Abandon Hope and Change Course

I am a firm believer of mutual self construction.
By which I mean individuals
united in their seclusion.
Conjoined disjointed orphans
Erecting a Solace of Fortitude,
Asylums of Family Disunity
A harmonious cacophony of orchestrated solos
Instrumental temperamental
monumental chorus vocalizing
localizing
Individual vision

Alas
Feral sheep shepherded astray
by a Piper's dulcet atonement
Promissory sour notes called
due
Bald faced ideological ribaldry
Preselected elected offal, officious
Inhumane scentipede
Mentally ill dressed succession
of public servants self servicing

Disarmed armada of the disillusioned
flotilla of fools on the Hill
Come sale away with me, indeed
Flotsam jet setters presiding
Deciding
Die-er consequences
Pirated copies of declarations
of interdependence.
Anchors a weigh

My country-
 tis for me
Sweet land where things are free
Of me Im singing
Land where our fathers sighed
Land where their dreams have died
State of Ship of State, Sinking

When They Came For Us, We Had Already Done The Job For Them

  Perhaps it's just me, but the answer to online  censorship is not tucking tail and running, but rather the "Hail Hydra" approach. Every account shut down should be met with seven new accounts opening up. What exactly is the benefit in saying "Oh, they might stop me from speaking, so I am going to preemptively shut up"?

  I have been quite flabbergasted at the "Imma gonna quit" crowd. THIS, boys and girls, is why conservatives are losing.  We can't keep our voices if we leave at the first sign of any push back.


 I have a serious problem with a media platform, in an election year, silencing opposition voices. I have an even bigger problem with conservative voices volunteering to pack up and leave.

 We were told that conservative voices weren't wanted in schools.

 So we left.

 We were told conservative voices weren't wanted in Hollywood.

 So we left.

 We were told conservative voices weren't wanted in media.

 So we left

 We were told that conservative voices were not wanted in government

 So we left

 We were told that conservative voices were not wanted on social media.

So

we

left

 Holy crap people,  does NO ONE have to come for us, we just simply, show ourselves out.  How is THAT a strategy for winning?

 In life, the old adage still holds true, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease".  One has to be the squeakiest wheel in this game. And conservatives are still playing "Thank you Sir, can I have another", with shuffling feet and downturned eyes. Yet, we we have the audacity to complain when our congressmen represent us to a T.

 Look, for example, at the fight for a defining core conservative principle, The Right to Life, versus the core defining liberal principle, Abortion on Demand. In the public square we have screeching liberal women vehemently, unabashedly, marching with vagina hand puppets, even full body costumes, to protest state governments defunding Planned Parenthood being praised as good, wholesome, unobjectionable, righteous even.

 On the other side, women marching solemnly, prayerfully, with actual pictures of aborted babies, being vilified as gross, disgusting, objectionable, inflammatory, accusatory, evil, mean. Do we indeed have the courage of our convictions? Are we still watching, supporting the network that brought us this?  Yes, we are. We politely eat what is put on our plate, and wonder why we keep getting fed garbage.

 College campuses are another ground that we have lost, without a proverbial shot fired. Due process for men accused of heinous crimes are being trampled upon with impunity. We have even had presidential candidates praise this nonsense. Any voice that criticizes is met with accusations of being a rape apologist or worse, an actual rapist. Those words, just like the readily bandied "racist" are effective at melting conservatives like water on a witch. "What a world" indeed. Perhaps there is some merit after all, in the SJW claim that words are violence, when the threat of being called names keeps people from speaking their minds.

 If our principles are not important enough for us to stand for them, how to we expect to win hearts and minds? Especially when we have hogtied and gagged ourselves voluntarily. We can not afford to hover outside the window, moping like sad vampires of old, waiting to be invited in. We must boldly go in, as it were, and be ready to verbally stand and defend our hills. Waving a white flag and walking off of them surely is a strategy for a loss.

It's All Fun and Games 'Til the SJW's Get Involved.

 Body positive. Gender equality. Forced tolerance under any other name is still propaganda, and it still smells.

No longer satisfied with brainwashing your kids on social media, tv shows and public schools, the Equality Brigade of Big Sister want to start indoctrination at the cradle. By social engineering the lumps of plastic your child can play with and what mascots adorn their breakfast cereal box  they hope to build their socially conscience utopia brick by Lego brick.

"How many Lego mini-figures live on your street? With a planet-wide population of 4 billion, there are sure to be a few plastic folk nestling down the back of a sofa near you. But for all the mini-figures in the world, Lego does not produce a single one with a wheelchair or a disability?"


