Wow, Am I Ever in Trouble....

Wow, am I ever in trouble…. 

It seems that lately my life has been getting more complicated, and I want to thank those of you who are brave enough to still associate with me regardless of what I have become.

The following is a recap of my current identity:

I was born white, which makes me a racist; I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which makes me a fascist; I am heterosexual, which makes me a homophobe; I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business; I am a Christian, which makes me an infidel; I am older than 60 which makes me a useless old person; I think and I reason, therefore, I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which makes me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, which makes me a xenophobe; I value my safety and that of my family, therefore, I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which makes me anti-social; I, and my friends, acquired a good education without student loans and no debt at graduation, which makes me some kind of odd underachiever; I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland by all citizens, which makes me a militarist.

Please help me come to terms with this, because I am not sure who I am anymore!

Newest problem – I'm not sure which bathroom I should use.

We Are Rapidly Approaching a Point...

I’m telling you as sure as I am sitting here writing this post that the day is coming when every American will lose his or her God-given right to make choices that they believe are in the best interest of their well-being, safety measures, possessions and sources of income. Is it not already happening? I believe, even now, it is taking place.

Can you not feel the tension rising?  Are we not losing the right to follow our own consciences and common sense in determining our own destinies? It appears to me, that politicians, who represent the government apparently knows what’s best for you and me – and that includes inexplicable, unaccountable judges and perplexing decisions. Have we not already seen florists, bakers, caterers, photographers, videographers and others told they must accept clientele and jobs that violate their own sense of religious freedom?

Is there no end to this tyranny? Where does this end? Is all “discrimination” bad? The word simply means “an act or instance of discriminating or making a distinction.” Is it wrong for people to make dissimilarities? Have we lost our individual right to choose what we think is right and what is wrong? If so, who is wise enough to make our collective decisions for everyone?

We are rapidly approaching a point at which anti-discrimination mania or lunacy if you will, becomes tyranny. Someone has to make decisions about right and wrong. That’s ultimately what laws are all about. But, we are making so many, and, in the process, micro-managing the lives of Americans to such an extent, that individual conscience and choice is falling by the wayside. Do you suppose it’s a consequence of people becoming too easily offended? So why can’t people just make choices that conform with their own life choices? Why do they insist on seeing themselves as victims of “discrimination” only because business people set some common-sense standards in what they determine to be their own best interest? Why must people seek redress by claiming discrimination?

Everyone acknowledges today that racial discrimination in hiring is wrong. It’s arbitrary and immoral. Is it really progress to equate every lifestyle with race? Is it wise? Doesn’t it diminish what people have been forced to endure in terms of racial prejudice?

The Gender Unicorn is Coming

It is coming. No! It has arrived. It being the revolutionary, anti-values sensual revolution. Just last week, the Charlotte Mecklenburg (CMS), North Carolina School Board acted on Obama’s high-pressured, open bathroom initiative by taking it to a broad new level. Now, in addition to gender neutral bathrooms, CMS has embraced gender neutral lockers and showers. To assist in the reprogramming or brainwashing of CMS students, it has introduced “The Gender Unicorn.” This cartoon like character is the Charlotte school system’s new teacher’s assistant. He’s, or is it she’s, or it, is going to help our children explore and discover who they “go to bed as,” and who they like to “go to bed with.” Yet this creation of a secular educrat’s aberrant mind is geared to seize the imagination of our progenies and inculcate –and even coerce – them in partaking in the sexual transformation. Even the confusing gender symbol is placed over its private area! Is this not nonsense? Is this not sanctioned degeneracy?

And it only goes downhill. Because the purple unicorn was accompanied by an entire CMS Training presentation, where parent’s rights, teacher’s classroom gender references and even school activities have been completely redefined. If the reader doubts what I state, I suggest they research it on social media. I will focus on but a few CMS gender neutral values adopted by the mentioned school system.

1) Parental involvement dependent on student’s permission: “Involvement of parents in the plan is determined in working with the student, considering the student’s age and health, wellbeing and safety concerns” (Page 34).

2) Students can choose their bathrooms and changing facilities: “Students must have access to the restroom/changing facilities that correspond to their gender identity” (Page 42).

3) CMS will remove some gender-based activities: “CMS will evaluate all gender-based activities; maintain only those that have clear and sound pedagogical purpose” (Page 46).

4) Students can choose their gender-based activities (intramural sports, dress codes, classes, ceremonies, photos, extracurricular activities, etc.). This includes choosing which gender they participate with during overnight field trips: “Students are permitted to participate in gender-based activities consistent with their gender identity” (Page 46).

