Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner White Out Tree Lighting

Episode Date: December 5, 2015

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What are you waiting for? A disaster? Do it right now. 8-88-4-1-744. Coming from New Hampshire. Marlborough, New Hampshire. Okay? School district bans the word Christmas from their flyer.

The school superintendent of Marlboro, New Hampshire, issued a Yuletide edict to the local American Legion post. You can't call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree. Wait, what? John Fletcher, the commander of the local American Legion post, said he was banned from using the word Christmas to promote the town's upcoming Christmas tree lighting. He was banned from using the word Christmas to promote the town's upcoming Christmas tree lighting. The event, of course, is sponsored by the American Legion

and the Monodok Lions Club. Who doesn't love the Lions Club? They actually do some good work at this. And they always have a hall you can party in. He wanted to change it to say holiday tree lighting instead. Hmm. Needless to say, the superintendent Robert Mayle's decision went over about as well as replacing Santa's milk and cookies with tofu and a shot of wheatgrass. Who wrote this story?

My man, Todd Starns from Fox News.com. There you go, Todd. Thank you. It's not a holiday tree. It's a Christmas tree, said Mr. Fletcher. Unbelievable. For years, the American Legion commander, who also portrays Santa Claus, had been allowed to post flyers in the public school to promote the annual Christmas event.

This year, the superintendent called to tell him he would need to revise the flyer and remove the word Christmas. Now, this ticked Mr. Fletcher off a little bit, and he said as commander of the American Legion, It offends me. I respect all rights, always have. But I do not take away our rights because you may offend someone else. Thank you. Still, they did follow the directive, which is a little disappointing, to be honest with you. And apparently the wife did it.

So I hope that didn't create a rift between Mr. Fletcher and his wife. but she armed with her whiteout bottle blotted out Christmas just whiteed out Christmas now she didn't follow the directive completely because she didn't include the word holiday

so it was just come join us for our white out tree lighting political correctness gone way too far. We hear about it every year and every year it gets a little bit more, a little bit more. We hear that people don't want to report suspicious activity. They tell you, see something, say something. But when you see something, say something, then we're going to bring you down. You can't say that. That's profiling. That's racist. According to Mr. Fletcher, if they can't call Christmas, Christmas,

I wonder what the school district will call Ramadan or Hanukkah or Kwanza. I'm sure they will call it Ramadan, Hanukkah, and Kwanza. It's the Christians you have to be worried about. It's the Christians that can be profiled. It's the Christians that are racist. Don't you know that by now? What are you? Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh. So stupid. I do want to go back a little bit. I've got some strange numbers for you on this, the unemployment thing. We'll do that first because it drives me crazy. I love how they try to spin the numbers and everyone can make sense of anything. The number of Americans not in the labor force last month total, $94,4,440. That was a slight improvement from 94,513,000.

Not in the labor force in October. The labor force participation rate increased tenth of a point with 6.2.5% of the civilian, non-institutional population, either holding a job or actively seeking one. And it goes on and on and on with more numbers. And then I get an email. From Generation Opportunity, 1.8 million able-bodied young Americans gave up looking for work last month.

The millennial jobs report for the month of November finds that 13.1% of 18 to 29-year-olds are unemployed. Wow. I mean, that's starting to get bad. Unemployment rate for 18 to 29-year-olds, which adjusts for labor force participation by including those who have given up looking for work is 13.1%. The unemployment rate for 18 to 29-year-olds. old's is 8%. See what I mean?

The declining labor force participation rate has created an additional 1.855 million young adults that are not counted as unemployed by the U.S. Department of Labor because they are not in the labor force, meaning that those young people have given up looking for work due to the lack of jobs. But because they've given up looking, they're not considered unemployed, so don't worry about them. We're just writing them off. I wonder how that affects the percentages.

Oh, I know. It makes it look even better. I love that. I mean, not really. I don't. I think it's agonizing. So they're not counted as unemployed by the U.S. Department of Labor because they are not in the labor force. But they're not working.

They've just given up looking for work. So we're not going to count them. Huh. I wonder how that affects all the numbers. I bet you. I bet you it makes it look really. a lot better. Don't you think? I think so. The unemployment rate of 18 to 29 year old African Americans 16.5%. Unemployment rate of 18 to 29 year old Hispanics 13.8%. Unemployment rate of 18 to 29

year old women is 10.9%. Generation opportunity. Youth unemployment is stalled at 13.1%. for the third month in a row. But remember, once you give up looking for work, you're not unemployed. You're just a figure over there off to the side that has stopped looking for work. But you're not unemployed, okay? Don't think that you're unemployed because you don't have a job, all right? You're only unemployed if you're still kind of looking for a job. okay yeah

then you're unemployed all right but if you've given up and said to the job for sucks you're not unemployed you just don't have a job so shut up and live with it got it

okay now I want to go back I promise cross my heart that I will attempt to do my very best not to talk about my shoulder surgery anymore than this time right now and the time before.

But it's really weighing heavy on my mind. I have kind of been practicing, you know, doing everything you do with one arm, which, by the way, is my left arm, which is not my dominant arm is my right arm. So, which makes it even better. However, yesterday, you know, I got fitted for the brace that the sling that I'm going to be in.

And I say sling, but it's more of really a brace. And it's got the piece that goes between your arm and your body. And it jacks your up. And it's got the grip inside, inside the sling. leave that you put your arm in so your fingers are around this grip, which I'm sure you need because it will be so much pain. And I've seen one guy here that we work with. Keith Malenac went through it, and he, I keep going back to the text, he sent me not long

after he had the surgery. And he was just like, I asked him about something. And he's just like, I'm a mess. I'm a mess. All right, so they don't want you doing anything. They don't want you doing anything for two weeks. I mean, nothing. You're not to move your arm.

You're supposed to be in that sling. Nothing. Now, I'm going to go mad. Okay, I got it. I'm an overweight, lazy white male. I know that. Don't look at me like that. I already know that.

But, however, I still go out into the world and do things and take care of things and

I do like what my, you know, my father, I just puts around. You know, I'm a puts around the house. We have a little chores, little dangleberry things. you do. And I'm supposed to do zip for two weeks. And I've already been asked by my wife and children, by the way, who are not looking

forward to me being in all kinds of pain, not being able to do anything. Because at least now if I get in a lot of pain, I just leave. And they're like, oh, God, he's gone. Good. Oh, geez. Good. Is he working late tonight? Yes.

Okay, good. We don't have to see them till late. At least they have that going for them now. After next week, I'm there, right? I'm in their face. So they have, you know, pretty much come to me on bended knee saying, please don't become grouchy pants. Please.

Just we'll take care of everything. Just don't become grouchy pants and go off the. deep end. Uh-huh. I'm not betting on that. Here we go. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. This podcast brought to you by My Patriot Supply. Did you miss the chance to get a 72-hour

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