Here’s my quick thought for this Sunday morning: It’s a little after 7:00 this morning and supposedly, Ole Miss Coach Lane Kiffin is going to talk to his players at 9:00. Understandably, the Ole Miss fans are upset about all the rumors and theatrics that have been going on this season as they started winning and the rumors start spreading about Kiffin going to where the grass was greener. As a University of Memphis graduate, all I can say is, “Welcome to the party pal.” Remember John Calipari? Just like Calipari did to us and Kiffin did to the University of Tennessee, he’s going to take your whole recruiting class if he goes. Which brings me to my point. Today’s College Athletics is no longer existing for the purpose of sportsmanship and building young men and women into teams. Thanks to the NIL and Transfer Portal, it’s every man and woman for himself and the university with the most money pays out the wazoo to get the best players. Unfortunately for them, just because their bought and paid for recruit has a lot of talent, does not mean tbey have the work ethics, morality, or common sense to become an asset to the university or a team player and winner. Those who pushed for this mess, gamblers, agents, and professional sports teams executives, did not count the important things which made college games so fun to watch. By making college sports a minor league for professional teams, they destroyed the camaraderie, the loyalty, and the training which led to growth of the athlete himself or herself. It takes more than one and done with a college coach or team to hone a raw college recruit into a collegiate team player or a professional prospect. And, usually, it takes more than one season to create a championship team. But, hey what do I know? I’m just a fan …an extremely frustrated one. Have a blessed, restful Sunday. God bless.
As the days grow shorter and cooler, praise the Lord, American males from Little League to the NFL have been hitting the field to practice for the upcoming season.
Now is the time to see what they’ve learned.
Friday night, my wife and I attended a high school football game in DeSoto County, Mississippi.
Our grandson is a member of the band. He plays trumpet. Our family is very proud of him. While that is a big deal in itself, it is a bigger deal for our family and our grandson, especially because he is 80% hearing impaired.
While it may appear that I am digressing from the subject matter, why I brought this up will soon become clear.
Athletic participation while growing up by both genders remains a great way for kids to get used to winning and losing in this game called life.
It also helps them to reach their potential in their journey toward individual achievement.
I’ve always loved both Little League and high school football.
These are kids and teenagers out there working hard for no pay except the Love of the Game and the fun of participating in a sport.
While I did not participate in playing football because of my size of 5’4″ as a 17-yr old asthmatic Senior (I grew after I graduated), I was a gym rat who would climb the ladder of Halle Stadium in Memphis, TN with a camera and reel-to-reel video tape recorder in order to capture the home football games so that the coaches could review what went right and what went wrong in team meetings.
Sitting at that game Friday night and cheering for the team made me realize some things.
Even being inundated with all this technology that I believe can be a distraction for them, given the opportunity, teenagers are still social animals who enjoy the fun of being with one another,
We were sitting on steel bleachers next to the Pep Squad, a bunch of young girls in matching outfits who would dance to the band and cheer with the cheerleaders while the Dance Team was behind the far end zone leading the raucous student section in cheers.
All these kids, including the ones running around the bleachers visiting with each other and joining in on all the festivities, and their parents, grandparents and friends, were having the time of their lives, cheering on these young boys giving their all for something that they believed in.
These individuals were not playing the game for money. They were playing it for the joy of the sport and to see if they could be the best they could be individually and as a team.
I guess that is why I enjoy these games so much. For the most part, especially in the small towns and suburbs outside of a big city like Memphis, high school football has not become corrupted like college football and the NFL have been.
There are no overpaid underperforming professional football players, nor are there male cheerleaders in tights prancing around like one of the girls in their dance routines.
These are high school students participating in an event that they will hold dear to their hearts for the rest of their lives.
Watching the fun that the girls in the Pep Squad were having as they went through their routines and cheers and listening to their giggles as they were next to my wife and me Friday night, made me realize that there are still young people being raised right in this country and that there were still kids that got out from behind their PlayStations and out of their mom’s basement to have fun with each other.
In other words, there are still kids being raised right and experiencing the joy of friendship, achievement, and growing up in this great country.
We need to celebrate and cherish these kids and the parents who have raised them more.
Their joy and their achievements give us hope for the future.
This morning, as I was sitting down to try to write my opinion on some political subject, I started watching Fox and Friends about the horrible disaster in Central Texas that has taken over 50 lives of men, women, and children, including girls attending Christian Camp Mystic.
