Food for thought. Trump verbally dishes it out, let's hope we don't choke on it. (See 1 below.)
And then:https://tiny.iavian.net/lygv
Finally, When will The Democrats bring charges against Trump for colluding with N Korea?
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SEX AT 75
I just took a leaflet out of my mailbox,
informing me that I can have sex at 75.
I'm so happy, because I live at number 71.
So it's not too far to walk home afterwards. And it's the same side of the street. I don't even have to cross the road!
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Answering machine message, "I am not available right now, but thank you for caring enough to call. I am making some changes in my life. Please leave a message after the beep. If I do not return your call, you are one of the changes."
God made man before woman so as to give him time
to think of an answer for her first question.
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A Florida teacher speaks out.(See 2 and 2a below.) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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1) The Promise and Peril of the North Korea Meeting
Let's hope they know what they're doing.
Sometimes it takes an outsider, unburdened by the stifling conventions and preconceptions that impede the practice of diplomacy, to see the obvious. Trump is that outsider. Sometimes Trump’s distance from diplomacy’s precepts allows him to see its hobgoblins as they are. That was the case when his administration threw away custom by deciding again to consign North Korea to the list of state terror sponsors, to institute a renewed sanctions regime targeting Iran, and to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The risks that professional diplomats feared would result from these maneuvers never materialized, and only a risk-prone executive could have achieved these successes. Trump’s particular facility is not without its dangers. Sometimes the conventional wisdom is conventional for a reason. Donald Trump’s decision to sit down with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un at Pyongyang’s request, for example, is fraught with more potential for risk than reward.
On Thursday night, President Trump revealed he had received a letter from the North Korean despot via a South Korean intermediary requesting a meeting with the president, and he accepted. This marks a dramatic departure from past practice. North Korea’s leaders have long sought to achieve the prestige associated with being perceived as a peer of the United States—a status that is conveyed through a bilateral sit-down between the principals of these two nations—but no American president has given this murderous regime that satisfaction. Not until today.
Trump’s defenders insist this isn’t what it looks like. This is not the fulfillment of Barack Obama’s never-realized 2007 pledge to sit down with America’s enemies absent preconditions because North Korea has, in fact, agreed to preconditions. It will freeze its missile testing and will not respond to America’s planned military exercises with South Korea. China has put pressure on the North to halt missile tests to facilitate talks, and this pressure has worked. Pyongyang signaled its intention to put a moratorium on missile tests earlier this week, but it had not tested a new missile since November 29. North Korea does not and never will have a veto over how America conducts affairs with its allies, so the notion that it would or would not respond to military exercises means nothing. But in response to these modest overtures, North Korea has won a propaganda victory they’ve sought for nearly a quarter century.
This arrangement is already a lopsided one in North Korea’s favor, and the stakes only get higher from here. This is the big one; it’s a gambit that could pay off, but the United States only gets one shot at this. If it fails, America’s losses will not be minimal.
This meeting between the leader of the free world and the criminal proprietor of the world’s largest open-air prison might produce a breakthrough. Trump might convince Kim to agree to the permanent and verifiable dismantling of his nuclear program, thus surrendering the only leverage that got North Korea to the table in the first place. Kim’s long-range missile program might be on the table for the first time in 20 years. In exchange, Trump could offer diplomatic recognition, a peace treaty, or sanctions relief. A grand bargain is possible in theory.
What’s more, Trump’s efforts could dissipate the perception in North Korea that the United States poses an existential threat and seeks to reunite the Peninsula by force. That could destabilize the North Korean regime in ways that have previously proven elusive. But if this maneuver were to fail, a return to dialogue at lower functionary levels or even through back channels might be regarded as a fruitless pursuit. After all, Donald Trump has said precisely that in the not-so-distant past. That would leave the United States with only one viable way to neutralize the North Korean nuclear program.
Still, some say, this gambit is worth the effort. The window of time in which the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula can be peacefully resolved is closing. More conventional approaches to the diplomatic crisis have failed. Maybe Donald Trump’s unique contempt both for precedent and expertise will allow him to craft an unforeseeable arrangement with North Korea. Even if that miracle were to occur, this meeting alone will have unintended and likely undesirable consequences.
