new age note

listening To the new Artbell news, someone names Wells, a brit who thinks aliens made the pyramids, admits he was high on marijuana when he wrote a lot of his books.

Ah yes. Drugs open you to "creativity" but also diabolic influence.

and the idea that a previous "civiliation" probably ets were behind earth's marvels doesn't answer the question: well how did they get thier technonlogy? And why should they show how to make pyramids, when the really important thing done back then was irrigation works.

I'm reading Brian Fagan's Elixir, and am astounded at the huge irrigation projects that went on back then. Engineering got left out of the history books.

mengele is laughing in his grave

So I woke up and turned on the computer and checked Drudge: Uggh.

Planned Parenthood claims decadelong harassment... Recieved $528.4 Million In Taxpayer Funds -- In One Year...NEW VIDEO HORROR: Senior Director Suggests 'Less Crunchy' Technique...Defector blows whistle on how loophole opens door to fetal sales...CITY OF HATE: More black babies aborted than born in NYC...FIORINA: 'What has gone wrong in our nation'...'Deafening silence' from Hillary...FLASHBACK OBAMA: 'Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you'... 

as usual, part of his technique is to ironically link items.

Ah but the dirty little secret is that if ordinary folks read what the elites are writing about medical ethics, they would be stationing relatives with guns at their bedsides to keep from being killed.

Crunchy babies mean late term abortions. But then some "ethicists" say we should pay women to bring babies to later in their term so that the parts are better to be used for others.

That doesn't even consider the musings about cloning to get fetal parts. Absurd? Yes...right now. But parents have given birth to babies to supply bone marrow for a dying sibling. No reports (yet) of parents doing a "Late term abortion" to do this, so they won't be stuck with a kid for 20 years.

and then there are all those people in "comas"...most of them are actually in a controversial diagnosis called "peristant vegetative state" (note the "veggie" part dehumanizes these folks). Never mind one third of the diagnoses of this condition have been found to be wrong. The experts want to expand the "diagnosis" of brain death to include these folks....and once that is done, well, why not remove their organs instead of letting the body parts go to waste?

That doesn't even include ethicists who insist on criteria for personhood...Fletcher makes this criteria high enough that it includes babies under 2 years (which is why Peter Singer is not original or radical, only mainstream in his infanticide ideas). And this level would include the mentally retarded, the senile etc. And since many of these criteria include socialization, well there goes RainMan...

One mother of a retarded child said she disliked doctors because "they see my beloved autistic child, and only see a potential organ donor". That was 20 years ago. But then, I became familiar with these ideas 25 years ago, while recovering from surgery, I ran across a book review about the elderly that included the idea of criteria for personhood, and that if you don't meet that criteria, you shouldn't be given treatment. (Treatment can include spoon feeding according to some "ethicists").

So I wrote to a nice professor of philosophy at nearby BC, and asked: Am I reading this right? Do they really propose these brain damaged people have no rights if they lack the criteria for personhood, and if so, does that mean that we could eventually use them for organs or just kill them, because they have no rights?

He answered yes. And added: In today's philosophy, not only is it hard to argue against saying these people have no rights, but it is hard to find a logical reason why anyone has rights.

Duh.

Much of this ironically is warned to you via sci fi writers, from Koontz' Frankenstein series or his book Innocence, to Walker Percy's Thantos syndrome, to movies like Gattica or Never Let Me Go, or the ideas behind a lot of superhero movies that have these questions as background. Heck, even Kingsmen has a subplot about greens lowering the population (as does one of Tom Clancy's books).


and yes, one woman who "donated" her baby's parts wrote an article....however, even though it was a baby with Down's syndrome she claims it died in utero (yes many of these babies die in utero so maybe this is true). But then she claims her DOCTOR asked her to donate the fetal tissue (her term) for research.

Wait a second. A baby dead in the womb doesn't rot, but the tissue deteriorates and is no good for research. Liar liar pants on fire.

angry? Yes I'm angry

let me count the ways.

I'm angry because 8 beggars came to the door and I didn't have change to give them.

The cook was angry, recognizing that most of them had gotten money yesterday, but it is "hunger season" before the rice crops are planted and harvested, so they probably need money every day.

