PARENTING FREEDOM

Carol | February 28, 2012

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/actor-kirk-camerons-monumental-film-tries-to-rediscover-americas-national-treasure/

Monumental Trailer

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Carol | February 27, 2012

But you can argue with the morality… It’s what you get when there is no moral standard…

Ethicists Argue for Post Birth Abortions
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/matthew-archbold/ethicists-argue-for-post-birth-abortions#ixzz1nacpxVOj

Ethicists Argue in Favor of ‘After-Birth Abortions‘ as Newborns ’Are Not Persons’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ethicists-argue-in-favor-of-after-birth-abortions-as-newborns-are-not-persons/

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Carol | February 26, 2012

This has been of my favorite songs for many, many years. It has always been very obvious to me that it was never just about Buddy Holly. That’s why I liked it.  Beck’s take is interesting… See the two videos below the song video.

Don McLean- American Pie (with Lyrics)

Do You Know the Full Story Behind ‘The Day the Music Died?‘ Here’s Beck’s Version
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/do-you-know-the-full-story-behind-the-day-the-music-died-get-ready/

American Pie ~ Don McLean

A long long time ago
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
…

So bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die

Did you write the book of love
And do you have faith in God above
If the Bible tells you so?
Now do you believe in rock and roll?
Can music save your mortal soul?
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you’re in love with him
’cause I saw you dancing in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes
Man, I dig those rhythm and blues
I was a lonely teenage broncin’ buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died
I started singing

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die

Now, for ten years we’ve been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
But that’s not how it used to be
When the Jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me
Oh and while the king was looking down
The Jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Lenin read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
We were singing

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die

Helter skelter in a summer swelter
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
Landed foul on the grass
The players tried for a forward pass
With the Jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
‘Cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?
We started singing

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die

Oh, and there we were all in one place
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again
So come on Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
‘Cause fire is the devil’s only friend
And as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in hell
Could break that Satan’s spell
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I’d heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn’t play
And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died
And they were singing

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die
they were singing

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this’ll be the day that I die

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Carol | February 26, 2012

Santorum Obama’s a snob who wants to send everyone to college » The Right Scoop

“There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to the test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them…”

“Oh I understand why he wants you to go to college, he wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his.”

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Carol | February 22, 2012

I’m not Catholic and neither is the author of the post at the link below, but it sounds like something I might try. Today is the first day of Lent. Hmmm… What is one controlling influence I could give up for forty days? Facebook? Junk food? Television? Maybe a little of everything?

The Opportunity of Lent
http://www.becomingminimalist.com/2012/02/21/the-opportunity-of-lent/

Update: I am curious to see how abstaining from the following things that I perceive as generally negative will impact the quality of our family life. It is time to rein in some of these negative influences.

• Two children are giving up junk food (unless it is the main course).
• One child is giving up television (unless the show is a new family movie or a new “The Middle”). (This will mean everybody gives up television!) and video games (except for Saturday morning).
• One child is giving up iPod and television (and that is the 17-month-old LOL).
• I am giving up Facebook (logged out and deleted it on iPod and computer), soft drinks (Even though I abstained for about fifteen years, I have recently been drinking Coke 1-2 times per week), chocolate, junk food (unless it is the main course), a big chunk of websites in my Google Reader, shows I have set to record in my PVR (except for two), FOX News (unless I hear about world events that would affect me)… If it were not for significant health breakthroughs, I would not be able to commit to these things.

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Carol | February 22, 2012

Knowing God

Limbless Motivational Speaker Lives Life to the Fullest, Spotted Honeymooning in Hawaii
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/limbless-motivational-speaker-lives-life-to-the-fullest-spotted-honeymooning-in-hawaii/

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Carol | February 22, 2012

The Obama administration’s healthcare agenda is so clear. First they arrange for insurance companies to fund contraception (and government funds the insurance companies) and everybody knows that the liberal definition of contraception includes all women’s reproductive rights including abortion. And the government provides free extensive prenatal testing which would become forced if one is to get health coverage. And that testing will result in increased abortions because every child with any defect will be aborted to save money. Or the mother will be denied health services. Free sex for all. Free search-and-destroy prenatal testing. Free abortion for all. The handicapped are dead. History doth repeat.

The media is trying to keep Santorum on the social issues so people can’t see his plans on energy, the economy, etc. They are attacking his faith with ridicule and disdain.

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Carol | February 22, 2012

The Pill Is Not Good for Women
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/291514

“Women on the whole disproportionately bear the burden of the new sexual regime. They are expected to dose themselves with a Group 1 carcinogen for approximately two-thirds of their fertile years. They sustain greater emotional costs from casual sex. They are at greater risk of contracting STDs and disproportionately suffer from their long-term consequences, such as cervical cancer and fertility loss.And even after 50 years with the Pill, as many as half of all pregnancies are still unintended. Women, not men, must make the heart-wrenching choice between abortion, reckoned a tragic outcome even by its supporters, and bearing a child with little to no paternal support. After all, since children were negotiated out of the bargain by the availability of contraception and abortion, men have secured a strong rationale to simply ignore or reject pregnancies that result from uncommitted sexual relations. Nobel-laureate economist George Akerlof predicted nearly two decades ago that this would lead directly to the feminization of poverty, as it ruefully has…”

“Contrary to a popular misconception, the alternative to the contraceptive revolution is not to roll back the clock on women’s advancement, and certainly not to promote a physically and emotionally taxing outcome in which women have as many children as biologically possible. Rather, the alternative to contraception is to respect biological asymmetry, heal the wound between the sexes, and expect more from men.”

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Carol | February 22, 2012

Blacklisted, But Not Beaten
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2012/02/16/blacklisted-but-not-beaten/print/

“Without a hearing, they smear and stigmatize as racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic any who contradict what George Orwell once called their “smelly little orthodoxies.” They then demand that the heretic recant, grovel, apologize, and pledge to go forth and sin no more.”

“Defy them, and they will go after the network where you work, the newspapers that carry your column, the conventions that invite you to speak. If all else fails, they go after the advertisers.”

“I know these blacklisters. They operate behind closed doors, with phone calls, mailed threats, and off-the-record meetings. They work in the dark because, as Al Smith said, nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.”

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Carol | February 22, 2012

Tim Tebow Debate: Should Homeschoolers Be Allowed on Public-School Sports Teams?
http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/16/tim-tebow-debate-should-homeschoolers-be-allowed-to-play-sports/

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