Archive for October, 2019

Changing Halloween Because of Weak Parents

Recently in two Florida counties parents are petitioning for the schools to cancel classes the day after Halloween.

Their reasoning?

It’s because kids are tired from being out late at night.  They’re also hyper on sugar the next day, making it more difficult for the teachers to control them.

This just happened to be the topic of the day for my local FOX5 news station.

A day off after Halloween?

The answer is simple.  No.

Absolutely not.

No way, Jose.

Are you, the incredibly weak and stupid parents that you are, really going to need me to explain to you why your ideas these days are not only disturbingly lame, but are actually *hurting* your kids instead of helping them?

Fine.  Sit down.  Let’s go over why you’re not only ruining the great holiday of Halloween and its tradition of trick-or-treating, but that you’re also hurting your kids in the process.

For starters, Halloween is celebrated on October 31st every year.  This isn’t one of those floating holidays that always occurs on a certain day of the week, like Memorial Day or Thanksgiving.  It’s a fixed date like the Fourth of July (don’t get me started on you people living in Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Canada) and Christmas.  You know exactly when it’s going to occur every single year.  Deal with it. Read more…

The Rise of Transgenderism in Today’s Society

Over the past fifteen to twenty years we’ve been seeing a steady increase in not only the number of people who claim to be gay, but the people who support them as well.

Until the early 1970s, gay people were classified as having a mental illness according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.  It was through pressuring of the gay rights activists that homosexuality was no longer classified as a mental illness by the end of 1973.  While still somewhat shunned by society in the 1970s and early 1980s, we began seeing more prominent gays and their supporters emerging into the public through those years and in the 1990s.

By the year 2000 gay characters and TV personalities were making their way onto the network channels.  Now at the end of the 2010s it seems that most major network shows have either a well known gay actor, a gay character, or a gay commentator / judge.  And with each passing year, it seemed like yet another famous face came out of the closet and announced their sexuality to the world.

For the past ten or so years, right on the heels of the rise of homosexuals, we’ve been seeing an increasing presence of people who claim to be transgender.  While the gays and transgenders may seem to be common, there’s quite a bit of difference between these groups of people.  And when you get down to the gory details, it can be utter madness.

HOMOSEXUALS VS TRANSGENDERS VS OTHERS

Gays and trannies tend to unite under the same flag of being an oppressed minority.  So do bisexuals, pansexuals, and whatever the hell term the SJWs will create next.  All of it can be classified under one simple description —- people who do not participate in the traditional sexual intercourse between solely a man and a woman, for whatever reason. Read more…

Halloween and Sex Offenders

With Halloween just over a week away, it’s time to talk about not jack-o-lanterns, costumes, or setting up spooky decorations, but rather sex offenders.

And just why are we doing this and killing the fun Halloween mood?

Because some police jurisdictions (and the news media) say so.

This morning on the local news there was a story about how Sheriff Gary Long in Butts County, Georgia, wants to put special “no trick-or-treat” signs outside the homes of convicted sex offenders, in a move to prevent children from having contact with those people.  These aren’t just outside the homes of child molesters or pedophiles, but ALL of the registered sex offenders in the county.

And it’s ridiculous.

Before I go any further, I’m not excusing the sex crimes that any of those people committed, especially the violent ones.  Toss ’em in jail and throw away the key.  But when they are eventually released, and they do follow the laws and restrictions, then they have the right to be treated as human beings.  Why should they go through further humiliation and shaming after they’ve “paid their debt to society,” as so many people love to say when their favorite celebrities (i.e. Michael Vick) go to prison? Read more…

Good Taste Gwinnett – 2019

Last week on October 17th, my wife and I attended Good Taste Gwinnett, an opportunity to sample and try out some restaurants in the local area.  We had such a great time last year that we came back a second time.

Good Taste Gwinnett 2019 – welcome sign

Good Taste Gwinnett is like a mini convention.  You have to pay a small fee to attend (an even smaller fee when purchasing ahead of time and when using promotions), but with that you receive a goodie bag with a bunch of coupons and other little gimmicks, as well as three “tasting tickets.”  Each tasting ticket allows you a sample from any of the restaurants in the venue.  If you want more tickets, they’re sold at Good Taste Gwinnett for $1 each.

Good Taste Gwinnett 2019 – participating restaurants

If you pay for the V.I.P. experience, then you receive six tasting tickets and an even better goodie bag (a small insulated bag) with really good coupons as well as free tickets to the Fernbank science museum, and a free hockey ticket for the Atlanta Gladiators.

Good Taste Gwinnett 2019 – participating restaurants

Enough of that already.  Onward to the venue! Read more…

Trangendered Students, the Bathroom, and Pickens County Schools

A couple of weeks ago Pickens County, Georgia, adopted a new bathroom policy for transgendered students, based on a recent court ruling by the Eleventh Circuit.

