Don't Take Anything For Granted

 Dont' take a damn thing for granted. Not one bloody thing! It can all change in a heartbeat. Trust me, I know.

Even though everyone in the family knew that my dad would pass away from the tumor in his head, it was still a shock when it actually happened. I was not prepared for it in any way, shape, or form. There have been times over the last thirty six years that I have missed him so much; he was the best dad a person could have asked for.

The same with my mother. We all knew it would happen sooner or later. It was a complete shock to me when I went to see her and she was so frail, weak, and her mind wasn't working correctly. I had just been to see her the weekend before and she was fine, for a ninety six year old woman. The last time I saw her alive was heart wrenching. She wouldn't talk, she was given meds every hour to keep the pain away, she had wasted away to a mere ghost of her former self. I was in Saint Charles, Illinois when my brother called to let me know that she had passed away. It was the longest eight hour drive I had ever made.

My little sister, three years younger than me, passed away, unexpectedly, at the ripe old age of forty five. That, my friends, was a kick in the gonads. She wasn't just my little sister, she was my best friend.

I could keep going on about lost lives of family and friends over the years but what would that do? Not a thing. Everyone loses people in their lives everyday. Death is part of life. I put these here only because of the differences in the way they left this world and how things can change without notice.

For the last thirty five years I've driven a semi truck. Not the entire time, I did take some time away from the road to spend time with my kids and take a break. For the most part, this is all I know. This is what I'm good at. I am not educated in any other field. Now, at the age of sixty two I will have to find some other way to support myself.

For almost seven years I've driven for Hirschbach Motor Lines as a lease operator. For most of those years I've achieved the status of Best of the Best. Remember, things can change instantly. Things changed the first of May.

I was cruising along Highway 24 east of Peoria, Illinois; had the cruise control set at around 58 and the radio was on SiriusXM Radio Classics (this station plays the old radio shows like Fibber McGee & Molly, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Nero Wolfe, etc.). I wasn't paying attention, I guess, because I looked up at the light I was right at and, guess what, it was RED. I entered the intersection and collided with a van, laid my truck over, and lost a load.

Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. Especially since I was grossing out about 78,000 pounds. The driver of the van could just as easily been killed as walked away from it.

After almost sever years with the best company I've worked for, I lost my job. That's right. In an instant of idiocy (mine), my safe, secure, well paying employment ended. Things can change in a heartbeat. Don't ever take anything for granted.

Needless to say, I did pass the drug/alcohol test, even though I didn't study for it. What I didn't pass was the DOT physical that was due. I got home and took the DOT in Osceola and found out that I am now a diabetic. Over the last week my blood sugar has been all over the place from 135 to 379. Until I get that under control, I can't drive no matter what. Things change in an instant.

Not all has been bad. There is always a silver lining so to speak.

My daughter sent me a message telling me that I needed to do a 23&me DNA test. I refuse to give my DNA to the government willingly so I asked her why. The answer came as quite a shock to say the least.

I have two beautiful children from my last relationship. A daughter, born in '95. and a son, born in '98. When they were little, their mother and I were struggling, badly. Little income, no prospects and, another one on the way. It was too much. Their mother convinced me that the best course of action was to adopt this baby to a good home. She had even gotten hold of an attorney before she talked to me about it.

Let it be said and understood: I love kids. I've taken in more and claimed more than my fair share. I really didn't want to do this. It took a lot of convincing to make me do it. After all, where there's a will, there's a way. KP talked about where we were financially and that the adoptive parents would actually help us out with money. That almost turned the deal off. What was she talking about? Selling our baby to the highest bidder? No, it was all legal and an attorney was doing the legal work.

Since that time, KP and I have parted ways. She walked out of our lives when my daughter and son were seven and five. We didn't hear from her for over a year. I have the utmost respect for anyone, male or female, that raises kids on their own. It was more than a struggle for me. It was hard to find a job that I could do and still be home for them. My son had emotional and mental problems that took years of therapy and tons of meds to take care of. It wasn't until my children were in their late teens that I finally got to a point where I didn't have to worry too much.

So, was adopting this last child out to financially sound parents right? After what my other two went through, I say yes. He was much better off growing up. At least I hoped he was.

Back to my daughter's message. She had found her brother and said that I should get hold of him, which I did. It was awkward but exciting. Here was a son that I thought I would never see again. We talked and talked. He's not ready to come into the fold just yet. It's a lot to process. He knows that he is welcome and wanted. When he's ready, he'll come.

Once again, things can change in a heartbeat. Don't take ANYTHING for granted or as cast in stone.

Relationships Today: Just a Little Advice

I think I’m going to do something a little different this weekend. Instead of something really controversial like politics or religion I’m going to delve into the realm of relationships. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, who am I to give out advice on something that I can’t even keep together? In answer to that question I will reply that I am very experienced in what NOT to do. After being married three times, three times divorced, having children with all three, I would like to think that I have a pretty good idea of what is going on. I may be wrong on that but I’m going to go with it anyway.

I got married the first time when I was twenty and she was eighteen. She wanted away from home and I wanted someone there. Trust me when I say that when a relationship is built like that it will never work out. Two years later, after she and I were separated, along came a beautiful baby girl. Was I ready to be a parent in any way, shape or form? Not on your life. Thank the gods that my ex-wife was a hell of a lot more mature than I was. My daughter grew to be a fantastic woman with children of her own that have grown into pretty great young people. When my daughter was around three I surrendered parental rights and let her step-dad adopt her. I thought I was doing the right thing.

