The NRA

 I was a member of the National Rifle Association longer than most of you have been alive. 

About 3 years ago, I stopped paying my dues to the organization and it had been coming over about 15 years of time. 

You see I am a member of both the Gun Owners of America( GOA) and the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Rights. (The Jewish organization was formed by concentration camp survivors, both were in Auschwitz during World War 2.   They believe you should be able to own any firearm....Both GOA and the Jews don't play with firearms rights.)

Over the last 25 years the NRA has become a spokesman, not of the gun owner, but the gun maker. And only in certain areas of the US. It no longer represents all members.

Several years ago the NRA became the person piggy bank of the NRA leadership. 

Including giving a retiring leader a $13 million dollar bonus and a paycheck every year for his 'leadership.'

They spent million's of the NRA money not on gun owners but private planes for travel, and limos. 

Probably the straw that broke the camel's back was the money spent on suit, using NRA by Wayne LaPierre. 

From 2004-2017 he spent $300,000 dollars on suits, using NRA money. 

His favorite suit? 

Zegna. 

Zegna suits run from $3000 to 5000 dollars. 

Sorry, grown ass men shouldn't be wearing Italian suits. 

There are 3 major types of suit types men wear in America. 

British, American, Italian. Sorry, but Italian are for younger men. Not serious business type people who say... as it was said "N.R.A. is not fancy Italian shoes with thousand-dollar suits. N.R.A. is the backbone of this country, wearing bluejeans and boots.”

Now I like a good suit. 

I wear one often in public. 

But, I had not spent other people's money amounting to $39,000 one day in Beverly Hills on Zenga suits.  

So, I know people were upset when the state of New York sued the NRA for malfeasance of funds. I was not shocked. 

I was also disappointed with the Attorney General of Texas offered the NRA the ability to 'set up shop' here in Texas. I assume he is okay with the NRA using donations as their personal piggy bank. 

The NRA is no longer doing what it tells us it is trying to do.....Sorry, just isn't.

 

 

Buna ISD

 I generally write a " State of the District" blog at some point but you know, according to the Buna ISD calendar, this is the " First School Day".

It also starts the first day of year 10, yes 10 years retired from the Buna ISD. 

Oh, I keep up with what is going on, but you know, I miss it like a bum tooth. 

I've traveled the world since I've retired. 

Canada twice. United Kingdom 3 times. France, Germany, Belgium, Hong Kong...Spent a month in China. Was in New England for the Fall foliage. Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York....Waiting now for this " Virus" mess to end so we can go to Israel. And are looking at either Wales, Cornwall, Devon, or Switzerland after that. 

My child has completed 2 Master's and picked up a wife we love to death. And someone asked, they now are living in College Station. Their townhouse has 3.5 baths. I can't pee that much.

I did not know it would be this way, but I love retirement. Best job I ever had. 

This comes in the light of a former Buna ISD Superintendent's death, and this may be ugly to say, but she pushed me over the edge to retire. We were sent a massive academic department( History, English, Science, Math Departments) educational bullshit document to fill out. Massive 50 pages for everyone in the academic department to fill out. Stuff that never gets read. 50 pages each. Was supposed to take a month to fill out.

I filled  out everyone in the department's work one morning while the kids were taking a test. About 3 hours. I didn't want my department members to suffer. ( I told them " I got everyone taken care of " when they found out about the paperwork.....I was already upset when the History Dept. was told " You have to improve your TAKS scores".....Our scores were 100%. Highest in Region 5. We had no place to go.)

No, don't miss it. 

THIS is the best job I ever had....

I No Longer Care

 Don't care, don't care, don't care.....

Since pro baseball, pro basketball, pro hockey has "resumed" this Summer, I can name the number of games I have watched on one finger. 

Have not watched a basketball, nor baseball game this year. I saw the the Toronto Maple Leafs were on NBCsn and I am a Maple Leafs fan, and I watched one period. Just one. The stands were covered with tarps and they had "piped in" fan noise. And it sounded so artificial, I could not watch. I changed the channel. 

And over the weekend, the FCS ( Those are colleges the size of Lamar University) called off their football playoffs they had scheduled at the end of the year. Two of the major conferences, The Big Sky( Montana, Montana State Idaho, Idaho State, UC- Davis, Sacramento State Weber State, 13 schools in total) and the Missouri Valley ( North Dakota, North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, North Dakota State has won the football championship the last 8 of 9 years...This is after a number of other FCS conferences postponed football until the Spring. Over 50% of the conference. 

This of course all revolves around Covid. 

That said, the Southland Conference, Lamar, McNeese, Sam Houston, SFA, Abilene Christian, Northwestern Louisiana, etc.....Still plan to play football. But if the championship playoffs are not until April or May...How would that work? There probably are kids who graduate in Dec, would they want to come back and practice 6 weeks after they have left school? I am sure some will, but what if they have been offered a quality job?

So, the news this morning, is that the 5 major football conferences, the Big Ten, Big 12, PAC, ACC, SEC had an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss playing football in Fall. 

I am not going to shocked if the Big Ten ( Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc) and the Pacific Athletic Conf. ( USC, UCLA, Stanford, Washington, Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, Colorado) cancelled or postponed football. 

What the Big 12( Texas, Oklahoma, TCU, Baylor, West Virginia etc) SEC ( LSU, Texas A&M, Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, etc) ACC( Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, Virginia, Boston College, Miami, etc) decide to do, is unknown? 

I am wondering if in the end, the liability factors of the Covid and long term effects the illness my cause? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-damage-covid-19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientists

As I said, I don't if I will care if we have college football. I don't care about any other sports right now, but no college football? It could happen. What would we do at the Thanksgiving and Christmas family gathering to avoid carrying on a conversation with Aunt Lucy and Uncle Skeeter? 

