Question * Thought for October 27th, 2016!

Question * Thought for October 27th, 2016!
Good Thursday Morning!
1. Question – America! Finally, Isn’t it absolutely wonderful to be biologically free?
2. Thought from Dr. Walter E. Williams:

Transgenderism Can Be Helpful

     North Carolina’s legislative body passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of their sex. That means people must use bathrooms and other public facilities where occupants can be in various stages of undress according to whether their sex chromosomes are XX, in the case of females, of XY, in the case of males.  The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community claims that the use of biology to determine sex is oppressive and limits alternatives. I agree. I all but argued this in a column earlier this year titled “You Are What You Say You Are” (http://tinyurl.com/grgtbrd). Let’s look at some possible benefits of freeing oneself from the oppression of biological determinism.

     Say that I am sentenced to a five-year prison term for bank fraud. Though confinement can never be pleasant, I’d find it far more tolerable if I could convince the judge that though biologically I have XY chromosomes, in my opinion I’m really a woman and thus my confinement should be in a female prison with a female cellmate. For the court to fail to take my sexual opinion into consideration would violate our Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, I could say.

     The Atlantic Coast Conference, the entire NCAA and the NBA have threatened to remove important games and championships from North Carolina because of its law denying bathroom rights to males who feel as if they are females and females who feel as if they’re males. I am wondering just how consistent they are. Only a few college basketball players have the skills to make it onto a professional team, but most of these players have skills that exceed most players’ skills in the Women’s National Basketball Association. What if a college basketball star were to claim to be transgender and go out for the WNBA? Would the self-righteous NBA leaders come out and support him if he were to be refused? Aside from this gender question is the gross pay discrimination between the NBA and the WNBA. NBA players such as LeBron James (nearly $23 million) and Carmelo Anthony (also close to $23 million) individually earn twice as much money annually than every single player in the WNBA combined. The WNBA minimum rookie salary is $37,950, and the top salary is $107,000. I bet that if the NBA and WNBA were to permit transgenderism, salaries in women’s basketball would rise dramatically.

     It’s not just basketball that would yield benefits for those with XY chromosomes. What about allowing transgender XY people to box women in the WIBA? Then there are the Olympics. The men’s fastest 100-meter speed is 9.58 seconds. The women’s record is 10.49. What about giving XY people a greater chance at winning the gold by permitting them to compete in the women’s event? They could qualify by just swearing that they feel womanish or have gender dysphoria.

     President Barack Obama’s defense secretary, Ashton Carter, wants to promote sex equality in the nation’s military. I don’t think he’s serious. The minimum fitness test requirement for 17- to 21-year-old males is to be able to do 35 pushups, 47 situps and a 2-mile run in 16 minutes, 36 seconds or less. A weak male soldier might simply claim that he feels feminine. That would mean he could pass the minimum fitness requirement by meeting the female minimums of 13 pushups, 47 situps and a 19:42 2-miles run. To boot, he would get to reside in the women’s barracks and enjoy all the privileges attendant thereto.

     For most of history, homosexuals were unfairly persecuted. They pleaded, “Get out of my bedroom. What consenting adults do is no one else’s business.” I share that sentiment, and for the most part, homosexuals have won that objective. Had their early campaign against persecution included a demand that males be permitted to use women’ bathrooms, the persecution they suffered would have continued.

Voted Tuesday! Talked to the kids about it in the classroom. My thought processes for selection. It was silent.


rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for October 26th, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for October 26th, 2016!!!
Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – What factors went into Roosevelt’s decision to drop the atomic bombs?
2. Thought – Chiang-Kai-shek later cabled Roosevelt about the revenge Japanese forces wrought on his people. “After they had been caught unawares by the falling of American bombs on Tokyo, Japanese troops attacked the coastal areas of China where many American flyers had landed. These Japanese troops slaughtered every man, woman and child in those areas – let me repeat – these Japanese troops slaughtered ever man, woman and child in those areas.” Chiang did not exaggerate. In describing the campaign of retaliation in his memoirs, and American general later wrote, “A quarter million Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed in a three-month campaign.”
Two hundred and fifty thousand Chinese dead in three months. In six years of combat during WWII, France lost 108,000 civilians, Belgium 101,000, the Netherlands 242,000. This Japanese retaliatory operation, invisible to the world at that time, would take more lives than the later atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. (Flyboys by James Bradley)
“The Jews formed a sub-human counter race, predestined by their biological heritage to evil, just as the Nordic race was destined for nobility.” (Hitler)
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for October 24th, 2016!

Question & Thought for October 24th, 2016!
Good Monday Morning!!!
1. Question – Why are you so tired?
2. Thought – Yes, I’m tired. For several years I’ve been blaming it on middle-age, iron poor blood, lack of vitamins, air pollution, water pollution, saccharin, obesity, dieting, underarm odor, yellow wax build-up, and a dozen other maladies that make you wonder if life is really worth living.
But now I find out, tain’t that.
I’m tired because I’m overworked.
The population of this country is 200 million. 84 million are retired. That leaves 116 million to do the work. There are 75 million in school, which leaves 41 million to do the work. Of this total, there are 22 million employed by the government.
That leaves 19 million to do the work. 4 million are in the armed forces, which leaves 15 million to do the work. Take from that total the 14,800,000 people who work for the state and city governments and that leaves 200,000 to do the work. There are 188,000 in hospitals, so that leaves 12,000 to do the work. Now, there are 11,998 people in prisons. That leaves just 2 people to do the work. You and me. And you’re standing there reading this. No wonder I’m tired. (Laugh Again by Charles Swindoll)
Article I, Section 8 – 11: To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for October 23rd, 2016!

Question & Thought for October 23rd, 2016!
Good Sunday Morning!
1. Question – Are you so consumed with a system gone awry that you are not prioritizing your own housekeeping duties?
2. Thought – From C.S. Lewis in the Screwtape Letters: My Dear Wormwood,
Be sure that the patient remains completely fixed on politics. Arguments, political gossip, and obsessing on the faults of people they have never met serves as an excellent distraction from advancing in personal virtue, character, and the things the patient can control. Make sure to keep the patient in a constant state of angst, frustration, and general disdain towards the rest of the human race in order to avoid any kind of charity or inner peace from further developing. Ensure that the patient continues to believe that the problem is “out there” in the “broken system” rather than recognizing there is a problem within himself.
Whew – Lewis!
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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