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Two Firings: Two Sad Signs of Our Times

As a cocky college kid working part time, I once told a supervisor at Met Life who was letting a bunch of us go that I’d been fired from better jobs than this, which may or may not have been true.

Getting fired, canned, dismissed, discharged, terminated, let go from a job, part or full time, is often a shot to the ego and and the wallet.  Today, especially, it’s no joking matter since decent positions are hard to come by.

Getting fired, etc. for your religious beliefs at any time is even less a subject for jocularity.

Even if you’re working at Home Depot, not the ultimate career for most people, but, hey, a job is a job and a buck is a buck, a guy shouldn’t expect to be sent packing for wearing a pin.

However, college kid/cashier Trevor Keezor was canned for his pin which read, “One nation under God, indivisible,” which happen to be words excerpted from the Pledge of Allegiance.  Said pin also featured the American flag, which may have offended some illegals at his Okeechobee, Florida Home Depot.

He merely wanted to express his sense of patriotism and support for his brother, a National Guardsman who was scheduled for his second tour in Iraq next month.

No, no, no, said Home Depot.  We will tolerate none of that folderol!  We may (or may not) concur with your sentiments but trash the pin or you’re gone to the unemployment line!

Trevor chose unemployment over surrendering his constitutional rights and love of country, and his support for his brother.

Company spokesman Craig Fishel contended Keezor had violated company policy and the Home Depot dress code by sporting the pin, which Keezor had worn for a year and a half before anyone noticed, or cared, or complained.

Perhaps what really precipitated the kid’s dismissal was his recent habit of toting his Bible to work and reading it on his lunch hour.

Either way, Trevor’s gone and won’t be able to ever again pollute Home Depot with his patriotic and God-loving fervor.

The good news is that he plans to sue on the basis of religious discrimination.  The bad news is that the ACLU effectively said, “Fat chance” since a private corporation such as Home Depot is within its rights to disregard an American’s right to free speech and worship: http://bit.ly/4pAx8s.

Another notable canning occurred up in Barney Frank-land.

Peter Vidala’s infraction?  Failure to comply with political correctness . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1302)

“Queering American Education,” and Other Edifying Thoughts

“Nowhere is this failure [of education] more evident than when it comes to antigay prejudice, and nowhere is that particular failure more manifest than it is in our elementary schools.”

“Acknowledging children as sexual beings or allowing males (particularly homosexuals) to teach in elementary grades dislodges the classroom from the ‘safe haven’ of heteronormativity.”

“Boys don’t have to stand to urinate (nor do girls have to sit–they could squat), that’s just how they got conditioned.”

“Assumptions about children’s ‘innocence’ regarding sexuality are outdated.”

All of the above quotations are taken from Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling, a 1999 book for which Obama’s “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary for education who heads the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, wrote a foreword. 

Jennings “called for elementary school children to explore their sexual identities, for teachers to incorporate homosexual themes in grades K-5, for discarding a ‘hetero-normative’ approach to education and for ‘acknowledging children as sexual beings:’ ” http://bit.ly/3b3GGU.

Jennings is the founder and president of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

The lead quotation above is also taken from his foreword, the other three from contributors to Queering . . .

If I may be so presumptuous as to summarize the contents of a book I’ve never read, it’s a work intended to subvert the innocence of children in the interests of furthering the agenda of the homosexual lobby.

I base that presumption on a passing acquaintance with Jennings in the sense of knowing his history.  See previous articles about this gem of an Obamaczar, http://bit.ly/3kkzGt and http://bit.ly/Loo9u.

Not on his resume’ is his advising a 15 year old boy to wear a condom during his assignations with an adult, male pervert while Jennings was a teacher in Barney Frank’s Massachusetts. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1301)

Oh, Brave New Babies!

Aldous Huxley’s unintended prophecies in his darkly satirical novel, Brave New World, (1932), had one major flaw: He missed the mark by at least 531 years.

He described his new world as a “nightmare” in Brave New World Reisited twenty-six years later.  He evidently knew whereof he spoke since by then he had become an aficionado of Timothy Leary’s favorite brand of euphoria, LSD.

