What the media and the liberals refuse to discuss about mass shootings.

Agree or  disagree with me as you will, but I want to point out a few things.

No one - legal gun owner or gun opponent - advocates or condones or in anyway “likes” this kind of misuse of firearms. However, liberals over the past 5 decades have:

• succeeded in removing any mention of God in schools in just about any way at all, 
•  succeeded in taking discipline completely out of the classroom, to the point these kids aren’t even taught the most basics in self-control and mental toughness,

•  succeeded in removing any kind of Christian morality out of schools and instead embraced and installed the code of morality that “whatever makes a person happy” is the appropriate morality (right down to the point kids now aren’t sure which restroom, boys or girls, they or their classmates should use),

•  have advanced the agenda that those persons of any faith other than the politically correct kinds - Buddhism, Muslims or even Satanist- are “extremists,” “hate-mongers” and even “racists.”

Therefore to teach any kind of Creationism, school prayer - even by 1 individual football or baseball player who takes a knee in thanks to God for scoring a touchdown or a home run, or any Valedictorian or Salutatorian speeches crediting their Christian faith or mention of Jesus, or any t-shirt or hat or sticker on a notebook that mentions a pro-life stance or even “Make America Great Again” is offensive and inappropriate to be done or worn on school property.

Almost succeeded in destroying any kind of faith in our nation’s leaders, our protectors the police and the whole civic process right down to the point of accusing the Founding Fathers of being evil, racist slave owners who only built this country through oppression and slave labor and desire to dominate the world and that our national anthem is racist and not worthy of the respect of standing and saluting our flag.

So... ask yourself; is it really all that hard to believe that these morally-confused kids are more and more killing each other? And, is that really the fault that guns exist?

And of course, the anti-gun crowd and the liberal puppets in the propaganda ministry that masks itself as a mainstream media try to paint a paradigm of any legal gun owner being a hair’s breadth away from “going off their nut” and shooting up a shopping mall, their workplace or a restaurant or something.

Then ask yourself; how come back in the “cowboy days” (aka the “wild” west days) when every cowhand, blacksmith, storekeeper or hotel owner had a loaded firearm nearby if not strapped on their hip, there weren’t these kinds of shootings?

Then ask yourself; even if guns are outlawed and they really could round up every legally-owned firearm from every private citizen in the US, how can the black market purchase or theft of firearms keep them out of the hands of those who – like this mentally-damaged kid or the common criminal or…wait for it…the terrorist – shouldn’t have one.

Yeah, how is it that if terrorism is outlawed, and terrorists are wanted, hunted men, how the heck can they keep getting guns to the ISIS, al Qaeda etc?

And ask yourself this; if there’s already dozens and dozens of laws against murder, assault with a deadly weapon, shooting a firearm within city limits and etc etc etc, how on God’s green earth will one more law or a dozen more laws prohibiting firearm ownership do one danged thing to prevent some lunatic like these mass shooters from striking back at society and shooting up a school, a movie theater, a church or whatever?

The answer is, it won’t. And ask yourself this; why is it that the people crying for gun control will in no way consider putting a well-trained, armed presence inside a school – either several armed teachers or even armed police officers assigned to the school as their regular beat. They don’t want to even to consider any solutions like this. 

And why not? Because “gun control” for liberals is only about control and nothing to do with guns. They just want to take more and more of our individual liberties – firearm ownership is guaranteed in the wording of the Second Amendment remember (“…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."). And a completely disarmed American public would certainly make that a lot easier.

Anything but worthy of official presidential portraitures....

I'm anything but an art critic, but the official portraits of no-longer-POTUS-Thank- God Barry Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle are anything but presidential or statesmanlike. 

Compare what has been mocked as "taking a dump in a marijuana patch" painting of Barry and the water color of Meeshell Mah Belle to the following portraits of First Families before the Obamas below.

President George W. and First Lady Laura Bush:

Bill and Hillary Clinton (fellow Democrats like the Obamas, by the way):

Yet... THESE works are considered worthy of being the official portraits of the Obamas? Not only that, but old Barry - race baiter that he is - had his done by an artist named Kehinde Wiley who is (in)famous for two paintings each depicting a black woman swinging a decapitated white woman's head! (see below). Now can you imagine if Presidents GWB or Donald Trump had even associated with an artist with such racist works in their past as these two paintings, let alone appointed them to paint their official presidential portraits? The hue and cry and rioting would be heard as far away as the planet Jupiter and would never die down!

