Self-absorbed Importance

For over a year now, we've been subjected to the rants and slanders of the "elite" against our duly elected president. The eye rolling in reaction to movie stars, rock stars, designers, and other celebrity types' remarks is common place for many who voted for him, or have come to realize he has the interest of the working stiff at heart.

Finally, Prager U has produced its latest video explaining why over half the nation could care less about what these self-absorbed individuals say or do in order to try getting their sheeple to follow along, or agree with their hate.

Dick's "Sporting Bads", Not Goods

In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida massacre Dick's Sporting Goods has made a corporate decision based on a meeting held shortly after the tragic incident:

Their decision, in my opinion, is a typical corporate "group think" style response which includes false notions that the underground/illegal gun market doesn't exist and that by just keeping firearms from law abiding citizens it will solve the problem and stop future massacres from happening. How ignorant and irrational is that? Such a proposal only plays on the emotions. To understand why I say this, watch this video of a state delegate, running for State Senator to unseat Sen. Tim Kane, explain the issue well.

What the CEO's statement fails to recognize about these "...kids are brave enough, and do what they're doing..." is merely a parroting of the indoctrination received in their public schools from their left oriented teachers who dominate the teaching profession. It also doesn't reveal that as a result of their actions, future marches to put pressure on local legislatures and assemblies will be orchestrated and funded by leftist anti-gun organizations, celebrities, and foundations.

This is how the socialists/progressives have structured their network of support for their furthering their agenda; using the old '60s style protest marches, which is actually an earlier strategy of communist and revolutionary agitators to create social pressure on elected officials who are ignorant of the facts and concepts behind this right to keep our government in check and defend our lives in our homes, or on the increasingly risky and violent streets.

As other conservative bloggers, no doubt, have already suggested, I'm personally never going to set foot in a Dick's establishment again. At least we who understand the underlying concept of the 2nd amendment in the Constitution, we still have the power of the wallet which they can't control. We can still shop elsewhere for sporting goods, rather than supporting "sporting bads".

How Close Are We, or Have We Already Lossed Them?

It's nearly impossible to predict how close we are to losing the freedoms and liberties this nation has known for over 200 years. But, it seems today, there are many signs and warnings that we are getting very close. And, just what would these signs and warnings be?

What would you think if this happened to your family's children while raising them?

Judge Sylvia Hendon [in Ohio recently] ruled that the parents brought this on themselves by not giving their child what she is demanding.

Is that how parenting is supposed to work?

Are parents only in charge as long as they do whatever the child demands?

And what is the "this" of which this snippet speaks about? Transgender transitioning! Here's the full text of an email from "Public Advocate" I received explaining it:

An Ohio judge has just declared “gender non-conforming” to be a scientific, medical fact.

And because of that, a loving pair of Christian parents has just lost their God-given authority over their child.

These loving parents refused to endorse their daughter’s growing mental instability over the past few years.

You see, the now 17-year-old has decided she is in fact, a boy.

Towards this end, she has insisted that her parents call her by a new masculine name and start getting her hormone treatments to destroy her femininity and make her appear more male.

Yet her Christian parents know better.

Which of course, is their right as her parents.

They’ve refused to endorse this insanity -- only calling her by her true name and refusing the hormone treatments.

They believe that the best course of action for this mental disorder is Christian guided therapy.

But now a radical leftist judge has ruled that since they won’t give their child exactly what she demands, they have forfeited their parental authority.

The judge declared that her “transgenderism” is an undeniable, medical fact-- the same as if a child had cancer.

And since her “condition” is undeniable, it is legally “wrong” for her parents to deny the Left’s prescribed course of treatment -- “gender transitioning.”

Now the child is in the custody of her grandparents who are apparently endorsing this insanity and plan to start approving medical treatments immediately.

Judge Sylvia Hendon ruled that the parents brought this on themselves by not giving their child what she is demanding.

Is that how parenting is supposed to work?

Are parents only in charge as long as they do whatever the child demands?

