You Meet Some Of Your Best Lovers In Church

Oh goody. A senator from Arizona, Sylvia Allen, stated, hopefully in sarcasm, that everyone should be ordered to attend a church on Sunday, in order to "restore morals" to America. Where, oh where, is the eye-rolley when I need it? Where?

Senator Allen feels that America is in a state of moral decay, and needs religion to "get back it's soul". Get it back? From when? The days when we used slave labor, and engaged in human trafficking in order to bring slaves here? Perhaps she would like some soul back from the days before there were any child labor laws, or before women were allowed to vote......maybe the morality involved in the denial of financial support to divorced women with children, or the morality of racism.

Perhaps racial and gender equality, combined with fair wages and decent schools, and the repeal of prohibition in favor of spending more dollars on the prosecution of violent crime, and equality and justice from the judicial system would be a start in helping this nation find a "soul" in the first place. Not that your blogger isn't grateful for the country she calls home, but lets be honest about whose souls have traditionally mattered in America, and whose souls have not.

Update On The Morals Taught By Frankfort Kansas School

Not too long ago, I mentioned the spouse of a teacher at the small public school in Frankfort Kansas, because she embezzled a bunch on money from her employer, an insurance company, and from her clients. About half a million dollars. On Monday, January 13, Monica Smart was sentenced in federal court to twenty-one months in prison. Her mother tried to buy home confinement and an ankle bracelet by paying $50,000 toward restitution, and there were some greatly exaggerated claims about an illness on the part of a family member who supposedly needs Monica's care, (ha! that's simply not true) but the judge gave her prison time, anyway. Sometime within the next month or so, Mrs. Smart will get notified that there is space at one of the womens' prisons in the country, and she will be chained up and flown to it, unless it happens to be within driving distance. That's simply not supposed to happen to frankfurters! Especially Christian frankfurters.......Jesus is supposed to protect them from getting caught when they commit crimes!

There are several reasons why this bothers me. First of all, not only Monica Smart, but her husband, Larry Smart, a public school teacher, was found to be compromised in the investigation. At this writing, he does not appear to have any charges lodged against him, but he is the subject of civil complaints connected to his wife's conduct. While she is serving time in a federal prison, he will obviously maintain sympathies toward someone who held others in contempt by stealing half a million dollars from them. If she escapes or fails to report to federal marshals, and becomes a fugitive, federal marshals will rip through everywhere to which she has a connection, in desperate and feverish pursuit. The first places they normally check, in those situations, are the family residences of fugitives. If her big poofy blond head is not found at home, they will probably try to find her husband. They may or may not care about the fact that Larry is employed at a school. I, personally, would not want a teacher to put some fugitive's interests and well being ahead of any child's, but Larry Smart is married to a convicted felon.

The moral message passed along to students is disturbing, as well. Frankfort School has had run-ins with the ACLU and federal agencies in the past concerning the disturbing habit of interfering with the cultures and religions of others; only to try, unsuccessfully, to argue that forcing religious activities is "teaching morals". Is the Smarts' complicity in embezzling, and the act of welcoming the Smarts and their crime, with open arms and no caution, an example of "teaching morals"? They used their stolen money to pay for expensive school trips and other frills that I could not afford for my children. My daughter, unaware of the embezzling, truly thought that she was not loved by her family because we do not embezzle or steal to gain such an advantage. Why would the school even play along? Why did teachers and school administration tell my children that if I loved them, I would have enough money to pay for vehicles for all of them and for trips, just as the Smarts and other teachers? (yes, the Smarts' ample provision for their childrens' luxuries was thrown in my face by angry children more than once.....only my angry children didn't realize how deeply criminal their community can be, at times) Some of the teachers at Frankfort, as well as the principal, have gone out of their way to make sure that all of my childrens' classmates knew that while others can occasionally work freely and happily from home at freelance projects, it was morally wrong for yours truly to do so. For me to take advantage of such an option made me lazy, and put my life in the category of welfare fraud, (even though I have never been on welfare) according to the frankfurter folks, and that's exactly what the sixth grade teacher told my children! It seems that being a stay at home mom is something that is afforded to those sweet Christian women who usually have open legs to go along with their open bibles; but not to me. It's not okay with Frankfort Kansas if I stay home and take care of my children. But it is okay with Frankfort Kansas if an insurance agent steals half a million dollars. She is, after all, doing something to benefit her family!

