AM I A ROCKET SCIENTIST OR ARE THEY JUST MORONS? part 4a

so many issues...please allow me a little anecdote to begin my point.

the classroom day started as it usually did; the teacher (me) opened the door around 08:15ish so students could come in and prepare themselves for a day of teaching and learning (hopefully). they (the students) sat down after putting their backpacks and lunches away, sharpening their pencils and getting the needed papers to complete the morning assignment which was written on the board. the teacher (me again) did his best to greet students as they came in and work on organizing paperwork which needed to be filed or corrected (a never-ending job). at 08:30 the teacher closed the door to the classroom and then sat at his computer to take attendance. after attendance the teacher went up front to get the student's attention so the morning procedures could begin.
the children knew the procedures well; first would come prayer (i work at a private Christian school) then the pledges, then the weather and finally the calendar. after all this the teacher would then begin the lessons for the day. now, to the students the morning procedures went the same as usual. however, they didn't notice their teacher during the pledges ( i always stand behind the students as we all look at the flags-none of them are mexican). they didn't notice as their teacher struggled through the pledge of allegiance to the u.s. flag (not the mexican flag).
now this struggle wasn't because of lack of memory...the pledge is quite easy;
"i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation, under God, indivisible. with liberty and justice for all."
(for those in this country who do not know it).
it wasn't because i dont want to say the pledge..i am a citizen of the u.s. and this is my country and yes i would die to keep it safe.
it was because i had to keep myself from crying...you see the memory of a mexican flag hoisted above an upside down flag of the u.s. was still in my memory. the image of high school students so blatantly flaunting their hatred for this country was still in my memory. the thought of high-school principals and teachers excusing such behavior as "social invovlement"and part of their curriculum. the idea of giving those doing such actions, condoning such action and encouraging such actions a "guest worker" status and then allowing them to become citizens.
if the tears had been allowed to come they would have been tears of anger....of frustration. i know where my allegiance lies, and i know where their allegiances (the protestors and their supporters) do not lie. it is sickening that those i have elected don't care about anyone's allegiance...just what they believe to be politically expedient. i am assuming that those i have elected learned the pledge of allegiance when they were growing up, or that they are able to speak and understand english. so, perhaps (being politicians) the words that come out of their mouths have no value. perhaps they have forgotten or have not bothered to read the beginning of a rather important historical document

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

last time i checked this wasn't the preamble to the mexican constitution. note that it says "of the united states" not of mexico, or guatemala, or libya, or syria, or ireland, or iraq, but "the united states". this does not mean that when we have someone in our country (who is not form our country) that we do not attempt to extend these rights to them. however, we are a country of laws and when someone chooses to break those laws we "the people of the United States" have the right to revoke those rights. i think thats part of what"establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," means. of course i could be wrong i am not a "con.-law" professor, or a lawyer, or a judge. just a citizen of the u.s.

UNTITLED

i am worried about my children's future. i have done my part to elect representatives that i had assumed would care about the future of our country. apparently they are not...now i can understand our worthless and selfish represenatative and senator (murray and cantwell) supporting illegal aliens, but not our president and many other republicans. they are granting amnesty to people who should not get it...i know they say it isn't but what do you call excusing a criminal act while the criminal is committing the crime? their very exsistence in this country is criminal and the only way to remedy that is for them not to be here....i am having a difficult time thinking clearly right now, the events of the past few days is very disturbing to me...don't the elected officials care about what's being done to our flag?? i need time to think it's all very...so many thoughts and emotions right now.

AM I A ROCKET SCIENTIST OR ARE THEY JUST MORONS? part 3

let me clarify two things-i am not a rocket scientist, nor do i believe those people who decided to "protest immigration reform" are morons (at least i hope they aren't) however, i will continue what i was posting earlier. so here goes,

as i was saying i had thought i might change the title of this post but have decided against it. my reasons are following;

1. i am assuming that someone making a statement as ridiculous as "i have friends that are illegal aliens but, they aren't criminals." is representational of that group.
2. it is obvious that those involved are totally clueless about what the real issues are
3. the msm is not reporting the truth about these "protests" but are choosing to ignore the true and obvious reasons that these "protestors" are gathering.
4. the msm is assuming (hoping) that we are morons by trying to make this a "racial issue" and attempting to make this comparable to the civil rights movement instituted by people such as martin luther king jr.
5. those involved in the "protests" will either believe the idiotic spins that the msm (#4 above) is attempting to put on their actions or will attempt to use their mindless spins to get what they want (a prime example is a certain female leader of the hispanic racial group "la raza").

