Damn.
February, the month of Cupid, of chocolate, of red hearts and lace.
A warming planet in the grip of winters lust.
Frost on stem and mountain, snow piled deep, ice to test the placement of feet.
Beneath the virgin snow, pristine – mice and voles frolic
Above the sky the hawk, soaring feathered friend, watching a world in love.
Hers was the smile, his was the face of smitten,
It is that time again, the month of winter
leading those lost in love to warm a world.
A man pets a stuffed and mounted boar at the Slow Food Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre on September 22, 2016 in Turin. / AFP / MARCO BERTORELLO (Photo credit should read MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP/Getty Images)
Yes, there’s a pork council.
According to Cincinnati.com, the Ohio Pork Council has reported that nation’s bacon reserves is a bit overworked due to America’s love of the best part of the pig. We’re consuming more frozen pork belly than pig farmers can provide.
“Today’s pig farmers are setting historic records by producing more pigs than ever,” said Rich Deaton, president of the organization. “Yet our reserves are still depleting.”
In December of last year, the amount of frozen pork belly we had waiting for us to pig out on was 17.8 million pounds, which is the lowest level since 1957 according to the Department of Agriculture. Due to the shortage, you may have noticed that makin’ bacon is a bit more expensive than it used to be. The price has indeed shot up about 20 percent last month.
But don’t panic. Deaton assures us that there will still be plenty of pork to partake in, saying “While bacon may become more expensive for consumers, rest assured the pork industry will not run out of supply.”
So relax, have some bacon, and contemplate the fact that our amazing nation actually has bacon reserves.
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If anyone who enjoys writing ever complains about, ‘writers block’, all they would have to do is read some of the daily news events.
Today the news was filled with so much it hurts the head:
Iran launches a missile.
Someone hates Pres. Trump
Someone loves Pres. Trump
A mulsim guy dies after being married to 130 women…Yikes! That bastard must have been crazy!
Some beautiful woman poised for Sports Illustrated.
Some guy wanted to become a beautiful woman.
It goes on and on and on…
Of all the headlines I perused today, the bacon one got my attention the most. I love bacon! If they made bacon flavored ice cream, I’d buy it.
Bacon. Bacon. Bacon.
Yum.
So many voices demanding a mind
Minds filled with sound
Across boundaries with walls
Sounding so important.
Immigration, pollination, wind blown politics
Words abound.
It feels good to give title to comfort, so such simple words:
Fuck You!
(translate into Arabic, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese…)
First, to scare away those of weaker minds, a word to describe the recent outrage concerning the POTUS and immigration ban of people coming from certain Muslim countries… H-O-R-S-E /// S-H-I-T. There, that will drive away most people as I’ll either be considered crass, primitive, or rude by most people thus proving how both sides of Republicans and Democrats are truly clueless.
So, you have an opinion regarding President’s Trumps executive order of banning people coming from certain Muslim countries. Your choices 1.”I could give a shit, what’s on the television? 2. “I’m so outraged. Oh the horror of that evil, evil, man…” 3. “I support Trump and his decision to protect us from terrorists…” 4. “Gee, I don’t know. I think…no, I just can’t make up my mind.:
You chose one and I could give a shit on which because all four answers are wrong.
Very few people are what I would consider, intelligent. So few they would not be heard in a football stadium even if they yelled as loud as they could as a collective group of intelligent people. Their voices would be definitely drowned out by ignorance. And sadly, if you chose one of the four choices, you’re in the ‘ignorant’ group.
First, a bit about God. You think God sent an angel to Muhammad after appearing hundred’s of years earlier? You don’t believe in God? You do believe in God but follow some silly organization.
Being a monster has it’s perks. Oh, so many perks. Did you know there is a God? Did you know God’s ways are not your ways? Did you know God’s thoughts are not your thoughts? Do you know what the inside of Muhammad’s mind was like when the angel of God appeared?
Oh sure, you think you have answers for everything, so convinced that the sun will rise and set, but again…wrong, wrong, wrong. If you only could have glimpsed what was going on in the mind of Judas after betrayal, or what Muhammad was thinking when hearing what (You just can’t understand, so why waste my time describing)
So, something simple your mind can understand. Power. Oh sure, you’re all power hungry little buggers. Power over this over that…And if you think otherwise then why do you constantly try and control your body? Yes. Controlling your body with your mind is a perfect example of power.
