Many of you don’t remember the great cartoons the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Daffy Duck, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick and Popeye. These are the cartoons that occupied my Saturday mornings as I grew up. While parents tried to sleep in on Saturday, their children watched ‘ The Buggs Bunny Road Runner’ hour, and ate cereal like Kicks or Cheereos or Cap’n Crunch. One of Popeye signature sayings was ‘ I’ve had all I can stans, I can’t stand no more’ at which point he would pull out a can of spinach and guzzle it down to become the super strong man that could beat Bluto, giant octopus or whatever situation he was in.

How I wish America would collectively yell ‘I have all I can stans, I can’t stand no more’ when it comes to the NFL and the politicization of American Football. The NFL is a private organization and has written rules set for each player like if the NFL has a sponsor of Nike, a player can not wear Reebok tennis shoes. If one of the sponsors is Campbell’s soup, you had better not be seen in public eating a competitors soup. Players have been fined $10,000 dollars for violating NFL rules. Another written rule is that, while the National Anthem is being played, the player is to stand with their helmet held at their side as a sign of respect. Many men and women have fought and died to maintain freedom in America. My father, several uncles and my grandfather served in the US military. Many other men served and died. The Flag of the United States and the National Anthem represent the sacrifice of many men and families to give these grown men the right to play a childs game and make millions of dollars. I think it is a small sacrifice to at least stand during the National Anthem. By disrespecting our National Anthem and our flag, you disrespect the men and women that fought and died for your freedom. You disrespect the average American citizen as well as you believe your opinion is more important than ours.

Yes, these men have the right to protest. But they have to realize that none of them are being persecuted. With millions of dollars in their bank accounts, multiple ex wives and many children, how can they say they are persecuted? Doctors save lives and create cures for diseases and don’t have millions of dollars in their bank accounts but players in the NFL do. They don’t save lives, they get to play a game. All they do is literally play a game to entertain us and get a boatload of money not to mention endorsements which could be worth millions themselves. Let me reiterate, these are grown men that GET to play a child game and make a lot of money. What the hell are they protesting?  Try getting millions of dollars playing football in the middle East. Count your lucky stars, shut up and just play football. I already could not give a sh…neeze about American Football anymore. I think there is more heart and effort in college football anyway. While I don’t usually supported boycotts, there is a place for it. If your a player in the NFL, I don’t want to hear your opinion on politics. Just like actors in Hollyweird, they are professional liars who ACT like a fictional character. I don’t care what your opinion is of the president, healthcare or education. Shut up and act. It is us who pay your salary. If we stopped buying products from your sponsors, stopped buying NFL paraphernalia and stopped buying tickets, you would be out on your ass looking for real work.

Frankly, I wouldn’t hire you to rake my lawn. Shut up, stand up and play.

I can’t believe that I am going to agree with a Hollywierd liberal. I could never side with the likes of a George Clooney or Rosie O’Donald because they are just bat-crap crazy. I heard something yesterday that I could not disagree with and it was said by a lefty Hollywood actor. And what is also relevent, is it fits in with my last blog. Our youth are sorely uneducated, especially when it comes to civics and the Constitution of the United States of America. You may have noticed that those in charge of your children education pick and choose what to teach. In many cases, like that of schools in California, history books are rewritten with lies and are taught as truth. So imagine my pleasant suprise that Richard Dreyfuss stated that our youth needs to be taught American civics and respect for the Constitution. He so very eloquently opined that our youth need to be taught proper American history and how & why our Contitution was written. In fact, Mr. Dreyfuss created a website based on the name ‘The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative’. There, you are urged to sign the Preamble the the Constitution of the United States of America.
How can we expect our youth to be prepared to be future leaders without the basic knowledge of our countries foundation of our God given rights. Our country, for the first time in human history, was founded that ‘We the people’ are the nation. That we are a Constitutional Republic which means ‘We the people’ elect representatives to ‘represent us’ in matters of writting laws that govern us. That even many adults are lacking in the basic knowledge of how our country was founded, and why. Even many of our representatives have forgotten what a responsability it is and an honor to represent ‘we the people’.
I went onto his created website and signed the Preamble. I believe he has a passion for this and he is correct. Along with reading, writing and arithmetic, our youth need this basic knowledge of American civics. It is no accident that the Statue of Liberty faces east. It is not to welcome immigrants to our nation, even though she does. She is facing the rest of the world as a beacon of Liberty. She is showing us that freedom and liberty needs to be shared with the rest of the world, not forced upon the world but shared. To be a light on the hill, she stands resolute guiding freedom outward to the rest of the world. How can we, as a nation, expect to survive in the future if our youth are ill-prepared to continue the values that created the greatest nation, the most wealth and the principle that merit with hard work can propel an individual no matter their skin color, gender or background.
So I, a conservative Constitutionalist urge you to log onto Richard Dreyfuss’ website and support the future of our countries leaders by giving them the education and tools to think critically to be our future leaders, otherwise we will outsource that too which would be a shame and a mistake.