The problem? My savings are shrinking to a dangerous level because of Lolo's funeral etc expenses...(I try to keep enough money in savings in case I get sick....Medicaid doesn't pay for hospitalization here).  So I am on a budget, trying to spend only what I get in my pension.

And my stepson "borrowed" some money, and even though his business has collected two large checks, he doesn't have money to pay me. Indeed, I suspect he'd ask for more if I said there was some available. I have emptied my ATM card, knowing he would ask if I had extra money, and only took enough cash out to pay for expenses.

So I have to plead poverty or he'll weedle me out of more. Indeed, when he came Friday to ask for a small loan, I said I needed money for food, and asked for 2000 pesos (40 dollars) and got it. Our food budget is 800 pesos a day for basics, and 200 for beggars and miscellaneous.

Add 100 pesos for tricycle to visit Lolo's grave nearly every day, and voila, empty pockets..

I had extra money, but Joy needed 2000 pesos for a church meeting, and 2000 earlier in the week for a trip in case of emergency expenses (needed, since they got a flat on the way home).

Then Dita said a distant relative of Angie's husband's family died, so I sent another 1000....probably should have sent only 500 but no smaller bills, and funerals are expensive.

Then the maid needed money for her LPG to cook with. It's cheaper to give her this, because the alternative is cooking over wood, and her son would be here in two days with a chest infection/asthma.

So I have 3000 left until the banks open, so no extra spending for me.

When I beg poverty I am not poor: It's just that I am a softie at giving money to those who need it, and if I don't get strict with myself I will be broke.

Sigh.

We are signal one from a storm hitting the Visayas, so it rained all night. So I didn't go to church. Actually the rain is minimal now and no flooding this morning so I could have...if I had money for tricycle, which I don't, and if I wasn't wheezing when I leave the room (with the aircon set on dehumidify/filter). So I am angry at this, and angry that no one here thinks they need to accompany me to my own church for one lousy hour. An ongoing problem...I always went with Lolo and then didn't go when he got sick until I arranged for the cook to go with me to the very early mass where I came late and left early since no one was watching him.

Again a lot of anger issues for the family's neglect of him.

So right now, everyone is off. Joy and Ruby are off to their charismatic church to sing (and for Ruby to dance), and Chano is off to the farm "for birthday" as the cook says (to party with his friends).

Me? I'm watching the door. Another Charismatic church meets here in the morning. They got some kids to come to get free books for school, after making the kids attend a service, and they are hoping to keep them coming. There used to be a name for those who join a church for this type of charity: Rice Christians.

So I have a lot of anger, but you know, most of it is freestanding anger...from boredom, from being alone, from not having anything to do...from no friends...from feeling I am being exploited and manipulated.

So forgive? Ah, the problem: if I "forgive" will I be open to more manipulation via guilt?

Forgive a sociopath? And then I'll just be manipulated into poverty as I saw this person do to my poor husband.

Sigh.

I should note that it is too dangerous for me to walk to church alone, and sitting alone in a "happy happy Post Vatican II catholic church" is hell.

It makes me long for a quiet Latin mass, where all you have to do is pray to God, and not sing offkey, listen to sermons that have nothing to do with your life, and at the holiest time of Mass, when you are preparing your heart for Jesus, to come out of your prayer and shake hands with strangers as if you cared about them.

Yes, I know: your neighbor is as important as Jesus...and Mass should be a joyful meeting of friends united in worship.

The problem is that for 35 years I spent serving my neighbor and I don't need to shake hands to know this is important. Indeed, I dread the custom.

It's not about gay marriage

removed from my main blog.

Stuff that the MSM rarely notices as the back story on gay marriage: That the State Dept push for "gay rights" is angering a lot of Africans and Asians, because there is a long history of  sexual exploitation in colonial times.

I won't even go into the idea that having sex with women was considered normal for the Brits etc. Think of all those male fantasies of beautiful Asian women who love to have sex with them, no strings attached... Madam Butterfly is one of the few stories that show that the women are not mindless happy sex workers but are human beings.

And the dirty little secret is that the UK sent their "problem sons" to the colonies. Heck, I don't even have to go to colonial times: I see my step son serially abusing his male employees. He insists they are all "consenting adults" which mean they are poor and agree because they don't want to lose the job because they are supporting their families in the Visayas. And it's not just consensual relationships: One boy is still traumatized because he was raped, and my step son admits to raping another one who passed out at a party at the farm, but who later agreed to a relationship for money.

