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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to News Messenger, Box 730, Marshall, Texas 75671. inThe Marshall (Texas) News Messenger is copyright protected. Any unauthorized commercial use of the material without written permission of the publisher is strictly prohibited. Viewpoints For StarterS are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but Bacon I know the plans I have for de- clares the Lord, to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your Jeremiah In September 2020, January Littlejohn went to pick up her 13-year-old daugh- ter from middle school. Littlejohn is a stay-at-home mother to three children and a licensed mental health counselor in Florida. So when her daughter informed her that the school administration had begun encouraging her to identify as trans- gender, Littlejohn was shocked. daughter told her that school ad- ministrators had asked her about changing her name, which restroom she wished to use, and whether she wanted to sleep with boys or girls on school trips. According to the district, parents were to be cut out of the loop unless the 13-year-old gave her consent to their involvement; the district stated that a student, especially to parents, can be very dangerous to the health and So, to be clear, the school would have had to phone Littlejohn for permission to administer an Advil; presumably if Little- daughter had been suffering from de- pression or anxiety in school, parents would have been notified as well.
But the school purposefully avoided telling Littlejohn about her daughter considering whether she was a boy or a girl, and all the attendant acts toward social transition all of which is often followed by hormone replacement or surgery. The school not only felt no duty to keep Littlejohn in the loop, but they also treated Littlejohn as an enemy to her own child. This, indeed, is the mentality of an enor- mous swath of the social Left these days. Florida is now considering a bill, the Paren- tal Rights in Education bill, that would re- strict primary schools from indoctrinating children on matters of sexual orientation or gender identity and would require schools to inform parents about minors who begin identifying as LGBTQ in school. None of this should be controversial: Parents have always been and will always be the adults with the most stake in their children.
It is parents who care most about their children, not school administrators; it is parents who shape the values and choices of their children. But precisely what the left hates. To the left, parents are the enemy. Without any evidence of abuse or even any allegations of abuse the left now states that forcing schools to provide transparency to parents about their children is a form of abuse. As California Gov.
Gavin Newsom put it, telling schools to keep parents in the loop is ing short of a state-sponsored intimidation of LGBTQ children. It will put kids who are already navigating stress in physical and psychological The left, instead, wishes to teach its own version of sexual morality and gender iden- tity to small children, without the messy intervention of parents. It is indeed that simple. And, of course, this has an impact. It is designed to have an impact.
There is a reason that, according to Gallup, just 0.8% of those born before 1946 identify as LGBT, and that just 2.6% of those born between 1946 and 1964 do but that fully 20.8% of all those born between 1997 and 2003 identify as LGBT. That reason is not evolutionary biol- ogy making a radical turn, or even addition- al tolerance for such activity. The reason is that our society has decided that belief in traditional standards with regard to both sex and sexual activity must be fought tooth and nail. Any parent who holds to those The war on parents continues These days, the news is dom- inated by reporting on the Russian threat to Ukraine, by increasing fatigue with COVID restrictions across the United States and by the continuing rise of inflation. All of those are indeed newsworthy, but another newsworthy subject the mess on the U.S.-Mexico border is receiving relatively little attention.
Now, new word getting worse. Much worse. Fox News has obtained new figures that show border authorities encountered 153,941 illegal border-crossers in Janu- ary. That is almost double the num- ber from one year ago, in January 2021, when authorities encountered 78,414 crossers. And that 2021 figure was more than double the number from a year before that, in January 2020, when the number of illegal crossers encountered was 36,585.
a bad trend. And it is almost entirely explained by one factor: the arrival of Joe Biden in the White House, after having campaigned on promises to allow more illegal bor- der-crossers to stay in the U.S. The new numbers also show that the Biden administration is making good on that promise. According to court papers cited by Fox, in Jan- uary of this year, 62,573 migrants were released into the U.S. We know that in recent months, Biden administration officials have some- times given those migrants notices to appear before a court at some point in the (often distant) future and sometimes told them simply to report to immigration authorities when they have time.
In any event, initial admission is often tantamount to permanent admission because a relatively small number of those given entrance to the U.S. will end up leaving. You will not be surprised to learn that the Biden White House is not particularly interested in talking about all this. Indeed, officials appear to be dragging their feet on giving the public enough informa- tion to know what is happening. For example, at the end of each year, Immigration and Customs Enforce- ment releases its annual report on enforcement operations at the bor- der and elsewhere.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the release has come each December for more than a decade; the last ICE report of the Trump administration was released on Dec. 23, 2020. By that schedule, the Biden ad- ministration ICE report should have been released sometime in December 2021. But now it is Feb. 17, 2022, and there has been no release.
a wild guess: It contains a lot of bad news for anyone who is concerned about border security. In the coming days, there will be speculation about what, if anything, Biden might say about the border and immigration during his State of the Union speech on March 1. Certainly, the topic be near the top of priority list. He will undoubtedly devote a lot more time to COVID, about which he is hoping to tell the public that the country can move on from the pandemic after the wonderful job his admin- istration has done. From a new ABC News report: Joe Biden is hoping to use his upcom- ing State of the Union address as a chance to nudge the pandemic into the rear-view Maybe Biden can do that, and maybe he But one issue that in no way can be nudged into the rear-view mirror is border security.