This is the Homosexual Agenda at its core: the destruction of real, nuclear families that acknowledge and respect the Lord God’s created natural order. [Emphasis mine.]

They are working for an America where parents are completely helpless before their perverse sexual agenda.

They brainwash children through government-run schools to doubt their own gender and to hate their parents.  And then they use the courts to strip parents of the legal authority that belongs to them by divine right.

This, is Gender Insanity.

Boys being convinced they are actually girls -- somehow. Young girls destroying their ability to have children with massive testosterone treatments.

It’s abusive of the worst kind.

And anyone who says this is all wrong, loses in the courts and the press.

This is “the Emperor has no clothes” on steroids.

Except -- with the Homosexual Lobby’s control of Mainstream Media and Obama’s judicial cronies still in power -- those who point out the truth are the “crazy ones.”

We are accused of being “hateful” because we refuse to deny reality.

But we can only be marginalized as long as the voices brave enough to speak out are few and far between.

Your average American knows this is all insane, but they are afraid to speak out.

If, for some reason, you doubt this is actually happening, I invite you to watch this video from Tucker Carlson's Fox News channel.

Now, I'm not saying that every student out there is going to pull this type of thing on their parents, and I acknowledge I'm not privy to the family circumstances involved in this situation for this particular instance. However, if the growing clout and influence of these kinds of organizations aren't an indication to you that our nation's very core fabric of the family unit concept isn't being threatened by their agenda, and isn't a sign or portent of things to come, then I'm sorry, I've wasted your time reading my post. 

But think for a second... what do such legal decision imply for the future of the nuclear family? It has already deteriorated immensely and negatively impacted our younger generations immensely from divorce alone. Do we, as a society and culture in this modern age not care any more about the ramifications of such things on our children that we just brush off those things which further deteriorate their potential for a sound and productive life as either a child or adult?

Perhaps this social mindset alone is a sign which points to the reality that we've already seceded our freedoms and liberties to those who have organized and relentlessly pursued their agenda to impose their values on us who don't believe it is a threat.

Voter Fraud? What voter fraud?

More evidence of the liberal/progressive/socialist/statist's agenda is clarifying their true intentions since Trump was elected President and not Hillary. I can't help but wonder...

After going through the article link below, and watching the sequence of videos below, what do you think the intention of liberals are regarding their defense of illegals in our country, and do you notice a pattern here?

https://needtoknow.news/2018/03/100000-non-citizens-registered-vote-pennsylvania/

And... there's this series of videos from Tucker Carlson's nightly show on Fox News about Chicago's new "city key" ID the mayor's giving all illegals. It gets interesting when the issue of using it to be able to vote is pointed out in each new clip in the list below.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ZCyFQWl9g

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnxisxDF2ko

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVi1lsTWt_o

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8VNtQ80p0

The Overthrow of America on Steroids

As I've stated in previous posts, I've long believed that 

communism has been patiently and persistently 

implementing its long range plan to overthrow our country

and turn it into an oppressive dictatorship with "new left" 

politicians in charge.
 
For a minute, let's just contrast what I grew up with to what 

I'm now retiring with. 

When I was going to elementary school we would sing in 

unison "God Bless America" after reciting the Pledge of 

Allegiance to start off the day's lessons. Today (I 

occasionally substitute at a public school) most students 

stand and face the flag - it's a state law requirement – but 

few put their hand over their heart while even reciting the 

pledge.

As for singing "God Bless America", are you kidding?

One of the primary objectives of the Communist Party “55 

item” list, read into the Congressional record back in the late 

1950s, was to break down the nation's moral code. They 

understood all too well that, if they didn't accomplish this, 

they could not overthrow the country from within. Need I ask

how that's turned out?

It's not necessary to illustrate how this overthrow has been 

gradually implemented over the decades since then. I do 

believe, however, that the last administration spent eight 

years successfully implementing a plethora of policies which 

are now showing themselves to be part of that trend.

