Reflections From a Murky Pond

In America our constitution enumerates our explicit right to freedom of religion, yet there are many Atheists who are striving – more and more successfully with the rise of their co-conspirators, the Liberals and Progressives – to redefine this constitutional right as being merely the right of freedom of worship. Their goal is nothing less than the total abolishment of anything religious from any public space or activity.

Nor do these enemies of America have any restraint in their attacks. More often than not their chosen targets are American children. They know that children are vulnerable and that, if they can terrorize them early enough and often enough, they can silence them forever.

As one recent example among a multitude, a Marion, NC elementary school decided to unconstitutionally censor a 1st-grader’s poem commemorating her grandfathers’ military service that was supposed to be recited at a Veteran’s Day ceremony last month because a single, Godless “parent” was offended that there was a reference to God in it. This was the stanza that so offended the worthless, Godless whiner:

He prayed to God for peace, he prayed to God for strength.

That the stanza was in no way an endorsement of the Christian God or an exhortation to worship in any form was of no importance to the offended Atheist. This piece of filth didn’t want the word God mentioned anywhere in the program.

If Americans don’t want to end up huddled shamefully behind closed doors to worship, knowing that whenever we leave the sanctuary of hallowed ground we must leave all expressions of our faith behind, we need to rise up and do something to put an end to the Atheists’ threat to one of the very foundations of our country.

There are steps that we, as a people, must take:

1. Get out and vote! If we can maintain a majority in all levels of government, but especially the local levels, we will be largely safe from the attacks of the Godless.
2. Get involved in your local school and school board. Make sure we have the vocal numbers to quell any attempt by the Godless to effect their agenda in those most vulnerably venues.
3. Rebuild and reform your communities. Build neighborhoods like we once had where right-thinking people gathered in fellowship and where undesirable and disruptive influences were shunned and/or driven off.
4. Be ready and willing to use whatever level and manner of force is necessary if and when our enemies find a way to circumvent the other and much preferred methods of defending our nation’s principles.

It’s up to each of us, both singly and as a people, to do what needs to be done to win this war for our nation and children’s future. If we do nothing or do less than enough we or our children will end up worshiping behind doors, always afraid of the price of doing even that.

Presented for your entertainment and edification – 14 rules of life that every teen should be taught before they leave home and school in order to give them a better chance at achieving some form of successful adult life in the real world.

All 14 are basic laws of life in the modern world.

Sadly, given the state of America’s educational system, they won’t learn these things in schools. Even more sadly, given the state of parenting in America, they also are unlikely to be taught these rules at home.

14 Rules Of Life

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes; learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school’s a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you’ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.

One thing that parents should take note of – failing to teach your children these rules of life they will have to abide by after leaving home, may well mean that don’t leave home or quickly return home in failure.

Breaking Life’s Rules Brings Consequences, Not Punishments

Plenty of titular adults could also greatly benefit from learning and abiding by these rules of life but these are not the sort of lessons that work well in the setting of adult remedial education.

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NOTE: These rules for life are very, very often misattributed. They’re most often attributed to Bill Gates but are also wrongly attributed to Kurt Vonnegut and Georgia state Representative Brooks Coleman.

Strangely, only the first 11 rules are normally used during these misattributions.

Additionally, both advice columnist Ann Landers and radio personality Paul Harvey have presented the first eleven rules in the list of rules several times without any form of credit being given to the actual author or anyone else.

The actual author of these 14 rules of life is Charles J. Sykes, who is almost never given credit for the work. They form the core of his 2007 book, 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.

Over the last four years Americans have had to endure an tiresome, incessant tirade from Obama, the various stripes of Leftists, and the jabbering hordes of bottom-feeders and subhuman filth that exist solely because our laws force us to be hosts for their parasitism.

Most of these screeds have centered on how our domestic enemies are just asking the successful and productive to “their fair share.”

Their whole mantra, however, is nothing but a lie and Dr. Thomas Sowell sums it up with his usual clarity:

No previous administration in the entire history of the nation ever finished the year with a trillion dollar deficit. The Obama administration has done so every single year. Yet political and media discussions of the financial crisis have been focused overwhelmingly on how to get more tax revenue to pay for past and future spending.

The very catchwords and phrases used by the Obama administration betray how phony this all is. For example, “We are just asking the rich to pay a little more.”

This is an insult to our intelligence. The government doesn’t “ask” anybody to pay anything. It orders you to pay the taxes they impose and you can go to prison if you don’t.

— Dr. Thomas Sowell

Our domestic enemies are not asking for the well-to-do to pay “their fair share.” They’re asking people to punish anyone who blocks their attempt to punish the upper financial echelons of our country by confiscating and redistributing their wealth to those that the Liberals and Progressives find more deserving.

This is all about the politics of class- and race warfare and nothing whatsoever about economics. Even if all credible economists are wrong – doubtful but not nearly an impossibility – and businesses and jobs aren’t negatively impacted by these tax hikes, the resulting revenue would pay for the federal government’s operations for a mere two weeks.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. We are at war and need to comport ourselves as such.

With the economy tanking and all credible predictions indicating that the next four years will be even worse, it’s become necessary to implement a new austerity program. Certain luxuries, long taken for granted, will have to be foregone.

No More Warning Shots – Mercy Is A Luxury

Please consider the locked door and locked steel security gate that you had to bypass or break through as your warnings. They were installed for your protection, not mine.

Kindly remember that those qualities you’re relied upon exploiting: mercy, charity, tolerance, and forbearance to name a few, are luxuries for those displaying them as opposed to necessities. Harsh times call for harsh measures and the austerity of survival. 😉

A Brief History Of The United States

Presented – A brief, visual history of the United States of America and the people who reside within her. It tracks our degradation from a proud democratic republic to a state of ineptocracy.

Of course, the decline has accelerated in the last 50 or so years as America has progressed through the fatal sequence of the Tytler Cycle.