Nobody Remembers Florence Nightengale
Nobody Remembers
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear” Florence Nightengale
Everybody was watching the retiring Pope today, hoping into his helicopter, and tweeting the millions below him goodbye. His legacy is evidently, not a good one, but then again, the Catholic Church has been full of corruption almost since its beginning. (That’s what happens when you put one god at the top.)
But—while the Pope leaves visions of just a nice old guy going to rest in some nice garden somewhere, I couldn’t help thinking–what don’t we know about him? After all, I found out something today that I never knew about Florence Nightingale.
From “The Lady Tasting Tea”
Florence Nightingale a legendary English Victorian figure was a terror to the members of Parliament and the British army generals whom she confronted. There is a tendency to think of her simply as the founder of the nursing profession, a gentle, self-sacrificing giver of mercy. But the real Florence Nightingale was a woman with missions. She was also a self-educated statistician. One of Nightingale’s missions was to force the British army to maintain filed hospitals and supply nursing and medical care to soldiers in the field. To support her position, she plowed though piles of data from the army files. Then she appeared before a royal commission with a remarkable series of graphs. In them she showed how most of the deaths in the British army during the Crimean War were due to illnesses contracted outside the field of battle or that occurred long after action as a result of wounds suffered in battle but left unattended. She invented the pie chart as a means of displaying her message. When she tired of fighting the obtuse seemingly ignorant army generals she would retreat to the village of Evington.
So, think about that next time you see a pie chart.
Who knew? Not me.
There has always been a belief that men are better at math than women. According to this book, (The Lady Tasting Tea- How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg) women have always played a very strong role in statistical sciences.
The Statistical Laboratory and Department of Statistics at Ames, Iowa became one of the most important centers of statistical research in the world. Lots of stuff was delegated to woman, women could be more docile and patient so went the belief and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing.
So today, Nobody Remembers Florence Nightingale, and the women who did the computing. We need MORE ladies getting into math and less into Beyoncé, don’t you think?
Nobody’s Fool: Judge Napolitano
Nobody’s Fool
While many of us won’t be effected by the “sequester” coming soon, the ones who do lose their jobs, won’t think it’s a scare tactic at all.
But the Judge, once again, explains in simple English WHY Obama is the one who is putting the most hurt where it need not be, and therefore, could be impeached for intentionally hurting the American people.
I love this guy.
The Judge wins the Nobody’s Fool award…AGAIN.
GOP Comes Up with New Plan: DUCK!
Nobody Wins
Since the GOP seem eternally helpless in attacking Obama for the “madman” that he is (According to Bob Woodward today), they’ve come up with a fantastic idea!
Why…just give the President more power! (Politico) 
Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
The five- page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party. Having railed against Senate Democrats for not passing a budget, Republicans are now proposing that Congress surrender an important piece of its Constitutional “power of the purse” for the last seven months of this fiscal year.
Wow. What “out of the box” thinking. It reminds me of the time Rush Limbaugh was rallying the nation to go and vote for Hillary Clinton. How did that work out?
In other words, the system is so broken, and our leaders in Congress so impotent, they can’t think of what they really SHOULD have done long ago.
Supreme Court or not…impeach. Do what Obama does….get out of Washington and travel to all the cities and attack, attack, attack.
But no. We have wusses. Obama has committed so many “crimes and misdemeanors” over the American people, all you would need to do is stand him up and read him the Constitution.
Where’s our Jefferson? Where’s our Washington? Who ARE these people?
Wusses.
Perhaps John Adams had it right: Without an educated populace, the tyrants will rule, as they always did in the first half of the history of humanity.
“In the earliest ages of the world, absolute monarchy seems to have been the universal form of government. But the fact is certain: and wherever a general knowledge and sensibility have prevailed among the people arbitrary government and every kind of oppression have lessened and disappeared in proportion.
The poor people it is true have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength: ignorant as they were of arts and letters. They have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition.”
