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Sunday, September 5, 2021

The State of Texas fired the first shot now backed by the United Supreme Court to eventually eliminate abortion on demand .




As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”  John 9
I was excited over the news of the State of Texas passing a law that forbids the taking of a baby's life as soon as a heartbeat was detected. I was even more excited over the prospects that the United States Supreme Court allowed the law to stand. The original 1970's law was a law based on lies. The legal team essentially used a woman who wasn't even pregnant to be the Jane Doe that would eventually pave the way for abortion on demand. To understand the context of this law you have to understand that this was an era where 'free love' and drugs ruled the land of young people.


I was reminded how angry the Democratic left was with the passage of the recent Texas landmark abortion law when an acquitance from high school posted a picture of a coat hanger as a reminder that woman will seek back alley abortions to terminate the life within their bodies. When a CBS news reporter said that woman have been calling Oklahoma abortion clinics since the law was passed, but when the same reporter failed to quote her source I knew it was a bogus attempt to create drama where none existed.


I believe there are more people in America who believe in prolife than those who support abortion on demand and the democratic leadership are mad as hell that we know this. Come with me as I take you on a historical journey so you can better understand the evils that lurk behind the cloak of planned parenthood.


To begin, the evils didn't begin in the 1970's with Roe v. Wade, but it began shortly after the civil war ended on April 9th, 1865. It was during this time when the wealthy democractic land owners were no longer able to profit off of slave labor that they knew they had a problem- there were to many blacks running around the country side and these land owners saw it as a major problem.


It was in this atmosphere, that the original eugenics movement was founded. This movement was made up with men dressed in long white robes with a mission to terrorize blacks. It was a frightening time for blacks who were now learning how to enjoy their new found freedom and enjoy the process of starting businesses and operating farms of their own.


Fast forward to 1921 and now we have a woman who was highly racist named Margaret Sanger who founded the Birth control league, a program desiged to prevent blacks from breeding.


Some notable quotes from Margaret Sanger: (1) Sanger called for the sterilization of those with mental and physical disabilities, including “morons, mental defectives, epileptics.” Out of Sanger's racist bigotry, we know that more than 30 states passed laws authorizing agencies to sterilize forcibly those considered “unfit” for childbearing. The sterilization law passed in Minnesota in 1925 stated that anyone of any age that was determined to be “feeble minded” was legally able to be sterilized, with or without permission. ... Out of the population, around 2,350 people were victimized by this sterilization.


One of Sanger’s most cherished initiatives was the Negro Project, which targeted predominantly black neighborhoods for birth control programs. It was her opinion that blacks were unfit to breed and ways must be found to control their number. In one of her interviews she compared blacks to rodents. The excellent movie, Marfa 21 describes the sordid history of the racist eugenics movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6XfU8KVkzI&t=897s I urge you to watch it before discussing it with friends.


Lothrop Stoddard was another person with close ties to Margaret Sanger. He was even more radical in his worldview.

Somehow, there are still some abortion supporters who insist that Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger and Lothrop Stoddard, weren't a racist who wanted to exterminate “inferior races.” This is, of course, despite their extensive writing on the subject and speeches at KKK rallies. Ever so politely, Google previews Stoddard’s identity in the search bar as “American Historian.” But let’s look into dear Mr. Stoddard a bit further. Lothrop Stoddard’s main business was eugenics, which is the deliberate and systemic repression of “undesirable races.” This earlier eugenics movement is no different than the Eugenics movement currently lead by modern-day eugenicist lead by Bill Gates Jr.


Lothrop Stoddard was a true white supremacist who focused his energy on the dangers posed by “colored” people to “white civilization.” He believed the “Nordic” race was superior to all others and should be kept “dominant” through the use of eugenics.


Stoddard’s three main organizations he was involved with or founded were the Ku Klux Klan (who read his works enthusiastically), the American Eugenics Society, and Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League.


Both he and Sanger published eugenic articles in The Birth Control Review in the 1920s and 30s. Stoddard’s work influenced the Nazi government of Germany. His book Untermensch (1922) introduced the term (English: sub-human) into Nazi conceptions of race. As a journalist, he spent time in Germany during World War II, where he interviewed several prominent Nazi officials. It’s commonly thought that the Nazis themselves came up with the subhuman, under man concept that they used to rationalize their 6-million-person genocide.


