It seems that today's youth have been indoctrinated to believe that the more those we allow to lead us to dictate the level at which our "life blood" is drawn from our income as we struggle to maintain a decent standard of living, the more virtuous we should feel. This attitude is somehow more virtuous than the premise upon which this nation was founded and has thrived; the individual is in control and gets to determine how much we will allow our leaders to draw from us to support government.
The longer time moves on the more examples we see of leaders making moves to turn the traditional concept of the government being controlled and answering to the voters on its head. Two cases come to mind which have been in the news this week; Gov. Inslee's "Carbon Tax" initiative and Kshama Sawant's demand for the city of Seattle to impose a "head tax" on businesses.
This trend is dangerous in that it will ultimately lead to the destructiveness of the capitalistic economic model our nation used to become the world leader under. We eventually will become another among the many third world countries if this trend isn't stopped. Did the left in this country under Obama do that good of a job in slapping down my generation of Baby-Boomers back when the Tea Party - formed at the grassroots level across this great country - stood up and told him that we'd been taxed enough in 2011? Perhaps it was the mantra from the Republican Establishment which kept telling us that they needed to win the House, then the Senate, then the White House, in order to get the changes needed done. Oh yea, we know how that's turned out. We delivered for them, and they haven't.
So, are we continuing to press on and not give up, or, have we already given up and left our children and grandchildren to the horrors of self-destructive socialism?
With DACA going nowhere due to the Democrats unwillingness to negotiate on the President's demands for keeping the country safe from criminals, the media is all but ignoring reporting anything involving those among this group who are committing criminal acts against innocent citizens.
In this report by Ann Coulter, several cases involving "Dreamers" - which are "Nightmares" for their victims - are cited which the media have essentially ignored.Note: Should any future reader get the impression that I'm anti-immigrant, don't jump to conclusions too fast. My family sponsored a family to naturalize into the U.S. back in the '60s when I was a child. I have no animosity toward foreigners who come into the country legally.
It's my personal belief that when Pres. Obama enacted D.A.C.A. he did so with the realization that this move was another in the many that would accomplish one of two things: either bolster Hillary's plans after being elected to move the nations without borders agenda forward, or in the likelihood that Trump won, would create a situation we are now witnessing on a monthly basis whereby those who support the left's ideology - whether it's a sanctuary city, or state - would make it difficult to eradicate those criminals from the country; thereby putting law abiding citizens and children at risk.
Do you, like me, get the crystal clear impression that Leftists today no longer give a damn about anyone else in our country but those who agree with their way of looking at what this country should be in the future? Long gone are the days when political parties which differed in their path to a better America understood it was necessary to get along in a civil and decent social manner.
On Laura Ingraham's evening show, The Ingraham Angle, on FOX News last night, she introduced a new series she will be covering on the topic of suppression of free speech - one of our three first amendment rights - which the liberal/socialist leftists are exercising today. Here's the link to the opening segment explaining the problem of free speech suppression.
Here's the almost two minute announcement she shared at the end of her show last night. I share this because we've seen too many examples of this happening over the past several years, but it's only getting worse. In it, when she refers to Diamond & Silk's issue of being labeled by Facebook as "...an unsafe brand for the community." this is the clip to which she's referring. To me, it's obvious what was left out of this phrase of Facebook's. That was one word - "an unsafe brand for the liberal community." (Even this morning while watching the second day's congressional hearings on Facebook with Zuckerberg testifying, he was asked about these two women's case and flat out perpetuated the lie that Facebook had contacted them about the "mistake" it had made in censoring them.) As a result of this revelation, I permanently, rather than temporarily, terminated my Facebook account; like thousands, if not tens of thousands, have been doing.
Then, just this morning, I came across this local example where a professor is now being censored by the university administration. This is only one of many similar circumstances which are occurring across the nation on our college/university campuses.
The focus of who's in control has been shifted by the left to the youth; inexperienced, delicate snowflakes who's characters have been given a weapon which is a very insidious and subtle bludgeon by which leftist ideology is allowed to dominate over traditional common sense. This, in my view, is the greatest tragedy of today's cultural climate.
And then... there's the new bill just introduced in the California state assembly. Wrap you head in duct tape first before reading this.
Update: On 4/19 Bill O'Reilly wrote this article about this issue, describing it as Stalinist.
This morning's ShiftWA report posted this teaser:
Finne with the Washington Policy Center writes: “The powerful union has
filed
another lawsuit against charter school families, arguing that the
voter-approved and publicly-funded schools shouldn’t count as real
public
schools. Union executives are angry because teachers at charter schools
are the only public school teachers who do not have to pay them monthly
union dues.”
There you have it! The last sentence by Finne is precisely accurate as to the reason why the WEA is attacking charter schools in WA. They are determine to maintain a monopoly on who educates - or should I say indoctrinates - the public's children/youth.
