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.

Juan Williams Talks of the Not so Secret Media Bad Behavior

Despite the fact that his political views are mostly a polar opposite of mine, I respect Liberal Journalist Juan Williams, as he is one of the few journalists on the “left or the right” whom usually debates his opinion with an opponent  rather than just castigates the opposition.  In an interview with Ginni Thomas, Mr. Williams makes an observation about the progressive left that I have been  talking about ever since I started blogging –>

“I always thought it was the Archie Bunkers of the world, the right-wingers of world, who were more resistant and more closed-minded about hearing the other side,” he said. “In fact, what I have learned is, in a very painful way — and I can open this shirt and show you the scars and the knife wounds — is that it is big media institutions who are identifiably more liberal to left-leaning who will shut you down, stab you and kill you, fire you, if they perceive that you are not telling the story in the way that they want it told.”

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Deadbeat Snake-Oil Salesmen Still Destroying the State of Illinois

The last couple of years I occasionally posted about how I noticed some area medical establishments were no longer accepting Medicaid due to the State of Illinois‘ poor track record in paying those in the medical industry. Recently I was at a local medical establishment and I noticed that they had a sign up that stated – due to the State of Illinois slow payment system as well as their often denial of claims, any  employee of the State, using the State of Illinois CIGNA plan, must pay for all services before treatment, then personally file any claims with Illinois/CIGNA services.  Ouch! Illinois strikes again! And yet the voters continue to keep voting in these same Snake-oil Salesmen whom fleece the electorate over and over again. Stupid is as stupid does and there is a lot of stupid going on in the deadbeat Illinois government. And the silence from the watchdogs supposedly protecting the state and the nation (the media) is deafening.

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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Reblogged from Samaritans Scalawags Scoundrels Fleecing the Sheep:

Prospero:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,

As I foretold you, were all spirits, and

Are melted into air, into thin air:

And like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind.

Read more… 284 more words

According to a Dispatch article:

The Illinois Department of Corrections violated its own policies when it hired former Congressman Phil Hare's son as an assistant warden at East Moline Correctional Center, according to a report by the state's inspector general..... The inspector general launched an investigation into the hiring in response to information "it obtained that the Illinois Department of Corrections hired a politically-connected but otherwise unqualified person."

In other words as I mused back in this previous post from September of 2011; Lou Hare was not a qualified candidate, yet was quickly slotted into a high level position at East Moline Correctional Center. The selection was pure politics.  The Congressman's boy needed a job and despite lacking four of the six job requirements was handed the job despite that there was no doubt being untold others far more qualified for the job that never even got the chance to apply. And what are they going to do about it? the usual - nothing.

Is it Time to Boycott Chicago’s Tourist Attractions

Obama Acolyte, Chicago Mayor Rham Emmanuel is  attempting to use his political position to intimidate Banking Corporations to cease lending money to firearm  manufacturers that disagree with his personal political beliefs on gun-control. Perhaps it is time to announce to Chicago to stop their Thuggish Mayor and make him quit attempting to impose his anti-second amendment beliefs on the rest of the country or protectors of the second amendment will start boycotting his cities tourist attractions.

The Piers Morgan Repatriation Act

CNN talking head, Piers Morgan, responded to  White House petitions seeking his deportation back to the UK by saying – “If you don’t change your gun laws to at least try to stop this relentless tidal wave of murderous carnage, then you don’t have to worry about deporting me…  I would  … seriously consider deporting myself.”  To steal a quote from a famous Hollywood movie – Frankly – I don’t give a damn. Heck let’s do even better. We can write laws strengthening and protecting the second amendment from Big Brother worshipers like Piers Morgan and Barack Obama. We  can call it the Piers Morgan Repatriation Act.

Strict Gun Laws are only good for the criminals. It doesn’t matter how you spin it – strict gun control does not stop  people from killing each other or even reduce violence. The recent tragedy is just another in a long line of attempts by Progressives – like Michael Moore – hoping to combine scare tactics and tragedy to push us towards a Big Brother Statist Society. Stricter Gun Control is just another Statist method of seeking complete control over the lives of free people.

The Failed Statistics of Gun ControlGun Control

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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

Barack Obama equal George Bush Jr. in ‘roid Rage

Christmas is just around the corner and the ACLU has helped the Bush Deranged Obama worshipers unwrap a Christmas present from Team Obama. Obama, the Presidential candidate that has continually promised an open book Presidential White House  – in a declaration that was supposed to invent Obama as the ANTI-George W. Bush/Dick Cheney Presidential Option- also promised “No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me”. The Obama speech was nostalgic  of George “The First” Bush and his “thousand points of light”:

“My job this morning is to be so persuasive…that a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack,” he told a crowd of about 300 Ivy Leaguers–and, by the looks of it, a handful of locals who managed to gain access to what was supposed to be a students-only event.

For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and “wiretaps without warrants,”…

The facts are no matter whether you like Obama Politics (I don’t) or you think he is a False Prophet (my personal favorite) falling slightly below Oriental Rat Fleas on the political value scales of Honesty, Hope and Change: a recent ACLU Report that acknowledges that under Team Obama warrantless wire taps have actually surged. Oops!   Let us consider the Obama tenure.  Obfuscation instead of open book leadership. Turning over Party policy and leadership to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi creating a hard-left bookend assuring political stalemate upon political issues – instead of his promise to reach across the party aisles to heal the nation. Increased to the point of quadrupled,  warrantless wire taps. Obfuscation of Military operations. Similar Bush Policies on the two wars in the Middle East. Similar Bush Policy concerning the harboring  of Guantanamo Prisoners. Increased involvement of military and political interference with Middle eastern nations. Increased use of unsolicited military force  encroaching inside foreign nations borders. Impulse driven Drone Strikes on citizens and foreign nationals sans judicial arbitration. On and on and on…..

Translation for the Bush Deranged: Barack Obama equals: Not the Anti-George Bush President. No Hope, No Change just more of the same old Washington DC Political Mayhem and leadership.  In all actuality Barack Obama leadership would be equal to George Bush in ‘roid rage. But then what did you really expect from a President versed in unscrupulousness of Chicago and Illinois politics! Our Illinois political leaders are at the top or near the top when it comes to political duplicity.

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