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About chrissythehyphenated

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.

Obama vs. Trump

There are those on the Left who say that Obama’s bowing and apologizing for America made us safer, while Trump’s strength and patriotism put us all in great danger. They couldn’t be more wrong.  Strong leaders respect other strong leaders.  Weakness just invites their contempt.

2016 Obama China

2017_11 Trump China

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Hollywood should look to the Catholic Church

LEGO Mary

Hollywood routinely mocks or mangles all things Catholic, but they really should look to how the Catholic Church in the United States changed itself to protect and defend the vulnerable from sexual abuse.

In the wake of the priest sex scandals of the early 2000s, the USCCB (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) implemented a comprehensive system that requires every diocese and eparchy to:

  • Train all clergy, volunteers, staff, educators and children to identify and report abuse;
  • Run background checks on all adults with access to children;
  • Report all allegations to law enforcement;
  • Provide outreach and support for victims; and
  • Remove offenders from ministry and further access to children.

An annual audit is performed by an external firm to ensure dioceses are effectively implementing the system.

Last year, I ran the numbers and found that the current incidence of proven sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the United States is a piddling .1%. That’s POINT one percent. The LOWEST estimated national average for American men in general is TEN times that.

IOW, children are statistically much safer with their parish priest than they are with their teachers, coaches, or dads. And I’d venture a guess that they’re a lot safer with teachers, coaches, or dads than they are with Hollywood producers and directors!

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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/what-society-can-learn-from-the-catholic-church-regarding-child-protection-16312

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They don’t come much better than Mama Buzz!

Excuse me while I rave about what a Great Mom my daughter is! Bunny’s kindergarten teacher sent home turkey coloring pages with instructions to have fun decorating them, then return them for a class project. Below is what they came up with. And get this … they wore tutus while crafting! LOLOL “Have to be properly attired!” she texted.

2017_11 12 L&A tutu turkey

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Hollywood and Manly Men

Real men

Andrew Klavan speaks sense: “Hollywood’s Masculinity Deficit.”

“Powerful men and masculine men are not the same thing. Former Fox News host Laura Sivan recently told in heart-wrenching detail how Weinstein cornered her in a basement and masturbated in front of her. Is that how manly men behave in your book? Pick your masculine icon. John Wayne’s characters? Clint Eastwood’s? Watch me take a shower. Give me a massage and I’ll put you in a movie. Is that how they behave?”

Read the rest @ https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2017/10/15/hollywoods-masculinity-deficit/

Also worth your time: “Harvey Weinstein Is a Product of the Left’s Rebellion Against God.”

“[Hollywood] gave a standing ovation to convicted pedophile Roman Polanski, continues to fete alleged rapist Woody Allen, and grovels at the feet of Bill Clinton, a man who sexually abused women who were under his power.”

Read the rest @ https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/10/12/harvey-weinstein-product-lefts-rebellion-god/

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Media Hypocrisy

2017_11 11 Moore v Menendez media bias

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The Stupid Is Strong In This One

2017_11 08 Rhodes tweet

Remember when Democrat-dominated New York City tried to ban soft drinks larger than 16 ounces? That lead balloon failed when the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the ban exceeded the city’s regulatory authority. Democrats have such a hard time understanding what is and is not allowed by law.

(Ben Rhodes served as Obama’s foreign policy speechwriter from 2007 until the end of Obama’s presidency.)

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Thank you for your service

2017_11 11 Veterans Day by Terrell

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And thank YOU for your service too, Military Families!

2017_11 10 Kids are veterans too

This is doubly true of the wives (and civilian husbands). I’m SO PROUD of the great support Mama Buzz provides her veteran. She’s never donned the uniform, but she definitely SERVES.

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Step Away From the Keyboard

2017_11 09 PP self-awareness zero tweet

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Call me crazy, but I just think dismemberment is wrong.

It never ceases to amaze me that leftists can endure the cognitive dissonance of condemning waterboarding as too cruel, while demanding access to dismemberment as a right. But maybe this is one reason they seem to be such lunatics. Their brains are broken.

A former abortionist explains the dismemberment abortion procedure.

In June, Texas banned this gruesome and inhumane procedure. Abortionists have challenged the ban, which has now gone to trial in the District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Texas is vigorously defending its ban, pointing out that several abortion procedures which do not dismember the unborn child while still alive are still legal including fetal injection of intracardiac potassium chloride, transabdominal injection of digoxin, and cutting of the umbilical cord.

Similar bans have remained unchallenged in Mississippi and West Virginia, been temporarily or permanently stopped by court order in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and been overturned as unconstitutional in Alabama.  The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to hand down a final decision sometime soon on its challenged ban.

Laws like this that get conflicting district court decisions usually end up being tried by the Supreme Court.

Is ending the life of a human fetus moral?

A recent Marist poll has shown that an overwhelming majority Americans are in favor of restricting abortion to the first trimester or to cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother.

Given that a ban on D&E does not eliminate the possibility of a second trimester abortion, one must wonder why abortion providers like Planned Parenthood are fighting in court for the right to continue tearing live fetuses to death.

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