Relationship number two, that ended in marriage and divorce, came along a few years later when I was 27. I met this girl while I was servicing a truck where I worked. I was covered in grease and oil and this cute little thing came wandering into the shop and started complaining about being stood up by some sop that had made a movie date with her. As it ended up my buddy and I got cleaned up and we both took her to the drive in movie. It was a triple feature that I have no idea what was playing. We talked through the whole damn thing. My buddy? He sat along the wall of the drive in bored out of his mind.

This girl had a three year old boy that was adorable. He came to me one day and asked if I minded if he called me ‘Dad.’ My heart melted. After we got married I adopted him. He was a great kid and I love him as much as if he was my own blood. But, once again, the fates decided that this wasn’t the one, either. We fought constantly about everything. I was a jealous SOB and she was an eighth Crow Indian and had an evil streak that made her want to stir me up.

I was working for Schwan’s at the time and came home one night to a note on the pillow. Yeah! Can you believe that old cliché? I wasn’t sober for about three or four months. I quit working for Schwan’s and went back to real trucking.

Number three was a few months later. I picked her up in a truck stop where she was hitch hiking. It was in Columbia, MO and she was trying to get to Minneapolis. You just don’t get from the middle of Missouri to southern Minnesota very easily. I gave her ride from there to Indiana and then back to Des Moines and put her on a truck headed to Minneapolis. A couple of months later she was back and in the truck with me.

To make this story shorter, in the ten years we were together we moved from Des Moines to Portland, my beautiful baby daughter was born four months after her mother turned eighteen and my son was born two and half years later. My boy was born in New York while I was still in Portland, OR. Yeah, I’m a dick and she thought I wasn’t paying enough attention to her so she took my daughter across the country for a year. She came back to Portland and then we moved around the country while I was trucking again. We ended up in Fremont, NE where it finally came to an end.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Every time I got married it was forever but, there is that little problem of me being a dick. When I got together with the last one I told her that I didn’t own her and she didn’t own me; as long as my children were taken care of she did what she wanted and I was not going to change my lifestyle of trucking. I didn’t cheat on her. I am NOT that kind of driver. I am loyal to a fault and once committed that is all she wrote. No.3 and I never fought until that last night when she walked out on me and the kids.

Throughout all three of these relationships there is one common denominator: my attitude that I was not owned by anyone and I was going to do what I wanted regardless. Don’t get me wrong, I did my best to take care of my family and my children are my world. That was probably the biggest thing, I paid more attention to my kids than the other half. Not the best way to keep a relationship together.

In any relationship it has to be a two way street. It cannot just go one way. Give and take and if you give a little more than you take then it will, more than likely, stay together; if there is any chance that one is taking more than the other it will end in disaster. Communication is just as important. If you can’t talk things through, you get angry and go to bed that way, you will end up as bitter enemies. You have to be able to compromise in all things. And, this one is very important, if you try to change someone that you are with, you’ve lost. You didn’t fall in love with what you want to change them into. You fell in love with what they are.

In today’s world I’ve watched these kids from 14 to 20 do their utmost to get into a serious relationship and have kids. Stupidest thing they could do. These kids are just as immature as we were back in the 70’s but they think they are much more grown up. I throw down the BS card on that. These girls today think they can be moms at 14, 16, 18 years old. They can’t. And these boys won’t be ready to be dads until they reach about 30.

I’ve seen girls destroy boy’s lives because they didn’t get what they wanted, which was to have a baby, and then if they do get what they want, they destroy that poor boy’s life and her own. Well, maybe not destroy but definitely make it exponentially harder. Life is NOT easier with a baby on your hip. When I was young and you had a child, that child was yours to take care of. Today, I constantly see posts on Facebook or hear girls cry because they need time off from their children. These girls seem to think that having a living child is like taking care of that stupid doll they have in high school independent living class. It isn’t.

Who is to blame for this social problem? I blame us. By ‘us’ I mean the parents of these children that think they are grown up at 14. We have become so complacent and relaxed in parenting that these kids are basically raising themselves. That doesn’t bring about morally adept children. They start sleeping with the opposite sex at 14 just to have someone to sleep next to. Next thing you know they’re doing the dirty with whoever it is next to them without protection and then, BAM, they’re pregnant and think they’re gonna get a Sony TV. Oh, sorry. That baby that is growing in there suddenly becomes one of two things: an income from a poor, unemployed teenaged boy and the government or, it’s an inconvenience and needs to be aborted.

My best advice to anyone from 14 to 25 – stay single, enjoy life, get set financially then start thinking about getting into a serious relationship. The world isn’t going to end if you don’t get serious with someone before you’re 30. Kids are wonderful gifts that require a LOT of work and a lot of money. Stay children for as long as you can. Being grown up is not as great as what it’s advertised to be. Life is hard enough by yourself and it isn’t any easier when you have others that you are responsible for. Relationships don’t last. I’ve known people that were married for decades that broke apart. Children aren’t mature enough to even know what love is much less what commitment and loyalty are. Most girls are out to get into a boy’s wallet and get a baby for an income. Boys are out to get their wedding tackle wet, period.

Those last two statements are generalities; there are those rare boys and girls that are actually loyal and true. If you can find one, keep them. The biggest problem is that those with good hearts, the loyal, are taken advantage of more often than not by those that are so immature that they can’t see beyond their own noses. Hedonism runs rampant in today’s world and that is the saddest thing that could ever happen. Dorian Grey is king; the only problem there is that these modern Dorian’s aren’t immortal.

Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries Just like Erma Said

Life is like a bowl of cherries. Erma Bombeck titled one of her books by that name. I have never read it, at least in its entirety. In fact, I really can’t recall one story in that book as it was many, many years ago that I actually read parts of it but, I know, that Erma Bombeck was a very intelligent author. She wrote her humorous stories around actual events in her life and experiences in a way that was entertaining, humorous and, if read in the right frame of mind, educational.