The only reason I post these revolting works is so there's no way you readers can miss the obvious racism and violence advocated in these works.

Now, in fairness, it must be noted that the artist for Michelle's portrait has no such "violent painting" history. 

But, how disgusting, divisive and destructive - not to mention embarrassing for our nation - to have these two paintings hang in a gallery and represent the 44th First Family in American history. These are more pop-culture, Andy Warhol kinds of works, not dignified statesmenlike portraits. And are in NO WAY the caliber or portraiture that should represent a statesman like a President of the United States.  

Then again...Obama was pretty worthless as a statesman AND A POTUS. So....

Ommmm.... Maha mantra..... The-left-is-really-coming-unhinged..... Ommmm.

I’ve heard some real doozies out of the liberal left in my day. But, one I heard about just this week - the more I think about it - has to be the weirdest, dingbattiest nonsense to come out of LaLa Land yet.

Apparently some professor of religious studies at Michigan State University - one Shreena Gandhi - co-wrote an article accusing Americans who practice yoga of...wait for it.. contributing to white supremacy and promoting the “yoga industrial complex.”*,**

Sayyyy...whut?

According to Wikipedia, yoga originated in India and is intertwined in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.* So, I just gotta ask; how on earth does practicing yoga promote “white supremacy?”

And I’m not even sure What the cornbread hell the “yoga industrial complex” even means. Somebody’s gonna have to tell me what that is before I could even know to be offended about its alleged promotion and proliferation.

And here I'd thought that cement and stone Confederate Veterans statues that had stood for decades or even over a century had last summer and fall suddenly been found to be oppressing black people was the craziest, most paranoid or most outrageous version of "victim mentality" I'd ever hear in my lifetime....

Now there's this - the white supremacy of the yoga industrial complex.... 

Just about the time I think I’ve heard everything and the left can’t possibly outstupid themselves any worse, they always find a way of rising to a new high in low or an even more unhinged concept or comment.

So, given their history, their next idea should be quite...entertaining. That’s all their thoughts are worth anymore. They long ago abandoned credibility so we might as well get a few laughs out of it. That’s about all the redeeming value liberal thoughts have to offer society anymore.

*Nash, C. (2018, January 30). Professor: White People Who Practice Yoga Contribute to White Supremacy and Yoga Industrial Complex. Retrieved February 01, 2018, from http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/01/30/professor-claims-white-people-who-practice-yoga-contribute-to-white-supremacy/

**News, F. (2018, January 29). People who practice yoga contribute to white supremacy, professor claims. Retrieved February 01, 2018, from https://nypost.com/2018/01/29/people-who-practice-yoga-contribute-to-white-supremacy-professor-claims/

* Wikipedia (26 January 2018), Yoga. Retrieved 1 February, 2018.

The stupidness just keeps on keepin' on and gets more and more outrageous each time!

“Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia will take down a memorial marking the pew where [George] Washington sat with his family, saying it is not acceptable to all worshipers.”*

You know George Washington. He was the first president of the United States! 

I’ve got a different view than those Episcopalians of Christ Church in Alexandria, VA. I wouldn’t belong to such a spineless church so willing to bend to political correctness. Who knows what “unpleasantness” found in Holy Scripture they’d also be willing to “take down” so as not to offend visitors.

Further, I wouldn’t even visit such a church - to worship or as a tourist! (And I have been to that church a few times to see it just because of its famous former member! But, I won't be back, unless they revisit this dumb decision and reverse it.)

Social mores like the forcing of society to accept homosexuality and desecrating and denying our common history like this hysteria over war memorials and former presidents and reading racism and hate in every last little thing like idioms (NFL owner saying we can’t have the “inmates running the prison”, etc about his players dissing on the National Anthem by taking a knee instead of standing for it.**) are the kinds of decisive things that divide and deteriorate a once-common people until their society eventually comes completely unwound.

What got us knit back together after the American Civil War was a focus on us all being Americans again. With common heritage and common existence working towards a common future of equal opportunity, not necessarily equal outcomes.

What helped America survive the Great Depression was we were all Americans suffering together and would persevere together and proceed out of that economic Depression together into a common future Of equal opportunity, not necessarily equal outcomes.