So even back THEN, it was known that if you keep the people stupid, you will have no problem taking control over them, and to this Nobody it seems we are going back to the ages of tyrants.
So right…go ahead and give him more power: Do you think he will EVER give it back? You not going to convince any democrat at all, of how Obama has done anything wrong.
To them, he’s a god.
Idiots.
John Kerry Has a RIGHT to be Stupid: Now the World Knows too
Nobody Reports
It’s now official: John Kerry says that in America you have a right to be stupid, (evidently, he thinks that’s in the Constitution) not knowing, by uttering this, he has just announced to the world, that since we have a right to be stupid, it’s because of that right, that millions of stupid people have elected people like: John Kerry.
Probably the truest words ever spoken by a politician: and the fact that Kerry has no idea that it applies to him, proves the point.
I won’t tell him if you don’t.
Nobody’s Perfect: Jennifer Lawrence
Nobody’s Perfect
While everyone has forgotten last nights Oscars…there is one moment that will forever be remembered in everybody’s mind…the great fall of Jennifer (I’ve had a few) Lawrence.
Jennifer Lawrence won hearts when she tripped on the way up to the stage to collect her Oscar for Best Actress on Sunday night. When she finally got to the stage she said, “You guys are just standing up because I fell and you feel bad. That was embarrassing.”
But, just so you know…Jennifer has been practicing this move all her life. Here we see Jennifer as a small child, practicing for the moment, when one day, she would perform this very same move, in front of the whole world:
Can the Obama’s Exploit the Oscars? YES WE CAN!
Nobody Opinion
(Written before the Oscars, but I’ve updated…in places)
Nobody will argue, that Lincoln will probably walk away with the most Oscars tonight, for the simple reason that Spielberg is a genius, and nobody can tell a story and bring it to life as well as he can.
It should win easily. But then again…Hillary and Kerry are rooting for Argo. Isn’t that a first in American history? Politicians publically announcing their favorite to win an Oscar?
Politics are in almost all the movies in contention for the Oscar tonight, and if ARGO wins over Lincoln, one might assume that Hillary Clinton and John Kerry had something to do with it. I haven’t seen it, but I’m sure it glorifies the State Department, and is more than likely, a propaganda film, to make everyone forget the horror Hillary’s State Department made in Benghazi
(It’s also not historically true. It was the Canadians who got the people out, says Jimmy Carter, who was President at the time.)
But, back to Lincoln. Why do this movie now?
More times that I can count, Obama’s PR machine has been put him on the fronts of magazines portraying him as Lincoln, or FDR— the two Presidents in past history who, more than any others, ignored the Constitution and gave themselves overwhelming powers. Powers not intended for them to have. They simply took it. FDR, with his NEW DEAL, had become such a dictator, Congress passed the 22nd amendment to keep that from ever happening again.
Last week in the Washington Post, Tom Fox wrote an editorial called, “Why Presidents Need to be Exploiters” to support the idea that in crisis, President should always take advantage and extent their powers.
The public almost never moves in the president’s direction if there is division in the country. It is difficult to reach most citizens, overcome their predispositions and combat a vocal opposition. When FDR found Congress extraordinarily responsive to the crisis, (depressions and war) he effectively exploited this opportunity and rapidly passed the original New Deal. He did not try to create an opportunity; instead, he brilliantly exploited one. This is presidential effectiveness. (Can I gag here?)
In other words, whenever a man sees a chance to take more power…go for it.
And since this Nobody thinks nothing is a coincidence when it comes to politics, I think both Lincoln and Argo were made to promote the Obama administration in Washington. Argo, the State Department, and Lincoln—Obama. ALL of Congress got special viewings.
Must be nice not to have to pay admission fee.
The movie Lincoln plays heavily in Obama’s favor, and this is why. The message coming out of that movie was that ONE President, bribed, broke laws, ignored the Constitution, because his Congress was too stupid and prejudiced. He did it to abolish slavery…, therefore, we should forgive him. Presidents should always be allowed to break the law when necessary for the greater good.