Why did I choose this as the main topic of this article? I chose ‘life is like a bowl of cherries’ because, through the past week, I have lived that bowl of cherries. Along with that wondrous juicy red fruit that is so delicious, there are always those damnable pits.

I have a friend that has told me for years that I am the only person he knows that can think himself into a bad mood. With my choice of career I have plenty of time to think about things. Amazingly enough, this past week there have been many, many things to think about from the Senate’s agonizing debates about Judge Neil Gorsuch to the bombing of a Syrian airstrip along with enough every day, non-political, work related subjects to choke the life out of anything.

The point I want to make, here at the start of this article is this: Life is actually pretty good for most people here in the good ol’ USA. Most, but not all; I have it decent. I have a pretty good paying job that I really enjoy, a roof over my head and food in the fridge. My bills are paid and nothing is getting shut off so why would I say anything about the ‘pits?’ Without the dark, we wouldn’t know anything about the light. For example, today started pretty good as I got to my receiver at a good time with only a few trucks ahead of me; I waited only a short time before being put into a dock door and it seemed I would get home early. That is as far as the good went. I waited over seven hours to get unloaded and almost an hour after that to get my paperwork. After leaving the receiver I was driving along at the speed limit, got behind a slow pickup truck, moved over to the fast lane to go around and the damn pickup truck decided to match my speed thus making me back traffic up behind me.

No big deal you would think, just slow down, get back behind him and travel on. Let me let you in on a little secret there: personal vehicle drivers do not like trucks. On any given day I will get slowed down by people that speed up when I try to get around them only to slow back down when I can’t and get behind them again numerous times. As a professional driver in a vehicle governed at 64 miles an hour I am at the mercy of a lot of things. I’ve been cut off by people that had to get in front of me, just to slow down or make that exit ramp that I just passed. I’ve had people pull out in front of me with less than a truck length between us. It gets more than a little annoying.

Today, being aggravated by the slow unload, this driver just pissed me off. As traffic is backing up behind me and this idiot not letting me by I blew my horn at him. Now, he could have sped up or slowed down, either way, no big deal; what did he do? He hit the brakes, looked up at me through the window and pulled off the highway. I’m expecting a call from the company about this as I am sure he took down the company name and trailer number because I was being an ass. I could have done more, like start to pull over into his lane to get him to move the hell out of my way for one thing.

As you see, with the day starting as that sweet, juicy, delicious fruit of me going home, getting to the receiver and getting into a door early, there came the pit of taking most of the day to get unloaded and then an idiot driver. Life was definitely a bowl of cherries today.

Another great author that I have come to admire is Sherrilyn Kenyon. For those that have been living under a rock or don’t read anything but Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Kenyon writes fantasy/adventure/romance novels (the only reason they are romance is that she does put some pretty graphic sex scenes in there and the main character ALWAYS gets what they want). Maybe you have heard of her Dark Hunter, Dream Hunter, League or Chronicles of Nick books that are international best sellers. My personal favorites are the Chronicles of Nick, the adventures of a teenaged Cajun from New Orleans that has an attitude.

Why do I put her up there with such a writer as Erma Bombeck? Sherrilyn Kenyon was an abused child and she persevered and won the day. She survived and thrived through things that would permanently scar most people. She puts the wisdom of those years and her survival into her writing. Her characters, for the most part, are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old (the oldest that I recall is an Atlantean god that is slightly over eleven thousand years old. When a character has lived as many lifetimes as hers have, they gain a lot of life wisdom.

Ms. Kenyon’s characters have been betrayed by loved ones, been tortured by enemies, lived through hell and, in the end, won the day by perseverance and sheer determination not to let life run them over. Some, the Dark Hunters, have even by murdered in some of the most heinous ways only to be brought back by the Greek goddess Artemis as warriors against evil. Even then, these people have stories to tell and wisdom to share.

The point I am getting at is this: there are a lot of times that the gods make humans their punching bags and don’t give a rat’s ass what happens to us. It is up to us, the human race, to decide whether we will let life kill us or we go over, under, around or through the hardships and keep fighting. There is always something to keep fighting for: a loved one, an important cause, honor.

With all that is going on in the world today, especially since the election in November, there have been a lot of times when people have asked me how my day is, I’ve replied, ‘If it got any better I may as well take off my own head.” After years of fighting depression, it’s getting kind of hard to keep fighting the good fight for me but I do. I fight on because I have things worth fighting for, even if some of those things don’t care about me. As Dom Torreto said in Fast & Furious, “Never give up on family, even if they do.” I happen to have a lot of family, most of which are not blood.

To sum it all up, it doesn’t matter if you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, wealthy or poor, mentally balanced or have mental illness, physically healthy or ill, there is always something or someone that needs you, would miss you, would die without you. It doesn’t matter who is in the White House, Congress, Supreme Court, who controls what country, who has done this or that, we all have our roles to play. What we do today, what we say tomorrow, what has happened in the past or will happen in the future, does not matter one iota to the Universe. It will all fade into nothingness through the mists of time. What will remain is whether we kept going, kept fighting for life or whether we gave in and ended it all without a fight.

