I know that what I am about to say will get me a lot of Private Message hate mail and possibly a couple of serious threats. Last time I posted something along this line o OPP I actually got a couple of threats from "people" who said that they would burn down my house if they found out who I was. On a previous site I got three that said they knew who I was and would poison our service dogs the next time we showed up at an obedience trial with them. I left that site immediately and for a while went to different obedience events in different areas that we usually do. But I have had it with this nonsense. We need to speak out.
The Gay Rights Platform established in 1972 in CHICAGO ILLINOIS actually stated that one of their goals was to remove any age of consent laws in any state, as well as repeal any state laws prohibiting cross dressing and transvestism. Included in the platform was a goal of repealing any provisions that restrict the sex of the persons, or the number of persons who could enter into a marriage unit, and demanding the extension of all legal benefits for all those in such a marriage,
Published in the Advocate the top gay magazine in 1987 was a "Warning to the Homophobes" that they intended to destroy all religious and cultural norms by laws and threats. So from the beginning the process that has led this far was the goal of the LGBTQ movement.Most of the original activists that are so well regarded were self professed pederasts, including Harvey Milk and Henry Hay, and Kevin Jennings. Getting young men, who appeared trust worthy to be counselors in Boy Scouts will certainly make pederasty more common, because this young adult is close enough to the same age as the kids that pressure and power trips, plus the ability to use beer and pot to entice the 13 year olds to engage in sex with the 18 year old "counselor". In addition to that of course is the fact that the "counselor" can easily convince those boys who are away from home perhaps for the first time, that trying same sex activities in not immoral and could be fun. Indoctrination would be automatically part of the "counselors' job" If I had boys in scouting I would get them out of it right away and find some other group that holds the moral ideals that scouting once had but has given up by force to the LGBTQ crowd.

Artemis-how long will it take you to catch on to Obama's deceit. This agreement paves the way for Iran to get the bomb. Obama suggests that the only alternative is war. That is just not true. The best alternative is to re-freeze the Iranian assets held here and impose the harshest sanctions possible and keep them on until Iran cries Uncle. If you give the American people two choices (bad agreement or war) they will opt for the agreement. However, if you include harsh sanctions I would surmise that most would opt for that in lieu of a bad agreement. As a prelude to these talks the Obama administration eased up on the sanctions and allowed Iran access to millions, if not billions, in here-to-for frozen assets held in America. That blunder allowed Iran to negotiate from a stronger position than it would have had if Sanctions had been either left in place or increased. This is an administration loaded with people who may have academic education but who totally lack in practical experience. I do not think this agreement, as outlined, will pass the smell test. Good Luck America !!!

No doubt, np, that Dr. Ben Carson is the liberal progressive communists worst fear. The "race card" was the latest and most innovative of the liberal progressive communist strategies to overthrow free-market Western civilization and [they] are having a REALLY hard time "pulling" that "card" on a REAL African American; although, quite unexpectedly, [they] have in the past. Hummmmmm. What does THAT say about the Alinsky "movement," and [their] daily morning talking-points???

WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Cruz is a decided underdog for the Republican presidential nomination, but he understands where his opening lies. And this, in turn, tells us a lot about the shape of the contest and the fight the GOP is about to have.

It is no accident that Cruz began his campaign at Liberty University — founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell — by asking evangelical conservatives to consolidate their support behind him. The most important sentence in his speech was this one: “Today, roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting,” Cruz said. “They’re staying home. Imagine instead millions of people of faith all across America coming out to the polls and voting our values.”

Although Cruz has always been a religious conservative, he is much better known for his crusade against Obamacare and his willingness to shut down the federal government. His evangelical turn is his first play to create a base on the right end of the party to challenge Wisconsin governor Scott Walker as the main alternative to Jeb Bush.

The Cruz strategy starts with marginalizing former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson, the physician and best-selling author who has developed a significant following on the right. Huckabee and Carson are also in the running for evangelical votes. If Cruz pushes them aside, he can then go after Walker and, after that, Bush.

