Post Category → Reagan

Question & Thought for 2 September 2015!!!

Question & Thought for 2 September 2015!!!
Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – Are we ‘OUT TO LUNCH’ lunch on diversity training?
2. Thought – You know what they’re teaching kids in school these days? They’re teaching kids to be more “tolerant” of the Big Bad Wolf.
Oops. Scratch that. Can’t say bad. That’s too judgmental. Let’s just call him the Big Culturally Deprived Wolf. After all, he’s misunderstood. He’s confused. He doesn’t know any better. That’s why he wants to eat those nice little pigs. We need to understand him and be nice to him. If we show him, we like him, he’ll learn to like himself more, and he won’t be so mean to the Three Little Pigs.
That’s what kids are learning in school today. It’s called “diversity training.” In these exercises, children are encouraged to role-play or rewrite a classic fairy tale – but with a twist: The students are to put themselves in the role of the wolf in “The Three Little Pigs.” They are told to identify with the villain of the story and to try to understand the circumstances that made him so nasty. Maybe the wolf didn’t really mean to blow down the pigs’ houses – maybe he just had a cold and sneezed too hard. Maybe he ate little pigs because he was from a poor neighborhood and couldn’t afford to eat at McDonald’s. The message kids take away is that wolves are victims of circumstance; they may be misguided, but they are not bad; they are not responsible for their actions, and even wolves have rights.
This exercise gives kids a basis for “understanding” the behavior of graffiti taggers, gangsters, muggers, terrorists, thieves, drug dealers, and other people who do unpleasant things. The classis fairy tales, with their good-verses-evil moral absolutes, have been stood on their heads. Through these exercises, kids learn that there are no moral absolutes, no good guys and bad guys, no right or wrong, no personal responsibility or accountability. There are only some poor misguided predators in need of tolerance, inclusion, understanding, and a government program or two.
Welcome to the little red schoolhouse in the village. (The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan)

 

​”Don’t surrender your mind.” (Epictetus)

 

rem – know the why or lose the way! 
Question & Thought & ANDs.

Answers for July 15th, 2015!

Answers for July 15th, 2015!
Good Wednesday Answers Morning!
1. Question – How can a reverend use God’s name in vain while preaching and still hold that title or people continue to follow him/her?
I am out of that church with family in tow. Not Right. Read a book – Bible.
2. Question – Should overweight people be given handicap parking passes?
Yep. However, they make me walk a bit more and I lose weight. Read a book – Eat, Move, Sleep by Tom Rath.
3. Question – When you celebrated the 4th of July did you thank anyone?
Yep. God, Founders, & Soldiers. Read a book The Founder’s Bible by David Barton.
4. noitseuQ – If you do not like America why are you staying here?
I’m staying because this is my home & I like America. I’ve been grateful to have seen many countries than most Americans. And, I do not like the trajectory America is on. But, I haven’t seen any country better than America. Read books Killing Lincoln and Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly.
H. Question – There’s an awful lot of America bashing lately by many, to include the big guy, just what country should America emulate? On the flip side of this question, why do so many people want to come and live here? I wish those bashers would name a country we should emulate. Read a book The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama.
4. Question – Do you know what determines your worldview?
Yes. Spent morning time alone in thought and decided why I see things as I do. Grateful for thinking.
5. Question – Do you believe in eternity?
Yep. Makes sense. Read a book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
#. Question – Do you believe American leaders should apologize for America to the world?
Nope. Read a book Democracy in America by Alexisde Tocqueville.
7. Question – Should we have term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court?
Yep. It’s time to amend the Constitution about this matter. Read a book Things that Matter by Charles Krauthammer.
8. Question – Why are so many people running for president?
I’ve given this much thought. Here they are: They love this country. They are grateful for the opportunities this country has provided them and want to give back. They want to change it. They don’t like the direction it’s going. Pride. Hate. Read a book The Reagan Notes by Ronald Reagan.
?. Question – Are we in a spiritual war and refuse to reckon with it?
Yep. Read a book Never Surrender by General Boykin.
9. Question – Have you questioned ‘Sanctuary Cites’ with your state and federal officials?
Nope. Listened to Michael Savage on radio & Fox News on TV.
10. Question – Do you care what happens in another country?
Nope. Read a book The Art of Living by Epictetus.
l. Question – Do you know how your elected officials voted on Fast track?
Yep. Both N.C. Senators voted for it. Congressman Walter Jones voted against it. We have made all offices known our logic behind our thinking. Google Fast Track voting for your state.
12. Question – Is it always about the money?
No. But you always have to question the motive and money is a biggee. Read a book Common Sense Economics but I forgot the author.
16. Question – Why do you coach?
Because I love kids. Read a book Coaching Young Athletes by Cal Ripken Jr.
18. Question – Should America continue its current immigration policy?
We should develop one. Read a book America – Imagine a World Without Her by Dinesh D’Souza.
00. Question – What is the American dream?
Great question. A home. Good job. Vacation once a year. A good Christmas and Thanksgiving. Retirement. Make it better for our kids than we had it in our prime. Read a book One Nation by Ben Carson, MD.
20. Question – What leader does America need to be the next President of the United States?
Someone who can un-divide a divided America in race, politics, gender, foreign relations, religion,& law. Read a book The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan.
100. Question – What book did you read that changed your way of thinking and perhaps your life?
Read a book The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale.
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” (Henry David Thoreau)

