Angels and the Devil Featured in Midwinter Follies

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A harsh winter can often give a person to acting rather crazy in a bout of what is commonly known as cabin fever.  Short periods of daylight coupled with the inability to go anywhere typically brings out the maniac in us all. 

It hasn't by any means been a harsh winter yet but the City of Ludington Daily News (COLDNews) chronicled a couple of groups that collectively have completely lost control of their rational thinking.  One of these groups are potentially dangerous and deranged, the other is just kooky. 

The kooky group is the one that took to the Ludington beach and thought they needed to practice for the upcoming attempt this summer to shatter the record of simultaneous sand angels.  Some were demented enough to don summertime gear and get into the snow-sand slush of the beach and flail about...

The actual attempt will take place on June 10th, looking to surpass the very beatable world record of 352 by at least a factor of ten.  It was first announced publicly late last year by Kaley Petersen of the Spectrum Health Foundation at a Ludington city council meeting.  They hope to use the event as a fundraiser, hoping to collect up to $250,000 to benefit the local cancer center. 

It should be noted that on January 10, Spectrum Hospital announced they were ceasing to offer psychiatric services at the hospital.  It could explain their behavior in the sand, as well as the actions of this other local group of (primarily) women. 

"We stand. We rise. We march together.", begins the article, matching the chant uttered by 40 participants at a Wednesday meeting at Luciano's Restaurant in beautiful downtown Ludington.  The event was to help plan a foray to Washington D.C. this weekend by some of the participants to take part in the Women's March on Washington. 

In this rally locally organized by Brenda Reeber, they made posters, shared ideas, and supported each other.  Reeber, Chris Fonnesbeck, Julia Chambers, Joanie Wiersma, and others will make the trip and take part in the march at 10 AM on Saturday.

"I've always been a political activist, and I think it is an extremely important way to support something, by being there.  When I heard, I immediately knew I had to go," said Reeber.  She and her friend Judith Dila had planned originally for a lunch for two before they decided to invite others over for a full blown rally.

"It's a cause well worth the support.  I think that so many of the gains women have made over the years are at risk right now," she said.  "It's important to not let (Donald Trump) do that.  I think by doing something like this, we'll show him that we're serious.  The overall theme that the women who organized this have adopted is "Women's rights are human rights.""

In the article in the newspaper Fonnesbeck expresses dismay over Trump's offensive conduct, cabinet picks,and positions on issues.  Chambers expressed her disapproval over his thoughts on climate change.  Wiersma worried about women being disenfranchised and going backwards in their progress towards equality. 

The posters they made had some positive slogans such as:  "Build bridges, not walls." and "Love, not hate, makes America great.".  Many wore pink hats and safety beads with rainbow-colored beads to show solidarity with women and LGBT rights.

The Women's March on Washington has a genesis back to December 9th, 2016, when the election results came in showing that Trump would be the nation's next president.  Charles Blow of the NY Times writes that this march was part of the anti-inauguration, a protest exclaiming your resistance.  He writes:  "The point is not necessarily to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, but rather to deprive it of oxygen and eyeballs; to plant a flag of resistance firmly at the opening gate." 

Slate Magazine notes that the event is unapologetically progressive.  Progressive is a less offensive version of the word liberal.  The Unity principles espoused on their website reads like the same manifesto used by the Black Lives Matter and the Occupy Wall Street (et.al.) movements before them, and suffer from some of the same inconsistencies and hypocrisies.  Their points:

End Violence:  A noble cause, which they link themselves to the BLM movement in sentiment.  They offer no solution other than to end inequities in regard to race and gender in the criminal justice system.  They then segue to endorsing what is perhaps the most violent act many women will ever face...

Reproductive Rights:  aka abortion on demand or their syllogism 'reproductive freedom' fully paid by the state when necessary.  "This means open access to safe, legal, affordable abortion and birth control for all people, regardless of income, location or education."  Reproductive rights or any other for the unborn baby, whom many equate as a person?  No.

LGBTQIA Rights: (misquoted in the COLDNEWS article as only LGBT rights, leaving out the QIA folks) "We must have the power to control our bodies and be free from gender norms, expectations and stereotypes." is how they explain their point on this, whatever it means.  Every 'letter of the alphabet' I know do control their own bodies, while this march is structured on gender (Women's March) with the stereotype and expectation that all women have their same 'progressive values'.  Quite often, the "pro-choice" position for women is in the minority as seen by this graph.

The other 'rights' listed equate to social equity and justice, summed up by instituting a living minimum wage, passing an equal rights amendment, granting illegal aliens and refugees unaccountability, and a nebulous cause to protect the climate and the environment.  This is the same dogma of the fringe movements and the failed candidacy of Hilary Clinton. 

They sound thoughtful, caring, consistent, and pragmatic until you seriously consider the effective loss of rights as we allow some government agent more power to take any choice away, and a good deal of that money you earned as well.  Perhaps they sum up their lack of cogency when they say under the category of immigrant rights:

"We believe migration is a human right and that no human being is illegal."

