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BULLIES, KAREN CARPENTER AND SARAH SANDERS

Comedy? at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. 
May I suggest that those who think this makes a great evening need psychological help or classes in how to stop bullying!
Karen Carpenter after cruel comments.

Look at this lovely lady on the arm of her handsome husband. 

I would say the whole White House Press Corps that laughed at the cruel jokes are guilty of bullying.

This is the application of Sol Alinsky's method No. 5: 



Do you remember the beautiful music of the Carpenters? Karen Carpenter's beautiful contralto voice? 

And yet, because of the unkind words of a journalist, Karen only saw herself as "Richard's chubby sister."  So much talent! Such a beautiful person! And yet, she saw herself worthless in the eyes of the world. 

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-01-01/features/8902220490_1_karen-carpenter-story-mrs-carpenter-anorexia-nervosa

Words have consequence. 
I am appalled at what the Left deems acceptable. They CLAIM to decry bullying and yet, with their cruel, vile words and actions there is simply no other way to interpret their words and behavior. 

Look at this woman who demonized the accomplished press secretary, a serious professional woman, loving wife and mother of three. This single woman, graduate of William and Mary with a degree in kinesiology casts stones at the accomplished women who support our President. 
From her use of language one might wonder does she think she is more worthy simply because she was blessed with a slim figure? Does she think her frequent use of the F-bomb makes her smarter than a woman who uses the refined language of an educated woman and a lady? Does her support of abortion on demand at any stage in the baby's development make her a more moral individual? 




If so, I pity her. And I wonder what is WRONG with our society? Apparently others wonder as well. 



                             Sadly she sits silently beside Joe Scarborough with this tirade.

The Chicago Connection to Common Core

THE CHICAGO CONNECTION
to COMMON CORELet's see. 

Chicago has probably the worst schools in the nation, yet the Chicago Anenburg project spent at least $387 million to improve education in Chicago. 
Hillary Clinton is from Chicago, wrote her senior thesis on Saul Alinsky, also of Chicago.


Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
Bill Ayers former Weatherman got off on a technicality thanks to his wealthy father and went into school curriculum. He was an official of the Chicago Anenburg project ...along with Barack Obama. The CAC, a multi-million dollar left-wing foundation was controlled by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
Ayers hired Barack Obama as Chairman of the Board of the CAC, even though he had no experience whatsoever. Ayers, who supposedly didn't have any relationship with Obama, put the younger man in charge of roughly $110 million and thereby jump-started his career.

See also: http://eagnews.org/common-cores-chica... Including those involved in the Chicago Annenberg Project are the major writers of Common Core included David Coleman, known as the architect of Common Core. He is the son of the former president of Bennington College, Liz Coleman, graduate of the University of Chicago, a big proponent of big government and Marxist ideology. Coleman and Zimba, co-founders of the New York based GROW network, came to Chicago to produce data studies for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) at the time Obama was on the CAC Board brought on board by Bill Ayers and Chicago’s Superintendent of Schools, Arne Duncan--later U.S. Secretary of Education. CAC paid $2.2 million for the services of Coleman and Zimba in data studies.Coleman’s prior association with Bill Ayers, Barach Obama and Arne Duncan probably helped his appointment to the Common Core development. Or it could be Coleman’s philosophy: “These standards are the most serious attempt this country has yet made to come to grips with those early sources of inequality.” Coleman has no background as a teacher. He is now president of the College Board (yearly salary $550,000 total compensation $750,000) and will make changes to the SAT to make it more socially just. (This should set up red alert warning flags for Home and Christian schooled children who will need to pass these tests to get into college.)
Ayers of Weatherman fame and his wife, and co-conspiritor, Bernadine Dohrn, continue to write and speak on revolutionary topics. 

Ayers is also a promoter of Antifa. 

http://save-america-now.com/category/...

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2012/05/...
Look at some of the materials in Common Core, promoted by Arne Duncan, former Secretary of Education, also of Chicago.  Add captionAyers and his wife wrote a book recently, Race Course Against White Supremacy. Odd that Common Core includes that topic.









This makes me feel oh so very good about what is in our children's text books. Check out Alinsky's rules for radicals. I would say they are on track.


Oh, yes, Chicago has at least a 47% illiteracy rate. So maybe that Chicago Anenburg Project was a practice test for Common Core. And maybe it succeeded... if anarchy is your goal.
I dare you to follow the link on the link and read the article below on social justice. SEE ALSO: http://www.freedomisknowledge.com/the...

ABORTION 2018 WHAT IS LIFE AND WHEN DOES LIFE MATTER?

https://www.lifesitenews.com/pulse/sh... is something we want to close our eyes to. Congress put $500,000,000 in the Omnibus bill to support Planned Parenthood, a private corporation. You should know that these include your tax dollars. Feminists and the Democrat Party demand abortion on demand. Support for abortion is a litmus test for Democrats who seek political office.  Much of that $500,000,000 is then returned to those politicians in the form of contributions and thus the cycle of death continues. If this was an animal, PETA would be up in arms. But, a baby? If the life of a child is a mother's prerogative, why was Susan Smith prosecuted when she bound her sons into carseats and lifted the brake so they would drown in a lake? In the dark ages, when I was in High School, I was taught ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. In other words the developing embryo goes through evolutionary phases in its development making that developing embryo less than human, hardly life -- yet. That falsehood and Margaret Sanger's coven of Feminist supporters led to Roe v Wade (1973) leading to more than 54,000,000 abortions since then. We now have cameras that show the heart beating at 3 weeks and the developing fetus moving away from instruments as early as 13 weeks. Shouldn't law fit the science?I find it odd that the greatest enemy to Liberals (other than Free Speech) is the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. In 2017 there were 37,000 gun related deaths. In 2014 there were  652,639 legal abortions. If there had been equivalent gun deaths over 40 years in comparison to abortions, there would have been 1,480,000 gun related deaths compared to 54,000,000 abortions. By the way, the government does not fund the NRA like it does Planned Parenthood. Your tax dollars at work. Killing babies. 


