By Douglas V. Gibbs
We hear these things all the time where it seems common sense goes out the window. We have become so afraid of offending people that the ridiculous sets in - and the liberal democrats then capitalize on it any way they can - hoping to insert a little more overpowering government into our lives.
Last night I was talking to my mother about entitlements, and poverty, for example. She used a few media talking points, but her main point was to try to help me understand that feeling of helplessness. Of hopelessness. She was not defending the federal government. Just simply trying to help me understand the government dependency mindset.
I have little patience for that mindset.
Once, a liberal accused me of thinking that all poor people are lazy. Not at all. I was once poor, and I'm not lazy. But, that's why I am not poor anymore.
Is it harder for some to get out of poverty than others? Yes. But why should that be an excuse to not work out of that kind of lifestyle? There is no such thing as impossible. It may be hard, but it can be done. It's as if these people are saying, "Well, if it is going to be difficult, I just won't do it." I have a saying. "Nothing worth having is ever easy."
Newt Gingrich made a quip about how we should be teaching the kids in the inner cities work ethics, and the liberal left was all offended.
Since when is hard work a bad thing?
The democrats can't let success begin to grow among the poor. The liberals need to keep those people dependent upon the government. That is how they buy their votes. Rugged individuals that are self-reliant don't vote democrat. . . usually.
The madness doesn't stop at the government paying people to stay poor.
The liberal left, who have infiltrated entertainment, education, and the sciences, have determined that they know what is better for your children than you. Your parenting skills are no match, I guess, for their superior whatever-it-is. This kind of thinking is probably what led a teacher in New York to tell her second graders that there is no Santa Claus.
I remember I had a crush on my second grade teacher. Her name was Miss Spear. She was tall, thin, and had long dark hair. I've been a sucker for brunettes ever since. . . and yes, my wife attracted me with very similar attributes. I thought my teacher was cute, but I never told her so. In North Carolina, a 9-year-old boy recently had a similar line of thinking about his teacher, but he decided to call his teacher "cute." In response, he was suspended, and the principal of Brookside Elementary in Gastonia said the comment was a form of “sexual harassment.”
In an elementary school in Michigan, a music teacher has removed the word "gay" from Deck the Halls (you know, the Christmas Carol. . . "now we don our gay apparel. . ." ) and has replaced it with the word "bright."
Her reasoning for the switch? First- and second-graders would not stop giggling when they sang the word "gay."
This would have been a great opportunity for the teacher to, uhhh, teach. She could have taught the kids that some words have different meanings, and back when this song was written gay meant happy, or festive.
That would have been the end of it, and perhaps maybe with still a couple giggles, the singing would have went on.
This teacher, however, failed to take that course, and as a result it upset a number of parents. One parent said, "By taking the word 'gay' out of 'Deck the Halls,' you are making it a big deal."
Another parent voiced, "Can one word in a 150-year-old classic Christmas carol really offend someone?"
Those comments, which the main extreme media article calls "negative comments," have since been deleted from the school's Facebook page, and wall posts have been disabled. School Principal Chris Parker is on the parents' side, and said pretty much what I had to say about it, "This would have been a great opportunity to teach that 'gay' has more than one meaning and is not a bad word."
Since the uproar, the teacher has restored the original lyrics.
And finally, to save the planet from the global warming hoax, a school turned off the heat and let the kids try to learn while shivering with cold.
The idiot is Rob Benzie, and he says he switched off the radiators to show how the secondary school could cut its carbon footprint.
One teacher called it "beyond stupid" and added: "It was absolutely ridiculous. I've never worked in such cold. I'm all for saving the planet but this was barbaric."
"Nobody could work properly and kids could not even grip a pen through their gloves," a mom said: "She was shaking when she came home. I was absolutely furious."
A dad added: "Turning the heating off in December is just mental. I can't believe the kids learnt anything. I'm very angry with the school."
But Mr Benzie, 52, defended the "successful" experiment last Friday — locally the coldest day of the winter so far — and vowed to stage regular "eco-days" at the 640-pupil school.
He said: "We cut the heat to see if we can lower our carbon footprint. We let pupils wear as many jumpers as they liked.
Complete idiocy. Man-made global warming is a scam. But, let's just pretend for a second that it wasn't a complete hoax and maddening scam. How would this have helped?
This mental case of a school head is a tool for the liberal left's madness, and he doesn't even realize it.
Political Correctness and this liberal madness will be the end of us all, yet. Does nobody have any common sense?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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