Raising up our Sons

I recently read a speech that had been prepared and presented by Heather MacDonald, the fearless author and commentator on such topics as crime (“The War on Cops”) and equality (“The Diversity Delusion”).  She attributed the decline of education in America to the over feminized school systems in which teachers, administrators, librarians, and union leaders are predominantly female and overwhelmingly progressive.

This should not be a political, racial, gender, religious or cultural issue.  But it’s a fair question to ask what students are learning in school about fatherhood, the role of parents and the primacy of the family as the unit in which kids are ideally raised.  And why the men seemingly most welcomed into the public school buildings are Drag Queens!!! 

Schools celebrate the histories of black people, Hispanics, and women; honor the LGBTQ+ lifestyle; promote the New Green Deal; and aggressively teach racial and gender curricula.  When discussing history, it is usually in a negative way.

Here’s a modest proposal.  Let’s create opportunities for more men to visit schools. Encourage more males to enter the teaching profession.  Fathers, cops, firefighters, active military, veterans, businessmen, karate instructors, and judges, to talk with students about fatherhood, the family, liberty, the Constitution, personal responsibility, self-defense, capitalism, the rule of law, hard work, limited government etc. 

In the interest of diversity, equity and inclusion should not such topics and speakers be a welcomed part of a balanced education in America?

                                School Choice.  Yours’s or Theirs’s

I am such a “Nay Sayer.”  I am always hoping to write more positive blogs. Good things are happening all around me but at the same time I can’t help but compare my past experiences with my observations of society today.

Although I didn’t teach for long……only three years………I wasn’t expected to work after I had children.  However, teaching has been in my blood……genetics?  The women in my family were teachers.  I always was involved with my kid’s education.  I have two children who are involved with the educational system and have taught or in the school system itself. Most of you are parents who have raised their children or are doing so now.

Mind you, this is only a general observation.  Those of you who are in the teaching profession also have opinions.  Most of the teachers I know are dedicated to giving their students the best knowledge to function in our world but unfortunately, these teachers are few and far between.  I will note here that the pressure is on most teachers to join the NEA, National Education Association, and other teacher’s unions.  Originally these unions were to provide protection of the teachers from exploitation and limited wages.  Now they function in a different role.

I recently read an article entitled, “The Schools are on Fire; Time to Get the Children Out”.  I love the analogy of the burning school building.  Would you let your children stay ‘trapped inside” or would you rush to the school site and pull them out yourself..   not even relying on others?

I feel this expresses what is happening in our public schools today.  The “Educrats” have taken over the school system and parents are outraged.  The socialist agenda is being pushed into the school room.  The teachers are no longer teaching the core subjects but the whole system is being infused with an ideological brainwashing agenda that eagerly welcomes your own children for that purpose.

The gay, abortion, transgender, woke agenda led me to question the whole educational system.  This system is being corrupted by  unions who feed off of the teachers themselves who are “urged” to join these unions. 

The writer of the above article is correct when he states: “For decades conservatives have squandered millions of dollars on public school reform. For almost two years, conservatives have been showing up at school board meetings to complain.  Countless great teachers have tried everything to protect their students.  And yet, nothing seems to work.

He goes on to say, “Government schools aren’t broken, rather they are working very well as their intended purpose: fundamentally transforming America by dumbing down, indoctrinating, secularizing, collectivizing, and weaponizing future generations.” 

It’s time to stop playing a rigged game on the education establishment’s battlefield using its rules.  American parents should flee the system and build parallel institutions. Our country and liberty depend on it!

It’s your taxes and mine that are paying for this insanity.  We need to support institutions that are not under control of the governament or best yet homeschool our children. Not always possible.

What are your thoughts?

                            Worst of Times and Best of Times

Women simply don’t like to reveal their age.  At least I don’t, but now in my “golden” years I pause to reflect on my life during the Great Depression of the 30s.  I say this because the current events of the past few years give me a desire to remember what our life was life back “then.”

Yes, it could be called the Worst of Times.  People were throwing themselves out of windows when the stock market crashed.  Money wasn’t available from a window in the bank.  The doors of banks were closed and no place to get cash for your next trip to the market. 

My father was one of the lucky ones.  He had a job.  It only paid $30.00 a week but we considered ourselves fortunate.  He could pick up cheap meat and veggies from the A and P grocery…… (Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co).  They had no freezers and were closed on weekends.  It was a good time to buy food although we didn’t have large refrigerators that held much. 