 2020 just will not keep giving us strange and disappointing news. 

Coming Soon to the Buna ISD?????

 I was sent this a few days ago and had planned to blog on it when several other stories came up....

Anyway, this comes out of the PNG-ISD. 

This is to be signed as part of the package needed to enroll your kids in the PNG-ISD. 

 It seems the Pt. Neches school is upset about patrons of that district complaining on Social Media or in public about the district. And they have determined if you make remarks " defamatory, offensive, or derogatory, you will be ejected from school sponsored events under the " Criminal Trespass Codes." 

So, who is going to determine just what is defamatory....Or Offensive......Or derogatory? The school district? 

How in this world can a taxing government entity, run by elected officials take it upon themselves to stop people complaining about the actions of the said school district, either the people in the school, or the school's action itself? 

 So, not only does this include social media, but the men griping about the coaching at the Friday night ballgame at the barber shop also fall under this... 

I know good and well, when I was teaching I was the subject of the my teaching style at the beauty shop. And you know what I did? Nothing. I knew it'd pass.

Sorry folks, this is a violation of the First Amendment. 

 And don't think other school districts wouldn't like to be able to do this....

I am sorry, but it makes you wonder what in the world PNG-ISD is thinking? I wonder if this came out of the photo of the PNG-ISD retreat at the beach in which a number of people were taken close together not wearing masks? ( It made local news) 

Sorry, these school districts think they are too good to be included what is acceptable " Free Speech?"

Preacher on Vacation

So, I am minding my own business when I am sent this photo this morning on Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr.

Falwell, is on vacation on a yacht with 'friends ' when the picture was taken.

It shows the good reverend with his pants unzipped with his underwear showing, dressed as Julian from the Trailer Park Boys. with his arm around a woman, who is not his wife, in a manner that that, well, in the old days, with your arm in that position, it said, " This is mine." The hand is just too close to the breasteses.

Since I have been with my wife, I've never put my arm around another woman in that manner. Just doesn't look right.

Now, Falwell is President of Liberty University. A school whose rules include the following.

-Girls not wearing skirts more than 2 inches above the knee to class.

- Boys not wearing shorts to class

- Students being fined $20 for going to dances off campus

- Students are not allowed to visit apartment, homes of members of the opposite sex alone

I wonder who is going around spying on students off campus?

For those of you who are not familiar with the "Trailer Park Boys" is is a Canadian TV Show about White Trash in Eastern Canada. Trust me, there are parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia that look just like the White Trash in Orange, Newton, Jasper, Hardin, Tyler, Liberty, etc. Counties.

Why he has dressed as Julian complete with the "Rum & Coke." (Julian the alcoholic carries a drink with him at all times.)

You, know, makes you wonder.....And why are they taking these photos? And posting them on social media?

Folks, don't be going to church for preachers or the " exciting worship service." It is why I rarely attend church now as a 60-something year old person. I went to school with these people, and I trust them as far as I can throw a KCS Freight Train.

99.9% of the Time, I'm Proud of You

Most of the time, I am very proud of your career decisions and I generally can see you in that job.

That said, I can't keep up with you. Sorry, just can't. I have about 3000-3500 ex-student and I can't keep up with job changes, college degrees, new spouses, divorces, new kids, grandkids, etc.

So, if I ask, don't get mad because you posted it on social media. I may have missed it. I may have seen it, but just don't remember, especially if you're on wife/husband number 2-3.

I also know some of you have made mistakes and some of you have been " Guests of the State of Texas."

And I am proud of most of you in your jobs, but on a rare occasion, I look at a job you now hold, and ask myself, " How in the hell did that happen?"

Sorry, but I am human, and on a rare occasion, I " Just can't see it."

So, I may look at you funny if you tell me what you are doing, but I doubt it.

And I wish you well in you new job......Even if it puzzles me how in the hell it happened.

240 or 250

I am sure I will insult someone with this blog.

Don't care, don't care, don't care.....

And I don't intend for the blog to become totally sexual in nature, and all I got to say is this, I gots to stay off the internet, especially the advice columns/vlogs.

So, I see where girls are wondering if they should tell their spouse 'to be' the number of sex partners they have had.....And the advice rolled over into guys telling their spouses/fiancees.

Now, I am older than a number of you reading this blog. I know the world has changed, but in the 1970s, we were often worried about getting a girl pregnant, so we just didn't. In those days, even if it involved a "one night" stand and the girl became pregnant, well, you had to get married.

So, as I have said, I can count my sex partners on one finger of one hand...As can my wife and trust me, even though we were both willing and able, well our first few times after we married were awkward. It was funny to both of us a few times. ( We had to complete university, both of us, before we even considered getting married)

And to improve, we both were willing to practice, practice, practice....

So, I read a letter from a girl who is wondering if she should tell her fiance about the 240-250 guys she had slept with, including going through 7 guys in 4 days. ( Separately? Or we talking 'trains' here?)

Now, I don't expect you in 2020 to remain a virgin until you marry. I really don't. My youth was in a totally different time frame. And if you've done several people, well, it is a different world.

But you've done 240 guys......Or guys have done 240 girls?

And the answer to the girl from most other females was, " It is none of his business."

I don't don't thinking my wife would have married me if I had "done" one other girl, much less 250 notches on the bedpost. And I felt the same way....

She might want to be honest. At some point, her " secret" is probably coming out. 

( Man, so much of my life has been foreordained I often wonder if the Calvinists are dead right? Again, let me remind you, I NEVER put an application in for the Government/Economics position at Buna High. I had another job lined up when David Hicks called and I interviewed. It was like Buna was " supposed to be."  )

I say this with my 39th anniversary later this month, and my 'body count' is still at "one."

And this may sound arrogant, I'm pretty proud of it.