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It Can Happen Here!

LetterVenezuela is falling apart big time, with long food lines and limited use of electrical power. Crime has gone up with robberies and looting. The food stores plus the murder rate has skyrocketed because of those helpless people. The inflation rate has quadrupled and made it harder to buy anything. This what happens when the Venezuelans were sleeping and letting the corrupt Government do as they please.

Can the military overthrow the Government or a people revolution? We hope that many Americas are watching this carefully. What’s happening in Venezuela CAN HAPPEN IN THE USA! TRUST ME. In fact, look what happened in Puerto Rico. The Island is broke with a $70 billion dollar debit and why? Because a group of people were asleep in an office and one big major bank will fall because of this. Now, who gets the blame? I think it’s time to WAKE UP before the elections start. So when you go to vote for the next Mayor or President, make sure you do your homework before pressing the button.

Orlando “Wildman” Perez

Thank you from Jammin for Jaclyn

From all of us at Jammin for Jaclyn, we want to say THANK YOU. Honestly, thank you just does not seem like enough.  We had hundreds of people come out to the 3rd annual Jammin for Jaclyn Benefit Concert this year in support of Wyatt Scott.  Wyatt is two years old and has Neuroblastoma Cancer. More than 20 sponsors supported the event, we had 10 musical acts and dozens of food establishments donated an incredible amount of food. The hall was filled with love and support. Once again, it was an incredible evening. We love and appreciate each and every one of you for your help because there are just too many names to list here. Please go to our Jammin for Jaclyn Facebook page  to see the complete list of our support system and the history of how the Jammin for Jaclyn Benefit Concert came about. Please remember that we are here to help members of the community who are in need due to illness. The continued community support enables us to hold Jammin for Jaclyn Benefit Concert every April.  Please continue to pray for Wyatt and again, Thank you so much for your support. We look forward to another successful event next year!

Denise and Ron Morgan

Jammin for Jaclyn Founders

Let’s Stop the Insanity and Bring Back Common Sense

Just when I thought that the insanity in this country had reached its peak I find that I was wrong yet again. I’m talking about this bathroom battle that has been getting so much attention lately.

When I first heard about this thing with the bathrooms in North Carolina I thought that the controversy was about transsexuals being able to use the bathroom of their sex. What’s the big deal I thought? If you have one, you use the men’s room, if you don’t, you use the ladies room, case closed. That is not the case, it seems. The law, and subsequent lawsuits, are based around transgenderism.

Personally I thought transsexual and transgender were the same thing; they are not. Transsexual is a clinical term, whereas transgender is a social and political one.

A transsexual feels as though they are trapped in the body of the opposite sex and want to physically change their bodies.

Let’s take a male to female, (MTF), transsexual. They will undergo extensive hormone and psychological treatments. Two years are spent in the preoperative transitional state. Which basically means they look and act like a female, but the package has not left the post office yet. If after two years of living as a female they feel this is what they really want, they go for the surgery to make the transformation.

The first and most famous transsexual, that is until recently, was Christine Jorgensen back in 1952. I remember watching her on the Joe Pyne show in the sixties. Back then it was viewed as a novelty by most and not given much thought.

Transgender, on the other hand, is a state of mind. It includes, but is not limited to, transvestites and people who play with gender expression for any purpose what so ever, big difference.

Where were you liberals when I was in high school? Man, I could say I was identifying as a female and walk right into the girls’ room. I probably would have been suspended and my father would have been called to school, and if they told him why I was suspended he would probably have brought an “ass kicking” with him. But that was when parents didn’t put up with nonsense. And that’s what this whole bathroom thing is, nonsense.

Let me be clear. I have no problem with the LGBT community. I feel that a person’s sexual preference is none of my business. If you want to be gay, be gay. If you want to marry a person of the same sex, knock your socks off. But if you want to share the same bathroom with my young niece or someone else’s granddaughter, that’s where I draw the line.

It seems as though when some politicians want to dump money down some educational rat hole or attack the second amendment it becomes an issue about the children. “Oh think of the children”, “it’s for the safety of the children”, “Oh the poor children” will be chanted over and over again till they get their way. Well where is the concern for the children now. Passing a law that allows transgenders to use the bathroom of their choice will open the door for any pedophile, pervert, and rapist to walk through. Some will probably say, “You don’t know that”. Well yes I do, it will happen a sure as Carter has pills.

I have to wonder about the mindset of the politicians who are jumping on this bandwagon. What are you thinking? Maybe you’ve been in office too long and need a vacation.

Stop expending all this energy on nonsense and apply it where it is needed. For instance, getting people who are still homeless after “Super Storm Sandy” back in their homes.

Joe Bayona

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