Right As Usual

I've been busy - REALLY busy - for the last few weeks.  Just catching up on life events (cleaning, organizing, taxes), lots to do at work (I DO still have to work), taking 2 grad classes (I needed Gifted and Talented endorsement to continue teaching the Honors classes), and a bum knee (partly torn meniscus, and partly osteoarthritis). As a result, I've had little time to do much beyond hit the headlines, and skim the more popular blogs for the last month and a half.  I'm getting ready to pack up for my Easter Break - 9 days off work, with little to do but housework, taxes, and healing.  The kids at work are playing catch-up (review, completing and turning in unfinished work, and taking an online quiz), so I have a few minutes: The continual shredding of the Constitution and properly-passed law by Obama's administration has reached the truly disturbing level, including this Via Nice Deb , more evidence of Obama's perfidy. Well, he may not be officially a Muslim...

Here's the summary for Hillary Clinton's custody of State Department official records: She used her personal server to store official Department email.  She never used a government email account; in fact, never was issued a dot-gov address. That server, while physically secure (according to her), has not been determined to be secure from hacking.   She has, so far, refused to turn over her server for inspection by disinterested 3rd-parties. She APPARENTLY did not sign the OF-109, which certifies that ALL State Department records have been turned back to them when separated (EVEN if that separation is for 60 days - more about that later). MANY emails were deemed, by her and her staff, to be "personal" and not necessary to keep - therefore, she deleted them.  End of story.  She has, so far, refused to allow further investigation of this process - how she determined they were personal, inspection of the drive to see if they could be recovered, or other oversight ...

Everyone knows the risk factors for birth defects and maternal age, don't they? The older the mother, the higher the likelihood of Down's Syndrome and other anomalies.  This graph shows the connection. I think most families would rather avoid the risk, if possible. So, why are women being advised to delay marriage, often until their late 20's or early 30's?  This makes no sense.  An additional factor that is skewed in the direction of higher maternal age is the diminished chances of getting pregnant, whether naturally, or with assistance from medical technology. In this regard, as in many others, the modern feminist establishment seems to act in ways that contradict their stated intention of helping women achieve their goals.  

..Bad, bad, back!  I'm out today from work (hate to do that, but I really am in bad shape).  Can't get into the doctor's until Monday, so, need to call off for that day, too.  AND make up some lessons that the kids can do without me.  It's more work than going to work, so, usually, I just suck it up. Not today, though.  I'm a big baby about severe pain. Since I didn't take work home with me, and I really don't like TV, I'll plan on catching up with my web reading and blogging. Then, later, after lunch, maybe a little Roku.

...then, I realized that I hadn't said all that I had in me, so, here's my thinking: WHY should we all be yelling? Loud and clear - also, sending message, telephone call, and, yes, PAPER mail (The more work it is for us, the more likely our representatives/Senators are to take notice of our displeasure) to Congress/Senate.From Facebook. Because "The cynical and dystopian view? One of the unavoidable dominoes will be broad censorship. Once the deprioritization of broadcast packets leads to the epic traffic jam that will reduce the Web’s US speeds to worse than those found in Europe, the government of the day will, once again, have to “save us” from this “unforseen” outcome and their clever plan will include limiting who can “legitimately” have bandwidth preferences, since clearly “legitimate” news outlets need to bypass the buffering jams that will afflict TV signaling and once dot-gov starts adjudicating who’s a “real” news or other “essential” service, licensing...