When Lolo was dying, it took Angie to pressure them to allow the first boy to stay here to help me lift Lolo during the night...(he agreed only when I pointed out the spare bedroom was locked and next to our room).

So where was his son? Upstairs, spending the remainder of Lolo's money to fix up and decorate a store room into a love nest for him and his latest squeeze: Who he made the new "supervisor" at the farm.

So I had to go into my savings to bury Lolo, even though three months earlier, the last time I checked his savings account, there was enough money in his savings to do so...

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So yes, I am "homophobic" because the picture of happy gays doesn't include discussions of faithfulness.

Yes, most lesbians are faithful, and about half of gays are fairly faithful, but it is taboo to point out that the "gay marriage" propaganda is sending a green light for doing anything to gays who hid their temptations and rarely gave into them.

and since kids are taught safe sex and not purity and faithfulness, they can't see the problem since they are taught heterosexual promiscuity is okay too.

here is the stuff from my other blog:


It didn't start with "gay marriage". NewBooks podcast reviews a book on those behind the sexual revolution and the marketing of the birth control pill.

No, I doubt I'll read the book, but from the review I wonder if they left things out.

Did they mention Sanger's involvement with the Eugenics movement? Sanger wasn't just preaching feminism and free love but supported the eugenics movement, that back then saw the Irish and Jews in the slums as inferior beings who shouldn't breed. But never mind. Whitewashing history is not new here.

And the very Catholic Rock was not working against the church, but hoping that the pill would allow Catholic women to space babies more efficiently, since it was not interfering with natural sex like mechanical methods.

That is why Humana Vitae was such a bummer: Most Catholics agreed with Rock, seeing that the pill only lengthened the infertile period so rhythm would work better.

the irony? Most of what Paul VI warned about contraception destroying families has come true....

and when Obama's State Dept pushes the gay agenda on third world countries, he fails to see that this doesn't mean two equal and affluent gays who are faithful to each other, but translates to sex tourism.
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related item:
The Diplomad posts a photo from the US embassy in the Dominican Republic  to celebrate gay marriage.

ah, but are these men in a faithful relationships? or are they partying? The side effect of gay marriage is not faithful relationships, but what the Pope has called "cultural imperialism", which in poor countries means exploiting the vulnerable.

 even though prostitution is legal in the DR,  nevertheless 30 thousand street kids, one third of them boys, are pressured by poverty and/or thugs into becoming "sex workers"

which is why many poor countries see the US push to change sexual traditions is seen as just one more way to exploit them and their children.

There is a long history of this: Male rape of employees in Africa during colonial times, in "all male" dormitories, by Islamic slave traders, and in the various civil wars is so far an uncovered story, since the subject is taboo there due to the deep humiliation felt by the men...

and although most folks know that many tourists here are sex tourists, what few mention is that this is a major site for gay tourism too. The real wonder is that there is so little HIV here (probably the Tuli). But that doesn't stop the population control thugs from lamenting about that evil Catholic church not letting them use condoms (which can be bought in the local grocery stores and pharmacies, even here in the provinces, but never mind).


Putin is using Obama's cluessness to push Russia as the defender of Christendom,...and a lot of the power of his arguments will be the pain of those exploited sexually by Obama's policies...
And don't forget the Middle Eastern Christians being ignored and allowed to die.
The long history behind this is Moscow as the third Rome, and the religious and moral subtexts will be completely overlooked by the highly secular MSM.

Ironically, one of the early prophecies of Medjugoje was that Russia would become a defender of Christianity and that the west would become proud due to technological progress... this was before the iron curtain came down...yet now, to the very religious it seems that maybe there is truth in the matter.

But of course, the far left and far right in the Catholic church all insist it is a fake vision, so ignore that prediction: it will never happen.

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Youtube Lecture of the week: Mark Wilson has a series on women in antiquity. LINK

I am also listening to a Russian history class there.
you know what? Ivan the terrible was really terrible...

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and the very very bad news of the day:

OH NO!

pop-less bubble wrap.