Republicans Losing The ‘Security Moms’
“CLINTONVILLE, Ohio, Aug. 17 — Married women with children, the “security moms” whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost for Democrats in the midterm elections, according to polls and interviews.”
This article makes the phrase….”When monkeys fly….” come to mind.
They didn’t poll or interview me or any of my friends. We will be voting solid republican in the fall election….
Security Mommy Blogger…
Jenny Hatch

Here are some links to a couple news stories I found interesting. Always chosen for impact on the lives of those who are into Natural Family Living…
HPV Vaccine Creates Parental Challenge
“It’s a little bit like putting money in the college fund. You don’t put money in the bank when they’re already in college,” says Alexander, who also believes the HPV series of shots is “the most important vaccine to come along since the measles vaccine, in terms of the misery it will prevent.”
I wonder how much Alexander is being paid to shill for this vaccine by the Big Pharma interests who shoved it on the populace???
Antidepressants During Pregnancy May Affect Baby
Ya think??
Heart Problems for babe when Momma takes anti-d’s during pregnancy…
But dang it that momma is NOT depressed, so it is worth it for the babe to suffer….right???
FDA Weighs Drug to Stop Premature Birth
Momma does NOT need more drugs, she needs to nourish her body and slow down her life!

Up Against the Wal-Mart: Big buyers make organic farmers feel smaller than ever
I love Wal-Mart, and I trust Free Market Principles to make everything fair. It may not seem fair to those organic farmers who have enjoyed a thirty percent markup for the past 25 years, but market forces are best for the consumer, and ultimately keep things balanced for the producers as well. I am looking forward to the day when we have no corporate welfare for the food producers in our society. They have simply ravaged the landscape in the midwest.
Petitioning for Life
The Web site of Ms. Magazine–yes, it still exists–is calling on readers to sign a petition: “I have had an abortion. I publicly join the millions of women in the United States who have had an abortion in demanding a repeal of laws that restrict women’s reproductive freedom.”
Well, so much for the right to privacy. If Ms. readers hadn’t had so many abortions, there might be more Ms. readers. As for the rest of us, here’s a petition we could all sign: “I wasn’t aborted.”
Having narrowly escaped being aborted, I’d be the first in line.
Great insights from Julia Gorin
Terrorise this
“Nicole Kidman and 83 Hollywood heavyweights are using the power of the press to speak out against terrorism.
She has joined 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, including News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today’s Los Angeles Times newspaper.”
‘Esteemists’ blind to basics of life
“Life is about contrasts. Happy and sad. Winners and losers. Pleasure and pain. Without bad days, how will you recognize good days when they come around? But to self-esteem despots, life is a even-steven proposition. Everyone, regardless of talent or temperament, perseverance or personality, is treated equally, even when they manifestly are not.
The Associated Press recently recounted some of the horror stories arising from self-esteeming running amok. Many schools don’t let children talk about sleepovers unless every child in the room has been invited.”
These goons have not only socialized and equalized the schools, they are now attempting to control rights of association. Pathetic…
WHAT PART OF THE WAR ON TERRORISM DO THEY SUPPORT?
Ann Coulter – “This year’s Democratic plan for the future is another inane sound bite designed to trick American voters into trusting them with national security”
Why liberals are crushing dissent
Kevin McCullough “Perhaps that’s why this week in one of the boldest moves yet by a sitting liberal, Democrat California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez proclaimed, in effect, that the real purpose of SB 1437 is to outlaw traditional perspectives on marriage and family in the state school system.
He said, “The way you correct a wrong (perspective) is by outlawing. ‘Cause if you don’t outlaw it, then people’s biases tend to take over and dominate the perspective and the point of view.”
Academic Frauds
Carrie Lukas – “Women’s studies courses are different. They tend to abandon rigorous analysis in favor of consciousness-raising exercises and self-exploration. One textbook explains that women’s studies “consciously rejects many traditional forms of inquiry, concepts, and explanatory systems; at the same time, it is developing new and sometimes unique traditions and authorities of its own.” Those “unique” traditions include providing students with “credit for social change activities or life experience, contracts of self-grading, diaries and journals, even meditation or ritual.”
This is too flaky for some students. The textbook warns of potential resistance to these teaching methods. Students may commit such sins as challenging facts in an effort to “undermine the credibility of feminist reading materials and instructors.” In other words, students aren’t supposed to read texts critically and reach their own conclusions. They are supposed to accept without question the materials and views of their instructors.”
SSRI Stories
Read it and weep…
eBay prohibits textbooks
for homeschool teachers
“One blogger noted that public school interests have been opposing homeschooling more and more, as homeschooling has grown substantially in recent years. Recent estimates have put homeschool attendance in the U.S. at more than 2.5 million. And the same comment noted book publishers also dislike having the products re-sold.”
The Marxists who run the text book companies do NOT like having their corporate profits diminished by wacky home schoolers who re-use and recycle those poor little trees. No, our friends in the textbook publishing business want everyone to pay $120.00 per hunk of wood pulp, just like every other education establishment that buys new books every year. Our Marxist friends enjoy the fruits of capitalism as much as anyone else….
Achilles’ Heel
“But Centanni and Wiig’s brief interlude as practicing Muslims is revealing in a larger sense. Ever since 9/11, the western multicultural mindset has been desperately trying to swaddle Islam within the fluffy quilt of diversity. It’s “just” another religion, like the Congregationalists and Episcopalians. To be sure, it’s got a few hotheads, but haven’t we all? Sticking with this line requires an awful lot of brushing under the carpet and there’s so much under there by now it looks like a broadloomed Himalayas. For a start, you can’t help noticing the traffic is mostly one-way: In Dr. Mahathir’s country, where a long English Common Law tradition is under sustained pressure from sharia, a lady called Lina Joy is currently enduring death threats and a long legal battle because she committed the “crime” of converting from Islam to Catholicism.”
Our Fallout-Shelter Future
Stanley Kurtz
“The most egregious American doves don’t even bother to think out a position on the prospects for deterrence in a post-proliferation world. Implicitly, however, like their realist counterparts, the Howard Dean doves are proliferation optimists. Whether they’ve thought it through or not, their policy preferences require them to believe that a nuclear Iran can be deterred on the model of the Cold War.”
8/26/2006
Tom Nichols: The Clinton Administration and Iraqi WMD Intel in 1998
“First, let’s start with the one thing on which everyone–and this means everyone, including the UN, the French, and even the most angry critics of George Bush–can agree: the Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction at some point. We know this because they used them in battle, and by their own admission, they copped to owning thousands of liters of all kinds of nasty stuff. We also know that Saddam had an active nuclear weapons program, delayed but not destroyed by an Israeli strike in 1981.”
Getting a Good Night’s Sleep: Another Perspective
“Advising parents to ignore the cries of a distressed child, for however long, does not produce a loving and trustful parent-child relationship. I wonder how many of us would want our partners or friends to treat us this way, if we were alone at night and feeling upset and frightened.”
Seek Ye the Kingdom of God
“I hope that all of you will remember that on this Sabbath day you heard me bear my witness that this is God’s holy work. The vision given the Prophet Joseph in the grove of Palmyra was not an imaginary thing. It was real. It occurred in the broad light of day. Both the Father and the Son spoke to the boy. He saw Them standing in the air above him. He heard Their voices. He gave heed to Their instruction.
It was the resurrected Lord who was introduced by His Father, the great God of the universe. For the first time in recorded history, both the Father and the Son appeared together to part the curtains and open this, the last and final dispensation, the dispensation of the fulness of times.
The Book of Mormon is all that it purports to be—a work recorded by prophets who lived anciently and whose words have come forth “to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations”
Jenny Hatch

