Light Listening

I’d like you to ask yourself two questions: one - who has the power to create, allow, and distribute this content nationally? And two - what purpose would they have or doing so?

https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/davidrwilliams/files/2013j.pdf

My question is this, “how is a book with LGBT themes created for children aged 8 to 12 going to help 3rd to 7th graders become more scholastically proficient in math, science, history, and language?” Topics concerning LGBT should be discussed in the home between parent and child and should not be accessible without parent consent within our public schools. 

This picture book was created specifically for children from  prekindergarten to third grade. To put this into perspective this could be as young as 3 years old. This picture book depicts a family with a daughter, appearing to be around 4 years old, who begins to act out, claiming to not like her name, her clothes, her long hair, or her bedroom. Instead of these red flags prompting her parents to step in with love and truth to affirm the value and purpose of their wonderfully made little girl, they allow her to cut her hair, they change her clothes, they change her room, and they change her name. These two adult guardians choose to be lead by their 4 year old daughter as if it is wisdom to recognize 4 year olds as developmentally competent to lead adults. This picture book is purposefully confusing from its illustrated cover and title to its last passage. I say that it is on purpose because the implication is that what is normal is hurtful and oppressive and a new normal is necessary to be truly caring and inclusive. Unfortunately this is a sleight of hand that is malicious and deceptive. This “new normal”, by definition is opposite of normal, or in other words, abnormal. Historically speaking, abnormalities have been indicative of something going terribly wrong. I fail to see how exposing 4 to 9 year olds to this confusing abnormality is going to help to shape them into mentally, physically and spiritually healthy adults who prioritize objective truth. The answer is simple, it was never meant to.

I would like to ask the author/illustrator of this book, the Placer County School Board (any school district across our great nation), and any adult, parent or otherwise, why they believe children as young as 4 years old should be exposed to this subject matter. And I’d also like to ask them how being exposed to these concepts will enrich their lives in a positive way and help them become mentally and physically capable adults. My last question to all of them would be, “If we were in societal agreement that this material was inappropriate for children 20 years ago, why do they deem it appropriate today”? The truth is our children should be our most protected class with nothing and no one coming before them. There are only two sides to this fight and the right side still believes this. If you do not, for whatever reason, you are on the wrong side. You are an advocate of evil and I will do everything in my power to oppose you. 

I grew up in a time when our society as a whole prioritized protecting children from inappropriate materials, physical ailments, mental illness, harmful substances, predatory behavior, and anything that subverted the ability of parents to effectively raise their own offspring. I blinked and all of a sudden we have government institutions, mainstream media, private businesses, healthcare professionals, and entertainment conglomerates telling us that everything we believed 5-minutes ago is wrong and children should be allowed to consume pornographic material, they should be taught to engage in sexually explicit behavior, they should be exposed to biologically confusing concepts as if they are normal, they should be allowed to make irreversible decisions they can’t fully comprehend, their mental illnesses are to now be celebrated and encouraged, and worse, the people that gave birth to them and love them more than anything in this world, are now the child’s greatest enemy and the institutions, MSM, entertainment, and doctors are the true heroes of the story. 

On 2024-04-26 at approximately 1345 using the last 10 rounds of the box, on the third shot, we experienced a case head failure that damaged the slide of my Walther P22. I reached out to Walther and they provided a FedEx label (free of charge) and asked me to send the firearm to them so that their Smiths could take a look. I sent the firearm to them on 5/1, they received the firearm on 5/3 and sent it back to me repaired on 5/9. What I thought was going to be an assessment turned out to be a repair, once again, with no charge to me at all. Good customer service is a dying art so when you receive it, it is both surprising and refreshing. I wish that I could patronize them more, but living in California where our leadership has abandoned the Constitution, I am only able to legally purchase the P22 in this state thanks to Kamala Harris, which I already have, and nothing else from their extensive catalog of products. That being said, I really appreciate how Walther handled this situation. Thank you very much and keep up the good work. 

