I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.
I never knew the backstory behind this poem. It makes the hymn so much more meaningful!
A-HOLES: [31:28] – Every year since 1984, the good folks who live in a West Allis, Wisconsin, neighborhood they dub “Candy Cane Lane” decorate their homes bigly and encourage visitors to make a small donation as they drive through the festively enhanced neighborhood. All of the money raised goes to support research, treatment, and the eventual discovery of a cure for childhood cancers and related blood diseases.
This year, BLMers staged a loud march through the event. The group claims, “In our video it clearly shows demonstrators walking down the center of the streets to not impede any of the vehicles.” No, actually, the video shows them hogging an entire lane, which means they blocked traffic in that direction. Police received calls about the noise and traffic congestion, but did not arrest or cite anyone, because they saw no evidence of violence or vandalism.
One man shared a post from a friend that read, “So my son and I were playing in the living room and we heard very loud music and people chanting from the outside. We open up the front door to see what all the commotion was about. It was a ‘Black Lives Matter’ march going up and down my block and through candy cane lane. These people saw my ‘Back the Badge’ sign and ‘Trump 2020’ sign and began to shout at us. They began to give us the middle finger and shouted, ‘F-CK YOU F-CK THE POLICE F-CK TRUMP!’ Uhm really? I am holding my ONE year old son in my arms. Glad to see how ‘peaceful’ and ‘respectful’ these people and protests really are lol. What a bunch of pieces of sh-t.”
BAD POPES: [50:33] – When I was an RCIA teacher, one of our candidates told us he had “read” himself into the Catholic faith. In his ten years of reading, he said one of the most compelling arguments he came across that Catholic doctrine is true and protected by God Himself were the bad popes. We were astonished, but he made a great point. Even at their worst, none of them changed doctrine to make their behaviors okay.
BLESSINGS: How do people get through more than a decade of public school without learning how incredibly wealthy we are?
We are low-middle income and I’m disabled, yet we own our own home with a yard and a car, enjoy year-round climate control, indoor plumbing delivering clean water, light at any time of the day or night, and plenty of good quality clothing and foot wear. Millions of people around the world, especially in third world and communist countries can not say the same.
But we ALSO have college educations, our own small business, multiple computers, phones, a vast array of tools for our DIY projects, a DVD player/monitor and hundreds of books for entertainment and enlightenment, and a church where we are free to worship without fear. How many people can claim as much?
But we ALSO have reliable street-side trash pick up, daily mail delivery, police a few minutes away, a doctor, a chiropractor, a dentist, an auto mechanic, a computer guy, and a cleaning gal who all take great care of us. My kids served in the Middle East and helped people who had none of that.
But we ALSO have grocery stores packed with nutritious and delicious fresh and frozen food, easy access to goods of every description in stores or via mail order, and nearby restaurants and carry out for special days. Our dog eats better than many people’s children!
But we ALSO have healthy kids and grandkids who drive or fly to see us when they can and call and zoom when they can’t. I often think of my ancestors who left their homes and maybe were able to write or get a letter once in a blue moon.
Yes, I am disabled and in constant pain and my husband works hard. But our lives are so full of joy and blessings that there isn’t time in the world to begin to tell you all of it!
WATCH THIS! CLICK https://fb.watch/2u2alJDzUy/ to hear an important message about how we Christians should be dealing with the election [15:59] – “It’s not about the election. It’s about faith. … Get your eyes back on me.”
2020: [1:37] – Missouri Senator Josh Hawley sounded off in Congress saying, “74 MILLION AMERICANS are not going to shut up.”
2020: [:19] – With NeverTrumper John Roberts as Chief Justice, I’m not getting my hopes up that SCOTUS will do a damn thing. Stopping the Steal is shaping up to be a true David vs. Goliath battle. If Trump gets a second term, it’s going to be totally because GOD willed it! To HIM be the glory!
CALIFORNIA: A citizen movement of California residents are busily collecting signatures demanding for a recall vote on Gov. Gavin Newsom. They need 1.5 million signatures by March in order to put the issue on the ballot. They’ve got 820,000 so far.
Also, a judge in southern California issued a ruling allowing San Diego restaurants to reopen in violation of Newsom’s stay-at-home order.
CENSUS: SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that the federal census can eliminate illegal aliens. Democrats want them included, because congressional seats and Electoral College votes are based on them.
Reminds of how Republicans once decided to count slaves as three-fifths of a person. Democrats, who treated their slaves as property, wanted them counted as full citizens in the census.
COVID-19: [1:58] – Twitter and Instagram removed a viral video exposing United Airlines’ evicting a family whose two-year-old child refused to wear a mask.
United declined to give the family back their baggage, though a flight attendant did go retrieve their child car seat for them. I’m guessing she has kids herself and knows how difficult it is to travel without a car seat.
I can’t see a single reason for this to ever occur again. Masks are supposed to keep pre-symptomatic infectious people from spreading the virus.