Birth control, meant to bring women more liberty, became their license to ignore the confines of traditional morality and its consequences and in the process break other laws of morality, like, "Thou shalt not kill."I am once again reminded of a song, "No man condemns you, and neither does He. He only loves you and He longs to set you free." Freedom only comes when we accept God's forgiveness and work against this evil. How can we as a nation condemn the morality of a country that puts female infants out to die in other countries when we endorse legalized infanticide in this country? That is what that $500,000,000 does for us as a nation.39% of the 54,000,000 abortions were black babies. Some might call that genocide. Johnson, 29, said the Bryan, Texas, Planned Parenthood clinic performed surgical abortions every other Saturday, but it began expanding access to abortion to increase earnings. 
“Abortion is the most lucrative part of Planned Parenthood’s operations,” she said. “Even though they’re two separate corporations, all of the money goes into one pot. With the family planning corporation really suffering, they depend on the abortion corporation to balance their budget, help get them out of the hole and help make income for the company.”She continued, “They really wanted to increase the number of abortions so that they could increase their income.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2009/11/115476/#wlveASTWtwcr4xHt.99.Common Core endorses this philosophy and actually encourages promiscuity and abortion. Children from Faith Based Homes are indoctrinated into the new humanistic religion with its cult of death -- abortion and euthanasia. Sacrifice the babies for the greater good? This makes us better than Mayans and their human sacrifice?






Your tax dollars at work. God help us!

Pearson Publishing and Common Core

This morning (April 17, 2018) Fox and Friends interviewed a girl in the Milwaukee School System who read through a book being considered by her school system. It is of course published by Pearson.  She had the courage to point out the political bias in the book. 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/16/anti-trump-american-history-textbook-blatantly-biased-critics-say.html


This is Social Studies.
But then you can also see the undermining of Math Education. This is something I saw firsthand in my own granddaughter’s struggle at a Bay County Charter School. My daughter, a computer engineer, could not help her. 

PUBLISHERS MATTER!I checked to see who published the mathematics book my granddaughter’s teacher used. It was published by Pearson, the largest education publishing company in the world. 



Pearson is connected to the hydra headed cabal promoting Common Core. (My own children learned Math with Saxon mathematics. One became a computer engineer, another holds a Masters in Marketing and another holds a Masters in Operations Management. So Pearson Math makes no sense to any of us.)
The Cabal begins with Bill Gates because money talks. But, is he involved with education because of altruism? Bill Gates is a Master Marketer. His first super success story was gifting computers to schools across the country. (See the movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley). Parents who wanted their children to have an edge on other children then had to buy a PC (personal computer) and the race was on. And now, as if that didn’t make him rich enough, he sees the computer taking the place of the teacher and Pearson, partnered with Gates, is along in this cabal restructuring education with e-books to profit even further. We are talking Billions to Trillions of dollars. (By the way, the license for those computers your school board just bought will be out in 3 years and they will have to update. Smart marketing. But good education?)

Pearson has bought up all of these imprints (publishing houses)




And why do we want children at computers? Because that is the most effective way to change attitudes and beliefs and collect data on how each lesson has succeeded. (Let me just mention here that some wonder if Wi-Fi waves contribute to the growing epidemic of autism. Just a caveat.)
Every keystroke provides more information to the data collectors behind the process lifted up to the cloud. (Watch the movie Snowden to see what he reveals about government data collection.) 


I venture to say this has more to do with collecting information and changing attitudes and beliefs than it does to academics.

You think that cloud is secure and your personal information isn’t collected there-- to determine the job your child will get and every other aspect of their life. Every study conducted has proven that CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction) is inferior to direct instruction in teaching academics. Traditional Sage on the Stage (the Progressives’ derogatory name for traditional teachers) instruction has been replaced by computers with teachers becoming more and more simply mere technicians with Progressive Guide on the Side instruction as full blown Common Core makes it into our schools.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has fallen into the trap and has introduced a bill co-authored with Patty Murray to extend data collection on all citizens.


Notice the math problem?  The "old" way of answering is multiple choice which is dependent on the student knowing his/her math facts.  The common core way is language dependent and has less to do with math facts than it does with explaining how you came to the answer.  Remember, this is 3rd grade.  Note that this student prefers multiple choice because he/she can "think" about the possible answers. 






These are examples from Missouri. If you see odd questions like this brought home by your child, please email them to us at panhandleeagleforum@gmail.com.


Strangely, the Chamber of Commerce and the PTA support this! But then, one of the major goals is to level the playing field by dumbing education down to the lowest common denominator so you lift some and bring others down so that all children perform at the same level.  This school-to-work agenda provides a malleable workforce with basic skills. But not with Bill and Malinda Gates’ children because they go to a private school as do President Obama’s daughters. 







One wonders if the substantial contributions made by Gates to the Chamber has influenced their support and promotion throughout the country. Donna Garner, Texas educator and blogger writes: The U. S. Chamber of Commerce released its video entitled ‘it’s time for Common Core State Standards.’ What the U.S. Chamber of Commeerce does not bother to mention is that they have received a $1.38 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation--’to lead the effort to engage and educate state and local chambers to support Common Core State Standards.




What they did not include in this video is any actual peer-reviewed, replicated, independent research to prove that Common Core Standards will raise academic achievement. The reason none of this research is included is that no such research exists. The Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked and have no research to prove their academic excellence. They were written mainly by a handful of people, some of whom have never taught a day in their lives in K-12.

The Common Core Standards are the worst, most destructive, and most expensive education fad our country has ever seen. (Orlean Koehle, The Three Cs of Common Core)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce video is clearly a puff piece relying upon all 7 of the oft-used propaganda techniques-bandwagon, name calling, transfer, loaded words, plain folk, glittering generalities, and testimonials.






(I guess this fits in with the UN ***Tasks for the media division of UNESCO (will be) to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures...to help the emergency of a single world culture...****)









4. So who wrote these standards?
The World Core Curriculum and the UNESCO agenda has already been mentioned, but Americans had to be processed to consider this an American product. 
So, who did it?
Common Core is financed with over $150 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The collaboration of the Gates Foundation and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been well publicized.  In addition, Gates, on behalf of his Microsoft Corporation, signed a 26-page Cooperation Agreement in 2004 between Microsoft and UNESCO to develop a “master curriculum” which included benchmarks and assessments.  The agreement stipulates that “UNESCO will explore how to facilitate content development.”


As pointed out earlier, testing is critical to seeing how effectively the curriculum has been in successfully adjusting the attitudes and beliefs of your child to fit the UN goals.
So there is the funding and the origin of this movement. But how were Americans processed to accept this? Who were the movers and shakers of this supposed move to federalize curriculum?