How? Ann Coulter's most recent article, "Amazing 

Breakthrough to Reduce Mass Shootings!" and its opening 

paragraphs illustrate my point nicely:

As fun as it is to ridicule the FBI for devoting massive

resources to chasing down Hillary Clinton’s oppo

research while blowing off repeated, specific

warnings about school  shooter Nikolas Cruz, we’ve

put a lot on the agency’s plate.

We’re hauling in nearly 2 million manifestly unvetted

Third World immigrants every year, leading to a slew

of FBI “Watch Lists” with a million names apiece. In

2015, Director James Comey said that there were

ISIS investigations in all 50 states — even Idaho and

Alaska! And that’s just one terrorist organization.

Maybe the FBI brass would still be a bunch of

incompetent, PC nincompoops if we weren’t dumping

millions of psychotic and terrorist foreigners on the

country. But even the most efficient organization

would have trouble keeping track of the Nikolas

Cruzes when our immigration policies require 

approximately one-third of the country to be

constantly watching another third of the country.

Consider how the left has moved us closer to the country's 

overthrow: the factual revelations which have, and are now, 

accumulating about the I.R.S., the D.O.J., and F.B.I. being 

politicized and weaponized at the highest levels in order to 

control, or suppress, the left's opposition to what was being 

done; nationalizing health care and doing what they could to

keep Trump from being elected, then, attempting to 

impeach him. Many patriot minded professionals - lawyers, 

law enforcement, and scholars - have said that the actions 

taken by the previous administration are things which usually 

only happen in third-world "banana republic" countries! 

With the media assisting the liberals with psychological 

misdirection of the public about how to fix things, the 

socialists/communists have us right where they want us: at 

each other's throats. Students are screaming at those who 

are trying to have rational debate on critical rights issues, 

using phrases like "burn her", while others are just tuning it 

all out because they either don't know what to think, or are 

too afraid to take sides for fear of reprisals from the 

opposition. You can't turn on a television show today without 

at least some reference to LGBT or a blatant display of 

affection by two individuals of the same sex. Everything is 

upside down and inside out.

The important question for America is, will we who take our 

liberties and freedoms for granted be able to recognize

what's actually happening? If not, we’ll never be able to turn 

the trend around.

The Media's Political Circus

As the facts unfold in the Parkland, FL massacre case, the media has turned the coverage of the tragedy into a circus by focusing the public on the diversion regarding the real problem. To better understand this point, I ask my readers to view this video of Brittany Hughes explaining the situation.

Better yet, Brittany Hughes calls "BS" on liberals feigned caring for lives of people in this video in reaction to what been learned over the past week since the tragedy at the Parkland, FL high school.

The hypocrisy is so thick in so many different ways on this matter that it's absurd! On the other hand, there's county sheriffs like Patrick Jones in Ohio who offered free concealed carry training to teachers, thinking there would be only a few, but was surprised to learn differently at the response he got. Then, there's the Chicago incident where a neighbor used his AR-15 to stop a knife wielding assailant until police could apprehend him.

We have a Broward County Sheriff Scot Israel, who's in charge of the largest law enforcement entity in the country, shirking any responsibility for the high school deputy sheriff staying outside the high school building while he heard shots going off inside, plus the other three deputy sheriffs claiming they were just following the directive to not enter the building because of a department policy that they must have body cams on, but which they did not have with them at the time apparently, while appearing as if he's running for a political office. He's arrogant, cocky, and states that the NRA is responsible for this tragedy, is beyond rational.

The CNN's Town Hall with Jake Tapper as the moderator aired a few nights ago with a totally stacked audience of youth, most of which wouldn't know which end of a gun the bullet comes out of, screaming vile and despicable remarks at Dana Loesch who represented the pro-self defense side of the discussion that was more of an emotional rant by the Sheriff and students up on the platform together.

I've got to note here the absence of any points being made by the media of the possible culpability on the part of the students in the high school in most likely creating or doing things which enhanced this mass murder's rampage against them; namely, bullying. No, if any of them were engaging in such behavior, they, most likely, are the ones who are yelling the loudest into the cameras of the local and national news outlets, or at the town hall on CNN, about how it's the guns' fault that these tragedies occur.

