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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.

True Tolerance

Most of what passes for tolerance today is intellectual cowardice, a fear of intelligent engagement.

Those who brandish the word “intolerant” are unwilling to be challenged by other views, to grapple with contrary opinions, or even to consider them. It’s easier to hurl an insult—“you intolerant bigot”—than to confront the idea and either refute it or be changed by it.

In the modern era, “tolerance” has become intolerance.

But the “modern” definition of tolerance — “All views have equal merit and none should be considered better than another” — presumes to be a view whose merit is better than any other.

It is self-contradictory and therefore pure nonsense.

The fact is that true tolerance can only be practiced toward those we think are wrong. I can’t tolerate someone unless I disagree with him. I don’t need to “tolerate” people who share my views. They’re on my side, so there’s nothing to “put up” with.

The point of true tolerance is to treat those we disagree with decently and with respect.

If you want to be truly tolerant

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World AIDS Day and PEPFAR Success

Don’t hold your breath waiting on the Left Stream Media to trumpet this news. It might make Presidents Bush and Trump look good. Can’t have that!

President Trump proclaimed December 1, 2017, as World AIDS Day, a moment to “honor those who have lost their lives to AIDS [and] celebrate the remarkable progress we have made in combatting this disease.”

President Bush started the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2003.  Before PEPFAR, only 50,000 people were receiving lifesaving antiretroviral treatment (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, PEPFAR supports more than 13.3 million men, women, and children on ART.

1990-2016 AIDS related deaths and PEPFAR

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Filed under Africa, Donald Trump, George W. Bush

Mythbusting Trump’s National Monuments Order

2016_12 Trump signs

President Trump’s order seeks to end past overreach and abuse of the monument review process under the Antiquities Act that has closed off land to the public, while continuing to protect objects of significance.

As usual, there’s plenty of misinformation making the rounds. Here are a few quick facts to correct the record:

Myth: No president has ever shrunk a monument.

  • Fact: Monuments have been shrunk at least 18 times—by presidents on both sides of the aisle.

Myth: This move will sell or close national parks.

  • Fact: No national parks are under review, and the Administration adamantly opposes wholesale transfer of any public lands.

Myth: The review was done behind closed doors.

  • Fact: Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke personally held more than 60 meetings with local stakeholders, including numerous tribal groups.

Read about Trump’s order for yourself:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/12/04/president-donald-j-trump-stands-local-communities-against-government

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Score One for the “Compassionate Pro-Woman” Team

Watch a pro-abort smack a 15-year-old girl in the face for praying outside of the Roanoke Planned Parenthood.

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Filed under Abortion, Planned Parenthood

83% drop in refugee admissions

Oct-Nov 2016: 18,300 refugees were admitted to the U.S.
Oct-Nov 2017: 3,108 refugees were admitted to the U.S.

Meanwhile:

  • The Trump administration announced it has pulled out of the United Nation’s U.N. for global responsibility-sharing for refugees and migrants initiative. Nikki Haley, our ambassador to the United Nations, said the initiative “is simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.”
  • SCOTUS ruled to allow the Trump administration to fully enforce its travel ban on residents from six radical regimes and failed states, including Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, and on officials from North Korea and Venezuela.

REFUGEES ISIS wolf by Branco toon

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Filed under Immigration, Nikki Haley, Supreme Court, United Nations

Mascot Update: Preparing for the Christ Child

The Buzzers went to a wonderful, community-wide display of nativity sets. There were so many, they were able to divide them up by themes. Here’s just a taste of all that they saw.

2017_12 03 Nativity display - Walter

2017_12 03 Nativity display - Alaska themed

I think my favorite was the all white room, with birch logs used for display. Beautiful!