Of course this is not true, pirates with eye patches and peg legs have been available for quite sometime.( Yay for being represented by a yellow plastic toy?). The X-men set also has the iconic wheelchair bound character. I am sure there are more, but who cares. It's a toy. Toys are for play, for imagination expansion. You can remove arms and legs or wrap injuries in toilet paper bandages. You can get a sharpie when mom is not looking and draw scars.

The article goes on to bemoan the lack of wheel chair accessibility for Lego Airplanes. Seriously. This is adult grievance culture forcing its world view on the mind of a child. I can remember many times as a child, a certain figure was the wrong size for the entrance for whatever building you were playing with. ( Oh and you could actually cross play. Barbie did not have to play with just Barbie abodes, she could ride "in" your brothers Tonka truck) We used our imaginations and pretended it got through and placed said figure on the other side of door. Imagine it's wheelchair accessible, if you are a child and actually concerned with such, and go your merry way. Problem solved simply, without the retooling of a whole toy manufacturing complex.

No answer on how toy manufacturers are supposed to illustrate less visible handicaps, like mental illness or blindness

For years, child development researchers have been calling for unstructured play to encourage creativity in children. At one time coloring books were frowned upon. Pre-drawn illustrations were thought to handicap creativity.  Experts thought a blank page was the best resource to bring out the artistry in preschoolers. Yet today the SJW wants to force your child to draw inside the lines. Having every toy possibly imagined and pre-made for each possible play scenario, surely inhibits inventive problem solving.

Of course that is the point. Control. "Wrong play" might lead to "wrong think" so let's be sure that no "wrong imagining" happens. We know their busybodying does not come from genuine concern for the less fortunate, because after all, these the same people that fight for the right to abort a disabled baby. When it actually matters, their concept of forced acceptance only goes so far.

Of course the bane of a feminist existence could not go unscathed. Mattel announced on Twitter, Time Magazines new cover featuring the new "realistic" body Barbie. Because that is what play time is all about, realism and not fantasy.

What a powerful moment and this is just the beginning... #TheDollEvolves #Barbie https://t.co/wuAgbidIby pic.twitter.com/e0tCmOxDlt

— Barbie (@Barbie) January 28, 2016

"Barbie has, to some extent, always been this bully to women. Her impossibly thin waist has taunted us, pointing out what for many of us is our biggest insecurity — our body size. Though she is carved plastic, she has screamed at us across generations, telling us our bodies aren't good enough. Now, that voice may quiet — albeit just a little."

 When your toys are oppressing you, you really should seek help.


As a child I read a lot of books about little girls. Not once do I remember Laura Ingalls wondering if she was going to look like a corn cob when she grew up. Little girls through out the years were playing with molded clay dolls that vaguely had human shape. Sticks and clothespins wrapped in scrap cloth. Faceless primitive rag dolls misshapen and stuffed with saw dust never once pressured a child into wishing she too had a featureless visage.  Having a real doll was once a rarity. You sure as heck didn't complain about it's dimensions

  "As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.   There’s just one problem: Despite our demographic diversity, not everyone’s beauty gets equal representation. However, new changes to one of the world’s most iconic (and influential) dolls are set to address this"

  "In what is unquestionably Barbie’s "biggest change" since the toy first hit stores in 1959, Mattel is making room for other Barbies — 33 to be exact — to have a chance at dominating the shelves. And, to be honest, we’re all better for it."


   Barbie is a toy, not a role model. To run an advertising campaign stating she is, is a bigger issue than her waist size. Of course Barbie is suffering the effects of the modern age. Kids are choosing electronics over plastic and ad campaign like this is causing product to move, initially. Why? Limited run items are highly collectible. How many stores is going to devote shelf space to all models and clothing sizes. How many parents are going to fork over for the different clothing for all the diverse body types. Skipper was never popular for just this reason. Matel needs to have realistic pocketbook standards. This is not realistic long term business model. Retooling to become less streamlined rather than more is backwards in today's market, but of course not a single SJW will mourn Barbie's passing should she indeed prove unprofitable. They got their feather, and if the bird dies, they will blame institutionalised misogyny etc and say it was too little too late.

  Girls will never be a mermaid or Cinderella. Should we quit giving them toys that promote this false vision of the future? Most children will never grow up and own a Lamborghini, let's promote realistic driving standards. If we follow this logic, kids should only play with minivans. Allowing children to play with Disney castles or Barbie Dream Houses (or yachts) just sets them up for an unrealistic homing image. The will never be satisfied with their apartment complex or basic rancher. It's best to just nip all that imaginary play in the bud.


1 Corinthians 13:11-13King James Version (KJV)

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Believer or not, this is good advice, for the most part. Children's play time is exactly that. Let them play. Let their creativity and imagination flow freely to solve the problems important to them. Let them be kids. Let the adults deal with all the serious issues that need serious people addressing them.