Happy April 5!
Today is the 95th day of the year, believe it or not, so we are exactly 26.03 percent done with the year 2022!
I don’t know if that is good or bad, but we are more than one-quarter done with the year.
What the next three quarters will bring is a big question mark, but we now have all of that in front of us, and we will worry about it as it comes.
But I can say that the first 95 days of thus year have proven that we continue to live in a sick world, and the sickness is outside the gaze of COVID-19.
Look what is happening in Florida, where the governor there just signed a bill prohibiting kids barely out of diapers to be taught in public schools in the Sunshine State about the LGBTQ universe.
How kids so young can even understand such a concept is beyond me, but there are some people who think it should be part of their public education.
The governor states that it is not the school’s obligation to teach such a subject, and that parents should be the ones to be doing this.
He is right on target. I don’t see the schools teaching directly about being heterosexual to five year olds—who also would probably not understand that concept, either—so why should schools be teaching about the gay lifestyle?
Proponents of this belief state that without it, their community will be even more marginalized than it already is; I say, like the governor does, that schools are there for education, and not indoctrination, and that any application of this type of teaching does the latter.
Look, at least in my mind, nobody cares what another person’s sexuality is.
We are more interested in whether we, as people, are good workers, provide for their family, and are good people—gay or straight.
But when you wear your sexuality on your sleeve, and make it the major focus of your life and the one about you that you want people to recognize, you are going up a slippery slope, because hitting people over the head with your sexuality is not the way to go about living the fullest life you can lead.
It’s like focusing on a body part, and making that your life’s mission to exploit that for your own personal good.
It just doesn’t work, nor will this type of educational indoctrination work, either.
II would leave it at that, but New York City didn’t leave it at that, so I won’t, either.
Mayor Eric Adams—who is looking and acting more like his completely inocuous predecessor, Bill deBlasio, each day—took offense at Florida’s handling of this delicate subject.
Adams is so hell-bent on demonstrating to the world that New York City is “back to normal”—even though it clearly isn’t—that he will go to seemingly any length to try to get people to believe his gibberish.
Now, the city—New York City—is going to be paying for billboards to be placed in prominent areas in Florida—yes, in Florida, a good 1,000 miles away or so—to tell that state’s LGBTQ population that since the governor’s decision about education has been made, they are not welcome in Florida, but they are welcome in New York City, and they should relocate to the Big Apple because the city welcomes everyone from every background.
Well, first off, the bill that was signed by the governor is not anti-gay; it is pro-parent, pro-family and pro-choice. Young children should be taught about the "three 'Rs" in their early educational studies, not about anything to do with sexuality, a subject they cannot possibly understand yet.
Second, the mayor has bigger fish to deal with now than getting supposedly marginalized people to move to his city.
The city is rife with murders, shootings and a violence level not seen in 50 years.
People are getting attacked on the street because of their race, religion and age, and yes, their sexuality, too, and the use of guns run rampant.
The homeless population is growing, and growing more violent each and every day.
Children are being killed in the crossfire, and thugs are walking the street because the bail laws are so lax.
Today is the 95th day of the year, believe it or not, so we are exactly 26.03 percent done with the year 2022!
I don’t know if that is good or bad, but we are more than one-quarter done with the year.
What the next three quarters will bring is a big question mark, but we now have all of that in front of us, and we will worry about it as it comes.
But I can say that the first 95 days of thus year have proven that we continue to live in a sick world, and the sickness is outside the gaze of COVID-19.
Look what is happening in Florida, where the governor there just signed a bill prohibiting kids barely out of diapers to be taught in public schools in the Sunshine State about the LGBTQ universe.
How kids so young can even understand such a concept is beyond me, but there are some people who think it should be part of their public education.
The governor states that it is not the school’s obligation to teach such a subject, and that parents should be the ones to be doing this.
He is right on target. I don’t see the schools teaching directly about being heterosexual to five year olds—who also would probably not understand that concept, either—so why should schools be teaching about the gay lifestyle?
