Vacation

Sorry, I haven’t written much.  Been on vacation with the grandkids and having a swell time. A Harvard study has concluded that Independence Day celebrations make kids into conservatives.  Think of the anguish of the NEA.  One doggone day of fireworks and a patriotic song and it undoes 180 days of public education!  Well, we did our part with sparklers and patriot pancakes for breakfast.  The 3- and 5-year old are clearly hooked.  Concerning the NEA, half my relatives are school teachers.  My wife, daughter, neice, sister-in-law, aunt, wife’s mother—all teachers in public schools.  I have taught for both OU and KSU.  I listen a lot. So my conclusion is that if the teacher’s unions were more amenable to school choice, like choice for kids who attend failing schools or impoverished areas, they would garner a lot more sympathy from the general public when it comes to state funding.  But the obsession of keeping public schools a monopoly turns people off when the product does not measure up (70% support choice).  And I believe that increases in school competiton would soon make public schools more academically productive, less administration and sports laden, with teachers left free to teach to a greater extent.

Okay, so Hillary gets off of criminal charges.  The Democrats said the email investigation and Benghazi committee report were just a witch hunt.  Just as Hillary was about to speak, a house fell on her.  The Benghazi report concludes that Hillary lied.  Hillary says they found nothing new.  She demanded Trump turn over copies of his tax returns.  Trump said, “I thought I emailed them to you.” And then Slick Willie got into the act by meeting with AG Lynch. Then both of them insisted they didn’t talk about the investigation.  Now what dummy believes that Bill talked to the woman potentially prosecuting his wife and thinks the subject never came up? ”I did not have legal discussions with that woman, Loretta Lynch!”  And I saw that Elizabeth Warren got a big boost from doing a speech with Hillary.  Hey, split the fee and with another speech, Warren will have enough to retire on.

So the devout Muslims are still killing Christians during the Ramadan month. But true Muslims are full of love and peace and no disharmony like Christians.  No Muslim baker would refuse to serve if asked to serve a big party at a gay stoning.  Libs believe all the news—Orlando, San Bernardino, Istanbul, Paris, Brussels-- is a bunch of nonsense because it was caused by insufficient gun laws.  Apparently they didn’t see me carrying a sign after the Boston Marathon Bombing, “Guns don’t kill people.  Pressure cookers do!”  I hear that a lib went into a Bed Bath & Beyond and started yelling about Assault Cutlery.  “How many knives does a cook need?  No one needs high-capacity knife storage blocks. Why does anyone need a knife with a jagged edge?”   Just a bunch of angry intolerate jerks with a sense of entitlement who react violently to anybody with a different opinion, who despise America, Christianity and Israel. Um, I seem to have lost my train of thought.  Was I talking about Muslims or Democrats?  Like Obama says, “You can’t just broad-brush a whole belief system as evil, unless it is conservatism.”

Startling! The Supreme Court says that Texas can’t insist on clean, safe facilities that match out-patient surgery centers when it comes to abortion. Maybe now Kermit Goznel can go back in business.  Obama wants to put Harriet Tubman, the gun-packing Christian abolitionist who founded the Underground Railroad on the Twenty.  Now isn’t that replacing the founder of the Democrats with a Republican, gun-carrying evangelical Christian woman? So tell me what did Obama learn in public school?

Meanwhile, I volunteered to help one of our state Corporation Commissioners run for re-election.  Last week her Dem opponent announced he wasn’t going to run against her citing the fact that he needed more time with family and grandchildren.  I’ll bet they have been shooting fireworks and listening to patriotic songs and he panicked.