But they got it from Stoddard himself in his book Untermensch . During his time in Nazi Germany, he was treated like a prince and he outwardly supported a German court deliberation to forcibly sterilize German citizens. He even had a brief meeting with Adolf Hitler himself. Unsurprisingly, Stoddard’s popularity dropped off after World War II since the world got a good taste of what his brand of eugenics could look like after the concentration camps were liberated. Stoddard was a founding board member of the American Birth Control League which would soon become Planned Parenthood. One of the founding principles of the League was:

To enlist the support and cooperation of legal advisors, statesmen, and legislators in effecting the removal of State and Federal statutes which encourage dysgenic breeding.

“Dysgenic breeding” refers to procreating human beings who possess “undesirable characteristics.” Margaret Sanger focused her eugenic efforts very specifically on birth control, but she shared Stoddard’s desire to eliminate those she deemed inferior. Stoddard was just more far-reaching than Sanger in his yearnings for white supremacy, as he supported her birth control eugenics as well as the activities of the KKK and Nazi party. Any genocidal action directed towards non-whites was fine by him.


A Few Choice Quotes from Lothrop Stoddard:
“in ethnic crossings, the negro strikingly displays his prepotency, for black blood, once entering a human stock, seems never really bred out again. Negro”
― T. Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy


“black peoples have no historic pasts. Never having evolved civilizations of their own, they are practically devoid of that accumulated mass of beliefs, thoughts, and experiences which render Asiatics so, impenetrable and so hostile to white influences. Although the white race displays sustained constructive power to an unrivaled degree, particularly in its Nordic branches, the brown and yellow peoples have contributed greatly to the civilization of the world and have profoundly influenced human progress. The negro, on the contrary, has contributed virtually nothing. Left to himself, he remained a savage,”
― T. Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy


“And it is precisely the determination to get rid of the white rule which seems to be spreading like wildfire over the brown world today.”
― T. Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy


Would Lothrop Stoddard like Planned Parenthood’s identity politics and involvement with Black Lives Matter? Decidedly not. But it stands to reason that he would certainly appreciate how they (and the rest of the abortion industry) have managed to reduce the African-American population by 25% in only 50 years… all the while convincing the American public that it’s a good exercise of freedom.

Planned Parenthood has been forced to receckon with it's racist past by removing Lothrop Stoddard's name from the Planned parenthood building and scubbing all mention of Margaret Sanger from its files; yet, the truth of the matter is Planned parenthood is an organization based on lies and falsehoods, and worse yet, supported by the United States Democratic party.


Have you ever noticed how abortion clinics are always located in poor areas of town? Why not in the wealthier suburbs? This alone speaks volumes to Planned parenthood's racist past. It is hypocrisy when one realizes that the very people who support abortion of demand are themselves products of a live birth delivered by a loving mom.

Abortion isn't the only thing they do, but just like the Nazi's before them they are making millions selling baby body and organs to vendors in need of them for their, you guessed it, their wealthier clientelle. Here is an undercover video that has the director of Planned parenthood explaining the process of selling baby parts for profit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLfGWbmh3g. In this video, this abortionist freely explains the millions they make selling body parts.


Finally, one of the more outspoken pro life speakers was a person who worked at a planned parenthood clinic. Abby Johnson had to quit when she saw the evil that took place in the abortion room.


In this next video, Abby Johnson, explains her story from supping the Planned parenthood agenda to supporting the pro life movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Dcw2tJczI

I believe that God has a plan for each child who is born, including children who are born with a disability.


In John 9 God has this to say, " As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is the day, we must do the works of him who sent me. The night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”


I can't imagine the anger that God must have toward the abortion industry. I believe Texas isn't the only one, but there will be other states to follow who will make committing a abortion a homicide.


Texas just shot off the first cannon and the Supreme Court supported that decision. I believe this is just the beginning as more states side with the pro-life movement and finally put an end to the Roe V. Wade law which was a law based on lies and falsehoods. I believe instead of taking the life of an unborn child we should lovingly come along side the woman in crisis and either point her in the direction of Adoption resources, or wrap around support services so she can safely deliver and bring up that child.


Thank you Texas for taking the first step! Let's follow their lead and for heavens sake don't let the old Planned parenthood ploy of the broken hanger scare you. This is the oldest trick in their tool kick










Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Every once in awhile a teacher touches a life of a student and encourages them to pursue the very profession taught by the teacher. Laurie was one such teacher.

 

Laurie Schmidt, Minnesota Middle School Teacher of the Year in 2020, dies at 57

Thurston Morton recalls the talk he gave to his class on the fundamentals of public speaking at Normandale Community College nearly two years ago. His subject was Laurie Schmidt, a special education teacher in Jordan, Minn., whom he called a "modern-day female Mr. Rogers."

Morton, who has autism, described the powerful impact Schmidt had on his life when he was a student at Jordan Middle School — including encouragement from her to help younger autistic students with their school assignments.