Ever hear of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers? Ever hear of the SDS and the Weather Underground that bombed police buildings in San Francisco, Berkeley, Detroit, Michigan, New York City, the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol Building and he National Guard Building in Washington from 1969 to 1970? 

Ayers, who came from a wealthy Chicago family with an influential father who got him off the hook for his crimes, became a professor of education at the University of Chicago and was elected Vice President of Curriculum studies by the American Educational Research Association. Bernadine became a lawyer and once worked with the same firm as Barack Obama. Obama worked with Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) for 8 years before he launched his senatorial campaign from the Ayers’ living room. The CAC processed $110 million ($60 million public funds) to improve Chicago schools with no discernible results.

Ayers published a radical manifesto called Prairie Fire--The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism calling for a revolution against the evil Empire of America and capitalism, which he saw as the root of all evil:




“My job is to help you succeed” in adopting common national standards” said the new U. S. Department of Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, an associate of Ayres in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) in 2009. 


He claimed that the States had initiated the process, though the 2007 non-elected commission igniting a national curriculum consisted of only 15 people, headed by two former governors funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

The US Education Delivery Institute (USEDI) would train leaders in Common Core. Founded in May, 2010, USEDI is headed by British citizen, Sir Michael Barber, atheist and globalist, who is also Chief Education Officer for Pearson Foundation, the largest publishing company in the world. Companies that also make up the Pearson conglomerate include Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, Addison-Wesley, Allyn and Bacon, Benjamin Cummings and Longman.
The major writers of Common Core included David Coleman, known as the architect of Common Core. He is the son of the former president of Bennington College, Liz Coleman, graduate of the University of Chicago, a big proponent of big government and Marxist ideology. Coleman’s prior association with Ayers, Obama and Arne Duncan probably helped his appointment. Or it could be his philosophy: “These standards are the most serious attempt this country has yet made to come to grips with those early sources of inequality.” He has no background as a teacher. He is also president of the College Board (yearly salary $550,000 total compensation $750,000) and will make changes to the SAT to make it more  socially just . (This should set up red alert warning flags for Home and Christian schooled children who will need to pass these tests to get into college.)Susan Pimentel assisted Coleman in writing the English Language Arts Standards. Apparently she shares his disdain for literature calling it “imaginative writing.” 
Coleman’s childhood friend, Jason Zimba, teaches mathematical physics at Bennington College and like Coleman attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He admitted that his creation, the Common Core math standards, would only prepare students for a minimum junior college level--not STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). 





Coleman and Zimba, co-founders of the New York based GROW network, came to Chicago to produce data studies for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) at the time Obama was on the CAC Board brought on board by Bill Ayers and Chicago’s Superintendent of Schools, Arne Duncan--later U.S. Secretary of Education. CAC paid $2.2 million for the services of Coleman and Zimba in data studies.

SHOULD A CENTRAL-CONTROLLED,TAX-PAYER FUNDED, ENTITY UNACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC DEFINE WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILD LEARN?

THREE FEDERAL LAWS FORBID IT! The Federal Department of Education shall not be involved in developing, supervising or controlling instructional materials or curriculum.1. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONAL ACT (1979); 2. THE GENERAL EDUCATION PROVISIONS ACT 3. THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY ACT (1965)
AND THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS OF OUR CONSTITUTION
Whatever is not written into the Constitution is reserved to the states and local control. 
“So, to get around these laws, the Federal Department Of Education (founded October 17, 1979 by President Jimmy Carter as a payoff to the National Education Association for their support) paid others to do what they are forbidden to do. But since taxpayer dollars helped pay for the meetings and bribed the State governors to sign on, does that not make Common Core federal, which is illegal? 
BE AWARE. STAND UP. TAKE CHARGE. It took this poster in a middle school (11-14 year olds) to wake some parents up. Sex Education is to be "INTEGRATED" into all classes. 




California Pastor Chad Vegas told a group of parents: 
It is now law in CA that your children must be taught how to have safe homosexual sex, how to obtain an abortion, and that gender does not correspond to biological sex.California public schools are lost...your children are being indoctrinated into radical secularism. We must wake up to the reality of where our state has headed. We must prepare the church to live as sojourners in a foreign land, a land that feels more foreign by the day.

Pearson is listed on the London and New York Stock Exchange, with the Libyan Investment Authority, founded by Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, as its biggest financial contributor.

There is so much more in articles I have written on this blog. If you care read some more.

Madeleine Albright and Fascism

Motivated by the above Facebook Post:

ME: Odd isn't it? We are all good people, well-educated and thoughtful. And yet, I felt that the fascism would have come with Hillary. I support securing our borders like I do locking my doors at night. I cannot believe the venom that spews forth from a liberal media against a man who did nothing but run for president and people buy it! There was no collusion. Yet, after over a year of searching and collusion AGAINST the man, this goes on and on and on and on. We certainly see things differently!
MY FRIEND: I listened to the interview - you can disagree with her, but to call it "venom spewing" is a mischaracterization. A well-educated, thoughtful response would be to point out specific points she made that you agree or disagree with. For example, fascist regimes forcibly suppress opposition, and Trump is waging a war on our free press and has threatened to lock up his political rivals. Those things are both demonstrably true - you can argue that you don't think he'll actually overstep his democratic bounds, or that if he does it's an acceptable outcome to you. We probably do see things differently, but can still have a reasonable discussion about it. But "he's not wrong, you just hate him" is not an argument, it's a temper tantrum.-----------------------------1.     Trump is not waging a war on the free press. The press chose sides. They voice the talking points of the Democrat Party. 98% of their coverage is negative, yet much good is happening. There IS NO COLLUSION. Unless it is that of the Deep State, the Democrat Party and the Major Media. Yet, that mantra continues. 2.     I did not say Albright was venom spewing, I said the Major Media is venom spewing, nasty talking and bullying! 3.     Hillary is a crook and should be jailed. Cecily (eldest daughter computer engineer that worked for the Navy at one time) would have been for less than what Hillary did. If she had just taken the hammer to one of her personal communication devices (and Hillary had MANY) she would have been in jail! Why does Hillary get to walk when she lied over and over and destroyed emails and devices that Congress subpoenaed? No person should be above the law!