The public knows it is going badly. According to a Fox News poll last month, just 37 percent of those surveyed approve of handling of border security, versus 59 percent who disapprove. That is consistent with findings in other polls for the last year. border failure has also helped define his party. When asked the question, political party do you think would do a better job on border just 40 percent of those surveyed by Fox said the Dem- ocratic Party, versus 56 percent who named the Republican Party.
That 16-point GOP advantage is among the biggest leads Republicans have going into this midterm elections. Finally, mishandling of the border could damage the Democrat- ic standing with Hispanic voters for years to come. For a long time, Democrats have assumed that they will dominate elections by re- lying on a growing Hispanic popula- tion that votes overwhelmingly Dem- ocratic. But now, the party is losing Hispanic voters by the thousands. And part of the reason is border policy.
A Dallas Morning News poll last September found that approval among Hispanics in Texas was just 35 percent, versus 54 percent disapproval, and that those Hispanic voters particularly disap- proved of handling of the border. no wonder the White House want to talk about it. Byron York is chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner. The (continuing) border crisis Buying a loaf of sliced bread is something we all take for granted these days, but it has been available commercially for less than 100 years. It was first sold in 1928.
By the 1960s, sliced bread was how most kids in America survived. Not wheat bread or whole grain bread. talking about light bread. Now, people in different parts of the country call it different things, but in Ash- down, Arkansas, everyone called it, If unsure of what referencing, light bread is also referred to as, Think Holsum or Wonder Bread. Light bread is light in color.
Hence, the name. And for those of us who grow up with 23 varieties of bread you could buy, the versa- tility of light bread is legendary. In the hands of any resourceful Southern momma, light bread could be magically turned into just about any food delivery system. Of course, you could use light bread as a delivery system for tuna fish salad always wondered why we call it, peanut butter and jelly, fried baloney, boiled wienies, SPAM, or deviled ham. not much else better than two starched planes to hold your favorite food item.
Especially a fried baloney sandwich, with the baloney seared to blackened perfection and placed between two pieces of light bread that have been slathered with Mustard or, if you prefer, Miracle Whip. But the endless possibilities of light bread end with tuna salad, or a composite meat substance. Today, people feel the need to have spe- cially shaped bread for fine dining. A hot dog must have a hot dog bun. A hamburger, a hamburger bun, and so on.
But Southern mothers showed children how to make do with a good piece of light bread. Have a package of wienies and a loaf of light bread handy? Then you have lunch for 10. There are 10 wienies in a package, but only eight hot dog buns. If you use light bread, you have two more mouths you can feed. Why there are 10 hot dog franks and only eight hot dog buns in a package is a discus- sion for another column.
A loaf of light bread is also ready to be used as a hamburger bun. Why pay extra for hamburger buns when your mom could brown two pieces of light bread in butter in a cast iron skillet? I promise that a ham- burger patty, wedged between two pieces of light bread is far more preferable. Light bread can be covered in butter and garlic salt to make garlic bread to go with spaghetti and meatballs. not forget breakfast. Moms can whip out the butter, cinnamon and sugar to make cinnamon toast.
In a pinch, you can pour syrup over it if you have any pancake mix. One of the best uses of light bread took place at Miss Cafe, which is no longer there, but sat on Highway 71 in Ashdown. The menu at Miss consisted of many Southern favorites, including chicken fried steak with gravy, cheeseburgers and omelets. But the generally accepted best was what she called, Hot Steak Sand- It was a tenderized piece of beef that was breaded and fried and laid on top of a whole piece of toasted light bread. After being cov- ered in gravy, the hot steak was covered by french fries and served with a small salad.
On either side of the hot steak was, you guessed it, more light bread. The triangle shaped pieces were used to mop up the remaining gravy. We live in a new world today. A world that thinks we must have a special kind of bread for whatever is on the menu. The truth is we only need a loaf of Wonder, Holsum or any other reputable bread.
And a little bit of imagination. The phrase, best thing since sliced is underrated. also a redundant idiom, since sliced bread is still the best thing since sliced bread. Sliced light bread, that is. new book, Puns for Groan People, and his books, Write of Passage: A View of Then and Now Vol.
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