I like to think of myself as a conservative. However, I'm not sure what a true conservative is. I know what a left-wing liberal is: Anyone I disagree with! I listen to Rush Limbaugh perhaps that tilts me in the conservative direction. Speaking of Rush: Listening to his program today, I learned the press is now engaging in an all-out effort to separate Trump from his supporters, by any means possible. No longer is the press attempting the subterfuge that they are about reporting the news. Defeating Trump is the Holy Grail.

I also, like to think I'm wise enough not to fall for the press's tricks, which brings me to the conclusion that we are between a rock and a hard place. While I've never deluded myself with the idea that Trump was the best choice for our side, but, of course, we thought, better than Hillary. At this point, I'm not so sure Trump is better than Hillary. I'm beginning to believe that both candidates will cause more harm than good, however, by different methods.

Johna Goldberg, by all accounts, is about as conservative as one can get, unless, of course, he has me and many others fooled. I'm not smart enough to be able to post his latest piece here on OPP, and it would probably be too long a read anyway, it would be best for anyone interested to Google it. I hope I'm not falling for something I thought I was wise enough to avoid when one considers that Jonah is a form of the press, albeit, supposedly on the conservative side.

If even half of what he wrote about Donald Trump is true, it is truly frightening. I think we've all seen a side of Donald that Jonah describes, even if we don't care to admit it. So what's the answer? There may not be one. We are between a rock and a hard place!

At a wine merchant's warehouse the regular taster died, and the director started looking for a new one to hire.

A retired Chief Petty Officer, drunk and with a ragged dirty look, came to apply for the position. The director wondered how to send him away.

They gave him a glass of wine to taste.
The old Chief tried it and said, "It's a Muscat three years old, grown on a north slope, matured in steel containers. Low grade but acceptable."

"That's correct," said the boss. "Another glass, please."
"It's a cabernet, eight years old, south-western slope, oak barrels, matured at eight degrees. Requires three more years for finest results."

"Absolutely correct.Now a third glass."
''It's a pinot blanc champagne, high grade and exclusive,'' calmly said the drunk.

The director was astonished and winked at his secretary to suggest something. She left the room and came back in with a glass of urine.

The old Navy Chief tried it.

"It's a blonde, 26 years old, three months pregnant, and if I don't get the job, I'll name the father."

Judge: Treat T*********r Boy “Like the Girl She Is”

Highland Local School District in Ohio filed suit against the Obama administration this summer after the Departments of Education and Justice threatened to take away more than $1 million in annual funding if the district did not obey the new t*********r mandate. At issue is an 11-year-old identified as “Jane Doe” in court documents – a b********l m**e who considers himself a girl. Doe wants to use the girls bathroom and the school district won’t let him.

And in 2016, where nothing makes sense anymore, it’s the SCHOOL DISTRICT that’s in the wrong. Not the boy who thinks he’s a girl. Don’t be ridiculous.

Federal Judge Algenon Marbley decided in favor of the Obama administration, ordering Highland to treat Jane Doe “like the girl she is.” Marbley instructed the school district to let Doe use the girls facilities, including the bathrooms and showers. He said there was “certainly no evidence” that this arrangement would compromise the safety or comfort of the rest of the school’s female population.

“School districts that have encountered these very issues have been able to integrate t*********r students fully into the academic and social community without disruption, and certainly without the doomsday scenarios Highland predicts, such as sexual predators entering an elementary-school restroom,” he wrote, according to the Toledo Blade.

Highland had provided a bathroom in the school office for Doe to use, but the child’s parents said this inconvenience was taking a “toll on her mental health.”

Gee, you think something else might be a factor in your child’s deteriorating mental health? Can you think of anything? Anything at all?

This reasoning – that the burden of proof falls on the school districts and not the Obama administration – is faulty and ridiculous. It should not be up to public schools to prove that girls will be endangered by boys using the wrong bathroom. No reason should be required at all. It’s up to the Obama administration to prove they have the right to make this mandate, and that’s something they have not done. Title IX restrictions apply to sex, not “g****r identity.” You know why? Because “g****r identity” is a made-up concept and biological sex is real. We typically don’t make laws protecting fictional apparitions.

Or at least we didn’t back when things made sense.