So now, why do I not respect Madeleine Albright’s conclusions regarding Trump? Albright is a part of a globalist cabal that wants to undermine our country and replace it with a North American Community without borders. 
Madeline Albright
Friend on Facebook: conspiracy theory much?

My response: 

Conspiracies?

OrganizationsProblem? 
Born 1937 in Czechoslovakia, sent to the Prealpina Institut pour Jeunes Filles finishing school in Chexbres, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Not a native born American. Has no natural loyalty to the United States.See Also:
http://www.southern-style.com/Education/conspiracy_of_the_left.htmlImmigrated to the US in 1948 when she was 11

Attended Wellesley

Director on the Board of the Council of Foreign RelationsThe Council of Foreign Relations is a non-elected body of very powerful people with a globalist mindset. They believe in a world without borders. This particularly affects the US To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan so that it is "achievable" within five years, the CFR calls for supervision by a North American Advisory Council of "eminent persons from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg" conferences.
A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter.""Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada."Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.Remember, these are NON ELECTED PEOPLE setting forth plans for OUR COUNTRY. 



Worked with Brzezinski (Mika Brezinsky’s father)  on the National Security Council. She served in that position until the end of President Jimmy Carter's lone term.


Clinton appointed her to the position of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations


As Secretary of State she ignored requests U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed in August 1998.  Prudence Bushnell, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, repeatedly asked Washington for additional security at the embassy in Nairobi, including in an April 1998 letter directly to Albright


represented the U.S. at the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997. She along with the British contingents boycotted the swearing-in ceremony of the Chinese-appointed Hong Kong Legislative Council, which replaced the elected one.
And she claims to support “democracy”
many speculated that she might pursue a career in Czech politics. Václav Havel, Czech President from February 1993 to February 2003, talked openly about the possibility of Albright succeeding him
Apparently her dedication and loyalty to America is questionable.
Based in Qatar, Albright serves International Advisory Committee Brookings Doha Center that undertakes independent, policy-oriented research on socioeconomic and geopolitical issues facing Muslim-majority states and communities, including relations with the United States.[93] The center was formally inaugurated by H. E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani, Prime Minister and minister of foreign affairs of Qatar, on February 17, 2008. Salman Shaikh is the Center's Director.
Quatar provides support to terrorist groups.
founded the Albright Group, an international strategy consulting firm based in Washington, D.C
Notice she sells her services to foreign nations to promote their goals in Washington
In October 2012, Albright appeared in a video on the official Twitter feed for the Democrat party, responding to then-GOP candidate Mitt Romney's assertion that Russia was the "number-one geopolitical foe" of the United States. According to Albright, Romney's statement was proof that he had "little understanding of what was actually going on in the 21st Century [and] he is not up to date and that is a very dangerous aspect [of his candidacy]"
Mocked Mitt Romney for thinking that Russia was the “number one geopolitical foe”
chair of the advisory council for The Hague Institute for Global Justice, which was founded in 2011 in The Hague
Look at how these non-elected, elitists (who take money from foreign nations) presume to make policy decisions for the rest of us 
Honorary Chair for the World Justice Project.[105] The World Justice Project works to lead a global, multidisciplinary effort to strengthen the Rule of Law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity.
Once again, a non-elected official presumes to act as judge and jury for communities throughout the world!
co-investor with Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and George Soros in a $350 million investment vehicle called Helios Towers Africa, which intends to buy or build thousands of mobile phone towers in Africa
George Soros funds Antifa and other disruptive organizations to stir up trouble to achieve his goals. Madeline Albright is his “business partner”? The Rothschilds have long been known as globalists.
Soros refers to his time as a Nazi confiscating the property of fellow Jews. 

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On why parts of the world are moving toward authoritarianism
“And then the other part of this, which I think is essential, is there is some leader at the top who takes advantage of these divisions and, in fact, exacerbates them so that the societies are more and more divided and wrangled and looking for scapegoats, which is where the immigrants come in. But mostly, this is something that's created internally by massive changes in society and some of them, due to technology.”
(The tech companies are of admitted liberal inclination.)
Unlike Albright who blames Trump for the move toward authoritarianism, I see the authoritarianism within the Deep State, the FBI abuse of power, and the violent imposition of fear tactics against Conservatives by Antifa. They look down upon those who voted for Trump and dismiss their concerns as unintellectual.


Look at Venezuela today!






On President Trump's "America First" ideology and criticism of NATO
I see it as the most unbelievable step backwards, because I do believe that the United States is stronger when we have friends and allies to deal with the various issues. ... As a European who has spent her life in the United States, I see the Euro-Atlantic alliance as one of the most important bulwarks of our society, so seeing this go on, I find appalling. And what is the issue — again, it's this lack of understanding of what this alliance is about. ...
Albright admits that she sees the US role in the world through the prism of a European. She objects to Trump’s “America First” ideology because she sees the world through a globalist’s perspective. Globalists see the US as the cash cow to fund their agendas throughout the world through NGOs like the United Nations. And of course, they handle the money, award the winners and destroy the losers. 
On her belief that President Trump is "anti-democratic"
Thank God we are not a pure democracy. A pure democracy is two wolves and a chicken voting for what’s for dinner. 
Madeline Albright and her associates would be the rulers in Panem. Once they disarm the rest of us, we would be like the Districts of the Hunger Games that work to support the lifestyle of the leaders in Panem. We are not bright enough to understand what the world really requires. 
And that my friends would make us slaves. 



So, when the friend challenged me  I listened to the interview - you can disagree with her, but to call it "venom spewing" is a mischaracterization. A well-educated, thoughtful response would be to point out specific points she made that you agree or disagree with. 
For example, fascist regimes forcibly suppress opposition, and Trump is waging a war on our free press and has threatened to lock up his political rivals. ---------------------------------------The points above articulate my concerns with Madeleine Albright. It is my belief that the Fascist regime that continues to undermine the duly elected president of the United States is the Deep State. This group of people has determined that they will control policy regardless of the will of the people. Read the emails Peter Strozk (FBI)  and Lisa Page (Justice Department) see if you think that might be considered a conspiracy to attempt a coup. 
While the accusation of Russian collusion was leveled at Trump, the actual collusion was by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party that colluded to keep Bernie Sanders from becoming the Democratic candidate for President and to undermine Trump through a salacious and fallacious document funded by Hillary and the Democratic Party that was then leaked to Major Media as well as being used to procure FISA approval to wiretapping American citizens. 
 1.    Trump is not waging a war on the free press. The press chose sides. They voice the talking points of the Democrat Party. 98% of their coverage is negative, yet much good is happening. There IS NO COLLUSION. Yet, that mantra continues. 2.    I did not say Albright was venom spewing, I said the Major Media is venom spewing, nasty talking and bullying! 3.    Hillary is a crook and should be jailed. Cecily (eldest daughter computer engineer that worked for the Navy at one time) would have been for less than what Hillary did. If she had just taken the hammer to one of her personal communication devices (and Hillary had MANY) she would have been in jail! Why does Hillary get to walk when she lied over and over and destroyed emails and devices that Congress subpoenaed? (Bernie Sanders didn’t have a chance!) No person should be above the law!