OK. I officially claim that the snowflake generation is stupid, no…that would insult stupid people. They are ignorant! No, that would insult ignorant people. What is worse than stupid and ignorant? Ignoramous’.

My grandparents were from the greatest generation. They survived the depression and WWII. My parents were no slouches either and while my mother went to school in a one room school house much like the one on ‘Little House on the Prarie’, she was still taught how to tell time, read, write in cursive, balance a checkbook, read a map, read a phonebook, basic American civics and geometry and more importantly, think for herself. My father was in the military and was involved with basic, intermediate and advanced electronics and was a teacher who specialized in the same. I graduated HS with the knowledge of reading, writing, arithmetic, American civics, American and world history, biology, chemestry, computer sciences, the ability to write in cursive, read and tell time on an analog watch, math thru trigonometry, read a map, a newspaper, phone book, Sheakespeare, balance a checkbook and yes, think for myself. The main thing that Dr. Kron instilled in me was to ask the question ‘why’?

So why is the current generation so lacking in the basic skills needed to think for themselves?

While at a drive thru coffee house, the barista noticed my wrist watch which is an analog divers time piece. This young man of about 20 years old asked, after admiring it ‘how do you tell time with it?’ I can only hope that, while this young man looked sincere, that he was only joking. But it does beg the question ‘what are they not teaching in school anymore?’

I went to a large national chain department store to buy a thig-a-majig. I went up to the cashier and my whatchamacallit was rung up at $9.26. As I handed him a $10.00 bill the power went out. He informed me that I would have to wait. I told him the change is going to be 74 cents. He said he did not think so and had to wait for the power to come back on to figure out how much change to give me. I stared at him dumbstruck. He could not ‘think’ but had to be told what to do. Again, another graduate from public school. Why are we pumping out a generation of people that can’t think for themselves?

I like SciFi and if you are astute, you can see a possible future in science fiction. In the 1997 Outer Limits episode called ‘Stream of Consciousness’ (season 3 episode 5) mankind has become so dependant on technology that the populace can no longer think for themselves. They had created a neural implant which connects everyone to a ‘Google-like’ computer which gives them all the answers to any question. Well, something goes wrong as technology inevitably fails and since the populace can no longer think for themselves, they are helped by the very person that they shunned because he could not be ‘plugged into’ the computer….because he had to learn to think for himself. Kind of prophetic isn’t it?

Our children are being taught how to put a condom on a cucumber and that they can ignor their genetics and be whatever gender they ‘feel’ like being, but they can not read an analog watch, write in cursive, perform simple mathematics, know almost nothing of American civics, know even less of the Constitution of the United States of America and how & why it was written. And more importantly, our children can not think for themselves.