Our nature is to serve ourselves, love ourselves above all else, and then rationalize that nature in an attempt to justify it. This inherent behavior is at the root of every hostile action we’ve taken against one another. It is the sole cause of every war, every perpetrated atrocity from rape to genocide, and every dictatorship on every continent throughout the history of mankind. We love ourselves more than we love freedom, we love ourselves more than we love the truth, we love ourselves more than we love justice, and, reprehensibly so, we love ourselves more than we love God. Because we love ourselves so much we toil day in and day out trying to figure out how to make everyone who isn’t us love us the way we love ourselves, (forsaking all else). To accomplish this we utilize violence, blackmail, bribery and fear. Every system from religion to governmental bodies are ultimately highjacked and twisted into systems of control. For examples look no further than the year 2020. From local leadership to federal leadership all the way down to your neighbor, every single one demanded compliance without practical reason. And if you didn’t comply you were punished in all the ways I’ve listed above. Bribery was also used in the form of gifts and lotteries. These aren’t the actions of a free nation. These are the actions of a totalitarian nation prioritizing compliance over liberty. The Bible says to love our neighbor as we love ourselves because God knows that only in service to one another can we deny our broken nature and experience true happiness. 

Leftist progressives and Neo-liberals only like children when they can sexualize them, abort them, or use them to ignite emotional volatility as a weapon to further their goals toward the destruction of liberty under the facade of peace. In this case they’re using the lives of our children to make an unsubstantiated claim that allowing educators who choose to take on the responsibility of becoming the first line of defense against the criminally insane is not only less effective than learning to cower, run, and hide, but will somehow increase the occurrence of gun violence on campuses statewide. They, of course, never explain exactly how. The inference is that the law abiding educator in spite of undergoing 40 hours of training, background checks, and a mental health assessment, will automatically become a threat on par with a psychopath simply because they are now armed. They, of course, never explain exactly how. The truth is most mass shootings happen in gun-free zones because if you want to kill as many people as possible the last thing you want is to get shot before you even have a chance to begin the carnage. The truth is only good people with guns stop bad people with guns. The truth is the desire to protect without the most effective means to do so, is in fact, no protection at all. 

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/gun-facts-and-fiction/mass-shootings/

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/5273

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/10/do-98-percent-of-mass-public-shootings-happen-in-gun-free-zones/

First, I ask that all of you watch this segment so that you can see with your own eyes what it is they are actually celebrating in Arizona. Then, ask yourself if what you witnessed can be classified as a “reproductive right”. If your answer is yes, then I invite you to explain how a cause resulting in the death of a human child is righteous in any way and if the answer is no, then I challenge you to join the fight for innocent life. 

https://www.coastreporter.net/politics/arizona-governors-signing-of-abortion-law-repeal-follows-political-fight-by-women-lawmakers-8691935?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

This Time article attempts to blame falling U.S. birth rates on the economic instability of wealthier countries, the pandemic, lack of paid family leave, healthcare cost, childcare cost, student loans, political polarization, work instability, healthcare access, global conflicts, unstable working hours, and even climate change. The irony is the article’s proposed solution is more government when it is that very same government that is the root cause of every single problem listed above. The economic instability of wealthier countries is caused by nonsensical policies and regulations imposed by the government. The non-scientific response to the pandemic destroyed the middle class, small business, supply chains and education; to name a few. If the private sector was less regulated they’d fiscally be able to accommodate longer paid leave for families. Healthcare costs and access would increase if the medical industrial complex was a true free-market. Global conflicts would not be a factor domestically if we made our own bed before trying to clean someone else’s room. If our governmental body hadn’t steered the culture away from single income households, work stability and childcare wouldn’t have become a potential hindrance. Finally, “climate change”, really?! Climate alarmism was created and is perpetuated by our government despite the scientific contradictions as a system of control and distraction. The real problem is big government and our only way out of this predicament is to prioritize the nuclear family, encourage our youth to marry as soon as possible, restructure our economy to support young families, deregulate in favor of free-markets, bring back Judeo-Christian objective moral standards, enforce our constitution as it is written, bring trades back to high school, put patriotism back in schools, put education back in school, enforce legal immigration, and finally, we the people need to elect leaders that serve the people instead in place of themselves.  

https://time.com/6970873/us-declining-birth-rate-2023-total/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral