CHEERIOS

Everyone loves Cheerios! It is one of the first solid foods a baby munches on. Seniors love Cheerios because of its cholesterol reducing capability.

 

General Mills announced last week that it would no longer produce Cheerios using genetically modified ingredients. Wow! Who knew?

 

General Mills says it is doing so not because genetically modified foods may be dangerous. It is doing so because of the ever increasing opposition to genetically modified foods.

 

I say.....Well done, General Mills! May you be the first of many food producing corporations to take such a stand.

HEAD ON CONFRONTATION

What goes around, comes around.

 

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

 

Beware of what you do as some day it may come back to bite you in the ass.

 

All appropriate sayings for the confrontation that is fomenting on the Boston College campus.

 

Recall when Catholic institutions and employers came out against that provision of Obamacare that required employers to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees. There was an immediate religious uprising. First, the religious right. Then the Catholic Church itself. The argument presented was that to force these institutions to participate was a violation of religious freedom.

 

Obama acquiesced. Catholic institutions were let off the hook. The insurance companies were required to provide contraceptive coverage free to employees of such institutions.

 

Boston College is an old and revered institution. Jesuit. Which means very doctrinaire. By the book. Their book.

 

What soon occurred was the end of the free flow of contraceptives and birth control information on campus.An aftermath of the Obamacare issue. Students were unhappy. They believed and still believe that they have a right to items of birth control and birth control information.

 

Necessity is the mother of invention. The students decided to provide condoms,

contraceptives for males and females, and birth control information to the student body. An organization was formed. The Boston College Students For Sexual Health. Actually nothing more than some dormitory rooms providing contraceptives and information. The dormitory rooms so designated became known as Safe Sites.

 

Boston College has told the students to cease and desist. The students refuse.

 

Boston College has a non-discriminatory clause. However, the clause has a reservation. The reservation reads that Boston College reserves  its ".....lawful rights where appropriate to take actions designed to promote the Jesuit, Catholic principles."

 

There is a problem, however. Federal and state laws do not permit Catholic institutions to discriminate on the basis of a person's religion.

 

The students claim Boston College is practising religious discrimination against them. Additionally, the students claim that a woman's equality is infringed upon. Birth control costs money. Female students can get it free through the student program. The College's position would prevent this.

 

A referendum was held on the Boston College campus regarding the issue. Ninety per cent voted in favor of the student program. The College was not impressed and remains adamant to this day with a clear and loud No!

 

Boston College recently advised that if the student program does not end, disciplinary action will be taken.

 

The ACLU has entered into the fray on behalf off the students.

 

The lines of battle are drawn. Boston College's initial right of freedom of religion versus the students' right not to be religiously discriminated against. As well as a woman's right not to be sexually discriminated against.

 

A WOW! Major Constitutionally protected religious rights in direct contradiction.

 

I am not sure where this is all going. My sense is that students' rights are superior to Boston College's in this fight.

 

Boston College played the religious card initially to escape an Obamacare requirement. Now the religious card is being used against the College.

 

Amusing.

 

A legal war of major proportions has begun! 

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE OBAMA?

Respect has taken a breather. It is no longer with us as it once was. There was a time if you disagreed with a police officer, a military person,  a priest or a political figure, you still gave the uniform and/or position the respect it was entitled to.

Today, many who disagree would rather spit on a person rather than attempt to reconcile differences.

President Obama has had a rough road since he first was elected. Respect for him is lacking. The office he holds is likewise disrespected.

It is my considered opinion that two reasons exist for the dislike.

The first has to do with color. Obama is half black. The first person of color elected to such high office. Probably not the last. Many people, especially middle aged white Americans, have a hatred for Obama that eats at them every day. Obama can do nothing correct. No one can be that bad!

This group of white Americans sense Obama is the first of his color to achieve such heights. He will not be the last. The whites are fearful of losing their perceived status as the big guys in American society. Underlining that thought, these same persons are equally fearful that the black man will remember his history in our country and get even. The philosophy being that what goes around, comes around.

The numbers regarding persons of color are staggering. This very day, there are more persons of color in the United States than whites. Those who dislike/hate Obama are aware of that. The color group includes blacks, Hispanics, Asians and whatever other persons of color there may be.

It is probable that the United States will elect another person of color President within the next 20-30 years. Colored America will be by that time the largest voting block.

There is another consideration. I suspect that in 50 years, there will be few people of color. As the colored population grows and the white diminishes, there will be intermarriage. Society will generally be tan.

Have I said a terrible thing? No. It is inevitable.

And that sticks in the craw of the hateful whites!

The other reason Obama is disliked and hated is corporate America. If Obama were white, they would still dislike and hate him. Corporate America wishes to control and dominate American society. Any Democrat President obstructs that desire. Corporate America is for themselves, the rich. That two per cent.

Corporate America will do anything to feather its own bed. They care not for the masses.

Obama's color and selfish corporate interests have eroded the respect that a President of the United States is entitled to. Any President.

I cannot understand. The change to color influence is inevitable. It is a wave that cannot be stopped. Corporate America cannot go on as it has. Record profits while farming out 80 per cent of jobs to foreign countries. The middle class will return. Respect for every one, also.

Republicans, haters and corporate America  beware. The train has left the station.