Young girls with their whole life ahead of them drowned as the area received over 20 in of rain and the dam on the Guadalupe River In Hunt, TX busted wide open.
At the same time, I received word yesterday of a co-worker who had passed away within a week after finding out that he had cancer that had metastasized.
As you get older, you start thinking more and more about how finite our lives here on Earth are.
You lose friends and family and even though you are not supposed to, you wonder what God’s plan is for your life and for those of the other fragile humans whom you care about and you grieve for those whom you have lost along the way.
As a Christian, while we as Christians go through this life “Saved by Grace” and “Standing on the Promises of God”, we can not help but think and wonder when, as the black Union soldiers in the Civil War drama “Glory” were getting ready for their final battle spoke and sang about, when that “Great Getting Up Morning” will be,
The “Good News”, as the great old hymns tell us, is that we can find comfort knowing that we have the “Blessed Assurance” that “His Eye is On the Sparrow”
“…and I know He watches me.”
God bless all the First Responders and those who are leading the search for possible survivors.
May God comfort all the families and friends of those whose lives were touched by the victims of this catastrophe and those who have lost everything.
D-Day, also called the Battle of Normandy, was fought on June 6, 1944, between the Allied nations and German forces occupying Western Europe. To this day, over 79 years later, it still remains the largest seaborne invasion in history. Almost three million troops crossed the English Channel from England to Normandy to be used as human cannon fodder in an invasion of occupied France.
Among the young men who stepped off those boats, in a hail of gunfire, was a fellow named Edward, whom everyone called Ned, from the small town of Helena, Arkansas. Already in his young life, Ned had been forced to drop out of school in the sixth grade, in order to work at the local movie theatre to help support his mother, brother, and sister, faced with the ravages of the Great Depression.
He later went on to help build the US Highway 49 Helena Bridge across the Mississippi River.
He was a gentle man who loved to laugh and sing, having recorded several 78 rpm records in the do-it-yourself booths of the day. And now, he found himself, a Master Sergeant in an Army Engineering Unit, stepping off a boat into the unknown, watching his comrades being mercilessly gunned down around him.
Ned, along with the rest of his unit who survived the initial assault, would go on to assist in the cleaning out of the Concentration Camps, bearing witness to man’s inhumanity to man.
The horrors he saw had a profound effect on Ned. One which he would keep to himself for the remainder of his life. While his children knew that he served with an Engineering Unit in World War II, they did not know the full extent of his service, until they found his medal, honoring his participation in the Invasion of Normandy, going through his belongings, after he passed away on December 29, 1997.
He was my Daddy.
Today, all across the world, Fathers will be honored by their children, natural, adopted, foster, and those whom they took in as one of their own.
Did you ever wonder how this Global Remembrance got started?
There are two stories which are attributed as being the origin of Father’s Day.
According to the first tale, it all began in 1910, when Sonora Smart-Dodd of Spokane, Washington, tried to figure out a way in which to honor her dad, a remarkable man, who had single-handedly raised six children. Sonora, naturally, loved her dad with all her heart, and wanted everyone to recognize him for what he had done for her entire family. She made the decision to declare day of tribute, a Father’s Day, if you will, on her father’s birthday – June 19.
The next year, Sonora contacted the local churches in an attempt to get them to throw their support behind the celebration, but they simply laughed her off. After that setback, it took a while before Sonora’s proposal once again started gaining attention.
A bill in support of a national remembrance of Father’s Day was introduced in 1913. The bill was approved by US President Woodrow Wilson three years later. The bill received further support from President Calvin Coolidge in 1924.
This brought about the formation of a National Father’s Day Committee in New York within the next two years. However, our Federal Government, not exactly being strong in the pursuit alacrity, took another 30 years before a Joint Resolution of Congress officially recognized Father’s Day. Then, implementation of the bill was postponed another 16 years until President Richard Nixon declared third Sunday of June as Father’s Day in 1972.
The second story of the origin of Father’s Day involves Dr. Robert Webb of West Virginia. According to this version, the first Father’s Day service was conducted by Webb at the Central Church of Fairmont in 1908.
Around my house, we always thought that Hallmark and Walmart invented it.
Like you other fathers out there, I am asked every year what I want for my Father’s Day Gift.
The one present I want…I can’t have.
I wish that I had one more day with my Daddy.
My Daddy was the most important man in my life and remains so to this day.
He taught me how to love others through his actions every day of his life. He was a wonderful Christian man, who led me to Christ.
