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| Apparently, according to the PNJ, we must ONLY ask if something's moral or ethical if it's something that suits their ideology and it's something they oppose. If it's a horrendous practice like killing babies through abortion--something PNJ ideologically support--then the liberal PNJ shifts away from the moral and ethical implications...and scream "It's Legal!" See how that works? |
Suddenly, apparently, the legality of the plan is unimportant to the PNJ. They've already determined in their collective pea brains that "they don't like it--legal or not!"
So along comes someone like me that recognizes that the seminal question---the most important question---is whether or not it is legal. Once we know that--we can take appropriate action going forward to fix the issue if that is necessary. But now that it is appearing more and more likely that our 25 year established 401(a) is in fact, legal, the PNJ has a new standard beyond that which they believe we ought to be held to: Is it moral, and is it ethical??--WHO CARES IF IT IS LEGAL!!
Funny how the liberal PNJ switches stances and standards depending upon the issue.....
Here's an EASY one. How about abortion? It is legal, and the PNJ is undoubtedly pro-abortion based on their uber-liberal bent. It is currently legal---but never does PNJ ever bother to ask if that practice, the killing of the unborn baby is "moral and ethical" Nope. Goes against their politics. Let's see though--what is a more pressing issue: A.) greater percentage points in increased dividends on a retirment plan for three county commissioners that ultimately costs the taxpayers no additional funds---or B.) the killing of millions and millions of babies, legally, in the USA since 1973---including hundreds of thousands in Florida and thousands here in Pensacola? (You know the answer to this question.....does the PNJ?)
What about this one. PNJ Cartoonist Andy Marlette, a white liberal, privileged individual, uses the N-Word in his cartoon and there is no backlash. In fact, he gets monetarily rewarded with a nationally-syndicated cartoon as he even goes after female staffers in Governor DeSantis's office with misogynistic, disgusting personal attacks designed to damage the Republican, conservative governor through and via these very staff members. Are these actions moral and ethical, PNJ? I mean, your parent company Gannett de-platformed the creator of the conservative cartoon strip, Mallard Fillmore, because of far less--and then did a gobldygook- laden, gibberish editorial attempting to rationalize and support this cancellation----but Liberal Andy Marlette does far worse and gets a pass? Is this moral and ethical? Or is this where liberals get conservative and say "Yeah, but it IS LEGAL!"
And then there's this: PNJ and their editors love President Joe Biden, even as his mental decline is accelerating while being actively hidden by the left leaning media. Under Biden's disastrous leadership at the Texas Border--we now see a spectacle unlike anything I have ever seen in my entire lifetime. I literally saw Biden's Border police, on horseback, whipping unarmed, helpless black people in a river, beating them back away from the border with what looked like whips (they were leather horse reins, apparently). These desperate migrants were just trying to cross a river to get to America--and they get treated like this? Now, all the black migrants are being shipped back to their home countries on planes while the other migrants, the caucasian ones, pour over the border and get asylum in America. And Biden and the liberals fall over themselves to say this is LEGAL. And compliant press fellow-travelers like Lisa Savage and Andy Marlette don't question this. They say "It's legal!!" (But hey, is it moral and ethical, PNJ?) Imagine if president Trump had done this--would PNJ totally ignore this? answer, NO. But they love Biden, so he gets a pass on this reprehensible spectacle...
Hypocrites and frauds. Ladies and Gentlemen ---I give you the two-person PNJ Editorial Squad and their patron along with the parent company Gannett!
Preach!!!
ReplyDeleteHonestly for what it's worth they should leave Roe vs Wade alone, but they aren't.
Biden is making a complete mess of things.
So is DeSantis.
As for me, I think
Marlette is just getting clicks and that's "What Doug says"..
I think people are just basically stupid.
Doug tries to keep a beach to himself.
Lies about calling a meeting to get a 30 million boondoggle of the beach roundabout in telling his brain dead followers the meeting was about the gas tax.
Misrepresents his service in the Navy.
And SO on...
The world is full of hypocrisy and ignorance.
Taking down an ancient tree so people can store their extra shit...
At least the rain stopped for a few days...and it's cooling off.
1) you raised the millage rate in the county
ReplyDelete2) Congress removed the debt ceiling
Just saying in case nobody noticed...
And local media would rather report on the mask/no mask ruckus at the school board meeting.