FDR gets the same pass. We were in a war, he expanded the government into the overgrown elephant we have today. Johnson added the Great Society. You could say the same about George W. Bush, who created the government program we will all come to fear someday, called, Homeland Security, all by himself. With the stroke of a pen.
Historically, Presidents have been expanding their powers whenever they could “exploit” the moment.
How many times have we heard Obama say that if Congress doesn’t get something he wants done..he will do it himself? Too many for my taste.
And he does it— Triples our debt, and makes Czars, and starts wars. His mission is to dismantle the country, the America he does not like, and reshape it in his own Marxist Utopian, and some say European, image.
For instance: He thought up the sequester, which of course cuts the military in two, and then, when it comes times to vote, he ups the ante and says he wants MORE taxes, so that the Republicans will NOT vote for it, and he gets exactly what he wants.
Clever..exploitation.
The office of the Presidency has grown too much power, and because impeachment is so rare, just one President can destroy the country…and we are watching that happen.
Lincoln broke the law, but it was for a good cause. The country is once again divided. Obama breaks the law, but not for some good cause, —NOT to unit and keep us together, but to further push the country into communism.
Lincoln did NOT want communism.
And that’s the dangerous message Lincoln and Spielberg bring: Give him the power. But Obama is NO Lincoln. The very fact that he is being allowed to kill anyone with his drones, makes him a dictator.
Did Steven Spielberg make Lincoln to hint that Obama is there to guide a divided nation into what’s good for them? Or did he just want to point out that all politics are corrupt?
Nobody Knows.
UPDATE: Okay, I was right. Liam Nelsion just introduced Lincoln as a President who has to rule over a gridlocked Congress.(Hint…hint, our congress is gridlocked over sequestration)
Katzenberg , one of the biggest producers in Hollywood, said they make movies to influence the world.
Hollywood works for Obama now. And if you don’t believe that, then if you watched it to the end you saw, for the first time in History,
THE WHITE HOUSE, VIA MICHELLE OBAMA, ANNOUNCING BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR.
(Along with the usual politically correct we must all behave message)
Argo won Movie of the Years…Ben Affleck, the laughing stock of Hollywood, is now the King of the world. Hillary and Kerry will be thrilled….they threw the down and out kid, a bone….
Put that in your Oscar and smoke it
Deny, Delay, Confuse…
Nobody Flashes
Now, here’s something you don’t see often–a former senior advisor to “President” Obama, confessing that he was told to deny drones were being used, and even he thought it was not a good idea. Nobody Wonders–Why confess this now?
Nobody’s Email: O…M….G….
Nobody Get Email
I’m taking it easy this weekend….
So, here’s just a bit of joy, this boy will be BORED with piano by the time he’s ten.
Incredible.
It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane..NO..It’s Russia’s Missile Defense!
Nobody Cares
Do YOU care that Russia shot what looks like a missile at that comet last week? I don’t. Do you care that most of the media ignored this video? I don’t either.
But Nobody Wonders WHY they waited untill ten seconds before it hit the ground before they hit it. Makes you wonder if all this missile defense stuff is just smoke and mirrors.
Or…maybe glasses are not included in the Universal Russian Medical Care.
Nobody Remembers Alice Addertongue
Nobody Remembers
It’s said, Sam Adams started the Revolution, and he did it with the mighty pen. And since he really didn’t want his name on all his ranting against the crown…he made up all kinds of names for his penname:
Philo Patriae and Paces, Vindex the Avenger, Determinatus, Decant Ara Togae, (weapons are under my cloak!) Principiis Obsta: (principle obstacle) , Valerius Poplicola, Candidus, and Populus. He was also: An American, A Tory, Alfred, A Son of Liberty, A Puritan, and A Religious Politician– among many.
And Sam wasn’t the only one who wanted to remain anonymous.
Alexander Hamilton pens names included Publius, Pacificus, Catallus, Americanus, Metellus, Horatius, Philo Camillus, Tully, Monitor, Phocion, The Continentalist, and H.G.