He was also the bravest man I have ever known.
My Daddy worked hard all of his life. He worked for Sears for 20 years. He taught me what hard work was and yet he always had time for me.
I wish that I had one more day to walk through Court Square Park in Memphis, Tennessee feeding the pigeons and the squirrels with my Daddy.
I wish that I had another opportunity to sit on the living room floor at Christmas and play Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots with him.
I wish that I had another chance to stand over to the side on Thanksgiving Afternoon and watch him, as he played Penny-ante Poker, “cutting up” with my mother and my aunts and uncles.
I wish that I could hear him singing “The Old Rugged Cross” in the kitchen again, with his beautiful tenor voice.
I wish that I could watch him again, sitting at the breakfast table simultaneously looking through his old Cokesbury Hymnbook and his Book on Hymnology, researching those great old hymns and taking notes, so that he could tell his 150 member Sunday School Class about the hymn which he was going to lead them in singing that Sunday Morning.
I wish that I could watch my Daddy playing with my baby daughter again, sticking out the lower plate of his dentures, as she tried to grab it.
I wish that I could see them again out in the driveway, sitting in his 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic with her in the driver’s seat as they waited for the school bus to pick her up for pre-school.
I wish that I could spend another Christmas Morning with him to watch the fun as he gave my sister her yearly “gag gift”, just to watch her jump and squeal as the “snake” or “mouse” jumped out of the box.
I wish that I could sit and watch Saturday Morning Memphis Wrestling and then another Johnny Weissmuller “Tarzan” movie with him on a Saturday afternoon…or maybe a Three Stooges Short, just to hear him laugh.
It’s funny, y’know.
I look in the mirror at 65 years old… and I see him.
I look back over the years at the things that I did with the children that God brought into my life to care for and I remember the tines that I shared with my 16 year-old grandson, and I see my Daddy in myself.
Nowadays in America, it is harder than ever to be a Dad. Any male who is not impotent can sire a child…as is being proven daily across our country.
However, it takes a man to be a Daddy, a Papa, a Pop, a Pops, somebody’s Old Man, or simply, a Father.
I’ve had the privilege of having a hand in raising three step-sons, one nephew, and one very special daughter. I would not give back one moment of those experiences for anything that this world can offer.
I was not a perfect role model. I made mistakes…a lot of them. But, looking back, I know, in my heart, that I’ve made a difference in their lives. And, I thank the One Who Made Me for that opportunity.
I pray that I was able to pass along at least some of my Daddy’s Legacy of Christian Love to those I have had a hand in raising.
Dads…it costs nothing to pay attention….and give love.
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. – Proverbs 22:6
Daddy, I wish you were here so I could tell you how much I love you and miss you.
I hope you’re proud of me.
Every good thing that I am, came from the life lessons which I learned from you and the Love and Amazing Grace of my Heavenly Father.
Today, while you’re up in Heaven, I hope you hug Mother and tell her,
“Suicides among the youngest U.S. teenagers were rising for years before the pandemic — with school stress, social media and guns standing as potential factors, according to a new study.
Researchers found that between 2008 and 2018, the suicide rate among 13- and 14-year-olds nationwide more than doubled — from roughly two deaths per 100,000 teens in 2008, to five per 100,000 a decade later.
It was a stark reversal of a decline that began in the late-1990s.
And, in fact, suicide is now the leading cause of death for 13- and 14-year-olds in the United States…” (Courtesy Newsmax.com)
Guns? Guns can not fire themselves, nor can they personally interact with human beings on their own.
The fact of the matter is that kids are not getting the attention they need at home, and they’re not getting the non-political support that they need at school.
Nowadays, it takes both parents working in order to afford the basic necessities needed to raise a family.
That leaves very little time for the raising of a child. With children not getting the attention they need at home, they are naturally turning to the social media, the school, and their peers.
Public schools have become, for the most part, centers for the dissemination of Cultural Marxist propaganda designed to “make children think in a politically correct manner.”
Their friends can offer their opinions. However, they are being fed the same propaganda.
Nowadays, the majority of kids spend most of their time texting on their phones with other kids, playing video games, and talking about other students.
Kids today do not grow up playing outside and learning interpersonal communication skills.
In other words, they don’t know how to resolve conflict face-to-face, and they have never found out firsthand that there are actual real-world consequences for talking ugly and spreading false rumors about someone.
Even though they are communicating with each other electronically, kids today are living in isolation.
They have not learned how to be kind to one another.