What saw us through World War Two - a period of severe restrictions of gasoline, tire, flour and more all being rationed, of men drafted off to combat many not to return or to return maimed or otherwise scarred for life - was the belief that it was necessary for democracy and freedom equal opportunity , not necessarily equal outcomes, to be available worldwide. And that democracy would endure back home in America into the common futures of Americans. And the list goes on.

But, somewhere along the way in the years since, we’ve managed to let self-serving, divisive rabble rousers pit American against American trying to erase, revise and otherwise destroy our common history, our common bond in where we’ve been so as to prevent us from going forward together…as Americans, together, in a common future…of freedom and democracy….

So, let’s step back and take count of what they’ve done to us so far - just to mention a few things;

• They (the Democrat Party and other fosterers of the “handout mentality”) have managed to vilify the productive part of our society – businesses, business leaders, and the corporations that create jobs for which productive people work to earn money to pay their bills.
• They (Black Lives Matter, et al) have managed to vilify those who patrol our streets and cities 24/7 fighting crime – law enforcement.
• The American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the rest of their ilk has managed to vilify Christianity as an evil, hate-based religion and has managed to ban just about any use of a cross symbol in cemeteries,*** jewelry**** and the like seen in public. (Whether or not on public land or the cross memorial was paid for privately)**
• They’ve managed to convince people that our history involving the American Civil War is so heinous and oppressive as to necessitate the descecration of memorials to dead Confederate soldiers or schools named after their generals. Of course, never mind that these have stood for or been so named for nearly a century that they must be destroyed and renamed.*****

·       And it’s something new almost every day. And everytime our spineless culture “feeds the bully” and gives into this stupidness, the next demand is all the more outrageous and ridiculous than the last.

So, America, what’s next!?!? Come on, Americans! We’ve got to stand for something lest we fall for anything! It’s time to say enough of this stupidness and stand up against it.

*Aratani, Lori. “Historic Alexandria church decides to remove plaques honoring Washington, Lee.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 28 Oct. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/historic-alexandria-church-decides-to-remove-plaques-honoring-washington-lee/2017/10/28/97cb4cbc-bc1b-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.3aea46d94bc3.

**McCausl, Phil. “Most of NFL's Houston Texans Kneel During Anthem After Owner's Remark.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 29 Oct. 2017, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/most-nfl-s-houston-texans-kneel-during-anthem-after-owner-n815451.

***Starnes, Todd. “Federal court rules World War I memorial cross must be torn down.” Fox News, FOX News Network, 18 Oct. 2017, www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/18/federal-court-rules-world-war-memorial-cross-must-be-torn-down.html.

****Fraser, Giles. “Christians must understand that for Jews the cross is a symbol of oppression | Giles Fraser.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 25 Apr. 2014, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/25/jews-cross-symbol-of-oppression-christians.

*****Sweetman, Cassandra. “Board votes to change Oklahoma City schools named after Confederate generals.” KFOR.com, KFOR-TV, 24 Oct. 2017, kfor.com/2017/10/23/school-board-votes-to-change-schools-named-after-confederate-generals/.

Like Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does” [and continues to be and do].

The headlines read: “[School] Board votes to change Oklahoma City schools named after Confederate generals.”*

Jackson Elementary (built in 1910),** Lee Elementary (also built 1910)*** and Stand Watie Elementary (built in 1930) **** schools have been so named after General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Isaac Stand Waite ever since they opened. And through all those decades, their names seemed no big issue until Black Lives Matter et al started throwing race riots all round the country a year or two ago.

Never mind that from Lee Elementary school’s own website, they recognize that Robert E. “Lee showed himself a brilliant strategist, making dangerous and brilliant moves to avoid being crushed by the superior numbers.”  And that after he Civil War “Lee…became president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) and worked to promote brotherhood and nationalism…and was remembered as a kind and courteous man and a bold, audacious general.”****

Interestingly, Lee Elementary’s demographics show that “…90.3% of the student population at Lee Elementary identify as Hispanic…”and only 1.6% of the rest that identify as black.**** The student population at Jackson Elementary is 89.3% Hispanic and only an additional 2.8% identifying themselves as “black.”***** And, similarly, “88.8% of the student population at Stand Watie Elementary identify as Hispanic” with only 1.9% of their student body identifying themselves as “black.”***** 

The last I checked the Civil War was not waged against Hispanics or Hispanic nations. It was an American v. American "Civil War" in Yankee history books and a United States v. Confederate States "War Of Northern Aggression" in Southern accounts. And, as a reminder, the Southern view was that it was a war over States Rights, oppressive northern tariffs and against Northern States aggression of taking up arms to oppress Southern states into outlawing slavery (which was still legal in the South at the time). The Yankee version is that it was "a war to preserve the Union" and to "free the slaves." (Although Lincoln did not issue his famed Emancipation Proclamation Executive Order until January 1, 1863, almost two full years into the War and only applied to slaves in Southern territories - in other words didn't do one damned thing to free any slaves in Northern states. I won't bother citing sources on that as the sources confirming this are numerous in any Google search.)   