So now, why do I not respect Madeleine Albright’s conclusions regarding Trump? Albright is a part of a globalist cabal that wants to undermine our country and replace it with a North American Community without borders. 
She has no roots in this country. My roots go back to the 1600s. Native American roots are even further back. I am appalled with this disrespect for the most wonderful, generous country in the world. I am a Deplorable who sees the good in this country and want my grandchildren to see the positive of our land. 

The Clapham Sect influential reformers in the anti-slavery movement

The Clapham Sect
Hannah Moore was a leader (serious influence on Sabrina Stapleton, major character in On to Angola)

The third book in the Creek Indian family saga begun with Swimming with Serpents has taken me on a new research adventure. I am tackling the issue of slavery and the anti-slavery movement in the late 18th and early 19th century. The Clapham Sect, founded by evangelical Anglican pastor in the Clapham section of London, Henry Venn, figures prominently in this movement. According to historian Stephen Tomkins the Clapham sect was "a network of friends and families in England, with William Wilberforce as its center of gravity, who were powerfully bound together by their shared moral and spiritual values, by their religious mission and social activism, by their love for each other, and by marriage".
Members of the Clapham Sect included:


Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845), MP and brewerWilliam Dealtry (1775–1847), Rector of Clapham, mathematicianEdward James Eliot (1758–97), parliamentarianThomas Gisbourne (1758–1846), clergyman and authorCharles Grant (1746–1823), administrator, chairman of the directors of the British East India Company, father of the first Lord GlenelgKatherine Hankey (1834–1911), evangelistZachary Macaulay (1768–1838), estate manager, colonial governor, father of Thomas Babington MacaulayHannah More (1745–1835), writer and philanthropistGranville Sharp (1735–1813), scholar and administratorCharles Simeon (1759–1836), Anglican minister, promoter of missionsJames Stephen (1758–1832), Master of Chancery, great-grandfather of Virginia Woolf.Lord Teignmouth (1751–1834), Governor-General of IndiaHenry Thornton (1760–1815), economist, banker, philanthropist, MP for Southwark, great-grandfather of writer E.M. ForsterHenry Venn (1725–97), founder of the group, father of John Venn and great-grandfather of John Venn (originator of the Venn diagram)John Venn (1759–1813), Rector of Holy Trinity Church, ClaphamWilliam Wilberforce (1759–1833), MP successively for Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Bramber, leading abolitionist. He was also a Wesleyan and it was to Wilberforce that John Wesley wrote his last letter.This group of men and women had influence far beyond England's shores.

See also: the Power Point I did for a Sunday School Class on the anti-slavery movement.
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/02/sunday-school-power-point-on-clapham.html

On to Angola: Race to Freedom

On to Angola: Race to Freedom is the third in the Creek Family Saga. Book One, Swimming with Serpents, began with my wondering what the world was like during the time of my fourth great grandmother, Vashti Vann Jernigan, Cherokee Indian. She moved with her husband, Benjamin Jernigan, "friend and neighbor of Andrew Jackson," to Southwest Alabama to settle near Burnt Corn Creek at the request of Andrew Jackson. The Creek War would have been a great influence on her life. Swimming with Serpents gives the reader the Native American perspective through the eyes of Cade Kincaid and Lyssa Rendel.

In Book Two of the Creek Saga, In Pursuit, we trace the survivors of Horseshoe Bend, a band of Creek Indians led by Peter McQueen, into Pensacola where they join forces with British officers, Edward Nicholls and George Woodbine. After the loss of the British in the War of 1812, the Indians and free Blacks and escaped slaves follow Nicholls and Woodbine to the Apalachicola River where they build a well-fortified fort at Prospect Point that came to be known as the Negro Fort. Andrew Jackson sent a gunboat up the river (Spanish territory) that sent a lucky hot shot into the battery that exploded the fort. Jackson then came down into Spanish Florida in pursuit of the Red Sticks under McQueen, a former prophet of the Creek Indian War, and the Blacks that had taken refuge at the fort.

In Book Three, On to Angola, we follow those Blacks who escaped the devastation of the Negro Fort and the former Red Stick Indians to Florida settlements near Charlotte Harbor, including Talapchopco for the Redsticks and, for the Blacks,  a place called Angola (now Sarasota). Angola is undergoing an archaeological rediscovery through the efforts of Uzi Baram and Vickie Oldham.

These exciting adventures follow characters we first meet in Swimming with Serpents, survivors of the Fort Mims Massacre. They get involved with historical figures of the times.  The history of South Alabama, Georgia and Florida come alive through the adventures of these characters. Andrew Jackson's power grows throughout this time. The people who suffered during his mighty mission of manifest destiny at last have their voices heard.

On to Angola is a powerful story of a Black family separated, and the yearning to be reunited that must overcome the challenges of distance, nature, slave hunters and fortune seekers and their own human strengths and weaknesses.

On to Angola is Florida History. It is Black History. It is Native American History. Though the story would appeal to all ages, it would probably also qualify as Young Adult because the two main characters are twins separated at the Massacre at Fort Mims that fate reunites during a tumultuous time. This book would also qualify as Christian reading because of the great influence of the Clapham reformers on the major characters.

The story of the year 1821 reveals a tale hidden behind the veils of time and the truth once more that the victor writes the history. This is the rest of that story.

Do Libraries censor groups using their facilities according to the determination of the Southern Poverty Law Center?