They have not learned empathy.
Somehow, someway, parents and students need to start learning how to communicate with one another face-to-face.
Make no mistake. The family unit, as we know it, is under attack.
I cannot say this more emphatically—for people, for businesses, and for ministries of faith, the Equality Act is a threat to life as we know it in our nation today. It’s a real game-changer. – Rev. Franklin Graham
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives this past week passed “The Equality Act”, a piece of legislation which they had previously passed in 2019. Only this time, they named it The “For The People” Act.
The wide-reaching Equality Act championed by Democrats would put the hiring practices of faith-based organizations in “jeopardy” and will create additional religious freedom concerns for Christian schools, churches and ministries, a prominent legal nonprofit argues.
Alliance Defending Freedom officials last Friday detailed the implications of the Equality Act, legislation backed by President Joe Biden that would codify discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity into federal law.
The legal organization, which has won several religious freedom cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years, warned those watching an online webinar that the Equality Act could widen the definition of public accommodation in a way that could put faith-based institutions at risk.
Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said that the bill, which passed the Democrat-controlled House in 2019, “dramatically expands” the scope of what constitutes a place of public accommodation.
“Under the law we have right now, it’s actually not that many entities: it’s restaurants, it’s hotels, it’s means of transportation,” he explained.
According to Baylor, supporters of the Equality Act want to expand the definition of public accommodation to include a “much, much broader category of organizations,” including “nonprofit entities like shelters and food banks.”
“The way that they’ve written it doesn’t rule out the possibility that a religious school or even a church in some of its functions might be deemed to be a place of public accommodation,” he continued.
…Noting that many religious organizations have policies that reflect their beliefs about marriage, sexual morality and distinction between the sexes, Baylor warned that the Equality Act “puts all of those in jeopardy.”
“There is some concern that even a church could be deemed a place of public accommodation” if it opens its facilities “for an event that’s open to the public,” Baylor stated.
This coming from the same Congress in which a member had a sexual relationship with a Chinese Spy named Fang Fang.
But, other than that, they’re outstanding Moral Arbiters.
Sheesh.
This push to allow “Transgendered” Americans to invade women’s restrooms in public places, is a logical (at least , using the convoluted logic of Liberals) next step, following SCOTUS ruling which overturned the will of the voters, in the overwhelming majority of states, legalizing “Gay Marriage”.
However, per usual, the hubris of the Political Minority in America, known as Liberals, precluded them from foreseeing the massive blowback that they have received, in regards to this latest attempt by them to make up a new “Constitutional Right”.
One of the arguments that Liberals have been countering the objections to their ludicrous demand with for quite a while now, is the fact that Europe has had Unisex Public Restrooms in place for years.
While that is true, what they fail to mention, is the fact that those restrooms all have PRIVATE stalls, which a common area to wash your hands, after you “finish your business”.
They also neglect to mention the fact that the decades-long degeneration of Morality and Virtue across Europe has lead to the current chaos being wrought by “immigrating” Muslims, who have set up Sharia Law in Europe. The same laws which call for the public execution of homosexuals in Muslim Countries.
What Modern American Liberals still fail to grasp is the concept of American Individualism, a concept strengthened by our American Faith and Traditional Values System, concepts which trace all the way back to our nation’s birth, set in place by our nation’s Founding Fathers.
Modern Liberals seem to have great difficulty comprehending the role which Christianity, the “Faith of Our Fathers”, the professed faith of 75% of Americans, per Gallup, played and plays in this Grand Experiment, known as the United States of America.
Why have Liberals ratcheted up their anti-Christian Vitriol and Negativity since January 21, 2009?
During the Obama Administration, there was a concerted and very visible effort to limit the role that Christianity plays in the day-to-day lives of average Americans.
And now, after installing their demented old puppet, Joe Biden as POTUS, Democrats believe that the “State” can now become America’s Moral Arbiter.
This was already done, decades ago, in Europe, and now, they are suffering the consequences of their actions.
The Church of England is reportedly considering plans to keep some historic village churches across the country opened only on holy days such as Christmas and Easter due to population shifts and the ever-growing decline in attendance and church membership.
A major 66-page report by the CofE’s Church Buildings Review Group noted that many churches are no longer sustainable, and that about one in four parishes have fewer than 10 regular worshipers.
The report proposes turning some parishes into “festival churches” in order to ease the financial burden, suggesting that they will only be used for key dates on the religious calendar, or occasions such as marriage and funerals.