"She was there for me whenever I needed her," said Morton, now 23. "She was friendly and outgoing. She always gave you a reason to smile whenever you went in her classroom. She was there to talk to when times were tough."

Schmidt, who taught reading, writing and math to 12 to 16 autistic students each year along with communication and social skills, died of breast cancer Aug. 19 at her home in Jordan. She was 57.

"She took all her students under her wing," said Lorri Komisar, a close friend.

"She wasn't a good teacher — she was exceptional," said Ben Bakeberg, the middle school principal. "She loved kids. She pushed them when they needed to be pushed, encouraged them when they needed encouragement and knew her content well. But she knew that kids were more important than any content that she taught."

Schmidt was named Minnesota Middle School Educator of the Year in 2020. Rose Johnson, a teacher of students with special needs at the school who had nominated her for the award, said Schmidt became an expert on autism by continually studying the subject. She was sought out by other autism teachers for information and advice, Johnson said.

In the summer Schmidt would take students on field trips so they could learn social norms, including visits to the Minnesota Zoo and to a program that packed food to send to children overseas, said Rose Gulbranson, another teacher at the school.

Schmidt was born in Minneapolis and raised in St. Louis Park, where she graduated from high school. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota Duluth, and a master's from St. Mary's University in Winona.

She taught elementary school in Superior, Wis., before taking a substitute teaching job at the Jordan school in 2004 and becoming a full-time teacher there the following year.

In 2013 Schmidt was diagnosed with cancer. "She was a remarkably positive patient," said Dr. Dylan Zylla, her oncologist. "She wanted to work even when she was sick. She wanted to be there for the kids. She would always ask about side effects [of her treatments] and how it would impact her work."

Schmidt had an adventurous spirit. "She wanted to go to all the county fairs in Minnesota, and I bet she went to half of them," said her father, Larry Schmidt of St. Louis Park.

"She was always a history buff," said her brother David, of Jordan, who added that she liked to stop and read historical markers wherever she was driving. Her goal was to visit all 50 states; she managed to get to 49 of them, but didn't reach Hawaii because of the COVID-19 pandemic and her illness. So colleagues held a Hawaiian luau for her on June 30.

Even as she grew more ill, she talked about making plans to return to school in September or help with the transition for her replacement, said her half sister Emily, of Los Angeles: "She was so very selfless."

Schmidt is also survived by her mother, Irene Sari of Minnetonka; half sister Annie of Robbinsdale; and half brother Aaron Sari of Minnetonka. Services were Monday.

Randy Furst • 612-673-4224 Twitter: @randyfurst

Friday, August 13, 2021

 This is the anniversary week of the 91 world series champions Minnesota Twins.  Tom Kelly Sr. describes his son, Tom Kelly Jr. who died recently on a golf trip to Florida. This is the article in the Star Tribune.SPORTS

His victories won, his loss forever painful, Tom Kelly is Minnesota's baseball man

Patrick Reusse 

The Twins were two hours removed from having won the 1991 World Series. Now, early on this Monday morning, manager Tom Kelly was in his Metrodome office, working on victory cigars with Lunch McKenzie, a baseball man and a partner in running the "TKs'' franchise in a fantasy football league.

Kelly was trying to get the final totals from Sunday's football action, when his son, Tom Jr., sitting a few feet away, observed: "I don't know why you didn't play Derrick Fenner.''

Tom Sr. shook his head in disappointment and said: "Derrick Fenner and Drew Hill, we didn't play either of them. We left 20 points sitting on the bench.''

Junior was 12, and already aware second-guessing fantasy football decisions was more fertile ground than second-guessing his father's baseball decisions.

On this past Wednesday, the father was sitting at the kitchen table in his Maplewood home, talking about life, long-ago victories and devastating loss.

In the next room, there was a photo of Tom Jr. sitting on a table, along with small memorabilia. Nearby, there were a couple of photo boards prepared by his stepmother, Sharon.

There was also an urn with Tom Jr.'s remains, which were entombed on Friday morning, after a funeral service at Transfiguration Catholic Church in Oakdale.

Tom Jr. died on Jan. 16, at 42, while on a golf trip to Scottsdale, Ariz. He missed a tee time, which had never happened. His companions checked their friend's room in an Airbnb and he was unresponsive.

"Tom was there with the Walshes,'' Tom Sr. said. "They were his second family in the Twin Cities, his second home. We still don't have an official cause. It reads 'unknown' on the death certificate.''

Kelly paused and said: "It was the middle of COVID. The coroner's office was swamped and short-handed. They gave it their best. And there was a policeman down there, he was unbelievable in helping us.''

