Dear President Obama: ARE YOU F-ING HIGH? Well that’s a dumb question (you probably are). When does our current generation’s responsibility to prior generations end? Our entire world’s history is engulfed with one group conquering another. Do you think that your elitist Harvard brain is going to end this? How far back are we responsible for? And what is the geographical and evolutionary criteria that supports your ideology? Does it factor back to our ancestors in the Roman period that conquered Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, German, British, Belgian empires? Or does it date back to the earliest documented members of the genus Homo or Homo habilis, which evolved around 2.3 million years ago? What do we owe to those who can be traced to them? Cause I’m pretty damn sure that there is some awesome DNA that can link a whole lot of us to back then. OR, just bear with me, what about F-ing PANGEA!!! Yes, F-ing PANGEA, I bet there are some lizards around that are pretty pissed off.

The point being, in recent years, we’ve created this pretty awesome thing called America. I say (we) but it was really a bunch of old white dudes that were wicked smart. And they created this whole system that they put down on pen and paper (something that was not around when PANGEA was a thing). And you know what else? They got a whole lot of our ancestors to buy into that crazy idea that they put down on paper. They also got a whole lot of humans to believe in that idea so much that they DIED for it. Yes DIED for it. They must have been some pretty crazy salesmen to get all of those Homo habilis to die for a cause that didn’t have some meat to it. So, these old white dudes, put some thoughts down on paper, got the rest of their friends to hop on board for the cause (even if it meant death) , and let the cycle continue. Meaning: old white dudes figure out how to conquer a geographical space, look at documented history, figure out that they want said geographical space (they call it USA) to sustain beyond what history has taught, wrote it down. There’s one glitch, if you want to be part of this USA you must abide to the laws old white dudes put on paper. They once again conquered a space, but, this time, identified it as a sovereign nation.

Here’s where your little immigration stunt should hit the wall (If we had actually put up a wall along our boarders, we would have solved this whole mess). A whole lot of us who are here (in America) had ancestors that D.I.E.D for that little piece of paper written by old white dudes. Part of that little agreement that they wrote up and signed was ANYONE can come to USA to be an American. They just need to follow the rules and the laws to attain that privilege. Meaning: none of y’all get to just come here willy nilly.

There are consequences for attaining the right of citizenship in this US of A that we created. Y’all are invited but you need to come through the front door, you need to pay the cover charge or the bouncer should, well, bounce you. ALSO, you should want to seek refuge here to be an AMERICAN. NOT an Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, Canadian, Spaniard, Venezuelan, Frenchman, Irishman, etc. living in America. Do you get the difference? If you don’t, please, just don’t come.

Did our ancestors do some pretty crappy things to establish this great country? Probably. Did ALL prior human civilizations do crappy things to sustain and bolster their societies? Most definitely.

The difference is that those old white guys tried to establish a society where all ARE welcome. As long as you CHOOSE to enter the established contract. If you WANT to be an AMERICAN you are welcome here. You just need to follow the laws established of the country you are wanting to partake in.

Listen, I understand why a person would want to come here, because America is awesome. However, if you come here illegally you are not coming to the America that you dream of. You are contributing to destroying the current America that you are longing to be a part of.

Immigration is a very complicated matter these days, even thought it shouldn’t be. The decay in quality of government analogous to the expansion of government has collided. The result is what we have today.

The answer is fairly simple. It’s not amnesty, it’s not unyielding deportation.

It’s this: CLOSE OUR BOARDERS.

Now, today, this minute, this hour. Once we stop the flood, we can figure out how to clean up the mess. When we stop the influx we can figure out how to humanely handle those who are here today. But we cannot stay on top of this if we do not shut the flood gates.

