"Hello, Muddah, Hello, Fadder" Becomes "Hello, Parent One, Hello, Parent Two," Etc

"Hello, Muddah, Hello, Fadder" Becomes "Hello, Parent One, Hello, Parent Two," Etc.

If the late comedian Allan Sherman went to Camp Grenada today, he could still write home to his “muddah” and “fadder” but if he went overseas his passport wouldn’t refer to his mother and father but rather to his ”Parent One” and “Parent Two.”

Such is the state of things in Obamaland 2011.

It’s all very explicable, however. “A statement on the State Department website noted: ‘These improvements [sic] are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”

State Dept. spokesman spokeswoman spokesperson Brenda Sprague hastened to clear up any misconceptions over the change saying that, “the decision to remove the traditional parenting names was not an act of political correctness,” as if any fool would think that!

“We find, Sprague said, ”that with changes in medical science and reproductive technology that we are confronting situations now that we would not have anticipated 10 or 15 years ago.”

Or even two years ago, pre-Obama.

Understandably, although there has been no Islamic reaction, conservative Christians are repulsed at the change and ”Gay rights groups are applauding the decision:” http://tiny.cc/bfv7p No comments have yet been made public by other liberal groups. Animal rights advocates who have long felt that orangutans, et al. were people, too, and vegetation rights advocates who favor full rights of citizenship for plants and shrubs have remained silent.

Ridiculous? Absurd? Nuts? What, that animal rights and vegetation silliness or the Obama State Department silliness, and VERY PC passport change? Or, all of the above?

Our Obamian State Department may have earned the Absurdity of the Month Award but there are other contenders hot on its tail.

Inspired, motivated, and pressured by the same agitators who won that passport gender neutrality change, the most powerful agitators in America, the homosexual lobby, agitated in the former “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire. Its new motto may some day become, ”Free Sex But No Candy for You!" . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3352)

When Teens Terrify Parents

When Teens Terrify Parents

PoliticsDaily.com featured an unusual item for PoliticsDaily.com. Instead of its usual political news and analysis, the story had to do with hickeys, young passion, and bruised lips.

Well, yes and no.

The introductory paragraph dealt with those mostly-teen activities as a lead-in to an article by Suzy Parker, “Vampire Love Bites and Lady Gaga Eyes: Teen Trends Terrify Parents,” which was somewhat more serious.

It seems the current craze of vampirism ignited by the Twilight movies rage has inspired a new passtime for the teeny set. They’ve taken the simple hickey to a whole new dimension, actually biting and drawing blood from their love-of-the-month.

As if that were not bad enough, another phenomenon named Lady Gaga has rendered many young girls so gaga over Gaga that they are buying and wearing supersized contact lenses called “circle lenses” in order to replicate their heroine’s eyes at a risk to their own.

I don’t know which is worse, deep, bloody love bites which could result in transmission of diseases, including HIV and AIDS, or circle lenses which are illegal in the United States but obtainable over the internet and which can cause serious eye infections. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1785)

Parents and Children Behaving Badly

Parents and Children Behaving Badly

Suffer little children (Matthew 19:14)

It’s commonly accepted that we live in an age of irresponsibility where too many parents neglect the duties of parenthood and their progeny often pay the price for that neglect. In turn, since the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree, those progeny that survive too often reflect the irresponsibility with which they were raised.

I attribute those societal and parental changes to a liberal mentality which encourages freedom and rights and ignores duty and responsibility, but that’s the subject of another day.

England, one of the freest societies on the planet, also seems to lead the way in parenting horror stories.

Save the Dogs, Forget the Kid! A case of misplaced priorities comes from Coventry where a malfunctioning toaster set a family’s house afire around 7:20 a.m. last Monday. Mrs. Mandy Hands managed to rescue her four greyhounds from the fire but forgot her 11 year old grandson was visiting from Portsmouth and still asleep at the time. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1723)