Hoodie

I have a confession to make. I am a Caucasian. As far as I know I am as Caucasian as they come. I have a Caucasian wife and two Caucasian children.

That's not my confession.

My confession is:

I own a hoodie.  OK, I own two hoodies. In fact, each member of my Caucasian family owns at least one hoodie.

Shocking, I know.  But each and every word of it is true.

We live in South Florida and it’s about 80 degrees outside these days so we're not wearing our hoodies this time of year. Although my son did wear one to school the other morning because they keep some of the classroom thermostats at a temperature cold enough to hang meat. He assured me that his wearing of his red hoodie that day was not related to anything to do with what may have taken place between Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman & the Sanford, Florida police department.

A brief pause to tell you all you need to know right now about what happened in Sanford, Florida:

1.  Trayvon Martin, while wearing a hoodie, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. The police investigated the matter and decided against arresting and prosecuting Zimmerman.

2.  In the weeks following the shooting, allegations have been made that the police acted improperly. Keep in mind, allegations are not necessarily facts.

3.  Never forget that our legal system is based in our belief that you are innocent until proven guilty. This extends to the deceased, the shooter and the police.

4.  The allegations have received national attention. The State of Florida is now monitoring the investigation.

5.  At some point the investigation will come to a conclusion and the City of Sanford and the State of Florida will take action based on its ability to build a case against the guilty party or parties.

Everything else you are hearing is noise. This is another Fluking. (If you are unfamiliar with the term "Fluking" then read this.) The attempt by the Marxists to turn this incident in Florida into a national race relations debate is a diversion. It is part of their strategy to divide the country, to pit this American against that American. They are desperately attempting to get us to stop pursuing our goal of restoring the limited Federal government envisioned by the Founders of our country and the Framers of our Constitution. Don't be Fluked, be Focused!

This brings me back to the hoodie.

My high paid staff of researchers have determined that the hoodie was the invention of the Knickerbocker Knitting Company (KKC <---Pretty close to being a problem. The KKC is now known as Champion Products and is owned by Hanes.) The hoodie first made an appearance sometime in the 1930's, during the depression. To my knowledge, the hoodie was available for sale to all American citizens, all non citizens visiting America legally and all non citizens in America illegally, regardless of sex, race, color, creed, economic status, religion or sexual orientation. The hoodie appears to be as American as apple pie, baseball, jazz music, Don King and Larry the Cable Guy.

The hoodie is not part of a clothing manufacture conspiracy to identify the "bad guys." Geraldo Rivera climbed up another step on the who's the biggest fool ladder when he said: 

"I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was." 

This is exactly the kind of vile rhetoric that leads to a Marxist plan to make the hoodie extinct. It will start with a sin tax on hoodies. Next there will be laws banning hoodies in restaurants and bars followed a few years later by a no hoodies in the workplace ordinance. Stadiums and theme parks will be required to have designated areas for hoodie wearing patrons.  Hoodie chasing lawyers will seek out victims of hoodie related incidents and sue hoodie manufacturers, distributors and retailers for damages. 

The bottom line is if something is not done now, the hoodie will soon be gone. All that might remain will be a handful of them kept on display at some off the beaten path museum.

Therefore America, I am taking a stand today. I refuse to allow the hoodie to become a symbol associated with any one particular sex, race, color, creed, economic status, religion or sexual orientation. I will be a General in the defense of the War on Hoodies. I want to make sure that all Americans, all visitors to America and all illegal aliens are free to don their hoodies.

(Because it needs to said, I do not believe the owning of a hoodie is an inalienable right, nor do I believe that there is a constitutionally protected right to hoodie ownership. I would strongly object if there was a Federal individual mandate that required all Americans to buy a hoodie or pay a penalty if they do not buy a hoodie. I would also object to a Cash for Clunker Hoodies program as a way of stimulating the economy. And by no means should you have to register or license your hoodie through a national database.)

One of my two hoodies

This is an urgent call for urgent action. I implore you to join with me in the wearing of a hoodie. Go to your closet; take the hoodie off the shelf or hanger. Pull it down over your head (or put it on one sleeve at a time and then zip it up.) Once it is on, proudly pull the hood over the back of your head, then on to the top of your head and finally, give the drawstrings a little tug to adjust the snugness. Now smile. You have just completed a great American tradition. With your hoodie comfortably in place, put on some jazz music, grab yourself a slice of apple pie and thank God that America is still the land of the free, the home of the brave and the nation that had the ingenuity to invent the hoodie.

Fluked!

While motoring along on a major highway you notice in front of you enough red lights to light up a certain district in Amsterdam.  You curse because you know this usually means there is an accident somewhere up ahead and one or more lanes of traffic are likely closed.

Inch by inch the traffic moves forward. Ten minutes. Fifteen minutes.  Twenty minutes.  Finally you can see the flashing lights of police and fire rescue vehicles up ahead on the left.  Traffic continues to slowly crawl forward.  You are now almost to the location of the accident.  You look over and discover the accident is on the other side of the highway on the road that is traveling in the opposite direction of you.

You curse the rubberneckers.  It’s thirty minutes of your life that you will never get back.  It’s some amount of gas and wear and tear on your car that was unnecessary.  Maybe the delay has caused you to be late for a meeting, a meal or a performance.  All these people in front of you, because they needed a brief glimpse of the tragedy on the other side of the road, have robbed you of your time and how you were going to use it.  They got distracted.  They forgot the goal of driving on a highway is to get to their destination safely and in a timely manner.