2017_12 03 Nativity display - White room

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Filed under Family & Friends, Holidays

Real News

2017_12 Brown sentenced

MORE Democrats are going to prison! Sentences have been handed out to ex-U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and her co-conspirators in mail, wire and tax fraud: Brown – 5 years; Ronnie Simmons – 4 years; Carla Wiley – 1 year, 9 months. Brown has been ordered to repay the nearly half a million dollars she stole via a fake charity.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/04/ex-florida-democratic-rep-corrine-brown-sentenced-for-mail-wire-and-tax-fraud-involving-sham-charity.html

Before all y’all get your panties in a bunch about Trump and Russia, let’s just cast our minds back to 2008 when NOBODY ON THE LEFT had any problem at all with the FACT that CANDIDATE OBAMA’s CAMPAIGN TEAM did not merely seek to contact, but actually met with Iranian leaders multiple times.

https://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/02/report-obama-advisors-have-been-meeting-with-iran-syria-since-before-the-election/

Even before the Administration’s anti-regulation push comes into full force next year, the President has saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars from streamlining and other reforms thus far. “Simply cutting red tape and putting Obama-era regulations on hold have already saved $378 million since President Trump took office,” reports Paul Bedard, citing an American Action Forum report. “That savings is expected to jump into the billions next year when the administration’s anti-regulation campaign hits full stride.”

Return of pork barrel politics? Democrats plot to revive earmarks

The abortion rate in America has fallen 22 percent since 2005, reaching a new historic low, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/29/abortion-rate-us-reaches-new-low/

Diante Johnson, president of the Black Conservative Foundation, writes that historic tax cuts are especially welcome news for the African-American entrepreneurial community. “African-Americans were better off in 2000 than they were just last year, according to the latest Census data,” Johnson writes, citing dropping median incomes, stagnant wages, and “alarmingly high” unemployment. Minority entrepreneurs own 29 percent of U.S. businesses, and lower taxes will allow them to expand opportunity in their communities significantly.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-tax-reform-will-be-a-boon-to-african-american-job-creators/article/2642221

During a speech last week, Vice President Mike Pence made an innocuous comment that was obviously true. The Washington Post’s fact-checking team agreed it was true. But that didn’t stop them from awarding his claim a “three Pinnochios” condemnation.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/28/cant-trust-factcheckers-part-infinity/

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said, “It doesn’t do any good to serve nutritious meals if they wind up in the trash can.” Some of Michelle Obama’s overly strict lunch requirements will thankfully disappear as of July 1. The new regs will relax sodium limits, whole-grain requirements, and allow flavored milk with 1 percent back into school cafeterias nationwide.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/regular-chocolate-milk-back-school-menus-obama-era/story?id=51516430

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Filed under Democrats, Donald Trump, Life Issues, Media Bias, Mike Pence

People Will Die!

People will die

The latest absurdity comes from Larry Summers, the former director of Obama’s National Economic Council. According to his EXPERT ECONOMIC OPINION, the GOP’s plan to cancel the Obamacare mandate will KILL TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE A YEAR!

Tweeters had fun:

  • Forcing people to buy something they don’t want or pay a penalty if they don’t does not lead to death.
  • Ten thousand? That’s insane. At least 10 million. Maybe 100 million. AT LEAST. IT’S SCIENCE PEOPLE…SCIENCE! (This one was tweeted by an M.D. BWAHAHA!)
  • Well, at least climate change is a redundant concern now.
  • Approximately 20,000 people die every year from hot takes.
  • 2.6 million people die in the U.S. every year. 10,000 is a rounding error.
  • It doesn’t count because he didn’t say that people will LITERALLY die.
  • Wait. Maybe we’re reading this wrong and Summers is actually threatening to kill 10,000 people a year himself if tax reform passes.
  • (Insert large number) people will die because of (insert Republican policy). Rinse, repeat.
  • No wonder the Dems are having trouble getting people to pay attention.

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ABC actually punishes reporter over FAKE NEWS

2017_12 04 ABC pants on fire

ABC News has suspended their reporter Brian Ross without pay for 4 weeks and has issued a retraction of his FAKE NEWS story. 

Ross false reported that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was prepared to testify that CANDIDATE Donald Trump had told him to make contact with the Russians during the election.

Actually, Flynn was prepared to testify that PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump (after the election) predictably and appropriately asked him to make contact with Russia as any transition team would do – in this case to discuss the possibility of joint US/Russian military options to fight ISIS.

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What She Said

Why Christians support Donald Trump, via @Liz_Wheeler [3:04]

It looks to me like this Archbishop of Canterbury represents the heretical, left-wing, so-called “Christians” of the world. In the U.S., we call them “Democrats.” These are the “Christians” who will enthusiastically welcome the Anti-Christ and help to elevate him to world domination.

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