Get Them While They're Young

Article: school teacher mandates kids decide which characters live or die for assignment.

Um, death panel indoctrination, anyone?

I know, you think I'm going overboard.  I harken back to the days when they first started teaching kids that the Allies were the villains in WWII.  Do today's kids even know who won, or why, for what ideals so many lives were sacrificed?

This is how it starts.  We numb our kids to evil by teaching them that it's okay.  They will grow up to believe it.  We can create an entire generation of kids who think that death panels are the norm simply by casually slipping it into their curriculum.  A little nudge here, a little nudge there, and suddenly, "it's all for the common good."  They lap it up like kitten's milk, and when they're cats, a death panel is the right thing to do for the good of everyone.

For the common good...

Feed the children a constant diet of liberal ideals in a childcare institution called public education draped in snooty intellectual tenets and you can completely change history in one generation.

As Che sang in Evita, "Get them while they're young, Evita, get them while they're young."

Oh, and yes, I send my children to public school.

Death By Distraction

A word of caution, you may want to glance up from your phone to see what's going on...

The gunman in San Fran pulled out his gun on a crowded Muni light rail, waved it around, even scratched his nose with it, and NO ONE on the train noticed.  They were too busy looking at their phones.  The article said that officials were troubled by the lack of attention to their surroundings by the passengers.  Sadly, SFSU student Justin Valdez was shot and killed by the gunman.

Why is it so hard to look up from our smartphones?  Why are we so enraptured?  Are we bored?  Afraid of missing something?

Take fountain girl...

Tongue Wagging

Actually saw a picture of Miley Cyrus today without her tongue hanging out.  She looked beautiful..  Gorgeous smile, pretty face.  Too bad she hides her beauty behind a sex toy persona.  I think she may be talented, but it's hard to tell...

Pre-Modern Multiculturalism, OR I Was Cool Before You Were Born

Back in the 1970s we had multiculturalism and feminism and we promoted peace and love, and today those of us who grew up in that atmosphere who lovingly reminisce about Room 222, The Mod Squad, Good Times, the end of a horrific war, and standing with our brothers and sisters who shouted "black power," those of us who were steeped in that label-free culture, who choose to back a conservative political viewpoint where an individual is free to excel, well, we are called "racist" because we don't agree with a liberal political viewpoint. The plain truth is, Mr. or Ms. Modern Liberal, I was a multiculturalist before you were born. Boom.

One Nation, Indivisible

Reading the President's Inaugural Address this morning, I am saddened that the Left/Liberals/Democrats have demonized us Right/Conservatives/Republican/Libertarians as the front line in their their political rallying cry so greatly that they cannot see that we stand for the same principles of fairness, justice, racial harmony, economic opportunity and love of country as so evident in the speech.  There is so much hatred and name calling from both sides, that we fail to see we are ALL Americans, and want pretty much the same thing: life, liberty and the pursuit (but not promise) of happiness.  When we take a group of people (Right or Left) and stereotype them, speak filth about them, tell lies about them, name call and laugh at them, we show how petty and small we really are...this nation is better than that.  I don't know how all this acrimony can be abated, but my prayer is that it will, and maybe we can find common ground.  I hope for a day when a Democrat and a Republican walk into a bar together and it's not the beginning of some sick joke, but the beginning of a friendship.  

You Can't Legislate Your Fears Away

People are fearful. They are afraid and they want to protect themselves, and since no one can protect themselves from crazy, they want to legislate safety so they can feel better. I understand this, it's horrible to feel afraid. So, the calls ring out to legislate the fear away. We see it all the time in tighter federal restrictions. For instance, take the FDA. This past fall, 39 people died and 370 were sickened from meningitis due to negligent practices at a compounding pharmacy in Mass. 

My hubby and some of you work in the pharmaceutical industry and he and you understand how extremely tough the FDA regulations are. Yet this pharmacy was rogue. There was visible mold in the medicine from the pharmacy. Even with ALL the FDA restrictions, 39 lives were lost. We can't protect ourselves from idiocy by implementing stricter government regulations, especially when those regulations aren't followed. But, I understand why people want to. We want to be safe. We want to keep our loved ones safe. But, trust me, we can't. We can put bike helmets on our kids and ban texting while driving, but we can't stop an idiot on their phone while driving from hitting our biking kids. We can put drunk driving laws into effect, but we can't stop an idiot from getting hammered and getting behind the wheel. Government regulations can only go so far and they never protect from crazy or idiocy. 

Our world is not safe, because we are mortal. That is the plain fact. I am not safe. You are not safe. We are not safe. But we can be comforted and comfort others by resting our fears in God. He can offer us peace in a warlike world. He can be our rock and our salvation. He can give us eternal hope. I myself have suffered years from panic attacks, and God helps me. He gives me quiet and security so that I can face each day without fear. In my Bible (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)..."For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' So we may boldly say: 'The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?'" Hebrews 13:5-6

As Smart As She Is, Sarah Doesn't Get It

Take the Liza Long ("I am Adam Lanza's Mother" blog post) and Sarah Kendzior ("Want the Truth Behind Adam Lanza's Mother?" blog post)...

Liza poured her heart out about her mentally disturbed son, and Sarah commented negatively on the posting, decrying the privacy breaches of a minor, as well as scrutinizing other questionable posts in Liza's blog.

It's spats like these that point to personality differences, not necessarily issue discrepancies.  

You see, Sarah is a logical, probably left-brained thinker, having recently obtained a PhD in anthropology.  Most of what she's published has been scholarly dissertations and articles.

Liza is a creative type, probably right-brained thinker, who blogs mostly and uses imagery and metaphor with ease.

These two women could easily write essays on the exact same subject and come up with vastly different pieces.

When Sarah criticizes Liza for writing about walking up the mountain with her son and evoking the Abraham and Issac story, one can immediately see that Sarah is taking Liza's writing as more factual fantasy than metaphor.  I'm pretty sure Liza does not want a knife in her hand, neither does she desire God to call her to kill her son.  Creative writers use imagery to convey thoughts, ideas and feelings.  Sometimes these feelings are distasteful to others, but they are feelings all the same.

As a creative writer myself, I understand that we often take poetic license to express ourselves.  And, when one is driven to the breaking point, then sometimes these pictures written in words on a blog can be disturbing.  Most especially so to a logical thinker, who doesn't possess the "grain of salt" necessary to understand that the piece is not written by a madwoman, but rather by someone who would have written mythical stories in the days of old.

If you've ever had a tween or teenager in the house, and multiple children sparring with each other, then you as a parent can empathize with much of what Liza writes.  She pens, "I quit!  Let the state take care of you and your compulsive inability to stop poking people."

Sounds like a lot of moms I know, including me.

There isn't a week that goes by in my homeschooling madness and stay-at-home horrendous housekeeping that I don't just want to throw all the textbooks and crafts away and drive them to the public schools nearby.  "I quit!  Let the public educators teach you and your inability to stop poking each other!"

Okay, Logical Brained peeps, what do you think of that?  

Links to their Blogs:

Joint Statement from Both: http://sarahkendzior.com/2012/12/17/a-joint-statement-from-sarah-and-liza/

Liza: http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/?m=1

Sarah:  http://sarahkendzior.com/