Please, Mr. President, do what’s best for those who are legally waiting to become Americans. Do what’s best for current hard working American’s who’s tax dollars are supporting those who have entered ILLEGALLY. Because as much as you like to twist and tangle words. This is quite simple. If a Homo habilis or human being entered this country without legal documentation, they are an illegal immigrant. Simply changing the name does not change legal status. Nor does it give solace to us law abiding, tax paying citizens who see our taxes go up to fund services for those who have not followed the law.

Let us stop telling our kids that they have to go to “college” in order to be successful. Because “college” today is such a different term than it was sixty years ago. “College” today means telling kids that they need to go to a University or a State college where they need to learn “theory.” We have taught our kids “Psych 101” “English 101” “History 101” is the absolute basis for their ability to function in a civilized society. Never mind the ideological intentions of the liberal professors that we have given the free rein to mold our children’s minds under the guise of giving them a “step up” in life. College today is not about teaching our children the skills of tomorrow. It has become a forum for teaching our children that they need to unlatch themselves from the values that their parents have instilled in them during their formative years.
This is why liberal politicians cling to the need for “college.” Why they refuse to accept any “reform” to the current higher education model. Why you hear President Obama SCREAM at the top of his lungs that all young people need the opportunity to go to “college.” Why they REFUSE to change the federal higher education grant system? What does “college” mean to these politicians? It means the ability to keep a steady flow of the next generation indoctrinated into their school of thought. They DO NOT care that these students are not actually learning how to perform basic skills, all they care about is that they are buying in to their liberal theory on society.
This year had more protest to any type of “conservative” commencement speakers than ever in history. The protests were so blatant that we had one of the most liberal mayors in history actually speak out against it. Mayor Mike Bloomberg of New York (who considers himself an independent) but is MUCH loved by liberals actually had this to say: “Think about the irony: In the 1950s, the right-wing was attempting to repress left-wing ideas. Today, on many college campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas, even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species. And perhaps nowhere is that more true than here in the Ivy League.” “Tolerance for other people’s ideas, and the freedom to express your own, are inseparable values at great universities. Joined together, they form a sacred trust that holds the basis of our democratic society.” “There is an idea floating around college campuses – including here at Harvard – that scholars should be funded only if their work conforms to a particular view of justice. There’s a word for that idea: censorship. And it is just a modern-day form of McCarthyism.” “In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data, 96 percent of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees went to Barack Obama. Ninety-six percent. There was more disagreement among the old Soviet Politburo than there is among Ivy League donors. That statistic should give us pause – and I say that as someone who endorsed President Obama for reelection – because let me tell you, neither party has a monopoly on truth or God on its side. When 96 percent of Ivy League donors prefer one candidate to another, you have to wonder whether students are being exposed to the diversity of views that a great university should offer. Diversity of gender, ethnicity, and orientation is important. But a university cannot be great if its faculty is politically homogenous. In fact, the whole purpose of granting tenure to professors is to ensure that they feel free to conduct research on ideas that run afoul of university politics and societal norms.”
Given this surprising quote by a historically one-sided supporter. Why ARE WE AS PARENTS trying to encourage our children to attend these types of schools? Why are we breaking our own backs because we think that our children would have a better life if they had the tag “Harvard” or “Stanford” attached to their resume’s? Why are we allowing society to make that insane correlation?
It needs to stop. A long time ago, maybe, these schools were the most successful at producing graduates that had an elite ability to contribute to an existing company. Those days need to be over. Our current industries have major players that have the capital to invest in education of future employees. These companies, the Microsoft’s, the Boeing’s, GE’s and the Wal-Mart’s of the US should be investing in the community colleges and technical colleges that the majority of American’s should be attending. We need to get America’s companies on board with hiring American’s and what those companies need for eager post-high school kids to get there.
Parent’s today (myself included) are so stressed about the prospect of sending our kids to a four-year college. Why? What are they going to learn there that they could not learn from a well-directed internship from an eager company who would have an investment in training a new potential employee? We need to re-think higher-ed. The reform needs to come from our beautifully crafted system of corporations on down. Our companies need to invest in education, and they need to do it at the community college and technical college level. Those instituions need to become the norm. Because from mastering skill and confidence comes innovation. Our current societal method of from “theory” comes “innovation” is just not working.
We need people who have a solid foundation in current skill, from that comes innovation. From that comes a passion for further education and knowledge. That is where the Harvard’s and the Stanford’s of the world should come into play. We need to stop telling our parents of the US and our children of the US that theory based colleges are for them, because in reality they should only be for a select few. They should only be for those who have demonstrated a strong foundation in skill and then are passionate about pursuing additional knowledge and theory. In reality that path is not for everyone, and that path does not demonstrate success. In fact, in many cases, those who have grounded themselves in proven technique will far surpass those who have chosen to seek a new way of doing things. If we teach in early education that everyone should be on that path we are only
To send out kids into the Standford’s and the Harvard’s of the world without having a strong foundation in reality is wrong. Our kids deserve to know the reality of the world and then build upon that reality through theory if they wish. To send our kids to these institutions without a basic foundation of real world knowledge is wrong. It is not what us parents should be aspiring to. It’s unfair to us as parents that we should have to think that our kids success depends upon them being immersed in these hypothetical situations that they are taught.
We as parents need to stand up, we know that major companies go to these colleges to recruit kids. Why? What is it that they are looking for? I guarantee you that most of the skills that some companies are looking for our kids possess coming out of high school. Why do they need to go to a four-year university to be hired? We need to put pressure on these companies to hire young and then promote from within. Most innovation comes from on the job training. We need to teach our kids that they don’t need to go to an IVY league school to be successful. And we need companies to promote the fact that they don’t believe going to one of those schools is important in hiring.