Except when it involves the migration of an unborn baby out of her mother's womb alive and unhurt.  If you love their messages of inclusivity and empowerment go to the official Facebook page of the march and associated events, read the online discussions.  There amid the enthusiasm and excitement you will witness the unfiltered and unedifying spectacle of women going at each other not because of the content of their character but because of the color of their skin, their gender, ethnicity, or religion. 

President Trump has just assumed the office, and rioting is prevalent in Washington DC currently, as seen in the picture above, so hopefully these local women of ours play it safe and smart when they're in the unfamiliar turf so they don't get hurt by some of the very people they are marching for.   It looks to me as if many already at our nation's capital are encouraging and provoking violence rather than ending it, but that may be because I can't think on such a high level. 

And I'm sure those opposed to the politics and characteristics of Barack Obama-- those backwater, gun-loving, white, cowboys-- did the same thing back in 2008.  Except that they didn't, they accepted the results of the election and went on with their lives.  Not throwing a tantrum in DC trying to steal the limelight from those that deserve it at this time.

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Here's Madonna speaking at the Women's March on Washington showing the paradox of wanting to blow up the White House and then segueing to chant "We choose love".  Lesser terrorist threats have sent lesser protesters to prison for a long time.  Heck, around Ludington you get investigated for saying you want five minutes alone with a city councilor.

[AQUAMAN]

Empty and druggy heads give out loud noises, and Madonna is at the top of that description.

[jfc123]

IHAN, why I deleted my post, feces all over, who said that?

[jfc123]

For the life of me I am trying to figure out why people listen to people like this? She has very little education to support her statements! I would much rather hear something from someone that has an advanced degree. Agreed so many smaller have been attacked for much less, because they know our pockets are not as deep to sue! God Bless President Trump?

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Yesterdays marches of less than 1% of the US female population across the nation may seem a seminal moment in the mind of those who are upset with the election of President Trump and think he may adopt a more conservative agenda.  I respect the rights of all, especially women since most of the people I interact with during the course of the day are these loving creatures (none of who marched and mainly thought the idea was silly), and so I did not have a very favorable impression of the event. 

I noted that they chose to have a very vague message of why they were marching; I'll bet you would find a conglomerate of reasons if you polled the women, just like the variety present in the COLDNews article on the local women.  The organizers actively excluded pro-life women from marching, they spotlighted many other liberal causes and groups that weren't women (diluting their overall message)-- even those that have abysmal records of women/human rights (Muslims), and left a mess in their wake (see photo above) that would rival their BLM and Occupy progenitors. 

Michelle Obama launched the Let's Move! initiative to solve the problem of obesity in America, it took President Trump less than a day to get hundreds of thousands of women to get off their couches and exercise outside in the middle of winter.  What a miracle worker.

[stump]

It's interesting that the candidate that all those women thought that was for them didn't show up for their rally . The funniest statement I heard today from one of the women being interviewed was all those posters were going to be put in the Smithsonian. They must call their garbage trucks by that name.

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Ms. Clinton taking a role in this would look too much like her being a sore loser, so take her non-participation as a political move.  Like many things throughout her life, Hillary would rather have surrogates do the work of trying to make her (or her husband's) opposition look bad.

I take it, and her participation at the inauguration, as an indication she expects to have more of a future in politics.  Looking at the lack of depth of the Democrats currently existing, and lacking any serious charges that stick, she may just be back.

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Just after her message of love, she tweeted the F-bomb preceding Donald Trump and the Secret Service.  It is said the SS is launching an investigation into her incitements. 

Perhaps she should read more of MLK's and Mahatma Gandhi's works telling her how love actually is supposed to work.  Their messages didn't involve cursing or of blowing things up in a tantrum, and they achieved miracles against much stronger opposition. 

Ashley Judd was similarly theatrical in her speech at the WMW, and this amusing video highlights that, with all due apologies to my audience for the violence inflicted at the end by the male-dominated bridge of the starship Enterprise. 

[AQUAMAN]

Good decision by Capt. Kirk, fire full phasers, mission complete.

[Willy]

What useful idiot Judd is. If these imbeciles took a small amount of initiative and looked for the truth they would realize just how foolish they are.

A useful idiot is a person perceived as a propagandist for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who is used cynically by the leaders of the cause.

[XLFD]

Judd's words were originally a poem written by a 19 year old poet, so Ashley looks for inspiration from somebody 30 years younger than her.  Her initial lines make no connection to me, her first line condemning a man for the color of his skin, the second and third are totally nonsensical, but this is the appeal it seems of modern liberalism.  String enough pablum together with good meter and you have a progressive classic poem.  Rather disappointing, but expected in that environment.

I am a nasty woman.  I’m not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto dust. A man whose words are a distract to America; Electoral College-sanctioned hate speech contaminating this national anthem. I am not as nasty as Confederate flags being tattooed across my city.

[shinblind]

Heard that the genesis of The Women's March on Washington was that a lot of ladies who had reservations in anticipation of celebrating Hillary's Inauguration found out that their reservations were non refundable. Because of this they morphed it into a protest of Trump's victory. 

Also rumored that the organizer of the DC protest is an ISIS  sympathizer.  http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/organizer-dc-womens-march-t...

Don't know how many local attendees and newspaper media were duped into being useful idiots.