An excerpt from this article by Finne also hits the main nerve motivating the WEA to file lawsuit, after lawsuit:
The case is not about access to education – charter schools already
provide that – it’s about money and power. Union executives believe
allowing non-union schools threatens their budget, and they worry the research shows charters provide a high quality public education for less money.
I agree completely with this writer's points as to why this too should be thrown out. I know from experience as a retired teacher of public schools. They only took my dues, but never benefited, or defended, me when I needed them.
This post was overlooked, and originally written on March 23rd.
= = = = = = = = = =
Kokito barked for two hours in his carrier after a flight attendant demanded that the luggage the dog was in had to go in the overhead bin during the 3.5 hour United Airlines flight. He quit barking before the plane landed in New York and when the carrier was taken out, they found the 10 month old puppy dead. And all the airline company is doing is apologizing!
So, because this happened on a private company public transport carrier service, the rules apparently don't apply to United the same way they would if a neighbor next door was secretly running a puppy farm in the backyard and was eventually found to have neglected them horribly, as we've heard about so many times in past news stories.
But for me, there's a more scary societal issue of concern, which is the conditioning of the public masses.. It was refreshing to hear Mark Stein on Tucker Carlson's show Thursday speak to this deeper, more disturbing issue. What do I mean? Consider this point. The post 9/11 air travel industry has changed so much that the traveling public has been forced to take off their shoes (which has since been dropped), empty their pockets, put their carry-on luggage through a scanner while TSA agents - some of which may, or may not, have a high school diploma - stoically look at you as if they suspect you are the next terrorist about to down the plane you're about to board.
The conditioning has gone even further with the advent of cell phones in that, when a situation of serious consequence is occurring, people get out their cell phone to either record the event in audio, or video, as though they're going to be the next instant millionaire who sold their recording to the highest bidder media offer, rather than acting with any compassion or character to intervene in the situation themselves!
Why is this so? Several factors, I believe, play into this modern phenomenon. One, the social norm nowadays, to me, seems to be that one does not intrude, or get into anyone else's business with perfect strangers. But more importantly, two, the conditioning which has now gone on for nearly twenty years since 9/11 has been a subliminal message to the public which makes them afraid to do anything; especially on an airline.
It wasn't but last year that an Asian man was physically removed by police from an airplane because he was not happy with the arrangement of his seating assignment. The media has aided in covering such events which consequently send the subtle message of; act up on an airplane flight and you'll face the legal implications of federal laws which can run as much as $250,000 in fines thanks to the FAA and laws on the books in an effort deal with the terrorist threat. Yes, when applied to this problem, these are unfortunate, but necessary evils.
There's also another aspect to this "collective attitude" which, I feel, was popularized and has now been promoted by the media, of speaking out, or protesting, as a movement by the former President. Remember Ferguson, MO? Now, it's deja vu all over again. On the one month anniversary of the Parkland massacre, it was "the thing to do" for high school, middle-school/junior-high, and even elementary, to participate in a walkout to demonstrate concern about gun violence. Like that's going to solve it! Yes, I understand it gives people who feel helpless something to do, but it creates a mindset that gets youth to believe protesting and demonstrating is a rational, constructive way to affect real change for the better; it doesn't! I know, I lived through the violent protest era of the late '60s of the Vietnam War and Pres. Johnson.
However, the public in the process has slowly been neutered from doing anything as common sense as opening the overhead bin and removing the barking dog who's suffocating because they're afraid it will lead to unwanted problems that wouldn't have come about in years prior. Like JFK's assassi-nation in my youth, the 9/11 event was another watershed moment which was yet another one of those events where everyone - assuming they were old enough - will never forget where they were on that fateful September day.
I'll let this article speak completely for itself:
Exposed! Trump is ending HUGE Obama-era policy
by Frank Holmes, reporter
When Nicole Landers met with her daughter’s principal, she had only
one question: Why is my 11-year-old girl being groped everyday in class?
Although her daughter’s assailant had been reported several times, he had never been punished a single time.
But Landers was shocked when the principal told her to her face that
the groper would never get punished because, thanks to a controversial
Obama-era rule, the sexual offender “has rights” – more rights than her
little girl.
“I don’t understand how you can look at my daughter and tell me that
she should tolerate her body parts being touched by this other student,”
Landers said.
She can thank former President Barack Obama.
Under one of his controversial policies, the school district be
would disciplined – even lose all of its federal funding – if it
punishes violent students, drug dealers, or predators.
And even though Obama’s been out of office for 16 months now, his
policy is still getting poor children and their teachers groped,
sexually molested, and beaten up – and letting abusers get away without
even a slap on the wrist.
It started in 2010, when the Obama administration warned school
districts against suspending or calling the police on unruly students.
But it really kicked into high gear four years later, when the
Department of Education and the civil rights office wrote new guidelines
that resulted in schools keeping violent students in the classroom.