I can't stand the antiscience/antimaskers/antivaxxers. The board allowed that group of usual suspect to shout.."Out out out" to Rebekah Jones. I know they are political but it seems I am aligning with some of the more educated, science, medical people on the COVID response. Not that it matters, I'm not in charge of anything.
but old Arduini got up there in his calm voice calling the others political and not parents when he is on political sites drumming up other Covidiots himself (and some AREparents). Too bad your counter part Kevin Adams is a part of that too. I think Dr. Smith is stuck in the middle.
Personally we have had to have work put off we wanted done for weeks because a child was exposed to another child and brought home COVID to her Grandad. He did recover but was was flat out for 2 weeks.It affected his wife also.
I don't envy the school board this year.
Politicians and media do use emotion and rhetoric to stir the masses but real change happens by knowing who has the authority to change something/do something and go to them.
ReplyDeleteThinking about this school response to COVID quite a bit the last few days. There will probably be a story in AM and facebook chatter.
True people like to get on Close Circuit TV.
I looked up the order, and a few laws so I am certainly not an expert but really the Florida Department of Health would seem to be the one to institute changes.
Here is the order signed in August about the schools and there is a phone number there, so if parents really wanted them to implement mask mandates and then vaccines for the kids when the FDA approves them, a starting point would be there.
With DeSantis new appointment to Florida Surgeon General I think they will still be doing these protocols. I do not think the Governor has declared a state of emergency either.
http://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2021/08/20210806-DOH-Rule.pdf
This may be old news for you and I know you have a degree in public health administration.
For citizens to really be effective they need to find where the authority is and think of how to change it there.
But some won't. They just want to get their name and face out there also.. I don't have kids in the school so I think I will let it go..
Not my fight.
Don't let Andy get under your skin.
Anonymous 12:20-- We did NOT raise the millage rate. I would never support doing that, so I'm not sure where your're getting that from. I've never once voted to raise year over year millage "rates" in my 15 years in office. What I will do, and what makes perfectly good sense to me is we keep the millage rate static, and in good years where we grow the taxable property base, we gain more revenue from that. In lean years, we lose revenue unless we adjust the "rate" upwards--which I won't vote to do. Not even in 2008 during the recession when I was on the school board. We kept the rate steady and took in less taxpayer dollars and made it work. In 2009 the school board voted to raise the "rate" and I strongly lobbied against it and voted against it. That was a tax increase in my opinion. It can be done, living with a static rate and utilizing the money that rate generates--- it's called working within one's means. So be careful saying I raised the millage rate, because I didn't and the board didn't. That's a lie. We did NOT raise your tax rates. Now, the freespending legislature has this nifty little construct they enacted to attempt to keep local governnments in a box, where they have incorrectly labled any local government that doesn't "roll-back" and lower their ad valorem millage tax rate to recoup an identical amount of revenue from the previous year as "raising taxes!!"---however I reject that and do not accept it. Keeping the rate steady and growing the base to increase revenue is NOT a tax increase. Doing nothing, and then just wanting more revenue by raising the millage rate, THAT is a tax increase. Otherwise, to say we are'nt raising taxes (under the legislature's definition) and to live under the legislator's construct means we would have to live with a static amount of revenue yearly----when everyone knows the cost of living goes up, material prices cost more, health insurance costs more, firefighters salaries cost more, etc. etc. So no, we didn't raise tax rates. I hope now you understand how this works. And oh, by the way, when I went to tallahassee in 2007 for the signing of the budget my second year in office--they were all crwoing about the $67 Billion dollar budget that year. Fast forward and their budget in 2021 is over a $100 Billion. So who is raising taxes? Who are the real big spenders? (Hint, it's the guys in gals in Tallahassee that don't have to advertise a tax increase when they keep rates steady and grow the economy--and simultaneously pat themselves on the back for being "fiscal conservatives") :)
ReplyDelete.....and finally, to get back on topic, Marlette doesn't get under my skin, he's a simpleton tool who used the N-word. And thus far he hasn't been cancelled. That's all. But I'll keep talking about it and sooner or later, hopefully, he'll be revisited about it like a boomerang on the way back. He's a hypocrite, and his cartoons and writing are both horrendous...
Thanks for clearing that up about the millage rate I looked on the agenda and saw an item and didn't actually watch the budget hearing.
ReplyDeleteI don't really understand what "rolled back rate" means:
learning for the sake of learning.
mea culpa
also the link for DOH is now obsolete..speechless about that..
ReplyDeleteon topic actually Marlette cartoon today is OK.
Trying to keep up