But now that the quick results, at-home COVID-19 test kits exist, people like this could be tested on the spot. If negative, then they could be allowed to fly mask-less.
GEORGIA: On Dec. 17, Secretary of State Raffensperger announced that his office will partner with the University of Georgia to analyze a random sampling of signatures from each county’s November mail-in ballots. The audit is expected to take 2 weeks.
Bridget Thorne and Susan Voyles have spoken to news outlets and state legislators about having seen abnormal activity while performing their duties as poll workers in Fulton County. They have both been notified that their contracts with the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections have not been renewed.
In November, Georgia’s Elections Division Director sent out a memo to county election officials claiming that Dominion Voting Systems software and software updates were not to be provided in response to Open Records Requests. These machines essentially determine who won an election, but voters aren’t allowed to see what’s going on inside them?
HATERS: Another powerful law enforcement officer whose hatred for Donald Trump supersedes his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
HOT DOGS: “People tell me they’re afraid to get the vaccine because they don’t know what’s in it. I ask them: do you eat hot dogs? Because you don’t know what’s in them, either.” — Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA.
Somebody called this the “Quote of the Week”, but I think it’s the “Dumb Analogy of the Week.”
And, in fact, I do NOT eat hot dogs … because of what’s in them. While I am not a rabid anti-vaxxer, I am extremely cautious about them ever since one of my babies suffered a vaccine-related injury.
HUNTER: Ponder this for a minute – In October, Joe Biden called his son Hunter Biden “the smartest guy I know.”
MICHIGAN: On Nov. 3, Antrim County officials reported that Biden got 3,000 more votes than Trump. Two days later, they said Trump won by about 2,500 votes. On Nov. 21, they changed it again, this time certifying that Trump won by nearly 4,000 votes.
Officials have blamed the goofy results on human error. Ha, ha, ha.
Allied Security Operations Group conducted an audit of the county’s Dominion machines and found, surprise! (not) that the system had been set to intentionally reject an enormous number of “ballot errors” to the adjudicator. Remember that video where they showed us how easy it is for an adjudicator to change votes?
“Based on our study, we conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified,” Russell Ramsland Jr., co-founder of Allied Security Operations Group
This week, the results of a hand recount confirmed the third recount’s results. Trump won 9,759 to 5,959.
OREGON: Collegiate fascists in training are DEMANDING that the College Republicans group be removed from campus because they … wait for it … attended a “Stop the Steal” rally.
ZUCKERBERG: On Wednesday, the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society released its report on the $419.5 million that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave to non-profit organizations during the 2020 election cycle.
“The 2020 presidential election witnessed an unprecedented and coordinated public-private partnership to improperly influence the 2020 presidential election on behalf of one particular candidate and party. Funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other high-tech interests, activist organizations created a two-tiered election system that treated voters differently depending on whether they lived in Democrat or Republican strongholds.” – Executive summary
Priscilla Chan’s parents are ethnic Chinese who fled Vietnam in a refugee ship. She is fluent in Cantonese.
ST. JANUARIUS: Although the Roman Catholic Church does not officially recognize the miraculous nature of this phenomenon or what kind of message God uses it to send, many faithful Catholics (particularly Neapolitans) believe that when the liquefaction of St. Januarius’ blood does not occur, it is a sign from God that things are going to get bad. Personally, I think it’s a Great Big Neon Sign to PRAY PRAY PRAY.
The relic holding the dried blood of the martyr is taking out and rotated three times a year – on the first Sunday of May in celebration of the saint’s relics arriving at the Cathedral in Naples, on Sept. 19, the Feast of St. Januarius, and Dec. 16, the anniversary of Naples’ preservation from the 1631 Mount Vesuvius eruption.
This year, the blood liquefied in May and September, but it did NOT do so this week.
The blood also did not liquefy in 1631, before the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It again did not liquefy prior to the German invasion of Poland and before the Nazis bombed Europe. In 1973, it did not liquefy before Italy experienced a terrible cholera epidemic or in 1980 before a massive earthquake hit southern Italy, killing thousands. The last time that the saintly blood did not become liquid was on December 16, 2016.
St. Januarius was a third century bishop known for his bravery in defending his flock and was martyred during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. He is the patron saint of Naples, Italy.
2020: Peter Navarro, who serves as an adviser to President Donald Trump, concluded in a report on the integrity of the 2020 election that significant irregularities occurred across all six battleground states and across all six dimensions of election irregularities.
The problems are more than sufficient to have illegally stolen the election for Biden.
If these election irregularities are not fully investigated prior to Inauguration Day and thereby effectively allowed to stand, this nation runs the very real risk of never being able to have a fair presidential election again.
CALIFORNIA: President Trump, our greatest pro-life president ever, has told the Department of Health and Human Services to withhold $200 million per quarter in Medicaid payments to California until it removes its requirement that all private health insurance plans pay for abortion.
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center, which forced a pro-life nurse to participate in an abortion in violation of her deeply held religious beliefs.
