Right As Usual

...and PP SWORE (pinky finger swear!) that they would INCREASE the number of mammograms they offered? Yeah. That happened...NOT!

My daughter just posted on Facebook - her husband's cancer scan came out clean - he's still free of cancer. After a rocky spring last year, chemo treatments in the summer and fall, and having to stop treatments because of the side effects (nerve damage), this is GREAT news!  

Mona Charen wrote about The Marriage Divide - the fact that the lower classes, and, increasingly, the lower middle classes are choosing to build their families without marriage.  She, and I, think that's a bad thing - for reasons that she makes clear in her post. Mona cites the advice of Carolyn Hax to a young woman asking when she should think about moving in with her boyfriend (of 5 months).  Carolyn sneers at the mom's advice.  I started to reply on the site, but didn't want to bother with registration. My take: The mother is sensible - she suggests that the girl wait until it appears that marriage is seriously considered. The girl ties her arguments to what married people have advised; clearly, she is NOT just looking for a wild time. She is serious about her personal feelings; she at least envisions marriage as a possibility. There is NO indication that the boy in the scenario is anticipating marriage in any serious way. Like it or not, women have a "sell-by dat...

I was taking a break from housework (yes, I do it - no, I don't like it), and found a link - I'm glad I followed it.  It's a fairly comprehensive examination of Muslim writings that are often misinterpreted by non-Muslims. Just one part, about how the Crusades were an "unjustified invasion and slaughter of innocent Muslims". Really? The Facts: The first Crusade began in 1095… 460 years  after  the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies, 457 years  after  Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies, 453 years  after  Egypt was taken by Muslim armies, 443  after  Muslims first plundered Italy, 427 years  after  Muslim armies first laid siege to the Christian capital of Constantinople, 380 years  after  Spain was conquered by Muslim armies, 363 years  after  France was first attacked by Muslim armies, 249 years  after  the capital of the Christian world, Rome itself, was sacked by a Muslim army, and only after centuries of church burnings, killings, enslave...