Hobos would come knocking on our back door wanting to work for a meal.  My mother never turned them away and aways prepared a meal.  We lived in a small duplex and really didn’t have much for them to do, but they expected to work for their food and Mother would find small jobs around the house.  No one expected handouts.  There was a sense of pride in working for what you received. 

 The Works Progress Administration initiated by President Roosevelt, better known as the WPA, put men to work on bridges and roads.  However, hardships continued through the ‘30s and the beginning of the ‘40s. 

I remember hearing Roosevelt telling his radio audience about the horrific attack at Pearl Harbor.   We were shocked at this assault on our country.  Now there was a war on two fronts, Europe and Asia.    But America was united. 

Patriotism was greater than at any time that I can recall. Women filled in the workforce; kids collected scrap metal and paper; we bought saving stamps from our teacher, war bonds etc.  We were limited on certain foods. We used food stamps to buy sugar and there were no bananas.  People grew their own veggies from their Victory Gardens.  Cookbooks came out, using a limited number of ingredients.  Everyone was involved in the war effort. 

But it also was the Best of Times.  My childhood and into my teenage years were good times for our generation.  We didn’t have our parent’s worries.  We had little and most likely would be considered poor today; however, many of my childhood friends were in the same boat.  We had a tightly knit family, which sadly isn’t seen too often these days.  There were pickup games on Saturdays, following strict but good learning at school.  I could go out and play with friends and never worry about being attacked.  We played jacks and kick the can and caught fireflies when it turned dark. 

Our parents never worried about what the teacher was telling us at school.  We weren’t being indoctrinated with Wokeism or Cancel Culture.   We said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning with hands on our hearts.  The intercom played the Star Bangled Banner and there was pride of living in America. 

It’s difficult to give advice to the present generation.  Through no fault of their own, they have been exposed from an early age to entitlements, comfort zones, drugs, foul language, transgenderism and lack of respect for our great country and authority.

I pray that a change is coming. I pray that this generation can overcome the obstacles which we are facing in today’s world.  Is it  just wishful thinking that we can ever return to having  pride in our country?  Is making “America Great Again” just a dream? 

                                                    Are You Just Compost?

What a strange suggestion.

I read this article in the last issue of Epoch Times written by Wesley Smith.  I wanted to share with you, my readers.  This article was so amazing to me that I felt you might be interested also.

I believe that each of us was made in God’s image.  A word coming from the Hebrew which means……”A shadow of”.  In other words, God put within us something special that provides us both spirit and a soul as well as giving us a human body.  Therefore that body He gave us is special…….both at birth and at death.  

Starting in 2027, California will allow composting of the dead.  Known officially as “natural organic reduction (NOR), this novel final disposition process transforms the deceased body into soil to spread on gardens or in which to plant flowers or a tree. 

Liquefication is another increasingly popular means of body disposal.  The human body is liquefied by alkaline hydrolysis which makes a liquid of the soft tissue which is used a fertilizer. The bones are crushed into powder.  This is now legal in 21 states and will some be legal in more. 

So, what about all those martyrs that were burned at the stake?  People who never received a body burial.  Can’t God remake them with a heavenly body?

Yes, of course. But these martyrs did not choose to be sacrificed.  It’s a completely different issue.  We are to honor the dead, not desecrate their bodies or to devalue the human body that God gave us. 

I know that many people want to be cremated.  Who am I to judge, although that too is decision made by many instead of a burial. 

Jewish people honor the dead.  They honor the body that once housed their family or friends.  Death is a ceremony which allows the family to grieve as well as remember the life that once inhabited that body.

 Human dignity matters even after we die.  As an ultimate example, look at how important the pomp and ceremony of Queen Elizabeth ll’s funeral were to millions of people around the world.  Imagine the different sense that would have been conveyed if her remains had merely been poured into the London’s water system!!

There is something ultimately diminishing about grandpa in a flowerpot.  It seems to me that these methods to unceremoniously eradicate the body convey a powerful symbolic message that we’re essentially nothing more the carbon atoms gathered temporarily in an animated form…….!!

All this recalls a movie called “Solent Green” made in 1973.  Over crowding in New York brought shortages in food and space.  Without anyone knowing, they were turning dead bodies into food called Solent Green.  Now, it doesn’t seem so farfetched. 

I might be old fashioned, but if our remains come to be perceived as merely so much waste to be disposed of as quickly and efficiently as possible and if we really come to see ourselves as unworthy of anything greater than anonymous death, we’ll be tempted in life, to treat one another accordingly! 

                                 You are worth more than compost. 

