More Supression of Free Speech From the Left

Seems one doesn't even need to say any words to have the Left's penchant for suppressing free speech activated; especially anything with even a hint of religion. The Henry M. Jackson High School wind ensemble wanted to play Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria". They had played it at the 'winter' (not Christmas) concert, and wanted to perform it again at graduation. No can do said the school, it's religious. A brave student, Kathryn Nurre, sued. This was just the music, no words. The Ninth Circuit Court supported the school's decision, not this music.

Thoughts on the First Day of the Year, What We Should Focus On This Year

 A new year begins. Some make resolutions, which are often nothing more than a wish list for wanting to indulge in what is thought of as beneficial behavior. Bottom line is we should always eat healthy, do the best we can at work, treat people right and all the rest as a matter of life style every year. We should strive to do all things better every day. Maybe instead we should look back at the past year, and see what we fell short on, and work to improve those.

My personal life was good last year; only made one bad decision I can think of, and paying a bit of an emotional price right now. My church has spent the last year healing from some bad things that happened the year before. Prayer and good leadership is bringing us about and getting us back on track as far as we treat each other. All our programs this past year that feed the poor, missionary work, outreach and the rest were still taken care of, with a lot of success. That's Love, Hope, Charity at work.

Expanding further, I can only hope some more people come to their senses to refute the bad things happening in politics and culture. Kids being suspended from school for using their thumb and index finger to form a pistol. A five or six year old kid gets suspended for sexual harassment for kissing the hand of his "girlfriend".  Homosexual sex is being taught to elementary school kids, and the heterosexual family is being diminished and diss'd because it's homophobic or something.

The war on men, emasculating them. Pay attention to commercials and it's the male that is always the stupid one, and a child or woman corrects him. Actually in this country (and world wide)  masculine men, traditional family, Christianity, personal responsibility and all the rest are under attack. The State will replace all that has worked throughout civilization. Congress critters and other politicians and their paymasters know better than us how to live our lives. We can see what the destruction of the family, by secularists and atheists, have brought. Lower college entrance exam scores, increased high school dropouts (and monstrously ignorant and stupid "students"), higher out of wedlock births with attendant teen pregnancies, higher rates of violence and juvenile delinquent activity, higher STD rates to name a few things rotting the base of our civilization.

Another note on politicians and their paymasters. They advocate that massive debt to the tune of $trillions is a good thing. We have two or three coming generations being born into debt. There may be times when debt is unavoidable, but having it as a lifestyle or as an economic policy is nothing less that disastrous. The Bible teaches economic policy. Just read the account of Joseph and the principles he applied to get Egypt out of economic disaster. 

The "elites" are no more than bullies, and if you don't "get it" and conform to their notions, they will destroy you. Bakeries and photographers shut down; they tried and shut down Chick-fil-a and Hobby Lobby and several businesses. That would have thrown hundreds out of work if they were successful at closing down those larger companies. It's not enough that one has different values and belief system than the "elites", but you must be destroyed. So much for tolerance. They're still trying and destroy Sarah Palin, advocating shitting and pissing in her mouth, or mocking Mitt Romney's family for adopting a black baby. BTW, let's drop "African American"; it was the sole concoction of racist and race hustler Jesse Jackson. An intolerant hate monger if there ever was one.

Ultimately, Christians need to stand up, be forceful, and advocate for manly virtues, the virtues of heterosexual marriage, good education and the rest. May I be so bold to say we need to educate Leftists, Secularists, Atheists, about what sin is. When I saw the attack on "Duck Dynasty" personality Roberts for his using the term "sin" to describe certain behaviors, we Christians needed to stand up and say what "sin" is. Sins are those things that distance us from God. There are things that work. Happily in this case, there was enough of a backlash to make things right. Roberts got his job back, but more on freedom of speech than on the deeper issue of working to diminish or remove sin from our lives.

I said in my previous post that scripture, Old and New Testaments, are the best guides for living. Here's what scripture says about the family.

"...God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons." (Sirach 3:2). We have pretty much rejected this.

"Wives, be subordinate to your husbands,  as is proper in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives,  and avoid any bitterness toward them. Children, obey your parents in everything,  for this is pleasing to the Lord." (Col 3:19-21) This is a seriously misunderstood verse about women; it doesn't mean what secularists and atheists that are the elites and bullies say it does. Sadly many Christians don't understand either. I guess this is another blog that needs to be written.

"Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another… put on love,  that is, the bond of perfection. And let the peace of Christ control your hearts…And be thankful." (Col 3:12-15) This has been replaced by cohabitation and divorce...those are not a solution to relationship problems.

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God." (Col 3:16) The rules and guides for living found in scripture, a record of things that have worked for thousands of years are rejected and replaced by Elitists that live in the meme, in the moment advocating the materialist values of their anti-Semitic, anti-Christian world view. It doesn't work. It has a 100% failure rate 100% of the time. The things that work bring us closer to God. Reject the natural order of God, the rules and behaviors that work and we get the mess mentioned above.  

When we talk about sin, we know what Leftists, Secularist, Atheists  are rejecting what works, and the  result of that thinking destroys family, faith, hope, charity, liberty. It's destructive and demeaning, mean and intolerant. They think that taking out notions of sin and tradition and replacing it with laws and rules, forcing behavior through those, rather than providing wisdom and guidance for a sinless heart and loving behavior as the best way. No. Fails every time. Some powerful men rejecting the natural order of things with their own laws and rules will always lead to the morass we live in now. Parents and children must find a church so all can communicate with all generations, give and get guidance and wisdom. A counterculture that only benefits. 

As the new year begins this day, Jews and Christians must be more vocal, and push back against the intolerant elitists, bullies and liars that are destroying civilization while saying they are saving it.

Neo-Racism, Afrocentrism

Few things I hate in this world, though there is much one could. The word is so visceral. The list is short; Communism, Fascism, Socialism. Now a most vile sort of neo-Racism, led by Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the New Black Panther Party, many Black “Christian” leaders such as Jeremiah Wright that denounces God, and that is Afrocentrism.

A socialist Afrocentric blog I visit regularly, “African American Reports”, continually reports all the failures of the Black community on Whites. I’ve even seen the term “whitey” there. They’ve been pretty civil to my responses to the postings there, rare on Leftists’ sites. The wall they have built to prevent truth is high and thick. I had pointed out once the historical racism of the Democrat Party. I could hear crickets.

I have to ask, who’s fault? The Black community has supported the Left’s destruction of the family, of forcing them into urban plantations know as “The Projects”, and ensuring their children are not educated to contribute to society and prosper. 70% of Black children are born out of wedlock. True, the same can be said of poor white women, and the majority of Hispanics. The Left celebrates the destruction of the family, and since 95% of Blacks vote Democrat, this horrendous statistic in their own community is their own fault. One can only assume since they elect the people that create the laws that make this happen, they must approve of it.

We all hear of Black students that do well are marginalized by other Black students. The good students have to hide their achievements or give up. There was a 13 year old girl, Jada Williams, for example, tasked to read Narrative of Life by Frederick Douglass. She, like most of her fellow students, are Black. She had read the line by him about education, that “It would forever unfit him to be a slave”. She took that to heart and wrote a blistering essay about the failures of the education system. She was attacked and marginalized by not only students, but by (white liberal) teachers. She was targeted by students, teachers, school administration, and district supervisors. She was an A student, her grades dropped to a D, and when her mother asked to see the work that generated the bad grades, the school refused. White people, (well, maybe Liberal White People), are not responsible for this travesty. Black people in their own community not only stand for this injustice, but support it. In Washington DC an education program that was showing profoundly successful results was shut down. The city is run by Blacks, the education system by White Liberals. The decision to deny Black Children education could have been stopped, but was supported by the Black Community.

Crime. The cold hard truth is that Blacks commit more crimes than whites, far out of proportion to their percent of the population. That’s the reason more Blacks are in prison, and it has nothing to do with Racism. Violent crimes committed by Blacks against Whites is 39% higher than Whites against Blacks.  In 90% of race crimes, the victims are White. This is from FBI and Justice Dept statistics, and the Justice Dept is run by Black Racist Eric Holder. Of course the Afrocentric response are these are White People’s statistics, and refuse to address the issue. Going back a bit to the education part of this, Black kids are the ones most likely to act up in class, disrupting the learning experience of kids that want to learn. Of course White Liberal educators and the Black Community say it’s only because Black children are being discriminated against. By whom, White Liberal educators? They’re the one’s ensuring kids don’t get an education. That’s where the discrimination lies, creating the tyranny of ignorance and low expectations.  

