Four of the seven Morton, Illinois District 709 School Board members voted to support transsexual sexual delusions. The “Four Pretenders” are:
Shaun Bill elected term ends in 2017
Clint Heinold elected term ends in 2017
Kelly Scarfe elected term ends in 2017
Michelle Bernier elected term ends in 2019
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Roe vs. Wade decided January 22, 1973 = 44 years ago as of January 22, 2017
Almost 44 years of government sanctioned murder of our own children. Evil personified!
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“Thank You, Professor Sowell
Michelle Malkin | December 28, 2016
I first read Thomas Sowell in college—no thanks to my college [She graduated from Oberlin College which is one of the most ‘radically left-wing’ private institutions in the nation].
At the majority of America’s institutions of ‘higher learning,’ reading Thomas Sowell was a subversive act in the early 1990s when I was a student. It remains so today. Why? Because the prolific libertarian economist’s vast body of work is a clarion rejection of all the liberal intelligentsia hold dear.
Among the left’s most corrosive ideas is the concept of perpetual and permanent racial victimhood, [which is oddly strange considering that institutionalized racism, which is the only kind of racism that can be legislated again constitutionally, has been a part of the Democrat Party since before the Civil War!] which social engineers pretend to rectify through federally mandated, taxpayer-subsidized preferential policies. Sowell’s groundbreaking academic analyses of these programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action [Good for the elites who love to take and spend other people’s money through government confiscation. Not good for the so-called beneficiaries as they become dependent upon government. The modern day “slavery” in America.].
The grand rhetoric of diversity masks the true intent and actual impact of current racially discriminatory ‘solutions’ to past racial discrimination: solidifying the power of the few over the many [Just like slavery without the stigma of slavery!]. As Sowell put it succinctly in one of the first pieces of his I came across in the journal ‘The Public Interest’:
‘Live people are being sacrificed because of what dead people did.’
In that essay and much more deeply in his book, ‘Preferential Policies: An International Perspective,’ published that year, Sowell explored the ‘mismatch’ effect in the ivory tower. While prestigious schools such as the University of California, Berkeley congratulated themselves for manufacturing ‘wonderfully diverse’ student bodies ostensibly to make up for the legacy of American slavery (which Sowell pointed out was in no way unique to either the American South or blacks [True! In fact, the US ended slavery long before most other countries and some countries still have slavery.]), he reported that more than 70 percent of black students at UC Berkeley failed to graduate [Which is far greater than the general population. Many should never have been accepted and were thus set up for failure!].
‘What they’ve effectively done’ in lowering academic standards by race in the name of social justice, Sowell explained in an interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, ‘is rented these bodies for window dressing for a few years, and then, when they’re through with them, they’re put aside and a new bunch of bodies are brought in.’
Who benefits? Not the students, but the bean-counting administrators and political correctness marketers at Berkeley—Diversity, Inc.—who exploit minority students for their glossy admissions brochures. The other vested interest? Tenured radicals in what Sowell called the ‘black studies establishment’ who ‘need students to be in their classrooms’ to justify their paychecks [Now expanded to “feminist” studies which as a degree is only good for teaching “feminist” studies. When my children attended the University of Arizona in the early 1990’s, a “feminist” studies class was required for graduation and the “text” books were only available at the local “feminist” store. That is, until I demanded that they also be available at the University book store. A few years later a story was published that the books were moved back to the “feminist” store and a new parent was demanding they be available at the University’s book store, once again. The Left has a racket going on in this area just as in the area of murdering babies! For being “social justice warriors,” they do seem to manage to benefit financially as well!].
Sowell, who grew up black and poor in Harlem, worked as a delivery man, served in the U.S. Marines, graduated from Harvard Law School, earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago, and fully realized the folly of Marxism during a stint as a federal government intern, spurned identity politics collectivism [Just the type of person despised by the Left. A person who didn’t allow himself to become dependent upon government.] .
‘Fortunately, even during my period of Marxism I had respect for evidence and logic,’ Sowell told an interviewer in 2004, ‘so it was only a matter of time before my Marxism began to unravel as I compared what actually happened in history to what was supposed to happen [Fact over Leftist fiction!].’
Chromosomes [Male-Female] and skin color and partisan loyalty didn’t dictate his thinking [Another type of person the Left despises—a thinking person!]. He embraced time-tested, transcendent principles grounded in the reality of how things really are—as opposed to the fantastical imaginings of what he trenchantly called the ‘Vision of the [self] Anointed.’ Sowell’s book on that subject (published in 1995, the same year the Anointed One, Barack Obama, emerged on the national scene with his fabrication-filled memoir, ‘Dreams of My Father’) thoroughly dismantled the tyranny and tactics of self-described ‘progressives’ whose control-freak narcissism is wrapped in [alleged] good intentions and false narratives [lies].
Sowell’s assessments were rooted not in fear or hatred or fanaticism or moral superiority, but in empirical evidence [The science that the Left claims to support!]. He judged outcomes, not oration. He didn’t make excuses. He made sense.
‘In the anointed we find a whole class of supposedly ‘thinking people’ who do remarkably little thinking about substance and a great deal of verbal expression,’ Sowell observed. ‘In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes, but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety [The last eight years. Also known as he Obama Administration!]. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many.’