Set in the year A.D. 2540 in England–632 A.F., (After [Henry] Ford)– Huxley’s vision of the future was characterized by a societal-condoned hedonism, unrestricted drug use, loveless sex, and universal “happiness” in a tightly-controlled structure designed and manipulated by an all-powerful yet benevolent government.

It was indeed a nightmare even if it was a drug-induced pleasant nightmare devoid of withdrawal symptoms or hangovers, a genetically-engineered Utopia where life began in test tubes.

Much like millions now pop a Valium when regrets or sadness threaten to overwhelm the psyche, Huxley’s New Worlders popped a soma and drifted off to a blissful neverland.

We still have a few years to go before reaching Huxley’s nightmarish eugenics, but a major step in that direction was recently taken in an American research lab.

A report published in the scientific journal Nature details “a cure for infertility [which] could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own,” a boon for infertile males by coaxing “cells into becoming eggs and sperm.”

Another plus is that the research findings may postpone menopause.

Minuses include the fact that stem cells are used in the procedures which would probably involve even more destruction of embryos, that the practice of aborting unwanted babies   would mushroom, and that homosexuals could seek out practioners who could grow their children.

Other bad news is that the test tube breakthrough by Stanford scientists accomplishes that cure by creating ”the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies.” . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1300)

Say It Ain’t So, Joe Biden!

There’s been an ugly rumor floating around Washington for a while now, namely that Vice President Joe Biden is a drunk.

Not to make light of the serious disease that is alcoholism but, if true, it would explain quite a bit about his antics and gaffes during last year’s campaign and since he assumed the vice presidency in January.

Of course his boss, Barack Obama, is D.C.’s resident Gaffe King.  That’s not a result of being tipsy but because he’s just Obama. 

He is so reliant on his crutch, Mr. Teleprompter, that without it he tends to say stupid things such as claiming he had campaigned “in all 57 states” and being unable to speculate on the moment of conception because it “was above my pay grade.” 

Post-election his most famous, and insensitive, goof was ridiculing Special Olympians on Leno.

Not that any of the gaffe twins’ numerous examples of foot-in-mouth disease get any significant play in the mass media, except for the Leno remark which was made on national television.

If covered at all, their flubs and screw ups are soon buried, never to see the light of publicity again, whereas George Bush’s numerous misspeaks still are prime fodder.

Biden   is no slacker in the blooper department, either.

Don’t expect to see them on NBC, CNN, et al., but two videos featuring good ol’ Joe have come to light which give credence to his having an issue with “the drink,” as his Irish ancestors would say.

They offer explanation for his often rambling dissertations, solecisms, flubs, and outright improprieties.

The first Biden video, . . .

(Read the rest and see the videos at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1299)

And, They’re Off!

The title isn’t a reference to the Derby or the Preakness or the Belmont Stakes.  It’s a reference to the annual Festival of Nativity Naysayers, aka the Feast of Christmas Humbuggers, aka the Holiday When Liberals Dump on Christians.

We’ve barely reached the pagan festival of Halloween but, never known as people who missed a chance to bash Christian beliefs, the Left is already up in arms over a 63-year Christmas tradition in Warren, Michigan. 

They’re trying to ban the return of a creche scene to a public site where it has stood every year since 1945.

Perhaps emboldened by President Obama’s outrageous declaration that America is not a Christian nation and well aware it could never accomplish its goals by public referendum, the atheistic Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed suit in federal court to banish the creche.

The foundation’s basis?  Why, the non-existent constitutional clause mandating a strict separation of church and state, of course.

John Satawa’s dad built and installed the creche. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1298)

An Obama-Islamic Video

When George W. Bush proclaimed during the 2000 presidential campaign that Jesus Christ was his “favorite philosopher,” he was roundly chastised by America’s left wingers for intruding religion into politics.

Bush would also as a matter of course end his speeches with, “May God continue to bless the United States,” another horrific violation of the leftist-inspired, false issue of separation of church and state.

All Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote of a “wall of separation” in an 1802 letter was that this nation would and should never have an official state religion.  We had escaped the state Church of England by our revolution and weren’t about to re-establish a national religion.

