Mortimer's Ruminations

Mexico had a greater impact on our election than Russia, yet no one is talking about the illegal aliens that voted!

Welfare should be as hard to get as veteran benefits.

Hilarious is when a bunch of people sucking off government handouts demand to see anyone's tax returns!

If you rob a bank in a sanctuary city, is it still illegal, or is it just an undocumented withdrawal?

They want to ban differing opinions they don't agree with and riot when they don't get their way, and they're calling me the intolerant one?

What's the difference between an illegal immigrant and E.T.? E.T. learned english and wanted to go home.

Why does Bernie Sanders tell us that, "Cutting carbon pollution emissions by just 32% by 2030 would prevent 3,600 premature deaths each year." when cutting abortions in the U.S. by 32% would save over 200,000 premature deaths each year?

Did you know that a large group of baboons is called a congress? Now that explains a lot, now doesn't it?

I support helping the needy. I oppose funding the lazy!

If security at our airports is important enough to wand scan a six year old, or a Nun in her habit, then shouldn't it be important at our borders too?

Homeless go without eating, elderly go without medicines, mentally ill go without treatment. Our troops go without proper equipment to fight in war, and veterans go without the benefits they were promised. Yet our nation donates billions in aide to other countries and does nothing to deal with excessive immigration before helping our own first! Doesn't make much sense, does it?

If you live in a country where you can get arrested for fishing without a license, but not for entering that same country illegally... it's safe to say that country is run by idiots.

Leftists claim that 11 million illegals can help our economy. If that's true, why didn't they help their own economy?

My ancestors were not the same as today's immigrants: 1) They came into the country legally. 2) They didn't cost the federal government a dime. 3) They didn't require the country adjust to them. 4) They didn't burn the American flag. 5) They willingly learned the language of the country; english!

After watching videos of Antifa attacking peaceful assemblies of people in the streets and seeing them wearing hoods and masks over their faces, I tend to wonder... are they afraid their parents will ground them if they're seen on television by them.

 A liberal is someone who wants... no, demands, that you think just as they do about everything, while a conservative is someone who just wants you to think.

Democrats refuse to fund a border wall to keep illegals out, but they expect you to fund sanctuary cities to keep them in.

If the average income in America is roughly $42,000 and Congress has 382 millionaires who haven't passed a jobs bill, but keep giving themselves tax cuts and raises, do you think they really care about us?

Remember when politics used to attract the brightest and most intelligent; Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Reagan? What the hell happened? We now have Warren, Schumer, Sanders and Pelosi!

Disolving American Values

As a mid-sixties Christian male I grew up during my childhood experiencing the two sided coin of a post war nation that was recovering from near annihilation after defeating the Nazis and Japanese Empires. While many aspects of life in that time were positive, wholesome and structured, they are now viewed now as nostalgic. However, there was also the other side. The unpleasant reality - which on the west coast at the time was almost unknown - of the longstanding injustices of the descendants of former slaves in the south. 

Being a child, I didn't understand what was going on in the news my parents watched. They correctly understood the need to insulate me from the hatred expressed by those in the south who made up the established order of things in that region of the country from the results of Jim Crow laws.

But during that period, the majority of families had two parents raising children, as it was the norm of the day and the welfare state was only just beginning. Neighbors knew each other and acted as a child's parent when they were caught doing something that didn't fit the accepted social norms of the day. Now, 50 years later, neighbors barely speak to one another, and if children are seen doing something the window on the house is shut and nothing is said to them; fearful that it will only invite undesired consequences.

What has changed? Why are we now a nation isolated in our own homes? Where did our nation go off the tracks? How is it that crime has obviously taken control of so many cities? Where has this mentality that our youth should be protected from ideas which offend them come from? Why are those youth void of any critical thinking? How is it that the youth today view our history with skepticism and disgust? What happened to those values which kept our culture knit together as proud Americans?

