DIFFERENCE or two between the Judeo-Christian religious views and the islamic psychopathological ideology.  "Religion" does not poison anything.  It provides us with a sense of holiness to which we can and should aspire, and to which we can teach our precious children, our gifts from God, to aspire as well.  I shudder to think of the day we do lose the sense of being a Judeo-Christian country, for it will sound the death knell for the United States.  Go back to church America, or start going if you never have.  Prove that once again Obama is out of touch and completely clueless as to what this country is all about.  While he is kowtowing to the Saudis (his muslim brothers), reassert our faith in the Judeo-Christian values that MADE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT WAS when it was the best country the earth has ever seen.  It could be again, but not without those values and the moral absolutes therein. 
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Hi Muslims! A Tutorial: Part Two, or Losing Your Head in Buffalo

               Tsk, tsk.  I believe it was RIGHT after I published my first tutorial that one of you crazy muslims went off half cocked and beheaded your wife, while at the same time protesting that islam is a religion of peace and you are just trying to SHOW that by having your very own cool TV station.  My word, talk about shooting yourself in the foot.  Don't you have egg on your face now!
               Okay, well obviously you have not been listening.  And frankly, neither has our government.  They aren't quite at the "Let's start buckling under to sharia law!" stage like Great Britain, but with Obama in the White House (pause for wave of nausea) how far away can it be?  I thought I made it clear in the first part of my tutorial that we are NOT Europe.  Europe has had a nasty habit in the past of appeasing evil (or attempting to), with various degrees of failure.  Degrees yes, failure definitely.  I know that your new best friend in the White House might think we should do likewise, but most Americans would, I am certain, disagree.  And not necessarily respectfully.  So keep that in mind when you start pushing your 7th century psychopathology on us.  We like the century we are currently living in, thank you very much. 
               I have to wonder, if you are so dead set on taking over the world, why would you come here?  Perhaps you are unaware of our history of kicking the arses of evil creeps who wish us ill.  Perhaps you are unaware of the principles upon which this country was founded.  Lying down so we can be your doormat, or prayer rug, or whatever, is not a typical American behavior.  Cowering in the corner because some nut job with a towel on his head (and a mask over his face, because he is not exactly BOLD) calls us infidels --not our style either.  In Europe, where religion has died an ugly death for the most part, the people don't have anything much to believe in, and so crazed idealogues can find a way into that society and further their agenda with not too much resistance.  As the song says, You've Got to Stand for Something or You'll Fall for Anything. Ain't it the truth.  This seems like the perfect place to insert G.K. Chesterton's little gem about when people stop believing in God--"they don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything," or everything.  Something like that.  Amen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
        In the United States, an overwhelming majority of us identify ourselves as Christian.  Our values are Judeo-Christian values. Our country was founded on them.  Our laws are based on them (the ones that make sense). Since we are not people who believe in nothing, it would be harder for any group to persuade us to drink the koolade. Christianity is pretty well entrenched here, and we don't plan to give it up anytime soon for some weird, loopy dogma put forth by people who think women are for beheading and kids are for blowing up.  Don't think so. Now here's the good part: if you wanted to give UP on that weird, loopy dogma and embrace a religion that really IS about peace and LOVE, you could do it!  Here in America, you could do it more easily than anywhere else.  You could live like we do. Don't bother to deny how incredibly jealous of our lives you are.  No American is going to believe you prefer living in some third world dump with women wearing tents. If you are not totally certifiably nuts yet, you could change it all.  You could learn to read and write and study the Bible and figure out that this is really the way to go.  Don't bother to point out ANYTHING in the Bible about stoning, killing, sacrificing, etc.  We are not living in Biblical times, and at any rate the things atheists and other idiots like to point out are ALWAYS taken out of context, and if anything on earth needs context, it's the Bible.  For starters, just stick with the New Testament, and focus on Jesus.  That should put you where you need to be.  Later, when you get the hang of it, you can go back and deal with the Old Testament and see just how closely Jews and Christians are allied.  So leave Israel alone too.  They're God's Chosen People, and you are treating them badly.  Not going to end well for you if you keep that up.                                            
             Just think! If you give up all this islamic nonsense and barbarian behavior, you too could have a happy life, a nice wife who loves you and whom you love equally, children with whom you could play and whom you would thoroughly enjoy, instead of planting bombs in their diapers and sending them to the same hell you are going to end up in.  Doesn't that sound more appealing than what you have now?  You have to get away from those vermin in your mosques filling your heads full of garbage that is going to get you a crappy life on earth and a crappier eternity.  No virgins, just lots and lots of fire.                                                                                                                                              
             Granted, I don't know that you are actually capable of love.  Generations of having hate, hate, hate drilled into your mushy little brains may have taken a permanent toll, rendering you unable to feel anything else. That would be sad, but trust me, Americans are not going to waste a nanosecond worrying about it on your behalf.  Shape up, they might say, or get out of my country and slink off to someplace where the sheeple are willing to lie down and be flattened.  As I mentioned in Part One, you are not even going to be able to get the WOMEN here to do what you want, let alone the men.  Well, unless they are lefties--but then we won't be sure, really, if they are even men, will we?                    
             What I'm trying to tell you here is pretty simple.  Love is better than hate. Good deeds make you feel better than killing people.  Jesus' message is much more user friendly than anything you've heard in islam. 
             Are you with me so far?  If so, let me throw in a couple more perks you could enjoy if you come over to the Light Side.  Team sports: fabulous.  Love football myself.  Teaches kids to work together and respect each other, be good winners and good losers and all sorts of valuable stuff.  I don't know of any sports you participate in other than soccer where I believe if you lose you are attacked by terrorists.  Romance: ah, spring.  Here, that means men and women fall in love with each other  and maybe get married and have babies and enjoy life.  They try to treat each other well (we hope) and often spend many decades of wedded bliss together.  If the wife shows a little ankle once in a while or talks about gardening with the neighbor guy, no one freaks out.  We're more relaxed here.  We celebrate love.  We celebrate marriage of MEN AND WOMEN in love.  Love and happiness all over the place.  The people who seem the happiest, in my experience, are those who do have a religious faith to rely on and it is, overwhelmingly, Christian with some Jewish sprinkled in.              
              Life on earth is supposed to be LIVED, appreciated, celebrated--not thrown away on a death cult whose main focus is depraved destruction of innocent life.  God expects us to be grateful for His gifts, and to live as He commanded.  None of your garbage fits with that.  I hope you've been paying attention and are heeding my words. In Genesis God says He will bless those who bless the Jews, and He will curse those who curse them.  That ought to do it.  Happy Easter!                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                                    