Mother Theresa said: “There are two victims of abortion. One is a dead baby, the other is a dead conscience.” I would go a step further in this and say that not only has the baby lost it’s life, but anyone connected to that mother has lost the chance to love another person who may have had a chance to influence them. We can never know what the person who was the victim of abortion may have become. How that person may have touched the lives of their father, grandparents, siblings or mother. We will never know if that person was the one who would have been the ones to hold our hands while we were sick, if they were the ones who would brighten our days with their smile. They may have been destined to be the person to show us that our hard times were not so hard, or make our happy times even happier.  Likewise, we will never know if that person was the sick one that we were able to comfort, we will never know what gifts that person would have brought to each of us. We will never know what we’ve lost from abortion. As a mother, I do know the uninhibited joy that my children have brought to me. I can look at their faces and know, with no doubt, that the world would be a lesser place if they were not in it. Children have more to teach us than any professor at any college can. They have more influence than any world leader spewing words to us online or on TV could ever muster. Being quite and observing the innocence that children exude will teach you more than all of the philosophy books every published could. But for some reason we as “educated” adults can’t believe it. The professors of the world will refuse to believe that these small humans are more intelligent than they are. The world leaders will refuse to believe that children could posses more power. We as adults find it impossible to believe that we may have had all of the answers for peace in the human race all along. Which brings me to a very true Mother Theresa quote:  “In this year of the family we must bring the child back to the center of our care and concern. This is the only way that our world can survive because our children are the only hope for the future.”
Children are the most powerful among us, even if our pride would like us to think otherwise. How can a child who has not learned the ways of the world be brighter than the mind who has studied ancient works of those whom have come before or traveled the world? How can the child be more in tune with human emotion than the scholar who has studied human behavior for decades? How can a child recognize the simple beauty of God more that the theologian who has dedicated their adult life to seeking the “truth” ? We have devalued children, babies, the disabled, all of the innocent, in this world because we see them as naïve or unproductive and dependent members of society. It is us who have become blind to the truth and answers as we age. Everything that we need to better humanity is ingrained in us as a fetus, newborn, toddler or young child. It is only in our later stages that we become jaded and judgmental. For the majority, it truly is those first stages that will not only form who we are, but how we shape society as a whole later in life.
Which is why abortion is so poisonous. Why telling women that motherhood is a burden if it is not bestowed upon them at the exact moment that they wish is so dangerous. Why telling women they have an out through abortion which will have no lasting consequences is such a lie. Abortion takes. It takes the life of a human being, it takes away the love that a mother would feel for her child when she held them in her arms. It takes away from the thousands of parents who would gladly love that baby if the biological mother felt she was honestly in a place that she could not provide. It takes away from the extended family that could hold that baby close until the mother felt she was in the right place to parent. It takes away from a society who will never know what contributions that life could bring. It takes away from putting adoption on the pedestal it deserves, for a mother choosing to give her child the best life possible is the most unselfish and admirable action that a woman could elect. Adoption is the most admirable and benevolent gift of love for all parties; mother, child, and receiving family. Abortion takes.
Abortion shows us that a life is expendable unless it is brought into the world under the “right” circumstances. Even though the “right” circumstances can never be defined. It teaches society that unless a life is “wanted” it has no value. When abortion becomes an act that is inline with social norm we have lost a crucial human ability to empathize with those who are unable to advocate for themselves.
Abortion is a dangerous president and it takes from our ability as humans to care for one another. Motherhood needs to be protected and encouraged at all costs. Progressiveness needs to bend towards what is best for those children and mothers. We need to figure out how to support expecting mothers. We need to have a system in place to support mothers who want to raise their babies but feel that they are not in a place to do it. All of the money our government spends advocating abortion under the guise of “reproductive rights” could really go towards helping these women figure out how to support their babies that are on the way. This money could also go towards hiring counselors to help those women who are pregnant and realize that keeping their baby is not the most encompassing act of love. This is what the “right to choose” should be. Both of these options: adoption or keeping the baby require the most intense amount of love.
There needs to be two paths: one towards assisting mothers who want to keep their babies. The second one needs to be given towards mothers who have the courage to know motherhood is not the best path for them, and then show those mothers that the ultimate expression of love is to give that child to a home where they can thrive. Both models requires extensive counseling for the mothers, both models will need financial support from the community. Let’s spend our tax dollars this way rather than pumping money into the abortion mill that is Planned Parenthood.

