Two thousand years from now, some poor child in a history class is going to be presented the following three headlines from today and then asked to explain what caused to downfall of the United States of America.
1 NFL considers proposed 15-yard penalty for kneeling, report say
2 Parents can kick their 30-year-old son out of their home, court rules
3 Publix wouldn’t write Summa Cum Laude on graduation cake due to profanity, SC family says
Folks what more can you really say?
Let’s look at each of these just a bit more.
NFL considers proposed 15-yard penalty for kneeling
The National Football League did this to themselves by allowing politics into the game. The San Francisco Forty-Niners and then the NFL Commissioner allowed this to happen much to my amazement. I watched zero NFL games last season and will watch none until this practice is outlawed. A penalty is not enough. It is a half measure from a group of spineless owners that have been given billions of taxpayer’s money for the sole purpose of playing a stupid game. The owners should have their government protected monopolies removed and be forced to seek only private funding in the future.
Update 05-23-2018
On Wednesday, the league announced new guidelines that require players who are on the field during the anthem to stand, but allows individuals who decide to skip the “Star-Spangled Banner” to remain in the locker room.
Liberal media outraged after ‘racist’ NFL adopts ‘un-American’ policy to combat national anthem protests
Parents can kick their 30-year-old son out of their home.
As I have written about before, “The compassion of the wicked is cruelty.”
The man in this story is selfish and by all accounts has failed to honor his parents. The Commandment doesn’t say honor your mother and father only when you agree with them or when they deserve it, it is not qualified by such weasel words.
A verse in Proverbs comes to mind but it doesn’t really mean what you think it does.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Accordingly, Prov. 22:6 is not so much a promise, as it is a solemn warning. Parents, if you train up your child “according to his way”—in other words, if you quit the hard work of loving discipline and just give in and let your child have his own way—you will reinforce his sinful proclivities to such a degree that, apart from supernatural intervention, “even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6: Train Up A Child His Way or God’s Way
Dr. Crenshaw is a smart guy and the article that I quoted above is well worth the time to read it.
Publix wouldn’t write Summa Cum Laude on graduation cake due to profanity
For those of you on the Left Coast, Publix is a grocery store chain which apparently has a bakery with employees that were given average publix-school educations. Since Latin is no longer taught, I’m not that surprised. Most folks now-a-days only think in terms of bodily fluids and how to satisfy their base urges. The thought of these words being associated with academic excellence is clearly beyond their comprehension. Clearly Publix employees only use that word in another context when messaging their friends on social media.
So, student of the future, what did you conclude about the state of our Republic and its demise?
We had a saying in our era that “Hindsight is 20/20”. But sadly, the people living during this time never comprehended the peril that we were in. The Good Book warns us that “As in the days of Noah…”