5) Students shall not be referred to as “boys and girls” in classrooms, but “scholars” or “students”: “Avoid gender specific classroom management techniques” (Page 46).

It is hard for this North Carolina resident, Retired Army Officer and retired high school instructor to envision what America will look like in 2 or 3 decades – when good, decent, values loving, moral people fail to stand up, measure up and act now. When we fail to do things we can do, but choose not to, then when bad things happen, they happen because we chose to do nothing.

Is it not time that Americans of virtue, regardless of faith, seek the common good of our nation and start speaking out against nonsense like what CMS is advancing? Is it not time for professing Christians to start running for local offices – especially school boards – to protect our children and common-sense civility?

It becomes obvious to even me that those CMS members who voted in favor of the newly adopted guidelines are the same ones whom the Apostle Paul spoke of in Romans 1:22-23. “… their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals …” Do you not see the same heretical ethos pattern today?

It’s important to remember we are all created in God’s image – male and female. Though some truly struggle with gender confusion, for which there is abundant help and healing in Christ, we cannot exchange the image of God for four-footed animals like “The Gender Unicorn.” It’s disturbing we’ve fallen this far as a society. I close this post with an Abraham Lincoln bit of advice: “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

The "Don't Tread on Me" Conflict

Think about this for a moment, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, thinks the "Don't Tread on Me" flag/emblem is xenophobic. That's right, you heard me, the representation is racist. The iconic yellow/emblem has become the subject of an EEOC investigation. What brought this  EEOC investigation to the forefront was not a heinous act nor was it an act of overt racism. A Black government employee filed an official complaint against a coworker. who wore a hat depicting the flag's famous yellow color, snake emblem, and the words: "Don't Tread on Me."    

From what information I have been able to gather, an official complaint was filed by a Black coworker. The coworker claimed that the flag was offensive for two reasons. First, because the flag had been designed by a slave owner. And second, because the flag in his opinion, is an "historical indicator of white resentment against blacks, stemming largely from the Tea Party."

The symbol in question, the Gadsden Flag has been around for more than two centuries, since 1775. It was initially used in the Revolutionary War as a symbol of American independence. Since then, it’s been a potent symbol of freedom. Most recently, it has been used symbolically by the Tea Party movement—which also fought for freedom, and used a number of symbols from the American Revolution.

The complaint itself is void of allegations of any racist action/behavior perpetrated by the coworker—it lists only the clothing choice as evidence of offensive behavior. If the EEOC decides that the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag/emblem is “offensive” and “racist,” it would be banned in places of work across the country. Private employers who allow their employees to wear clothing depicting the flag would be subject to federal fines and legal corollaries.

Details, though vague would lead this writer to believe this is yet another instance of multiculturalism and political correctness being used to heretofore, subvert individual freedoms, all for the benefit of an individual who feels aggrieved. I actually liken this action by both EEOC and the distressed employee to stone throwing anarchists running amok. What's next? The Eagle as our National symbol or maybe our Founding Constitution. 

Dignity in Work and Despair in Welfare

Is not the welfare/entitlement state of mind spiraling out of control in America? Is anyone, lifting a finger of resistance to counter this state of mind way of thinking? The cost of welfare is now well over $1 trillion a year. From what I am able to glean from public information sources, Food Stamps are so ubiquitous or pervasive that they have, for all practical purposes become the new standard currency in many urban cities in America.

Has not the current administration and one presidential nominee tacitly implied that we as a nation are in the midst of a so-called recovery? Yet, facts reveal that 45 million Americans depend on taxpayers to put food in their cupboards. Is not roughly 5 million more than when President Barack Obama took office? Has not Medicaid rolls increased by more than 10 million? Has not Obama, openly boasted about how many people he's moved into the program. To his credit or in spite of him, the number of unemployment insurance beneficiaries has fallen, and that’s a good thing. But then again, the number of Americans collecting disability insurance has continued to climb. Yes, indeed, this is some recovery. It is apparent, no one wants to admit that the ease of entry into the welfare state and the liberality of the benefits are big reasons labor force participation has nosedived to the point of collapsing. Why work?

As a result, the Census Bureau tells us that most families that are in poverty have no one working. Poverty is still widespread in America not because wages are too low but because fewer poor people have a job. If there are no wages earned at all, it is impossible to get out of the poverty trap. This is the sad part of this narrative.

Democrats in Congress have vociferously opposed putting even minor revisions back into work-for-welfare requirements. Even modest workfare requirements are denounced as anti-poor. So even a proposed federal law mandating work for food stamp recipients who are non-disabled adults without children gets shot down.