This is how we help women and babies. We have failed at this in the past. Our history has a cruel, cruel backlash against single mothers and has a stigma against those who have had the courage to give their babies a better life through. This needs to end now. We need to protect our mothers and our children. We need to protect our mothers who choose to keep their babies through hard times and put our mothers who give their babies a better life up on the pedestal they deserve.

Prior to World War II there was no withholding taxes to the federal government. This was enacted in order to pay for wars and debts at the time and to make it “easier” on citizens to pay their federal taxes. What if we went back to the way it use to be? What if we went back to citizens being required to pay their taxes monthly in one installment? One could argue we would have a problem on our hands because citizens do not have enough self-discipline to save enough to pay what they owe the federal government month to month. We see this in the delight many citizens have when they receive their “tax rebate” check following an April 15th deadline. However it makes me wonder if we went back to the way it use to be, would voting citizens would be inclined to hold our federally elected officials more accountable when it comes to their spending sprees? Therefore making our federal monthly payment much lower?
If you make $50,000 a year and your federally elected officials take 25% (the current 2013 rate). This means your yearly tax bill would be $12,500. Mind you that is just your federal taxes. That means, every month, you would be writing a check for $1,041 (JUST in FEDERAL taxes). When you wrote that check I’m guessing it would probably sting a bit. Could you imagine having to sit down and take that money out of your account monthly? The irony is that YOU DO! Every month, but because they withhold the taxes, it’s like you’ve never seen it. If you never had it, you can’t miss it, right? Most low information voters don’t realize that the rebate they get back every year is not a prize rather it’s EXCESS money the federal government has taken from you throughout the year. The federal government is now giving that money back without interest.
The federal government just takes that money; month by month, throughout the year and hope because it was never in your bank account, you won’t realize how much you are paying them. Wouldn’t you be more inclined to ask questions when you went to the voting booth if you had to pay that large sum month by month? I would guess yes. What if we kept the withholding aspect in place but asked the IRS and our elected officials to provide a detailed breakdown every tax time of where our money went? The IRS is so big on you providing documentation to them. Why should we not demand the IRS show accountability to us? They like to exert a scary amount of power over us, why should we not as citizens be entitled that they show us where exactly where our money is going? If you could see a detailed breakdown, would you be more inclined to ask your elected representatives to be more accountable to the money they are spending? Wouldn’t you like to see all of the bills they introduced in congress? Have them tell you how many tax dollars it would take to fund that bill? AND THEN (here’s the kicker) force them to disclose the lobbyist organizations that are pushing that bill? Wouldn’t that be amazing?