The Trump administration has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, asking to overturn a district court judge’s ruling that allows abortion facilities to send abortion drugs to women in the mail, potentially without ever seeing them in person for an exam.
The results of the Georgia Senate race and our fight to get the true winner into the White House are CRITICAL to the unborn. If Democrats get 50 senators and Biden takes office, Kamala Harris will vote down every attempt to protect them.
CHINA: A cyber research group called Exigent Media analyzed signals data and found that the ChiComs exploited vulnerabilities over 3G and 4G networks to conduct “mass surveillance” on Americans.
CONGRESS: On Thursday Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and 18 House colleagues sent a letter to Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and various House and Senate chairs requesting fraud hearings ahead of the Jan 6th Electoral College vote submissions.
Under the Constitution and federal statutes, Congress is responsible for resolving all federal election contests for President, the Senate and the House. But with hostile actors leading both houses, I’m not holding my breath that our concerns will get any kind of hearing, never mind a fair one.
This is truly a David vs. Goliath fight. It will take a true miracle from God Almighty to put Trump in office for a second term. Keep praying and if He answers YES, then to HIM be the glory!
CORNELL: These little Nazis have learned their Progressive overlords’ lessons well – The Student Assembly voted (14 to 4) to disarm their campus police, then ejected the four members who had voted no. The bogus excuse the Student Assembly executive committee used was previously unenforced rules on attendance and committee membership.
The 14 members who voted against disarmament penned a Letter to the Editor in which they described the committee removals as a “late night purge,” arguing that these removals solely happened because of their vote on the resolution.
The little tyrants plan to hold the disarmament vote again, no doubt so they can say it was UNANIMOUS. I’m guessing the voluntary self-purging of the Cornell security force has already begun. Good luck finding a cop when you need one.
COVID-19: Following studies showing these drugs are effective, Indian pharmacies began carrying coronavirus. They are available by prescription. The box says, “These medicine acts to prevent viral multiplication and also stop the virus from entering human cells.” This is called “following the science.”
Meanwhile, Big Pharma has received approval to roll out another vaccine that may or may not harm you, but they don’t care, because the government gave them blanket immunity from prosecution. So it you suffer a vaccine-related injury that leaves you unable to work and pay your bills, tough noogies.
FLEEING: The California Exodus, sparked by high taxes, coronavirus lockdowns, and regulations, is projected to cost the state a seat in Congress and an electoral vote.
The latest to be announced is the tech firm, Oracle, which is moving from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. Founder and multi-billionaire Larry Ellison (76) says he’s moving to the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he owns 98% of and will work from his new home via Zoom.
HUNTER: Prior to Joe Biden’s expression of confidence in his son’s lily white innocence, he spent a week dodging reporters asking him about it. I guess he had to wait until his handlers told him what he thinks.
JACKBOOTS: Failed Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who is also a CNN contributor, echoed on Friday calls from communist China by calling for people to have proof-of-vaccination barcodes.
“Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated — like a bar code they can download to their phone?” Yang wrote on Twitter. “There ought to be.”
SCIENTOLOGY: Apparently, Tom Cruise has been taking a lot of flak for his profanity-ridden rant, but at least one person thinks he deserves to be cut some slack. Tom has been trying to film another Mission Impossible (oh, the irony!) despite the challenges presented the coronavirus that has stalled a lot of the film industry from working. In fact, he has spent more than $700,000 of his own money for personal protective equipment and other resources so the crew is safe and the studio’s liability concerns are reduced. So it’s understandable that he was less than thrilled to see his crew ignoring the coronavirus rules.
“They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us. We are creating thousands of jobs, you motherf***ers. “We are not shutting this f***ing movie down! Is it understood? … You can tell it to the people that are losing their f***ing homes because our industry is shut down. It’s not going to put food on their table or pay for their college education. That’s what I sleep with every night. The future of this f***ing industry! So I’m sorry, I am beyond your apologies. We are the gold standard. I’m on the phone with every f***ing studio at night. Insurance companies! Producers! And they’re looking at us, and using us to make their movies. That’s what I’m thinking about. That’s what I’m doing today. I’m talking to Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros. Movies are going because of us. We shut down, it’s going to cost people their f***ing jobs, their homes, their family—that’s what’s happening. All the way down the line.”
All that being said, Tom is a devout follower of Scientology, a practice that has reportedly cost him two marriages. And the stuff about Xenu is part of the “religion’s” (cult’s?) doctrine.
SCOTUS: Pray for Lin Wood and for the integrity of our Supreme Court. They have far too much power to be putting partisan politics over the Constitution.
SOROS: This is too depressing. Read it if you are not near any sharp objects.
TRANS: The Left would have us believe that truth is hateful. God is truth. They hate God. It follows.
TRANSPORTATION: If you haven’t eaten recently, CLICK https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1339260092575846400 [:38] to hear Pete Bootyjudge admit he basically has no qualifications for the post Biden has chosen for him, maybe so he can have TWO LGBTQ check marks on his ledger. Or something.
