Make the tenure review every TWO years and I would agree. Seven years is a long enough period to totally screw with the minds of youth. After they pass the test they are free to push their doctrine on the kids for seven full years! Too long. Way, way too long! And, any teacher that does not like being tested in their field of learning, has something to hide! Testing insures they keep their minds fresh and updated in their lesson plans. We should require only TOP MINDS teach our children…starting in kindergarten! And no cross-dressing teachers. I had several gay teachers during my school days, none of which cross-dressed and most of whom were some of the best teachers I ever had! They concentrated on teaching and kept their sexual orientation out of the classroom. Once you get kids thinking about sex they become deaf to other class instruction, which is why children from kindergarten to age 12 should not be indoctrinated into thinking there are more than two sexes and boys can give birth. (Now really. How asinine is that?!) Any wonder why our kids aren’t learning and IQs have dropped??? Doesn’t surprise me in the least….
Oh my, the state of public education today! My dad got an EdD so he could have “Dr.” in front of his name for business purposes. Jill Biden got the same memo. Classes in Education for elementary school, fine, brain development and all of that. But making a physicist or chemist take classes in Education in order to get a teaching certificate to teach high school students? Please. And as if that isn’t bad enough, to then interject an insidious sexual-questioning curricula to a cohort already dominated by hormonal activity? Sounds more like a crime against humanity to me.
Have to agree, altho I still would like the whole public education system dismantled. Teaching was put in place to teach the basics, nothing more. If they can't do that job without adding their own mental fiddle faddle, then out they go! I keep going into more detail about how messed up wrong the majority of the whole PES is, but parents have to get strong in their own minds on how a child's mind is such a fragile, important entity to protect and stop thinking so shallow.
I love this story, altho granted it is a private Preparatory School...(then again, there you go).
"Why a 55-mile trek is a mandatory rite of passage for freshmen at one high school."
Let me agree by disagreeing. Better training is irrelevant. Better character is the key. My Amish neighbors have the best behaved cleverest and highest achieving students with no principal, one room school houses, no kindergarten and only go to 8th grade. Their teachers are untrained volunteers from the community. That’s the key. Community values. Their focus is reading, writing, math, and Pennsylvania Dutch. The ministers act as overseers and the parents have oversight. Oh, and the school year is only 6 months. Ends in late March so kids can help get the crops out in Spring and doesn’t start until October after sorghum season. In between kids hang out with parents who teach them everything they need to know to build, farm, and run a family. Nobody here is without a home, food, work, medical care, and if they go through tough teenager rebellion they are keeping it a big secret because they certainly act like normal well adjusted young adults that often come by to see what they can do for me (I’m 77 and not lifting much nor climbing ladders anymore). It’s not training. It’s character and community and a good curriculum helps. As an old schoolteacher I have a special window into what doesn’t work in the modern industrial education complex.
Maybe I should add that not everyone stays Amish. Some leave and go on to other things. I personally know one who flies private corporate jets when he isn’t running his own construction company. His brother has a huge roofing business. Some go on to higher education and get degrees in whatever hard sciences interest them. A faith based, community based primary education focused on the basics we ALL need is not a hindrance even if you want a secular life. But character and community values canNOT be replaced with university degrees and periodic testing. That’s the point.
Sounds very much like a"village" go.e schooling program to me. KUDOS TO THE AMISH. If it wasn't an oxymoron, I would say put them in charge of the DOE. 🤣
Every time a rino is mentioned or depicted, I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger bragging about he doesn't mind being called one because they are beautiful, powerful creatures. 😆😆😆
Wanted to share a few thoughts with all of you, sorry so long…
Since the beginning of man people have been influenced by the spoken word. When the serpent told Adam and Eve, eating the fruit from the forbidden tree would not kill them but make them God like, Eve and then Adam ate. So right from the very beginning this demonstrated that man could be coerced. Words spoken over us , or things we see, from the time we are children, can impact us for a lifetime.
There are actual stages to the infection of one’s mind. It begins as a thought. You see something or someone makes a suggestion. You can’t control this, it’s placed before you, it can be as simple as seeing something on your phone. The enemy can be subtle. It doesn’t have to always be a big announcement, it could be just a suggestion. You begin to think about it , you dwell on it, it begins to take root. That thought turns into a plan. That plan turns into action. That action turns into repeated action. As it becomes a habit it begins to take control of you. This is why they call sins passions, because they make us passive. We see this with anger or lust or addiction. We allow it in and it takes control, we allow it to become a normal in our daily life. Evil has its ways.
This can be the same as discouraging thoughts spoken over us. A parent tells their child you’re not valuable, you’ll never be successful, you’re not as smart as your cousin. Thoughts create images. If you let those thoughts stay, you start to dwell on it, maybe I’m not worthy, maybe I have seen my best days, maybe I don’t have the talent I need, maybe I won’t be healed. Before long that little lie is going to create major infection. It’s going to poison your self image, contaminate your attitude, distort your vision. It’s important to deal with thoughts quickly. If we allow these negative thoughts to fester we’re inviting it in, we’re giving it permission to become a reality. Don’t let them linger in your mind. The scripture says to bring every thought into captivity. It’s the small foxes that spoil the vines.