Just Curious. Do Libraries censor groups using their facilities according to the determination of the Southern Poverty Law Center?In June 2017, the Supreme Court affirmed in a unanimous decision on  Matal v. Tam  that the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act violates the First Amendment's free speech clause. The issue was about government prohibiting the registration of trademarks that are "racially disparaging". Justice Samuel Alito writes:

Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express "the thought that we hate". United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U. S. 644, 655 (1929) (Holmes, J., dissenting).[9]

Justice Anthony Kennedy also writes:

A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government's benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.[9]

Effectively, the Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms that there is no 'hate speech' exception to the First Amendment.
What constitutes "hate speech"?Who is the judge and jury of a group or organization promoting "hate speech"?
Apparently the Southern Poverty Law Center has assumed the role of arbiter of what is hate, at least  according to the American Library Association. 
These are Screen Shots from the American Library Association website: 



If the American Library Association truly believes what it has cited at the beginning of its Hate Speech statement, then why have they accepted dictates of the Southern Poverty Law Center as to what organizations spout "hate" speech? See below:


Look below at who will be discussing the legal and intellectual implications of hate speech. Who represents the rights of conservatives to freedom of speech and beliefs? 




So, what is extremism? Who is rewriting morality? And has what they consider moral made people happier? Look at the suicide rates among those for whom the Left has pandered. Look at the "Me TOO" movement. When Feminists determined right and wrong has the world for women become better? And yet, Feminists have become the spokespersons for ALL women. Yet, not ALL women identify with their ideology. For a long time, Phyllis Schlafly spoke for those Conservative women. The Eagle Forum continues the example of Phyllis Schlafly of speaking for those women. Yet, the Southern Poverty Law Center, in their roll as the self-appointed thought police, labels this group of women a "hate group." I would submit that the SPLC is in effect doing just as Kant suggested, using their own hate speech to silence the opposition. 




Should Library Associations get involved in political issues? 
Why should defense of traditional values be considered bigotry? Who is the appointed labeler.  Is the American Library Association supporting the conclusions of the Southern Poverty Law Center?








 So, is anyone allowed to speak for Conservatives? And, why must Conservatives defend themselves to the American Library Association? You do realize these people control programs that come into your schools and communities. It is they who will remove flyers from the library bulletin board if your organization is deemed offensive by these arbiters of public morality.Should groups of people that represent public institutions supported by ALL citizens, Liberal and Conservatives, lobby for political issues?
So look again at the program for the American Library Association. Do you see a Conservative representative? Does this mean the money we spend on our public libraries or those in our schools goes to promote a very liberal agenda?


These are some of the organizations listed as "Hate Groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.




This disturbs me because I am the President of the Panhandle Eagle Forum. We are not a hate group. We do have a different perspective on many issues:


We are the first Pro Family Group in this country. Our Pro Family stand on issues like Abortion, Immigration, Education, the Constitution, Nationalism and Patriotism often clash with those of the Left. To have an organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center be the determiner of "Hate Groups" and to have faith-based organizations effectively lobbied against by public institutions is concerning. Tax dollars from all people of all faiths and political beliefs support our public institutions.Should they be taking a stand on political issues? Should the political beliefs of the Left become "Righteous" as determined by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and therefore become public policy as apparently the American Library Association has assumed?
Look at this screenshot from the Southern Poverty Law Center.


The Southern Poverty Law Center would censor the diversity of opinion by labeling those of a different opinion purveyors of "hate speech."  Of course, every speaker at the conference was denounced by the Southern Poverty Law Center and their messages presented as hateful. I would suggest those attending that conference would vehemently suggest that looking at the root causes of the social decline of our families and our country is a positive step in regenerating morality and pride in our country. 

The SPLC denigrates participants calling them advocates of "anti-intellectual conservatism," implying that Leftist beliefs are sole representatives of that which is "intellectual." 
Other organizations under attack is the D. James Kennedy and the American Family Alliance. Just in case you did not know the categories of Hate Groups according the the SPLC --
From Southern Poverty Law Center



Really? What arrogance! Another example of contempt for the "Deplorables", meaning anyone who disagrees with them. 
Now, I do not agree with all of the organizations listed, but I and the other members of the Eagle form support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and defend the belief that "we protect the freedom to express 'the thought that we hate'."
Those people are dangerous. They are using governmental agencies to promote their agenda. Every organization that they identify as a hate group is a target for Antifa and we have seen that violence is their weapon against those who do not share their beliefs.











































Ironically, the Southern Poverty Law Center does not label Antifa a hate group. I wonder why?

I began writing about the influence of the Southern Poverty Law Center on the American Library Association, let me now give you evidence of the group think of the American Library Association and its potential effect on the minds of citizens of your community.

Does this look like they have a political bias? Do you see any Conservative Faith-Based organizations? Where does this lead? 



I am a writer. So, of course, I support libraries.I am a reader. So, of course I support libraries. I am a Pro-Family, Conservative citizen. Does my library support me? Whatever happened to quality literature being the focus of libraries. Whatever happened to groups of citizens representing major organizations of the community being the "watchdog" over the actions of our public institutions?When did politics gain control of your local publicly funded library? 

Diary of a Hospital Stay at Bay Medical: Complications with Shunt for NPH

Meet the love of my life. Yes, choose Robert Redford or Ryan O'Neal. They looked like Joe. 
And as this attorney aged, he has only became more handsome. 

This adventure began with the diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. After a spinal tap with proof of NPH, we set about finding a neurosurgeon to insert the shunt that would drain off the extra cerebra spinal fluid in Joe's brain. Dr. De Silva performed the surgery on February 8th. Joe loved the results. He could stride instead of shuffle once more. 

And then...

February 19, 8:00 am. 

Joe had night sweats Sunday night. I took his temp and it was 102, but down when morning came. He looked in the mirror to shave and his right eye was nearly swollen shut. We headed immediately to Dr. De Silva's office. Unfortunately, he was on vacation and the receptionist sent us to the overflowing Emergency Room. Dr. Doug Scott (our neighbor) was the doctor on call. He and the consulting doctor ordered a CAT SCAN  and though we thought they would just send us home, he told us that Joe had a subdural hematoma. That sounded scary. 

And so began my FACEBOOK posts: 

Feb. 19, 7:56 am
Back in Bay Med with Joe. They want him in ICU when room becomes available. Subdural hematoma, low grade fever chills.