And, as a reminder, “It’s true that Union and Confederate soldiers are considered U.S. veterans under federal law, and that they would be entitled to the same benefits as Union soldiers today….” Not only that but that same federal law – Public Law 810 passed in 1958 – “listed the spouses and children of all Civil War veterans — Confederate and Union — as eligible for federal pensions….” And not only that, but it made “Confederate soldiers eligible for burial in national cemeteries and for taxpayer-funded headstones, just like Union soldiers….” [Emphasis added.] *******

So…”Riddle me this, Batman; what possible harm, violation or negatively “reflected on our values”, as black OKC schoolboard member Charles Henry asserts do these school building names commit? How is it that this “is the right thing to do for our kids and for the people who had to live this history,” as [school]board Chairwoman Paula Lewis asserts? ******** By teaching kids that rewriting history to read the way someone wishes it had happened compared to the way it actually happened is the “right” thing to do? By teaching kids that hiding the unpleasant lessons of history will actually help people learn to prevent them from reoccurring in the future? By teaching kids that the old rule of “sticks and stones may break their bones but names can never hurt them” is actually a big fat lie – that stone statues, grave markers and nearly-century old names of buildings can actually somehow hurt them? No wonder they call the younger generations Generation Snowflake! (Before anyone gets all upset that this usage is somehow a racial slur, let me correct that myth before it gets mis-distilled into “fact;” my usage of the term here reflects the monicker attached to the youth of today that are “more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own.“*********)

And don’t even get me started on the stupidity behind Ms. Lewis’ comment of doing right by the people who had to live this history….”********* 

Furthermore, depending on which estimate you want to believe, these name changes are going to cost somewhere between $40,000 and $100,000 to implement.

Forrest Gump said it best; “Stupid IS as Stupid DOES.”**********

*Sweetman, Cassandra. “Board votes to change Oklahoma City schools named after Confederate generals.” KFOR.com, KFOR-TV, 24 Oct. 2017, kfor.com/2017/10/23/school-board-votes-to-change-schools-named-after-confederate-generals/.

**“General Information on Jackson Enterprise Elementary School.” General Information / General Information, Oklahoma City Public Schools, www.okcps.org/domain/392.

***“General Information Lee Elementary School.” General Information / About Lee, Oklahoma City Public Schools, www.okcps.org/domain/665.

****Meacham, J. et al. “Architectural/Historical Survey of Oklahoma City's Historic School Buildings.” Criterion Group, Oklahoma City, Criterion Group, Oklahoma City funded by the Kirkpatrick Foundation, Feb. 2001, www.okhistory.org/shpo/thematic/okcschools.pdf.

*****“Lee Elementary in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.” Rate Limited, Startclass by GRAPHIQ, public-schools.startclass.com/l/73679/Lee-Elementary.

******“Stand Watie Elementary in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.” Rate Limited, Startclass by GRAPHIQ, public-schools.startclass.com/l/73705/Stand-Watie-Elementary, and “General Information.” General Information / About Stand Watie, Oklahoma City Public Schools, www.okcps.org/domain/472. And

*******Martin, Aaron. “Confederate Soldiers Are Considered U.S. Veterans Under Federal Law-Truth!” TruthorFictioncom, 23 July 2015, www.truthorfiction.com/confederate-soldiers-are-considered-u-s-veterans-under-federal-law/.

********Willert, Tim. “Oklahoma City board votes to change school names.” NewsOK.com, NewsOK, 23 Oct. 2017, newsok.com/oklahoma-city-board-votes-to-change-school-names/article/5569226

*********“Generation Snowflake.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Oct. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Snowflake.

*********Zemeckis, Robert, director. Forrest Gump (1994). Paramount Pictures.

More good points about the "tearing down Confederate monuments" stupidity.

Here's what you do with the statues....

This guy makes a LOT of GREAT points!

What to do with the Confederate statues