It seems 5th generation warfare has been around for thousands of years. Like when the serpent told Adam and Eve the fruit would not kill them, our own government and medical establishment told us the Covid shots were safe and effective. They knowingly lied to us. Once infected with Covid there’s a good chance you won’t survive, you’ll die alone. Wear your mask, social distance, a winter of death among the unvaccinated. Theres nothing the serpent wouldn’t say or do to coerce us, take control, to push their dangerous injections into our arms. Fear, intimidation, force, lockdowns, taking away our right to freely travel. The human brain instinctually perceives restrictions, oppression and confinement as immediate threats activating survival responses. This is the hurdle the totalitarian must drive from its subjects. Although the tyrant doesn’t care if you can’t afford a home, or that you have no money for food, he does care about what you think. He is a master at coercing the mind and breaking people.
Throughout history, the nature of human freedom has been debated across varying frameworks. Philosophers, political theorists, our forefathers asserted that liberty is an intrinsic, unalienable right. This perspective suggests that we are born with a baseline need to pursue happiness and self-actualization. Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre argued that "man is condemned to be free." This means we are thrown into the world without predetermined guidelines, that people must be given the ultimate responsibility to define who we are through our choices.
A persons intrinsic desire for freedom will constantly put the freedom loving person at odds with evil, communism and democrats,😁, sorry I had to throw that in!! Happy Sunday!! J.Goodrich
Sadly we are seeing now an unwillingness to make the,necessary effort to guarantee that we retain that freedom. Sloth also seems to be an inalienable right too
I think automation in every sector of our lives has made us lazy beyond reason. Why do new parents give their babies IPhones and IPads? Cheap babysitters……LAZY! And too much electronics in the classroom to replace responding to a human is terrible. However, constant one-on-one with a child….answering questions….guiding interactions with peers and adults….learning respect for themselves and others….all very important life lessons that are being overlooked and consequently children lack those social skills for later in life. And parents wonder why their children are disrespectful…..? Really? You haven’t figured that out? They are running rampant in the streets and setting fires, destroying property and enjoying every minute. They want attention. Attention they didn’t get enough of as children. They were not taught respect. So their names in the paper, their faces on TV, in handcuffs or in a mug shot will suffice….. “Lookie! I’m famous!” (For all the wrong reasons.)
Bottom line: No amount of computer time replaces the love and attention of a good parent. PERIOD.
Growing up, my 3 brothers and I were mostly unsupervised, as my divorced mother owned three "taverns" so she was either sleeping or working. We all, following her work ethic, became self employed in different industries. Although my childhood was not the best, I succeeded by making (mostly) good choices and choosing to better myself. Take responsibility, and you become a responsible person...
James, To me, what you write of about the mind, can be tempered by knowing the value of meditation and the intricacies of the technique. In some places the children are taught how to sit still and look inside. The purpose of a mantra, like the rosary, is to assist the mind in slowing down thought. Without some technique to practice, often an ancient one, there can be no peace.
I agree, just don't make time to do it as often as I used to. I did various meditation types before I joined the Catholic church at age 45. Praying the rosary is like meditating with a mantra.
Any mental form of moving away from chaos into a state of tranquility and calm is a meditation. Even just looking down at a sleeping child in all their innocence can create that state of calm, loving well being. You become mindful and the woe of the world can drop away.
The practice of meditation is a discipline and leads to the ability to direct the mind and emotions at will. it's good to have the ability to direct the Wiley mind when there is no sleeping baby to look at. I get your drift, and yet it hasn't been that simple for me...
Agreed. Not simple for myself either. Guess I should have prefaced with those brief moments of peace being a preview, or mindful start to something larger.
Guess I just meant any looking inward with calm can be rewarding.
Thank you for a thoughtful and beautiful assessment of the difficulties we face in today’s complicated global community. My view of what can be considered as factual or false is limited to personal experience or trust in others who have repeatedly demonstrated their courage, wisdom and willingness to share their knowledge and perspectives about what has happened and in their judgement is likely to happen in the future. Many valuable principles are espoused in religious writings that have stood the test of time and I believe should continue to be shared. My inability to ignore that the same writings contain very disturbing contradictions that thousands of years ago might not have been as concerning are now to me considered evil. So for this I have always been treated as an outsider for questioning everything and suffered the isolation that comes from reluctance to join the consensus. I’m not complaining just expressing my reality that has been a razors edge of navigating a world without complete conviction to a single perspective. Thanks for letting me share my thoughts.
