I have avoided political topics for several weeks now as I had entered a new focus of my life. But now I am forced to slip back into a political mode for this post.
The big news today is that President Obama has ordered every single school district in the United States of America to establish "gender-identity rules" allowing "transgender" students to decide which restroom they will use when at school. If the school districts do not follow the President's orders, they will lose federal funding. This sort of "bullying" by the Federal Government has gone on years, and we - the Sheeple - have stood meekly in shadows as it happened.
So who decides whether a person is a "transgender" person? I suppose it is simply a personal choice. A boy "identifies" (whatever that really means) as a girl, so the boy is not only "entitled," but now may DEMAND, to use the "girl's room." Not only that, but now as per President Obama, the school MUST ALLOW the alleged transgender boy to use the girl's room or face the loss of "federal money." More about "federal" money in just a second - let's continue with the restroom issue.
So transgenders want to use the restroom traditionally used by the other sex. From what I have seen so far, this involves a lot more males than females. I am not sure why, and I will leave that to experts to figure out. But the only criteria, it appears, for gender "identity" is that a man wants to use the women's room, or a woman wants to use the men's room. What this means for the man or woman, girl or boy, who is "certain" of his or her sexual identity, is that he or she will be constantly in fear of a person of the opposite sex coming into the restroom while the other person is at his or her most vulnerable. It does NOT have to be this way.
For those schools that fear the loss of "federal" money, I am sure the installation of a few "transgender" only restrooms will meet the "needs" of the transgender population, whether or not President Obama is happy with this solution.
The second way to handle this is for the school district to thumb its collective nose at the Federal Government's coercion. The loss of this money may hurt, but schools will be able to function without it. And, having thrown off that yoke, schools that do not choose to build transgender restrooms should take the step of making it mandatory that each sex have their own restrooms and that each person must use the restroom corresponding to his or her sex.
I realize that the above paragraph probably will result in some people deciding that I am either a Neanderthal or that I am an intolerant, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, islamophobic, republican. But I recall that just a couple of years ago it was a fairly simple matter to go to the restroom. Boys went to the "boys' room" and girls went to the "girls' room." This was a concept so simple that even a preschooler could understand it. No, you DID NOT have to be smarter than a fifth grader to figure this out.
A certain loud minority, led by President Obama, is determined to fundamentally change America, the Land of the Free. Who can use what restroom is important, but we had that figured out long before the turn of the century. What is more important is that the Federal Government is literally out of control and has overstepped its authority. As the Texas Governor Abbott said, "President Obama is not King." This latest "order" by President Obama is just another in the hundreds of "executive decisions" this despot has made without regard to the Constitution and the authority of each branch of the government. The bigger issue than who can use a restroom is the Federal Government, whether the President or the unelected head of some alphabet soup agency, is now dictating some new law or rule nearly every day WITHOUT including our (supposedly) representative government in the process. The Constitution MANDATES that Congress make our laws. There is no provision for the President to make laws, and no provision for agencies of the Executive Branch to make laws that govern our personal lives.
The biggest issue of all is that we - the People - have indeed (for the most part) become sheeple. Law and order is a good thing, taken in moderation. We must have laws to live by, because laws are what separate civilization from barbarism. A society cannot thrive without laws, and without the majority of the people FOLLOWING those laws. The most important law we have is the Constitution of the United States. This document enumerates the power - and more importantly the limitations - of our Government. President Obama, while not the first President to ignore the Constitution, is certainly the WORST President when it comes to trampling the Constitution, much the same way as some people step on and stomp the flag of this great nation. And while all this trampling and despotism is going on, we- the Sheeple - are just standing by. Many of us, myself included, are loudly decrying all the things going on, but that is about all we are doing.
I am not sure why Americans, including myself, have not already marched on Washington en masse and demanded the impeachment and removal of this most arrogant and unfit President we have ever elected...TWICE!! I AM sure that people around the world are watching us - the Sheeple - and wondering how much we will tolerate, how far we will let this out-of - control government strip away more of our freedoms until we finally act! If we, citizens of the United States are afraid to stand up to our own government and reign it in, how can we expect the same of people who will literally be shot, or tortured THEN shot by their leaders if they dare stand up for liberty?