Feb. 21, 8:23 am
We have now been camped out at Bay. Still in intensive Care. Returned from feeding Gigi Tuesday and found social worker in here and Joe shaking enough to shake chair he was sitting in! Said Look how he is shaking! What are you thinking!" She disappeared by the time I got nurse. Asked if it could be blood pressure. She took bp. 193 over 103. I climbed in bed with him to warm him up. Temp 104. Nurse called doctor. Med administered. Now 165 over 97. He is now sitting up. Still shaky. Better. Memory. It is now Wed. Joe went back to surgery this morning to draw fluid from brain to test. Infected. Must grow samples to find out what is going on. Contaminated shunt? If so must remove. Temp continues to shoot up as does BP and blood sugar regardless of antibiotics, BP meds etc please continue prayers. We appreciate your prayers so very much!

Feb. 22, 8:33 am
Joe has gone into surgery to remove the shunt. Not sure if that is cause of problem but probable. Thank you for your prayers. I read your comments to Joe. He is grateful as am I. We serve an awesome God.

Feb. 24, 11:04 am
These are the rudest people in this hospital! I come back from joe having brain surgery. The potty where he did a bm and I cleaned him up was still full, the floor needed cleaning where he peed over the catheter. We asked to have it clean before coming back. He is coming back, I said. The room should be clean. Fresh incisions? I find the cleaner up the hall and tell her that I will sweep and mop myself and all hell broke out. The housekeeper says under breath I will get to you there are others here whose rooms need cleaning. A nurse named Tim ( wouldn’t give me last name) told me he was calling security. When I tried to calm dawn and thank them for all they do no one smiled back just glowered. Margaret ICUdirector then threatened to have us (Brooke and Cecily thrown out) for being so noisy. AND by the way it is hard to clean with shoes and suitcase on the floor.
It is not too much to ask for a room to be clean when you bring patient who has had brain surgery into the room.
The cleaning lady came to the room and said if someone had told her she would have been here! That Rude Director should have been in top of that! The cleaning lady was very nice and did a good job when she got here. I will buy her a gift for being kind to me when I needed kindness.
No family should be treated like that!
Nurses Hwahi and Max have been stellar. New nurse Michael is working on redemption.
Joe is back and looking better!!! After 8:00 to 9:30 surgery. Much more coherent! Girls are in waiting room. Thank God.

Looks like the shunt may be the source of introducing bacteria into Joe’s brain. It is gone now. He still has subdural hematoma as well. He continues to spike fever, Bp high as is sugar. He desperately wants to go home. I have only left him for a brief period. He does not do well without me. 48 years. So blessed with friends and family. Please keep praying.

Friday, February 23, 2018  10:44 am
Joe will be moving out of ICU to another room but must stay at least until Monday. After that he will need antibiotics for weeks either by a type of port or hopefully by mouth. Dr. De Silva says he remains a very sick man. They have begun respiratory and physical therapy. They are still determining exact type of bacteria. Physical therapy has given him a new lease on life!

Cecily Ramsey Butterworth writes: 
It just gets better (NOT)! They just did the nurses day to night handoff, which they attempted to do inconspicuously without my mom or I involved, during which the day nurse reported to the night nurse that Daddy was much improved and “alert & oriented times 4”- which my Dad is CLEARLY not, because after they left, he asked my Mom, who were those women, what did they think, this was the parade of homes? He had no idea they were even nurses. I know my Dad, and I knew that was not an accurate assessment of his mental clarity. But because he looked at her and stuck his tongue out when asked, during her brief neurological assessment, she firmly believed he was coherent. So when I told her she needed to bear with us as we tried to build some trust with this team because of our poor care to date and explained that we had on multiple occasions needed emergency assistance and gotten no response to the nurse call button, she told me that the red button labeled Nurse Call on the bed doesn’t work. Only the red button on the tv remote calls for assistance, and the patient (my dad), who is alert & oriented x 4, would have had that explained to him when he was admitted. Except neither my mom or I had ever heard that, and Daddy was incoherent when he was admitted to the ICU AND the Nursing Director whom we spoke to earlier today also agreed with us that pressing the nursing call button which DOES activate a light outside the room when pressed (or at least it always dinged when I pressed it ALL WEEK, and certainly did this afternoon), but was immediately deactivated with no response to the room at all. I’m tired, frustrated, and very angry. I feel pretty much like they are trying harder to do him harm than to help at this point, and truly DO NOT TRUST THEM TO CARE FOR HIM a without me or my mom there to oversee his care. I know my Daddy, and he is NOT alert like they claim and they haven’t spent enough time or energy caring for him to make that assessment accurately. AND, neither my Mother or I was malingering in his room agitating him and undoing the “care” he was given in the ICU, as Margaret the ICU Director accused as she threatened to have security remove us!

Friday, February 23, 2018

Have you ever had a RN do a 180 when you said, “oh, great, I am so glad you are here! He needs to go to the bathroom!” 
We have a New room out of ICU. I left to go bathe and Cecily had called. “Mother Daddy is shaking and throwing up and I cannot get a nurse in here!” 
Cecily left to get Lily and of course he had to go to the bathroom. They removed the catheter when he left ICU. But fortunately I had brought the walker That we once gave Daddy, shared with Judge Larry Smith, then with Cecily and then brought Home when I had the hip replacement.
So my very weak husband was able to stand as I helped him up just as the R N came in —and ran out. I will send another nurse. Now an hour later no nurse.
I took care of Joe and managed to get him back into bed. Brooke brought a thermometer. His temp is 101.3. I think the RN specializes in pricks and she has headed for the hills. So now Joe has no meds and no fluids and we are at least 2 or 3 hours in this room! I am using these posts as journaling.