In the “Rethinking Discipline”
memo, Obama applied a doctrine called “disparate impact”: If school
districts suspend too many minority students, Obama would prosecute them
for “unlawful racial discrimination in school discipline” – even if
it’s an overwhelming minority school district. [Emphasis mine]
Instead of protecting students who want to learn from being the
victims of gangs or street thugs, Obama told schools to use “positive
behavioral intervention supports” (PBIS).
Give violent teenagers nice talks in the office! Make them know
they’re loved! Just don’t suspend them or call the cops to stop their
rampages.
The school districts got the message, and young kids – especially
minority children from poor neighborhoods – started paying the price.
“Students and staff are physically, verbally, emotionally, and
mentally, sexually abused every single day in the building,” Kerstin
Westcott told the Green Bay Area school board.
The Obama administration cracked down on Oklahoma City schools and
forced them to tell teachers not to refer a student for discipline
“unless there was blood.”
But by the time there’s blood, it’s too late. New York City’s
far-left mayor, Bill deBlasio, passed an easy-going policy for the Big
Apple’s schools – and it got a student stabbed and killed during his history class.
It was the first murder in the city’s public schools in 20 years, and
the number of robberies and arsons inside the city’s schools exploded.
“New state Education Department data reveal there were more rapes and other sex crimes at NYC public schools during the 2017-2018 school year than any year since 2007,” Paul Sperry reported in the New York Post.
But the school only reported 10 suspensions that year, so – as far as Obama is concerned – mission accomplished.
Democrats defend this soft-discipline policy by saying it’s designed
to fight “racism” – but minority students and veteran teachers say,
“That’s bull.”
Gary Favors, a black teacher in Cincinnati also said that black students are “not being discriminated against” in his classroom. The only thing he punishes is their “behavior.” [Emphasis mine]
It’s a problem from coast-to-coast. Teacher surveys say the change
isn’t working, from California to Tampa Bay, from Indianapolis to
Denver, and everywhere in between.
One teacher revealed that violent students were given so much freedom in Milwaukee’s public schools that teachers were “offering me marijuana to help me cope with the job.”
And parents agree. “These policies are highly dangerous,” Landers told Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “They are turning our schools into war zones.”
But a year after Obama left office, the feds still have more than 300 school districts under investigation for violating his dangerous rules.
Finally, the Trump administration decided that the Parkland shooting
was the final straw. They are thinking seriously about pulling the plug
on this Obama policy and restoring sanity in school.
Sources say that DeVos is considering repealing the rule this year,
but the Trump administration doesn’t want to go halfway on this.
President Donald Trump wants to pull this policy up by the roots and salt the earth afterwards.
The administration plans to write a letter repealing “disparate
impact,” letting schools punish anybody guilty of violence or sexual
abuse, and protecting poor and minority children once-and-for-all, the New York Post reports.
It’s just waiting to get the wording air-tight, to survive the legal challenge that the ACLU has already threatened.
Students and parents everywhere – but especially in schools riddled
with poverty and crime – should give thanks that Trump is about to make
schools safe again.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News.
He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks
about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”
The insanity of blaming inanimate objects for social/cultural dysfunction and conflict today has just reached a whole new level. Now, with the mayor of London just announcing that anyone caught on the streets by police with a knife on their person will be prosecuted for carrying a weapon. This is due to the out of control stabbing problem which has occurred there in the last few months.
So, I recommend that you start practicing having a "talking to" with your Swiss Army knife you keep in that little pocket above the big pocket on your right side of your denim jeans for cutting box string, or using that little pair of scissors that you trim that hang nail with, because that - in London at least for now - is considered a murder weapon! (Haven't we been arguing this point before? Oh well, who's listening anyway?)
What's next? That baseball bat you're carrying to the game at school you've organized for a game? How about those fists you can make when you curl your fingers tight? The words you use to insult, or cause emotional harm to someone with? I mean... where does this stop? Over time, it never will.
Don't ask me if the reason why the stabbings in London is not because of the knives, but the people who wield them and their personal ideologies which may motivate them to do that, because that might offend those knife wielding individuals... and we wouldn't want to do that, now would we? But, of course, it makes perfect sense to impose a new restriction that only the law abiding Brit would obey, while the criminal - a.k.a. unlawful person - is going to laugh and think to themselves, "Why, thank you mayor, you've just made my plans to knife another person so much less dangerous for me now that I know most people on the street will be defenseless even more so now."
As before the knife restriction, they'll hit, then quickly slip away into the crowd while everyone else grabs their cell phone, turns on their video camera and entertains dreams of being the next viral star on YouTube or some other less restrictive social network provider, or sells their gruesome footage of the blood and gore to the local news outlet and makes their fortune.
Here's Brittany Hughes on MRCTV with her version of this news.