AM I ROCKET SCIENTITST OR ARE THEY MORONS? part 2

last night i had debated whether i should change the title of this post. i had talked with a friend to ask if my logic was correct in saying that illegal aliens (immigrants) are criminals simply by being here. his answer was yes. i told him the title of this post and he said that calling people morons was insulting and that neither part was true. i.e. i am not a rocket scientist (which i whole heartedly agree), nor are those types of people who make absurd, ridiculous statements such as, "i have friends who are illegal aliens but, they are not criminals." morons. i gave that some thought and realized that i was being like people of a certain political affiliation that call our president, our commander in chief a moron simply because they dislike (hate) him so much. now, i do not want to be like them nor do i hate people that disagree with me or make incoherent statements (hey when i wake up at 02:00 in the morning i make incoherent statements also). however, i decided not to change the title of ths pos. in the following days i will explain why.

AM I A ROCKET SCIENTIST OR ARE THEY JUST MORONS? part 1

i went on the web to see if i could get a rather simple definition of illegal. here is what i found

illegal adj.
1. prohibited by law
2. prohibted by official rule

n.
an illegal alien

it seems like a pretty clear and simple defimition to me. if i perform an illegal act then i am doing something that is breaking the law.

you might ask what lead me to this query. the answer is quite simple; it was a statement i heard on the radio when the media was covering the "protests" in l. a. (you know the second capital of mexico). one of their extremely intelligent protestors made a statement which seemed at its' best, absurd. if i remember the statement correctly it was simply this, "i have friends that are illegal but they are not criminals." when i heard that i had to stop myself and go, "huh?" i wondered if i had a brain freeze or maybe i had heard the statement incorrectly. perhaps my car radio was malfunctioning. maybe there was some static at that precise moment when they were airing that comment. but, i had to keep driving and i wanted to keep listening so, i figured i could come back to that statement later.

well, i did come back to that statement later. i asked a friend if he had heard it and his response was yes. so eveidently there had been nothing wrong with my hearing, my brain or my car radio. well we both had a laugh about the statement and it's absurdity. but, i had to wonder what kind of person would make such a statement. after all, if i am an illegal alien then my very existence in the country makes me a criminal. at least i think it does. i confess that i do not understand all the subtle "nuances" (to use a kerry word) of the law. i am just a plain and simple school teacher that takes words at their face value and definition. i am not a rocket scientist.

TIRED...

i am tired...tired of the idiotic left and their idiotic arguments. tired of the idiocy of political correctness. i am finding that i would much rather be t.c then p.c.. in fact i don't want to be p.c. at all. what is t.c.? truly Christian...yes i am a Christian, or at least i try to be. one thing you'll find out about Christians is that they are quite aware that they are imperfect, incompetent, unable and so often don't have what it takes. it is this realization that is part of what brings a person to rely on Christ. it is half of the equation, but not the whole thing. a man must realize his need for something greater then himself in order to even begin the journey toward God. i often lie awake at night thinking of all my short comings. not that i am masochistic, it is not a pleasnt experience and often i find that i think of things or do other things to drive out those voices, but eventually i have to face them. i will only run away for a little while and then do what i can to deal with them. sometimes they are like so much bad music on the radio...that is to say they lack any substance, validity or truth. so i hvae to go through the sorting process to find those that are valid, truthful and substantive. otherwise i just turn off the radio...anyways got towork.

CIGARETTES, SECOND HAND SMOKE AND HOMOSEXUALITY part B

so now i will talk a little more about what i was discussing earlier...ok as i was saying if someone did even a little honest historical research they would find that way back when the good ole u.s.a. was much, much younger tobacco and its use (smoking, chewing) was touted (by some) as being beneficial to ones health. note that i say some. in the "early tobacco days" there were those who looked at it's use as something less then beneficial and certainly not glamorous or acceptable. usually they were conservative individuals and those who's religious leanings were right of center. in other words those from (to use a totally ambiguous leftist term) the religious right. now i did not live back then but it is possible that those who were in favor of tobacco, it's use and who promoted it's benefits found those against it's use to be amusing, funny, backwards...they may have possibly thought them to be close minded and to use a p.c. term of today "intolerant". why do i say this? because more then likely their reasons for objecting to the use of tobacco were based on their religious convictions. remember, back then they did not have the medical data and reseach that we have today. so it would seem logical to conclude that the main argument against tobacco and it's use may have been one based on that of morality (or religion if you choose). what is interesting is that those who objected to tobacco and it's use for religious/moral purposes (there had to be at least a few) back then have since been proven to be correct by science and medical studies. stick with me there's more to this...