This past week I have been working hard to put our home back together. It has felt like a move, only we didn’t change locations. It has been a challenge to find a place for everything that used to be in the basement. We have rid ourselves of tons of junk, but the bottom line is that seven people in a 1500 sq foot space, plus all our stuff, plus a years supply of food and a three month supply of water, and a couple hundred books in our home library make for a tight fit.
I am teaching a Provident Living class this saturday, and so I have felt the need to really deep clean everything. We had dry wall dust all over the whole house and it is proving to be more of a mess to clean up than anticipated.
I also am teaching a 72 hour kit class tonight for our wards enrichment, and the Broomfield Choral Festival’s performance of the Brahms Requiem is this sunday, with two more rehearsals in the next two days. I also auditioned for the Colorado Repertory Singers and we start rehearsals tonight.
I did not make the Colorado Mormon Chorale. They called last week to let me know that I “would not be needed this year”. I was rather sad, but singing with the repertory group should be fun. My husband also auditioned and made it into this group, so we will be able to do that together. One of the main reasons I married Paul was because he loves to sing, and has a beautiful tenor voice. I didn’t want to sit next to someone in church for fifty years and have to listen to a tone deaf man singing in my ear. That would have driven me batty. We are doing the Messiah for Christmas. I also did not get the solo for the Brahms Requiem. They hired a professional to do that rather difficult Aria in movement 5.
Here is a recent family picture that we had taken at Wal Mart.

