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The “Curious” Attacks On Saudi Oil

Awesome!
But what did the Volt’s battery cost the environment to produce, and what does it cost the environment to re-charge? From where (from what) does that energy come? Coal? Nuclear? Oil? Wind? Solar?
And what would be the impact for someone like me who drives many miles (hundreds one way on an average trip vs. 70 round trip) on a regular basis?

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 5:14 pm

UK’s Economy On The Brink As Parliament Scuffles

“Nobody ever influenced another person’s vote.” Really?!? Welcome to the 21st century. Are you familiar with the work (and testimony) of Dr. Robert Epstein? I offer, as a starting point, this: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4807816/congressionalhearing-16july2019-testimonybydrrobertepstein

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 4:52 pm

Thoughts on The Fourth Of July…from an American Transgender Woman’s Perspective

In what way am I ‘hateful’? How is it that you think you can make a determination about how I treat people, or decide that how I love is somehow inferior to how you love?

Perhaps you were created by God to be the way you are. OK. Perhaps members of the gay community were created to be the way they are. OK. I don’t believe that God makes mistakes;so there is a reason. You suggest that it’s perhaps a test for ‘people like me’. Perhaps. But I do treat others with love, respect and dignity – regardless. However, denying truth is not loving or respectful. And loving the person is vastly different from loving the actions God has condemned. (Remember, Jesus came for us sinners. He spoke with sinners, and when they had repented, He forgave them – with the admonition to “Go and sin no more.”) Have “you ever stopped to consider” that you were created with that particular cross to bear? And that you are being tested in how you respond to your cross?

You asked, “how could any all-knowing, all-seeing, all-loving, all-caring God…create me thus…and then condemn me for being that which I was created to be?” My response would be that the “all-knowing, all-seeing, all-loving, all-caring God…create[d] me[you] thus” and loves you. You are a beloved child of God. Like any parent, though, there are things that our children do that we do not love (for a variety of reasons). Those actions, however, don’t end our love for them.

I’m really not trying to be mean or hurtful, but I understand how things can seem that way even if they’re not meant that way. I wish you peace.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On July 9, 2019 @ 2:33 pm

“Stop feeling like a ‘victim’ and start counting the blessings you have received. We could all find reasons to feel like we ‘got less’; but really, in America, we all get more than we would in any other society/country.

Be thankful for what you have.”

Absolutely agree!!

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On July 8, 2019 @ 5:05 pm

“The rights and freedoms everyone else seemingly takes for granted…which are supposed to come with birthright citizenship…are denied to me.: Which rights are actually denied to you??

“And law or no law, they will do as they were going to do anyway. That is what criminals do.” True. Criminals have no regard for the law. Since the vast majority of females ‘identify’ as female, my question is why should their legitimate concerns be subordinate to those in the minority who ‘identify’ as female?

“I don’t think it is a stretch to say that many of them actually WANTED us transgender people to be hurt. To be assaulted, beat up, raped and even killed in bathrooms.” I believe that it is a stretch. A BIG stretch to say that. A person can and should love you in the way that Christ describes – loving the person while rejecting the sin. This by itself would prohibit them from wishing ill upon the person.

“NOBODY cared about the trans men using the men’s bathroom.” I don’t think that that’s really true. I just think that people recognized the greater potential danger posed by men pretending to be women to women.

“I have to go through the State Assembly…which has no interest in granting transgender people basic rights or human dignity.” Really? Or are they trying to balance the nebulous rights of transgender people with the rights of people who live/accept the sex acknowledged at birth based on their physical characteristicts?

“to banning trans people from serving in the military” – OK. Remember. A Lot of people are prevented from serving in the military. Got flat feet (for example)? Not serving. The transitioning trans community has a lot of stuff going on. The military is tasked with fighting and winning wars. It’s not the time for social experimentation.

“The STACKED Supreme Court. Whether they respect precedence and common sense…or ideology.” The SCOTUS has more people who seek to abide by their constitutional role than in a very long time. It is NOT their place to legislate from the bench. It IS their job to determine what is actually allowable under the Constitution.