Benjamin Franklin was Silence Dogood, and Polly Baker and Richard Saunders and Anthony Afterwit, Martha Careful, Alice Addertongue, Celia Shortface, Harry Meanwell, Fanny Mournful, Obadiah Plainman, Busy Body, and Sidi Mehemt Ibrahim.
John Adams was Sui Juris, U, Davila, and Humphrey Ploughjogger…and my personal favorite: Novanglus. (which means New England.)
James Madison was Helvidius and Cato…
After Thomas Paine wrote an anonymous pamphlet criticizing President George Washington‘s policies, John Quincy Adams (John’s son) wrote a series of anonymous articles called “Publicola”, defending the president. They were so well done people assumed his father wrote them.
And I even write under a pen name…Joyanna is a combination of my first name and my grandmother’s name…and Adams is not my married name, but I picked it out of respect to the founding Adams, as I am a direct descendant of that family on my mother’s side. 
I really didn’t want anyone to know my married name.
In this country, writing under a pen name, thus remaining anonymous, has been protected by the Supreme Court.
In its 1960 decision in Talley v. California, the Supreme Court ruled that a law forbidding individuals from distributing handbills without identifying their identity unconstitutionally infringed on the First Amendment’s guarantee to free speech. The Court declared:
Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all. . . . Before the Revolutionary War colonial patriots frequently had to conceal their authorship or distribution of literature that easily could have brought down on them prosecutions by English-controlled courts. . . . It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.
SO…what in the world is this new bill being proposed in the Illinois Senate all about?
A new bill proposed in the Illinois State Senate looks to completely wipe out any form of anonymity on the internet by requiring that the operators of basically any website on the entire internet take down any comment that isn’t attached to an IP, address, and real name-verified poster.
It’s called the Internet Posting Removal Act and was introduced on February 13th by Illinois General Assembly veteran Ira I. Silverstein [D]. Not wanting to leave any bases uncovered, Silverstein includes that an “Anonymous Poster” means “any individual who posts a message on a web site including social networks, blogs, forums, message boards, or any other discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.”
If James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were alive and publishing under the false name “Publius” today, they would be prime candidates for prosecution under Virginia’s anti-spam law, and the Internet Posting Removal Act. They would most likely be using the Internet to get their message out to as many fellow citizens as possible. They could be arrested for speaking their minds on important issues of the day.

Clearly, Obama’s government wants to know WHO is writing the essays and blogs against them. Sure, there are some bad people out there spamming, but making it a crime to not sign your real name is not how are country was founded.
It is a right, given to us by our founders. If not for them, we wouldn’t be here.
And I’m sure Alice Addertongue would agree with me 100 percent!
Nobody’s Fool: Charlton Heston
Nobody’s Fool
I remember driving one afternoon during the years when Bill Clinton was President…and as usual, I had the radio station tuned to Rush Limbaugh. He was talking to Charlton Heston who was telling Rush how shocked he was at how Hollywood, and so many of his friends there, had succumbed to this tyranny called political correctness. I also remember thinking “You’d better pull off the road woman” because tears were flowing so hard down my face, I was having a hard time seeing. FINALLY …finally I thought, a man has spoken out against this insanity that is happening to our country.
That night, I wrote Charlton Heston a four page letter, pouring out my heart about his thoughts on the radio, and how deeply I was moved. About 3 weeks later, I received this letter, one that my family said was just a form letter, get over yourself…(notice the stamped name) but in my heart, I have never believed that. I think, since he was just getting sick, his wife probably read it to him. This letter is in my office, framed and on my wall where I see it every day.
As I listened to the above speech by Heston, given at Brandels University, I can’t help but imagine what our country would have been if Heston had run for the Presidency. We would have had another Ronald Reagan.
That generation is gone: But Mr. Heston planted the seeds…even back then, that we all must think for ourselves and speak out. (at the end of the speech he gets into it.) And boy did I take his advice. I started writing a daily blog and haven’t stopped since, and so have millions of others. The people’s voice in on the internet.