Today is Andrews 10th birthday. We are having a small family party after school, and a friend party next week. I explained to him how crazy busy this weekend is, and that after things settle down it would be a better time to have his friends over for a celebration. So we are postponing it until next friday.
Here are some recent articles I found interesting on the web….enjoy!
128 Students Suspended at Indiana School
HAMMOND, Ind. (Aug. 27) – Classrooms were a little less crowded at Morton High School on the first day of classes: 128 students were sent home for wearing the wrong clothes.
Fed up with inappropriate outfits, the principal suspended the students for one day Wednesday, minutes after doors opened at the school. Those suspended represent more than 10 percent of the 1,200 total students.
The offending attire — including baggy pants, low-cut shirts, tank tops and graphic T-shirts — are banned from classrooms. Students were also cited for cell phone use.
“This was the worst year I’ve seen in a long time,” said Principal Theresa Mayerik. “It’s gotten out of control, and we needed to send a message that we’re not messing around.””
I wish all pricipals had the courage to enforce dress codes!
Panel to Review Safety of Mercury Fillings
“WASHINGTON — The safety of silver fillings made with mercury that plug cavities in the teeth of millions of Americans will get another look this week in light of persistent complaints that they may cause health problems.
Dozens of studies have found no evidence that the fillings are dangerous, except for rare cases of allergic reactions, U.S. health officials say. The Food and Drug Administration will ask a panel of outside experts on Wednesday and Thursday if it agrees with that conclusion or sees reason to worry.”
With the FDA on the case, I’m sure we consumers have absolutely nothing to worry about (sarcasm implied)….I have not been to a dentist in 15 years and my children have never gone….just too toxic. I’m positive whatever “expert” panel looks into this mess will find that “hey, no worries, loading up your mouth with toxic mercury actually is good for you!”
Health effects of egg donation may take decades to emerge
Unintended consequences???
“In 1989, a healthy 32-year-old woman offered her infertile younger sister some of her healthy eggs, and with them the chance to have a baby. Doctors at the Cromwell IVF and Fertility Centre in London gave the donor hormones that made a batch of eggs in her ovary mature, and collected six eggs for fertilization. Three embryos were transferred to the younger sister and two were frozen. One baby girl was born.
Five years later, the doctors contacted the egg donor to ask whether to discard her frozen embryos. They discovered that she had been diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer that spread to her skull. She died just before her thirty-ninth birthday.”

Caesarean birth triples maternal death risk
“LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — A Caesarean delivery more than triples a woman’s risk of dying in childbirth compared to a vaginal birth, according to a new study from France.
The risk is still quite small, but many developed countries have seen a dramatic rise in the number of Caesareans performed each year as more women elect to avoid a vaginal delivery.”
This is an education failure in our society. Proper childbirth education and preparation is the best cure for this malady of women choosing major abdominal surgery over giving birth naturally. I was a Bradley Childbirth educator for eight years, and feel passionate about women being given the facts.
Plaming The President: The Anatomy Of A Lie
This was my favorite Blog reaction to the recent discovery that Valerie Plame was outed by none other than Richard Armitage…
“One can’t help but wonder in the aftermath of Plame whether we’ll see the media, the CIA, the State Department, or Joe Wilson subjected to the kind of full bodied, La Brea tar pit wallowing-in-schadenfreude navel gazing we’ve come to expect from the lamestream media. On a careful ninety seconds of caffeine induced rumination, we’re inclined to think not. The odds are a few honest voices will chime in before the inevitable spin begins. Chris Hitchens led the chorus yesterday:
In his July 12 column in the Washington Post, Robert Novak had already partly exposed this paranoid myth by stating plainly that nobody had leaked anything, or outed anyone, to him. On the contrary, it was he who approached sources within the administration and the CIA and not the other way around. But now we have the final word on who did disclose the name and occupation of Valerie Plame, and it turns out to be someone whose opposition to the Bush policy in Iraq has—like Robert Novak’s—long been a byword in Washington. It is particularly satisfying that this admission comes from two of the journalists—Michael Isikoff and David Corn—who did the most to get the story wrong in the first place and the most to keep it going long beyond the span of its natural life.
As most of us have long suspected, the man who told Novak about Valerie Plame was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell’s deputy at the State Department and, with his boss, an assiduous underminer of the president’s war policy.”
I love vilanous company – it is a hilarious blog. Here is a link to a thread I started at Mothering on the Wilson story before I was banned for smacking the liberals every chance I got. And here is the explanation entry on my blog for why I was banned.
Maybe now this pathetic story will be put to rest. Or maybe not….But I have this image in my mind of Joe Wilson twenty years from now…..hand thumping against his chest….moaning to anyone who will listen to him…”Bush lied, kids died”…..
Gov. Arnold tosses
school moral codes
Bill forces condoning of homosexuality,
critics say ‘the gates of hell are prevailing’
This issue is one of the reasons we pulled our kids out and homeschooled for a couple years. My elementary aged children were being sensitivity trained in accepting gay lifestyles in the classroom, after I had specifically requested that we be given the option to keep them away from any assemblys etc that would expose them to “embracing” the gay lifestyle. I lost my trust in the school after they attended said assembly without my permission. I made a huge stink about it, writing letters to the school board, talking to the principle, and then pulling all three of my elementary aged children out of that school. From what I have heard from other parents, the Safe Schools coalition has only been enboldened and enabled these past few years since I took that step. Looks like Arnold has caved to the gay lobby.
Jenny Hatch