On Monday, a relative of Alice Jones, the library director who lets children bring booze and illegal drugs into the library, was still defending the Smarts. I can only guess that this woman was not a victim of the fraud and embezzling; however, speaking of Alice Jones, perhaps Monica's motive was to keep up with the Jones's. But to keep up with these particular Jones's, stealing half a million dollars needn't have been Monica's special crime: she could have just hired some high school students via Heartland Works and let them come to work drunk, straight from school, and bring some recreational prescription pills with them, right Alice Jones? Safety in the school is compromised by the husband of a convicted felon on the premises, and teaching the whole disgusting lesson that violating federal law is acceptable, as long as one gets away with it, is simply wrong. This is not the kind of example teachers should set.

In a rather glaring example of dereliction of duty, Laura Johnson-McNish attended the sentencing hearing, rather than attending to the duties of the office of Marshall County Prosecutor. She did not prosecute this case, and lost the only case she ever tried, all by herself, before a jury. Had the citizens of Kansas actually been forced to rely upon the legal expertise of Johnson-McNish, Smart would still be robbing insurance customers blind. Johnson-McNish is only effective when a defendant who has been caught red handed is willing to cop a plea, and even then, she is only marginally effective. Why did I, as a taxpayer, have to pay her salary for a day's galavanting as a spectator in proceedings to which she had no viable contribution? Taxpayers should not have to pay for Laura Johnson-McNish to satisfy her curiosity any more than they should have to pay for her to go to the movies. And why did Laura Johnson-McNish address the press on this matter?

"I would like to thank Chief Todd Ackerman, the Marysville Police Department, FBI agent Scott Gentine, and Christine Kenney, attorney with the U.S. attorney general's office, for their efforts in securing justice in this case."

Not only did she have the gall to thank those who actually are qualified to practice law and dispense justice as if they had actually done her a personal favor; she does not, and has never, cared about securing justice. No one should be fooled by McNish's pandering. Her position, as county attorney, is elected.

Frankfort Kansas Teachers

A few years ago, a holiday program at the public school in Frankfort, Kansas not only spoke, unlawfully, about Christianity being the only valid religion on the planet, but also invited members of the audience to "get saved". There was even an inserted reference to Judaism, Chanukah, and a twisted statement expressing the need for Jews to "accept Jesus". This school serves all grade levels from kindergarten to high school graduation, and apparently, it also serves Christians, exclusively.

When questioned about the nauseating and unlawful Christian references in his dinky holiday program, Dean Dalinghaus, the principal, told a discerning parent that it was "his job to teach appropriate Christian morals" to all the children at Frankfort School. Over the objections of the parent, he stated that Christians are the only people in America with good morals, and that religion is also the purveyance of school, not just home. He also did not see any potential conflict with encouraging children from nonchristian families and cultural backgrounds to "be good Christians". He denied that any court case, such as Engel v. Vitale ever was won, in favor of keeping religion out of public schools, and persisted in teaching filth to all the students in Frankfort School.

While all these good Christian morals are being taught at Frankfort School, there are at least two Frankfort teachers who have allowed children to drink alcoholic beverages, either in their homes or on school sponsored trips. There is also a guidance counselor, whose crimes against a student, one afternoon, ranged from unlawful restraint and kidnapping to child abandonment, yet the student's parents were harassed for taking action, and told that their daughter's safety was not anywhere near as important as the guidance counselor's continued employment. No changes to any policy concerning child safety have occurred at this school, by the way. And the teacher who allows children to drink on school sponsored trips even went as far as telling boldfaced lies about it. One might ask if these are truly Christian morals, but then; all one needs to do is remember the number of molesting priests and the antics of the Tea Party in order to understand that the answer is, "yes"; these are very Christian morals.