In another giant contribution to contemporary political and policy analysis, Sowell’s 1999 tome, ‘The Quest for Cosmic Justice,’ addressed the abject failures of those who seek to cure all inequities, inequalities, disparities and ills through government intervention [Government knows best. NOT!]. He summed up his findings thusly:
¨ The impossible is not going to be achieved [Such as males believing they are females and therefore they are females!].
¨ It is a waste of precious resources to try to achieve it.
¨ The devastating costs and social dangers that go with these attempts to achieve the impossible should be taken into account [Only GOD can do the impossible!].
The former leftist playwright David Mamet, in his 2008 manifesto, ‘Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,’ cited his exposure to Sowell, whom he dubbed ‘our greatest contemporary philosopher,’ as a critical factor in his conversion. Whether tackling the ‘bait and switch media,’ the ‘organized noisemakers,’ or the lawless enablers of ‘social disintegration,’ Thomas Sowell’s dozens of academic books and thousands of newspaper columns have sparked generations of his readers across the political spectrum to think independently and challenge imposed visions.
Asked once how he would like to be remembered, Sowell responded: ‘Oh, heavens, I’m not sure I want to be particularly remembered. I would like the ideas that I’ve put out there to be remembered.’ Mission accomplished. Though it has been decades since he taught in a formal classroom, his students are legion.
Thank you, Professor Sowell.”
https://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/thomas-sowell/2016/12/27/random-thoughts-and-looking-back?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16785962&utm_content=100398518088&utm_campaign=27768
“Random thoughts and looking back
December 27, 2016 | Thomas Sowell
(Editor’s note: Veteran columnist Thomas Sowell has announced his retirement at age 86 [He will be missed]. This commentary is the first of two he has written before retiring.)
The first column I ever wrote, 39 years ago, was titled ‘The Profits of Doom.’ This was long before Al Gore made millions of dollars promoting global warming hysteria [Hysteria and nonsense.].
Any honest man, looking back on a very long life, must admit—even if only to himself—being a relic of a bygone era. Having lived long enough to have seen both ‘the greatest generation’ that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all around us today, makes being a relic of the past more of a boast than an admission.
Not everything in the past was admirable [Never is. We are all sinners and there is evil in the world!]. Poet W.H. Auden called the 1930s ‘a low dishonest decade.’ So were the 1960s, which launched many of the trends we are experiencing so painfully today. Some of the fashionable notions of the 1930s reappeared in the 1960s, often using the very same discredited words and producing the same disastrous consequences [Nothing new under the sun.].
The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer, if they disregard the record of the past [Experience. Parents try to warn their children but all too often they have to experience it before they learn.].
If you want to understand the fatal dangers facing America today, read ‘The Gathering Storm’ by Winston Churchill. The book is not about America, the Middle East or nuclear missiles. But it shows Europe’s attitudes and delusions—aimed at peace in the years before the Second World War—which instead ended up bringing on that most terrible war in all of human history.
Black adults, during the years when I was growing up in Harlem, had far less education than black adults today—but far more common sense. In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools and colleges are producing artificial stupidity [OUCH!], among both blacks and whites.
The first time I traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, as the plane flew into the skies over London I was struck by the thought that, in these skies, a thousand British fighter pilots fought off Hitler’s air force and saved both Britain and Western civilization. But how many students today will have any idea of such things, with history being neglected in favor of politically correct rhetoric [Recently, an American university dropped the American history requirement for HISTORY majors!]?
You cannot live a long life without having been forced to change your mind many times about people and things—including in some cases, your whole view of the world. Those who glorify the young today do them a great disservice, when this sends inexperienced young people out into the world cocksure about things on which they have barely scratched the surface.
In my first overseas trip, I was struck by blatantly obvious differences in behavior among different groups, such as the Malays and the Chinese in Malaysia—and wondered why scholars who were far more well-traveled than I was seemed not to have noticed such things, and to have resorted to all sorts of esoteric theories to explain why some groups earned higher incomes than others.
There are words that were once common, but which are seldom heard any more. The phrase ‘none of your business’ is one of these. Today, everything seems to be the government’s business or the media’s business. And the word ‘risqué’ would be almost impossible to explain to young people, in a world where gross vulgarity is widespread and widely accepted.
Back when I taught at UCLA, I was constantly amazed at how little so many students knew. Finally, I could no longer restrain myself from asking a student the question that had long puzzled me: ‘What were you doing for the last 12 years before you got here [To discover the answer to that question read High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student.]?’
Reading about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and the widespread retrogressions of Western civilization that followed, was an experience that was sobering, if not crushing. Ancient history in general lets us know how long human beings have been the way they are [Forever or, at least, since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden! Find the same answer by reading the Bible.], and dampens giddy zeal for the latest panaceas, despite how politically correct those panaceas may be.
When I was growing up, we were taught the stories of people whose inventions and scientific discoveries had expanded the lives of millions of other people. Today, students are being taught to admire those who complain, denounce and demand [The melting pot has become the diversity pit!].
The first column I ever wrote, 39 years ago, was titled ‘The Profits of Doom.’ This was long before Al Gore made millions of dollars promoting global warming hysteria. Back in 1970, the prevailing hysteria was the threat of a new ice age—promoted by some of the same environmentalists who are promoting global warming hysteria today.”
Thomas Sowell, you will be missed.
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