Rubbernecking is not the only example of people being distracted from their goal by a desire to see a disaster. In fact, it happens in politics all the time.  It happened again this past week.  I predict in a few years from now my name for the political version of rubbernecking will appear in the list of new dictionary words as follows:

fluking (fluhking) v. A technique used by American Marxists to distract the public's attention from noticing the Federal government is shredding another section of the United States Constitution.

The people in this country that are interested in fundamentally transforming America are going to use every tactic ever used by every thief that has ever lived, to steal our Liberty.  The American Marxist is cognizant that if he or she knocked on our door, smiled and said please hand over more of our Liberty that we will slam the door in their face (and/or show our willingness and ability to exercise our Second Amendment rights.)  The only time the American Marxists have been successful in stealing our liberty is when they have succeeded in distracting our attention.  They find a person, place or thing of some extreme interest and then spin the rhetoric, many times using outright lies, to communicate the message that if we don’t allow the American Marxist to enact their new law, regulation or rule, then the person, place or thing will be irreparably damaged.

Until now this tactic was nameless but thanks to the Democrat party we can call this strategy “Fluking” (pronounced flucking).  See the definition above.  This term joins other recent political strategies including Borking and Swift-boating.  How ironic that the birth of Fluking was the result of a dialog on contraceptives and abortifacients.

This most recent Fluking began when the Federal government announced its mandate that all employers that provided their employees with health insurance, including Catholic hospitals and schools, include the availability of free contraceptives and abortifacients.  The church and conservatives pushed back (but for the wrong reasons.)  Enter 30 year old Sandra Fluke (pronounced fluck) a graduate of Cornell University with two degrees, one in Policy Analysis & Management and a second in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and who is now attending the Georgetown University Law Center. By the time she was done playing her role she had successfully turned the discussion into a show Sarah Jessica Parker might star in, “Sex in the Georgetown Dormitories.” 

Fluke’s script, which she read during a fake congressional hearing, included the following:

“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggle financially as a result of this policy.

“One told us about how embarrassed and just powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter and learned for the first time that contraception was not covered on her insurance and she had to turn and walk away because she couldn’t afford that prescription. Women like her have no choice but to go without contraception.

“Just last week, a married female student told me that she had to stop using contraception because she and her husband just couldn’t fit it into their budget anymore. Women employed in low-wage jobs without contraceptive coverage face the same choice.”

She went on to describe several alleged instances where woman were denied or experienced difficulty obtaining birth control pills for treatment of other medical conditions.  If this is true, each individual State, as it is the states that currently regulate insurance companies, might want to look into this. 

Unfortunately, a lot of conservatives got distracted by the sex and sex became the issue.  The affordability of birth control became the issue. The merits of her argument became the issue.  The validity of her commentary became the issue.  It was a complete and total Fluking!  As an observer all you can do is sit back and marvel at how adeptly the left can take over an issue. 

News Flash! Co-ed sexual activity at a Jesuit school is irrelevant to the issue.  The amount of sex people participate in is not the issue.  The affordability of birth control is not the issue. 

There is only one issue and there is always only one issue to be discussed when the American Marxist tries to create any new law, regulation or rule.  The issue is:

Where in the Constitution, a document that was intended to limit the size and scope of a central government through the enumeration of specific powers (with the caveat that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people) where in the plain language of this remarkable document is the Federal Government delegated the power to do whatever it is they want to do.

The specific question on this issue is, where in the Constitution is the Federal Government delegated the power to tell ANY private company what it must sell and how much it should sell it for.

Let me say restate this the way a Marxist might understand it:

1.   Read the Constitution. It’s only about 20 pages.

2.   Find the section of the Constitution that says the Federal government is delegated the power to mandate to private companies what products it must sell and how much it should sell the product for.

3.   If you cannot find these words or something very close to it, it is time to Fluke.

Conservatives, I implore you, from now until you breath your last breath, be Fluked no more!  Trust me, another Fluking is already in the works.  There will be many Flukings between now and Election Day. Be alert.  Don’t slow down to view the disaster being perpetrated by the party that is trying to take the country in the wrong direction.  Remember to stay focused on the goal, the goal of shrinking the size and scope of government and the restoration of our constitutional republic as envisioned by our Framers.  If we fail, if we continue to allow ourselves to be Fluked, it is our country that will be getting screwed.

A Prayer for a Candidate for President

The following blog was inspired by a tweet conversation with @Ericatwitts. Thank you Erica.
 
Newt Gingrich has stated that as President he would put policies in place that he believed will bring the price of gas down to $2.50 a gallon. While I pray at different times of the day, I thought it might  be appropriate to offer a prayer for our candidates at 2:50 PM Eastern Standard Time everyday until we elect a new President.  I hope some of you will join me in doing the same.

A Prayer for a Candidate for President

Lord our God, King of the Universe,

God of Mercy, God of Compassion, God of Forgiveness.

We know no man is perfect though we all strive to be more perfect.

We know our elected leaders are just men and not Gods and therefore they are not perfect.

We are thankful that you have endowed man with wonderful unalienable rights. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

As a nation, in fact as a world, we seek to have leaders that will protect our God given rights.

We are now engaged in a battle to elect such a leader.

We pray to you for your help.

Give us the wisdom to see such a leader when he or she appears.

Grant us the strength to battle to elect such a leader.

Defend us from attacks to silence and ridicule us.

Let this time in our history not be an end to this land of liberty but a rebirth of the Judeo-Christian values that make the United States of America a beacon of liberty for all the world to see.

Amen