As President Reagan so eloquently said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” 

 This sentiment typifies the precious nature of instructing our young and forms the basis of my utter contempt for the very idea of public education prior to adulthood.

At the heart of education is indoctrination.  Now, this is not inherently a negative thing.  Rather, it is a simple recognition of reality.  The propriety of that indoctrination is wholly informed by who is doing the indoctrinating.  When a parent does it, it is almost universally for the moral betterment of their child.  Even when the ideas the parent are trying to inculcate in their offspring are dubious, the intent is for their good.  Government, however, has no such beneficent moral structure in mind.  Government is an amorphous and amoral entity whose inclination, as history has taught, is to increase its size and employ policies toward that end.  In terms of education, that means instituting curriculums that, instead of providing knowledge so an individual may be self-reliant, subjugates the mind by denouncing individual achievement and notions of objective truth.   Even ex-KGB officials now readily confirm that their infiltration and manipulation of education was a key strategy in their desired conquest of the West. The KGB and the brain washing of the West    UTube

In practical application, I believe there should be virtually no public schooling of the young.  That responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the parents to either take care of directly through home schooling or through the market place via private schools.  The latter would instill competition among educators where many different facilities offering a variety of educational methods would vie for the parents’ dollars.  Only those children who’s education has been virtually completely abdicated by their parents should be placed in a publicly run infrastructure.

Commiserate to this must be, of course, must be a new understanding of how schools are funded.  If the vast majorities are to be educated privately, the right of parents to keep their money to pay for this must be recognized.  I am not advocating for school vouchers, though that is a huge step in the right direction.  Rather, the money should not leave their hands in the first instance.  All vouchers would do is create unnecessary bureaucratic overhead and waste money.  The only government involvement should be to insure that children are indeed receiving some type of education and are acquiring skills in reading, math and science due to the inherent national security interests that the next generation be well versed in those subjects.  The only people taxed for primary education are those parents whose children, through their dereliction, must be placed in public schools.  The freeing of capitol would remove the shackles from around the feet of loving parents and provide for an engine of ingenuity and societal advancement unseen in human history.

Suck it up Crybaby

Calhoun’s Ghost

Do you find yourself shaking your head as you hear news anchors and pundits make vicious jabs about Sarah Palin? This woman has been very successful in career and family.  She started her political life as a mayor of a small town in Alaska and went on to defeat an incumbent Republican Governor of the same state running against the establishment. John McCain picked her as his running mate and she was the bright spot in his failed run for President.

Susan B. Anthony

“I know nothing but woman and her disfranchised.”

Sarah Palin’s family consist of her husband Todd and four children, the youngest being Trig who has Down syndrome. Sarah and her husband new that Trig had Down syndrome and went thought with the birth,   this infuriates some on the left as it goes against their view of children as commodities to keep or toss away at a whim. 

Recently Sarah spoke at the first Tea party convention and awed the audience with her common sense approach to what is the role of Government.  She is going against the current administrations theory that the Government should control all aspects of your life. She spoke from notes on the podium and not a teleprompter.  After her speech she was interviewed and had crib notes on her hand on three subjects.

The CSNBC crew and the ladies from the T V show the View went nuts over this as if only a moron would do this.  Joy Behar and Eve Ensler recently questioned her intelligence.  Just listen to Joy and Eve talk and you get the point. The President had to use a teleprompter last week to talk to a group of 20 children in their classroom.  Sarah so threatens the President that Obama’s press secretary had to make fun of her at his latest press conference and had crib notes written on his hand.  Of all people to make fun of someone, Robert Gibbs has made a fool of himself on a continual basis. Just listen to his press conferences.

Where are the woman’s groups to defend the attacks on this woman as David Letterman is obsessed with defiling her with his mean spirited jokes.  David Letterman should be at odds with woman groups as he was sleeping with his subordinates whom will soon be in the news as the trail of his alleged black mailer will be exposed. I think Letterman has a problem with woman that he can’t control or dominate.

 The silence of the NOW group exposes them for who they aren’t. They have their own selfish agenda and it is not defending women.

The attacks on Sarah Palin are an attack on all you decent upstanding women in this country, who love God, country and family.

You can ask people what they don’t like about Governor Palin.  They do not have an answer or it is a staple response they heard from one of her critics.  Her critics say she does not have enough experience?  All her experience has been  on the executive level.

Sarah Palin was in charge of the Alaska National Guard; she was the mayor of  Wasilla Alaska and last was the Governor of the energy rich state of Alaska.  She excelled all three positions.  President  Obama has no experience at running anything short of his  teleprompter messages and we can see were that has lead this country.

They are attacking your common sense, your right to have a husband and children.  Your right as a woman to be outspoken, intelligent and beautiful.  You’re right to hold a high position in politics.

Please people, you must come to terms that this is not just about Sarah Palin, it is an attack on the values and foundations that this country was built on.  Attacking Sarah Palin is tearing down what this country stands for, Freedom for a woman to work hard and be successful, your faithful marriage, to love and cherish your children even if they are not perfect, as none of us are and to have inner strength to persevere through all the malice things the malcontents throw at you.            

Please if have not heard Sarah Palin’s message put away the negativity of the malcontents and open an ear and listen as it is a positive one of hope , faith and Love.

Suck it up Crybaby

John the Baptist

Remember the old line that Wimpy from the Popeye cartoon series would say to get a plate of hamburgers. I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Hello you all, this is what the President and Congress in Washington are doing, the old Wimpy wink of the eye hamburger shuffle with your money.

Congress has just passed the bill to raise the debt ceiling by 1.9 trillion for this year.  Some are saying that may last only through this month of February as Congress eats more hamburgers than it can afford.  This will put an additional $6,000.00 debt owed by every individual living in the United States.