Mayor Buttigieg says his big plan it to reform our nation’s transportation system so that it better combats racism and protects the environment while insulating communities against natural disasters caused by climate change. (In other words, planes that don’t crash and trains that run on time are not a big priority.)
UNITED KINGDOM: England’s High Court has struck a rare victory for free speech. Kate Scottow was convicted of committing hate speech for calling a trans activist by his biological gender rather than by her legal gender. The High Court overturned the prosecution as a plain “interference by the state with the defendant’s Convention right to freedom of expression.”
WONDER WOMAN: I generally enjoy superhero movies. They’re fairly mindless and often come with audio descriptive tracks, so I can crochet while I listen. But I’m giving Wonder Woman 1984 a hard pass. According to early reviews, the main super villain is clearly modeled after Donald Trump.
I majored in Art History, so Joseph Shaw’s article at LifeSite News caught my attention and I think it is worth reading and pondering.
This year, the annual tradition of the large-scale Nativity scene in St Peter’s Square descended into farce when the figures were revealed as childish and hideous products of artistic modernism. The figures were produced over the course of about a decade starting in 1965 and are reminiscent of the mediocre art of that time. One of the figures visiting the crib is an astronaut; others are unrecognizable. There is an angel represented as a bizarre, tower-like object with meaningless rings round it.
There are a great many reasons why this collection of objects is unsuitable for display as the Vatican’s Nativity scene. I leave it to art historians to decide whether it has sufficient historical importance to gather dust in a provincial museum somewhere. If it were not the season of goodwill, I might suggest it be crushed and used for road-building. But the simple and overwhelming point to make about it is that while it might claim to be religious art — art inspired by religious themes or values, or representing a scene with religious significance — it cannot possibly be described as devotional art.
The failure to distinguish these two categories is to blame for a lot of entirely inappropriate art in our churches. Consider the images showing the Stations of the Cross. These are designed to assist the user (and, yes, devotional art is used), to enter imaginatively into the scenes of Christ’s sufferings. This assistance to the imagination is the role of all devotional depictions of scenes. To do this effectively, it needs at least to be representational, and not, for example, abstract.
Again, devotional images of Christ and the saints have the role of focusing the attention in prayer, because that is what they are for: they are designed to be the focus of prayer. In order to do this they must themselves honor the person represented, who is being venerated, and bring out figure’s holiness. The Roman soldiers and some of the bystanders in the Stations of the Cross may be ugly brutes, but even a painting of a saint who was a leper, like St. Damian of Molokai, should bring out his inner beauty and not exaggerate his disfigurement.
The reason is not only that a beautiful image will hold our attention, and a repulsive image, obviously, repel it, but because sanctity and beauty are connected. However we define beauty, a beautiful thing is one that is not disordered, whose features are not out of proportion or out of place, and this is naturally attractive to us. God is beautiful because He is supremely well ordered. The saints become beautiful as they grow in holiness. Physical beauty is therefore a fitting artistic symbol of spiritual beauty. The innocence of children, and the serenity of old people who are at peace with God, are in real life outward signs of the inner person, even if such signs are fallible. Evil makes even naturally beautiful people ugly, in time: eventually one can see cruelty, sensuality, and egoism etched in the face.
A Nativity scene has a particularly delicate devotional role, because it is a scene for meditation, like the Stations of the Cross or a depiction of a martyrdom, and at the same time, the individual major figures are devotional images of Christ and the saints, which will be the focus of prayer in a way the figures in the Stations are much less often. Unlike the stations or a painting of some other complex religious scene, a Nativity scene in a church will be blessed, have candles lit in front of it, and be the focus of a great deal of individual prayer over the months of its display. More, perhaps, should be done to make these as grand, beautiful, and devotionally compelling and appropriate as possible than usually is done.
Not only is the Vatican Nativity scene a complete failure as a piece of devotional art — it would obviously be difficult to pray in front of it, and I doubt that many people will try — but its style is a deliberate rejection of beauty in art. It is the product of the movement popularized (if that is the right word) in the 1960s, which says art should be not about beauty, but about the artist’s existential despair or something of the kind.
The late Roger Scruton, a philosopher of art, asked of this movement:
Why should people want to desecrate the human form and the ordinary ideals of human life? And I say, you only desecrate what is sacred. Only something sacred can be desecrated. So there’s this cry from the heart here for the religious meaning of things. It’s showing the yearning for God and the sense that these things make no sense without him.
This artistic movement is a reflection of a world without God, and the despair the artist feels as a result. A more inappropriate medium for expressing the message that God is born in Bethlehem is impossible to imagine.
He has passed the first hurdle in his claim that election fraud via Dominion Voting Systems stole his chance to become a State Senator in Massachusetts.
Dr. Ayyurdai is going to get his day in court, where he will be able to present the evidence he has collected – documentary, eye witness and statistical – showing that Dominion Voting Systems machines were used to commit election fraud.
