After reading the Scotus decisions recently I found myself wondering what has happened to this nation and my response was simple, too many citizens have quite caring about doing the right thing and they do what is right for themselves by taking from others. I have slowly been worn down by this as I have watched my readership decline and responses change over the past year to learn I may be in the minority. To that end I am taking a break from Worldview by Dawson to rethink the direction of this website and for myself. For my readers I am sorry I will not be continuing my articles or opinions at this time. God Bless you all.
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As the American public settle in today and ponder such questions as ISIS and Mr. Roof. I have to wonder about those issues our government has allowed lingering and festering as open wounds to many Americans. One such wound is the Benghazi incident. That moment where several brave selfless men in an attempt and against great odds tried to protect an American Ambassador with the result of four men including that dignitary losing their lives and America once again taking it on the chin, is inexcusable and needs answers as to the where’s and whys, yet there are those in government doing everything they can to slow the process. I bring this up again now as the State department allowed an employee of Hillary’s to give the Senate Committee investigating this incident 60 more emails. Can we just stop with this we are allowing bullshit, if you were investigating a normal American warrants would be issued and no one would be asking kindly for anything so can we just get to the information. Another interesting point that should be glaringly true for the Hillary campaign is that for each moment this goes on she looks or gives the appearance of guilt, which if I was her I would give the investigators everything so this issue will go away, unless of course said information will prove she is guilty and in such case what it appears to be it is, I believe every American believes deep down Hillary is guilty of the deaths of those men and we all know somewhere in the dark recesses of our minds Obama gave the ultimate order and the Democrats who follow her are just willing to look the other way. This of course should tell you all you need to know about Mrs. Clinton. So can we get that information so those four men can be remembered properly and we can get past this horrific failure of Hillary Clintons State Department? One last thing, when choosing the next president does it sound like a good idea to elect a human being to that post who has no regard for human life? Hillary proved that day she did not care at all for those men and one of those men was a self professed friend of Hillary’s. With friends like that who needs enemies, maybe it is time to drop Mrs. Clinton from the ballot and look elsewhere for our leadership. THE DAY DONALD TRUMP EAT THE CONSTITUTION AND CALLED IT THE TRUMPITUTION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.6/17/2015 Donald Trump has now thrown his sombrero into the Mexican hat dance of the GOP race for 2016 and yes I say that with a little sneer thinking of his candidacy speech. First he was speaking as an American citizen to American citizens who are all upset about the direction this nation has taken for the last 20 years and to be honest, I am one of those who feel that my country is slipping away each day on a progressive whirlwind on its way to that OZ we know as socialism, which by the way has failed in every experiment it has been attempted in. Having said that Mr. Trump is speaking emotionally and again to be honest he is being a little fast and loose with the facts as we all tend to be when emotional. Let’s start with his rendition of the real unemployment figures, where sir do you get this number from, the real unemployment office? Even USA today when checking this can find nothing to back up Mr. Trumps 21% figure, which in turn means that it feels like 21% but really Mr. Trump have you ever really felt unemployed? Probably not a great way for a billionaire to try to relate to the masses, and yet Donald tried just that in his appeal for himself to be made the king of job creation. Mr. Trump made statements about Mexico such as he would add tariffs to stop Mexican imports, which on the surface sounds OK but that is only one nation making products and sending them here and to be frank Donald isn’t that the job of Congress to create tariffs? Also should we not be worried about immigration, which is not a tariff issue, drug trade and all that entails, yes he mentioned the problems but I heard no real solution, like I did for unemployment. My last point about Mr. Trump is his statement he has beat the Chinese, so we should vote for him. What does that really mean? What did you beat them at, business or cards or scrabble? My point is this really, whether you meant at business deals or at a poker table you beating the Chinese at the level does not equate to a national win for this country. In the end I am sure Mr. Trump means what he says whatever that is and I am sure he will promote these ramblings to the American public, I am also sure there are Americans who will line up and say he is correct but this is not the man the GOP needs as the President, he has the same attitude as our current dictator in chief Obama. Yet I would like to say he is correct about this country needing a better economy and we need to rescind Obamacare and almost every other regulation we have created to keep people from doing anything. Yet Donald Trump is running for President which I guess proves that we are still a free nation, one where any billionaire can grow up and attempt to run the country if they push enough money across the table and spout erroneous facts. God Bless America and Amen. Orwell called it double think, I call it political correctness, whatever we are calling it today it must end, the world is no better off simple because we say nice things about it and in the end all we are really doing is lying to ourselves, putting blinders on so that the harsh parts of the world do not affect us, well folks hiding from those things does affect us, daily, our children have learned we do not mean what we say and politicians have learned they can manipulate us by how they say things, can we please just stop.