I could write forever (actually, I have), but to stay on focus, the real answer as to what Trump is doing is many-fold. First, it is a chess game and setting up the pawns for slaughter. A metaphor but I’ll leave it up to your minds to embrace the definition and who and what are the pawns.
This act of power is also a mechanism to bring both parties together, brilliant actually. A way to provide common ground to agree on something ‘new’ so the real juicy stuff coming… Just wait, you’ll see. Or if you’re reading this in twenty years, will have seen the obvious.
But what it really is about is the power of Islam. Muslims embrace peace as a means of decorum or civility when the occasion calls for it. Much like you and your many religions. Sounds great in theory and in the world of La La Land, but in YOUR world… Power wins everytime over weakness.
For those of you using the argument of Dr. Martin Luther or Ghandi being peace loving and winning; deluded. They knew full well the power of numbers. Even Jesus showed how power wins over weakness.
Islam only respects one thing coming from non-believers… Power. Resolve. Actions. Combine all three and you will have peace in YOUR world.
Trump is showing the power, resolve, and action that while the Muslims will decry, they will respect. Just watch what happens when Iran tries to capture U.S. Sailors again…
Of course, who am I, a confused, crazy person? Maybe I’m intelligent? I could give a crap as monsters care less for what you think…
This world is so wound up tight it feels like a constant botox treatment.
I’m sick of words like, white privilege, woman’s inequality, racism…
“But Robin, they exist. You are a part of the problem…”
Yes parasite. We’re all a part of the problem and all a part of the solution. An enigma but true.
We can embrace what we want and I choose to solve the problems and have a good time in the process. This video is an expression of a point of view I agree with while disagreeing with Ashley Judds take on the problem.
Do you think about words? I mean really think about those sounds forming in your mind and spilling from your lips?
I guess it could be said that we speak what we think yet many can speak while thinking of something else. By this it could mean deceit or lies. Example: “I caught a halibut weighing 300 pounds…”Said with words while remembering the halibut to be 20 pounds.
When asked by someone, a question, do we use words of truth or words appropriate to fit the situation? And the answer matters not because as I type this my mind is in another world using words few could understand.
Three paragraphs written, and about what? Words? When actually the first question ‘Do you think about words?’
Words are the means of communicating who and what we are: Intelligent and cognitive, able to understand and formulate decisions of choice. Pretty simple explanation for something so complex I could write for hours and still not finish.
The title for today’s blabber is, ‘March For Life’. Three words, all three with capital letters to denote the worthiness of title.
March: A name for a month of the year. A explanation for a group traveling, usually pertaining to military forces or groups of prisoners/ POW’s. In this word the ‘group’ attraction is the main attraction
For: An often used word to imply connection with. ‘I’m for the status quo,’ “I’m for the abolishment of the death penalty.” For is the exact opposite of, Against.
Life: Ah, such a powerful word. Life. Precious. Wonderful. It represents God, it represents what you are… Intelligent and cognitive, able to understand and formulate decisions of choice.
Three simple and powerful words that when put into the perspective of communication, mean a lot.
Today people marched for life. Many people march for life everyday. Doctors save lives. Police and military protect lives. Parents bring life into the world and guide the growth. Life is wonderful and powerful. Death, death is easy and visible.
Are you anonymous in this choice? Do you march for life in your everyday world or hide in the comfort of waiting for death? The choice is yours. I however walk proudly in the world of life and spit on death knowing it really is a weak and puny word – death – it means nothing other than an inconvenience for the shell I have to travel in.
And now, a poem.
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Cells so small, so minuscule, so alive
Filled with information of conquer and divide
Growing into completion.
So many words to describe:
Zygote, Gametes, Fetus, Phloem, Photosynthesis…
Life.
Green leaf of Spring, Fall colors of spawning salmon
God hands sparking creation
It is a good day to live.
Wonderful story about Kayla. Giving birth to four babies without the aid of fertility drugs, fighting cancer, and yet such a good outlook on life.
Today is a march for Life and if I were in Washington I’d join in. Here in Idaho it is now the start of life as the cows are calving. Soon the birds will nest, the fawns bounce after their mothers and the plants explode in growth.
Everyday should be a day of life. We should all embrace life and mourn death, in any form.
Death is an absolute. It is always coming, but life is special. It has its moment in the sun and currently the Sun is bright above the clear, blue sky.
Flying into my life, staring limbs and sway
Want with this
desire.
Walking beneath her smile
lost in clouds and dream
Birds they sing.
Nested in, this without
Lonely
memory of wings.