Here are two brief videos:
CLICK https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/1333529310930485249 [1:43] to hear his credentials as he presented them at the Arizona hearing. The man is absolutely brilliant. He holds four degrees from M.I.T and is a scientist-technologist, entrepreneur and educator, a Fulbright Scholar, Lemelson-MIT Awards Finalist and Westinghouse Science Talent Honors Award recipient. He even holds the first U.S. copyright for email.
CLICK https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1333523364993003523 [1:19] to hear part of the testimony he presented in Arizona. In the full presentation, he demonstrated how the only way he could make Joe Biden’s sudden jump was to assume that he received 130% of all the Democrat votes while Trump received -30% of the Republican votes. This short clip is just the conclusion.
If you have 50 minutes, you can listen to this one from Gateway Pundit. This is WORTH YOUR TIME. [50:50]
In the next video, he explains how the weighted race feature was used to steal the Michigan election. [1:10:22]
CARDINAL BURKE: On “The Great Reset”, a proposal by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to rebuild the economy sustainable. It was in place before the pandemic, just waiting for a reason to launch it. It’s the real reason behind all the absurd lockdowns, mask mandates, school and church closings, etc. It’s basically about the godless elite trying to take over the world and create a global feudal society in which they hold all the power and wealth while the rest of us beg for scraps at their table.
CIVILITY: Every so often, Democrats wag their fingers at us about how we need to be more civil. The latest version is their self-serving call for “unity” and “healing.”
Since they’ve spent the last four years promoting and committing acts of political, legal, and physical violence against Republicans, I’m unimpressed, especially since they’re such obvious hypocrites.
The latest is Jen O’Malley Dillon, the person Joe Biden has picked for his deputy chief of staff. During an interview with Glamour magazine, she called Republicans “a bunch of f—ers.” Nice, Jen. Real nice.
FAILING UPWARD: Joe Biden’s preference for “climate czar” is Gina McCarthy, the former EPA director who didn’t warn the people of Flint, Michigan, that their water was contaminated with lead.
INDIA: The governments in certain areas of India are distributing the homeopathic drug Arsenicum Album, because they have found it greatly improves immunity against coronavirus. In addition, it is safe for anyone above the age of 12 months to take prophylactically. They recommend taking it for 3 days and then repeat in a month if the coronavirus infection is still in the community.
If you’re interested, you can buy an 80-pellet tube of Arsenicum Album (30C) at most health food stores or on-line for about $7. If you take 3 pellets 3 times a day for 3 days, a tube is more than enough to treat one person prophylactically for two months.
Hold the pellets under the tongue until they’re dissolved. They have a totally unobjectionable, slightly sweet taste.
Or go to Elixirs (URL below) and buy a bottle of 800 pellets for $23. Arsenicum Album is a good remedy to have on hand for a whole host of common ailments. Read about it at Homeopathy Plus (URL below).
MICHIGAN: On Tuesday, a joint session of the state’s House and Senate oversight committees voted to issue subpoenas to Detroit and the nearby suburb of Livonia demanding they surrender hard drives, emails, absentee voter counting board laptops and other election-related materials. One Senate Democrat reportedly joined his Republican colleagues in supporting the subpoenas.
SCOTUS: A group of Pennsylvania Republicans is calling for the nation’s highest court to consider their election-related lawsuit pertaining to the state of Pennsylvania.
Good luck with that, fellas. Lin Woods has revealed that, in August 2019, Chief Justice John Roberts told Justice Stephen Breyer he would make sure “the mother f#*ker would never be re-elected.”
It sickens me that so many Americans who have taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution are more than happy to shred it to get rid of a politician they don’t like.
WASHINGTON: Seattle – Liberals must keep all their opinions and talking points in separate, highly segregated portions of what passes for their brains. Otherwise, this kind of thing would cause them an uncomfortable degree of cognitive dissonance.
WAY PAST DUE: Major League Baseball announced that it is adding statistics from the Negro Leagues to the official MLB records.
“All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game’s best players, innovations, and triumphs against a backdrop of injustice,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said. “We are now grateful to count the players of the Negro Leagues where they belong: as Major Leaguers within the official historical record.”
Joe Biden’s wife has announced that she wants to be called “Doctor Biden”, something that Steven Hayward opined is typical of “the insatiable neediness of many public figures.”
It is also inappropriate. For one thing, Jill Biden’s degree (EdD) is a Doctor of Education, not a Doctor of Philosophy in Education (PhD, Education).
“A Doctor of Education is professional degree designed for practitioners pursuing educational leadership roles. A PhD in education, on the other hand, is designed to prepare graduates for research and teaching roles.” – Northeastern University
I am familiar with this distinction, because I was once enrolled in a Master’s of Professional Studies graduate program at Cornell. And MPS is similar to an EdD in that it is a less rigorous program than a Master’s of Arts (MA) or Master’s of Science (MS).