Over, under, around or through, there is always a way. The gods are childish, narcissistic asses that look at the human race as entertainment. We only get what we earn by working for it and there will be no one there to help us. Friends come and go. We can’t take anything with us and no one gets out of life alive. It is our decisions whether our lives are a beach or a bitch. If you want some good life lessons, some good outlooks on life, read some Erma Bombeck and Sherrilyn Kenyon. There are other great authors out there that, through telling their stories, have wisdom to give but these two are my favorites. Give it try, read instead of staring at your phone or computer screen or game console. Chronicles of Nick, Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries, House of Darke (by Colin R Parsons), Wizard’s Quest (by yours truly) are a few titles for life lessons through stories. Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Dangerous Minds, Divergent, a few other titles for what life could be, even the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series’ can be more than entertainment if you really sit down and read them.

Don’t let politics, religion, nationality, or ideology cloud your mind. Life IS a bowl of cherries; all you have to do is spit the pits out and keep eating the sweet stuff….  

We Are Bent On Our Own Destruction

I’ve been thinking lately. I know, like that never happens. But, with all that is going on in the world, what with global terrorism, three or four wars going on (I’ve actually lost count), countries in debt up to their collective eyebrows to the 13 wealthiest families, working citizens taxed into poverty to support the non-working people that can but refuse to work, and political parties trying to destroy each other, I’ve come to the conclusion that the best thing that could happen is a world-wide catastrophe that wipes out the entire human race.

That seems a bit extreme doesn’t it? After all, humanity is God’s gift to the planet. The great, omniscient being that supposedly created the entire universe and all that resides here, gave dominion of this one tiny rock to humankind to do with as we pleased. Look what we’ve done. We have overpopulated the world because we don’t know how to keep our hedonistic hormones in check. We’ve polluted the air, water and land with garbage, radioactivity, noxious gases, and toxic waste with no end in sight. We tear down mountains to build a few more just so we can house the ever increasing population. We continue to take the natural resources from Mother Earth just to keep our lives going when there are better, less destructive means. All this because corrupt, greedy corporations and politicians can make more and more money that they will never be able to spend in several lifetimes.

People, in all their cumulative knowledge and wisdom over several millennia of existence, have not yet learned how not to take from others, live in peace and tolerance, not force their way of thinking on others, share their knowledge and wisdom with those without, put others before themselves, or even consider that someone else might have a better idea if they would only listen with an open mind. I, myself, have been known to try to get people to change their minds about something without taking their point of view into consideration. That is not the way to live. That is not the way to peace and harmony. That is not a way to keep the human race from destroying itself.

When people are so entrenched, so adamant, about their philosophy, their ideology, that they cannot even entertain the thought of another way, it becomes a one way ticket to total annihilation. We cannot exist without compromise; without open minds; without being able to dismiss prejudice and intolerance. Unless we can learn to dismiss the old ways of thinking that there is only one way to do things, we will never progress above where we are now.

I know, a lot of you will say, “But, you, yourself, retain that old way of thinking. You won’t change your mind on certain things.” This is true. I am pretty well set in a certain way of thinking and believing when it comes to societal behavior, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, and rights and freedoms. There is such a thing as common sense, responsibility, and the unalienable rights and freedoms that all people have, or should have. Does this make me one of the dinosaurs that should be eliminated from the equation because of my steadfast beliefs? Some would say so. Others would say not.

Common sense has become an almost extinct quality in today’s world. Especially here in the United States of America. True, this is not the 19^th or 20^th centuries where puritan values are embraced. But, there are some things that should not be changed. In today’s world, if you are not a heterosexual you are believed to be a minority that deserves to force your way of life onto the heterosexual majority. Most people, not all but most, really don’t care about anyone else’s sexual orientation; most don’t even think about it. What the homosexual, bisexual, transgender, transvestite, lesbian, etc. set want is more rights and freedoms it seems. They already have the same freedoms as anyone else. They can sleep together, live together, eat together, go out, party, take walks, whatever, just as anyone else can do; even get married and adopt children in a lot of cases. That isn’t enough. They want to force their lifestyle onto everyone and pass laws that say regardless of their sex they should be able to use whatever restroom they ‘identify’ with. Common sense says, if you have a penis, you use the boy’s room and if not, you use the girl’s. There is a reason for this. A five year old girl doesn’t need to see a 50 year old man’s junk in the bathroom.

Should gays be able to get married, adopt children, live as they please just as the heterosexual community does? Sure. Why not? Two people in love are two people in love and it doesn’t matter if they are opposite or the same sex. Is that the way it is? In a lot of cases but not all. Are homosexuals harassed and persecuted? For the most part, no. If a homosexual throws his/her sexual orientation into the faces of the hetero world, chances are they will be harassed. I’m not saying that gays should go back into the closet. All I’m saying is that I don’t throw my sexuality in the faces of anyone, no one should do it to me. It’s like having a penis. It’s nice to have, you should be proud of it but you should not take it out and force it onto to others. That goes for both ways of living; heterosexuals shouldn’t do it, either. Leave the PDA at home.

Religion is another good example. Like the illustration above, like the penis, don’t take it out and force it on anyone else. I believe the way I believe just as you do. I won’t force my heathenism onto you so don’t force your religion on me.

When you envy someone for what they have and you don’t, then greed and lustfulness takes over. Just because someone has worked hard for something and you haven’t doesn’t mean that you need to take that from them. Maybe you have worked hard your whole life and still have nothing to show for it. Maybe you should stop and ask yourself why instead of thinking, “that somnabitch has more than me and I deserve it more than he does.” Maybe that person did without a lot of luxuries and maybe even some necessities to get where he’s at. Maybe he went to college and got a better education so he could get a better paying job. Maybe you just wasted a ton of money on things that you didn’t need like wine, women and song. Maybe you spent a month’s pay on that old Chevy truck you wanted that you had to repair before you could even drive it. Maybe you partied the nights away at the bar instead of staying home watching TV and having a beer. Whatever the reasons, that person has more than you and there is no reason good enough that makes the argument in your favor. Be happy for them. They succeeded for whatever reason and you didn’t for whatever reason. What they worked so hard for does not belong to you and you do not deserve it.

