Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

What's For Dinner? Serve Up Family Memories With Your Own Unique Family Recipe Book

My mother was a great cook. Nearly 19 years after she passed away, I still have fond memories of the special dishes she would whip up for our family. Some were simple, others elaborate, all treasured.

Like many people, my mother wrote down her recipes on index cards. Unfortunately, I lost them in the 1994 Northridge earthquake in L.A. There is no way to recover them; they are lost forever.

If she had been able to turned her recipes into a book with the Great Family Cookbook ProjectI would still be able to access those flavorful memories online.

Save your recipes for those you love with this easy, fun and affordable way to create and print your own full-color family cookbook.

It's a beautiful way to preserve mealtime traditions for future generations. Share it with family and friends. You could even turn this into a project for your church or organization by inviting other people to contribute recipes!

Once the recipes are preserved online, they can be shared with other family members by email, individual printed recipes or your own professionally printed cookbook.

Highlights:
  • Create a full color family cookbook – it’s easy and fun! 
  • Invite family and friends to enter recipes and stories (you don’t have to do all the work!)
  • It’s a family heirloom that will be treasured for generations
  • Great for family reunions, wedding gifts and groups
  • Works great on PCs, Macs and iPads
  • Choose recipe layouts, covers, dividers and more (1000s of combinations)
  • Upload your own photos for recipes, covers & dividers, too
  • Print to your PC, a local printer like Kinko’s or have our professional team print for you
  • Have a Kindle or iPad? You can put your cookbook on that, too!
  • the fine print
Visit their website for more details!

Girl Tried to Kill Newborn (Obama Might Approve)

A 15-year old girl has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery in the case of an abandoned baby two months ago in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. Barack Obama might approve of her actions. Obama might even support the girl's actions. ("Whoa, Tom!," you may be screaming, "How can you say such a horrible thing?!?" Keep reading, you'll see...) Lorraine Swanson has the story in a web-extra at News-Star: On Sunday, the teenager turned herself in to Area 3 detectives at Belmont and Western, where she was charged with one count each of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery. [Source] NOTE: We should probably go easy on the girl. After all, she was thoughtful enough to wrap the newborn in plastic bags. Barack Obama might approve of that. After all, Obama voted more than once to allow the killing of fully born, viable babies. Don't believe me? Read on.... Obama’s legislative actions in 2003 - denying effective protection even to babies born alive during abortions - were contrary to the position taken on the same language by even the most liberal members of Congress. The bill Obama killed was virtually identical to the federal bill that even NARAL ultimately did not oppose. [Source] Obama would probably feel that the 15-year old shouldn't be "punished with a baby." No, in Obama's universe, it's better to punish the baby, even that means killing it. From the Chicago Tribune, August 26, 2008: The debate over Obama's voting record has grown so arcane that we've lost sight of why this question ever came up: Some infants that survive abortion are denied medical assistance. They are left to die.... Some actually are born healthy because they are aborted to preserve the "health" of the mother, or because the pregnancy was due to rape or incest. At best, they are left in a "comfort room," complete with a camera (for pictures of the aborted baby) "baptismal supplies, gowns, and certificates, footprinting equipment and baby bracelets for mementos and a rocking chair," where they are rocked to death. "Before the comfort room was established," Stanek said, "babies were taken to the soiled utility room to die." [Source] Now, tell me, what's the difference between what the 15-year old girl did and what goes on every day in "comfort rooms?" RELATED: Obama's Abortion Distortion - Weekly Standard - Aug 13, 2008 - The senator's excuses for opposing the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act don't withstand scrutiny. Explosive Audio of Obama Dismissing Abortion Bill - Fox News - Aug 22, 2008 - Interview: Explosive Audio of Obama Dismissing Abortion Bill, Explosive audio surfaces of Obama dismissing abortion survival bill. A stark choice on abortion - The Boston Globe - Sep 3, 2008 - Obama advocates abortion rights even more sweeping than those enacted under Roe v. Wade. RealClearPolitics - Articles - Obama's Abortion Extremism Obama changes abortion story, again

Pushing Them Down

A thoughtful response to my recent post, "Where Are the Black Men?" Levois writes the following, which I love because my posting was inspired by his posting, "Report: black males in CPS half as likely to graduate as whites" on July 26. Thanks, Levois.

