Umbrella - ella - ella

"A Few Good Men..."

The more I think about the prez making a Marine hold his umbrella, the angrier I am....
He could have gotten any White House lackey to hold his stupid umbrella, but he picks a United State Marine?? This just really irks me, and evidently has irked other Americans too. Our Marines are some of our best and brightest... you know, they're looking for "a few good men."
When Johnny is a young boy and dreams of being a Marine, he's wanting to be a hero - a good guy - fighting the good fight. Not holding the prez's umbrella like a butler...
I don't know... I think it even goes deeper than what it looked like. The prez has no respect for the military. He was never in the Armed Forces, and is ill-equipped to be Commander-in-Chief.
Just saying....

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Says what He means and means what He says...

It's always soooo busy at the end of the school year, but I did want to briefly post about the story this week that U.S. government forms like FAFSA no longer have "mother" and "father" on them, but parent 1 and parent 2. This, we are told, is for the gay parents.... So I guess it's like ALL political correctness; we don't want to offend the small minority.
Sigh.
This just infuriates me. It's the "little" things like this that add up to a really messed up society. When I grew up, mother and father were a "given." And yes, if a child did not have both parents, we were sad for them, but in my wildest imagination, I would never have thought that we would remove "mother" and "father."
This reminds me of some of the new Bibles, where publishers are changing the male reference of "he" to a new term of both sexes. And I've even read that some translations want to refer to God as a she. This rewriting of things is so frustrating, and changes the meaning. Which I guess is exactly what these people want to do.
I've read in the past, that the Old Testament was to be translated exactly word for word. Words count with God -- He says what He means and He means what He says. He doesn't want it changed "by one letter" (as it says in His word) and He doesn't want the definition of marriage changed from what He meant it to be and has been like for thousands and thousands of years. Our ancestry passes through families with mothers and fathers. You know - as you've heard - Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
I also have read in the Bible that God's nature is reflected through a married couple because He created woman out of the rib of a man. So God reflects the qualities of both man and woman together as one.  It's what happens when a man and a woman marry and make love. Their spirits mix. It says it in the Bible. It's why it says for men to not seek  prostitutes - because their spirits will be mixed together forever. 
These folks may try to rewrite history, but it doesn't make it so. They may try to change or water down God's Word, but it doesn't make it so. And  they may change the American definition of marriage - but it doesn't make it so.
And now more than ever in the public schoolbooks the NEA is changing history. They can focus on the liberal agenda, and as the mainstream media does, spend massive more time on their pet subjects. Text books are being phased out,  and CSCOPE is being used in schools. It's all online and done at school -- and easy to keep changing and kept from parent's eyes.
It's a wicked world and the bad guys have infiltrated every area of our society.
It's past time to fight back.

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Too tired to post - been at high school academic awards - DD is in top 10% of her class (shown) & other random school pix.

I've got good news and bad news...

The good news is... that Gosnell was convicted, even with the majority of the jury considered "pro-choice." I mean, I say it's good news, but he only got convicted of killing three babies when, in actuality, I wonder how many murders of babies he committed? And I mean by God's definition... all of the abortions were murder - so were there thousands? Which brings me to another question I have for very late abortion mothers. Why kill the child then? If you're close to the end or actually giving birth, why?? And the "partial-birth" abortion. Why not birth the child, and let someone else raise it. You can sign away a child, and if you do closed adoption, they can never find you. I guess that's too logical and too moral for these types of women? So they allow their child to be born, and then killed? How about the story from last week, when a woman who aborted (killed) her child, found out much later that her baby's head was still inside of her. Now THAT'S a horror movie...
Other stories in the news are disturbing. I didn't say 'surprising' because I'm not a low-information person. And maybe it's also that there are so many really nauseating stories coming to light at the same time.
As one who has worked in the media all of my career (although in advertising and not journalism) I am appalled that the Justice Department "secretly obtained two months of phone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press." This is DISGUSTING.  What are we???  a Communist country??? Aren't the Associated Press already in the tank for the liberals anyway??? Were they just making sure???  This should outrage every American!!!
Added to that, we learn that the IRS has been targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups. Again, we all know this sort of thing has gone on for years. I can remember hearing that Bill Clinton's enemies would all get audited and have to lawyer up for tax situations. But this is actually much worse. I read tonight that the IRS was also asking for Tea Party volunteer names and donor names and social media friends. Well, THAT crosses the line even more!! We've all heard that the prez has an enemy list, and I'm sure all Tea Partiers are on it as well. They said they even targeted groups that want to save the constitution. This should scare every American!!
Then there is the story this week out of Bakersfield, California of the SEVEN cops who beat an intoxicated man to death as he begged for his life. The 33 year old man and father of four, was unarmed yet they kept striking his head with their batons. Witnesses that made cell phone videos had them confiscated. Here are more government workers that are above the law. We the people are at the mercy of law enforcement, and when there are bad cops, what can we do???  And then to have all the videos taken??  Evidently one really grainy one remained but is hard to see. ALL of the witnesses say they are haunted by what they saw -- a passed out drunk being beaten to death in front of them. If the man resisted arrest (and this, too, is unclear) why not use a stun gun. Or the Chuck Norris strong hold? But to keep beating the man's head as hard as they could with batons? Witnesses say they could hear the man choking on his own blood. This, too, should outrage all Americans!!
I could go on with the Bad News all night, but I think I'll stop there.
You get the picture...

Children are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward."

My children are my most favorite gifts... Motherhood is the most difficult and most gratifying thing most women will do in their lives.
Happy Mother's Day!