In the interests of full disclosure, I’m not a big fan of our current president, for sundry reasons, as regular visitors to this site would know.  I have also questioned his religion.

I caught a lot of flak last year from friend and foe alike for suggesting the man wasn’t all he seemed.  We all know appearances can be deceiving and Obama was always careful to present a pleasant facade.

In order to win the presidency, he had to appear non-threatening, a proverbial man of the people, open to all ideas, open to all races and religions.

With the aid and abettance of the MSM, he deftly skirted all negative issues and questionable associations with committed domestic terrorists such as his good buddy Bill Ayers and committed racist America-haters such as his pastor and moral compass, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Along the way in his campaign of deception and since his election, the gaffe-prone Obama has let slip though his opaque facade some very telling commentary, slipped probably when his trusty teleprompter wasn’t guiding his words. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1296)

Nancy Pelosi, Queen of OHI

When Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address with the stirring words, “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom–and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” he could never have envisioned Nancy Pelosi.

We still have a nation even if God has been banished from the public forum and we still have some freedoms left despite efforts by Congress and the president to deny them.

However, Abe’s dream that our government would always be of, by, and for the people took another shot to the solar plexus in Washington today.

Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill, is a monstrosity in every sense of the word. . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1295)

The U.N., a Boil on the Arse of America
  We should have known at the inception of the United Nations when the U.S.S.R. was accorded three separate votes in the General Assembly that the whole idea was a bad deal for the United States.

We should have known but we didn’t, or else we did know and bought into the deal anyway because, ostensibly, it was all in the interests of a lasting world peace, aka, pie in the sky.

Then, too, convicted Soviet spy, Alger Hiss, helped establish the structure of the U.N.  However, that was before the Cold War with the Soviet Union so his machinations must have been motivated by the purest and most patriotic intentions.

The fact that the world hasn’t had any real peace since the U.N. entered the geopolitcal picture still hasn’t resonated with many Americans and the fact that nothing the U.N. has ever done has favored American interests.  We still pour money and precious military resources into that cesspool.

The U.N. has been and will continue to be the proverbial teats on a bull while posing as mankind’s savior and American suckers will continue to subsidize that sad excuse for a deliberative, international body.

Far worse, the rotting building on New York City’s East River   and its thousands of rotten, resident delegates and functionaries represent the most insidious, dangerous force we have ever faced.

Too many books and articles, including any number of articles in this space, have been written on the fraud that is the United Nations to beat that dead horse so let’s just focus on one of its most recent foray into diplomacy.

US Drones May Be Tantamount to Summary Executions: Of all institutions, the U.N. should be the last to speak of drones but this week U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston did just that.

With that ostentatious title, I guess Mr. Alston feels he’s entitled to address any issue he damned well pleases. . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1293)

Dem Damned Lies, Deceptions, and Dolts

This mess of Democrats in control of our government has come near to perfecting the fine art of political obfuscation and nervy prevarication.

Whether it’s the president   who now says that, “Gee, when I said that my Obamacare proposals never incorporated funding for aborting the pre-born, I didn’t really mean that Obamacare wouldn’t incorporate such funding,” or other deceptions, it’s transparent that this ilk has gone to the top of the Prevarication Charts.

Seriously, now, they are absolutely superb at twisting the truth, that is unless, ala Bill Clinton, everyone else is lying but they are telling the god’s-honest truth.

For example, “Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.)  told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that ‘under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions’ he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president’s own health care plan—which has never been written.”

Huh?

“I don’t know if it is a game of semantics or what,” Stupak said of Obama’s nationally-televised declaration to Congress that the health-care plan will not allow federal funding of abortion:” http://bit.ly/11fnaq.

Rep. Stupak, it’s not semantics.  It’s baldfaced lying, a political technique developed into an art form by Barack Obama and his acolytes and predicated on the assumption that the American people are dolts.

