“Do you want good, really good, or Tony tiger gggggreat?”
Hey all, a little twisty thought for us, please bear with me...
Baseball was a THING in my family growing up. It still is with my dad (in his 80’s) is still playing hardball in the Senior Leagues (Senior Professional Baseball Association), and has won several of their Divisional World Series Rings.
I was pretty good, all stars, Little League California Division Champions, went to ASU as a redshirt 17 year old in their top baseball program, but I was NOT great.
I had friends that were great. Several went right into the Major Leagues, one was truly exceptional (Brooke Jacoby) and had a long, successful career.
I was very good, they were the best.
Major League Baseball wanted Brooke, NOT me.
My point, we are America.
ALL other countries aren’t.
People from all over the world want to come to America. The best and brightest of ALL fields aspire to train, and work in America. Governments from Nations around the world look to us.
So
Why do we, you, me, want foreign governments, international agencies, “esteemed international experts” to both instruct and guide American interests and decisions?
We are the best, and have the best; so why go elsewhere?
It makes no sense to me.
Our American CDC issues guidance, but we seek out and elevate the WHO (World Health Organization), a branch of an International agency (United Nations) that has its own agenda, which diverges drastically from American policy etc in many fundamental areas.
Do we, you, really want the United Nations telling us what to do?
Who the heck are the UN, the WHO, the IPCC, that they or their ANYTHING would be elevated above that of America?
What is wrong with our thinking, to place ourselves under the guidance of leaders from other and often very inferior & belligerent nations?
I’ll give you just one reason we shouldn’t and don’t; the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which gave humans age 12 (yes, twelve) and up the same universal rights as adults.
Originally starting out in 1959 as “the Declaration of the Rights of the Child” at the UN General Assembly, defined children’s rights to protection, education, health care, shelter, and good nutrition.
The 1959 declaration was a good thing.
The 1989 UN Convention was an effort to supplant individual national governance by an international body—the UN.
But guess who wanted it, and was pushing for it?
Hillary Clinton, during her “It takes a village,” attempt to take control of America’s children.
And guess who signed it?
President Bill Clinton did in 1995.
BUT, the the U.S. American Congress did NOT, and has continued to refuse to ratify EVER since.
Our Congress (Democratic & Republican held majorities) has said NO, for thirty years.
Of course Hillary Clinton believed and still does that she is smarter and better than you & me and it is her duty and grand design to reign over us, for our good.
And Bill, of course he would want 12 year olds and up to have the rights of an adult, to do whatever they wanted to do. Of course he would.
196 countries have signed and “ratified” this convention, every single one but America, Israel (which the UN derogatorily calls ‘Palestine’) & the Vatican’s Holy See.
Do you know what “ratified” means?
Ratify/Ratification: ‘Ratification’ is an act by which a State (AND the State’s responsible authority—ours is US Congress, etc) signifies an agreement to be legally bound by the terms of a particular treaty.
Did you get that? “legally bound” to comply with an International governing body, the UN. America, answering to an International body, being held legally to the world’s leaders.
The American Congress for thirty (30) years has said HECK NO!
Americans (other than People like Bill and Hillary Clinton) feel like, well, America is kinda OK. Most Americans like living in America. And so it appears does the rest of the world, by it’s millions want to come here, legally & otherwise.
I’ve got friends and family who have come from socialist and other countries, let me tell you, they don’t want to go back.
Soooooo
Do what you’d like. Me personally, I’ve been to over thirty countries, lived in three, and spent 10+years each in non-profit work in the developing democratic South Korea (1987-1997) and Socialist Vietnam (1992-2002).
I’m not always proud of America, and there are too many ugly Americans, of which I’ve seen my share around the world.
In the 1980s Ive had property seized, was made to pay “expedition” (bribery) fees to obtain my mail in South Korea. I was illegally detained, charged with sedition & unlawful assembly, facing seven (7) years for preaching in homes, and was interrogated by their secret police for four days in South Korea. Yeah, you read that correctly.
You know what the life expectancy of a South Korean political prisoner back then was? Seven years.
A prison sentence of over seven (7) years was a death sentence. You want that?
In the 1990s My capture and arrest was sought in Vietnam for smuggling religious materials (Bibles), and for unlawful religious assembly (meeting other Christians in their homes is illegal). I evaded capture through an underground effort by the Vietnamese Christians. Sympathetic employees within the police and military would tip us off. Once we escaped by minutes. Nearly every single Christian minister had been jailed and/or imprisoned. Without an active centralized customs/immigration computer system, the paper system was too inefficient originally to identify entry/exit data. I was afraid for the ten years I did missions in Vietnam.
Jail & prison there, as in most countries...the manner & methods of interrogation... my friends shared their stories of such horror, thirty or more in one room, standing except around the walls where they took turns lying down to sleep a few hours. One bowl of rice, with one fish head per day. You want that?
No, I don’t want other countries dictating to me, or my America.
I prefer America. Despite its faults, government bickering and political party nonsense, America is the best. It is #1
Listen to the talking heads from around the world if you’d like to, heck, go ahead and just pick one of those wonderful 196 other countries, and move there. Change your nationality and be their sheep.
I think I’ll stay right here in America, real close to the CDC, and appreciate the blessing it is to live in America and be an American.
Go red, white & blue!
**Rich S & Gary C were the other two exceptional baseball players that went to the pros, but Brooke was rare. My point? At times like this we should want the very, very best, and it’s right here in the US.