Last month, during the Olympics in South Korea, it was revealed that Vice President Mike Pence and representatives from the North Korean government were on track to have a meeting that would likely not have been publicly revealed until it had been concluded. North Korea’s representatives canceled that at the last minute, and Pence spokesman Nick Ayers insisted that was because Pyongyang was denied a chance to achieve its propagandistic aims.
“This administration will stand in the way of Kim’s desire to whitewash their murderous regime with nice photo-ops at the Olympics,” Ayers said. “Perhaps that’s why they walked away from a meeting or perhaps they were never sincere about sitting down.” Unless verifiable denuclearization is on the table, Ayers added, there is nothing to talk about. So much for that. Today, North Korea has won the mother of all “photo-ops” without changing any of its behaviors, and that is entirely the result of its successful nuclear weapons program.
The regime’s confidence and sense of security will invariably be enhanced by this meeting, but the regime will not be defanged. Pyongyang could feel emboldened enough to pursue yet another military crisis on the Peninsula with the aim of testing America’s commitment to respond. If America fails this test, that would advance Pyongyang’s core objective: decoupling the United States-South Korean military alliance by exposing America as a faithless ally and a magnet for North Korean aggression.
There is a reason you can count the number of rogue regimes on one hand. There are some powerful incentives to pursue nuclear weapons, abuse problem populations, or generally destabilize the international environment, but the costs imposed on that course of action tend to deter the world’s aspiring scoundrels. Pyongyang has demonstrated that that the rewards associated with a nuclear weapons program may not necessarily outweigh the risks: global prominence, a peer relationship with the United States, and the prospect of reintegration into the international environment despite being a state sponsor of international terrorism and a purveyor of weapons, chemical munitions, and illicit drugs. Put this way, it’s easy to see why the last three consecutive presidents have turned down the offer for a face-to-face meeting with a member of the Kim family.
North Korea isn’t the only rogue state on the playing field, and it won’t be the last upstart nation to challenge the Western hegemony. How the United States contends with this threat will resonate around the world and for years to come. Trump’s decision to abandon the precedents set by his predecessors is a risky maneuver, and we will be living with the consequences of this decision—whatever they are—for decades to come. Let’s hope this White House knows what it’s doing
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2) A Credentialed Teacher Gives Her Perspective on School Violence
I grew up with guns. Everyone knows that. But you know what? My parents NEVER supported any bad behavior from me. I was terrified of doing something bad at school, as I would have not had a life until I corrected the problem and straightened my ass out. My parents invaded my life. They knew where I was ALL the time. They made me have a curfew. They made me wake them up when I got home. They made me respect their rules. They had full control of their house, and at any time could and would go through every inch of my bedroom, backpack, pockets, anything! Parents: it's time to STEP UP! Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend. They have enough "friends" at school. Be their parent. Being the "cool mom" means not a damn thing when either your kid is dead or your kid kills other people because they were allowed to have their space and privacy in YOUR HOME. I'll say it again. My home was filled with guns growing up. For God's sake, my daddy was an 82nd Airborne Ranger who lost half his face serving our country. But you know what? I never dreamed of shooting anyone with his guns. I never dreamed of taking one! I was taught respect for human life, compassion, rules, common decency, and most of all, I was taught that until I moved out, my life and bedroom wasn't mine...it was theirs. And they were going to know what was happening because they loved me and wanted the best for me.
There. Say that I'm a horrible person. I didn't bring up gun control, and I will refuse to debate it with anyone. This post wasn't about gun control. This was me, loving the crap out of people and wanting the best for them. This was about my school babies and knowing that God created each one for greatness, and just wanting them to reach their futures. It's about 20 years ago this year I started my teaching career. Violence was not this bad 20 years ago. Lack of compassion wasn't this bad 20 years ago. And God knows 20 years ago that I wasn't afraid daily to call a parent because I KNEW that 9 out of 10 would cuss me out, tell me to go to Hell, call the news on me, call the school board on me, or post all over FaceBook about me because I called to let them know what their child chose to do at school...because they are a NORMAL kid!!!!!
Those 17 lives mattered. When are we going to take our own responsibility seriously? Guns aren't the problem. The current culture is the problem.
2a) Civil War
How do civil wars happen? Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge.
That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win.
The Supreme Court gave him the election.
There’s a pattern here. What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.
That’s a civil war. There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government. This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrat
Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war. Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that’s not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country. If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator. But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented.