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Now I'm a Book Reviewer: The Shack

                     This book is apparently a huge best-seller and I thought I'd try to save anyone out there who hasn't read it from spending any money on it.  I actually bought it at a Christian bookstore, but I am convinced that if they knew what a piece of trash it is, they wouldn't be selling it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                     The premise is that a man whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered receives a note from God inviting him to the shack where the murder occurred.  That in itself is a tough sell, but what follows is such drivel that I could barely finish it .  The fact that it is a best seller tells me that since the continuing assault on Judeo Christian values and faith,  the great unwashed are searching for meaning in their lives and for something higher than the pitiful spectacle of mankind trying to run things without God.                                                                     
                      A friend gave me copies of some reader reviews of the book, especially from clergy who know Scripture and can speak about it intelligently.  The book itself  so deviates from anything a Christian would believe based on the Bible that it made me wonder what planet the author came from.  And so I leave you with this thought:  just because a book is a best seller and WYNONA JUDD is quoted on the back cover saying how it just saved her life, or fixed her problems, or some such testimonial, don't assume you should rush right out and buy it.  Check with me first, now that I'm a book reveiwer.  : )                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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Oh You Crazy Kids! STAY MARRIED!

              I know I am supposed to be continuing with my tutorial for muslims, and I shall:  working title: Losing Your Head in Buffalo--but I have a pressing issue I think needs covering first.                                                                                 
               One of the results of the lousy parenting job my generation did in vast numbers (not everyone! I did pretty well) has been an immaturity and selfishness in our 20-and 30-somethings that I believe is unprecedented. I have three grown, married children, and lately all around them their friends' and even some family members' marriages are falling apart.  They have small children, and they seem to be unaware that they are about to destroy their children's lives for the sake of--what??  What do they think they are going to find out there that they can't have at home if they just work at it?  I look at these little souls who CANNOT understand why Mommy and Daddy are not together anymore and what have they done to make their parents unhappy--for little kids are ego-centric (normal) and always assume they are somehow inadequate--otherwise why would a parent leave?  It doesn't matter how sweetly and earnestly you try to explain it to them, they CANNOT understand and they CANNOT help but be damaged in ways large and small.  Unless there is one or more of Dr. Laura's 3 As--abuse, addiction or adultery--you as parents OWE your children an intact home and a happy (or at least happy-appearing) SET of parents in the house.  Yes!  You owe them.  Suck it up.          
               And when I say "abuse" I don't mean your husband thinks you should clean the house or your wife thinks you should pick up your socks.  I mean one of your is hitting, spitting at, throwing down the stairs, etc.  Let's not play semantic games with terms.  YOU know what is actual "abuse."
               For those of you who don't want to listen to me--and really, why should you?--here's a fact for you.  Studies have shown (and generally I subscribe to Dennis Prager's opinion of studies: they either prove the obvious or they're wrong, but this fact did surprise me at first) that among couples who considered or did divorce, after five years the ones who did NOT divorce were far happier than those who did.  As I said, at first it did surprise me, but after I thought about it I realized that in most cases marriages are salvagable if one is committed to working things out, and that if couples are thinking they will find something better out there they are almost universally wrong.  Not to mention the fact that they are the only two people on earth who love those children as much as they do and are as invested in them.  Unless they are exceptionally selfish (and granted, many are), that alone should propel them to save their marriages.  In many cases, if couples just start acting happy and thinking about making their spouse happy instead of ME, ME, ME, they can turn things around rather quickly.  But they have to stop being childish, self-centered, and unrealistic.  Quite a challenge for many of today's spoiled, whiny brats.  
                Not long ago, I read a quote from one of those TV judges who said that couples divorce far too easily these days.  She said she had been married 17 years, and "for three or four of those years, I don't even think I liked him!" It was said tongue-in-cheek, of course--but it has a ring of truth in that NO ONE is enamored of his or her spouse all the time.  Often he or she is driving you crazy.  But remember why you got married (unless it was for a really stupid reason, but even then, if you have kids, make the best of it!) and remember the bigger picture.  Your sense of accomplishment if you save your marriage and your children's well-being is far greater than any imagined perk that "freedom" will offer you.  I cannot stand all this breaking of children's hearts.  When one of my children was about six, she said to me, out of the blue, "Mama, you and Daddy can never get divorced, because I could never pick one of you to live with!"  And out of the mouths of babes, there you go.
               So please, parents, no matter how immature and selfish you HAVE been, aspire to something more and put your marriage and your children above yourself.  It helps if you are religious, but even if you are not, you can be more than you thought you could be.  No Army needed, just your determination to make it work and keep your precious children in a two-parent home with security and love and happiness.  I wish you success.                                              
 