Standing on sawdust spit out by steel teeth
Gripping rubber boots -Bogs – sounds, cute.
Sun playing with clouds while a bird sits in a rose bush wondering
Contrails up above, passing.
Timber bound blade and cursing
Still, it was a good day working, watching the snow melt.
SocietyCommentary
In 2013, Kermit Gosnell was convicted for murdering infants born alive during attempted abortion procedures. (Photo: Yong Kim/MCT/Newscom)
Robin Lipinski 
I never trusted or liked pro-life activists.
Even at college I thought them too earnest and too religious. I thought the shocking images they showed were manipulative.
I distinctly remember my argument: A heart transplant is gross to look at, too. I don’t want to look at pictures of that, and heart transplants are brilliant. So back off, pro-lifers with your scary pictures.
I also didn’t trust the provenance of the pictures; I was sure they had been photoshopped.
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If the anti-abortion position was so strong, it should be able to argue without resorting to emotionally manipulating its audience with fraudulent horror pictures.
Once you have this mentality, it’s very easy to completely dismiss pro-life activists. And the universities of the world are teeming with young people just like that young person I once was.
Fast forward to April 2013 and Kermit Gosnell’s trial in Philadelphia, when everything changed.
Nothing in the intervening years had shaken my feelings on the subject.
But the images shown in the courtroom were not from activists, they were from police detectives and medical examiners and workers at the 3801 Lancaster Ave. clinic.
>>> WATCH LIVE: The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness hosts Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney at The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
The expert testimony describing “good” abortions was from OB/GYNs who had been performing abortions for 30 years. The witnesses swore an oath to tell the truth and to present the evidence, and they did, under pain of penalty for perjury.
What they said and the pictures they showed changed me. I am not the same person I was.
Abortion arguments from pro-abortion advocates tend to avoid any actual talk of how an abortion is done and what exactly it is that is being aborted. I know a lot about both now.
I now know that what is aborted is a person, with little hands and nails and a face that from the earliest times has expression.
>>> Purchase Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer’s book: “Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer”
The humanity in all the pictures is unmistakable, the pictures of the babies that were shown as evidence in the Gosnell trial—first, second, and third trimester babies, in all their innocence and perfection.
I also know that in a proper, legal abortion, babies are poisoned in their mother’s womb by injecting a needle filled with potassium chloride into the baby’s heart. Then the baby is suctioned out in pieces.
If the baby is bigger, forceps are used to pull it out in pieces—an arm, a leg, the head often torn from the torso. If the head is too big to pull out, the abortionist makes a hole in the base of the skull and the brain is sucked out to collapse the skull so the head can come easily.
That’s how it’s done when it’s done well.
Reading the testimony and sifting through the evidence in the case in the research for this book and for writing the script of the movie has been brutal. I have wept at my computer. I have said the Our Father sitting at my desk.
I am no holy roller—I hadn’t prayed in years—but at times when I was confronted with the worst of this story I didn’t know what else to do.
I have had a profound sense of the presence of evil in the actions of Gosnell and his staff and their complete lack of conscience. Most disturbing of all is the banality of the evil; in the clinic they joked and laughed amidst the carnage.
I am absolutely certain that the dead babies spoken of in court were unique people whom the world will now never know. I hope this book and the movie go some way to mark the fact that they lived and in their short lives made a difference.
Time will tell. This story can change hearts and minds; it has mine.
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Ann McElhinney. What a wonderful human being. I just watched her in an interview and it was more than wonderful to see some more hope for your world.
Abortion is wrong on so many levels it is beyond amazing to even start and justify any reason for it.
Are you for abortion? If you are, that’s okay, you’re ignorant and stupid. It is okay to be ignorant and stupid. Embrace it, but if you decide to be worthy of being intelligent, compassionate, or even smart, you can change your mind.
If you’re against abortion, you are a part of why I find some hope for your planet.
Children are wonderful. They are joy. They are life.
Social blabber of, “Who will take care of the child, you?” or “Rape. You expect the mother to raise the product of the attacker? or “The health of the mother is at stake…” All ignorant and stupid statements. A verbal/mental ‘alka seltzer’ to sooth the acid of your choice to kill. And that’s okay, because you are human you are a killer…
Ann, you’re a wonderful woman and I applaud you. Keep your convictions and faith and maybe, just maybe, some ignorant stupid people will evolve. Doubtful, but some will as evolution goes both ways and in the end I know it will succeed with wonder while leaving the bones of the ignorant and stupid in the dust bin of history.