CIGARETTES, SECOND HAND SMOKE AND HOMOSEXUALITY

funny how so many things come to me while driving in my car. this sunday i was driving to church and in the car in front of me were two ladies merrily puffing away on their cigarettes. as i watched them sucking away on their coughin' nails and blowing out their "evil, insiduous second hand smoke" (hey at least they were polite enough to stick their cigarettes out their partially opened windows when they weren't inhaling them). i began to wonder several things... "hmmm, i wonder how they got started with this addictive habit?, haven't they heard any of the anti-tobacco company...oops smoking commercials? don't they know the hazards of smoking? if so i wonder why they continue sucking in potentially lethal carcinogenic agents?' (possibly because it can turn into a very lucrative cash cow for them). my thoughts turned to the history of tobacco in this country. if anyone bothers to do even a little honest historical research they will find that tobacco, and smoking in particular were touted for it's/their medicinal purposes and how smoking was beneficial. of course now, a couple of hundred years later and after some scientific research we find that those ideas don't hold much water. in fact we would find them quite laughable if cigarettes and lung cancer weren't so serious. so what does all of this have to do with homosexuality?...hmmm lets see not much on the surface, but if we think about it a little we find that there might be more in common then homosexuals and advocates of "it's just an alternative lifestyle" want to admit. both issues deal with attitudes and trying to convince others that something that is unhealthy and unnatural is "ok", healthy, and quite natural. ...to be continued work calls.

THOUGHTS ON ST.PATRICKS DAY AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE WARS

as i was driving to work this morning i listen to some news. one of the features on the radio news was the yearly st. patrick's day parade in new york city. they talked about how people were wearing green and the excitement...they even interviewed people. hmmm...seems like a big event. i began thinking about the various ways that people celebrate this unofficial holiday in this country. you know, wearing green, visiting irish pubs, drinking green beer, playing irish music, having parades, etc.. i thought of all the little school children that would be wearing green and eating green frosted cookies and cupcakes. of all the shamrocks you would see in classroom windows and all the construction paper shamrocks....then it hit me, isn't this holiday something of a "religious" holiday. after all we are celebrating SAINT patrick and what he did for ireland. isn't he the patron SAINT of ireland? hmmm how could the atheists have allowe this to happen? then i remembered the idiocy of this past Christmas...you know; "holiday" trees not Christmas trees, not being allowed to wear red or green at schools, not being allowed to use red or green paper plates and napkins at your "winter" parties, the "happy holidays" or "seasons greetings" phrases that school children (and some store employees) were required to use. hmmm, i wonder what would happen if we applied this to st. patrick's day? that means children could not wear anything green this day, they could not eat anything green, employees and stores could not have anything green that even remotely hints at the holiday. there could not be any construction paper shamrocks or shamrocks in the windows... they would have to be called clovers (not shamrocks). there just seems to be no end to the "possibilities". an atheist could have a blast with this holiday. oooo, better not let the a.c.l.u. know about there obvious blunder. who knows we might be banned from driving green cars on march 17th every year.

SHADES OF GREY

here i am again and just as i had anticipated my wife and i are the only ones reading my blog. i was working on "the big three" and shall continue to do so...but, i want to give a little more thought to the subject before my next post about it. this post shall deal with some interesting news i heard from a friend. we got onto the subject of j.k. rowlings (author of the harry potter series) and my friend made the comment that she had profeesed Christianity (that is that she was a believer in Jesus Christ) in an interview (possibly on 60 minutes). i had assumed that my friend was joking but later that evening he assured me thst he had seen it on t.v.. this definitely gave me some "food for thought". i have done some unintentional research on j.k. rowlings when i began researching tolkien (you know j.r.r. tolkien of "the hobbit" and "the lord of the rings" fame). when the movies came out i began wondering (again) why some Christians view harry as morally bad/evil literature but l.o.t.r. (and the chronicles of narnia) as morally good literature. i had to ask myself if there really was a difference (YES THERE IS DEFINITELY). in order to find the answer i have begun doing research on tolkien and lewis. it turns out that researching c.s lewis and his chronicles series was quite easy. lewis, after all, was an atheist who became a believing Christian and because of his faith he wrote chronicles. tolkien however, is requiring a little more study. first of all tolkien did not necessarily write his series because of his faith but, you can see his faith, his moral and ethical belief system plainly reflected in his works. to say that l.o.t.r. is a Christian work in the same sense as chronicles is wrong. lewis put in intentional one to one correlations in the chronicles (aslan=Jesus, aslan's sacrifice and death=Jesus' sacrifice and death, etc.) but not so with tolkien's l.o.t.r. the l.o.t.r. series does not have the direct one to one correlations but it does strongly reflect Christian values (the values of the author)....once again i must stop due to time constraints and the necessity of sleep...but i shall return, i am enjoying seeing these thoughts processed, i.e. putting them down on paper is enjoyable and quite clarifying for me.

i am new at this and i do not even know if i have set up my blogspot properly. so i ask that you all please bear with me as i am learning. although i honestly doubt if i will get a great many readers. i haven't even set up my profile yet. getting this all together is going to take awhile. i am starting this for different reasons one of which is that my wife suggested it. she has a blog which i will try to visit everyday. anyways i wanted to see what a post on my blog site looked like.