I could take so many angles with this issue. I could have said this was about welfare or I could say this was about irresponsible people having a baby. Another comment could be these men don't stick around because these women have their own issues and they guys are like forget this. One of my issues of concern that are somewhat connected to this is to talk about young men going to college. If young white men are graduating from high school they're not going to college. Especially if they're comparable to young black men who might be between poor or middle class. Not that I have some direct numbers on this, but I have seen stories on this over time. Also in my post I mention that women can push each other. I saw a story on TV one time about women in boot camp and while the guys are more competitive women are more encouraging. There is a big difference in psyche. I can't say I've put my hand on it exactly. Then again why are the guys cancelling themselves out? It might be because no one is pushing them. We make an effort to encourage young women to pursue an education and then secure a profession, but expect the guys to continue on like business as usual. Just that now men are competing with women. No one would think this should be a problem for the guys, should we? Another angle I can come up with is how there are those out there who are trying to remake society to their own ideals. That is feminists wanting to remake society where women are more dominant. I know that's a far fetched idea, so I offer you this post on how Title 9 is causing colleges to cut back on men's sports programs. Resultantly male enrollment in colleges have gone down. The only thing I'm trying to say is that something is wrong. Young black men might have it worse only because they have it worse. That is for some reason there is an expectation that they might be arrested at some point. This could be because someone is looking for them to engage in criminal activity unjustifiably or they are involved in that because no one guided them in the right direction. When you think about it, this is certainly something worth a good academic study.

Where Are the Black Men?

A disturbing report released yesterday indicates that black students in Chicago have "half the chance at graduation as their white classmates." [Source]

The wording, "half the chance," is ABC7's. Is that correct? Do they really have "half the chance," or do those kids graduate half as often as white kids? In other words, every kid has the same "chance," or opportunity, to study, to attend classes, and graduate. Their chances of graduating, however, are halved not by the system, but by social and family issues.

Friend Levois writes on his blog:

"Those who don't want to be in school will need an excuse to not show up. To me neighborhood issues might suggest criminal activity, that is they're either involved in criminal activity or it's not safe to go to school on a given day.That other quote, it's in there for a reason. I want to ask this question. Where are the men?"

The absence of fathers in black families has long been a subject of hot debate. Bill Cosby has addressed this, and more recently Barack Obama has too. Levois adds:

"I would suggest that young men need something from older men. A man has to be there to guide his children in the right direction. Unfortunately in some homes it's the women as head of the household. Perhaps the man of the house is the older brother who still doesn't know a lot about the world."

Many, many black families have gotten it right, but far too many remain fatherless. Among the contributing factors: A culture of irresponsible sex, decades of rewarding single mothers with welfare on the condition that there is no man in the household, the damaging effects of rap and hip-hop glorifying the gangsta lifestyle, and so on.

Fatherless households are not unique to African Americans, to be sure. However, with rates of 70 to 90 percent of blacks being born out of wedlock in many US cities, the future looks bleak unless the trend reverses itself suddenly and thoroughly. Until then, black kids will continue to have half the chance of succeeding as their white peers. Here's the rub: Their white peers are not to blame. It's their absent fathers and their irresponsible mothers. No amount of propaganda from Jesse Jackson can change that fact.

Obama's Parenting Advice: Too Little, Too Late

"News" today about Obama, who has cast himself as a "truth-talker" with the refrain that one of the biggest problems facing the country is "parents who don't parent." He has folded the line into his stump speech and a North Carolina TV ad. More at WSJ Online... Well, sure, but Obama ain't the first one to say this. Bill Cosby, for example, caught heat and praise for saying this a few years ago. If more people would take to heart the writings of W.E.B. DuBois we'd be better off. We don't need Barack Obama to tell us what is just plain common sense, and something that we've known for a long, long time. Related Reading:

Over half of US Women Are Without A Spouse

So, is this good for single guys looking to get married? I'm just asking. Several factors are driving the statistical shift. At one end of the age spectrum, women are marrying later or living with unmarried partners more often and for longer periods. At the other end, women are living longer as widows and, after a divorce, are more likely than men to delay remarriage, sometimes delighting in their newfound freedom. FULL STORY at NYTimes... Thanks to Broken Heart of Chicago for the tip...