Opus 2016-144: Middle Class Morality: The Place of Children

Our modern culture makes a lot of noise about the children.  When the liberals want to take away a bit of liberty and make us more secure they will often say, “It is for the children.”  It is just a smoke-screen.  Modern culture only likes children because they are powerless and can be manipulated. 

Modern culture looks at children as blank slates that can be molded for the use of society.  The humanistic view is that the heart of man is good and is only polluted and warped by the environment.  Thus we have the victim culture that can only be fixed by government.

Traditionally, Middle Class Morality (MCM) has taken a different view.  Children are precious, yes, but they are tragically flawed from birth.  The Bible teaches that the heart of man is evil.  That does not mean Hitler evil it means pull-the-legs-off-an-insect-to-see-what-will-happen evil.  It is a self centeredness that causes the average human to be more concerned about themselves than others. 

If you don’t believe that, picture a newborn that suddenly becomes 6 feet tall, coordinated and has the ability to talk.  Would you want that child turned loose in a china shop?  Would you want it to drive on the freeway?  Would you like to tell it “No”? 

In MCM the role of parents is to treasure children but to train them to be civilized.

(Proverbs 22:15 KJV)  Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him

Children need guidance and discipline.  They need to be taught right and wrong.  That is a concept that comes from the Bible and used to be a part of our culture.

That is changing and the results are not pretty.  All you need to do is watch the self-centered, narcissistic youth that are following Bernie Sanders and think that everything should come to them free.

They expect you to pay.  Society is already paying.

Viva la middle class morality.

To be continued...

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Opus 2016-143: Election 2016: Sound-Bites Rule

Don’t be mad at the establishment and liberals.  The report are that Trump has won.  I read that he now has the required minimum for the nomination.  He has done it as fair and square as politics can be.  Why?  Because enough of the masses have voted for him.  If the back room boys find a way to deny him the nomination by changing the rules, then a pox on their house. 

It makes you understand why the founding Fathers created a republic instead of following the model of pure democracy.  It is messy.  It doesn’t deliver what I want.  It is still an attempt to keep the sound-bite slugs from running the country. 

At this point there seems to be no legitimate way Trump can be denied the Republican nomination.  That does not mean he has my vote.  It is possible for the first time in my 50 years of voting I will cast no ballot for president. 

Will he beat Hillary?  Time will tell.  There are still a lot of kinks to be twisted and jived.  Bernie could go third party.  Conservatives might put out a third choice.  Both could go for it.  We could end up with enough choice that no one wins a majority in the electoral college and the decision goes to the House of Representatives. 

Don’t panic if that happens.  It has happened before.  It is how Washington, Madison, Mason, Franklin and a host of other very wise men planned it. 

We live in the curse of interesting times.  Keep in mind that it is still superior to the boring times that people in the Soviet Union experienced.  How long that will continue to be true is anyone’s guess.

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Opus 2016-142: New Terms: Sound-Bite Slugs

How many times have we seen a last minute attack ad defeat a good candidate?  I have not bothered to keep count. 

One that stands out in my memory was the Senate campaign in California which had Bruce Herschensohn running against Barbara Boxer.  He was doing very well until a day or two before the election a massive ad campaign accused him of some sordid behavior.  There was no time for a rebuttal.  He lost.  We see this again and again.

The liars in the community invest their life in what I am calling the Sound Bite Slugs.  These are the people who hear something, their mouth falls open, their brain turns to pudding and they start their knee jerk reaction to what they heard.  Much later they will wake up but they may not even remember.  At least they will deny that they were so gullible. 

They each have the same number of votes I have, one.  They outnumber me.  It is why we need to stay with the Electoral College and away from the popular vote.

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Opus 2016-141: Necessary Adjustments

It is amazing what you can get used to:  Black coffee, low calorie dressing, living close to a railroad, Hillary Clinton.  Well, maybe not Hillary, but you get the idea.

Actually there are two general types of response to the bumps of life with variations on both themes.  Some people experience a bump and either develop calluses or learn to find a way around.  The other extreme gets some dynamite and blows the offending mound out of existence or gets their minions to do it for them. 