All Stupak wants is a floor vote on an amendment prohibiting abortion funding in Obamacare, a transparent, democratic procedure to determine specifically where House members stand.  Speaker-wannabe Steny Hoyer has now tried to placate Stupak with more mealy-mouthed, vague promises of compromise: http://bit.ly/4dy7iw

Then along comes the Queen of Deceptive Prevarication, House Speaker Nancy Patricia D’Alesssandro Pelosi, who feigned ignorance–or was it feigned?– . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1289)

For those not familiar with the name Jesse Dirkhising, that’s no surprise.  He was never a media favorite like Matthew Shepard even though the two met similar fates. 

The chief differences are that Jesse was a child of 13.  Matthew was a young man of 21.  Jesse’s vicious murder was committed by two pedophiles, sadistic animals who also tortured and repeatedly raped him.  Matthew was killed by 2 drugged up drunks in a robbery.

Oh, there was another difference: Jesse   was a totally innocent, heterosexual victim and Matthew,  a homosexual, was picked up in a Wyoming tavern before he was robbed, beaten, and left to die tied to a frozen fencepost.

Both were horrendous crimes but for some inexplicable reason, we now have a hate crime law commemorating the life of Matthew Shepard, a man, and only a tombstone to remember Jesse Dirkhising, a child.

Why the disparity in recognition? 

Ask the mainstream media which chose either to treat Jesse’s horrific murder as a mere random aberration–which it wasn’t–or chose to ignore it altogether, and to honor Matthew as a cause celebre’ because he is some kind of hero–which he wasn’t.

Rumor has it that the hate crime law passed in his name was passed because in our increasingly gay-dominated culture Matthew was honored simply because he was gay.

We all know that homosexuals on the prowl in bars are far more sympathetic figures than defenseless children, right? . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1290)

All That Glisters Is Not Gold

Having barbarized the English language, we now prefer to say that, “All that glitters isn’t gold,” instead of using Shakespeare’s “glisters.”

The meaning is about the same: Gold and the pursuit thereof, whether for investment, speculation, jewelry, or its sheer gut attraction has its pitfalls and the benefits of its attraction may not always be what they seem to be.

The same goes for “the poor man’s gold,” silver, which today seems ubiquitous in cheap baubles.

Unlike real estate which Will Rogers said we should buy since they’re not making any more of it, they’re still “making,” as in mining, gold although gold deposits are becoming harder and harder to find even as competition heats up and as the price soars.

Gold,  that most precious of all precious metals, has from time immemorial been the one true sure bet.  However, not that it would ever be worthless, but gold could lose significant value and lose investors/speculators big money.  For the hoarders, it also presents the problem of storage.

Under Grandma’s bed is not recommended, especially if she tends to wander with her purse stuffed.

Of course, land, real estate, tends to periodically crash and burn as millions of Americans witnessed from the government-caused burst housing bubble.

In today’s very uncertain times, buying–and hoarding–gold has become an enticing hedge against wildly-inflated paper currencies, such the Obama dollar.  The inflationary effect of Obama’s fascination with printing far more greenbacks than we should has yet to hit America’s fan.

Just give it time, until after the elections.

Gold is considered the safest hedge . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1288)

Israeli Racism

  In a scathing attack on certain religious factions in Israel, an article on the authoritative Jewish website, HARRETZ.com denounces the existence in the country of self-righteous zealots imvolved in a “racist campaign [which] is being led by the Shas party, headed by Interior Minister Eli Yishai.”

Shulamit Aloni also targets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for having “fallen in love” with ultra-orthodox elements in Israel and Israel’s “parasites,” 50,000 yeshiva students who are exempted from working and serving in the military.

The notoriously-belligerent Netanyahu   allegedly ”despises the principles embodied in the founding document of the state . . . that ensures the country will be developed ‘for the benefit of all its residents,’ that there will be ‘complete equality of rights for all citizens regardless of origin, race, religion or gender,’ as well as ‘freedom of religion and conscience.’ “

The chief object of Aloni’s disaffection is the ultra-Orthodox hypocrisy in accepting the assimilation of Russian emigres while insisting ”on racial purity,” and expulsion ”from the ‘Jewish democratic’ state [all other] children . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1285)

Racism and Serena Williams

Racism is an ugly word and a word very often unjustly applied.

