Obama's Crazy Scientists

(In title of post is link to the site I pulled this though you can go to Michelle Malkin's blog for more. The bold/italics are blog author's emphasis to original article.)

"Two scientists, two standards
Michelle Malkin - Syndicated Columnist - 7/15/2009 9:45:00 AM

"The New York Times recently warned its readers about a wacky scientist in the Obama administration. But the fish wrap of record let the real nut job off the hook. Reporting last week on the president's choice to head the National Institutes of Health, Times writer Gardiner Harris noted that praise for Dr. Francis S. Collins "was not universal or entirely enthusiastic." The geneticist is causing "unease," according to the Times, because of "his very public embrace of religion." Stomachs are apparently churning over a book Collins wrote describing his conversion to Christianity.

"It's called -- gasp! -- The Language of God. Harris intoned: 'Religion and genetic research have long had a fraught relationship, and some in the field complain about what they see as Dr. Collins' evangelism.'

"And...that's it. Yes, the mere profession of Collins' faith is enough to warrant red flags and ominous declamations. A quarter of all Americans identify themselves as evangelical Christians and "publicly embrace their religion." But to the Times, Collins' open affiliation with 60 million American believers in Christ is headline news.

"The rationality police in the newsroom have not, however, seen fit to print the rantings of a radical secular evangelist now serving as the White House "science czar." John Holdren, Obama's director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, co-authored the innocuously titled Ecoscience in the 1970s with population control extremists Paul and Anne Ehrlich.

"Earlier this year, Ben Johnson at the online publication FrontPage Magazine provided quotes shedding light on Holdren's embrace of "compulsory abortion" for American women 'if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.' In Ecoscience, Holdren and the Ehrlichs also outlined their desire for 'a comprehensive Planetary Regime [that] could control the development, administration, conservation and distribution of all natural resources.'

"Johnson outlined the book's ugly eugenics plan and neo-Malthusian vision of enviro-crats engineering the population. Yet, there was scant mention of Holdren's stomach-churning proposals during his confirmation hearings in February. Holdren's defenders might have comforted themselves by claiming that the quotes were taken out of context. But last week, another online investigative journalist scanned copious pages from the book to show that his words had been unedited and accurately transcribed. (The disturbing documents can be found at http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/.)

"There, you'll find Holdren musing about how to infect the nation's water supply to make women infertile for the benefit of Mother Earth:

'Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control....No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: It must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets or livestock.'

"Holdren's planetary regime would also breed out undesirables 'who contribute to social deterioration' and 'insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption -- especially those born to minors, who generally are not capable of caring properly for a child alone.'

"Single mothers who wanted to keep their children would be 'obliged to go through adoption proceedings and demonstrate her ability to support and care for it.'

"If a conservative blogger or Republican political candidate had published such lunatic claptrap, the Department of Homeland Security would have him on a watch list. Instead, Holdren is Overlord of Science Policy. Ecoscience remains on his curriculum vitae. Obama is still perceived as the champion of reason. And the national media, so concerned about the dangers posed by a born-again Christian scientist, have responded to a secular extremist's wild blueprints for forced abortions and mass sterilizations with a collective shrug. Scary."

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It Has Been a While...

Since I posted pics of my girl.
Her cousin made these tie dye tees but they shrunk to G size, so by default G got them. One day it was very very humid so what better to do than catch bubbles?

And look who is back? Bunny that is who. This bunny really did travel with G from China. It has been put up for fear that something or Clementine might tear it up. I didn't want the only true tangible connection to be lost. G has asked to see it every once and a while but recently she wanted it back to carry and hold. I can't refuse because it is hers. I also let her know that we would put it back up when she was through carrying it around.

She has recently been interested in watching the DVDs I had made from the China trip. Then she got all weepy about wanting to be a baby again. I may have mentioned this already, I don't usually go back and read what I write so I can't remember. Anyway, she carried the DVDs around the house for a bit and wanted to sleep with them even. I won't let her carry those out of the house.

So today we hit the museum to see the "live" dinosaur display. A bit of a let down if I do say so myself. After our temp membership expires I won't be taking G back to that museum for a while. It isn't worth having a membership really.

Our library is holding a tea party tomorrow afternoon. Friday I think we will go swimming as well as Saturday with a friend of ours. G wants to go see her pre-school teacher tomorrow afternoon, and she is agreeable to a visit tomorrow afternoon. G is very excited, to say the least!

One month from Saturday G starts kindergarten! Makes me sad and glad all at once. I maybe going back to school myself but I will know more when I have investigated the grants and loans available. Haven't a clue what degree to pursue this time, maybe nutrition. That really can't be outsourced can it? With an aging population, it will come in handy for stability and security. Maybe I can work all the classes in while G is in school. Won't that be fun?

I Declare Myself...

Clutz Of The Year-2009!! Yeah, Hooray! ::clapping::

Yesterday morning getting ready for church I was pointing with my foot to something for G while wearing my sort of tall wedge sandals when my other foot fell off my sort of tall wedge sandal and down I went. Straight down that is, landing squarly on my bum. My first thought was collapsed spine how humiliating. G just stared at me.