We know that changing welfare laws can have a positive impact on getting recipients back into the workforce and off welfare. In North Carolina (my state of residence) and Maine, when unemployment benefits were reduced and the number of weeks of benefits was limited, entry into the workforce increased.

So why aren't Republicans pushing workfare for all federal welfare recipients? Some are afraid that they would be looked at as insensitive or even pitiless. But getting people off welfare and into a productive job is not just a way to reduce costs but also a demonstrated way to restore broken and dispirited lives and move people into the mainstream. There is dignity in work. There is despair in welfare. After three generations of the failed entitlement state, has not welfare done enough harm to the very people it was supposed to help?

 

Here's Why I and People Like Me...

I don't know who wrote this, but it is an interesting point of view!  I took some liberties with the original in order to personalize it. I also believe this is why Trump, if he can keep his mouth in check, has a large enough following to possibly become America’s next president.

If you really want to know how the majority of people feel? And this applies to both Democrats and Republicans, read the paragraph below, it says it all. 

“You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately… You call the city, four different exterminators but nobody could handle the job… But there is this one guy and he guarantees you to get rid of them, so you hire him. You don't care if the guy smells, you don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has plumber's crack...you simply want those raccoons gone!  You want your problem fixed!  He's the guy. He's the best. Period.”

Now for the liberties: Here’s why I and others like me want Trump. Yes, he's a bit of an ass. Yes, he's an egomaniac, but I and others like me don't care. The country is a mess because politicians on both sides of the isle are found lacking, as I have heard some millennials say: they suck. The Republican Party is two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere. I and people like me want it fixed. I and people like me don't care that Trump is crude. I and people like me don't care that he insults people. I and people like me don't care that he had in times past been friendly with Hillary. I and people like me don't care that he has changed positions. I and people like me are willing to overlook the fact that he has been married multiple times. I and people like me don't care that he fights with Megan Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell. I and people like me don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist. For that matter, are there many who do? 

This country is weak, bankrupt, and our enemies are making fun of us. We are being invaded by illegal's and Middle Eastern refugees. We are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Jose and Muhammed is a special group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; and we just want it fixed and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.  I and people like me are sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, and sick of illegal immigrants. We just want this thing fixed. Trump may not be a saint, but doesn't have lobbyist money holding him, he doesn't have political correctness restraining him, what I and people like me know is that he has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he's also not a cowardly politician. And he says he'll fix it. And I and people like me believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.

Furthermore, I and people like me don’t care if the guy has bad hair. We don’t care if his wife did a pin up pose that was leaked. We just want "those raccoons gone."

Do People Really Think...

Do people really think that there is a far-reaching epidemic of Law Enforcement Officers killing blacks in America? Do people really think transgender people are the victims of widespread acts of murder Do people really think Planned Parenthood is the only healthcare option for women? We would know if we just bothered to do our own research. We could sidestep much of the emotional propaganda and get to the heart of today’s issues if people chose to distinguish between opinion, hearsay and objectivity.

For instance, more black babies are aborted in NYC than born alive. In “2014, there were 1,100 aborted for every 1,000 born alive. Among whites, 228 were aborted for every 1,000 born alive. Among Hispanics, 557 were aborted for every 1,000 born alive.” The black community is the only demographic in NYC where there are more deaths than births, yet no “social justice warriors” are talking about this systemic racism. No one is talking about innocent black lives being ravaged by the abortion industry. There are few marches, less demonstrations and no die-ins. Activism says women have no health options but Planned Parenthood. Facts say otherwise. See “GetYourCare.org” and you will find many better taxpayer-funded comprehensive options.

Have you, the reader, not heard the rhetoric being bandied about by the progressive left that vulnerable communities are targets of the more powerful? Is there any group more vulnerable and less powerful than the unborn? But our society has shown that nonsensical violence is okay if we only attire it in egalitarian euphemisms so we can conceal the dismembered trafficked aborted body parts, right Hillary? Reasonably stated Barack?

Nowhere is victimhood more parroted than in the pro-abortion LGBT activist community. In the debate about binary biological gender, our nation is enmeshed in a deceptive debate about access to bathrooms. Does not everyone have access to bathrooms?  LGBT organizations promote the myth that there is an epidemic of homicides of "transgenders", blaming it on “hate”. All homicides are heartbreaking, but we're talking about 11 people in one year according to FBI stats from 2015. Just like pro-abortion militants, it's never about the truth. It's about advancing an agenda, no matter the lie.