                                 Forgiveness: Needed in Your Life!

The Jewish community will be celebrating the High Holy Days which end in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.  This is a special time when God will be forgiving and forgetting past mistakes………. but only if you have forgiven others.  That’s why being a Disciple and Believer of Jesus becomes so important to us.  Its forgiveness of our sins!

Forgiveness should be a natural for those of us who are Believers.  Its part of who we are and what we are to do.  Easy to say but so difficult. 

Someone has really hurt your feelings.  They have lied about you and said terrible things about you.  Some people owe you money.  They have never paid you back…….not one penny!  You have sisters or brothers who don’t want to keep in touch.  They neglected your parents and all their care depended on you.  You even had to pay the bills at the nursing home.

                                                  Forgiveness. 

Only the mercy and grace of God’s forgiveness through Jeshua (Jesus) frees us to forgive others.  The need for reconciliation is urgent and even more so in these days of conflict.

Reconciliation may seem out of reach to those who ignore the teachings of our Messiah and Lord.  “Do unto others as you want them to do to you.”  We all want forgiveness.  Not only to those whom we might have harmed, but we need to practice forgiveness toward those who have harmed us. 

God alone sees everything, has no memory problems, and is 100% accurate about all our wrongs.  We have no excuses before Him.  He knows our hearts as well as our outward performances.  We might say we forgive others and probably mean it but there is a “heart problem” which isn’t easily solved. 

Colossians 3:13 tells us. “Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you.  Remember the Lord forgave you, you must forgive others. “

Its important to confess our sins. But can you imagine having to answer to the Lord for each and every sin you ever committed?  Thankfully we don’t have to regurgitate all the gory details of our past.

 In fact, the ministry of reconciliation “is, that God was in Jesus, reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them and committed to us the word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:19)

This should not be a one time a year event.  We as Believers need to make this happen on a daily basis.  There will always be people who offend us.  That’s because we live in a fallen world. 

May God use our love and forgiveness to help reconcile many people to God and to one another, through the forgiveness of our Savior and Lord.

                        Its what needed in your life and mine!

                                                  Loving Your Body

Who is Chloe Cole?  Have you heard of her or read her story?  It has appeared in the more conversative newspapers and media. Her story starts out with the heading “Teen Recounts Horrifying Transition Surgery”.   Thankfully she realized the tragic delusion of transgenderism and wants to warn others. “I was failed by the system. I literally lost organs.”

When Chloe was 12 years old, she decided she was transgender. At 13, she came out to her parents. That same year, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone.  At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she realized she’d made a mistake — all by the time she was 16 years old!!

Now 17, Chloe is one of a growing cohort called “detransitioners” — those who seek to reverse a gender transition, often after realizing they actually do identify with their biological sex. Tragically, many will struggle for the rest of their lives with the irreversible medical consequences of a decision they made as minors.

“I can’t stay quiet,” said Chloe. “I need to do something about this and to share my own cautionary tale.”   

What is so sad, is that today many in the educational system are pushing and promoting this heresy to even younger children.  It should be called what it really is: child abuse. 

I am happy that Cole has the chutzpah to tell her story despite the threats she has received.  What a sick society we exist in today.  When warning others of harmful deviancy, you are maligned and harassed.  In her own assessment, Chloe said,  “Now that I’m completely disillusioned from all of it, Its’ really shocking that we’ve even gotten to this point.” 

Youth and children are clearly not mature enough to make such life-altering decisions.  Can somebody explain to me how changing your outside will change your inside?  If one does not like the way they were born, perhaps they should consider getting outside of yourself and become interested in the welfare of others.  Parents need to more proactive in what children are reading, listening, or hearing either from friends, the media or at school.  Easy to say but what a difficult job!! 

So how can we explain this terrifying, and frightening thing that is happening in our society?  When we have lost sight of how we are all created in God’s image and we accept the idea of evolving from lower life forms…..then, perhaps, we were given the wrong sex at birth!  However, God doesn’t make mistakes.  He didn’t use evolution in His grand designs.  Man figured that all out by himself!!

Communism and atheism go hand in hand, and we’re seeing its putrefying fruit.  G.K.  Chesterton, a well-known theologian described it well, saying, “When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in anything, and they believe in everything!  

Amen to that!!

                                               What are you worth?

It amazes me how quickly we humans….. worldwide…. have lost the value of human life.  More to the point……the value of humans yet unborn.  We discuss video games, broken homes, mental illness, and guns for mass shootings, but no one has added abortions to the mix. 