He paused again and said: "We'll probably never know the cause. People have suggested 'embolism,' but that's only a guess that makes some sense.''

The church service was put off due to COVID restrictions. "Tom had friends … a huge number of friends,'' Kelly said. "I think we heard from most of them. We wanted to wait until his friends could come to a church. And then we tied it in with this weekend, with people coming back for the Twins' '91 championship reunion, if they wanted to be there.''

Tom Jr. was a volunteer on the clubhouse crew. He was an occasional batboy. "With batboys, in '91 for sure, we went with who was hot,'' Kelly said. "If we were swinging the bats, you kept the batboy duty. And if we cooled off, we would bring down the senior man, Clayton [Wilson], to break the slump.

"Tom knew the game, even at a young age. If there was a man at second and we got a hit, he wasn't going to be running out to the plate and grab a bat until the play was over.''

What will be remembered primarily at Target Field this weekend will be the hair-raising seven-game World Series victory over Atlanta: Kirby Puckett's heroics to keep the Twins alive in Game 6, Jack Morris holding off the Braves for 10 innings until pinch hitter Gene Larkin could bring home Dan Gladden with the lone run in Game 7.

My view has been that the most talented team the Twins beat among the four (Detroit, St. Louis, Toronto and Atlanta) on the way to the World Series trophies was the Blue Jays in the '91 American League Championship Series. This theory was offered to Kelly.

"I don't know if I've thought about that,'' he said. "Pitching is what I always looked at going into a series, regular season, or when we had a chance to play in October.

"Toronto had good starters, Jimmy Key, Todd Stottlemyre, Tom Candiotti, but the one that really concerned me was Juan Guzman, the rookie righthander. He had a ball that went like this …''

Kelly made a gesture with his right hand swerving hard to the left and said: "I kept thinking, 'How are we going to hit that?' I thought we got a little break when they went with Candiotti in Game 1 and not Guzman. No disrespect to Candiotti; he was an outstanding pitcher and competitor. But I felt like we had a better chance with the knuckleball than this thing.''

Kelly's right hand swerved again, then he went back to the Toronto-was-toughest theory again and said: "That Blue Jays lineup … they had some people. That Game 3 we won up there, when Scott Erickson gave us his best four innings with an elbow that wasn't that good that night, and then we went to David West, and he got us eight outs.

"I think what happened is Joe Carter came around and hit a ball in those seats you couldn't even see, way up there, but it went foul. The rest of the Blue Jays saw that and started swinging out of their shoes at David's fastball, wanting to reach those seats with a fair ball.''

Kelly turns 71 on Sunday. He gave up managing the Twins 20 years ago. The intrigue during a conversation with him is always what has stuck in his mind.

Asked about when he first saw Kirby Puckett as a player, Kelly went back to managing the Twins' team in the Florida Instructional League in Clearwater and St. Petersburg in the early '80s — steaming fall heat and long days starting with Kelly and co-coach Rick Stelmaszek dragging the dew off the grass right after dawn.

"Kirby didn't pull the ball at all then,'' Kelly said. "He hit everything to right field, and ran like the wind. We would work on bunting a half-hour every morning. I'd say, 'First pitch bunt … perfect, or foul. If it's a perfect, you got a hit. If it's foul, you have two swings left.'

"We started off playing him in left field, which was wrong. And Kirby was quiet … didn't say a word. Oh, boy, did that change. But this is what I remember most:

"There was a big lefthanded pitcher, country guy I think, and he and a couple others would be on Kirby every morning — to the point it was almost bullying. I could've said something, but I waited, wondering what Kirby was going to do.

"One morning, he stood up, stared at them angrily and said: 'No more.' I still remember that: 'No more.' And that pitcher and his pals never said another word to agitate Kirby.''

Puckett has been gone since March 2006, a massive stroke eight days before his 46th birthday, also in the Phoenix area. Stelmaszek, the other half of the Kelly-Stelly combo, died in November 2017 from pancreatic cancer at age 69. And now Tom Jr., 42, cause unknown, a pain that still can strike his father at a moment's notice.

Friday, there was the goodbye for Tom Jr., and the start of the reunion for the second of those two World Series winners in five seasons — championship teams that might have taken root on the hot fall day four decades ago when Kirby Puckett, Hall of Famer-to-be, reached his limit.

"No more'' to "See you tomorrow night.''

That journey was covered, and much that followed, during a 100-minute conversation with Kelly on Wednesday morning. As I was leaving, the phone rang.

Sharon answered and said: "Tom, Tony La Russa's on the phone.''