There have even been better examples of wonderful, Christian, moral behaviors taught to students by Frankfort teachers since this exchange between Dalinghaus and the parent took place. In 2010 and 2011, a Frankfort female by the name of Monica Smart did some stuff that resulted in federal charges of embezzling about half a million dollars from her employer, an insurance company. In and of itself, this has nothing to do with Frankfort School, until one reads the documents connected to the case. It appears that Monica's husband, a teacher at Frankfort School, is also named as a defendant in the FBI investigation, and the ensuing federal case! No letters, explaining exactly how a teacher became a co-defendant in a federal case, ever reached the parent who pleaded with Dalinghaus to observe the law while administrating her childrens' school. We are left to ponder the ways a spouse might become compromised enough to face identical charges, given that such a large sum of money was involved. Is this another example of Dalignhaus's school-sponsored lessons in "good Christian morals"? School safety was never even considered in the retention of such a teacher, considering the tendency of federal agents and other cops to descend upon targets as if they were fighting on the day of Ragnarok. Swat team tactics do not create a safe educational atmosphere any more than embezzling creates a strong economy or theft creates good character.

The American Civil Liberties Union determined, after a DVD of Frankfort's holiday program was mailed to them, that the offending holiday program lacked pedagogical value, and told the Frankfurters to cease and desist. Children in Frankfort are still encouraged to drink and use recreational drugs; as the Frankfurters, who have no problem with showing total disrespect for the cultures of others, hold their own cultural heritage of drunkenness dear. As for Christian morals, Dean Dalinghaus can keep them. It is not his job to teach morals; that responsibility belongs to parents and families. It is his job; however, to set a better example than the one set by him and his pack of Christian thugs. Anyone who truly loves his or her children will not expose them to the brand of "morals" encouraged at Frankfort School in Kansas.

 

Kansans Who Pray

Sickening. A house session in Topeka started with a Christian prayer. Not a generic prayer, or well wishes toward everyone, Christian and not, but a prejudiced, nasty, christian-slanted, insincere prayer, meant to intimidate anyone who does not see the world from within the confines of Kansas.

Here it is:
"Father James Gordon of St. John Vianney in Maple Hill, delivered the prayer, saying, "We ask you to strengthen our understanding of traditional marriage: one man and one woman. We ask you to bring us back to virtuous morals in society, morals that kept us from killing a child in the womb through abortion.
"We ask you to defend us now in the fight for true religious freedom and freedom of conscience, that seems to be threatened now in the public sphere."....Kansans United In Voice And Spirit

Can anyone say "Pharisee"? As in St. Luke, chapter 18? As in "Hi God. I know I'm better than others, who see and do things differently. That's why Jesus loves me more, and that's why slavery, discrimination, human trafficking, corruption, child pornography, deceiving the general public, and the destruction of the planet at the expense of the poor, and eventaully at the expense of everyone is okay with you, as long as I'm the one who does it. Thankyou for making it okay for me to sin." That's my interpretation of Father Gordon's lawless "prayer", since it was unlawful of him to pray in such an instance, and would have been much more respectful of him to just decline, and "render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's, and unto God that which is God's". Our taxes are NOT paid to favor any religion, and Gordon was favoring his own. As for "understanding of traditional marriage", perhaps that could be aided by setting an example of respect, which Kansas did not do today. "Virtuous morals" are something Kansas has never truly had. Neither has the rest of the country, or the rest of the world. We don't need to bring those back, we need to bring those in for the first time! And if Father Gordon is truly worried about "religious freedom being threatened", he needs to shut his mouth. By using his religion as a tool against others, he is a bigger threat to his own religion than any other person's lifestyle or ideas.