I am the first, my wife is the second.  This leads to some interesting conflicts.  The most interesting are when I am the bump.  It is kind of like the immovable object and the irresistible force. 

In my quest to lose weight I have had to find substitutes for a lot of my favorite tastes.  For instance, pop-corn.  Pop corn by itself is relatively low calorie.  Since it has a lot of fiber and is satisfying I have learned to use an artificial butter spray.  It may not fool your taste buds but it gives a little and helps the salt stick to the kernels.  It works for me.  It might not work for you.  I know it doesn’t work for my wife.

My wife insists that she can deal with her weight and still eat ice cream, Oreos and chips.  They have been told they will obey.  I don’t ask how it is going.

Will I be able to find adjustments if the socialists keep nibbling away at my liberty?  Will the masses be so happy when they finally wake up to the restrictions that will come, all for their own good.  Will EBT cards and smart phones become the modern bread and circuses?  Have they already?

I think it is easier to eat popcorn without real butter than it will be to live without the first amendment.

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Opus 2016-140: Fighting Words: Dark Roast

The only place I don’t like dark roast is in my coffee.

Steak?  Extra well done.  Burn it to a crisp.  Cook it until the chef threatens to quit.

Fries?  Leave them in a little longer.  Make them crisp.

Chicken?  I want the white meat because it is dryer.

Turkey?  Cook it long enough that it isn’t juicy.

Coffee?  Dark roast is for people who have lost their taste buds.  It tastes like someone put it on the fire and boiled it down to powder then added water.  Yuck.  Keep in mind that it is often called “French roast”.

Inconsistent?  So sue me.  Just don’t try to give me dark roast coffee.

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Opus 2016-139: Free Stuff

One of the crude comments used to explain why men were so supportive of the sexual revolution was, “Why buy the cow when the milk is free?”  It was a statement about the irresponsible life style and how attractive it is.  Of course if you are rich enough like celebrities and presidential candidates you can keep buying a series of cows.

If something is free you are stupid to pay for it.  That is the major flaw in the philosophy of socialism that is permeating our society.  It does not just apply to the sexual revolution any more.  It now applies to all of life.

Why take a hard subject like chemistry or physics when you can get the same BA, at the same price, with little work, by majoring in a major that has the word “Studies” in the title.  Ask yourselves why so many people going into education major in “Liberal Studies” rather than math or history.  You get the job with none of the work.

This is the appeal of EBT cards and section VIII housing.  It is the appeal of the modern Democratic party.  They promise free health care, free college, free food, free phones, free __________.  When the guy who sleeps in and hangs out with his friends can still live the good life, why get a job?  He may be lazy but he is not stupid.

At school I have more students than ever before who refuse to even bring a book to class.  Yesterday we had what is called the “Community Awards Assembly”.  We used to have people from Kiwanis, Rotary, Elks and other organizations come and give out awards to deserving students.  One of the leaders was surprised when I pointed out that we don’t have any of those people any more.  He hadn’t noticed.  What we do have are a steady stream of people across the class that are failing most of their classes but are willing to get out of class to run errands for an administrator.  Yesterday a special education aid came to my class to pull a kid out to work on something from another class.

If the grade is free, why write the report?  If your wife will pay the bills, why get a job.  If your mother will do your laundry, why get your own apartment? 

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Opus 2016-138: Legal Kidnaping

Powerline has a Green Weenie award they give for foolishness on environmental issues.  Recently they gave one to the Portland school board for censoring text books to give a pro-global warming brainwashing to students.  Well and good. 

What got my attention was a statement they made toward the end of the article.

“It may not matter much, since Portland is rapidly becoming a city without children. (This is one reason I don’t worry about the Left in the long run: they aren’t procreating. Thank goodness.)’

This may be true as a statistic but it doesn’t deal with what is really happening.  You see, all of these childless liberals are in charge of the education of our children.  The brainwashing starts in pre-school and continues through the Ph.D. programs.  It never lets up and by it they steal the children that they did not have themselves.

One of the techniques of the socialist regimes was to get children to inform on their parents.  The process continues.

Welcome to Amerika.

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