Baseball was a THING in my family growing up. It still is with my dad (in his 80’s) is still playing hardball in the Senior Leagues (Senior Professional Baseball Association), and has won several of their Divisional World Series Rings.
I was pretty good, all stars, Little League California Division Champions, went to ASU as a redshirt 17 year old in their top baseball program, but I was NOT great.
I had friends that were great. Several went right into the Major Leagues, one was truly exceptional (Brooke Jacoby) and had a long, successful career.
I was very good, they were the best.
Major League Baseball wanted Brooke, NOT me.
My point, we are America.
ALL other countries aren’t.
People from all over the world want to come to America. The best and brightest of ALL fields aspire to train, and work in America. Governments from Nations around the world look to us.
So
Why do we, you, me, want foreign governments, international agencies, “esteemed international experts” to both instruct and guide American interests and decisions?
We are the best, and have the best; so why go elsewhere?
It makes no sense to me.
Our American CDC issues guidance, but we seek out and elevate the WHO (World Health Organization), a branch of an International agency (United Nations) that has its own agenda, which diverges drastically from American policy etc in many fundamental areas.
Do we, you, really want the United Nations telling us what to do?
Who the heck are the UN, the WHO, the IPCC, that they or their ANYTHING would be elevated above that of America?
What is wrong with our thinking, to place ourselves under the guidance of leaders from other and often very inferior & belligerent nations?
I’ll give you just one reason we shouldn’t and don’t; the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which gave humans age 12 (yes, twelve) and up the same universal rights as adults.
Originally starting out in 1959 as “the Declaration of the Rights of the Child” at the UN General Assembly, defined children’s rights to protection, education, health care, shelter, and good nutrition.
The 1959 declaration was a good thing.
The 1989 UN Convention was an effort to supplant individual national governance by an international body—the UN.
But guess who wanted it, and was pushing for it?
Hillary Clinton, during her “It takes a village,” attempt to take control of America’s children.
And guess who signed it?
President Bill Clinton did in 1995.
BUT, the the U.S. American Congress did NOT, and has continued to refuse to ratify EVER since.
Our Congress (Democratic & Republican held majorities) has said NO, for thirty years.
Of course Hillary Clinton believed and still does that she is smarter and better than you & me and it is her duty and grand design to reign over us, for our good.
And Bill, of course he would want 12 year olds and up to have the rights of an adult, to do whatever they wanted to do. Of course he would.
196 countries have signed and “ratified” this convention, every single one but America, Israel (which the UN derogatorily calls ‘Palestine’) & the Vatican’s Holy See.
Do you know what “ratified” means?
Ratify/Ratification: ‘Ratification’ is an act by which a State (AND the State’s responsible authority—ours is US Congress, etc) signifies an agreement to be legally bound by the terms of a particular treaty.
Did you get that? “legally bound” to comply with an International governing body, the UN. America, answering to an International body, being held legally to the world’s leaders.
The American Congress for thirty (30) years has said HECK NO!
Americans (other than People like Bill and Hillary Clinton) feel like, well, America is kinda OK. Most Americans like living in America. And so it appears does the rest of the world, by it’s millions want to come here, legally & otherwise.
I’ve got friends and family who have come from socialist and other countries, let me tell you, they don’t want to go back.
Soooooo
Do what you’d like. Me personally, I’ve been to over thirty countries, lived in three, and spent 10+years each in non-profit work in the developing democratic South Korea (1987-1997) and Socialist Vietnam (1992-2002).
I’m not always proud of America, and there are too many ugly Americans, of which I’ve seen my share around the world.
In the 1980s Ive had property seized, was made to pay “expedition” (bribery) fees to obtain my mail in South Korea. I was illegally detained, charged with sedition & unlawful assembly, facing seven (7) years for preaching in homes, and was interrogated by their secret police for four days in South Korea. Yeah, you read that correctly.
You know what the life expectancy of a South Korean political prisoner back then was? Seven years.
A prison sentence of over seven (7) years was a death sentence. You want that?
In the 1990s My capture and arrest was sought in Vietnam for smuggling religious materials (Bibles), and for unlawful religious assembly (meeting other Christians in their homes is illegal). I evaded capture through an underground effort by the Vietnamese Christians. Sympathetic employees within the police and military would tip us off. Once we escaped by minutes. Nearly every single Christian minister had been jailed and/or imprisoned. Without an active centralized customs/immigration computer system, the paper system was too inefficient originally to identify entry/exit data. I was afraid for the ten years I did missions in Vietnam.
Jail & prison there, as in most countries...the manner & methods of interrogation... my friends shared their stories of such horror, thirty or more in one room, standing except around the walls where they took turns lying down to sleep a few hours. One bowl of rice, with one fish head per day. You want that?
No, I don’t want other countries dictating to me, or my America.
I prefer America. Despite its faults, government bickering and political party nonsense, America is the best. It is #1
Listen to the talking heads from around the world if you’d like to, heck, go ahead and just pick one of those wonderful 196 other countries, and move there. Change your nationality and be their sheep.
I think I’ll stay right here in America, real close to the CDC, and appreciate the blessing it is to live in America and be an American.
Go red, white & blue!
**Rich S & Gary C were the other two exceptional baseball players that went to the pros, but Brooke was rare. My point? At times like this we should want the very, very best, and it’s right here in the US.
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