I am not convinced that it is not already too late for Americans to reign in our government by conventional means. Our representative government is not representative of people, but rather is representative of the corporations that buy elections for senators and congressmen, and yes, even the presidential candidates. Thus our "representatives" are actually afraid to stand up to the President and either make laws to reign him in or reject his bills and programs that are neither constitutional nor helpful to most Americans. And, I might add, NOT WANTED by most Americans.
As these more and more outrageous mandates from President Obama or his minions flood the various states, it is now PAST time for the state governments to do their duty and protect their citizens from the overreach of the federal government. As for American citizens, if we were to re-read the Declaration of Independence, we would see that in many ways we are FAR MORE oppressed by the government of the Land of the Free than our forefathers EVER WERE by the British Crown over two hundred years ago.
In the long-run, transgender restrooms are just another divisive and diverting issue. The bigger picture is that we - the Sheeple - appear to be simply rolling over before this latest government mandate. The biggest issue of all is that we - the Sheeple - are either unwilling or unable to force our representatives to reign in the President, and are unwilling to do more than gripe and complain as our democratic republic is being stripped away before our very eyes. Why do we keep electing these people year after year then stand amazed when business proceeds as usual in Washington?
As the election of 2016 nears, our choice of presidential candidates appears to be narrowing such that we can either vote for a woman who will carry on President Obama's various agendas, and is therefore a "known evil," versus a man whose motives and intentions are basically unknown. Can he be any worse than Obama or Clinton? Well, YES...he could. But we can be pretty sure of how devastating it will be for this nation of Hillary Clinton is elected. We need an alternative...but the alternative we have is an unknown quantity. People who do not want to vote for Hillary, and who do not want Trump, are in a dilemma because a vote for someone OTHER than Donald Trump is essentially a vote for Clinton.
All I can say is...
God Bless and Save America
The big news today is that President Obama has ordered every single school district in the United States of America to establish "gender-identity rules" allowing "transgender" students to decide which restroom they will use when at school. If the school districts do not follow the President's orders, they will lose federal funding. This sort of "bullying" by the Federal Government has gone on years, and we - the Sheeple - have stood meekly in shadows as it happened.
So who decides whether a person is a "transgender" person? I suppose it is simply a personal choice. A boy "identifies" (whatever that really means) as a girl, so the boy is not only "entitled," but now may DEMAND, to use the "girl's room." Not only that, but now as per President Obama, the school MUST ALLOW the alleged transgender boy to use the girl's room or face the loss of "federal money." More about "federal" money in just a second - let's continue with the restroom issue.
So transgenders want to use the restroom traditionally used by the other sex. From what I have seen so far, this involves a lot more males than females. I am not sure why, and I will leave that to experts to figure out. But the only criteria, it appears, for gender "identity" is that a man wants to use the women's room, or a woman wants to use the men's room. What this means for the man or woman, girl or boy, who is "certain" of his or her sexual identity, is that he or she will be constantly in fear of a person of the opposite sex coming into the restroom while the other person is at his or her most vulnerable. It does NOT have to be this way.
For those schools that fear the loss of "federal" money, I am sure the installation of a few "transgender" only restrooms will meet the "needs" of the transgender population, whether or not President Obama is happy with this solution.
The second way to handle this is for the school district to thumb its collective nose at the Federal Government's coercion. The loss of this money may hurt, but schools will be able to function without it. And, having thrown off that yoke, schools that do not choose to build transgender restrooms should take the step of making it mandatory that each sex have their own restrooms and that each person must use the restroom corresponding to his or her sex.
I realize that the above paragraph probably will result in some people deciding that I am either a Neanderthal or that I am an intolerant, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, islamophobic, republican. But I recall that just a couple of years ago it was a fairly simple matter to go to the restroom. Boys went to the "boys' room" and girls went to the "girls' room." This was a concept so simple that even a preschooler could understand it. No, you DID NOT have to be smarter than a fifth grader to figure this out.