It took a lot of centuries for the human race to develop into what we call a civilized race. It took many more just to become industrialized. In the last 70 years we have advanced exponentially technologically. Is this a good thing? Not really. With all the technology advancements we have lost touch with our humanity, with our instincts, with our world. We don’t talk to one another, we text (even from the next room). We don’t use our hands to do things, we use machines. We use up our natural resources and throw the waste into our water, air and all over the landscape. We take mountains and dig holes for the resources to save other resources. What we don’t do is use renewable energy for things. We don’t use solar power, wind power, water power. We have to use coal, oil, uranium, lithium, etc.; all things that are not renewable and destroys our planet. That is progress. That is our destruction.

We tear down forests for the lumber and to plant fields; all the while not caring that those trees are what gives us oxygen and keeps the wind from blowing away that precious topsoil that is needed. We fill our atmosphere with noxious gases from exhaust so that we can drive to work instead of using mass transit or even walking. We take toxic waste and dump it into our rivers and streams thus polluting our water supply and, eventually, the oceans; all so that we can pretend that we are making a better life for ourselves. What are we actually doing? It may surprise you that all this is not by our choice as a whole. We are told from childhood on that this is the way it has to be. It is humankind’s destiny to destroy itself by believing that we are doing what is right. It is not right at all.

We are destroying ourselves at a high rate of speed and we don’t even care. Yes, it is extreme to think that a catastrophe eliminating the human race is what is needed. It is also extreme to think that one way of thinking is the only way to think. It is extreme to believe that yours is the only belief that is correct. It is extreme to kill unborn children, let the homeless be homeless, let the starving starve and go to war over greed or religion. It is especially extreme to kill the one thing that gives us life: Mother Earth. So which is the worst case of extremism? Let the radical Islamic terrorists kill everyone and then find out those 72 virgins are a myth, or actually 12 year old boys or some form of animal so they kill themselves off. Let the T virus loose. Use the nukes. Let humanity kill itself off so that Mother Earth can repair herself and return to the pure beauty and pristine condition she was in before we evolved into the ‘civilized’ system we are.

It would take approximately 500 years to get rid of any trace that man ever existed. It has actually only taken approximately 150 years to get to where we are in destructiveness. Since the beginning of time we have been bent on our own destruction. Let it happen. Let mankind disappear. The world would be a better place for it.

Boys in the Girl's Bathroom?

The year: 2016. The topic: Transgenderism. The sub-topic: use of bathrooms. Seems kind of stupid doesn’t it? After all, throughout history boys have been boys and girls have been girls. There has never been a question of what gender a person is. That is, until the 21^st century.

With the advent of an ‘enlightened’ society and everyone more worried about feelings than morality and common sense, the idea of what gender a person is, is now in question. It doesn’t seem to matter now, at least to a very small minority, that when a person is born with a penis that person is a boy and if not, it’s a girl. In today’s world, it all depends on how a person ‘identifies’ him/herself. If that boy, at whatever age, decides that he should be a girl that is what he is. If a girl decides she should be a boy that is how it is. It is all in identification of self.

As stated, this is a stupid topic. There should be no questions about a person’s gender yet, there is. The really stupid part about this is that the United States government, in its infinite liberal wisdom, has decided that it needs to get involved in this idiotic controversy and make laws pertaining to such idiocy. President Barack Hussein Obama decided that boys and girls should be allowed to use whichever bathroom they feel they identify with. In other words, boys are going to use the girl’s bathroom and vice-versa, by law.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I really don’t care whether a person is gay, bisexual or transgender or whatever. It is not my business at all. What is my business is who is in the bathroom with my wife, daughter, granddaughter, mother, sister or aunt. The argument that the liberals give is that a guy will not go think to himself, “Gee, there’s a girl going into the restroom to drop a load or pee. I think I’m going in there to watch.” That guy is probably not thinking that at all. What he’s thinking is, “Wow! There’s a good looking piece of ass going in there where no one can see what I do to her.”

Does it matter how a person ‘identifies’ him/herself? Not really. No one cares if that guy is gay or thinks he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body. If you have a penis, you are a male and need to use the guy’s bathroom. If you have a vagina, use the girl’s. There should not even be a discussion on this. Yet, thanks to the immoral minority and the far left liberals, there is a huge controversy about this.

The world really doesn’t care how you feel. The world doesn’t care how you identify. The world only cares about what is conceived as right and wrong. Right is boys use the boy’s and girls use the girl’s. Only the far left liberals believe that how a person feels is more important that what the majority believe and want. The biggest problem with that is there are more and more of those far left liberals out there every day. Why are they growing in number? The number is growing because our children are being indoctrinated into that way of thinking by going to public schools. But, that is another discussion.

If a man had gone into a woman’s restroom even two years ago they would have been arrested. Now, all they have to do is say that they identify as a woman and, BAM, they have a free pass to do what they want. Too bad I can’t identify as a multi-billionaire and miraculously become one.

What this whole thing boils down to is the liberal ideology is being shoved down the throats of the entirety of the United States regardless of what others want. Because the far left liberals are the only ones that know what is best for the rest of the country, they think that their ideology needs to be law. What they don’t realize is that their ideology is based on socialism, communism and, in some of the more extreme cases, Nazism. There is very little democracy and no capitalism in their way of thinking.