Perhaps all this is fanciful, but Cruz knows what he’s doing.

So far, Walker’s emergence is the key development in the Republican race. “Walker has made a decision to run at Bush from the right and he’s trying to consolidate the very conservative vote,” says Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a shrewd conservative voting analyst. “The pop for Walker in the polls shows the deep desire of very conservative voters in the Republican Party to find an alternative to Bush.”

The numbers tell the story. A McClatchy-Marist poll released earlier this month showed Bush and Walker at the front of the Republican pack. Among Republicans and independents who lean Republican, Bush had 19 percent, Walker had 18 percent.

But their constituencies are very different. Among moderates, Bush, the former Florida governor, led Walker 26 percent to 15 percent; conservatives gave Walker 20 percent to 18 percent for Bush. Among those who called themselves very conservative, on the other hand, Walker walloped Bush, 24 percent to 7 percent.

Walker’s main competitors for the “very conservative” vote were Huckabee and Carson at 19 percent each. Overall, Huckabee got 10 percent and Carson 9 percent. Add those constituencies up and you have a number that competes with both Walker and Bush.

Cruz may now be at only 4 percent nationwide in the McClatchy-Marist survey, but he can build a base by grabbing those who currently support Huckabee and Carson. And Cruz’s talk about “liberty” and the Constitution could help him shake loose some votes from Sen. Rand Paul.

Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who advises Senator Marco Rubio, has a rule about his party’s nomination contests: “No one faction is large enough to nominate its favorite candidate,” he says. “Whoever is nominated will be rooted in one of the factions, but will be acceptable to a number of the factions.”

Bush’s base is some combination of the remaining moderates in the GOP and the less zealous conservatives who often go under the name “Establishment.” Bush’s first priority will be to eliminate all competition on that side of the party. This means it’s important to him that New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s potential candidacy never gets off the ground and that Rubio not threaten him among more moderate voters. Bush then needs to be competitive enough with more conservative sections of the party, though he could luck out — as John McCain and Mitt Romney did — and get to watch as his more conservative rivals claw at each other and split up the vote at the right end of the GOP.

Cruz’s entry is thus very good news for Bush. He has as much interest in taking Walker down as Bush does, and the more right-of-center candidates there are on the ballot come next year, the better Bush’s chances will be.

Therefore, don’t believe anyone who says that little of what happens this year matters to an election that seems so far away. Cruz has just turned the battle for the political souls of religious conservatives into the first bloody crossroads of the GOP’s struggle. And Scott Walker needs to watch his back.

E.J. Dionne’s email address is ejdionne@washpost.com. Twitter: @EJDionne.

People never insult me...they attempt to......communication states how the receiver, not the transmitter determines the dynamic...


all races of children in American schools are behind, not just black kids...racist publications such as the Bell Curve tried to format that school of thought in academic form but researches chopped that to pieces and uncovered the inherent flaws in everything from the research hypothesis to overall design of the study and statistics used...that book followed the old"they have a different brain" idiocy from centuries beforehand....

There is standard research on what hampers kids, from schools to nutrition....you can look that up.


My parents developed 5 scholars by starting during our developmental (1-7) years. We were around them exclusively...with no baby sitters, childcare, relatives kindergarten or nothing. My dad started us with a rigorous program that was advanced for our ages...we were doing timetables up to 12X 12 before first grade and writing in cursive...one of my older brothers could do basic algebra by the second grade....my dad understood what I try to tell women about their children at work, black, white and otherwise...you first teach a kid, comprehension, retention and then articulation.....once they understand that...what is put in front of them does not matter...because they understood the approach to getting it. My dad explained the civil rights movement and what was going on when I was around 6 years old......I always read a whole lot to develop a vocabulary...my dad was not big on stupid shit like cartoons...even though we watched them like normal kids. There was also intelligent TV included....like the news...at a young age...christmas presents were toys....but there were things like microscopes, chemistry sets and books....my older brother was in the "How and WHy Science Club...received monthly publications, which were handed down...i had the luxury of always reading and doing schoolwork for older kids since I was the youngest...my next oldest brother was three grades above me so i always took a crack at his homework.