You seem to have had complete conviction to come here? That is worthy. Also, as far as I am able to note, there is no isolation within this space with one caveat. All are welcome with open minds as long as written content doesn't espouse evil intent or malicious verbalization against the community.
and now, after people lose their jobs and homes municipalities are making being homeless illegal. living in your car, often the only thing they still have = arrests and fines. Send them down the road and make them someone else's problem. Human kindness overflowing and I think its going to rain today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Fn8VhkK5g
I agree about the subtlety of seeing things as a child and the influence it has on young lives. My husband and I are the same age. He was raised in Phoenix and I was raised in small town Indiana. My household had different TV choices than his. As adults we have discussed simple things like our favorite childhood cartoons. I likely love spinach because Popeye did. He dislikes spinach and never saw a Popeye cartoon. There are many other examples of the influence of what we saw helped us accept things that otherwise we may not have. I was not upset when I had to get glasses in elementary school because Fearless Fly put on glasses and once he could see, he became fearless. I did as well. It seems that back in the 60's and 70's television programs for children were careful to only teach valuable lessons that still resonate with us today. Not anymore. I watched the Disney channel with my 2.5 year old grandson for 10 minutes of mindless garbage and turned off the TV and said, Charley, let's go play. He was all in!
James, your opening phrase is both subtle and profound, “Since the beginning of man…” A vast difference from “Since the beginning of time.” Maybe 14 billion years worth. We just bought a t-shirt from one of the subscribers here that says, “Nothing in evolution can account for the soul of man,” written by Charles Darwin’s colleague, Alfred Russel Wallace. The website you might find worthwhile is arn.org. There is a meeting of an affiliated group that will be held in late July up your way at Gordon College in Wenham, MA: SCIENCE FAITH SYNERGY: Glorifying God and Serving the World https://network.asa3.org/mpage/ASA2026#plenaries
The young woman with the misspelled sign only solidifies the fact that she should NOT be skipping school to spend time protesting! Our kids are being led, like cows with a nose ring, into the bright light of “STUPID!” Keeping the masses ignorant only makes leading them astray that much easier. Our target should start with getting rid of the Dept. of Education, then requiring teachers to complete testing yearly to ensure they are qualified to teach a subject and NO MORE TENURE! If a teacher starts politically indoctrinating classes instead of teaching the criteria, they should be FIRED….no matter how long they have been teaching! These school classes are not entitled “A Teacher’s Perspective”…..of History, Math, English or Science. In order to get our country back, we have to correct the damage that has been done where it started….with educating our youth! Get rid of the indoctrinating teachers by monitoring classes!
I read your post. Twice. I agree with you completely. What I can't help is thinking about my peers that I have met through employment. Their spouses. I'm talking well-off, successful people, my age and older (54). They went through the same public education that I did. Even college (RN). Yet they lean as left as far as you can from right without just falling over. I suppose once the schools are done with the children, the media takes over in adulthood if allowed. My friends watch their "credible" news outlets. CNN, msnbc-or whatever it is now. They get their laughs from the greats...you know, Colbert, Kimmel. If the schools could get cleaned up, that's still half the battle.
My late 30ish son runs into the same. Long time friends who somehow keep drinking the Kool Aid. I think the family unit plays a big part first which is reinforced by outside influence. Schools, TV, music, protests...
It sounds like their lives were not as they had hoped and lost the ability for critical thinking and thier children are lazy or got college degrees that prepared them to do nothing, and they are leading them by the nose to support their faulty goals.
Too simple an analysis for me. These trends are complicated and the responsibility lies with every person willing to give up their inner guide. We know the signs of illness and choose to ignore them.
Sticky wicket there. Tenure,necessary to preserve academic freedom which is subject to challenge after leadership change. What we had where I worked was tenure renewed every 7 yrs. Allows justifiable challenge to poor performance.
Too long to mess up the minds of those they teach. I like the two year rule. I also believe in Right to Work States where you can teach without having to join a union.
Not to worry this will all be replaced with Artificial Intelligence soon along with about half of everyone else's jobs. Or, so they say. May be another tech bubble about to pop.
It's debatable whether tenure at top universities is good or bad. For people who are doing cutting edge research it sometimes takes a while to determine whether they are right or wrong. On the other hand, it makes absolutely no sense at high schools. High school teachers are not in the business of creating new knowledge, so determining whether they are doing the job correctly doesn't require years of debate and experiment by top researchers.
And perverted idealogs! Pet sat for a Univ librarian. Her VW was covered with patches Declaring her truths and oppositions! The Univ was a hotbed of radicals.
WONDERFUL Thought Barbara, but we will have to get rid of the teacher's unions in order to accomplish what you suggest. Make sure you state adapts "Right to Work" policy and pass a law to that end.
The Senate refuses to pass the Save America Act by ditching the Filibuster, which the Democrats say they will ditch it when they take back the Senate. Just like Iran, if they say they will nuke Israel and America, Believe Them!
I have yet to see the GOP govern in Congress as if they were trying to save America. They have the keen ability to move the football forward one yard, while allowing the Democrats to move it backwards five yards—they call it negotiations. 🙄
I have a signed copy of Ted Cruz’s Book “A Time for Truth” (2015) where he says in the introduction, “Telling the truth in Washington, D.C., is a radical act. And it earns you the enmity of career politicians in both parties…when you expose the fact that elected officials are misleading the voters who elected them—you pay a price…when you admit publicly that many of those in your own party are complicit in the problem, well, that’s when the long knives come out.” He was then target by GOP leadership to stop corporate funding for him, because he stood against the status quo.
That is corruption. Period! But it continues today when Thune and the other Senators refuse to pass the Save America Act—it’s more about self-preservation than American preservation. We are fighting a battle on two fronts, Democrats and Republicans. That my friends is the truth.