These past few days have been really busy. We registered the children for school, and have been to the music store to get Paul’s old trombone fixed up for Andrew. He is starting fifth grade orchestra this year. It was fun to see so many old friends at the registration. So many of these families have walked similar education paths with homeschool, private school, in and out of public school as the situation warrented, and finally enrolling children in the most excellent of Charter Schools. I love our school! It is such a relief to me not to have to home school. I have great memories of our years of being home together, but it has also been fun to watch our children blossom with new friends, teachers, opportunities for music, sports, and the fun associated with being a part of a small school that has a strong emphasis on academics.
Our children are really excited to go back to school, and after a chaotic summer with workmen in and out finishing our basement, (they finished the work yesterday! WOO HOO!!), New Puppy, and trying to function without a washer and dryer for most of the summer, it has been somewhat difficult to smooth down the inevitable tiffs that would arise over turf wars. And since the girls bedroom was in our living room, it just added to the congestion in our home.
I am going to audition for the Colorado Mormon Chorale next week. It is a great choir to be associated with, and I am excited to add this endeavor to my year’s outside activities. I had a new music friend try to convince me to audition for the Colorado Repertory Singers for the upcoming season when they are performing the Messiah. It will be quite an experience to sing Brahms Requiem, The Messiah, and Faure’s Requiem in the same year. Now I just need to find a group singing Mozarts Requiem and I’ll have a grand slam home run year for music.
I don’t know that I can fit in all of the rehearsals, but I think I am going to try it for a month to see how it works. The Faure rehearsals are only once a month, and we will be performing it next June at Carnegie Hall. I always dreamed that I would one day sing on that great stage. It will be extra fun to do it with my daugher Allison. She is singing with her schools choir, which has been invited to participate as well. We are saving money as I speak to take the trip to New York next spring. We are hoping to see a Broadway Show or two, Visit the Manhattan Temple and visit the site of the world trade center. I have never been to New York City, although I did go see the Hill Cumorah Pageant when I was a teen.
One of my other dreams is to participate in the Pageant some year with my husband and children as actors. An old friend from my summer stock days is the choreographer for the show, and I would love to see him and meet his family as well as participate in the performance. I am hoping to do that sooner than later, perhaps in the next five years or so.
I have four more rehearsal for the Brahms Requiem this week, still have not heard if I am doing the Soprano Aria, but I am excited to find out! I keep rehearsing it every day, and almost have it memorized.

We went to Ben’s Playgroup yesterday and had a wonderful time visiting with friends. About ten mothers and over thirty children attended. (Mormon Mommas tend to be very prolific). It was our final park day before the older children go back to school. I really enjoyed having Michelle and Allison, my teen daughters, attend. It was so good for them to listen to the young mothers talking about the realities of motherhood and to spend time with the pregnant and nursing mommas. This exposure and the friendship of the Moms, some of whom are only a few years older than my girls, will hopefully help them in their mothering. I believe it is very healthy for young women to socialize and be friends with young mothers who are just getting started with family life. It will help them when they start their own Mothering adventures.

School starts a week from today, and we are planning to go camping this weekend for a final outing before our busy schedule starts. It should be a memorable fall season with sports events to attend, Musical Performances, as well as just regular living. I was also called to be the Preparedness person in my ward last sunday, and will take my Provident Living adventures to the next level as I learn the ins and outs of this calling. The Bishop said I could continue to teach my Sunday School class, but they may have the ward missionaries help with the teaching. Should be fun.
I need to go make breakfast, but just wanted to post something, as I am not sure I will get back to the computer this week. We have a load of work to do in setting up the girls bedroom and moving all of our food storage back down to the basement. We refilled most of the water barrels last night, moved the 72 hour kits out of our front hall closet, and carried about forty boxes of food from under our bed to the storage room. It will be nice not to be sleeping three feet off the ground!
Jenny Hatch