 

​Know thyself!​

 

rem – know the why or lose the way! 

​Thank a coach.​
Question & Thought & ANDs.

Question & Thought for May 24th, 2015!!!

Question & Thought for May 24th, 2015!!!
Good Sunday Morning!
1. Question – What is written by you in the margins of your well-worn Bible as you pass on?
2. Thought – The day my father first stood on the west side of the Capitol to take his oath of office, America was a deeply anguished, divided nation. We had gone through the long national nightmare of the Iranian hostage crisis. We had endured years of oil embargoes, double-digit inflation, unemployment, national malaise, and entrenched pessimism. America seemed weak and impotent, hemmed in by enemies, a once-great power succumbing to the inevitability of decline. We were divided over what to do about the Soviet Union, about our hollow military, about our deepening economic crisis. But over the next eight years, Ronald Reagan brought us all together.
The day of his inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, my father placed his left hand upon the well-worn, well marked Bible of his late mother, raised his right hand, and took the oath of office as prescribed by the Constitution. The Bible was open, and his hand rested on the words God spoke to King Solomon in 2 Chronicles 7:14:
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
​In the margin next to that verse, his mother had written, ​A most wonderful verse for the healing of the nations. (The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan)

 

​If nothings in your margin, maybe you should start today!​

 

rem – know the why behind the what! 
Question & Thought & ANDs.

Question – Thought & Comment for May 20th, 2015

Question – Thought & Comment for May 20th, 2015
Good Wednesday Morning!!! I read this section and agreed and thought and disagreed with the below……
1. Question – What is the premise for determining your behavior; family, genetics, fate, friends, education, or economics? Where do you place the blame?
2. Thought – Liberalism approaches crime from a wrong premise. Liberals believe that poverty causes crime and that if one could eliminate poverty with a government program, crime would disappear. If you believe that economics determines behavior (as liberals do), you will seek only economic solutions to behavior problems.
It’s easy to see why liberals are confused into thinking that poverty causes crime, because crime really does tend to flourish in the poor sections of every American city. But the fact that poverty and crime tend to concentrate in the same parts of town doesn’t mean that poverty causes crime. The fact is, crime also tends to flourish in the parts of town where the most federal money is spent – around the housing projects, in places where you find welfare dependency, rent subsidies, food stamps and WIC (supplemental nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children), government sponsored day care, and on and on. (Maybe it does, but I’m not saying that.)
We have to look deeper for the real cause-and-effect linkage between poverty, federal spending, and crime. And here is the root cause of all three of these problems: a breakdown of values and virtues rooted in the breakdown of the family. This is not to say that all poor people have rotten values and rotten families. But I think it is fair to say that some poor people – and certainly those who are trapped in a multigenerational cycle of dependency on government checks – are poor because they lack the values that enable a person to achieve a measure of success and security in life:
1. Self-disciple
2. Responsibility
3. Work ethic
4. Commitment to education and personal improvement
5. Willingness to defer short-term gains and instant gratification in order to achieve long-term goals
If a person lacks those five ingredients, he or she is virtually destined for a life of poverty. (Michael Reagan, The City on the Hill)
3. Comment – I believe conservatives also can see that poverty can cause crime. I believe the author sees that as well. Then the question becomes: How do we fix the family? If the government continues to provide help to mothers out of the family construct – how do we stop this mess? So, in lieu of poverty causing crime, is the real question: Does government create the scenario where poverty and crime co-inside?
“When you say you agree with a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.” (Otto von Bismarck 1815-1898)

—

rem – know the why behind the what! 
Question & Thought & ANDs.