Each day we see more and more of our world disintegrate under the pressure of political correctness, I have to say that when I was growing up it was drilled into me that the truth was that in which I should seek, not the happy fun no problem world we continue to try to make with our language and in making this observation and playing into the hands of those that believe in political correctness there is no more real discussion on real issues and nothing really getting down. We watch as our culture and our morals are destroyed under a paradigm that never really existed anywhere but in the minds of those who never really lived in the real world. I once heard Harriet Tubman once said that she could have freed more slaves if she could convince them they were slaves, well today that idea is more prevalent than ever, we are slaves to a world view that does not exist and now we are afraid to speak the truth. We have become the zombies of the new age where everyone is the same and we get along so nicely because no one is allowed their own views or opinions. I for one was not born into this, I was born in a country that believed in free speech and freedom of ideas and I am not sure where that country went but I will spend my life searching for it. What was good about America, well we (by which I mean all citizens) were able to seek out our lives in whatever made them happy, not by what was told to you to make you happy. My happiness is dependent on my own actions and abilities, no one else’s, there was a time we felt shame if we could not provide for our own families but today we expect the world to provide for us in a lazy attempt at being slovenly. I say deregulate and allow Americans to provide for themselves again, I say kill the Political Correctness and allow Americans to think and to talk again and I say stop teaching children ideology but simply teach them the skills they need, math, reading, basic science and history, oh and when I say history I mean the truth as it happened not the truth as we wanted it to happen. I say allow Americans to pull themselves up by their boot straps and become independent again by giving us back the basic functions of life, such as making decisions for ourselves. Until recently we (Americans) were never sheep, we protected those that were but we never acted in fear, now we are afraid, afraid of our own freedom and we are cowering in the corner waiting for someone else to tell us what to say and do, I say not me, not today. I am not a sheep and I am not afraid, the time is now for us Americans to stand up and say enough. The news is filled today with the idea of identity and what that means. The new concept is that what we identify with we are. I think this idea is about as ludicrous as a white woman getting a high position in the NAACP for identifying with being black and then lying about who her parents are to cover up the idea that she is white. There is a truth to things and identity is part of that, parts of our identity we create, what we do to earn money, what we believe in politics and religion all are created by each individual but some parts of identity we are born with and without surgical help are pretty much immutable. Interesting the definition of identity is simple: the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another: The condition of being oneself and not another, I would think the facts that make up oneself would be important in defining oneself as not another, facts like skin color, eye color, gender, etc,etc. Facts that are immutable, like skin color make us who we are and yet in the news is a woman who makes a statement like “I relate to being black” and we must redefine the idea of identity, one can have a sympathetic relationship with someone or something else (i.e; relate) without actually being that thing. For instance I have a sympathetic relationship with my pug Molly who has several medical issues, this does not make me a pug or give me any of those issues. In fact even if I relate to my pug I am still a human being with all the same conditions and identifying markers I had when I woke up this morning. The characteristics of identity can be seen as those markers that make up the details (facts) of who we are. Some are immutable, I for instance am male, I have male genitalia and no matter how I dress, act or who I relate with the fact is I am male. I am also Caucasian, which implies my skin pigment is light in color, I may relate to black people and I do have several friends with darker skin but the fact remains I am still white. Each of these are immutable characteristics, meaning those characteristics that cannot be change or at least not changed easily. Another characteristic that defines many people is wealth, some have it some do not and it is a fact that is dictated at the moment one is using the characteristic. Ones wealth may change, one day Bernie Madoff was a billionaire and the next after his trial he was penniless, this makes wealth a cursory characteristic or that identity marker which may change in time. Each individual is defined in their identity by these markers, some are immutable and some are cursory and we can be defined by all of them but whatever the facts of these identity markers are is what we are defined by not by what we want these markers to be. One can demand that others treat them as if they are a woman but as long as one has male genitalia they are a man, genitalia being the defining identity marker and in this case it is immutable because to change this takes effort and money that is not afforded all people. This is not to say that identifying as a group that one is not part of is wrong or should be not allowed, in fact as a free people it should be understood that we all make personal choices but this does imply a normal and that normal for immutable characteristic traits would be what we are brought into this world with, eye color, skin color gender, etc. Sexuality would seem to be a cursory characteristic if one believes that they have a choice in what their sexual preference is and it could also be an immutable characteristic if it is found that homosexuals do not really choose their sexual preference but are born with it. The point of this writing is not to decide this issue but to point out there are known immutable character traits we all have and skin color is one of those. No matter whom we prefer or who we relate to our skin is a particular color and that will not change anytime soon. |
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