My MPS program was part of the Communication Arts department. It was designed specifically for older students, people who were practitioners in a wide range of fields who wanted to change the focus of their job toward some aspect of communications.
For example, one of my peers was an employee at the Brooklyn Botanical Museum. Her employer wanted her to get the MPS in Comm Arts so she would be qualified to return to the museum and take over that aspect of their program. She told us that she would do things like design school field trips.
Another graduate of my program was a priest from Australia who had been sent to Cornell by his diocese with the intention that he would run their distance-based religious education program for Catholics living in the outback.
Both of these people used their theses to research and design what they planned to do when they returned to their jobs. I had worked in a film and video library that served a collection of school districts in the Southern Tier; I wanted to move up into teaching teachers how to better utilize educational media. (My disease kicked in before I finished the degree, which makes me an Ivy League drop out.)
I met Dearest while we were both at Cornell. He had already qualified for a BA in Fine Arts, but wanted to complete the extra year required to get a Bachelor’s of Architecture (BArch). When I compared the rigor, course work, and requirements of our two programs, I concluded that they were approximately equivalent.
But getting back to Doctor Jill. While it’s true that she has an earned doctorate, it is also true that people with academic doctorates generally do not use their titles outside of the work place.
Even physicians don’t always go by doctor. For example, Senator Rand Paul is not commonly referred to as Doctor Paul, though he is still a practicing physician. Ditto Secretary of Housing Ben Carson who enjoyed a long career as a world-renowned surgeon.
Something similar holds true elsewhere. For example, lawyers earn a Juris Doctorate when they graduate from law school. Like the EdD, the JD is a professional degree, not a research or teaching degree. Do you know any lawyers who demand to be called “doctor”?
Similarly, within the military, officers with academic doctorates are referred to by their rank. Military medical officers may choose to be called “doctor” because it reflects their relationship to other military personnel, rather than the subordinate vs. superior relationship that rank does.
Thomas Lifson points out another reason why Jill Biden would have done well to keep her mouth shut about her degree which is that her thesis paper – entitled “Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students’ Needs” is nothing to write home about.
The following are quotations in italics from the document (pdf link below) with comments by me and/or other people minus attribution to make it easier to read.
Three quarters of the class will be Caucasian; one quarter of the class will be African American … the remaining seats will be filled with students of Asian descent or non-resident aliens.
I’m sorry, but what remaining seats? Are there students sitting in the hall who aren’t counted as part of the class?
Although there is strength in diversity as a classroom component, the lack of homogeneity in academic ability makes it difficult to teach to a single standard. … As a result, due to the diversity of the student population, student retention is a major problem faced by the community college. [p. 2]
Uhhhh … so diversity is good but it leads to students flunking out … or something?
Admission to the College is open to all Delaware residents who have a high school education or its equivalent or to anyone who is eighteen years of age or older and able to benefit from instruction. [p. 12]
That’s a big “or.”
The unique nature of the classroom allows for a complexity of problems as well. [p. 13]
And she wants to be called “doctor”?
By 1963, public and private two year headcount enrollment stood at 850,361. By 1980, enrollment had grown to 4,526,287… approximately a 230 percent increase in student attendance. [p. 20]
Uhhh … a 230% increase over the 1963 number is less than 2 million, not four and a half million. I totally see how Democrats have concluded there is “no evidence of election fraud” in districts where the number of votes cast is higher than the number of registered voters.
Many minority students lack basic skills such as identifying the main idea and supporting statements. [p. 43]
I’m thinking it’s not just minority students, but also certain individuals with EdD degrees and presumably their thesis advisers who let this crap pass muster.
Of the 159 students surveyed, 55 receive financial aid; 41 pay their own tuition bills; 45 students’ parents pay; 3 spouses pay; 9 receive scholarships; and 9 others receive funds through the GI Bill, vocational rehabilitation programs, or grants.Thus, only one-quarter of the students are able to finance their education themselves [p. 47]
More of that creative Democrat math.
Many faculty offer good, workable suggestions that the administration may want to consider in future planning: a reading specialist, an eight week study week. [p. 63]
Two more points against Jill’s desire for largely unearned prestige … one, the shallow reason behind her decision to go back to school at all and two, it results in ignorant people like Whoopi Goldberg assuming she is a physician.
Among Goldberg’s many cringe-worthy moments on The View was this “whooper”: “I’m hoping Dr. Jill becomes the Surgeon General. … She would never do it but, yeah, she’s a hell of a doctor. She’s an amazing doctor.”
CLICK https://twitter.com/i/status/1339389972151975937 [7:17] to hear Tucker Carlson snark at length. He doesn’t make any points I didn’t cover (cuz, you know, I got some of my material from him! LOL), but he does play some clips of snotty Democrats being all outraged.
Witness Ken Starr also testifies that the majority of the court cases that have been rejected were done so for procedural reasons (esp. standing), not because the judges looked at the evidence and found no reason to look into election fraud.