Here's my latest to my 'oh so worthy' swamp creature representatives?!...
Ok, once again I have written Federal representatives of my state of CO in response to Fraud/Corruption and their behavior. If anyone wants to use my words to do the same, feel free!!
PS: I did use a paragraph from Mr. Childers to make more of a point (hope he's ok with that) and issued it anonymously.
You are suppose to be a representative of hardworking, family oriented American people, not people who are grifters and cheats. Please stop supporting this abhorrent behavior in exchange for votes, its unbecoming. I personally am sickened and disgusted with the growing, tentacled fraud taking place in Minnesota, California, Kentucky, New York, Ohio and yes, here in Colorado. You may be fooling yourself, but not us. The US government has no business handing out our hard earned and increasingly small paychecks this way.
"America has baked a rotten social lasagna. Layers of interlocking statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions “protect” welfare recipients’ “entitlements” to “benefits.” And increasingly, cheesy politicians facilitate the fraud by intentionally loosening oversight, turning a blind eye in exchange for votes from blocs of “communities” who reward elected patrons." (by Mr. Childers).
Written by a patriot for a clean, constitutionally healthy America.
So very true! DemonRATS are definitely the worst but RINO Republicans are terrible too! Thank God for President Trump. Just wish he had way more help in passing COMMON SENSE legislation that would benefit Americans! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
When Trump looks at a fake journalist on “Meet the Depressed” and tells her she’s either corrupt or stupid, there’s a man who loves America and defends her—he’s all action. The “fake news” is nothing but the propaganda arm of the DNC.
Absolutely agree, “laughter is my best medicine”; music is first though. I get tired of so much theater-drama within the leftist lunatic’s party. So, I tune them out & play trumpet/jazz music, some old rock/roll, or a little-bit-of-country!
Oh yeah - laughter and music. Best medicine. And writing. How I stay sane. I've been writing lyrics my whole adult life but until last July my attempts to get them into listenable music were pretty lame. Then another substacker introduced me to SUNO.ai which lets me upload my lyrics and tell it what kind of music I want and five minutes later - boom!
I think that slogan, "What's for dinner?" should return. Only now the update version should read, "What's for dinner...BEEF...don't agree, get the H*** Out of My Kitchen."
So many truisms! Thank heavens a few are heartening.
The children learning on the basis of what they observe. And no place else to go!
Ice! Maryland has the answer. Using tax moneys, they are setting up a commission to see immigrants (IAs) rights are respected and delivered. NO ICE! ¡
Follow that with the CA election affairs. Do we need Anything further to prove the Save Act is vital?
Last night listened to a reading (?) of Sen Kennedy questioning HRC at a hearing. Priceless! He is under appreciated! Then there was the Thought Leaders interview with an AI expert. He noted, among other things AI will be determining what's heard and deciding policy.
Off to readying for another banner week of many progresses. Thanking my lucky stars for our leadership and participants here! A source for sanity and purpose.
I think we all knew how the CA election was going to turn out! Remember in 2020 when Trump was way, way ahead when we all went to bed and they did that massive ballot drop in the middle of the night and every vote was for Biden! Oh yeah! We all knew how THIS election was going to turn out! Sad. Just sad!
:) Good Sunday Morning. :) a lot to comment on .. the count of the California ballot. and emergency democratic ballots. I also like the Ronald Reagan counting votes
I won't stay on long. I have company.. my son is visiting. He is a man and uses smart phone and he was showing me some really funny stuff. We celebrated his birthday. He was showing me the ICE ICE BABY by Vanilla Ice. He has a friend who meet Vanilla Ice. age peer. So I am taking a break from a lot right now to spend time w/ him. He has been in Florida working and will return. HOLD MY BEER :) ICE ICE BABY :) enjoy.
The whole story told in the 3 panel stolen votes/rino knife in the back one
Make the tenure review every TWO years and I would agree. Seven years is a long enough period to totally screw with the minds of youth. After they pass the test they are free to push their doctrine on the kids for seven full years! Too long. Way, way too long! And, any teacher that does not like being tested in their field of learning, has something to hide! Testing insures they keep their minds fresh and updated in their lesson plans. We should require only TOP MINDS teach our children…starting in kindergarten! And no cross-dressing teachers. I had several gay teachers during my school days, none of which cross-dressed and most of whom were some of the best teachers I ever had! They concentrated on teaching and kept their sexual orientation out of the classroom. Once you get kids thinking about sex they become deaf to other class instruction, which is why children from kindergarten to age 12 should not be indoctrinated into thinking there are more than two sexes and boys can give birth. (Now really. How asinine is that?!) Any wonder why our kids aren’t learning and IQs have dropped??? Doesn’t surprise me in the least….
Oh my, the state of public education today! My dad got an EdD so he could have “Dr.” in front of his name for business purposes. Jill Biden got the same memo. Classes in Education for elementary school, fine, brain development and all of that. But making a physicist or chemist take classes in Education in order to get a teaching certificate to teach high school students? Please. And as if that isn’t bad enough, to then interject an insidious sexual-questioning curricula to a cohort already dominated by hormonal activity? Sounds more like a crime against humanity to me.
Have to agree, altho I still would like the whole public education system dismantled. Teaching was put in place to teach the basics, nothing more. If they can't do that job without adding their own mental fiddle faddle, then out they go! I keep going into more detail about how messed up wrong the majority of the whole PES is, but parents have to get strong in their own minds on how a child's mind is such a fragile, important entity to protect and stop thinking so shallow.
I love this story, altho granted it is a private Preparatory School...(then again, there you go).
"Why a 55-mile trek is a mandatory rite of passage for freshmen at one high school."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-a-55-mile-trek-is-a-mandatory-rite-of-passage-for-freshmen-at-one-high-school/ar-AA24XCwt
Genius, training the students in teams, each a different role, so they must work together, depend on each other during the hike.
The schools website, states the students run much of the school too.
Thanks, LB.
Thanks LOH. Always a pleasure to find and share something uplifting!!
Let me agree by disagreeing. Better training is irrelevant. Better character is the key. My Amish neighbors have the best behaved cleverest and highest achieving students with no principal, one room school houses, no kindergarten and only go to 8th grade. Their teachers are untrained volunteers from the community. That’s the key. Community values. Their focus is reading, writing, math, and Pennsylvania Dutch. The ministers act as overseers and the parents have oversight. Oh, and the school year is only 6 months. Ends in late March so kids can help get the crops out in Spring and doesn’t start until October after sorghum season. In between kids hang out with parents who teach them everything they need to know to build, farm, and run a family. Nobody here is without a home, food, work, medical care, and if they go through tough teenager rebellion they are keeping it a big secret because they certainly act like normal well adjusted young adults that often come by to see what they can do for me (I’m 77 and not lifting much nor climbing ladders anymore). It’s not training. It’s character and community and a good curriculum helps. As an old schoolteacher I have a special window into what doesn’t work in the modern industrial education complex.
Maybe I should add that not everyone stays Amish. Some leave and go on to other things. I personally know one who flies private corporate jets when he isn’t running his own construction company. His brother has a huge roofing business. Some go on to higher education and get degrees in whatever hard sciences interest them. A faith based, community based primary education focused on the basics we ALL need is not a hindrance even if you want a secular life. But character and community values canNOT be replaced with university degrees and periodic testing. That’s the point.
Sounds very much like a"village" go.e schooling program to me. KUDOS TO THE AMISH. If it wasn't an oxymoron, I would say put them in charge of the DOE. 🤣
Every time a rino is mentioned or depicted, I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger bragging about he doesn't mind being called one because they are beautiful, powerful creatures. 😆😆😆
Have a great Sunday, y'all, and thank you for another wonderful Sunday strip
Wanted to share a few thoughts with all of you, sorry so long…
Since the beginning of man people have been influenced by the spoken word. When the serpent told Adam and Eve, eating the fruit from the forbidden tree would not kill them but make them God like, Eve and then Adam ate. So right from the very beginning this demonstrated that man could be coerced. Words spoken over us , or things we see, from the time we are children, can impact us for a lifetime.
There are actual stages to the infection of one’s mind. It begins as a thought. You see something or someone makes a suggestion. You can’t control this, it’s placed before you, it can be as simple as seeing something on your phone. The enemy can be subtle. It doesn’t have to always be a big announcement, it could be just a suggestion. You begin to think about it , you dwell on it, it begins to take root. That thought turns into a plan. That plan turns into action. That action turns into repeated action. As it becomes a habit it begins to take control of you. This is why they call sins passions, because they make us passive. We see this with anger or lust or addiction. We allow it in and it takes control, we allow it to become a normal in our daily life. Evil has its ways.
This can be the same as discouraging thoughts spoken over us. A parent tells their child you’re not valuable, you’ll never be successful, you’re not as smart as your cousin. Thoughts create images. If you let those thoughts stay, you start to dwell on it, maybe I’m not worthy, maybe I have seen my best days, maybe I don’t have the talent I need, maybe I won’t be healed. Before long that little lie is going to create major infection. It’s going to poison your self image, contaminate your attitude, distort your vision. It’s important to deal with thoughts quickly. If we allow these negative thoughts to fester we’re inviting it in, we’re giving it permission to become a reality. Don’t let them linger in your mind. The scripture says to bring every thought into captivity. It’s the small foxes that spoil the vines.
It seems 5th generation warfare has been around for thousands of years. Like when the serpent told Adam and Eve the fruit would not kill them, our own government and medical establishment told us the Covid shots were safe and effective. They knowingly lied to us. Once infected with Covid there’s a good chance you won’t survive, you’ll die alone. Wear your mask, social distance, a winter of death among the unvaccinated. Theres nothing the serpent wouldn’t say or do to coerce us, take control, to push their dangerous injections into our arms. Fear, intimidation, force, lockdowns, taking away our right to freely travel. The human brain instinctually perceives restrictions, oppression and confinement as immediate threats activating survival responses. This is the hurdle the totalitarian must drive from its subjects. Although the tyrant doesn’t care if you can’t afford a home, or that you have no money for food, he does care about what you think. He is a master at coercing the mind and breaking people.
Throughout history, the nature of human freedom has been debated across varying frameworks. Philosophers, political theorists, our forefathers asserted that liberty is an intrinsic, unalienable right. This perspective suggests that we are born with a baseline need to pursue happiness and self-actualization. Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre argued that "man is condemned to be free." This means we are thrown into the world without predetermined guidelines, that people must be given the ultimate responsibility to define who we are through our choices.
A persons intrinsic desire for freedom will constantly put the freedom loving person at odds with evil, communism and democrats,😁, sorry I had to throw that in!! Happy Sunday!! J.Goodrich
Sadly we are seeing now an unwillingness to make the,necessary effort to guarantee that we retain that freedom. Sloth also seems to be an inalienable right too
P.S. welcome back James
I think automation in every sector of our lives has made us lazy beyond reason. Why do new parents give their babies IPhones and IPads? Cheap babysitters……LAZY! And too much electronics in the classroom to replace responding to a human is terrible. However, constant one-on-one with a child….answering questions….guiding interactions with peers and adults….learning respect for themselves and others….all very important life lessons that are being overlooked and consequently children lack those social skills for later in life. And parents wonder why their children are disrespectful…..? Really? You haven’t figured that out? They are running rampant in the streets and setting fires, destroying property and enjoying every minute. They want attention. Attention they didn’t get enough of as children. They were not taught respect. So their names in the paper, their faces on TV, in handcuffs or in a mug shot will suffice….. “Lookie! I’m famous!” (For all the wrong reasons.)
Bottom line: No amount of computer time replaces the love and attention of a good parent. PERIOD.
WELL SAID!
Growing up, my 3 brothers and I were mostly unsupervised, as my divorced mother owned three "taverns" so she was either sleeping or working. We all, following her work ethic, became self employed in different industries. Although my childhood was not the best, I succeeded by making (mostly) good choices and choosing to better myself. Take responsibility, and you become a responsible person...
Yes, I’d throw in greed gluttony and lust as well. Thank You Dr. Nash!!
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James, To me, what you write of about the mind, can be tempered by knowing the value of meditation and the intricacies of the technique. In some places the children are taught how to sit still and look inside. The purpose of a mantra, like the rosary, is to assist the mind in slowing down thought. Without some technique to practice, often an ancient one, there can be no peace.
I agree, just don't make time to do it as often as I used to. I did various meditation types before I joined the Catholic church at age 45. Praying the rosary is like meditating with a mantra.
Any mental form of moving away from chaos into a state of tranquility and calm is a meditation. Even just looking down at a sleeping child in all their innocence can create that state of calm, loving well being. You become mindful and the woe of the world can drop away.
The practice of meditation is a discipline and leads to the ability to direct the mind and emotions at will. it's good to have the ability to direct the Wiley mind when there is no sleeping baby to look at. I get your drift, and yet it hasn't been that simple for me...
Agreed. Not simple for myself either. Guess I should have prefaced with those brief moments of peace being a preview, or mindful start to something larger.
Guess I just meant any looking inward with calm can be rewarding.
there is nothing more calming or peaceful than quietly witnessing a sleeping child.
just thinking about it seems to relax me. (smile)
Thank you for a thoughtful and beautiful assessment of the difficulties we face in today’s complicated global community. My view of what can be considered as factual or false is limited to personal experience or trust in others who have repeatedly demonstrated their courage, wisdom and willingness to share their knowledge and perspectives about what has happened and in their judgement is likely to happen in the future. Many valuable principles are espoused in religious writings that have stood the test of time and I believe should continue to be shared. My inability to ignore that the same writings contain very disturbing contradictions that thousands of years ago might not have been as concerning are now to me considered evil. So for this I have always been treated as an outsider for questioning everything and suffered the isolation that comes from reluctance to join the consensus. I’m not complaining just expressing my reality that has been a razors edge of navigating a world without complete conviction to a single perspective. Thanks for letting me share my thoughts.
You seem to have had complete conviction to come here? That is worthy. Also, as far as I am able to note, there is no isolation within this space with one caveat. All are welcome with open minds as long as written content doesn't espouse evil intent or malicious verbalization against the community.
and now, after people lose their jobs and homes municipalities are making being homeless illegal. living in your car, often the only thing they still have = arrests and fines. Send them down the road and make them someone else's problem. Human kindness overflowing and I think its going to rain today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Fn8VhkK5g
I agree about the subtlety of seeing things as a child and the influence it has on young lives. My husband and I are the same age. He was raised in Phoenix and I was raised in small town Indiana. My household had different TV choices than his. As adults we have discussed simple things like our favorite childhood cartoons. I likely love spinach because Popeye did. He dislikes spinach and never saw a Popeye cartoon. There are many other examples of the influence of what we saw helped us accept things that otherwise we may not have. I was not upset when I had to get glasses in elementary school because Fearless Fly put on glasses and once he could see, he became fearless. I did as well. It seems that back in the 60's and 70's television programs for children were careful to only teach valuable lessons that still resonate with us today. Not anymore. I watched the Disney channel with my 2.5 year old grandson for 10 minutes of mindless garbage and turned off the TV and said, Charley, let's go play. He was all in!