Friday night I read way late into the night for a while in a less than comfortable position so that on Saturday morning I felt pain rip through my shoulders and neck slight discomfort in my back, nothing a few hundred alleve didn't cure (for a while).

Sadly, I forget the pain in my bum until I bend over or sit down then I am shocked how badly I do hurt. No chair is comfortable at first. Oh and a thunderstorm came through at 1 amish for about 2 hours. Ask me how I know the time. Go ahead and ask. Oh, okay I will tell you. My dog is terrified of thunderstorms so I was up with her for that length of time trying to keep her from stepping on G.

You ask why was G in my bed when she has been sleeping in her own bed for a while now? Yes, well, from the pain in my shoulders/back and from staying up too late Friday I was too tired to argue. See, we stopped at my uncle's home for a brief visit and the movie Ghostbusters was on. G watched it though I warned her not to. Though she didn't see much, the movie both intrigued her and scared her, so Saturday night she refused to sleep alone. Then she kept me up later than I wanted, 'cuz she doesn't like to go to sleep.

The good news is I was able to take a very long nap Sunday. We even went to play on the blue slides (no pics, I was reading). We both were able to get a good night's rest last night.

Today G has an eye appt, tomorrow the dentist and Wed our therapy. Busy week. Today is my sister's and niece's birthday. One is older than me something and the other is 9. So Happy Birthday, Sister and SJ! Hope it is a wonderful day.

Some Pics of G and By G

G has an interesting POV for her pictures. She loves Simon our cat. These were all taken with her digital camera tough camera from fisher price. Personally, other than the kid tough part it wasn't worth the price. Takes craptastic pics, but I get to see our world from her eyes or how she sees her world. Simon is a good cat. He is extremely patient because she sometimes is very irritating towards him.

Oh My?!

It is 8:30pm and G fell asleep watching the Sound of Music. I guess I can understand. It was the boring part, you know where they are being chased across the boarder by the Nazis? So she was wrapped up in her brown blankie hardly holding herself up right in her zebra chair. I think the way she wrapped herself up she was holding herself right way up with her own weight. I picked her up and started to her door when she, through sleepy eyes and mouth said, "I wanna watch that." So I sat down less than a minute and now she is in her own bed sound asleep. I guess 6 hours in the pool will do that. We swam for almost 3 hours this morning, broke for lunch and a small rest (watching PinkyDinkyDoo) and then back to the pool for another 3 hours.

G is now jumping off the side of the deep end without noodle or kick board (her only floatation devices) and swimming to the rope which at this pool is well past half way. I stand at the rope just in case. I bought us both goggles and we both swam from side to side (shallow end) and looked at each other under water. We dove for the dive sticks and just had some fun together. So far no sunburns, YEA!

We have another pool of a friend that we can go to for a couple of hours a day (late afternoon) without having them be there but due to no bathroom we haven't been able to stay longer than 2 hours. They have a diving board too. The KOA pool though is the bigger pool though it costs, thus the 6 hour swim day. Maybe I should bring a picnic and literally stay all day! No pics as I don't want my camera around the pool. G has learned to float on her back but she has forgotten how to do a front and back flip. How do you forget?

Wow! Scary...

Now what do we do? Stop Obama, that is what. Call your senators and representatives today to stop the Obamadness! America can't afford his type of change.

Who Really Are the Haters?

(link in the title of post)
"STOP H8N
by Lorie Byrd

"I saw a bumper sticker today that said 'STOP H8N.' The first thought that came to mind was of the vile hatred I had seen directed at Sarah Palin over the weekend. Make that over the past year. I have tried to imagine how those on the left see Palin, but I don't get it. I despise what Barack Obama is doing to the country I love, but I don't make horrible, crude jokes about his precious daughters. I don't ridicule people he loves who have disabilities.

"I don't understand how anyone could do that and still have any self respect (or for that matter, a soul), but unfortunately there are many on the left who engage in such nasty attacks on Palin's family. I am not referring to just anonymous commenters on wacko lefty hate sites either, I am referring to people who have positions of influence and who proudly spew the bile out in the open. Since the explanation for such behavior is beyond my comprehension, I look to others who have given the matter some thought.

"From the Virginia blogger Reclusive Leftist: 'Of course, the first answer you’ll get if you ask feminists why they hate Sarah Palin is that "it’s because she ____" — and then fill in the blank with the lie of choice: made rape victims pay for their own kits, is against contraception or sex ed, believes in abstinence-only, thinks the dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago, doesn’t believe in global warming, doesn’t believe in evolution, is stupid and can’t read, etc., etc., etc., etc. But none of those things are true. None of them...These people don’t hate Palin because of the lies; the lies exist to justify the hate. That’s why they keep reaching and reaching for something else...'