4:30. People specialize here. Asked his nurse sitting at desk and computer if she could come get his meds started after specialist iv starter got iv in. “No” she said I have to wait until the tech who registers temp and blood pressure gets around to him first. Then I can come in. How does the patient know which specialist nurse to call! I asked his nurse to Call the director about 3:30. I am still waiting. Called a friend who suggestes that I call the ceo


Saturday, February 24, 2018
I did call the COO Heath Evans to no avail. I actually spoke to the secretary who told me he was in his office with a rep from corporate. I told her the rep from corporate was welcome to come down as well. As 5:00 on Friday p approached I called for the 3rd time and got an answering machine.
“My name is Sharman Ramsey. My husband is Joel Ramsey. On February 8 my husband came to Bay Med and got a shunt for normal pressure hydrocephalus. On February19 he came back with a subdural hematoma and an infection we now know was caused by bacteria on the shunt that was inserted here in your hospital. 
I come from a family of doctors and nurses so I appreciate all they do. My husband practiced law. So we both appreciate professionals. I need to talk to you about my husband’s care.”
No call. No visit! But the “house” director came down. I guess the floor director had already left. But the house director said this director was her best. When I told her about our trouble in getting any response she told us “every nurse on this floor has a telephone. Their names and numbers are posted on the board.” She looked and they were not there. We told her how we had pressed the nurse call over and over with no response and I Read To Her My Facebook posts so I would remember. She assured me she would be available . Her name is Diane. She has all the personality Margaret (ICU) does not have.
After she left a tech came in and told us Joe would be transferred. Cecily freaked out knowing the rest of the hospital and feared we would be shuffled off to one of the rooms in the older parts of the hospital and into a room and floor where his care would be even less.
I called the one number on the board thinking it was Diane’ and got this floors secretary and asked about the move and was informed they thought we had requested a move. I told her Joe did not need another move and we wanted to stay here on the neurological floor. 
On the pass off of shifts I asked for the new nurse’s number. She told me that in the 7 years she had worked on the floor she had never given out her number. (Why did house director say that was required?) I told her how we had repeatedly hit the nurse call button with no response. She informed me that button did not work. The only call button that works is the one on the remote — that is usually lost or on the other side of the bed! So why did the blood pressure tech not tell us that when I asked if the bed was plugged in and that might be why the nurse call bottom on the side of the bed doesn’t get any response.
By the way Diane felt it was important that I know that each specialty in the hospital wears color coded clothing. I suggested posters throughout patients rooms so patients might have a clue whom to ask to do what. 
I finally gave up. Joe could not sleep during the night after being in the same position for hours upon hours during the night. I asked if someone could change his sheets now wet with pee from him and me trying to get him into the urinal in time. No use trying to get someone to help get him to the potty. They don’t do baths II was told until morning we were told. I guess the color coded bather comes in during morning hours. He was miserable in wadded up wet sheets. I told them please just get us clean linens and I would bathe him. Which I did. And shaved him. Hearing wheezing I requested a breathing treatment and that happened. The CR made the bed after I stripped it. Joe was then able to get back into bed and fell asleep immediately.
I shiver at the thought of ever being in the hospital without your advocate.
I remember how our last nurse on ICU commented on how they “all” meaning the staff were close and made decisions. I get it. This is their turf. We were mere guests in their domain.
Joe is impatient, often rude, and still very sick. He thanks me constantly.
His temp is down and signs are good. Dr Obid says they must get the cultures back before he can leave so they will know whether or not he will be able to take antibiotics by mouth or will need infusions.
Joe does not do patience well. I pretty much only expect administration of proper meds. Perhaps we can go home soon. He is improving. 
Praise God. And thank you for your prayers.

Our doctors are Obid (Internist), De Silva (Neurosurgeon), Khan (Neurologist) and Bone/Hawk (Infectious Disease). While they all confer, we are now down to Dr. Hawk (on call) studying the cultures to tell us whether Joe will be able to handle the infection with oral antibiotics, or whether they will have to be infused.  Whatever, Joe wants to handle this with Home Health Care. Encompass helped me after my hip replacement and Paul Kearns impressed us both with his personality and physical therapy. I have called him and he will be working on things from his side. I have had a wonderful housekeeper, Kim Holloman, who is headed to our guest house (all on one level) to do a deep cleaning before we get there and then she will come several times a week afterwards.
God is so good. I had been looking for someone to help me clean. Then a couple of months ago, I ran into Kim Holloman at Winn Dixie on 15th Street.  She had been the server at the Captain's Table in St. Andrews that we always requested. And then one day she wasn't there. So, I was delighted to see her again. As we chatted, she told me that she was now cleaning houses. A God thing, I know. So she started with me twice a month. I called her and she is going to work it out to be available to us several times a week. Only He knew all of this was coming up and I would need help. 
We are blessed with praying friends who continue to lift him up for complete recovery. We are blessed with all of our family.

200 YEAR COMMEMORATION OF JACKSON'S FORAY INTO FLORIDA. IN PURSUIT IS THE REST OF THE STORY: SEMINOLE, RED STICK AND BLACK.

2018 THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST SEMINOLE WAR 1818
It is 2018, 200 years after Andrew Jackson's foray into Florida in 1818, wreaking havoc and leaving the Seminole Indians in many cases, homeless and hopeless. Jackson came with his Coweta Indian minions under William McIntosh into Spanish Florida to pursue those Red Sticks now living among the Seminoles along with the Blacks, free and escaped slaves, at the Negro Fort located 18 miles up the Apalachecola River at Prospect Bluff.Just who were those people?How did their situation come to this?I came into their story curious as to what happened to the Red Sticks after Horseshoe Bend and the end of the Creek Indian War. I researched those who survived the Creek Indian War about whom I had written in Swimming with Serpents. Jackson illegally confiscated 23,000,000 acres of Creek land and left many homeless.  Where did they go?And what did they do?Those were the questions left in my mind after writing Swimming with Serpents . Homeless, ragged and hungry, Peter McQueen's band of at least 1000 floundered through the swamps to Pensacola and the British in Spanish Florida. They joined British officers Col. Edward Nicholls and Captain George Woodbine in the Corps of Colonial Marines. And thus they came to fight Jackson once more in the First Seminole War. In Pursuit i s their story.You can find the histories and genealogies of the members of Jackson's Militia at any meeting att he Archives in History in Montgomery. But, discovering my own Native American heritage left me wanting to find out THEIR STORY.  And I have chosen to do it through HISTORICAL FICTION to try to make the history more personal. Perhaps we can see the events through THEIR eyes. In Pursuit i s a tale of revenge, betrayal, lost treasure and a people bent but not broken. In its midst are young lovers from diverse backgrounds whom fate have brought together. Joie and Godfrey, first introduced in Swimming with Serpents set during the Creek War, come together once more and live an adventure with pirates, Red Sticks, Andrew Jackson's army, and British officers determined to build an empire.I hope readers will come away from the novel satisfied with the love story and the adventure, motivated to honor the memory of some of those forgotten people in the history of our country.I n Pursuit i s the second in the CREEK FAMILY SAGA, beginning with Swimming with Serpents, followed by In Pursuit and now the newly released On to Angola.