Festival churches are only one of the widespread changes proposed by the review group, which says it is focused on “securing spiritual and numerical growth and serving the common good.”
“We believe that — apart from growing the church — there is no single solution to the challenges posed by our extensive responsibility for part of the nation’s historic heritage,” the group added.
The CofE has had to deal with sharp decline over the past 30 years, as reported in May by NatCen Social Research.
The group’s Social Attitudes survey found that 40 percent of the British population identified as Anglicans in 1983, but that number is down to only 17 percent in 2014. Presently only 8.5 million Britons identify as Anglicans, the survey said.
People of no religious faith now make up close to half of the population in Britain, or 49 percent, which is up from their 31 percent count in 1983.
With the steady rise of immigration, the rise of non-Christian faiths has also been well documented, with Islam making up close to 5 percent of all Britons in 2014, up from 0.5 percent in 1983.
Why are Modern American Liberals so focused on removing, or, at the very least, marginalizing, America’s Christian Heritage, as found in our System of Traditional Values and Beliefs?
Well, as is usually my wont, I have been doing some “reckoning” about this.
It seems to this ol’ Southern Boy, living here in the Heartland, that America’s Christian Heritage and the very real fact of His influence in building and shaping America’s growth into the greatest country on the face of God’s Green Earth, not only stifles and interferes with Modern Liberals’ “anything goes”, “share the wealth”, “hive-mind”, “man is his own god” Political Ideology, but the reality of God’s very existence, somewhere deep in their miserable, bitter psyches, scares the mess out of them.
Why else would they be trying so hard to fight against the influence of Someone Whom they really don’t believe in?
I see them every single day on the television, on the Internet, on Facebook Political Pages, posting stupid meme (a picture with words on it) after stupid meme, attempting to make fun of The Great I Am and those of us who have given our lives to Him.
They are so hateful, and filled with such bitterness, that it is difficult to engage them in “conversation”.
Perhaps, somewhere in their back of their minds, all of these Modern American Liberals, realize that they are fighting a losing battle.
Christianity continues to thrive in America, despite their best efforts.
America was built upon a Solid Rock.
To ignore our nation’s Faith-Based Founding and Heritage is to live in purposeful ignorance.
As President Ronald Reagan said,
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Regardless of the ongoing Political Machinations by Modern American Liberals to tear asunder the Moral fabric of the nation for the “Good of the State” and the propagation of the “Hive-Mind”, the God of Abraham, who brought our Founding Fathers to this Land, will have the Final Word.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took to Twitter on Monday to warn people Democrats are embracing socialism in a “terrifying trend.”
Haley tweeted:
“2020 was the year socialism went mainstream. The dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere it has been tried & ruined countless lives, is on its way to becoming the default economic policy of the Democratic Party. This terrifying trend threatens the future of every American”
Haley followed with a post that accused the left of believing “government knows
best.”
“If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that when govt dictates how the economy is run, Americans suffer,” Haley wrote.
“With the Biden admin set to take power, now is the time to renew the fight for capitalism.”
Haley, a former South Carolina governor being touted as a possible 2024 GOP presidential candidate, also posted an article entitled, “2020 In Review: Socialism Rising,” per Fox News.
“With the Biden administration set to take power, now is the time to renew the fight for capitalism and opportunity for all – and against socialism and its suffering,” Haley wrote on the Stand for America website, which she started.
“Now is the time to rally our fellow citizens to ensure that every American can achieve their dreams and bring our country and people to new heights of achievement. The only way socialism wins is if we don’t show up. So let’s show up, stand up, and speak out, for the sake of America’s future.”
Haley’s post on Stand for America linked to a New York Post article featuring polling results that showed socialism was not actually popular among Americans and faced considerable opposition from the country.
Seventh-five percent of Americans said they preferred free-market capitalism over socialism, according to the poll by Rasmussen and the Heartland Institute.
Then, the question remains, how in the name of Dow Jones and all his little averages, did Demented old Joe Biden, the candidate of the Democratic Socialists, get elected President?
But, that’s a question which continues to be answered: THE DEMOCRATS CHEATED.
Concerning socialism…
From San Fran Nan Pelosi and Chuck “U.” Schumer on down, Marxism is being fully embraced in the name of “Democratic Socialism”. “Political compromise” took the last plane out of town a long time ago.
Did you know that there is an actual organization named the Democratic Socialists of America?
In a document titled “Where We Stand,” DSA outlines in detail its political perspectives. Here is an excerpt…
“Social redistribution—the shift of wealth and resources from the rich to the rest of society—will require: massive redistribution of income from corporations and the wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the public sector, in order to provide the main source of new funds for social programs, income maintenance and infrastructure rehabilitation, and a massive shift of public resources from the military (the main user of existing discretionary funds) to civilian uses.”
Sound hauntingly familiar, “comrades”?
Remember when the Former (Thank God) President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, spoke about “sharing the wealth” to a plumber named Joe during his 2008 Presidential Campaign?
One hundred years ago in Russia, a revolution was based on that very idea.
The unworkable theory that “Democratic Socialism” is based on is known as Marxism.
No government which has taken it as their political philosophy has ever flourished. The government grew and those working within it became rich while the “Proletariat” or average working citizens starved, giving all they had “for the good of the State”.
For quite a while now, I have been referring to those of the Far Left Democratic Party who did everything they could to disrupt and interfere with the success of President Donald J. Trump and the comeback of the Greatest Country on the face of the Earth, as the “New Bolsheviks”.
To be immodest, it looks like I nailed that one.
These “useful idiots” were so “out there” that they had the Old Guard of the Democratic Party running scared, which allowed them to run the party and their political campaign strategies for the 2020 Presidential Elections.
As America has witnessed, the Democratic Party has been moving further and further to the left side of the Political Spectrum for decades now.
So, it is really no surprise that they have become which they have been whining about for several years: fascists.
But they have not become just any kind of fascists. They have become Marxist Fascists, extolling the “benevolent goodness” of an all-powerful Central Government who will take care of everyone from cradle to grave.
And, those who refuse to give up their individual freedom as guaranteed to us by our Constitution are to be shunned and ridiculed as “intolerant, ignorant hillbillies”.
As I have written before, America is involved in an internal struggle, a “Civil War”, if you will, for the very soul of our Sovereign Nation.
When the Marxists in the Democratic Party who declared “war” on America and her citizens found that they cold not to win the hearts of average Americans they decided to commit Election Fraud on a level which has never before been scene in America.
The final result of the poll mentioned in the above article does not surprise me at all.
The overwhelming majority of our citizens are still proud Americans who embrace traditional faith and values.
Unfortunately, our nation also has a lot of “useful idiots” who do not have a clue.
Farmers are vets, botanists, meteorologists, mechanics, carpenters, and whatever else they need to be to just survive. And unlike Bloomberg News, farmers are indispensable. The world would stop turning in two weeks if they went on strike. – John Nolte, Breitbart.com
Presidential candidate and former New York City MayorMichael Bloomberg appeared to belittle both farmers and factory workers in 2016 comments made at a university forum, continuing a trend of old remarks resurfacing to plague the billionaire’s bid for the Democraticnomination.
Joining the Distinguished Speakers Series at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, Bloomberg was responding to a question about whether it is possible to unite people in middle America and the coasts. One of the issues standing in the way of that, Bloomberg said, was the inability of blue-collar workers to adapt to the information economy even if they have their education subsidized.
The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years and we could teach processes. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer,” Bloomberg said. “It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture, now it’s 2 percent in the United States.”
Bloomberg continued: “Now comes the information economy and the information economy is fundamentally different because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter. It’s not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn, and so the challenge of society of finding jobs for these people, who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing. But the thing that is the most important, that will stop them from setting up a guillotine someday, is the dignity of a job”
Bloomberg, who has faced a litany of negative stories in the past week about his past comments regarding women, African-Americans and others, concluded his point, saying, “the problem is not the redistribution of wealth, it is the job where you go in every day.”
The former mayor’s comments drew the ire of many on Twitter, including the organization “People for Bernie,” which is dedicated to boosting Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. and began before the senator announced his candidacy.
“Time and again we see Bloomberg insulting the middle class and the working class, union members and not yet union members,” the organization tweeted. “Maybe it’s time for pundits to stop pretending he’s just another candidate. Bloomberg is an oligarch spending his play money to buy the White House.”
The legendary Paul Harvey first delivered this speech at a Future Farmers if America Convention in 1978. It was later made into a Super Bowl commercial.
And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.
“I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon — and mean it.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain’n from ‘tractor back,’ put in another seventy-two hours.” So God made a farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place. So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church.
“Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life ‘doing what dad does.'” So God made a farmer.