Amen, thank you James.
"Thoughts" become "things".....
Choose the good ones!
Love conquers all.
But keep a loaded HK 45cal W/ laser dot reachable.
Nighttime trigger pulls at objects with open sights become unmanageable.
Excellent… your like button is broke - I think it’s my phone- so consider your comment “liked” by me. 🤪
So right James! Perfectly said! ‼️‼️‼️
James, your opening phrase is both subtle and profound, “Since the beginning of man…” A vast difference from “Since the beginning of time.” Maybe 14 billion years worth. We just bought a t-shirt from one of the subscribers here that says, “Nothing in evolution can account for the soul of man,” written by Charles Darwin’s colleague, Alfred Russel Wallace. The website you might find worthwhile is arn.org. There is a meeting of an affiliated group that will be held in late July up your way at Gordon College in Wenham, MA: SCIENCE FAITH SYNERGY: Glorifying God and Serving the World https://network.asa3.org/mpage/ASA2026#plenaries
The final clip with Ronald Reagan says it all; and I can’t help feeling that is truer now than ever before!
The young woman with the misspelled sign only solidifies the fact that she should NOT be skipping school to spend time protesting! Our kids are being led, like cows with a nose ring, into the bright light of “STUPID!” Keeping the masses ignorant only makes leading them astray that much easier. Our target should start with getting rid of the Dept. of Education, then requiring teachers to complete testing yearly to ensure they are qualified to teach a subject and NO MORE TENURE! If a teacher starts politically indoctrinating classes instead of teaching the criteria, they should be FIRED….no matter how long they have been teaching! These school classes are not entitled “A Teacher’s Perspective”…..of History, Math, English or Science. In order to get our country back, we have to correct the damage that has been done where it started….with educating our youth! Get rid of the indoctrinating teachers by monitoring classes!
I read your post. Twice. I agree with you completely. What I can't help is thinking about my peers that I have met through employment. Their spouses. I'm talking well-off, successful people, my age and older (54). They went through the same public education that I did. Even college (RN). Yet they lean as left as far as you can from right without just falling over. I suppose once the schools are done with the children, the media takes over in adulthood if allowed. My friends watch their "credible" news outlets. CNN, msnbc-or whatever it is now. They get their laughs from the greats...you know, Colbert, Kimmel. If the schools could get cleaned up, that's still half the battle.
My late 30ish son runs into the same. Long time friends who somehow keep drinking the Kool Aid. I think the family unit plays a big part first which is reinforced by outside influence. Schools, TV, music, protests...
It sounds like their lives were not as they had hoped and lost the ability for critical thinking and thier children are lazy or got college degrees that prepared them to do nothing, and they are leading them by the nose to support their faulty goals.
Too simple an analysis for me. These trends are complicated and the responsibility lies with every person willing to give up their inner guide. We know the signs of illness and choose to ignore them.
Also faculty tenure at unis need to be reassessed. Held by too many incompetents.
Eliminate tenure completely….especially universities!
Sticky wicket there. Tenure,necessary to preserve academic freedom which is subject to challenge after leadership change. What we had where I worked was tenure renewed every 7 yrs. Allows justifiable challenge to poor performance.
Too long to mess up the minds of those they teach. I like the two year rule. I also believe in Right to Work States where you can teach without having to join a union.
Speaking of faculties, it is bothersome how age makes retaining non-tenured faculties difficult.
Not to worry this will all be replaced with Artificial Intelligence soon along with about half of everyone else's jobs. Or, so they say. May be another tech bubble about to pop.
It's debatable whether tenure at top universities is good or bad. For people who are doing cutting edge research it sometimes takes a while to determine whether they are right or wrong. On the other hand, it makes absolutely no sense at high schools. High school teachers are not in the business of creating new knowledge, so determining whether they are doing the job correctly doesn't require years of debate and experiment by top researchers.
And perverted idealogs! Pet sat for a Univ librarian. Her VW was covered with patches Declaring her truths and oppositions! The Univ was a hotbed of radicals.
The Dumbing of America is the desired educational end result. DUH....... Hahha
Yes, Barbara. I would see that as a high priority!
WONDERFUL Thought Barbara, but we will have to get rid of the teacher's unions in order to accomplish what you suggest. Make sure you state adapts "Right to Work" policy and pass a law to that end.
The Senate refuses to pass the Save America Act by ditching the Filibuster, which the Democrats say they will ditch it when they take back the Senate. Just like Iran, if they say they will nuke Israel and America, Believe Them!
I have yet to see the GOP govern in Congress as if they were trying to save America. They have the keen ability to move the football forward one yard, while allowing the Democrats to move it backwards five yards—they call it negotiations. 🙄
I have a signed copy of Ted Cruz’s Book “A Time for Truth” (2015) where he says in the introduction, “Telling the truth in Washington, D.C., is a radical act. And it earns you the enmity of career politicians in both parties…when you expose the fact that elected officials are misleading the voters who elected them—you pay a price…when you admit publicly that many of those in your own party are complicit in the problem, well, that’s when the long knives come out.” He was then target by GOP leadership to stop corporate funding for him, because he stood against the status quo.