Professional hate mongers and race baiters, like the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, toss the term around as if they’re playing volleyball, unmindful of the lesson behind the Aesop fable of the shepherd boy who cried wolf. 

The townspeople eventually get fed up with the boy’s lying and refused to come to his aid when a true threat came on the scene, a nasty, hungry, real wolf. 

Aesop’s readers learn the moral that, “Even when liars tell the truth, they are never believed. The liar will lie once, twice, and then perish when he tells the truth.”

So, too, will reasonable people come to realize those reverends are money-grubbing, racist charlatans whose repetitive cries of racism have as much substance as the shepherd boy’s “Wolf!” lies.

Which brings us to the less than serene sports star, Serena Williams.

The tennis amazon blossomed into a foul-mouthed, threatening harridan at the U.S. Open last September leading some to believe the dad-proclaimed greatest tennis player in the history of tennis had erupted as much out of frustration as out of her vile personality and character: http://bit.ly/3V7F01.

Serena recovered, even if the line judge who was the target of her F-bomb-filled, murderous invective hasn’t. 

Serena moved on down the road to exhibiting her prodigious bod on ESPN Magazine’s “body issue” cover:

As a result of her tirade and exhibiting her well-oiled figure for all the world to see, Serena may not be welcome at the upcoming Australia Open next February: http://bit.ly/11Z3t.

If she is disinvited, . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1282)

New York Republicans Just Don’t Get It

She’s pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-card check, pro-tax and spend, in bed with labor unions, and has been endorsed by DailyKos.com.

I’m not referring to Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer.  I’m referring to New York State Assmblywoman Dede Scozafazza,  the Republican nominee for Congress in New York 23rd CD.

More liberal than many of her Democratic colleagues in the Assembly yet termed a moderate, Scozzafazza is about as moderate as George Soros and her nomination represents the most asinine Republican pick since Rick Lazio ran against Hillary in 2000.

Opposed in the special election on November 3rd by Democrat Bill Owens and the Conservative Party’s Doug Hoffman, Scozafazza’s nomination is a classic example of the political astigmatism and poor memories of the New York State Republicans.

The 23rd and this country as a whole are politically center right and generally reject political extremism of liberal candidates such as Barack Obama unless they successfully cloak that philosophy in rhetorical vagaries, such as Barack Obama did.

Last November’s election . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1281)

Climate Change Foolery

The End Is Near!  If you’re not too busy on or about December 8th, make a note that on that fateful day climate change will wreak its final vengeance on the world’s polluters–and on everyone else.

At least that’s the view of the increasingly-odd British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Well, not exactly.

According to the BBC, Brown did say on October 19th in London that “negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the ‘impasse’ ” or face “catastrophic” floods, heat waves, and droughts for which there is “no Plan B:” http://bit.ly/13Os3h

So, that’s all, folks!  Either the world gets its act together when nations gather in December in Copenhagen to try to scrap the Kyoto Protocol, or there is no hope, no future, no planet to speak of as of December 8th.

Sort of.

He did temper his remarks by adding that, ”within the lifetime of our children and grandchildren the intense temperatures of 2003 could become the average temperature experienced throughout much of Europe.”

By the time our grandchildren are affected, much of Europe will be Islamic so maybe we should seek answers in the Qu’ran?

Absent from Brown’s hot, bleak forecast was any allusion to looking behind that curtain and discovering the charlatan who cites one miserable European summer and ignores all the true science that points to global cooling over the past decade.

Mr. Brown, faithfully carrying on Obama’s Panic Philosophy despite being repeatedly rebuffed and insulted by the American president and with his Labour Party headed for a jolly good trouncing in the next election, seems a desparate bloke who would admit to Brit atrocities in Ireland if it would garner a few votes.

The man needs a feather in his tweed cap even if it means scaring the living bejesus out of Britons.

Also on the climate change front, New York Times’ environmental reporter, Andrew Rivkin, has come up with yet another muddled, liberal idea.

Why not, Rivkind suggests, make children the equivalent of smokestacks . . .

(read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1280)