by | February 17, 2011 · 8:12 am

Thursday’s Path – February 17th, 2011

by Dee

Good morning!

I’m off to go get a new timing belt for our one and only car.   Good times.  I would much rather hang out with all of you this morning.  Well, happy posting!

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21 responses to “Thursday’s Path – February 17th, 2011”

  1. DeniseVB's avatar DeniseVB
    February 17, 2011 at 9:08 am

    A recent Michelle Malkin column nails the First Lady’s Let’s Move scam 😀
    http://michellemalkin.com/2011/02/16/super-nanny-first-lady-of-junk-science-michelle-obama/
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    America is finally catching on. For nearly two years, I’ve chronicled food profiteer-turned-food cop Michelle Obama’s obese and obscene power grab masquerading as a public health crusade. She quickly leveraged her hubby’s U.S. Senate victory to snag a lucrative seat on the corporate Board of Directors of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. despite having zero experience in the industry, publicly begrudged other Americans’ choices in how they earn their money — and then parlayed her East Wing power to push Obamacare, threaten food advertisers’ speech and serve the SEIU’s legislative agenda (full story on this in Culture of Corruption), and brow-beat restaurants over portion sizes. Mrs. O even played the childhood obesity card to try and win the Chicago crony-lympics bid……[snip]

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    • bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
      February 17, 2011 at 1:30 pm

      Great article, Denise! I love MM.

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    • Dee's avatar Dee
      February 19, 2011 at 8:59 am

      That was really good.
      As a breastfeeding advocate, I was still only mildly interested when I heard that pumps were now tax deductible. I seriously doubt that getting a deduction on a pump is going to influence ANY mom in her decision to breastfeed or not. What it’s done, instead, is create a situation where those who have already bought their pump this year, now get an extra deduction, and those like me who plan on buying in the future, will get a rebate check from the gubmint in the form of a slightly larger tax refund. To think that this will encourage breastfeeding one iota makes it seem that the one reason people don’t breastfeed is because of a lack of access to affordable pumps. Hogwash. There are many reasons people don’t breastfeed, and in all the literature I’ve read, this has never been mentioned as a reason. The decision to breastfeed or not has less to do with having a pump (and the deduction that now comes with it) and more to do with adequate support, post natal care, and those darn baby blues! Want more mothers to breastfeed? Require hospitals to provide lactation consultants 24/7 (I’m not advocating this, just if you are going to do something, do this!)
      I also hadn’t even considered the way they are doing it could lead in the future to personal gyms to become a deduction. I mean, why not? Those promote healthy living as well.
      Gah.

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  2. tnwahm's avatar tnwahm
    February 17, 2011 at 10:10 am

    I finally made it. Looks good everyone! My mom is here for the week, so I haven’t had much computer time. My mom’s in doing the dishes now. Aren’t moms great!

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  3. bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
    February 17, 2011 at 11:33 am

    The blog looks wonderful! So glad we had someone do the set-up who actually knows what she is doing.☺

    I’ve been putting off addressing the brouhaha in Wisconsin, caused by our governor’s peculiar determination to prevent us ending up like California and New York (i.e., bankrupt), but it’s about to push me over the edge. I’m going to try to write about it later today, assuming I get all my real work done first.

    Apropos of nothing, does anyone know why, whenever one of us uses the real name of someone else here (as opposed to screen name), most of the letters end up as X? That’s something I’ve never seen before.

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  4. rightmindedmoms's avatar rightmindedmoms
    February 17, 2011 at 11:55 am

    Here’s a prime example of what is wrong with our public school system:

    We Need to Stop Teaching Our Students How to Write

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    • bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
      February 17, 2011 at 12:22 pm

      That guy is a dupnik. Thanks for making me glad my daughter doesn’t go to school!

      Oh, and the Wisconsin teachers’ union is giving me yet another reason to be glad my kid isn’t in school. They are currently in the process of taking their poor hapless clueless students — who know nothing about economics, and even less about government, and who couldn’t define “collective bargaining” if their pathetic little lives depended on it — and whipping them into a frenzy over our governor’s budget proposal, which is designed to pull us out of the economic disaster which our previous governor’s reckless spending has landed us in. For the first time, teachers are actually being asked to share in the economic pain that the rest of us have been suffering ever since the recession started, and they are livid. They have been ranting about it to their students, who are taking up the cause and posting the most ignorant, uninformed rants on their facebook pages, accusing the governor of hating children and wanting to destroy the public schools and the UW system. All balderdash, but of course the children don’t know any better. Let’s call it what it is: child abuse.

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    • Amanda's avatar Amanda
      February 18, 2011 at 2:05 pm

      Wow. I find that a bit horrifying. We don’t need to learn spelling or state capitals? Let the computer fix your spelling? Hardly. How are you going to know if the computer is wrong? I agree with teaching technology and foreign languages, but not at the expense of everything else. And I disagree with him about penmanship. I have to read other people’s writing all the time in my job and it’s a pain in the you-know-what when they scribble something unreadable. And yes, you can look most stuff up on the Internet. But if that’s the argument, why send kids to school at all? They can just “Google” stuff when they need to know it.

      Words in italics were edited by admin.

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  5. bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
    February 17, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    Victor Davis Hanson nails it, as usual:

    “Were we to put our financial house in order, slash our deficits, show the world how we intend to pay down our $14 trillion debt, and make the needed long-term reforms to Social Security and Medicare, the United States would be in a unique position in comparison to an ailing and sclerotic Europe, a demographically challenged Japan, and a China with a rendezvous with social tension, environmental catastrophe, and a warped demography. We are still a more open and transparent society than our rivals — with a more meritocratic ethos, far greater social and political stability, and blessed with vast natural and human resources. Why, then, cannot we regain our exceptionalism?”

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259829

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  7. bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
    February 17, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    I just posted on my blog about the Wisconsin budget mess.
    http://bluebirdofbitterness.wordpress.com/

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  9. DeniseVB's avatar DeniseVB
    February 18, 2011 at 10:13 am

    Ooops, that didn’t make sense…..just playing with the “steal a blog” feature, then went to bed. Needs editing, a nice intro for Bob 🙂

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