Dear American Leftists.
The Fifth Stanza of the Ranger Creed:
"Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might. Surrender is NOT a Ranger word. I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country."
I will stand in public and recite this stanza.
Will you?
Good Morning Thinkers - L'Shana Tovah! May the Jewish New Year bring you sweetness and prosperity.
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Do you remember when sports tournaments had loser's brackets and not consolation brackets? Yeah, back in the days when only the winners got trophies.
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Good Morning Thinkers - If Sisyphus had a digital doppleganger, he might look like me. Remote education has a seemingly
endless logistical tail.
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My personal term for 'remote learning' or 'virtual school' is disembodied education. The others are far to sterile.
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Good Morning Thinkers - Today is Constitution Day. A day that will be forgotten in most public schools, though many states have requirements to observe it in some meaningful way. I think that we should celebrate Constitution Day by exercising as many of our fundamental freedoms as possible. We should say what we want, we should gather peacefully and pray together, we should share our thinking on social media and elsewhere without censorship, we should petition the government for change, we should go to the range and shoot guns, and we should treat each other as equals under the laws - of God and our Country.
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RLTW!
Good Morning Thinkers - Have you heard any commentary from elected officials in LA or CA about the attempted execution of the two police officers in Compton? Neither have I. To use a slogan that is often thrown at me as a pejorative, "Silence is Violence" - though it is LITERALLY true in this situation.
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Undoubtedly some of the Antifa/BLM arsonists would self-describe as environmentalists. I call them criminals and hypocrites, but that's just me.
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Only idiots and Marxists believe....
]That climate change has caused this year's wildfires
That BLM is about empowering Black communities
That public education teaches students how to think and not what to think
That systemic inequity has a greater influence on outcomes that individual talent and effort
That the amount of melanin that one possesses is determinative of anything except how fast you sunburn
That the solution for past acts of racism and unfairness are current acts of racism and unfairness
That the violence against and the denial of human rights to women in many Islamic countries are acceptable 'expressions of culture".
That disrespecting our flag unifies our country
That arson, rioting and looting are "mostly peaceful protests"
That illegal aliens should be afforded the same rights and privileges as American citizens
(To Be Continued)
Good Morning Thinkers -
Anytime Rangers get together events occur that absolutely would not occur in any other company.
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Good Morning Thinkers - A fast way for me to lose confidence in you is for you to be consistently unreliable. Things happen from time to time, and I get that, but things don't happen all of the time.
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Winners look for ways to succeed. Everyone else looks for reasons to fail. -ER, 2020
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Ranger School - It's not about the color of your skin, it's about the content of your character. -ER, 2020
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Just thinking... Poll workers in Chicago should put "I voted" stickers on all of the headstones in town.
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Would a moral, ethically decent, patriotic hip hop artist even be tolerated by the industry?
Has a patriotic rap or hiphop song ever been made? Has a patriotic pop song been made in recent memory? The only artists that I can think of that openly love and praise our nation are Country singers and Christian singers. And it shows in our culture.
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Veterans don't serve because we hate our enemies. We serve because we love our country. It's a difference the left will never understand.
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If having firearms for self protection is such a bad idea, why do so many synagogues hire armed IDF veterans as security guards; particularly during the high holidays?
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When a job seeker, a politician for example, leads with their intersectional profile (I am a quadruple minority), you can be sure that they have little else to offer.
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I wrote this last year, but it is still timely.
Good Morning Thinkers -
Hello Thinkers - Sorry for the late post today, we had a really busy day.
I just read that a group of Georgia residents is buying land to create a self-sufficient single-race Black community. So they are self-redlining to create a separate but equal one race living arrangement. Hmmm.....
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The West Coast fires are being caused by Antifa arsonists. I can think of numerous appropriate consequences for thes pieces of shit.
How can they call themselves environmentalists and burn the land?
Fucking hypocrites.
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A state employee was placed on unpaid leave after they left a note at a restaurant that read "BLM Button - No Tip".If the employee wasn't representing their office in an official capacity, what right does his supervisor have to get involved here. It's the employee's money, it's the employee's opinion, and it's the employee's freedom of speech. What a load of crap.
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In better news, SGM Pat Payne was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Trump yesterday. He led a special operations
raid that rescued over 70 hostages from their ISIS captors in 2015.
Good Morning Thinkers - What if Bertie Botts (the Harry Potter world's creator of 'every flavored jellybeans) made crayons? You would have colors like vomit, snot, dog poop... Imagine the possibilities.
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We haven't heard much from AOC and the squad for some time. I wonder which basement cell the DNC has them occupying.
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Can anyone name anything useful the Democratic Congress has accomplished in the last four years? I'll go get a coffee while you're thinking.