Think about it.  When you have basically taken human life away in such a cavalier manner for more than two generations, the message is that human life has no value or purpose.  We have lost our spiritual moorings.  Add this to the mix of vulnerable young minds, not accepting their born genetic identity.  Each of us are created with the proper chromosomes to be male or female and no given hormones  or surgery will change a thing.   

For the past 50 years we have turned into a society that knows if they get pregnant at an inconvenient time, they can just get rid of “it”.  There are no consequences except, perhaps, a lifetime of regret.  There are many people who have had abortions and have guilt the rest of their lives.

The abortion industry is now big business.  There must be money to be made.  It’s your taxes dollars paid out to those who provide these services whether you like it or not! 

Abortions are now called……birth control.  Lots of double speak here.  Family planning is another less offensive term.  Perhaps “freedom of choice”. These women did have freedom of choice when they had unprotected sex!!

Yes, there are many women who choose abortion because of circumstances in their lives that they deem would be harmful to the child or themselves.  But taking an unborn human life is never acceptable.  Am I being judgmental? 

Why isn’t adoption added to the mix.  Many childless couples must go to other countries to find a child because they are unable to adopt one in America.

Perhaps there is an underlying issue here. Just perhaps there it is more than just reproductive rights. Just perhaps, taking the unborn human is only part of the problem.

We are witnessing worldwide threats on how we are destroying our planet.  The Greenies are warning us that we only have a few more years before we will destroy our world and it will turn into a rotten mess.  We are doomed……..at least by the threats we have heard. 

Could it be that with fewer people (population control) that there will be a better chance for our survival?  Older people are now included by offering end of life drugs.  How much longer will there be an option of living pass 80? 

I might be an alarmist but I’m fearful.  I see danger ahead. 

God warned Israel when they offered their children to the pagan god, Moloch, they would lose their homeland.   What happened to all civilizations that practiced human sacrifice?    

God will not be mocked.  We have taken Him out of the equation.  We are given dominion over the earth to use it wisely and to maintain its beauty but not at the expense of taking human life.

What are you worth? 

                          The Disinformation Governance Board

George Orwell predicted this!  Despite the fact he lived a short life and died in 1954, he was able to write memorable books.  He was a man ahead of his time predicting (1) governments’ constant surveillance of the population (2) never-ending war (3) Language manipulation or “Newspeak” (4) The government will distract their real intent by dividing the population on various issues (me: racism, sexism,  abortion etc.)

 The newly created U.S. Disinformation Governance Board is a “Ministry of Truth” travesty plucked straight out of the pages of Orwell’s novel “1984.”  It almost gives one the impression that the Feds are following his writings to the letter.  It is shocking to realize how easily they can pull off the next string of restrictions and to impose controls over us. 

Sadly, many of George Orwell’s predictions have come true! We already suffer under a high-tech censorship of any contrarian views, replete with so called ‘fact-checkers” who suppress the truth of so many people and various “dangers” in our society.   Look at the numbers of people who have been deleted from Social Media….. President Trump, Mike Lindell etc. and anyone who speaks against the Establishment. 

Even Wikipedia has gotten into the act.  When looking up some political information I was confronted with truth twisting and eliminating truthful entries in its so -called “People’s Dictionary’ to support the mainstream propaganda efforts. By redefining words, as they do, people will soon enough forget that there was even another, more accurate definition of those words.  Government will tell you what is right or wrong, true or false. 

The Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) is only the latest assault against our liberties.  If the government can start telling us what we should think is ‘true” and what is “false” and then (picture this)……..criminal charges leading to fines, asset seizures, and even imprisonment, the last vintages of our Republic is gone.  

Just recently it was reported that the FBI entered into the home of a former lawyer for Trump at 4:00 AM…….taking his laptop and loads of files with information concerning the last election!  No warrant necessary…..no reading of his rights!  No knocking on the door or asking to see him………. merely breaking in as common thieves!!  All this authorized by the Government.  Or how about the Texas couple whose home was raided and the FBI put both the husband and wife in handcuffs for supposedly being a part of the group that entered the holy ground of the Capitol building on Jan 6^th.  Oh well, that’s OK.  It was the wrong couple!! 

For liberty to exist, there must be protection of individual liberties.  Without the absolute protection of individual human rights, people in democracies are only voting for their jailers. 

Whether the current administration pulls the plug on the GDB, a similar but renamed propaganda board or entity will re-appear.  It may have a different name with different faces, but it will appear again.  The Totalitarians will never stop their efforts to control us, completely and forever. 

