Posted on 06/14/2013 9:38:05 AM PDT by mylife
Based on some of the headlines we’ve seen lately, I’m not sure that’s necessarily sarcasm, unfortunately.
Joshua is about 20-25 miles south of Fort Worth.
I had thought about this.
You can bet that Annapolis will not give the young man any special consideration over this, but it is possible that politics could work against the young man.
They will likely publicly disregard this entire incident when looking at admission.
In private I think they will cheer for him.
After 5 years of Obama appointees/promotions in our armed services, he may very well not be welcome.
Until we stop this "common sense" nonsense and fight fire with fire, we will continue to lose that which is dear to us.
Well I see that the gutless Joshua High Principal Mick Cochran did not have the ba**s to make the statement in person due to the fact that he was hiding behind the poor women who had to face the cameras.
Agreed.
Rick Perry just passed a Merry Christmas law in Tx today.
Says a lot.
I hope so. What a nasty thing to threaten. He could have a massive effect on this boys future. Somebody should be threatening his job for doing that.
I think he is feeling more pressure than the valedictorian.
I saw that - waiting for MS to do something like that - Gov Bryant seems to have his head on fairly straight - evidenced by fixing a long-broken court decision that kept folks from enjoying the Constitutional open carry provision that has been on the books for ages but was useless. Funny how some judge/court can negate the intent of a law by declaring that a holster "wholly, or in part" conceals a weapon; which means one must have a concealed carry permit to carry in a holster, but a concealed carry weapon must also remain wholly concealed so the permit still disallows the no-permit-needed open carry. Must have been some left-wing-gun-grabber judge...I'm sure I sounded like something Carney would say when defending his Big 0 boss man.
Normally I am against any new laws, but sometimes we have to buttress existing laws when we see liberals chipping away at us.
You hit it on the head - the lawmakers tend to make a lot of law, knowing they will require even more laws, because the more laws, the more avenues they have to subvert us to their will.
I hate it.
It’s a double edged sword.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
This is the problem with governance.
We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.
This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it’s train wretchedness and oppression.”
Jefferson on public debt and taxation
Politicians always promise to much, get their butts in a sling and then work the populous against each other to keep them from throwing stones at the mismanagers.
Throw stones at each other! I am on your side... LOL
*Spit* Patooey!
I tell folks who believe the liberal theology/paradigm that they are begging for a real transformation.
Step one is to bring back slavery and have the government as the slave-masters and the People as the slaves.
Step two is to reduce us to the status of pets who are taken care of by the government and put down when we "are in too much pain" or otherwise inconvenient.
The final stage is that we become as livestock - raised at the pleasure of the government and put down indiscriminately as it suits the government.
They look at me like I'm crazy - they think that the fact that they are actually voting for this transformation is proof that it cannot happen.
Always interesting to see evidence of the moral inversion. 30 years ago, a principal would have sent a letter claiming a student had a character flaw because he shouted profanities in the valedictory speech. Now a student’s character is questionable because he made a statement of faith.
Answer: Home School
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