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Are the wildfires that are ravaging the West Coast being set intentionally? Would anyone be surprised if they were? Would the leftist governors of the West Coast states aggressively pursue prosecution of the perpetrators if it was learned that they were Antifa or BLM supporters?
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If masks work, why do we need social distancing?
If masks and social distancing work, why do we need to stay at home?
If masks, social distancing, and staying at home work, why do we need a vaccine?
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Rather than defunding the police, why not reduce their responsibilities to areas within cities who support them? That would improve the law enforcement coverage in those areas, and keep the citizens who hate the police and the police officers themselves safely away from each other.
Good Morning Thinkers - I have a student from England this year who addresses me as "Professor". It reminds me of the old days teaching at Hogwarts.
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Here's a song lyric that I really like:
Una palabra no dice nada, y al mismo tiempo lo esconde todo. igual que el viento esconde el agua, como las flores que esconde el lodo. - C. Varela
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I as asked if teachers should be fired for participating in riots and looting. You may be surprised, but my answer to that is no. They should be arrested for ritoting and looting and fired for having unexcused absences from work. That way their lawyers can't complain about their being terminated for their off the clock, non-work related activities.
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Good Morning Thinkers - Is it too late to turn the tide of toxicity against our country? Is the disease too widespread? Are we septic? It really is hard to say. I want to believe that the media overplays the voices of hate and that the anti-American elected officials allow the violence and mayhem to contine in isolated places - but as that number of places increases, and the number of participants grows, can we stop it without the use of massive force? I don't know.
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One of my colleagues sent a email offering a unisex t-shirt that she picked up at a trade show. Is unisex still a viable word in the current PC world? And is it even appropriate to assign clothing to specific genders any longer? Who says this is a boy’s shirt size 12? I dunno. It’s all pretty confusing.
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I wonder how long it will be until the permanently offended PC mob forces retailers to eliminate gendered apparel sections.
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Just because a man is a millionaire professional football player, it doesn't mean that he isn't a gangster and a thug.
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On the topic of institutional racism, did you know that a white player hasn't started at cornerback in an NFL game since the 2003 season? I don't see any players kneeling about that obvious inequity.
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Good Morning Thinkers - Yesterday was my sister's birthday. I've been asked why I don't write about my sister very much. While she was alive we weren't close. She chose to isolate herself from the rest of the family - which was especially difficult for my mom. She was estranged for the last 25 years of her life, so I simply don't have much to say. I didn't know her at all as an adult.
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I often see the word 'gentrification' used as a political pejorative meaning transforming an area to be less Black and more White. So if developers were going to improve a neighborhood and retain its 'Blackness' how would that look? Not ironically, not sarcastically.
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There is a trend amongst the wokesters to open meetings and other gatherings with some kind of acknowledgement that the meeting itself is occurring on "Native land"; as if those in attendance are committing some kind of moral crime by existing on the piece of ground that we're on. For example, someone might say, in hushed, self-righteous tones, "We begin this meeting with a consciousness that it is taking place on (insert name of Native group here) land.." So as to invoke a spirit of guilt and shame over the attendees' presence on 'stolen land'.
Question - Whose land was it BEFORE the stated group's? And before theirs? Do the meeting attendees ow those people an apology or do the Native occupiers< And how far back into history does the contrition statement extend? If we're going to self-flagellate, I want to be complete about it.
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The default parenting strategy these days is to make the world safer and easier for the offspring, not make the offspring tougher and more capable. It's the recipe for creating a generation of inept weaklings.
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A neighbor on another social media platform called teachers 'public servants'. I am a public school employee. I'm not anyone's servant; but that says a lot about their attitude toward some professions - doesn't it?
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Fun fact: The highest ranking Catholic bishop of a large geographic area is called the Primate.
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My mom used to ask me, "What did you learn at school today?" Here's what I learned today: The 5708th verse of the Bible is Deuteronomy 30:5, "And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers." The year 5708 on the Jewish Calendar corresponds with 1948 - the year of the founding of Israel.
I think that that's pretty cool.
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Good Morning Thinkers - The ultimate hypocrisy: A Planned Parenthood clinic with a Black Lives Matter sign in the window.
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A teacher in the Puyallup School District, just outside of Tacoma, WA, unleashed a litany of racial slurs against Black conservatives. A Black man himself, he states in his defense that within the Black community the words that he used aren't hateful - they are just used to describe someone who is a sellout. Fortunately, the district is investigating.
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How many times have people, who openly admit that they are not 'math people', thrown Covid statistics around. Like they understand them.
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Good Morning Thinkers - Should we all be equally miserable?
In totalitarian, dystopian, and other failed states that is the life that most people lead - equitable misery. It seems that some in this country desire that status for all of us. Tear down what others have earned because it's not fair that everyone doesn't have it. In my world there is a growing chorus of teachers who are decrying those of us who use personal resources to purchase supplies for our own classrooms and students. "Not everyone can afford that, so you shouldn't do it. It's not faaaaiiiiirrrrr," they cry. So my students shouldn't have a pencil, because one of yours doesn't?