When you turned 13, there was the standard lecture about not being a kid but a young adult...TV became serious and you had to watch things like Meet The Press and Face the Nation...in the summers, we had to read and memorize the front page of the Houston Chronicle (no sports or comics). When my dad came home, before you could go out and play...he was supposed to be able to randomly read a headline and you were supposed to stand there and summarize the article associated with it......i remember to this day making him laugh talking about Chief Justice Warren "Hamburger"...we screwed up one spring and for the whole summer had to memorize the Constitution section by section and recite it when he came home....to this day, my spring grades would be better than fall ones...haha...the longest summer of my damn life.....we also received two books when we turned thirteen. The occupational handbook and the US handbook of colleges and universities....we got the standard speech where we had 5 years before we turned 18, so read both books, figure out what you want to be and where you want to go study it.....also...you were leaving the house unless you went to school because he did not need rent from us and could pay his own bills...my dad also picked our classes...not much fun shit...and no counselors...they had lowered expectations for black kids no matter how good their grades were...my dad understood that........he let me drop everything in the 11th and 12th grade (marching symphonic and jazz band, all PE, history, art) to take nothing but radio/TV repair-in case i did not go to college...and AP Math-in case I did.....it all went well....got scholarships, accepted to many colleges and felt like a man when I wrote my dad a letter stating I did not need financial help and wanted to be a grown man and do this on my own...graduated from engineering school at 22...took a job in a defense R&D facility...started grad school at 23...started the doctorate thing at 30...became a professor at 33...and it is all history from there.....that is my story and the thing that was the most critical...was parental oversight and involvement from Day 1..my parents understood what got us beyond slavery and jim crow...from the big house to the white house.....education and lots of it...

I don't know what makes you think/assume I was ever a charity case or wanted a handout to make such a statement. Not all blacks have hardship stories IF you think that. I grew up fairly well off (considered upper middle class in that timeframe) and the scholarships I am referring to are/were competition based...there were kids whose parents were both lawyers and doctors and judges vying for the same scholarships...there was prestige (in addition to money) associated with being deemed a Foundation Scholar and all that jazz...awards, school recognition because it made the high school look good and congrats in the Houston Chronicle and local newspapers also…..matter of fact colleges really sent acceptance letters when you wrote THAT on your application-my own form of AA, which I have several…I never needed charity or assistance but if I did I would not be ashamed the way the right tries to make people feel about themselves.....i have never needed to look down on the less fortunate to feel better about myself. If I had to base my sense of self- adequacy on someone else or relative to them, it would be on the basis of being right there competitive with those who had waay more than me...the rich kids who went to exclusive, private K-12 schools….we all had the same GPA’s. My parents put me right on par with them....with just my upbringing...i have never had a tutor or study group in my life....I always purchased study aids such as Schaum's Outlines in various college-level subjects...and studied them my damn self....because looking down on someone less fortunate is a false premise where one needs someone else to be in an unfortunate situation. That means with all being equal or against someone with greater resources then theirs, they may not be able to compete….so goes life sometimes….and as a black person, I so not use the term slavery in casual conversations…because there is no comparison based on the brutal, cruel and inhumane way it was implemented here in Amerikkka (the spelling for that mindset then)……….

Save the insults..there are private foundations such as Moody and others....and I may not be "bright" (whatever that means since I do not use hue to define good or bad)...but I did graduate 3 times with it only costing me some the third time...you people are negative even when people try to offer helpful advice...and this is an example of what I was telling those who want to give me their bullshit lectures about what I say but never address others..but i'm kool...going to remain positive because i could have not given a shit less about you, your kids and the way they pay for college....keep that in mind.....but i'll keep my advice to my gotdamn self and do you a favor...kool?