Luke 18:11, The Pharisee's Prayer; "The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector." A few months ago, Mike O'Neal , (R, Kansas) also did some praying and sent some very spiritual emails to others, calling upon his "Jesus" figure to "make Obama's little girls fatherless"! If "Jesus" actually feels that way about Obama's children, or anyone's children, wouldn't the world be a better place without him? Just some food for thought, Kansas!

Attention, Carol and Larry Moulton

Here is a story about a bunch of kids who got together and created a ruckus in Riverwest, Wisconsin. They committed several armed robberies, and while they were caught on security camaras, they were not caught by police. Some were as young as thirteen years old.

Wanna know how they got caught? The local news in Wisconsin aired the story, complete with footage taken from the security camaras, and when several parents noticed THIER OWN progeny in the pictures, they called the cops. You read that right: they CALLED THE COPS. If you watch the video featured in the story to which I have provided a link, you will also hear how one mother agonized over it, but told her kids what she decided to do, and ACCOMPANIED them to the police station, where she insisted that they CONFESS, thereby giving the SUPPORT in doing the RIGHT thing, and RECTIFYING what they did wrong. What a concept in parenting! Is it new? Or is it just a Mom who loves her kids and wants them to grow up, have happy lives, and take their place in the community as adults with self respect?

You probably think you are better than the parents of these children for several reasons, which I will not discuss here, but you fall short. You know that your daughter has been involved in immoral crap from the day she broke up Kyron Horman's family. He was part of Kaine's life first. Not your daughter. Kyron has dibs on his dad's time and energy. I think, at this point, Kaine realizes his mistake; at least, I hope so. But you..........how on Earth do you bring up an "adultery" person and then present yourselves as good people? Aren't you ashamed? Now, more to my point about Terri Moulton Horman................Kyron did not disappear into thin air on June 4, 2010. Whatever happened, it was well planned and well executed. All of the adults in Kyron's life with the SOLE EXCEPTION of your daughter passed polygraph examinations and have been cleared as suspects. Whatever she knows about all of this, she has an obligation to share, in order to bring Kyron home. Why don't you let the fortyone year old adultery woman cope with whatever consequences will result from whatever level of involvement she may have executed in all this, and have some compassion for Kyron, who is only eight?  How do you compare to these parents in the story, here, from Wisconsin? Do you love your Terri Moulton Horman enough to insist that she do the right thing? Prolly not, your opinion that breaking up a family is just fine is evidenced by your continued housing of the person who did it.

You really suck, Carol and Larry. You really suck. I am glad you never taught in my schools, or in any of my childrens' schools. You don't have what it takes to teach children anything. Not if you can't take the positive step of teaching your daughter to do all she can with her guilt or innocence (as if!) to help Kyron, not hurt him. Morals are a child-rearing basic, and yours obviously suck. If any of my daughters decided to sneak around with a married man, I'd be horrified, disappointed, and ashamed. And if Terri would sneak around with a married man, what else would she do that isn't right? Keep in mind, she FAILED a polygraph. We all understand Terri Horman's need for a criminal defense attorney, but it looks to me as if she has needed decent, upstanding, supportive parents all her life. It also looks to me as if she has never had them.

Here's a link to the Riverwest, Wisconsin story. The woman who gave the interview is a good woman who loves her children. It's too bad Terri Horman couldn't have had parents like her.

Morels in Kansas!

This is the time of year folks hunt for morels in Kansas. Brownback's stuff about strip clubs (that he probably wrote, himself, while being a Senator) did not go through the way he wanted it to go through, that is, not at all. We'll see how his abortion stuff goes in the unfolding future. It woulden't bother me so much if he had morals, and wasn't just imposing his religion on me and my children for the sake of dominating us. But since forcing his religion and dominating his way of practicing it is all he is really interested in doing, I don't think he is going to be a good governer for Kansas.

But Kansas DOES have morals! Or morels! After much observation and a small amount of study, I have discovered that the problem is really a matter of semantics and spelling! And that during this small window of time in the spring, if one can get one's nose out of the air, one can, indeed, find morels in Kansas!