I see people that ‘live’ on their ‘smart phone’. By that, I mean that people have become so reliant on the smart phone or other mobile device that if the power goes out or the internet goes down, they literally do not know what to do. They remind me so much of the way people were depicted in that episode of Outer Limits. Think about it, very few people buy cameras anymore because there is a camera in their phone. When was the last time someone bought a map? There is Google Maps on your phone. No need for an MP3 player because you can store all of your music on your phone. Who in the younger generation wears a watch? The phone can literally ‘tell’ you the time. Who needs to write a letter? Send an email instead. And what the heck is a fax machine? Technology is great, as a tool but we must learn the basics. In school, my teacher said that in order to use a calculator in class, we first had to prove we could solve the problem without it. The classwork comprised of 25 questions. If each of us could solve the first 10 questions on paper without a calculator, after she checked your work and if you were right, then you could use a calculator for the remaining questions. The calculator was a timesaving device but she did not want us to be dependant on it. We had to understand the math concept first. We had to think for ourselves.

While I am not a fan of the TV show called ‘Naked and Afraid’, I did watch two episodes. The concept is one man and one woman are taken to an isolated location like the Amazon jungle or the mountains somewhere, these two people have not met each other until the first day of 21 days, they strip naked and each get 1 tool. Maybe a machete, a pot, a magnesium fire starter. Then they have to live with each other, alone in the mountain or jungle and survive. No cell phone, no survival manual, no McDonalds or water faucet. just themselves and the two tools they chose. How many millennial snowflakes could start a fire without a lighter? How many of these whinny snowflakes could find food, water or shelter? Take away their cell phone, fancy clothes and give them only a knife and a pot, could they survive? What if that fat North Korean pot bellied pig decides to get ‘wild and crazy’ and our electrical grid id disabled for a short period of time? No cell phone, no internet, no McDonalds, no air conditioning or water from the faucet. What would these under prepared ‘sheep’ do? They would be dependant on the government for everything and probably have to go to a concentration, er, FEMA camp. What will they do when they cant log onto Facebook and bitch about the President wanting to make America great again?

Several years ago, there was a push for school vouchers. This is simply a plan to allow the tax money that the parent already pays, and allows the parent to choose the school that they want to send their children to. It could be a private Catholic school, Christian school, or any public or charter school. The power goes to the parent, not the government. Maybe it is time to bring the idea of vouchers back. What can it hurt? It is obvious that many public schools are more interested in telling a third grade boy that it is OK to dress, act and be treated like a girl, put condoms on cucumbers, and yet put little Cindy in jail for bringing a pink squirt gun to school because, hey, she brought a firearm to school and is a danger to everyone. You see, snowflakes don’t like an environment of alternate ideas, or a pink squirt gun.

OK. I officially claim that the snowflake generation is stupid, no…that would insult stupid people. They are ignorant! No, that would insult ignorant people. What is worse than stupid and ignorant? Ignoramous’.

My grandparents were from the greatest generation. They survived the depression and WWII. My parents were no slouches either and while my mother went to school in a one room school house much like the one on ‘Little House on the Prarie’, she was still taught how to tell time, read, write in cursive, balance a checkbook, read a map, read a phonebook, basic American civics and geometry and more importantly, think for herself. My father was in the military and was involved with basic, intermediate and advanced electronics and was a teacher who specialized in the same. I graduated HS with the knowledge of reading, writing, arithmetic, American civics, American and world history, biology, chemestry, computer sciences, the ability to write in cursive, read and tell time on an analog watch, math thru trigonometry, read a map, a newspaper, phone book, Sheakespeare, balance a checkbook and yes, think for myself. The main thing that Dr. Kron instilled in me was to ask the question ‘why’?

So why is the current generation so lacking in the basic skills needed to think for themselves?

While at a drive thru coffee house, the barista noticed my wrist watch which is an analog divers time piece. This young man of about 20 years old asked, after admiring it ‘how do you tell time with it?’ I can only hope that, while this young man looked sincere, that he was only joking. But it does beg the question ‘what are they not teaching in school anymore?’