I actually like paying taxes when I can see the direct benefit it is having. I like paying taxes to the federal government when I know that it is going towards defense. When my money is going towards paying our service men and women and our veterans. When I know that that money is going towards protecting our liberties afforded to us by the constitution. I don’t mind paying federal taxes when the money is going to protect monuments that appreciate and acknowledge our history. There are a few programs that the federal government oversees that I desire to pay taxes for; but there are some. There should be some.
Taxes are okay, but they should voted on by people locally and benefit those locally. Where we can all see tangible evidence of the good our collective funds are having. We need to recognize the insanity that we are now in a spot as the United States of America where states are begging and compromising their sovereign convictions in order to get money from the federal government. This means two things: 1. We have been paying too much money in federal taxes. 2. States rights have been severely put on the back burner. I am a.o.k paying takes when they are going towards essential services like paying for those who legitimately cannot care for themselves. When we are giving money to support the disabled or sick. Children who are born with disabilities should have access to caring state government officials who can advocate on how to make their lives better. When we figure out a program to show women that they don’t have to have an abortion, I will probably vote to give that legislation all of my money. I like paying for early education programs for kids whose parents can’t afford to send them to pre-school (because it’s expensive). I want to pay for safe parks for kids to play in. I want to pay for safe places for children to go when their home life is less than desirable. I want our public schools to be the best they can be, but I love the idea of charter schools. All of this needs to be done on the state level. Entitlements need to be redirected to the state level where there is more control and direct benefit for a smaller population.
Let’s localize our money back to the states where we all have better control and accountability of where the money is spent. This way we can all see the benefits of our collective efforts. Let us demand our federal officials do what they are elected to do: protect our country from outside aggressors.

This post is about kids with Down Syndrome. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, that Down Syndrome is looked at as a “disability.” Mostly because I can never get a straight answer on what a “disability” is and why in a country where we forcibly promote diversity we choose to alienate a population of people who are arguably the most happy and peaceful among us, simply because they have an extra chromosome. WHAT. THE. HELL.? It makes no rational sense. I also realize that I used “hate” a lot in this first paragraph, and most people with Down Syndrome don’t understand what “hate” is because they are perfect.

We’ve deviated the social norm to bend towards those who are defiant of their sexual or physiological anatomy. Why? Because they might still have the cognitive ability to cure cancer? Because they can figure out social media and how to shame anyone who disagrees with them? Why have we not bestowed that same acceptance to an entire population who have the psychological ability to inspire, love, be uninhibitedly joyful. People with Down Syndrome have been documented as being the happiest people in existence. Families who have a member with Down Syndrome have repeatedly expressed the enrichment in their family life by having a member who has this “disability.” Shouldn’t this be a “condition” we are fighting to normalize? Why is this overlooked in todays human’s right crusade? What makes us value a life? Is it not the joy they can expel on others? Is it not innocence that most people affected with Down Syndrome posses? Maybe it’s the fact that they need others to stand up for their rights that makes them most expendable? 90% of children with Down Syndrome are aborted. Why? Because they may need extra help in life. We all need extra help in life. Is it because others in the world might look at those people differently? We as so called “regular” humans have A LOT to learn from people with this condition. I’m so frustrated how everywhere I turn I hear someone screaming at the top of their lungs to accept diversity. However, I never hear anyone screaming about accepting those with this “condition.” Hmmmm. How’s that for compassion and diversity?