President Obama introduced the budget for 2011 at a record smashing 3.8 trillion dollars. Wow!  These numbers are mind boggling.  That will buy you a lot of burgers Wimpy. 

From the Wall Street Journal most economists agree the country’s public debt burden now at $7.75 trillion and growing poses a threat to economic security. Interest payments devour nearly one tenth of Federal revenues and are projected to more than triple over the next ten years. The spending for Medicare and social security consume an additional 57%. The Obama administration projects that these programs plus interest will absorb 80% of all federal revenues by 2020.  Ouch! That hurts Popeye.

The spending is out of control as thousands of earmarks are added to each bill that passed through congress.  There is no fiscal responsibility as each senator and congressman fights to bring more hamburgers home to his own state.

As of now the debt on every persons head in this country is $40,000.00 raked up by our elected officials in Washington.  A quote from Senator Conrad, Democrat Senator from N. Dakota, Everyone in Washington wants to be for every tax cut and every spending increase.  Senator Conrad, Popeye doesn’t see any tax cuts, just spending increases.  Where is this money going? We don’t see any jobs being created. The only sector that has an increase in jobs is the Government.   Government unemployment is around 3%. This is what you don’t need as they consume massive amount of cash and produce nothing.  No jobs are created for the private sector.  Fewer private sector jobs will reduce the revenue influx to pay for the government jobs. They will raise your taxes to keep this monster fed with plenty of hamburgers.

Obama’s fix is to raise taxes on people who make over $250,000.00.  Mr. President, $250,000.00 is not what it used to be.  Especially if you live in California or New York.  He wants to raise their income tax by 3% and capital gains by 5%. He also wants to stop subsidies for oil companies.  People; this is just the bait and switch tactic. You can take all their money and it will not pay off the debt. Congress needs to stop spending, stop spending.  I will say it real slooow, Stop spending Congress.  Slash the excessive government jobs.  Stop earmarks on bills. Cut all the wasteful programs which could save billions and billions of our hard earned money.

 The remedy is to cut income taxes and capital gains taxes.  It works every time.  Does Ronald Reagan ring a bell?  This is what he did after the disaster that Jimmy Carter left You with.  This tactic led to the longest non war time recovery in history.  If you are old enough to remember those times, they were good.  I bet you ate a lot of hamburgers.  JFK did it twenty one years earlier as well with the same results.

I am no economist but do know that if you eat a hamburger today and plan on paying the hamburger man on Tuesday, eventually the hamburger man will have a lot of IOU’S which does not pay the bills and the hamburger stand will close. 

 Suck it up Wimpy.

John the Baptist

                                                                             PLAY THE MOVIE

                                                                      Before you make that Decision

We tend to make decisions without much thought of the consequences that they can create down the road, 1 week, 6 months, 1 or 5 years later.  You decide to buy this car that you really don’t need, but you do it anyway. You lose your job, how are you going to pay for the car?  You come across the deal of a life time on the house you always wanted. You make an offer only to find out that you can’t qualify because of that car you really didn’t need.

You really need to think through all the aspects of what could happen and what has happened and what will happen as of the result of these choices that you make.  This is called play the movie.

A husband is happily married for 15 years, has three children. He has a good job with a great 401k.  He has a 4 bedroom house and coaches his daughter’s soccer team.  He is tempted by a women in his department he manages.  He bites the bait. The woman  goes to the police and tells them that he assaulted her.  He gets arrested. Wait he says, she wanted it, she came on to me. To no avail he is convicted of felony sexual assault.  His marriage is broken up as the wife feels betrayed, He loses his job as she was a suborbinate and he is sentenced to prison for two years. The results have not ended yet as once he is released as he is now a registered sex offender. He has to have monitored visits with his children, cannot live around schools, child care facilities, cannot coach youth athletic teams and is shunned by society. He cannot find a good job.  Had he played the movie, would he have made the choice to follow through?  This is the extreme of bad choices, but this applies to all levels of choices we make in our life. The person we marry. Are there things that we don’t like about our prospective spouse, but we think that we can change that person or that Love will overcome all problems? We need to play the movie. Will time change that our spouse is very demanding of our time, authoritive in the way they talk to us, always right in there discussions with us? No in most cases it will not. Our closest friends are in disbelief that we went through with the marriage, only to see the marriage end a few years later. We did not play the movie. Had we, we would have not married this person.

We are on the freeway in our new car with a 390 horse powered Hemi Dodge engine.  We show off to our friends and hit 100 mph in a matter of 10 seconds.  Wow what  fun that was, until we see the red lights in the rear view mirror?  This really sucks.   He didn’t play the movie.  What are the repercussions of this action?  Excessive speeding ticket will be in the $500-$700.00 dollar range.  Traffic school time will be 5 hours on line or 8 hours in class and the class fee of around $100-150.00 dollars.  Wait a minute it doesn’t stop here, your insurance rates will increase for 3 years.  If you go to school or can go to school it will take the ticket off your record for lower speed violations but not this one.  Ouch! Had you played the movie you would have thought about the cost and time of this action, worse is that you could have been in an accident.

Young couple in love and in their teens makes the mistake of premarraige unprotected sex end up pregnant. This will change their life forever. I don’t think I need to into detail of the repercussions on this one.

Take control of your life. Be smart and think things through. Don’t be rushed or pressured into irrational decisions. Talk to people you know and trust; do research if you need to and take your time.  Write down the pros and cons of these decisions.  This will help you make your choices.

Remember, don’t give up and always

Suck it up crybaby                                             

John the Baptist