I went to a large national chain department store to buy a thig-a-majig. I went up to the cashier and my whatchamacallit was rung up at $9.26. As I handed him a $10.00 bill the power went out. He informed me that I would have to wait. I told him the change is going to be 74 cents. He said he did not think so and had to wait for the power to come back on to figure out how much change to give me. I stared at him dumbstruck. He could not ‘think’ but had to be told what to do. Again, another graduate from public school. Why are we pumping out a generation of people that can’t think for themselves?

I like SciFi and if you are astute, you can see a possible future in science fiction. In the 1997 Outer Limits episode called ‘Stream of Consciousness’ (season 3 episode 5) mankind has become so dependant on technology that the populace can no longer think for themselves. They had created a neural implant which connects everyone to a ‘Google-like’ computer which gives them all the answers to any question. Well, something goes wrong as technology inevitably fails and since the populace can no longer think for themselves, they are helped by the very person that they shunned because he could not be ‘plugged into’ the computer….because he had to learn to think for himself. Kind of prophetic isn’t it?

Our children are being taught how to put a condom on a cucumber and that they can ignor their genetics and be whatever gender they ‘feel’ like being, but they can not read an analog watch, write in cursive, perform simple mathematics, know almost nothing of American civics, know even less of the Constitution of the United States of America and how & why it was written. And more importantly, our children can not think for themselves.

I see people that ‘live’ on their ‘smart phone’. By that, I mean that people have become so reliant on the smart phone or other mobile device that if the power goes out or the internet goes down, they literally do not know what to do. They remind me so much of the way people were depicted in that episode of Outer Limits. Think about it, very few people buy cameras anymore because there is a camera in their phone. When was the last time someone bought a map? There is Google Maps on your phone. No need for an MP3 player because you can store all of your music on your phone. Who in the younger generation wears a watch? The phone can literally ‘tell’ you the time. Who needs to write a letter? Send an email instead. And what the heck is a fax machine? Technology is great, as a tool but we must learn the basics. In school, my teacher said that in order to use a calculator in class, we first had to prove we could solve the problem without it. The classwork comprised of 25 questions. If each of us could solve the first 10 questions on paper without a calculator, after she checked your work and if you were right, then you could use a calculator for the remaining questions. The calculator was a timesaving device but she did not want us to be dependant on it. We had to understand the math concept first. We had to think for ourselves.

While I am not a fan of the TV show called ‘Naked and Afraid’, I did watch two episodes. The concept is one man and one woman are taken to an isolated location like the Amazon jungle or the mountains somewhere, these two people have not met each other until the first day of 21 days, they strip naked and each get 1 tool. Maybe a machete, a pot, a magnesium fire starter. Then they have to live with each other, alone in the mountain or jungle and survive. No cell phone, no survival manual, no McDonalds or water faucet. just themselves and the two tools they chose. How many millennial snowflakes could start a fire without a lighter? How many of these whinny snowflakes could find food, water or shelter? Take away their cell phone, fancy clothes and give them only a knife and a pot, could they survive? What if that fat North Korean pot bellied pig decides to get ‘wild and crazy’ and our electrical grid is disabled for a short period of time? No cell phone, no internet, no McDonalds, no air conditioning or water from the faucet. What would these under prepared ‘sheep’ do? They would be dependant on the government for everything and probably have to go to a concentration, er, FEMA camp. What will they do when they can’t log onto Facebook and bitch about the President wanting to make America great again?

Several years ago, there was a push for school vouchers. This is simply a plan to allow the tax money that the parent already pays, and allows the parent to choose the school that they want to send their children to. It could be a private Catholic school, Christian school, or any public or charter school. The power goes to the parent, not the government. Maybe it is time to bring the idea of vouchers back. What can it hurt? It is obvious that many public schools are more interested in telling a third grade boy that it is OK to dress, act and be treated like a girl, put condoms on cucumbers, and yet put little Cindy in jail for bringing a pink squirt gun to school because, hey, she brought a firearm to school and is a danger to everyone. You see, snowflakes don’t like an environment of alternate ideas, or a pink squirt gun.