The court sided with a transgendered student who claimed that his rights were being violated by the 14th Amendment, and he was receiving unequal treatment based on the sex of his choosing.  The court basically said that he could use whichever school bathroom that went with his sexual identity.  In this case it was a student who was born female, had transitioned into a male, and wanted to use the men’s restroom with the rest of the students.  A complaint was filed and the school forced this student to use a gender-neutral bathroom.  Hence the unequal treatment and the lawsuit.

Fast forward a few months.

Earlier this school year, parents of a girl transitioning into a boy went to some Pickens County officials and requested that their child be allowed to use the boys’ bathroom instead of a separate unisex bathroom in the teachers’ lounge.  Until recently that was the county’s policy.  Should any student feel uncomfortable using either the girls’ or boys’ bathroom, then they were allowed to use the bathroom stall in the teachers’ lounge.  However, since the Eleventh Circuit made the ruling that transgender students may use whichever bathroom fits their sexual identity, Pickens County decided to change its bathroom policy.

On October 10th the county said that it was going to build a series of gender-neutral bathrooms composed of several private stalls in each one.  In the meantime, students were allowed to use whichever bathroom they identified with.  That’s the critical part of the story here.

Naturally, this caused many parents to be outraged, especially since there was no advance notice of the policy change.  There was so much outcry that the county held an emergency town hall meeting on Monday, October 14th, so that concerned parents could have a chance to speak to the officials and let them know about their concerns.

The school officials listened to the concerned parents as well as the supporters of the transgender students.  Still, the policy remained in effect at that point in time. Read more…

False Report of Attempted Kidnapping at Deerwood Academy

Oh wow!

Would you believe that?

Sure enough, the story about an eight-year-old girl’s attack and attempted kidnapping turned out to be false.  Untrue.  A complete lie.  Or as said by the Atlanta police department, “unfounded.”

It didn’t take long for the results of the investigation to emerge.  As anybody could have easily figured out, it turns out that the girl was lying for whatever reason about her alleged attack.  There was no attack.  There was no threat to the school that day.  Everything was fine.

It turned out that yes, the students *were* closely supervised while they were on the playground at recess.  It also turned out that no, the girl was certainly *not* attacked by a stranger at any point in time.  One of the school’s security cameras does monitor the playground, and all of that was easily verified.  I’m sure that’s why the school waited so long before they were forced to act on the girl’s ridiculous claims.  They knew that she was lying, but because of all of the rules and restrictions, they still had to ultimately act upon it.

Why did the girl’s mother believe the story despite the obvious plot holes?  I know that parents want to believe their children when bad things happen, but I’ve got news for you.  Are you ready?  Children lie.  This is actually somewhat frequent in today’s society.  Just ask any teacher and you’ll probably hear several examples of students lying and parents believing the lies.

Shame on the girl’s mother for believing such an obvious lie by her daughter.  Shame on her for allowing her and her daughter to be interviewed by the news media.

So how about the local news stations?  Why did all of those news stations cover the story when it was obvious that the kid was lying?  Didn’t any of the producers take a moment and use some common sense before approving the story before it was aired?

That’s what I want to know.

I hope the police and school system go after the daughter.  I don’t care that she’s only eight-years old.  She knew exactly what she was doing when she told her lie about being choked by a stranger, and having him put a gun in her face.  While kids do make mistakes (that’s part of being a kid), when you screw up on a level that high, the school and law enforcement need to step in and do something about it.  These false reports are getting ridiculous.

Attempted Elementary School Student Kidnapping — Did It Really Happen?

Last night and early this morning a rather peculiar news story was making its rounds across the usual local news channels.

According to the stories, an 8-year-old, third grade student was almost abducted while she was playing on her school’s playground during recess.  The incident allegedly took place this past Monday afternoon.  Naturally, the girl’s mother is in an uproar that not only could such a crime take place at a school, but that it also took the Atlanta police department more than four hours to respond to the situation.

But when you take a closer look at the situation, parts of the story seem rather odd.

Let’s take a look at our four major news stations (WSBTV, FOX5, 11alive and CBS46) and see how each one reported this story.  Up first is WSBTV.

In the WSBTV article we get a general idea about what allegedly took place at Deerwood Academy on Monday afternoon.  The 8-year-old girl was on the playground, she was attacked by a stranger, and he ran away when her teacher blew a whistle, signifying that recess was finished.  The girl’s mom is upset that not only was her daughter attacked at school, but that the playground doesn’t even have a fence around it.  Plus there was a long time before the Atlanta police department was notified of the incident.

There’s a video about the incident on WSBTV’s website, and it has a little more information.  In the video we hear claims that the man walked over to the girl, grabbed her and told her, “Don’t move.  Don’t move.  Just stay here.  Don’t talk.  Don’t say nothin’.”  He allegedly grabbed and choked and even pointed a gun in the girl’s face.  Later, after they were inside the building, the teacher took her back to the classroom, but didn’t notify the principal until about 40 minutes later.

Strangely enough, the video made it seem like the mother was more upset about the lack of a safety fence around the playground rather than an armed man violently attacking her daughter. Read more…