“discrimination on the basis of sex…which is currently precisely what we suffer. Discrimination on the basis of sex. Failure to conform to stereotypical dress and behavior based upon other people’s assumption of our gender.” I’ll be blunt here. If you are not a biologic female, you have not lived the life of a female. Bruce(Caitlin) Jenner?? Really??? He/she has never actually grown up with who/what it means to be be female. Identify all you want; but it’s like me saying that I identify with being African American. My experiences will never be the same as one who actually is what they profess.

“it is almost laughable that MY basic rights and dignity…should even be a subject for debate! Certainly…in a free country…a truly free country…they would not be.” When did your “basic rights and dignity” become more important than the rights and dignity of those born with the identity you have chosen? Why should they take precedence? Why should those biological females be forced to accept biological men in their locker rooms?

“If my identity and my expression are limited…on pain of punishment/sanction – to only those things which are acceptable to others…then I am not free. And so I do not celebrate the Fourth…for I am not free. I have nothing to celebrate.” Everyone endures pain. Most endure unacceptance for one reason or another. That does not preclude one from celebrating the Fourth. (Imagine yourself living in another country. How accepted would you be? If more so, then go there. If less, then rejoice in and celebrate what you have here!) I am a Christian living my faith. How ‘acceptable’ do you think that is in today’s PC environment?? How ‘free’ am I? Yet I am able to, and do, celebrate the freedom we are able to experience as a nation.

Stop feeling like a ‘victim’ and start counting the blessings you have received. We could all find reasons to feel like we ‘got less’; but really, in America, we all get more than we would in any other society/country.

Be thankful for what you have.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On July 8, 2019 @ 4:52 pm

The Last Clinic Based Abortion Services in Missouri: A Cautionary History

And the problem is?

Also, as an aside to the inherent wrongness of abortion, have you researched the problems with the PP site in Saint Louis? Have you researched the problems associated with many abortion provider sites? Many claim that they are ‘for’ women’s health; yet they are willing to accept inadequate/unsanitary ‘clinics’ simply because they offer abortion.

Abortion is not medically necessary for a mother. It simply takes the life of an innocent baby. The right to life should be honored and recognized.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 6:11 pm

Short Posts

The issue with Benghazi had more to do with Hillary and her supporters (both in the DOJ and the Congress at the time) than real “let’s get to the real problem’ people trying to actually get to the real issue.

I agree that the House should faithfully execute its oversight – regardless of who is in ‘power’; but it should do that wisely, and it should not have anything at all to do with which party is in power.. If there are real crimes that can be prosecuted, pursue them. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if the Congress is pursuing an investigation that is really just pandering to their base, that’s another issue altogether.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 10:57 pm

Ask yourself the same questions in regard to, for example, those who worked under the Obama admin. Hillary, for example. Try to be fair and truly open-minded.
Wrong is wrong regardless of who is doing it.
Accusation is not the same as guilt. Be willing to apply the same standards. I am. Are you??

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 10:39 pm

Really? That’s the best you rely on? There’s so much more available – if you choose to look.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 10:31 pm

OK. Your life experiences haven’t influenced you? Reporting on news outlets hasn’t influenced you? Your ‘world history’ teaching hasn’t influenced you?Having friends personally affected by government policy hasn’t influenced you? News coverage in your area hasn’t influenced you? Normal human emotions about events as presented to you hasn’t influenced you? Unless you’re not human, of course they have! They’ve all influenced you!
But the take-away is in recognizing how they have and to what extent they have, and then forming your opinions in light of that.
(And, as an aside, recognizing and accepting the opinions of others who have had other experiences which have led them to different conclusions,)

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 10:28 pm

The ‘schoolyard retort’ is not at all my point.
As I’ve said, it would be great if viable alternatives were offered. However, thus far, none have been.
I’m not at all confused by “how America’s democracy works”.
BTW – I don’t watch FOX News. So if it appears that I’m ‘regurgitating’ their talking points – well, chalk that up to me reaching the same conclusions based on my own research and evaluations of events.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 10:16 pm

No one is or should be above the law. Wrong is wrong even when people sometimes think it’s right (for whatever cause/purpose they support), and right s right even when people believe it to be wrong.
Standards should be equally applied. The side of the aisle should not have impact on that. Do unto others…

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 10:08 pm

Interesting. My sources include BBC, France 24, and Reuters, in addition to the very biased MSM in my country, as well as other more right-leaning outlets. I’ve seen that most of the main media outlets exclude reporting on many facts that are available (and yet excluded) from public mass reporting. It offers a counter balance. It affords the opportunity to learn and digest info for oneself (rather than the spoon-fed garbage the MSM hopes we the people will digest without questioning).

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 10:01 pm

I like when people testifying before Congress answer questions.
However, I believe that applies to both sides. Do you? Or do you give a ‘pass’ to D’s who refuse to show up, or refuse to answer questions? There have been many. But you’d have to be open-minded enough to see those times when that happened with D witnesses.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 9:51 pm

“the precedent of a new admin prosecuting the previous president” – why Obama is not facing charges. (Well that and a rallying cry of ‘racism’ – which kept him out of trouble throughout his administration.)
Think about it.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 9:34 pm

It is not Trump who has worked to ‘destroy the West’.
Obama did whatever he could to ‘transform’ our country into something unrecognizable. He was also the first one briefed on ‘Russian interference’ and chose to do nothing. Trump, based on evidence available to the public, has done nothing ‘traitorous’ in regard to our country and its founding documents. He has, actually, tried to restore it from the overreach of the prior administration. The Constitution clearly states what powers are allocated to the federal government, and the states, as well as what powers the citizens should have. Government has infringed way too much – both at the state and federal level.
p.s. Re-read the Mueller report. I don’t think it says what you think it says. Also, read what is available (so far) of Horowitz’s investigation.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 9:32 pm

No. Everything that Trump touches is automatically decried. It doesn’t matter what it is. The D’s seem to be on auto-pilot in this regard. (Even to the point of contradicting themselves and what they said just a few years ago – while still under Obama).
As to your link – as my grandmother used to say – “Consider the source.” The WaPo is a left-leaning source. So, that being said, to arrive at any fair (more balanced/true) conclusion, it would be important to consider what a ‘right-leaning’ source had to say on the same matter. Take what they have in common and discern from there.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 9:16 pm

What the House has passed is generally extreme – a ‘shout-out’ to their very left-of-center constituents.
If they wanted to pass something that had a chance of actually being enacted, they would have reached across the aisle. That would be true regardless of who controlled the House. Compromise is key. No one gets all that they want – but they each usually get something they can live with. And that’s one of the things that’s so good about our system of government.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 9:07 pm

No ‘conspiracy theory’ in my comment. Do your homework and step outside your comfort zone. Learn about what really happened (and apply those events in reverse – as in think about what happened in the light of if they happened to a candidate you supported) and understand other perspectives on events while you’re at it. Understand how those things/actions threatened our nation.
Spying on the campaign of another (Nixon was brought down for less than what was done to the Trump campaign via FISA), dividing our country chasing false narratives pushed by our Justice Dep’t. via a dossier that was known to be false at the time that FISA warrants were sought, and the list goes on – these are wrong (in addition to being illegal). Look at the timelines! Try to be objective. Walk a mile…you can hardly miss it.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 9:00 pm

“The only time anyone ever influenced me in what to think or say was the time my grandparents were teaching me” Really?!?

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 8:49 pm

Most of your comment can be applied in reverse.
As for voting out Trump – the D’s should provide a viable alternative who actually believes in “truth, justice and the American Way and thinking for themselves”. As yet, there are no alternatives – D’s who actually believe in those things. Instead, there are proud promoters of socialism (and we’ve seen how ‘good’ that system is for the citizenry). They seem to be competing for the position of who can promise the most freebies (with no viable way to pay for them), who can be the most extreme on abortion, the most extreme on restricting/denying the constitutional right to ‘bear arms’ (like all good fascist leaders -disarm the people and they will have no way to fight back against tyranny – a la Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc), to name but a few platform issues. We live in an imperfect world filled with imperfect people, and ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’.
Please, show me a viable alternative to Trump – one who genuinely believes in ‘truth, justice and the American way’ and that person will get my vote.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 8:48 pm

“Does it physically hurt to be brainwashed by disproven lies and endless conspiracy theories that have no merit in the real world of proof and actual facts?” I ask you the same question. Do you visit sources outside the D-MSM? Or do you simply accept their spin?