   
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Hi Muslims! A Tutorial

         Since it appears that you all are far more determined to infiltrate our country than we are to keep you out, I thought I'd give you a little glimpse into the country you think you want to take over.  Here's your first clue:  WE AREN'T EUROPE!
         America is, or was, a bit different from the countries you have managed to worm your way into and destroy, as evidenced by a number of characteristics it might behoove you to pay attention to.  Among them is, probably first and foremost, our love of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  You may have heard of this, but probably not.  It is sort of the foundation for all we are, or were, and what we base our everyday lives on.  At the risk of being repetitious, let me say again that we LOVE LIFE.  Not death and destruction.  Not equallity, fraternity or any of those other quaint ideas from Europe and elsewhere.  Life, liberty, pursuit of (not guaranteed) happiness.  Simple enough, yes?
         Secondly, I have to tell you that, unlike you, we also LOVE our children.  This may shock you, but most of us would kill or die to protect them.  Yes!  We never, ever blow them up in the hope that we can take out a few Jews or westerners who don't adhere to our way of thinking.  If threatened by some malevolent force (you, for instance), those of us with guns just might pull them out and SHOOT whoever it is that is threatening our children.  To paraphrase Golda Meier, we love our children far more than you hate us.  Though to give you your due, it isn't for lack of trying that your hate doesn't match our love.  
         Speaking of guns, I know that your populations do not have access to personal weapons for protection against thieves, murderers, etc., or against YOU (but I repeat myself, since those ARE you), but Americans still do.  Though BO would like to change that and become more like you, I don't actually see that happening.  You may see bumper stickers to the effect that "I will give up my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand."  You may take that literally.  The Second Amendment to our Constitution guarantees us the right to keep and bear arms, and oh, so many of us Americans take that literally that it will be to your benefit to do likewise.  When we say, Don't Tread on Me, we are able to back  that up with actual firepower.  A word to the wise.
         You won't find it easy in America to tell people what to eat, drink, think, do or wear.  That burka thing (sorry, I don't know how to spell it and don't care enough to look it up) is going to go badly for you.  Women here seem to think they can dress as they wish.  I will grant you that some of them look like fashion nightmares, and far too many young girls go around looking like hookers (thanks to liberal parenting and the complete dissolution of school dress codes--or any codes--courtesy of liberal education policies), but that doesn't mean any of them are open to being told to wear a tent from head to toe.  No, that isn't going to sell here.  And frankly, there is nothing that American men enjoy more than the sight of a fine looking woman dressed to the nines and maybe showing some leg.  You should try it.  You might like it.
          Alas, it is time for me to go to Church.  I say alas only because I am so earnest about teaching you what you need to know. Americans, by the way, are overwhelmingly Christian and half of us adhere to Judeo-Christian values such as The Ten Commandments.  I know that causes you to become agitated and wish more death and destruction on us (if indeed that is possible in your warped little brains) than ever, but it is a fact you had better swallow and digest.  You will have a hard time pushing allah on most Americans.  Unlike your people, we THINK.  And we believe.  So I shall continue my tutorial later.  Feel free to chew on what I've taught you so far and see if it is within your limited minds to consider the value thereof.  Happy Sunday!      
        
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