As concerned citizens we must be prepared to counter these acts of “terrorism”.  We must continue to spread uncensored truth.  We have no choice.  Our backs are to the Wall.  There is no more room for retreat!

                                                Olympics and China

Have you been watching the Olympics?   These games have the lowest rating of any previous broadcast in recent years.  I wonder why?  I think Americans are fed up with China and their communist buddies across the world. 

The Olympics use to be about the spirit of the athletes and the country they represent.  The focus was on excellence…. being faster, highest and strongest in the world competition. Also there was the Olympian values of excellence, respect, and friendship that spoke of lifelong bonds forged in honest competition on level playing fields.  No longer.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is more about promoting the Chinese Communist agenda than about nurturing the athletes.  They stifle the games by policing the Olympians’ every move, all to impress on them that they all are under a cloud of suspicion where a misstep could lead to banishment from the Games or worse.

Didn’t I hear Nancy Pelosi warn the athletes to take care and not upset things with their behavior?  In other words……take care because we can’t bail you out!!

According to the Epoch Times, the Chinese government has access to the athletes’ sensitive historical data along with real time activities, such as the athletes’ voice audio and file transfers.  The app that supplies this information includes reporting any sensitive political information transmitted by the athletes.

The Chinese government is unabashedly frank in explaining the need for this surveillance since they know how many thousands are trying to escape the totalitarian life. They will always be evaluating the conduct of athletes.  “Any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations, are also subject to certain punishment.”    

Even if athletes perfectly censor themselves and take care to talk of nothing in any way controversial, they know that the government may decide to invent infractions or punish athletes or their countries, as an example for all the others as the consequences of stepping out of line. The walls have ears!!!

Even if the athletes who survive the surveillance, and who haven’t been taken off the playing field by China’s gaming rules, can then participate in their respective sports.  However, none of the athletes’ own countrymen will be sitting in the stands, waving their national flags to spur them on.  The spectators in the stands will all be handpicked by the Chinese Communist Party –a final testament to who in in charge of these activities and that they have complete control of these games.

            So why did we attend anyway? 

                                           State of the Union or State of Disarray? 

In a few weeks the President will deliver his State of the Union address.  It will likely be a glowing report of his accomplishments so far.  He will be at liberty to “adjust’ the facts to suit his political agenda. But of course,  this is what most presidents have done.  However, this administration has been “adjusting” the facts for quite some time. 

Let’s take a look at how things really are.  Clearly, 2021 was marred by the virus. This alone isn’t the total problem.  Let’s look at a few of the other issues that are so disturbing to us as Americans.

I am referring to our withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Those who lead the operation of withdrawal would undoubtedly like for the rest of us to forget it.  However, it is a disgrace for our country.  Not only have we not evacuation all the Americans who are still there but we have left the radical Taliban in control to continue their oppression of those who aren’t Sunni Muslins.  God help the Christians!  

The stark reality is that this disaster destroyed our standing in the world and left us all in a more dangerous place.  We not only left thousands stranded but gave the Taliban high tech military equipment worth billions of dollars. It now seems that American blood was shed for naught. 

Inflation and high energy costs go hand in hand.  The cancellation of the XL Pipeline and the restrictions on drilling to cope with the so called “climate crisis”, have caused gasoline prices to spike and added production and delivery costs to almost all other consumer goods.  Inflation is now at the highest rate in decades and it is likely going to get worse.  The problem has been acerbated by the trillions of COVID related dollars pumped into the economy….. paying people to stay home, which in turn has left businesses across the country short of workers. 

Getting a hamburger at Wendy’s, means waiting in a long line for outside service.  No more seating inside due to the shortage of workers.  Same with our favorite Asian restaurant.  Take out only!

Domestic crime is on the rise.  This sad turn of events is fostered by defunded police departments, changes in the definition of criminal acts, relaxed penalties for crimes, and the early release of convicted felons.  The influx of illegal drugs, gangs and human trafficking across the Southwest makes it dangerous to leave one’s home.  Coming from El Paso, I can relate to the problem.  Our Mexican friends in Juarez must be terrified of even venturing into the streets.  Their very way of life is being threatened. 

All these developments as well as unexamined corruption in the government at the highest levels constitute mockery of our American democracy.   Our citizens need to listen carefully to the coming State of the Union address. Do these statements square with the actual events?

I fear we are being fed lies and half truths to further a liberal and progressive agenda.  There are powerful forces at play on gaining control of our economy, our country and our very way of life.