BARR: Watch this one [7:04] – “Good riddance,” says Sebastian Gorka. Barr may have had an honorable career up until now, but by ignoring Russia-gate, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the massive 2020 election fraud, he deserves nothing more than the Flying Finger of Fate award.
“The Justice Department, in terms of enforcing the rule of law, has been an absolute, unmitigated failure because there is no evidence that any of those probes did a serious or substantial investigation of their purported targets.” – Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch
BORDER: And so it begins again … More than 67,000 people were caught illegally crossing the southwest border of the United States in both October and November, a more than 65% increase from the previous year.
CORRUPTOC-RATS: In 2019, Elaine Chou’s husband single-handedly screwed over every honest American voter by blocking election integrity legislation that would have “burdened” the cheaters like Dominion. Funny (but not ha ha) how they all have ties to the ChiComs.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY: [6:05] – Young America’s Foundation has posted a recording of a student government meeting regarding a vote to disarm campus police. The student senators agreed to call on “black and brown” students before white students, because “I want them to like have their voices be amplified before white people start talking.” The back-and-forth between a campus police representative and the bigoted students is enlightening. Basically, a white cop who actually does the job doesn’t have any right to speak. “Keep your mike muted.” Full disclosure: I only got through 4 minutes of this obnoxious recording, then my neck and teeth started to really hurt.
DAN RATHER AWARD: A hundred years ago, the Marxists of the Frankfurt School decided that the best way to destroy a prosperous, free nation was to corrupt its education, entertainment, and news outlets. Then, they moved to America and did it. And that is how we have come to the point where a disgraced journalist and serial liar gets a journalism award named after him.
FALL OF ROME: Historian Edward Watts writes about the last century of the Roman Republic, roughly 130 B.C. to 27 B.C. in his 2018 book Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny. Watts chronicles the ways the republic, with a population once devoted to national service and personal honor, was torn to shreds by growing wealth inequality, partisan gridlock, political violence and pandering politicians.
GEORGIA: More than 1,700 Georgians have been identified as having voted twice in the 2020 elections. The majority of them are Democrats. So far, they have not been prosecuted, raising concerns about continued fraud as Georgia prepares to vote again in twin U.S. Senate runoff elections next month.
When voter fraud is not investigated or prosecuted, the whole idea of “free and fair” elections goes out the window. Let’s all just go spit on the graves at Arlington, m’kay?
HEALTH: A 2018 study published in The Lancet offers some much needed guidance regarding long-term health and low-carb diets. Such diets have gained substantial popularity because of their ability to induce short-term weight loss. However, their impact on long-term health appears to be problematic.
The study analyzed diet and mortality for more than 15,000 people over a 25 year period. It suggests that moderation in carb intake (50-55%) is better than going high or low over the long-term.
The source of foods chosen by low-carb enthusiasts also affected mortality. Those favoring animal fats and proteins showed higher mortality rates than those favoring plant-derived fats and proteins.
The researchers also did a meta-analysis of 423,000 people from 20 countries. Their findings showed the same thing – i.e., that low-carb, meat-based diets showed higher “all-cause mortality.”
HUNTER: “This stinks like a day old diaper in a Red Lobster dumpster.” – Greg Gutfeld [10:10] – For three years, Joe Biden shared an office with a Chinese Communist who represented “the Exxon Mobile of China.” Reporters are not interested. I recommend stopping at 6:00 … before you know who starts blowing Democrat smoke.
MEDIA MALPRACTICE: On Sunday, Lindsey Boylan tweeted out sexual harassment claims against her former employer, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. CBS, NBC, and ABC had ::crickets:: to say about it. You absolutely KNOW that if it had been any allegation against a pro-Trump Republican made by anybody, regardless of their possible motivation, the Slimers would’ve been ALL OVER IT.
NEVADA: At the Senate hearing, Jesse Binnall, a Nevada lawyer for the Trump campaign, testified that more than 42,000 people voted more than once, at least 1,500 people voted despite being dead, about 4,000 people voted who are not U.S. citizens, more than 19,000 people (other than students or military members) voted despite not living in the state, about 8,000 people voted from nonexistent addresses, and more than 15,000 people voted who had listed their home addresses as vacant lots or commercial buildings such as USPS offices.
OFFICER TATUM: [8:02] – Joe Biden talks really rudely to a group of black leaders on a video conference call. Don’t hold your breath waiting to see this reported on by the Slime Stream Media.
PENNSYLVANIA: At the Senate hearing, Republican state Rep. Frank Ryan testified, “The mail-in ballot system for the general election of 2020 in Pennsylvania was so fraught with inconsistencies and irregularities that the reliability of the mail-in votes in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania is impossible to rely upon.”
Just one example he cited was that only 432,873 ballots had been issued to voters in Philadelphia County, yet somehow they managed to post 508,112 ballots. That’s more than 75,000 votes that shouldn’t have been there. Later, the ballots-counted number was reduced, which begs the question: Who had the power and authority to add and subtract votes and why were they doing it?
