The Obama & Democrat Leadership Legacy

Coming soon to a nation of over 3oo,000,000 citizens – the Progressive Democrat Big Top Circus follow up extravaganza – of  the Obama & Illinois Democrat Majority legacy for Illinois citizens. Unpaid bills, overextended credit, people struggling for healthcare availability and everyday necessities with the needy paying the price for Progressive Hubris. Welcome to the world of Obama wannabe socialism.

A New Pope – A New Hope

Normally – I would have something snarky to say about the selection of a new Pope. Don’t get me wrong I have great respect for most religious organizations – even the Catholic Church. They do great things for many-many people. I am not a Catholic but I am a Christian that very much believes in God and Christ. But in  my personal estimation, the Catholic Church  – much like many religious  institutes of all sects and beliefs – have become centered too much on operating like top-heavy corporations searching for markets.  Somewhere down the line the Christian Churches have stopped teaching the message of God and started teaching the messages of individual pulpit orators – marketing their personal message instead of the word of God. In many ways the modern world has built up a resemblance to ancient Sodom and Gomorrah.  

I am sure that some of my personal beliefs will clash with the new Pope.  And perhaps history will prove me wrong – but so far everything I have read about the newly selected Pope-Francis-I actually melts a little of the cynicism I have about those who have taken the helm of modern Christian Churches. A New Pope -and perhaps-  A New Hope for Mankind. We shall see.

You Have Come a Long-Way Baby and

It’s not all good. I feel bad for current parents when they are trying to evaluate school systems and teachers that are overseeing their child’s education. Especially since more and more teachers are getting exposed teaching extracurricular activities that don’t belong on the curriculum. When I was growing up you usually felt your kids were in good hands when you sent them off to school, especially, since most of the teachers were probably sensible women/mothers and not horny old geezers. But now the news is continually flooded with women teachers getting slapped on the hands  – that would get their male counterparts tossed in prison without a key- for taking sexual liberties with  children they are supposed to be educating!

To steal an old cigarette adage-  You Have come a long-way baby. But in these creepy cases it ain’t in a good way.

Merry Christmas

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,

    and mild and sweet
    The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom

    Had rolled along
    The unbroken song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,

    A voice, a chime,
    A chant sublime

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,

    And with the sound
    The carols drowned

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,

    And made forlorn
    The households born

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said;

    “For hate is strong,
    And mocks the song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;

    The Wrong shall fail,
    The Right prevail,

With peace on earth, good-will to men.”

“Christmas Bells” by  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Winter Snow Ice Cream

Now here is a recipe that brings back childhood memories!

GRANDMA’S SNOW ICE CREAM

1 lg. bowl or pan of snow
1 can evaporated or condensed milk (condensed makes it richer)
2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. sugar

Slowly pour the milk over the snow, then sprinkle the vanilla over the snow. Mix lightly with spoon or fork. Sprinkle in the sugar and mix lightly. Eat immediately; do not try to freezer or refrigerate.

Of course at our families house I don’t remember there ever being any left too freeze.

Less Ordinary Christmas Gifts 2012

Dear Santa Christmas is just days away. My Christmas list is short and All I Really Want for Christmas ( not necessarily in the order listed) is:

• A Chicago Bears Win in the 2013 Superbowl
• A Chicago Cubs Series Win in the 2013 World Series. (Preferably over the hated (oops, forgot it was Christmas) Chicago White Sox.
• A couple tons of Gold dust.
• Oh yeah and one of these –> http://www.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm

Treasure Hunts Gone Mad

There are many reasons I don’t go out early to Christmas shop on Black Friday, in search of shopping treasures. But perhaps the biggest is that some people go mad and seem to lose their minds. They turn savage in their treasure hunts and ruin what should be a pleasing experience for everyone else. The following link and videos of Black Friday WalMart shoppers display the madness better than words can describe.

Related articles

• There’s a Riot Goin’ On: This Year’s Craziest Black Friday Videos All Come From Walmart (gawker.com)

Chicago Cubs Postseasonless Blues

Cubs retired flag for Ernie Banks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I can’t remember doing a single Chicago Cubs post this year. It sure wasn’t for a lack of arranging my personal schedule in order that I could watch them on television. Face it the season was abysmal, and I might be sugar coating that assessment through rose colored glasses. I would normally being hollering “wait till next year” at this normal point of Cubby Post-Seasonless Blues. But other than the Anthony Rizzo deal, Theo Epstein hasn’t wowed me with his MLB  import-export skills anymore than Rudy Jaramillo wowed me with his his hitting instructor leadership.  But since we are once again in familiar territory – the Chicago Cubs sitting out the post season- I decided do do a season ending post of a video, in which the late Steve Goodman sings a ballad about  a recurring nightmare of way too many a Cub fan.

9-11 Events in the Quad Cities link

The Quad City Times has a posting listing the 9-11 commemoration events for the  Quad Cities, as does Quad City Online.

Famous Hollywood Director Defends Incest – Love Who You Want

Caution the following post deals with adult subject matter and for some may contain objectionable subject matter and links.

The bastion of Progressive ideology – Hollywood, which uses it various media formats as propaganda to push progressive philosophy morally and politically, especially on Television and in the Movies- has another member of the Hollywood Elite -Nick Cassavetes- aggressively promoting the sexual deviancy of incest to protect  and promote his theatrical work. In a recent interview he equates incest with homosexuality; as a non-judgmental sexual lifestyle. Personally I find the idea of incest – a perversion boundary that is unacceptable to cross. It is a practice widely used in plant and animal breeding. I suppose in a Nietzschean philosophy you could use the survival of the fittest as reasoning.  But then I am a traditionalist and find most modern alternate sexual activity as incorrect behavior. Society has become legally and morally acceptant to many alternate sexual activities – that in the past were considered morally repugnant. One time, long ago, in a discussion seeking to flame the conversation I posed a similar statement to Mr. Cassavetes. And though I personally have problems with incestuous relationships – while Mr. Cassavetes compares incest with homosexuality, if you consider many of the other modern sexual fetishes – casual sex , open marriages and relationships, hotwifing and cuckolding practices- which can include pregnancy risk activities;  plus medical practices where artificial insemination has created individuals that have biologically fathered multiple children -in at least one case over 150 children; how far off can Mr. Cassavetes be in his justification of consanguineous relationships? Will there be a day in the near future where the GLBT organization becomes the GLBTI organization. I hope not but them I am a traditionalist. If so I sure Hollywood will be even more openly riding to the rescue of incestuous relationships.

Related articles

• ‘The Notebook’ Director Nick Cassavetes Defends Incest By Comparing It To Gay Marriage (newsbusters.org)
• Sibling incest: An exploration of trauma, impact, and treatment (udini.proquest.com)
• Hollywood’s pedophilia and debauchery problems still ongoing (vaticproject.blogspot.com).
• Child Molester – He asked for it (businessinsider.com)
• Pedophilia #1 Problem in Hollywood (thehollywoodgossip.com)
• Family Friendly Television – Fail  (thescoundrel.wordpress.com)
  
• Hollywood seeks to protect Roman Polanski (thescoundrel.wordpress.com)