A Democrat in the White House has “discretion” to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the “discretion” to reverse him. That’s how the game is played. That’s how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn’t yet won that particular fight. When a Democrat in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom
without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that. Whether it’ Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship. Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds
You can’t serve in if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If yaren’t in the club. And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people with him who aren’t in the club. Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down. That’s not a free country. It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an “insurance policy” against Trump winning the election.
It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win. Have no doubt, we’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.
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2) A Credentialed Teacher Gives Her Perspective on School Violence
Well, someone talks about the elephant in the room and it happens to be a teacher.…“The current culture is the problem.”Florida's Teacher of the Year Bluntly Writes WHY School Violence Is Out of Control
by Daisy Luther
Kelly Guthrie Raley has been teaching for 20 years and currently educates kids at Eustis Middle School in Lake County, Florida. Just last month she was named the 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year.The day after the horrific shooting that took place at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she posted a rant on Facebook that has since gone viral. In the post, she talked about parental responsibility, compassion, and respect...and more than 823,000 people have "liked" the post and agreed with it, while more than 649,000 have shared it with others.Here's what Mrs. Raley had to say:
Until we, as a country, are willing to get serious and talk about mental health issues, lack of available care for the mental health issues, lack of discipline in the home, horrendous lack of parental support when the schools are trying to control horrible behavior at school (oh no! Not MY KID. What did YOU do to cause my kid to react that way?), lack of moral values, and yes, I'll say it-violent video games that take away all sensitivity to ANY compassion for others' lives, as well as reality TV that makes it commonplace for people to constantly scream up in each others' faces and not value any other person but themselves, we will have a gun problem in school. Our kids don't understand the permanency of death anymore!!!Okay, I'll be the bad guy and say what no one else is brave enough to say, but wants to say. I'll take all the criticism and attacks from everyone because you know what? I'm a TEACHER. I live this life daily. And I wouldn't do anything else! But I also know daily I could end up in an active shooter situation.
I grew up with guns. Everyone knows that. But you know what? My parents NEVER supported any bad behavior from me. I was terrified of doing something bad at school, as I would have not had a life until I corrected the problem and straightened my ass out. My parents invaded my life. They knew where I was ALL the time. They made me have a curfew. They made me wake them up when I got home. They made me respect their rules. They had full control of their house, and at any time could and would go through every inch of my bedroom, backpack, pockets, anything! Parents: it's time to STEP UP! Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend. They have enough "friends" at school. Be their parent. Being the "cool mom" means not a damn thing when either your kid is dead or your kid kills other people because they were allowed to have their space and privacy in YOUR HOME. I'll say it again. My home was filled with guns growing up. For God's sake, my daddy was an 82nd Airborne Ranger who lost half his face serving our country. But you know what? I never dreamed of shooting anyone with his guns. I never dreamed of taking one! I was taught respect for human life, compassion, rules, common decency, and most of all, I was taught that until I moved out, my life and bedroom wasn't mine...it was theirs. And they were going to know what was happening because they loved me and wanted the best for me.
There. Say that I'm a horrible person. I didn't bring up gun control, and I will refuse to debate it with anyone. This post wasn't about gun control. This was me, loving the crap out of people and wanting the best for them. This was about my school babies and knowing that God created each one for greatness, and just wanting them to reach their futures. It's about 20 years ago this year I started my teaching career. Violence was not this bad 20 years ago. Lack of compassion wasn't this bad 20 years ago. And God knows 20 years ago that I wasn't afraid daily to call a parent because I KNEW that 9 out of 10 would cuss me out, tell me to go to Hell, call the news on me, call the school board on me, or post all over FaceBook about me because I called to let them know what their child chose to do at school...because they are a NORMAL kid!!!!!
Those 17 lives mattered. When are we going to take our own responsibility seriously? Guns aren't the problem. The current culture is the problem.
2a) Civil War
How do civil wars happen? Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge.
That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win.
The Supreme Court gave him the election.
There’s a pattern here. What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.
That’s a civil war. There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government. This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrat
Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war. Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that’s not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country. If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator. But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented.
A Democrat in the White House has “discretion” to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the “discretion” to reverse him. That’s how the game is played. That’s how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn’t yet won that particular fight. When a Democrat in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom
without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that. Whether it’ Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship. Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds
You can’t serve in if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If yaren’t in the club. And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people with him who aren’t in the club. Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down. That’s not a free country. It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an “insurance policy” against Trump winning the election.
It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win. Have no doubt, we’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.
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