Proponents of this belief state that without it, their community will be even more marginalized than it already is; I say, like the governor does, that schools are there for education, and not indoctrination, and that any application of this type of teaching does the latter.
Look, at least in my mind, nobody cares what another person’s sexuality is.
We are more interested in whether we, as people, are good workers, provide for their family, and are good people—gay or straight.
But when you wear your sexuality on your sleeve, and make it the major focus of your life and the one about you that you want people to recognize, you are going up a slippery slope, because hitting people over the head with your sexuality is not the way to go about living the fullest life you can lead.
It’s like focusing on a body part, and making that your life’s mission to exploit that for your own personal good.
It just doesn’t work, nor will this type of educational indoctrination work, either.
II would leave it at that, but New York City didn’t leave it at that, so I won’t, either.
Mayor Eric Adams—who is looking and acting more like his completely inocuous predecessor, Bill deBlasio, each day—took offense at Florida’s handling of this delicate subject.
Adams is so hell-bent on demonstrating to the world that New York City is “back to normal”—even though it clearly isn’t—that he will go to seemingly any length to try to get people to believe his gibberish.
Now, the city—New York City—is going to be paying for billboards to be placed in prominent areas in Florida—yes, in Florida, a good 1,000 miles away or so—to tell that state’s LGBTQ population that since the governor’s decision about education has been made, they are not welcome in Florida, but they are welcome in New York City, and they should relocate to the Big Apple because the city welcomes everyone from every background.
Well, first off, the bill that was signed by the governor is not anti-gay; it is pro-parent, pro-family and pro-choice. Young children should be taught about the "three 'Rs" in their early educational studies, not about anything to do with sexuality, a subject they cannot possibly understand yet.
Second, the mayor has bigger fish to deal with now than getting supposedly marginalized people to move to his city.
The city is rife with murders, shootings and a violence level not seen in 50 years.
People are getting attacked on the street because of their race, religion and age, and yes, their sexuality, too, and the use of guns run rampant.
The homeless population is growing, and growing more violent each and every day.
Children are being killed in the crossfire, and thugs are walking the street because the bail laws are so lax.
And remember, this is the mayor who feels athletes and entertainers are more important than fronting workers in doing their jobs, so more than 1,400 such city workers have lost their jobs because they won't get their coranavirus inoculations, but Kyrie Irving and the like somehow don't need them.
And he wants the LGBTQ community in Florida to relocate to the city, and he really believes they will feel safe in the Big Apple, which is as far away from “normal” as it could possibly be at this stage of the game?
Those in that Florida community should stay put where they are, because they are not safe in New York City at all.
So here we are, on April 5, 2022, and although we have been through the ringer the past two years, that ringer still isn’t finished with us just yet.
We have war, we have a lingering virus, we have so many more negatives still hanging around, so no, the world is far from normal right now.
But on the bright side, today, April 5 is not just the 95th day on the calendar, but according to a couple of Internet searches, I have found that today is also National Deep Dish Pizza Day; Star Trek First Contact Day; Go For Broke Day; National Caramel Day; National Flash Drive Day; National Library Workers Day; and Read a Roadmap Day …
So things can’t be all that bad, can they?
And he wants the LGBTQ community in Florida to relocate to the city, and he really believes they will feel safe in the Big Apple, which is as far away from “normal” as it could possibly be at this stage of the game?
Those in that Florida community should stay put where they are, because they are not safe in New York City at all.
So here we are, on April 5, 2022, and although we have been through the ringer the past two years, that ringer still isn’t finished with us just yet.
We have war, we have a lingering virus, we have so many more negatives still hanging around, so no, the world is far from normal right now.
But on the bright side, today, April 5 is not just the 95th day on the calendar, but according to a couple of Internet searches, I have found that today is also National Deep Dish Pizza Day; Star Trek First Contact Day; Go For Broke Day; National Caramel Day; National Flash Drive Day; National Library Workers Day; and Read a Roadmap Day …
So things can’t be all that bad, can they?
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