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Camille Paglia -- Empowerment Feminist

Just started her new book. "Free Women Free Men".  

Happy to hear from her again.

Toronto Sun:

Her ideas didn’t sit well with other feminist icons like Gloria Steinem. Numerous turf wars ensued over the years but Paglia stood her ground, never getting swayed by the trends.

Another thing that still riles the feminist establishment is that the Bernie Sanders-supporting lesbian never bought into victimhood.

Paglia’s always been an empowerment feminist, actually wanting women to succeed instead of finding meaning through wallowing in victimhood.

“The demarcation of certain groups for special protection, later extended to gender and sexual orientation, split them from the general populace by defining them as permanent victims, burdened by an inescapable past,” she writes.

Bret Easton Ellis -- Why Not?

Christian Toto, Hollywood in Toto:  First 35 minutes.

Ellis, who once used Trump to highlight his “American Psycho” protagonist’s oily manner, isn’t a rock-ribbed conservative. He didn’t vote for Trump, nor does he apologize for the president’s baser instincts. The author still refuses to accept progressive dogma at face value. It’s a recurring theme on his popular podcast.

Last year, Ellis excoriated political correctness during a particularly blazing podcast episode. That was just a taste of what he delivered this week. Ellis took on liberals who simply cannot process the fact that Hillary Clinton isn’t living in the White House. His withering comments hit some rather sacred cows, especially Oscar winner Meryl Streep...

 

 

 

 

Ruthven on Fundamentalism

After 9/11 it was my mission to understand the why of it.  I had always known Islam as one of the great Abrahamic religions.  

One of the first books I read was "A Fury for God" by Malise Ruthven, at that time recently published.  It seemed to me that explaining suicidal jihad had to be more than some sort of "hijacking of a great religion" or a sort of socio-economic result which could be fixed by a job.  Ruthven's writing was a great help in this regard.  I can no longer easily read print and gave away most of my print Islam library.  And today I looked for an electronic edition of AFFG but there isn't one.  Maybe somebody has scanned it in and I wish somebody would tell me if so.

Meanwhile, a person I "met" through book reviews at one of the history sites has reminded me of Ruthann's more recent "Lure of the Caliphate".  Many young people from Europe have been leaving for the Jihad -- some with no experience of Islam or indeed any religion at all.  What drives them?  So...also unavailable in electronic version.  I am not able to read it -- and if you know somehow a way to get an e-version please let me know.

 

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Look at the alert catchers around the edges of Hinn's traveling salvation show, ready to keep the falling faithful from harm.

Doesn't it make you think of this?

"What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if

they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from

somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher

in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really

like to be. I know it's crazy." -- Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye

 

Jenny Julian, Sheila Coonerty

From Jenny Julian on Facebook from October but not seen until now.  I have a hard time reading the Facebook interface posts sometimes when my vision is being uncooperative.  So I'm answering this for your dogs and Sheila's cats here on the blog.  I can always eee stuff when it pops up here.

Jenny Julian: Hi Catherine, Would you be willing to let me know what you feed your dogs in addition to raw meat? I am hoping to benefit from your dog nutrition wisdom. Gilbert is on a raw food diet now, with fish oil. I have an elderly Pom foster dog with "chemical burns" over a lot of his body, nearly blind, and whose labs don't look great, who could really use top shelf nutrition. Thank you!

Sheila Coonerty:  And can you throw in any cat advice?

Jenny -- Best place to start for dogs is this by Lew Olson, Natural Nutrition for Dogs. Link is to Amazon. Lew Olson also has a website where there are newsletters organized by condition.  Easy to navigate, great for quick research. I've found it to be reliable and generally follow her advice except for the herbal stuff.  Used to but don't now. No particular reason -- just not my thing now.

Sheila -- the very best cat book I've ever seen is by veterinarian Elizabeth Hodgkins.  Your Cat. That book helped me figure out how to manage my own cats and it was especially good when one of them needed surgery for hyperthyroid -- explained the why and how a lot better than anything else I had around.  I cannot say enough good about that book and Dr. Hodgkins's advice.  

I started feeding raw about 20 years ago and have been reading and studying for all that time -- it's my passion.  I've modified over the years and have concluded that raw or cooked isn't that big of a deal -- it's more important to limit carbs.  So everybody gets raw (I'm lazy, don't even cook for my husband, let alone 13 or so dogs and the cats) from the human supply stores.  I buy beef heart by the case (It's a muscle meat, nutritionally like a roast) and also give some liver and kidney.  For the minerals I get whole chicken or chicken frames (what's left when the machines take a chicken apart, so there's bone).  Sometimes neighbors slaughter goats or beef and I get this and that.  I feed the larger dogs by handing each a big hunk o' meat.  I grind including the bone for the small dogs, the elderly dogs, the cats.  Raw matters for bones -- chicken, pork neck bones, ribs and so on so not to splinter.  

Hope this helps.  And sorry it took for long for me to become aware the queries were there

Here's the deal.  It's not rocket science.  Like feeding kids there are many ways to do it right. If you think I can help, ask questions.  I am fascinated by this whole topic, still.

 

And Take Names

Reading "Revolutionary Summer" by Joseph Ellis. Came across this. Makes me smile. We are descendants of people of courage and resolve, and not a little violence. 

They didn't know it would turn out okay -- and the downside risk was hanging. They did it anyway.

Shelfie

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To begin, users download the free app to their smartphone and create a profile. Then they snap a picture of their bookshelf and upload the image. The platform then searches its database and finds out which books are available. Shelfie then provides free copies of eligible books that the user has already purchased, courtesy of various partnerships with publishers. The platform already has over 100,000 ebooks available, which can be downloaded and read on any device. In addition, users can browse each others’ bookshelves to obtain recommendations and inspiration for their next purchase.

 

 

Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, 21st Century

Martin O'Malley rolls over and pees on himself, apologizing for saying, "All lives matter."  Then he heads to South Carolina for a "listening tour".

Bernie Sanders, in Seattle auditioning for the job of president of the United States of America, seems befuddled and overmatched by two shrieking women from Black Lives Matter.  He surrenders the mic and walks away. He then hires a young black woman as press secretary.

Hillary Clinton meets privately with reps from BLM, refers to the rest of us as "sinners" allows herself to be accused of "victim blaming" and earnestly bobs her head while going Umhmm Umhmm.  The BLM people meet with Rachel Maddow and accuse Hillary of ducking personal responsibility state that whatever she intends to do is "not sufficient'.

 The late Mr. Lupner was unavailable for comment.*

If you've never read "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" from 1970, this is a really good time to do it. Wolfe admires plain talk and strength.and I bet he would agree that when you reward bad behavior you get a lot more of it.

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The late Mr. Lupner was born without a spine." "No wonder he has the posture of a boiled shrimp! -- Saturday Night Live

 

 

 

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