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It seems to me that a person's economic value should be related to the difficulty of the problems they are able to solve.
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Why do welfare recipients celebrate Labor Day?
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Six percent. Have you heard that number lately? The CDC admitted recently that only six percent of the deaths reported can be tied to Covid-19 alone. That's about 10,000 deaths at this point. Every other one of the 200+ thousand counted in the statistics had some other related cause - but were counted as Covid because the decedents had tested positive at some point. We shut down and continue to shut down our country because of a BS flu. This is the power of propaganda. I don't want to hear a single person on the left ever say that they would have never participated in the rise of Naziism in Germany - because the last four months is clear evidence that you would have. That you would scream at and shame your neighbors because they refused to wear masks when they weren't sick. That they so willingly comply with every single government mandate. That they live in terror and ignore the many inconsistencies in the messaging is clear proof that we are not immune to the persuasion techniques used by despots in the past.
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Good Morning Thinkers - If you're an atheist and believe that creatures have souls, what purpose does the soul serve if there is no afterlife?
Can atheists believe in ghosts? If so, how? What worlds are the spirits trapped between?
And if you are an atheist - what purpose, other than social order, does morality serve, and where does it come from?
If you're an evolutionist, why should we care about helping the poor, starving, and downtrodden, isn't that evolution at work?
Isn't oppression, evolution? Survival of the fittest?
Doesn't helping the weak hold society back and misdirect resources away from the evolutionary cycle?
Nature is brutal - do you evolutionists REALLY want natural selection? If so, you don't act like it.
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So many media outlets lead the day with Covid news, it surprises me somewhat that there isn't a separate news organization called the Coronavirus Times.
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The Seattle mayor is calling the President's threat to cut federal aid to Seattle 'unlawfull. So let me understand this.... The city 'leadership' allows domestic terrorists to wreck a city and it's a taxpayer from Iowa's responsibility to bail you out. No. It's your mess, you pay for the clean up.
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Good Morning Thinkers - It's the first day of remote school. I'm confident in my ability to teach and my students' eagerness and ability to learn. I'm much less confident in the technology that is supposed to connect the two.
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I was asked by a Tik Tok follower yesterday why leftist teachers don't leave their politics at home. One of their protest chants is, "Silence is Violence" so I believe that they feel that they have a moral duty to impose their ideology wherever they can - including and especially to kids at school.
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NTYC teachers threatened to strike if schools opened as scheduled on September 10th, citing fear over Covid transmission due to unsafe working environments. The Mayor and City Council acquiesced to teacher demands without stating publicly exactly what they were and pushed back school opening until September 21st. Two things: That they did not specify what changes/improvements were to be made is suspicious to me, and what meaningful changes can be made in a district the size of NYC (the largest in the country) in only three weeks? I think that it was a power play by the teachers union that used a million kids as pawns.
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Eight years ago I got one of those texts that we all dread receiving. The subject line read "Ranger Down" and it was from a very low key Ranger who only communicates in the best and worst of times. When I was able to check back in with him I learned that one of our closest friends had passed away. Within a matter of days members of our squad made our way to Tulsa to do whatever we could to support his family. I think of him mostly on crappy miserable days when he'd have some darkly sarcastic comment that would put things in perspective, "At least you're not bleeding out of your anus." God Bless, John O. Tunnell. You are remembered and missed.
Good Morning Thinkers - In Matthew 27:46 Jesus is dying on the cross. In his agony he cries out, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?". To me this is the ultimate expression of Jesus' humanity. Not only is he in physical agony, he is moments from death and feels, viscerally, the weight of all of the sins of mankind being placed upon his spirit. Of course he had always known that that was his destiny, but in that moment the felt the full burden of it and it was so horrific and loathesome that even he cried out.
But it was not God the Father who had forsaken him, but the world - God does not forsake - He forgives and renews - Always.
The World hates you. The World reviles you. The World, with all of its sin and degradation wants you to BELIEVE that God forsakes you, but HE never will.
The World will dump on you in the worst possible ways in an effort to encourage you to sever your relationship with God - that's the World's plan - to treat you so horribly that you blame the Creator and turn your back on him.
Friends - we are in a love triangle - with a very seductive other. It is up to us to have the character to be faithful. To know that the one who truly loves us would never leave or forsake us - but the other, would and will drop us in a hot second.
That's the nature of the harlot.
Good Morning Thinkers - Ok pro sports - if you are so woke, why don't you let women into your leagues? Sexist much?
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How can education bureaucrats create career ready kids when so few of them have had careers outside of education or government? They have little or no direct experience in business or industry.
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