Bloomberg just does not get it. The overwhelming majority of Americans have ancestors that were farmers. This country was originally an agrarian society. Our forefathers worked the land to provide for their families.
A lot of patriotic hard-working Americans still do while the fruits of their labor are used in both America and around the world.
Mike Bloomberg does not understand that America is a Constitutional Republic not a benevolent oligarchy.
He must not have been paying attention during the 2016 Presidential Election.
Americans rejected the arrogance of bubble-living Democrats the day, just as our forefathers rejected the yoke of a “benevolent oligarchy” when they won our Sovereign Nation’s freedom in 1776.
“You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time… It’s a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience.” – President Ronald Reagan
On “No Interruption,” Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren sat down with Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack.
Pollack became an outspoken advocate for school safety since the Parkland shooting, and he has now written a new book detailing his own investigation into the events that led to the massacre.
“I wanted to look into it, I wanted to honor my daughter to see what happened, and how it could happen that I put my daughter in a school, in a nice neighborhood, and then I’m never going to see her again,” Pollack said. “I wanted to know the facts. I didn’t just listen to mainstream media, I didn’t jump on that bandwagon — and I found out that there was a multitude of failures and policies that lead up to my daughter getting murdered, that the mainstream media didn’t want to cover.”
In “Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students,” Pollack discusses his views on gun control, why he blames Democratic policies for his daughter’s murder, and precautions that parents can take to ensure the safety of their children.
Pollack argued that new gun control laws are an ineffective solution to the school shooting epidemic, in part because current laws are not being enforced. For example, the Parkland shooter had a violent record, but he was not arrested and therefore able to obtain a weapon legally.
“To me, gun control would’ve been if they arrested him for punching his mother’s teeth out and he got a background,” explained Pollack. “Democrats put these policies in place that don’t believe in holding kids accountable or arresting them while they’re juveniles…so if they don’t arrest them and they don’t get a background, then they’re able to purchase weapons legally and a background check is useless,” he said.
In an interview with “Fox & Friends” Monday, Pollack said that banning guns is not the solution, and he encouraged people to look at the “underlying causes for these shootings.”
“They’re not addressing mental health…or arresting these people when they make threats…those are the real issues,” he explained.
Responding to a recent video featuring 2020 Democratic candidates promoting tighter gun control as a safety precaution in schools, Pollack said it made him “ill.”
“My daughter paid the ultimate sacrifice because of those Democratic policies and I’ve been hurt by the Democrats more than anybody in this country — and I hold them responsible,” Pollack said.
While doing research for today’s post, I came upon this article, which grabbed my attention.
I started thinking about what inconsequential Democratic Primary Candidate inadvertently admitted to Americans last week:
The fact that Democrats are indeed going to continue to come after the guns of law-abiding American Citizens whether they take back the power of the Presidency in 2020 or not.
The Democrats have danced around the truth for years now, parsing words while speaking vaguely about “Gun Control”, while enticing school children to walk out of schools to help facilitate acceptance of a “benevolent” bunch of “Democratic Socialists” violating one of Americans’ Constitutional Rights.
As any American with any common sense whatsoever will tell you, the purpose of “Gun Control” IS control.
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, regarding the right of Americans to bear arms, was more than just a statement written in a document long ago by our Founding Fathers.
It was an admonition.
By now, gentle readers, I hope that you have taken stock of the fact that every single time there is a mass murder in our Sovereign Nation, before the smoke even clears, Democrat Pundits, both professional and amateur, start drooling from their pursed lips in an ecstatic frenzy to be the first to call for “Gun Control”.
It is not, as Mr. Pollack has warned us, regardless of what the Dems say repeatedly when these tragedies happen, “for the children”.
Oh, no.
If Liberal Democrats were so concerned about America’s children, America would not be witnessing the yanking of children from their mothers’ wombs at the rate of 1,000,000 abortions every year.
Make no mistake. Gun control is no more a Democratic Mantra spoken out of concern for the welfare of Americans than Nancy Pelosi is in full control of her mental faculties.
Vladimir Lenin, the Communist Leader of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks during the Russian Revolution, stated that
“One man with a gun can control 100 men without one.”
Just as during the Russian Revolution, our modern-day Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, whom we call Millenials and Progressives, seem to blindly follow as one the notion that more control somehow means more freedom.
Little do those who are being “sponsored” to march for Gun Control realize that they are being led over a cliff like the herd of lemmings which my generation used to watch in school in those Walt Disney True Life Adventure Movies.
