By Chrissy the Hyphenated
Good morning, Polinators! It’s Grammy Buzz here, probably permanently, methinks, given how enthused Dee was about me agreeing to take over from her LOL.
What can I say? It seemed to me an excellent excuse to post über cute photos of my grandson and other items that just tweak my funny bone but don’t merit placement in my topical blog of the day.
And I’ve already garnered permission from two cartoonists I admire to use their stuff here. Up today is Terrell Aftermath with his brilliant take on the emerging “Obama Doctrine” …
Terrell’s site is @ http://terrellaftermath.com/
polination.blog 
THE GRUDGE REPORT
THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN
A good article by Robin of Berkley
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/the_white_mans_burden.html
OBAMA PRAISES PELOSI AT DCCC FUNDRAISER
“DCCC fundraiser=gaggle of useful idiots”
http://www.rollcall.com/news/-203969-1.html
IDAHO PASSES REPUBLICAN BILL TO CURB UNION RIGHTS
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110309/pl_nm/us_states_unions
‘WAIVING ‘ GOODBYE TO THE CONSTIUTION
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/waiving_goodbye_to_the_constit.html
BEHIND PUBLIC STANDOFF,WISCONSIN LAWMAKERS TALKED
More Kabuki theater?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-wisconsin-democrats-idUSTRE7260V520110309
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Good morning! Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Thanks to Chrissy and Pete for starting the day off right.
I’ll check back after work – stay safe!
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Good Morning Chrissy and Pete, thanks for kick starting the day with fun and news. Yum, waffles 😉
The Aunt of my newest granddaughter was on Fox and Friends this morning in the segment about women veterans’ difficulties finding jobs. If you saw it, she was the lovely lady in the middle. Maria’s not only gorgeous, but an Iraq vet and working on her MBA, hope Donald Trump was watching….:D
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I’d like to see that! Is there video available?
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Hope this link works, she’s in the middle…..there may be an ad first 😦
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4576117/female-vets-fighting-for-jobs
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Wow, she’s beautiful… maybe she should try modeling!:-)
It’s really sad that civilian employers don’t value these women. If I were an employer I would be thrilled to hire a veteran, for many reasons — because they served our country, and because they are smart and self-disciplined and know the meaning of hard work, and because their real-world, real-life experiences have made them far more well-rounded people than your run-of-the-mill college graduate who has done nothing in her life except go to school. (No offense intended to all the college girls out there, but I think life in the real world teaches you a LOT more than sitting in a classroom ever can.)
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This is an eye opener:
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Niall Ferguson on the worldwide gender gap, and what it may portend for the future:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-06/worldwide-gender-gap-means-more-bachelors-in-asia/
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I read recently that China already has about 500,000 young men without much to do. It was stated in the context that they have a huge pool for their military.
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My brother lived in Beijing for a year back in the early 80s. He told us then what a huge problem the one-baby rule was going to cause in a decade or two.
It was imposed without regard to the Chinese cultural mandate that a daughter becomes a member of her husband’s family. Therefore, parents of an only daughter had no hope of security in their old age.
My brother said that dead girl babies were commonly found in public dumpsters and that it wasn’t unusual for parents to cut off a girl’s hand, for example, in order to qualify for a second child under the “first is defective” rule.
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I’ve read and heard many similar horror stories about China under the one-baby-per-couple policy. It’s astonishing that the regime could not have foreseen the problems that this restriction would create. Even if you leave aside all the moral questions (Communist China is, after all, run by atheist dictators), the practical realities alone should be enough to persuade any intelligent person that it’s a terrible idea.
Now that the policy has been in place for a while, an entire generation has grown up, not only with no siblings, but in many cases with no aunts, uncles, or cousins. The divorce rate among young married people in China has skyrocketed, and sociologists say this is largely due to the one-child policy. None of these kids has ever had to live with someone before, has never learned to share and compromise and get along the way children who grow up with siblings must do. Worst of all, when a young couple that has a baby divorces, often neither parent wants the baby. Each partner hopes to remarry and have a new baby with the new spouse, which they can’t do if their quota is used up. So the baby of the failed marriage ends up abandoned. It’s heartbreaking.
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I wonder what happened to make Obama start singing Nancy Pelosi’s praises. I thought in the fall that they hated each other.
I enjoyed Robin of Berkley’s article, too. I have benefited a tiny bit from being a woman in a man’s business. Not officially, but some people see it as a novelty and I think that I have gotten a few jobs over the past 25 years simply because some people like that I am a woman contractor. I could have registered with the state to be a minority-owned business, but I didn’t want to fool with it – too much paper work and B.S. and I don’t really think my business is any different because I run it. I was worried about who I might be working for, too, if I was hired just because I am a minority-owned business. I feel for the white guys, I really do. I have a son, after all.
I agree with Bob that Denise’s relative should model – maybe shampoo because her hair was so shiny and pretty.
Thanks to all here who contribute to post-grad education.
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And now for a change of pace, some good news: Remember the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that used to offer low-income minority students a means of escape from dangerous and failing public schools — you know, the program Obama killed in order to placate his union buddies? Well, now John Boehner and the Republicans are restoring it:
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WOOHOO!!
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I just started an Intro to Law class. Our first assignment is to comment on the following: “It is everyone’s Constitutional Right to own a gun.” While doing some internet research about the 2nd Amendment, I found this website with an interesting interpretation that hadn’t occurred to me before.
http://www.godseesyou.com/2nd_well_regulated_militia.html
I also came across this website which I found useful in determining how to define the words used in the 2nd Amendment.
http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndmea.html
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I do agree with his/her point about how “militia” was originally defined in the Constitution and its relevance to interpretting the amendment. However, I’m not completely onboard with the idea that ALL amendments are meant to correct/change a specific section that already exists in the document. Sometimes, an amendment is meant to add something completely new that was left out. Regardless, the article really gets you thinking.
Just FYI…According to The American Heritage Dictionary blah, blah, blah, whatever version, etc., etc. that I’m holding in my hand…
in•fringe v. -fringed, -fring•ing. 1. To transgress; violate. 2. To encroach; trespass.
So, depending on which definition you choose, you could conveniently argue multiple directions with that one.
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Well, I do declare! The Repubs in WI found some cajones and passed the collective bargaining revision without the financials attached, so NO Dems needed for the vote. Now there is all kinds of mayhem happening in Madison. Bob, do you know anything about it?
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