2/28 Update: I couldn't believe what I saw in the video when I linked to a local news page about the Parkland H.S. students returning to school today. Let me be clear on this, I grieve with the families and students who lost loved ones and friends in this tragedy. I'm just as frustrated about this obviously mentally disturbed individual as the rest of us are. But given the way the media has evolved over the decades into "overkill" hyper-coverage, I wasn't surprised to see another display of the "media circus" this day of returning to school was.

I know that the police, sheriff, and state troopers present want to show their support, and I respect them for that sentiment, but this is, in my view, a ridiculous joke! I mean, how many law enforcement officers does this one high school need? From the camera shots I saw, it didn't appear there were any empty areas of ground to park a vehicle on! And, how soon will it be before 99% of them are no longer around, and this all forgotten after the next bullied student goes on another rampage? This is over reaction! I would be willing to bet that there are many residents of Parkland, FL who are quietly thinking, "Dear Lord, I just wish all these law enforcement people would go away and leave us in peace!", or, "Why weren't they here when we needed them?"

My personal take on why this "circus" is happening is because the media knows all too well that they not only must cover this event today, but that those showing up want to be seen on their cameras for the personal ego trip that's generated by being seen on national news. Just consider how teenagers behave when they know a television camera is pointed at them. Poses, faces, screaming, "Oh look how special and wonderful I am!" This is a phenomenon of a mass media culture that pervades every aspect of out society today, which wasn't present when I was going to school back in the 1960s. No humility, or modesty. After all, they're hoping to be discovered and become the next Beyonce, or Jay Z... you name 'em.

Opaque Transparency

That's essentially what the state legislators did in 48 minutes; passed a bill touted as aiding in government transparency to skirt around a court jude's ruling, while at the same time effectively hiding public records from media and other entities seeking to keep check on law makers activities.

Here's a link to a MyNorthwest article calling on Gov. Inslee - "Sleepy Jay" as some know him - to veto the bill.

Below is a response to an email on this issue I sent back to one legislator who listed multiple excuses that supposedly would make it too onerous for them to function... I ask, what's new? They don't when Democrats are in power anyway!

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Rep. Shelly Kloba,

Since you've sent me a communication, I wish to respond on a few points from it for your feedback.

First, the Taylor's beautiful child, Brayden, is obviously in a loving and caring family. However, as a retired public school teacher, I'm confused that you state he's being discriminated against by being segregated from a "regular" class experience. There were students like Brayden at my school who were regularly integrated into our daily activities.

Second, your hypothetical situation is very weak. The state legislature has all the funds and means necessary to sufficiently protect a potential hacker from harvesting data for malicious intent. In an age of technology, it's not difficult to hire competent IT specialists to construct a "cloud" arrangement which could allow access to only those with a viable need to know in order to access records which are pertinent to their work, while requiring them to not use or divulge personal information of any innocent parties not related to the matter under penalty of prosecution. How is that so different than the already onerous bureaucracy of our state's government?

Third, I'm also unconvinced that this ruling produces unworkable results. Legislators have done fine thus far in an ever increasingly bogged down process for achieving results, what would be any different with having to appoint your own public records officer? Work in the 147  legislative offices are already slow, so it doesn't seem things would be much different if this ruling were in effect.

Fourth, I don't buy the excuse about the timeline forcing such a quick decision. It  does not take into consideration the fact that constituents were not consulted, or communicated that it was even happening; 48 minutes has got to be a record for the legislature's House and Senate to pass this bill. Listing excuse after excuse for not adhering to the ruling is only an admission that there's ulterior motives involved here. The people can smell corruption, or nefarious motives, are  going on, when such things happen the way it did.

If you view these changes as a significant step toward transparency, then I view moving out of state to avoid onerous taxation as my only remaining prerogative to escape such a corrupt governing body.

Respectfully,