"Reclusive Leftist doesn't have the answer ('I cannot figure it out. I look and look, and it’s like trying to see someone else’s hallucination. No matter how hard I squint, I can’t see whatever it is they’re looking at. What is so horrifying?'), but comes up with some pretty interesting theories, including the one of transference. 'And that’s another thing: it has not escaped my attention that many of the things Palin is accused of, falsely, are actually true of Obama. This is a guy who, as a U.S. senator from Illinois, didn’t even know which Senate committees he was on or which states bordered his own. (And don’t even get me started on Joe 'The Talking Donkey' Biden, who thinks FDR was president during the stock market crash and that people watched TV in those days.) I’m not saying Obama’s a moron, but he’s sure as hell no genius. People say Sarah Palin rambles; excuse me, but have you actually heard Obama speak extemporaneously? As for being a diva, surely we all remember the Possomus sign and the special embroidered pillow on the Obama campaign plane. The fact is, Obama is an intellectually mediocre narcissist with a thin resume who’s lost without a teleprompter and whose entire campaign had all the substance and gravity of a Pepsi commercial. Yet people say Sarah Palin is a fluffy bunny diva.'

"According to William Jacobson, it is all about Trig: 'Yes, some people hate Sarah Palin because she doesn't have the traditional pedigree, she isn't one of them, she is too good looking to be taken seriously, etc. And yes, some hate her because they hate her religion, politics, blah blah blah. But that doesn't explain the Sarah Palin hatred. It is so deep as to be pathological. But it keeps coming back to Trig.'

"Jacobson cites a multitude of attacks on Trig Palin beginning with Sarah Palin's VP nomination and continuing to her resignation speech this weekend, then concludes: 'The internet is full of Trig Palin conspiracy theories, name-calling and Photoshopping. No matter what month, event, or excuse, Palin haters find a reason to attack Trig. If Sarah Palin had aborted Trig, the left would have been okay with it. If she hid Trig offstage and out of sight, all would be good. But treat the child as you would any other child, and that cannot be tolerated. There is something about a Down syndrome child in plain view which has exposed the moral and emotional bankruptcy of the left-wing of the Democratic party. And they hate Sarah Palin because deep down, they hate themselves for being who they are.'

"Both reasons make as much sense as one might hope to be able to make of the vile and unrestrained hatred directed at Palin, but I think there is an additional explanation. Those on the left hurl the most ridiculous, outrageous, disgusting garbage at Palin because they don't know what else to do about her and it scares them out of their minds. Anyone who would "joke" about Palin running in 2012 on a "more retardation platform" is clearly out of their ever loving mind. Palin's opponents know that she speaks the language of the average everyday American. They know that she doesn't give a rip what they say about her (although the attacks on her family obviously have had an impact on her). They know (if they have even done the most cursory investigation) that she has a record of achievement and is a woman of action. They know that she is someone who has beaten the odds before and is in many ways an unpredictable wildcard.

"What do you do about someone like that if they are your political opposition? You could try debating them on the issues, but evidently those on the left are not confident enough about their own positions to do that. I guess all they have left is to sling mud and vein-popping hatred. Since they have a willing accomplice in the American media, it appears they will continue on that course-- at least for the time being."

Personal opinion is that Palin is resigning to save the Alaskan taxpayers money from defending frivolous lawsuits brought by crazy liberals over ethics issues that aren't. Not to mention the media really doesn't know how to treat her other than with ugly jokes and ugly statements about her family. She is a victim of main stream media's hatred and it isn't part of the "campaign play book" as one associated press reporter claims. Just a sampling of news articles on her will show extreme hatred/bias against her and her children particularly Trig. I hope she runs in 2012, I will vote for her.

Ni Hao Kai Lan

G (and I) loves Ni Hao Kai Lan. We watch it every time we get a chance when we are at my parents. Just FYI, I don't have any satellite hook up or cable on my TV, haven't for 10 years or so. I only have a VCR and DVD player. We have 1 KaiLan DVD that we do watch in rotation with all the other DVDs and videos.

So the other night we were having dinner at my mom's (before the 4th) and KaiLan was teaching "ai" or love. G comes up to me and asks how to say love in Chinese. I tell her "ai" and then I say, "Wo ai ni. I love you." I sort of heard KaiLan teaching it and saying, "Wo ai ladybugs."

G then asks, "Mama, did my fahsturh mommy say, 'wo ai ni' to me?"
I said, "Yes, baby, I am sure she did." G scampered off to watch TV again and I said to my mom, "Sometimes, those questions just getcha right here (pointing to the lump in my throat)." My mom just smiled.

Someone told me G was too young to be talking about her adoption and stuff related to it. Um, nope, she isn't. She has questions and wants answers. She sees unfairness in the fact that she isn't Caucasian like me and her grandparents. She loves to match, and knows she doesn't.

Today leaving therapy we talked about "G" as in the elevator button for "ground" floor. I said, "It is G for 'ground' and for 'G' (hername)."

G said, "Yeah and for gwammie and gwandaddy's name too. We match and you don't so we win and you lose." Such the little competitor!