Today's thinking seems to be one couched in resentment and envy. If anyone's living in a nice house with a nice, well maintained neighborhood, it was acquired through some form of privilege due to their Western European descent (being white). I know this thinking to be full of holes for the following reasons. My family was poor as I grew up to the point of living off of the zucchini we'd planted in our garden at times. My dad lost his job and had to start his own business after our family relocated to another part of the state. My mom remained at home to raise us four boys; me being the youngest. We only rented our house and never owned one because we couldn't afford it.

Values of hard work and self-reliance were the model we had held up before us, and we applied them to our young adult lives. Three of the four of us got entry level jobs which taught us lessons about the work place. Three of the four siblings went to college as varying stages of our lives. Three of the four of us enlisted in the military despite the socially dominant attitude of the day about the Vietnam War. Three of the four of us went on to buy a house in the area of the country we chose to live and raise our own families. But none of us viewed the government as a means by which we would lift ourselves up economically. We understood that it was up to our own initiative to make a success of our lives; not someone else. Or, that it was the fault of someone else that we didn't have the color TV that our neighbor down the street or across town had.

As a result of these values and experiences I graduated from college while married. My father was concerned that I wouldn't finish because of my being married, but we simply exercised discipline and set our priorities, one at a time. Eventually, after both of us had finished our degrees and started our family, we bought a house and worked together to raise our daughters. There were many sacrifices along the way, but it was well worth it. They are now productive, ambitious young women who have taken on the same values as their parents. Eventually, both of us worked at and received out masters degrees at the encouragement of our public school district. I was the only sibling among my brothers to achieve this level of education. Do share this to brag? No, my point is that we set goals and priorities, stuck to them, and persisted; something many younger kids today tend to lack in values.

So, how is it that we have a prevailing attitude that is the opposite today of 50 years ago? How did we get here? Am I supposed to feel guilty because someone else accuses me of owning a house that's paid off as being someone of "white privilege"? I worked my butt off for many years, had to forego many things which would have been nice to have so they my children could have opportunities I didn't, and I'm supposed to feel privileged? Bullshit!!!

My theory? Society in the U.S. has been affluent for so long and several generations have never experienced real hardship - no wars that actually threatened our existence, no famines, no massive plagues, or epidemics which seriously posed a danger to our lifestyle, that we've become complacent and apathetic. The younger generations have become self-centered, narcissistic and down right spoiled. Children of the upper - middle to upper classes growing up were coddled, and given everything they desired. Schools slowly dissolved the kind of discipline which was temporarily discomforting, but made its point on discipline about proper and improper behavior which has now evolved into political correctness to intimidate anyone who believes otherwise. This was done under the premise that such discipline was viewed as child abuse and parents feared being considered abusers. 

Slowly, but consistently, there was a shift in the rigor of the classroom. Homework as a part of the learning experience - at least at the elementary level - faded as teachers became increasingly under scrutiny for those few, like Mary Kay Laterno and the many who followed her in the news stories rocked the nation's trust.

The advent of technology and communication on a massive scale have allowed us to be exposed to the "darker" side of our culture through social media like Facebook and Twitter. I believe it is through this vehicle, and the movie industry's need to always push the envelope of what's taboo, that our younger generations have had their innocence stripped from them. Consider the fact that movie ratings were not used until the late 1970s. 

Now, if someone writes an article calling for a return to the values of the nostalgic past, like a two parent family, waiting to have children until after getting married, or even being color blind when dealing with those one meets or interacts with are now attacked and called "white supremacists" by their colleagues at colleges.

A boy, proud of his entrepreneurship, who offered to cut the White House lawn for President Trump, has liberal/leftists screaming like banshees that the President was guilty of child labor laws. For crying out loud, give me a break! Have these people nothing better to gripe about? How pathetic!

Youth, like Antifa, are claiming to be fighting fascists by using violence as a justified means to stop them because someone has an opposing view to theirs. Police are now viewed by them as just a puppet of the establishment cronies who only want to suppress their freedoms; never mind they know absolutely nothing about the need to keep the peace, or law and order.