When was the last time you sat in complete silence? When the only noise you could hear might be the hum of the refrigerator? When was the last time you closed your eyes to all of the superficial light that surrounds us? When have you surrendered to total darkness recently? It takes effort to seclude yourself from the top layer stimulants of light and sound. You have to dig. You have to find an emotional shovel and penetrate that barrier of man made light and persistent noise. Sometimes I find myself jealous of those who lack the sense of sight and hearing. What peace we could attain if all of us had the ability to turn those two senses off? If I was blind and had to become so in tune with my senses of touch, smell and hearing, how different could the world be? If I could live in a world where I couldn’t see the images of children being starved, of babies being ripped from their mother’s wombs? If my touch was so responsive that it burned a memory in my brain? If I was deaf and I couldn’t hear the sirens screaming to an emergency, or I couldn’t hear the tone of sarcastic and condescending voices? If I only had the ability to take words at face value rather than the emphasis that is used to deliver them? How different would the world be if we didn’t have a tone in our head when we put words out there via social media? There is much to be learned from our fellow humans who rely on less than all five senses. Have you ever closed your eyes and formed a memory based on touching the face of those whom you love most? I haven’t. If you lacked sight, could you truly understand the voice and tone of your most loved? Do you know how the breath they take between sentences can help you anticipate their intentions? Have you ever studied the face of the person you are with and know how their facial expressions can help them portray what they are feeling? If you lacked the gift of hearing could those facial cues give you insight into how your fellow man was trying to get across to you? If you could not hear would you know if the person sitting in front of you was, sad, mad, happy, confused, joyful, ignorant? For those of us who have the gift of hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell. We need to find bliss and gratefulness in our existence but realize that those who may lack one of those senses are more in tune with the really important things in life. What the mainstream might see as a disability might actually be a gift. Who are we to determine what type of difference is a “disability” and what difference is actually a gift.

There is an incredible amount of pain in this world. There is hunger, fear, ignorance and hatred. There is lack of compassion and empathy. Even worse there is apathy. For those who say they care, it is often times from them that stems the most hatred. Today anyone can take a preconceived notion and have it substantiated by not just their neighbors but hundred of mediums at their fingertips. Imagine ten people in a small community with different thoughts and ideas. Perhaps in the past those ten people would figure out a common thread that unites them. They could incorporate their differences towards a compromise because they were forced to get along by proximity. There was immense value for humanity in that. However today they now are able to make their differences grow stronger by citing ideas of those who are no where close to them. We have created a portal of contention rather to one of unity. Peace begins with helping those who are closest in proximity to you. War begins by seeing those closest to you as foes and seeing those further away from us as allies. Let us begin to silence the outsiders and realize that peace will only be obtained by helping those whom are closest to us. When we centralize our efforts on a broad scale is when we fail, for peace cannot be mandated upon us from above. It must begin from a small seed in the ground and grown upwards. Nature gives us guidance. A willow tree that provides so much protection from the elements is not started with its beautiful trees and branches. It is started with one seed, which grows roots, which grows to a trunk, which eventually grows to shading branches and leaves. However, we know those beautiful, shading branches and trees can easily be cut down or trimmed back. Especially if they have grown so high to obstruct the view. It can be so hard to remember that little seed that started it all.  Except when one day, when we have cut back those branches and we realize we need the shelter from the wind or the sun that those branches provided. It is only then that we have realized what we have done. When we realize how far we have deviated from that little seed.

Don’t ignore or forget your roots. It will come back to burn you when there is no shelter from the elements.

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