Lastly, Trayvon Martin. Racist, Afrocentrist haters and race hustlers, like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Barack Obama have ginned this up for political and power reasons. Spike Lee, leading Hollywood racist, even gave the wrong address of Zimmerman and endangered the lives of two old people living there; they had to flee their home. He had to be forced to apologize, and it was one of those non-apology apologies. A $10,000 bounty is out for Zimmerman. Is this a way for a just society to act?  

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 45% of Black crime is against Whites. 43% Black on Black. Blacks are seven times more likely to end up in prison than Whites, Orientals, or Hispanics. Blacks are eight times more likely to commit armed robbery, three times more likely to use a handgun. The Left, Democrats, gin up hatred of Whites, blame for cultural and societal problems on Whites. Blacks, 95% to 5% vote to support this. Maybe Blacks need to review what they are doing, who they support in culture and politics. Do they want to stop violence, hatred, poverty, bad to no education, and continue down this path? Then comes the scary thought. Are we going to end up in a violent race war? Since Obama has come to power with his neo-racism from the presidential bully pulpit, gun and ammo sales by Whites is ever increasing. Real or perceived threat from the Black population? Is it going to make much of a difference? Perception is reality.    

Thoughts on Families and Fathers on 100th Anniversary of Fathers' Day

The original father celebrated by Fathers' Day was a Civil War veteran named William Jackson Smart. He had five sons and a daughter, and his wife died giving birth to the sixth child. He was a single dad.

The daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, started this day in 1910 to honor her father. People at the founding of this country recognized the importance of a father and mother to raise well rounded children. John Adams: "The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.... How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?" His wife Abigail: "What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind."

Atlantic Monthly magazine, a bastion of secular Statism, has an article, "Are Fathers Necessary?" Their contention is that the stats supporting the necessity of a father aren't valid because stats compare married heterosexual couples and their children, to single fathers and mothers. To be valid they say, the comparison should be how children do when raised by homosexual couples. Of course they say that female homosexual couples raise better children than male homosexual couples. Even if you're a homosexual male, you're still male, and found to be an inferior human being.

This is based on one article, in the Journal of Marriage and Family, written by Judith Stacey, a sociology professor at New York University, and Timothy Biblarz, a demographer from the University of Southern California. Since this is supposed to be a social "science", what's the control group and has the data been gathered and analyzed by others with the same results? The anti-traditionalist agenda is to destroy the nuclear family. Then it will truly "take a village" to raise kids. Children raised by the State will be more compliant to the State. Indoctrination through the alleged education system doesn't quite get the job done; some make it through as free thinkers. They do that because there are enough families to help the kid resist the indoctrination.

The stats themselves? From the CDC, DoJ, DHHS and the Bureau of the Census: 30 percent of children who live apart from their fathers will account for 63 percent of teen suicides, 70 percent of juveniles in state-operated institutions, 71 percent of high-school dropouts, 75 percent of children in chemical-abuse centers, 80 percent of rapists, 85 percent of youths in prison, 85 percent of children who exhibit behavioral disorders, and 90 percent of homeless and runaway children.

Unnamed social worker at a juvenile detention center: "If you find a gang member who comes from a complete nuclear family, I'd like to meet him. ... I don't think that kid exists."

Children raised by the State will of course manifest all the social pathologies and deviant behavior not found in most children raised by mom and dad. That will in turn justify more of a police state. Nice if you're a Statist.

Confucius: “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.”

There's a natural order to things, and anti-traditionalist, secular Statists, must interrupt that order to control according to their belief system. Even to the extent that they need to publish, for Fathers' Day, an article bashing men in general, fathers specifically, and stating that women are superior.

The article ends: "The bad news for Dad is that despite common perception, there’s nothing objectively essential about his contribution. The good news is, we’ve gotten used to him." Can you say "sexism"?

Men and women are both equally necessary to form families, raise children and provide a sound foundation for a functioning society. Lets keep dad around and help families stay together by keeping the State out of the nuclear family.