A certain loud minority, led by President Obama, is determined to fundamentally change America, the Land of the Free. Who can use what restroom is important, but we had that figured out long before the turn of the century. What is more important is that the Federal Government is literally out of control and has overstepped its authority. As the Texas Governor Abbott said, "President Obama is not King." This latest "order" by President Obama is just another in the hundreds of "executive decisions" this despot has made without regard to the Constitution and the authority of each branch of the government. The bigger issue than who can use a restroom is the Federal Government, whether the President or the unelected head of some alphabet soup agency, is now dictating some new law or rule nearly every day WITHOUT including our (supposedly) representative government in the process. The Constitution MANDATES that Congress make our laws. There is no provision for the President to make laws, and no provision for agencies of the Executive Branch to make laws that govern our personal lives.
The biggest issue of all is that we - the People - have indeed (for the most part) become sheeple. Law and order is a good thing, taken in moderation. We must have laws to live by, because laws are what separate civilization from barbarism. A society cannot thrive without laws, and without the majority of the people FOLLOWING those laws. The most important law we have is the Constitution of the United States. This document enumerates the power - and more importantly the limitations - of our Government. President Obama, while not the first President to ignore the Constitution, is certainly the WORST President when it comes to trampling the Constitution, much the same way as some people step on and stomp the flag of this great nation. And while all this trampling and despotism is going on, we- the Sheeple - are just standing by. Many of us, myself included, are loudly decrying all the things going on, but that is about all we are doing.
I am not sure why Americans, including myself, have not already marched on Washington en masse and demanded the impeachment and removal of this most arrogant and unfit President we have ever elected...TWICE!! I AM sure that people around the world are watching us - the Sheeple - and wondering how much we will tolerate, how far we will let this out-of - control government strip away more of our freedoms until we finally act! If we, citizens of the United States are afraid to stand up to our own government and reign it in, how can we expect the same of people who will literally be shot, or tortured THEN shot by their leaders if they dare stand up for liberty?
I am not convinced that it is not already too late for Americans to reign in our government by conventional means. Our representative government is not representative of people, but rather is representative of the corporations that buy elections for senators and congressmen, and yes, even the presidential candidates. Thus our "representatives" are actually afraid to stand up to the President and either make laws to reign him in or reject his bills and programs that are neither constitutional nor helpful to most Americans. And, I might add, NOT WANTED by most Americans.
As these more and more outrageous mandates from President Obama or his minions flood the various states, it is now PAST time for the state governments to do their duty and protect their citizens from the overreach of the federal government. As for American citizens, if we were to re-read the Declaration of Independence, we would see that in many ways we are FAR MORE oppressed by the government of the Land of the Free than our forefathers EVER WERE by the British Crown over two hundred years ago.
In the long-run, transgender restrooms are just another divisive and diverting issue. The bigger picture is that we - the Sheeple - appear to be simply rolling over before this latest government mandate. The biggest issue of all is that we - the Sheeple - are either unwilling or unable to force our representatives to reign in the President, and are unwilling to do more than gripe and complain as our democratic republic is being stripped away before our very eyes. Why do we keep electing these people year after year then stand amazed when business proceeds as usual in Washington?
As the election of 2016 nears, our choice of presidential candidates appears to be narrowing such that we can either vote for a woman who will carry on President Obama's various agendas, and is therefore a "known evil," versus a man whose motives and intentions are basically unknown. Can he be any worse than Obama or Clinton? Well, YES...he could. But we can be pretty sure of how devastating it will be for this nation of Hillary Clinton is elected. We need an alternative...but the alternative we have is an unknown quantity. People who do not want to vote for Hillary, and who do not want Trump, are in a dilemma because a vote for someone OTHER than Donald Trump is essentially a vote for Clinton.
All I can say is...
God Bless and Save America
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