That is corruption. Period! But it continues today when Thune and the other Senators refuse to pass the Save America Act—it’s more about self-preservation than American preservation. We are fighting a battle on two fronts, Democrats and Republicans. That my friends is the truth.
Here's my latest to my 'oh so worthy' swamp creature representatives?!...
Ok, once again I have written Federal representatives of my state of CO in response to Fraud/Corruption and their behavior. If anyone wants to use my words to do the same, feel free!!
PS: I did use a paragraph from Mr. Childers to make more of a point (hope he's ok with that) and issued it anonymously.
You are suppose to be a representative of hardworking, family oriented American people, not people who are grifters and cheats. Please stop supporting this abhorrent behavior in exchange for votes, its unbecoming. I personally am sickened and disgusted with the growing, tentacled fraud taking place in Minnesota, California, Kentucky, New York, Ohio and yes, here in Colorado. You may be fooling yourself, but not us. The US government has no business handing out our hard earned and increasingly small paychecks this way.
"America has baked a rotten social lasagna. Layers of interlocking statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions “protect” welfare recipients’ “entitlements” to “benefits.” And increasingly, cheesy politicians facilitate the fraud by intentionally loosening oversight, turning a blind eye in exchange for votes from blocs of “communities” who reward elected patrons." (by Mr. Childers).
Written by a patriot for a clean, constitutionally healthy America.
Well stated Patriot! 🇺🇸
So very true! DemonRATS are definitely the worst but RINO Republicans are terrible too! Thank God for President Trump. Just wish he had way more help in passing COMMON SENSE legislation that would benefit Americans! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
When Trump looks at a fake journalist on “Meet the Depressed” and tells her she’s either corrupt or stupid, there’s a man who loves America and defends her—he’s all action. The “fake news” is nothing but the propaganda arm of the DNC.
The last panel with Ronald Reagan says it all.
All good - sad to say - but still...we gotta laugh or we would just cry all the time.
Absolutely agree, “laughter is my best medicine”; music is first though. I get tired of so much theater-drama within the leftist lunatic’s party. So, I tune them out & play trumpet/jazz music, some old rock/roll, or a little-bit-of-country!
Oh yeah - laughter and music. Best medicine. And writing. How I stay sane. I've been writing lyrics my whole adult life but until last July my attempts to get them into listenable music were pretty lame. Then another substacker introduced me to SUNO.ai which lets me upload my lyrics and tell it what kind of music I want and five minutes later - boom!
My latest post - https://meemanator.substack.com/p/downsizing
I love your song! Beautiful, & touches my heart, thank you for sharing:)
Thank you! ❤️
Heavy metal for me
I could not get into the heavy metal- I guess because I couldn’t get-with-the-beat? I don’t know…But, we all have our own tunes & beat.
Oh yeah, a funny bumper sticker we saw on a Texans truck...
BEEF
The West was not won eating salads
I think that slogan, "What's for dinner?" should return. Only now the update version should read, "What's for dinner...BEEF...don't agree, get the H*** Out of My Kitchen."
So many truisms! Thank heavens a few are heartening.
The children learning on the basis of what they observe. And no place else to go!
Ice! Maryland has the answer. Using tax moneys, they are setting up a commission to see immigrants (IAs) rights are respected and delivered. NO ICE! ¡
Follow that with the CA election affairs. Do we need Anything further to prove the Save Act is vital?
Last night listened to a reading (?) of Sen Kennedy questioning HRC at a hearing. Priceless! He is under appreciated! Then there was the Thought Leaders interview with an AI expert. He noted, among other things AI will be determining what's heard and deciding policy.
Off to readying for another banner week of many progresses. Thanking my lucky stars for our leadership and participants here! A source for sanity and purpose.
Have a good one!
Another collection of beauties today!
I think we all knew how the CA election was going to turn out! Remember in 2020 when Trump was way, way ahead when we all went to bed and they did that massive ballot drop in the middle of the night and every vote was for Biden! Oh yeah! We all knew how THIS election was going to turn out! Sad. Just sad!
God Bless you and Jill Dr. Malone as you stand for Truth in the midst of corruption not just in the USA but everywhere 🙏
Love the Supreme Court definition! And I believe she truly believes that! Tomatoes and Sour Cream!
The Save America Act cartoon is too close to home! :(
Thank you for publishing these...
This one is for you Dr. Malone. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/the-food-supply-has-been-compromised/
You have some real doozies today! Made my day!
:) Good Sunday Morning. :) a lot to comment on .. the count of the California ballot. and emergency democratic ballots. I also like the Ronald Reagan counting votes
I won't stay on long. I have company.. my son is visiting. He is a man and uses smart phone and he was showing me some really funny stuff. We celebrated his birthday. He was showing me the ICE ICE BABY by Vanilla Ice. He has a friend who meet Vanilla Ice. age peer. So I am taking a break from a lot right now to spend time w/ him. He has been in Florida working and will return. HOLD MY BEER :) ICE ICE BABY :) enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TV2BSvbk3HE ttyl. :)