Ryan said, “Even if this was simply a data entry error, the lack of internal controls over such reporting necessitates a review of the numbers, the process, and system access.”
REBELLION: [2:58] – A county sheriff in California is standing up to state Governor Newsom’s “ridiculous” and “disastrous” lockdown restrictions, saying that he will not be enforcing them, and labeling Newsom a “bully.”
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: A lawsuit filed by the Catholic Archdiocese has pushed D.C.’s Mayor Bowser to cancel her discriminatory 50-person cap on attendance at religious events and replace it with a 25% capacity limit, up to a maximum of 250, in line with limits imposed on secular gatherings.
SCOTUS: [5:01] – The Supremes tossed out two lower court rulings that had sided with Colorado and New Jersey placing COVID restrictions on church worship that were harsher than those placed on secular businesses.
UNITE AND HEAL: The City of Detroit wants Sidney Powell and her team to face sanctions for “frivolously undermining ‘People’s faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government.’”
WISCONSIN: At the Senate hearing, James Troupis, a lawyer for the Trump team in Wisconsin, testified to several problems that could have changed the presidential election outcome.
In Madison, Wisconsin, 17,271 ballots were received through improper and illegal means, unsupervised, in violation of statute. They were commingled with legitimate ballots.
An additional 28,395 people who requested mail-in ballots because they were “permanently confined” have been identified as being poll workers, an elector for Biden in the Electoral College, people who went to protests, people who gone on vacations, and people who had gone to weddings. They were all allowed to vote without producing identification.
Another 170,000 other mail-in ballots were submitted without any application having been made.
GRAMMY NOTES: I just read this gooey mom’s FB post on the theme of “All I want for Christmas is you” … I thought, “And then there’s me who, after years and years of making pennies scream, is all giggly about having adult kids who can buy me excellent gifts because they have real jobs!” LOL
One year, I was ragging on them about how, as much as I cherished their old, carefully saved, Popsicle stick gifts, I was really enjoying getting expensive stuff I always wanted, but couldn’t afford.
One of my snarky daughters (HOW did they get that way?!) made me a Popsicle CD player. It was my favorite present! I laughed so hard, I didn’t even hear her tell me to look at the note that said, “There’s a real one in the closet.” ROFL
AOC recently posted a dumb “let’s normalize prostitution, human trafficking, and child abuse” tweet proclaiming that “sex work is work.” (It’s almost like Democrats get their marching orders from Satan himself.)
A tweeter named “Political Sock” sent out this thread.
When I was young and stupid, I believed prostitution should be legalized. I’m libertarian at heart. “People can do what they want,” I reasoned. In the last 10 years, I’ve worked with a nonprofit that serves trafficked women.
There is almost always a pimp controlling the woman (or girl). There is almost always a history of childhood sexual abuse. Sometimes, the girls are just flat out kidnapped. Sometimes, they’re groomed into it.
The handful of women who are not coerced into the industry do not justify the vast majority who are. It’s insane that someone like AOC could claim to oppose sexual assault and still say “sex work is work.”
Let me bring this home for guys (straight guys). Imagine if someone forced you to masturbate another man to the point where he ejaculated. Then you would be required to clean him off, caress him & encourage him to come see you again soon. Does that sound like just “work”?
Do you think a 17 year old girl would feel any differently if she was made to pleasure a 48 year old maintenance worker? And I haven’t even mentioned sexual penetration. All of this is invasive & dehumanizing. “Sex work” is not “work” in any humane sense.
It leaves life long emotional scars. Through the nonprofit, I’ve spoken with “high dollar” call girls who were flown around the country to have sex with the wealthy & powerful, in nice hotels or private residences. They were still being trafficked. They still wanted out.
AOC is advocating for rape, misery, life long severe trauma and child abuse. She doesn’t realize it, but that is what she’s doing.
ADDENDUM for those arguing that these bad things only occur because sex work is criminalized. Wrong. Trafficking still rampages in countries with legalized prostitution. Usually, the girls are imported from impoverished countries.
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Worthy Co & Thistle Farms employ women who’ve escaped from trafficking. They make great products. You can be a hero just by…shopping. (Links below.)
On Dec 15th, 2020, “President-elect” Joe Biden … the most popular and charismatic Democrat ever, who got more votes than anybody in world history, and TIME’s 2020 Man of the Year!!!!! … held a parking lot rally for Georgia Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Atlanta.
There wasn’t room for all the buses and cars that brought the faithful to catch a glimpse of Savior Joe.
Joe’s fans are ALL about uniting and healing our nation behind their wise, vibrant, and charismatic leader.
OF COURSE, those sour grapes, meanie-pants TRUMPERS had to show up! Aren’t we all looking forward to the day when PREZ Joe applies his “No more malarkey” to these losers and sends them to a re-education camp?!
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