So many things are going on now - blacks demanding segregated classes, gays imposing their views on businesses and using the courts to punish them, BLM and the SPLC labeling people as racist or fascist - that indicate the social climate is headed for a civil war. All I can do is wonder just how much longer it will be before it breaks out.

This Is Why Free Speech Is So Critical!

Finally, Ben Shapiro was able to speak at U.C. Berkeley's campus today and the ability to debate in a civil, reasoning fashion, without the usual shouting, chanting and cat calls, was exercised. This was especially so when a student asked Shapiro how a first trimester fetus could be considered morally valuable.

The premise of this question reveals the thought process of the liberal mind and why they only consider the fetus as a mass of tissue. Their sense of morality is based on relative morality; if they feel it's not valuable because it's just a "pre-human", then there's nothing wrong with getting rid of it because it's just an inconvenience to them.

I urge you to visit this link and not only read, but watch the video at the bottom of the page; you get a clearer sense of the points being made in response by Shapiro when viewing it, over just reading it, which is why video with sound and timing and inflection, and tone in their speaking engages all factors in speech as opposed to the reader interjecting their own.

Why Democrats Are Scared To Death About Voter Fraud Investigation

As you've watched the Democrats respond to the various actions taken by the new administration, have you noticed what they always do? Use labels that attempt to cast doubt, credibility, validity, or believe ability on the topic. In this case it's the president's commission on voter fraud.

Liberals inevitably cast dispersions on anything they know might possibly expose their efforts to manipulate the outcome which will benefit them. That's just their make up. They've always espoused the mantra, "By any means necessary." which was a key tenant of their role model; Saul Alinsky. Precisely what Democrats have in common with Muslims... lie to their face in order to achieve your end goal; destroying your enemy.

Check out this article by Tammy Bruce, a lesbian liberal who is a rare creature among her fellow leftists in that she doesn't spout the narrative. Instead, she tells it like it is; honestly and without spin.

U.S.A. Chant Suppressed At Folsom H.S.?

One can't help but wonder why public schools like this one, or anywhere else in the country, would tell their students, "This shouldn't be chanted as it might offend someone." Isn't it funded by public taxes? Doesn't the right to speak freely - one of the first five rights in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights - apply to students in our own country?

No, the trending mindset, lead by the leftists dominant in the profession - the NEA on down to the local FEA (Folsom E. A.) - is more important than any right by that document written by those old slave owners in 1789 who wore wigs of white hair. Their illegals must be given a "safe space" and promote the notion of a country without borders! Why? Because doing so makes the leftist feel superior and compassionate.

There's got to be a point at which we stand up and decide we're willing to say, "Enough is enough!" and take whatever consequences come from resisting this soft tyranny! If any parents who see this action for what it really is, they'll understand the need to run for a position on the school district's board. It was Thomas Jefferson who said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance!" (Yep, one of those white wig wearers.)

I just pray we don't wake up one day in the future and discover we've let it die.

And Now... A Moment With Sowell

End of today's lesson.

I Too Have No Self-Esteem!

I challenge anyone to watch this video, carefully think about what Matt Walsh says about this topic, and argue convincingly that he's full of "#&it". Most students are being sold a fallacy today by well-meaning teachers.

I agree 100% with what Matt Walsh explains here. Why? Because not only does it make inarguable sense to anyone with half a brain, but I experienced the very things he points out as examples; math and athletics to be precise.

I didn't do well with math as a student, but over time and persistence, I eventually improved by putting effort into learning it better than I had when I was younger. I may not have been the best distance runner in the state I went to high school in, but because I committed myself to more effort in my training, I eventually became a respectable marathoner; finishing 166th out of 4,000 in the Boston back in 1975 while in my early 20s and the second fastest time(2:33:25) in the nation for NAIA Div. III colleges in 1978 in my mid-20s, which earned my track team 8 points at the national meet. 

Accomplishing these things, along with getting my bachelors, and eventually a masters degree in education, I improved my self-worth and was more able to give my students what they needed in my classes; attention, compassion, interest in them as an individual, and passing on values of applying one's talents and strengths to them. 

After all, isn't this what being a teacher's all about?