Redistribution of wealth, more government control, bigger government, tax and spend, victimization of minorities, racial division, class warfare… all are parts of their ideology and all are socialistic and communistic. As for the Nazism, it seems as though most of the far left would like to see the destruction of Judaism and the State of Israel. The left would like to see totally open borders, see nothing wrong with radical Islam (believing that Islam is a religion of peace when the Koran specifically states that ANY other religion is to be destroyed and their followers killed in the most horrific ways), they canonize immorality by uplifting abnormal behavior such as sex change, transgenderism and homo sexuality by making it the norm and anyone who opposes or speaks out against such behavior is ostracized and persecuted, Constitutional rights are there only as guidelines and used only when they suit the left, anyone who disagrees with them are xenophobic, homophobic, racist, bigots or fascists.

The Democratic Party states they are more tolerant and accepting of differing opinions, cultures and beliefs yet when they don’t get their way they riot, attack both verbally and physically those that are opposing them and destroy property. This is their idea of tolerance and acceptance. The things that they oppose are closed and protected borders, an armed nation, freedom of choice for healthcare, education and creating wealth, critical thinking, financial responsibility, self-reliance and anything conservative.

They demand that children be taken care of in one breath and the next they want the right to kill an unborn child. They demand that the country take care of foreign refugees yet refuse to take care of American homeless. They demand equal rights for minorities yet want those same rights taken from white, wealthy, Christians and Jews. They demand that Christianity be taken out of public places and schools then demand that Islam be allowed wherever it wants and be taught in schools. They demand that minorities (racial and sexual orientation) not be discriminated against yet heterosexual whites are open season. They demand the 2^nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms be done away with yet government officials and the wealthy liberals are protected by arms. Do you see the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party and the liberals?

What does all this have to do with gender and bathrooms? It has everything to do with it because it is a liberal way of shoving their ideology down the throats of the entire nation. If you are a minority, as transgender, gay, gender reassignment, etc. are, you are above what is considered as normal. We are supposed to be a civilized society. What the left wants is total enlightenment by way of destruction of what civilized society deems moral and ethical behavior.

As I have stated more than once, I am not racist and I have nothing against anyone that wants to do whatever with whomever. What I am against is being forced to accept it as normal. Do I want gays to be put back into the closet? No. Do I want people that want to change their sex to not be able to do it? No, as long as they are adults, have had counseling on the implications, etc. Do I want minorities to be discriminated against? No. I believe that we are all part of the human race and we all should have the same rights and privileges; that whatever two consenting adults want to do is their business, not mine, regardless of their same, or opposing, sex; if someone wants to change their sex, not my business. I don’t believe that government should get involved in any of these topics. The government’s job is to protect the nation against our enemies, provide for the common good, supply a military, roads and waterways and not try to tell me how to run my life.

Dr. Michael Savage has said that liberalism is a mental illness. The more I see the hypocrisy, violence and intolerance of the left; I tend to agree with him more and more. The more ‘logic’ that the left uses the more I see just how illogical they are. The left will say that conservatives are delusional in their way of thinking. When an elected official that is over the age of 50 years and can say, and believe, that a gunman will put down his weapon when he sees that no one else is armed, it becomes clear that liberalism truly is a mental illness.

These are just my thoughts, my opinions. Some of this is based on facts that have happened and some is just conjecture on my part based on observations of events. I leave it up to the readers to make up their own minds; it is not my intent to convert anyone but only to open their eyes and their minds to other ways of thinking. Is it in vain? Only you, the reader, can determine that.

Friends v Enemies

There is an old adage that says, “Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.” In today’s world, do you really know who your friends really are? It is becoming increasingly more difficult to discern between friend and enemy.

A person used to know, beyond doubt, who would stand up for him or her and who would stab them in the back. Today, your most trusted ally may well be the one to place the knife between your ribs. Loyalty, commitment and friendship are all on a temporary scale. To find a true friend, one that would never betray you no matter what, is hard to find. As long as a person can use you, needs what you can do for them, you are their friend. As soon as that need is gone, when they no longer can use you, they turn on you and leave you in the dark.

That woman, or man, that means so much to you, that you love more than life, has no more respect or loyalty to you than they did for the person before you. Once again, to find someone that is permanent is rare. Divorce rates skyrocket while long-term relationships plummet. Women want a baby daddy; someone that will give them an income for the long term. As soon as she gets what she wants, she is done with you and on to the next man; all the while you are paying for her lifestyle.

That boy that tells you he loves you more than life is only playing a part just to get into you. If you become pregnant, you are history and that poor baby is forgotten about by his/her sperm donor. It isn’t about love anymore. It is all about lust and numbers. The more women he can get between the sheets the better man he is.

As friends, two people can be inseparable for a time, sharing everything from dreams to fears. All it takes is one disagreement and the friendship is gone. “If I show you the darkness within me, will you still think of me the same?” Most will not. If you show your darkness, your demons, most will turn and run away. Why? They run because they don’t want to have to deal with any kind of drama or conflict. Most people today are so hedonistic that they cannot see beyond their own noses. Only their wants and needs and desires matter. If you don’t cater to them, they leave.

You can give until there is nothing left to give to some people and when it’s gone, so are they. It is your fault that they have so little. It is your responsibility to supply them with what they want. A gentle, giving heart must set limits because the takers never will. They will take until nothing remains then they will move on to someone else that can give to them. It is a never ending cycle.

When you do find that one person that will have your back, no matter what, keep hold of them. If someone is willing to be there through thick and thin, through the demons coming out, for better or worse, that person is a jewel to be held onto, cherished. If you betray that person you are doing them, and yourself, a grave injustice. How so? By betraying them you have lost a treasure most will never find and you will have maybe damaged a kind soul to where they never will trust again.