Just as Lenin played upon his followers’ emotions, so are the Democrats manipulating “useful idiots” for their own political purposes.
As Mr. Pollack said, the Democrats do not care about
“…underlying causes for these shootings….They’re not addressing mental health…or arresting these people when they make threats…those are the real issues…”
And, God bless him, he is exactly right.
Guns cannot shoot themselves.
As one of our Founding Fathers, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, once wrote,
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner among 2020 Democratic candidates, agreed with a supporter who blasted Donald Trump’s presidency — and called it “illegitimate” — during a fiery rant at his latest campaign stop.
“He is an illegitimate president in my mind. That’s it,” the woman, who said she had “a very severe case of what’s called Trump derangement syndrome,” told Biden.
“He’s illegitimate and my biggest fear is that he’s going to do it again with the help of Vlad, his best pal, and we’re going to be stuck for six more years with this guy, and that is terrifying, it’s terrifying,” she said, mentioning Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Biden responded by jokingly asking if she would be his vice presidential candidate. In a seemingly more serious tone, Biden said, “folks, look, I absolutely agree.”
Her comments also included a call for all 2020 candidates to unify behind a message that claimed, among other things, Trump won the 2016 election with Russia’s help. “I don’t want to live in a country run by Vladimir Putin. I don’t think anybody should want that,” she added.
Biden told the woman that in order to help Democrats win, he wouldn’t “speak ill” of another Democratic candidates. “We have to be in a position, whomever the nominee is, to be able to win,” he said.
Biden has a history of making comments potentially damaging to his political career. For example, he told a Chinese university audience in 2011 that he “fully” understood their one-child policy.
The former vice president also faced scrutiny over a 2006 video, resurfaced in May, showing him advocating for a border wall and punishment for employers who hired illegal immigrants.
Biden’s Tuesday comments came after weeks of turmoil surrounding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report which highlighted what some considered to be troubling activity by Russians. The report did not, however, conclude the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians to influence the election.
While Democrats have continued investigating potential obstruction of justice under Trump, the Justice Department probed the Russia investigation’s origins and whether the former administration improperly surveilled Trump’s campaign.
Why did Biden agree that Trump’s Presidency is “illegitimate”?
Because it is all that he’s got.
I mean, what is he going to run on, the success of Obama’s Presidency?
Puhleeze.
If the American public believed that Obama did a great job as president, Hillary Clinton would have been elected to succeed him.
When you say that to a Democrat, of course, they will bring up the “Popular Vote” argument.
And, of course, the answer to that is the fact that we are not a mob-ruled Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic and Trump won an overwhelming majority of states, giving him the Electoral Votes he needed.
Our Founding Fathers, in their infinite wisdom, created this Blessed Land as a Constitutional Republic in order to provide fair and equal representation to all areas of the country, whether they be densely populated “urban” areas or sparsely populated “rural” areas.
No American’s vote is more important than somebody else’s.
When I voted down here, outside Memphis, Tennessee, in the Northwest Corner of the Magnolia State on November 8, 2016, it counted the same as a Democrat voting in one of the boroughs of New York City.
The Founders created and put in place the Electoral College in order to prevent just what the “Democratic Socialists” in the New Far left Democratic Party have been crying for since they lost the 2016 Presidential Election: a nation where its leaders are selected by mob rule in which special interest groups of a minority political philosophy joined together to form a voting bloc in order to “radically change” the course of a Sovereign Nation.
One of our Founding Fathers, James Madison, explained in no uncertain terms why he and his fellow patriots did not form our Sovereign Nation as a “democracy”…
[In a pure democracy], [a] common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths
Madison, who would go on to become president, was a prophet.
He not only predicted the problems of governing by “democracy”, he predicted the flaws in Marxist Theory, including the “Democratic Socialism” which the Democrats are advocating.
However, some people, especially Liberals, never learn.
With the Mueller Investigation ended and the toothless House Committees trying to get Trump on something…ANYTHING…proving to be ineffectual, I look for the Democrats to start pushing for the “Popular Vote” again as most of them feel the same way about Trump’s Presidency as Sleepy Joe does.
There are three problems with that.
First, the Senate would block it.
Second, if Sleepy Joe is the best candidate they have, they will lose the Popular Vote in 2020.
Third, if Inspector General Horowitz’s Report and Attorney General Barr’s Investigation come back the way it is believed that they will, the Democrats won’t be able to win a election for Dogcatcher…much less for President of the United States of America.
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