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 8:36 pm

Two wrongs definitely don’t make a right.
The point of dealing with corruption in the recent past (and continuing) is to try to ‘discourage’ others from doing the same types of things. I don’t blindly absolve anyone from wrongdoing – past or present.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 19, 2019 @ 8:33 pm

“extremist ideologues” – obviously referring to the D’s.
The SC is not supposed to legislate from the bench. They’re simply supposed to decide if a law is Constitutional. (That is, did a proper authority do what was in their purview to do.)
Trump has nominated justices who are true to the Constitution. (originalists) He has not nominated activists who seek to ‘interpret’ our Constitution to say what they want it to say.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 5:34 pm

Any proof that Kavanaugh did anything untoward? To anyone? Even the NYT has to issue a correction to their ‘story’. (There are no actual witnesses – including the supposed ‘victim’ who has said that she doesn’t know who did what Kavanaugh is being accused of.) I believe that ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is the standard we expect to be applied to ourselves. Why should it be different for Kavanaugh?
There is nothing that I’ve seen that substantiates any charge against him.
There is however, the D fear of a Roe v Wade challenge. Therein lies the problem. They seek to discredit him out of fear that he will do anything they don’t like if a case involving Roe v Wade reaches the SCOTUS. They sacrifice an, by all appearances, honorable man to further the ‘kill the unborn at any time for any reason’ agenda. That’s what this is about.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 5:24 pm

“all the rampant destruction Trump is doing to the country and our democracy” – please clarify what the destruction to the country and our democracy is that you believe is happening.
I see no “Trump War On America”. I do, however, see a blatant attempt by leading D contenders to wage just that. They seem to seek the destruction of our founding and replace it with socialism. THAT is a ‘war on America’!

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 4:43 pm

There won’t be a ‘successful’ impeachment regardless. (For example, Clinton lied to Congress and was impeached for it, yet he was not successfully removed from office).
Congress is wasting time on this rather than trying to deal with real issues! (Maybe because they don’t have real, workable solutions to anything! And they want to veil that fact by loudly chasing ghosts.)

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 4:38 pm

This is my hope – that whoever wins the 2020 election will put America first.
So far, no D front-runner is indicating that they would. So, don’t be surprised if Trump wins again. Regardless of his flaws, and there are many, (as there are for each of us) Trump does seem to put America and her interests first. And isn’t that what our President is elected (and sworn) to do? (Upholding the Constitution rather than trying to ‘transform’ our nation.)

“I’ve seen Eric Holder already warn against prosecuting Trump when he’s out of office because of the “precedent” it will set in going after a president who was a political opponent.” That concept is probably why Obama hasn’t been indicted for what he did while in office. No scandals? Hardly. Just none that the D-MSM would report on.

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 4:31 pm

No comment about the attempted coup d’etat under Obama’s DOJ?
No comment about Hillary’s ‘lost’ emails which were under subpoena? Isn’t that obstructing justice? How about the leaking of classified material via Comey & McCabe?
How about all the lies to Congress by anti-Trumpers?
The rule of law was ignored by former members of the FBI & DOJ – probably due to their expectation that they would get away with it all because they believed the hype that Hillary would win.
If no one is truly ‘above the law’ then Hillary, Obama, and all of their cohorts would be in jail. But D’s protect themselves, and R’s tend to let things ride because they believe that prosecuting would be more harmful to our nation (dividing us further).
I know. “What difference at this point does it make?”

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On September 18, 2019 @ 4:20 pm

For your perusal: <a href="http://https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/photos-every-us-mass-shooter-in-2019-who-shot-four-or-more-people/&quot;

» Posted By ordinaryjosephine On August 6, 2019 @ 6:11 pm