Life is hard. Life is not fair. It has become a dog eat dog world and that, my friends, is the beginning of the end. When everyone must watch their backs to keep from having a blade stuck through it, then true commitments and loyalty will never be able to exist. Only alliances founded on mutual survival will remain. “My enemy’s enemy is my friend.” Like an alliance between Russia and the United States, it becomes nothing more than enemies bound by a common goal. Once the goal is reached, or is found to be unreachable, that alliance is gone and they are still enemies.

Once a person realizes that they are nothing more than the god’s whipping boy, all hope leaves and despair is all that remains. For those that always look for the good in everyone, it will be a hard life of betrayal after betrayal. There is good in each and every person on this planet. It is whether each one wants to let that good out or keeps it buried deep inside so as not to be taken for granted. Instead of ‘do unto other as you would have done unto you,’ it has become ‘do unto other before they do unto you.’ That is why the good is buried in so many.

Greed, lust, gluttony, vanity, envy, sloth and wrath, the seven deadly sins rule this world. Hedonism is king. Chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility, the seven virtues are a thing of the past or are to be taken advantage of. The two have to coexist to keep a balance on good and evil. Today, the balance is tipped in favor of the sins whereas, in the past, the virtues were more important. What has caused this change in the balance of power?

In days gone by, religion and morality were more important than personal feelings. It was taboo to have sex before you were married and even more so to have a baby out of wedlock. Charity started at home because taking care of your own meant your survival. Respect for your elders and those in authority kept you from becoming an outcast in society. Conservatism was necessary to stay alive and prosper.

Today, it is vogue to have babies before marriage, even encouraged. Sex is encouraged at a young age as sex education and contraceptives are handed out to preteens in school. Our children are taught to think only of themselves when it comes to feelings and desires. They are also taught that to be righteous and moral they must give to those less fortunate no matter whom that may be. Liberalism is the only right way to think.

The difference between liberalism and conservatism is this: liberalism today is communism at worst and socialism at best. Why do I say that? ‘From each according to his ability to each according to his wants and needs’ is what liberalism wants. Wealth redistribution in the form of taxing the rich more and giving that money to the less fortunate, whether they work for it or not.

Conservatism today is a capitalist society. ‘You don’t work, you don’t eat.’ If you put in an honest day’s work, you get paid an honest day’s wage. You are responsible for your own actions and welfare. If you need assistance, it will be given but if you are able, but refuse, to be a productive member of society, you deserve no help.

Why did I put those two paragraphs in at this point? Because it gives the difference between how things were and how they are. When conservatism was reigning, friends were friends, loyalty and commitment meant something and morality was important. Today, liberalism reigns and people are against each other and only think of themselves.

We no longer have to struggle to actually survive. We struggle to survive our wants but not our needs. Yes, there are homeless and hungry people, even here in one of the wealthiest nations on Earth but, for the most part, people are taken care of. It’s not like we have to go out and hunt our food and make clothes out of the hides of what we kill. If we need food, there are welfare or food banks. If we need shelter there is welfare and missions. Society is called upon to supply to those in need. Our struggles are to support our wants, our greed, and our gluttony. Because we no longer have to struggle, our battles are now against each other. We take from those that are willing to give because we want what they have. We ingratiate ourselves to the kind, gentle, giving souls just to stab them in back once we are done with them.

If society continues in this fashion how long do you think that humanity will survive? Soon, very soon, we will once again become a feudal society and kill each other off as the ancient Celts, Normans, and Vikings did to those weaker than them. World population will decline to a few of the strongest. Those with money will have the protection of the castle while the weak will only have their hovels to hide in. Once the battles begin there will be no stopping them. Where will those takers and hedonists go then? Of course, to those that are kind and giving, if there are any of those left.

Hopefully, one day in the near future, conservatism, morality, loyalty and commitment will make a reappearance and become the norm replacing the hedonistic society that believes in the seven sins instead of the seven virtues. Hopefully.

OUR TIME IS NOW!

Instead of worrying about what which politician has done or is going to do, why don’t we worry about more important things? After all, ALL politicians are bought and paid for by the Illuminati, and not only in this country but around the world. The more important things to worry about are things like Mother Earth, world peace and ending poverty and hunger.

Yeah, I know, I sound like a hippie out of the 1960s. No, I don’t smoke weed and do LSD. I do happen to like listening to Joan Baez, Janice Joplin, The Doors and a few others from that time into the late 70s, though. No, I am not a hippie on drugs but I am a human being that is concerned about the planet that we live on.

As for those puppets that are supposedly running the governments of the world; they are only doing what they are told. The last President that went against the Illuminati was John F Kennedy and we all know what happened there. The mass media is pouring so much misinformation out that we can’t critically think about what is actually going on. This person is saying this about that politician or, this or that politician has done this or that or, the President should be impeached because he isn’t doing what the far left wants him to do even though he’s only been in office less than a month.

OPEN YOUR EYES, people! The temporary travel ban, the Mexican wall, the pipelines, the Education Secretary and Attorney General appointees, this is all just smoke and mirrors to the grand scheme of slavery that the Illuminati wants to keep going. Those thirteen families that run the world’s banks, and thus run the world, are causing this chaos. It doesn’t matter WHO is in WHAT office. The world is in a world of shit and there is nothing going to change it until the people of the WORLD unite against these corrupt egomaniacs with delusions of godhood.