Wayne La Pierre is still being attacked, and Charlton is not here anymore to protect him…but we CAN post his words, his voice and his ideas, because they are truly American. The Clinton’s tried very hard to get universal health care passed. Obama did it. The Clinton’s wanted desperately to disarm the American people. Now, Obama is going to try to get that done too. He has put up a website inviting gun victims to tell their story. They have all their best minds working around the clock trying to get it done…state by state. And if the day comes when they threatened to confiscate our guns, we should remember the man who gave us the words to say, should that day come;
“From Our Cold Dead Hands.”
(And I have to laugh because I’ve only shot a real gun at a practice range a few times…but I’ll be ready to learn!)
I thank God he graced us with such a great man, —as Charlton Heston.
King Put Makes Another Speech
Nobody Wins
You have to hand it to the Democrats. Day after day, they all stay on message:
It’s those men rich Republicans that are destroying the middle class. Why, according to Obama’s last speech, if the Congress doesn’t let him get rid of the loopholes he wants…(translation, taxes) the middle class will fall so far off the face of the earth, China won’t recognize any of them when they fall through the earth and come climbing out of the hole on the other side. 
Once again, he put the FEAR of Armageddon, into every man and women listening: mother’s dying, babies not going to school, teachers will be out of work and will have to buy shotguns to keep the unemployed Pentagon workers from their front porch. No more vaccines, No more aircraft carriers, no more FBI. Even longer lines, and more assaults at the airports…
And he will have to cut some of his vacations..
Wait. He didn’t say that.
Of course, it’s Obama that is putting the final nail, the last burrito, the last bite into the ever dwindling, fast disappearing, soon to be history, middle class— but he so cleverly blames the other guys.
He is so ABOVE us all…playing golf with Tiger Woods, while his wife vacations in Aspen, holding up airspace…lunching with bigwigs in the Oil business…
Sharing the best prostitutes money can buy with Tiger after hours.
What? You think Tiger has stopped the sex addiction? Doesn’t Obama play golf with a man who was busted for prostitution? Remember Bobby Titcomb? Does a President play with a man busted for a prostitution ring because he likes the way the guy plays golf?
Wait. He couldn’t have done that! If Obama and Tiger were having a private party with prostitutes why the press would be all over it! Just like they were all over John Kennedy and all his daily afternoon prostitutes, right?
And the Republicans just can’t seem to muster even a few spitballs. John Boehner did try to take a blow at Obama, but he did it in the Wall Street Journal.
( Okay, just how many WORKING Americans read the Wall Street Journal?)
Boehner said in a Wall Street Journal editorial that Republicans already have compromised on their side, sending to Obama significant tax hikes for Americans.
“The president got his higher taxes – $600 billion from higher earners, with no spending cuts – at the end of 2012. He also got higher taxes via Obamacare. Meanwhile, no one should be talking about raising taxes when the government is still paying people to play videogames, giving folks free cell phones, and buying $47,000 cigarette-smoking machines,” he wrote.
And Rush said THIS:
“The ultimate objective of all of this is to spend MORE. The ultimate objective of all of this is to frighten everybody everywhere about what will happen if you cut a DIME from the federal budget,” Limbaugh said. “This is all about moving the ball forward under the premise that the government must grow and continue to grow if you are to have any chance in life at all. … The secondary objective is for Obama to continue to be seen as the outsider, not governing, he’s the outsider campaigning, trying to prevent this disaster, when in truth, it’s his policies that are causing it.”
And Rand Paul said THIS:
“I mean, for goodness sakes, it was his proposal. He proposed the sequester, it was his idea. He signed it into law, now he’s going to tell us that, ‘Oh, it’s all our fault?’” Paul said. “I voted against the sequester because I didn’t think it was enough.”
Strong stuff…true stuff, and yet, Obama goes on vacation…and comes back, to give a speech and says,
“I will never sign a plan that harms the middle class”
Yeah…spoken like a true King Put.