As American citizens we believe that we have it better than everyone else in the world. We are the richest, most powerful nation on Earth. NO WE ARE NOT. We are TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS in debt. Every country in the world is on the verge of financial collapse because of debt. WHO THE HELL DOES THE WORLD OWE????? I’ll tell you. The World owes those thirteen families, the Illuminati. That’s who the world owes. They have all the money. They own all the debt. It doesn’t matter if the USA has borrowed Trillions from China. China has no intention of ever collecting that money. It isn’t theirs to collect.

That paycheck that you get every week or two isn’t enough to sustain a family. Not in today’s economy. Why do you think both parents have to work? Because the time of a one income family is over. The Federal poverty level is $24,250 and the Medicaid threshold is $33,465 for a family of 4. The average rent for a two bedroom apartment is $934, average utilities (electric, gas and water) is $275, and groceries for a family of four can run up to around $500 depending on what you eat. That adds up to $20,508. Let’s add in cell phone, internet, eating out, clothing and other incidentals that everyone has; cell phone averages about $50 a month, internet about $50 a month, eating out (this would include those late night runs for soda and candy) could run up to over $200 a month, gas for your car, insurance for your car and home, any repairs that may need done, etc., adds in another $200 plus. This will add another $6,000 a year to your expenses. Well over the Federal Poverty level but doesn’t exceed the Medicaid threshold. A person would have to make $12.75 an hour, working a 40 hour week for 52 weeks to make just enough to pay their expenses.

The average income in the USA for 2015 was $55,775. This is $26.82 per hour, 40 hours, 52 weeks. Really? This was the AVERAGE income? I don’t know that many people that make that much per hour. Most of the people I know make between minimum wage and $15 an hour. Then again, I don’t know that many people and those that I do, I am not that inquisitive as to how much they make. But, is almost $27 an hour the average? I can’t see it when there are so many saying that they work at McDonald’s as a career.

Do you see where I’m going with this? Do you understand that it really doesn’t matter who is in what office? THEY DON”T MATTER. The ones that do matter are hidden behind walls in multi-billion dollar mansions with hundreds of security officers (aka thugs) protecting them. Like the Greek and Roman gods they look down upon humanity with disdain. They laugh at our hardships because they have no idea what it is like to scratch out enough to buy a birthday present for their 5 year old. They laugh at the laws that bind all of us because they are above any law.

How do you fight against such people? Will passive rebellion work or does it need to get violent? They would prefer the violence. Just look at what they have orchestrated so far in the USA over the last two or three years; BLM riots, mass shootings, terrorists attacks; all orchestrated and financed by the Illuminati. ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Oklahoma City Federal building, even the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. All by the hand of the Illuminati.

Do you fight fire with fire or do you fight it with water? That is the $64,000 question. They want violence but peaceful protests have done nothing. The only way to fight is with finances. Quit financing them and they will feel the pain. How do you do that? Quit buying shit you don’t need. I mean, most of you hate trucks and the people that drive them anyway so if you quit buying things you’ll kill two birds with one stone. The trucks will stop running because there won’t be anything to haul first of all then, after a while, those richest of the rich will start to feel the BERN!!!

It takes 6% of a population to change a government; only 6%. That isn’t a lot in comparison to the total population. Just think what just 6% of the WORLD’S population could do… 6% of 7.5 billion (estimated for 2017) is a LOT OF PEOPLE. The population of the US alone is a little over 323 million. That is almost to that 6% of 450,000,000. Our time is now. If we don’t do something soon, very soon, it will definitely be too late.

Open your eyes, stop fighting over table scraps. Let’s start working together. OUR TIME IS NOW! If we don’t, Mother Earth will no longer exist. Our natural resources will be gone; our water, air and the land we live on will be polluted beyond repair. We will have no choice but to return to the Middle Ages with tiny fires to warm our cave homes. There will be no internet, cell phones, computers or game systems. We’ll be wearing gas masks and haz mat suits to keep from killing ourselves with the filth that we’ve created. The only ones that will survive well are the most wealthy that will be able to afford filtration systems and their own private food sources. Yep, only the Illuminati will survive well. They have all the money. Even during the Great Depression, those that had money before the Stock Market crash still had money after it (at least more than anyone else).

This is what the Illuminati want; world domination and sole survivorship. They don’t care a rat’s ass about anyone else. Only they and their families matter. The rest of us are just pond scum to be used as slave labor to make them even richer.

You better start thinking about this, people. We are sheep being led to the slaughter. We are being hand fed bull shit so that we think we are doing well when all we are doing is scratching out a barely survivable living to make the rich richer.

It’s time to do something; anything. OUR TIME IS NOW!

We Live in a Dystopian World

In this dystopian world, the one in which we now live, the few elite rule over the masses, both rich and poor alike, with an iron thumb. We don’t notice it so much. Why? Because we have been programmed not to question; not to dissent; not to rebel. They have taken the basic human rights away from us at such incremental units that we didn’t even notice that we were being subjected to tyranny.

This is not just in the United States of America. This is a world-wide phenomenon. Of course, the governments of the world would say this is just a conspiracy theory based on rumor instead of fact thus eliminating any chance of the world’s population actually realizing what has happened. Therein lies the problem. There are a few out there, very few, that can see with eyes wide open to what is happening. Most of these people are silenced in one way or another.

Some of the freest countries are becoming tyrannical dominions right under the noses of their citizens. How, you ask? By giving the population what they want. Not to the extent that it is an obvious ploy to control them but in a way that they want the government to control them. “It’s for the children; it’s for the betterment of society; it’s for a safer nation…” These are some of the excuses used by those that are corrupt in their governing.

If a person were to look around and see what is happening, actually look with an open mind instead of one closed to logical thought processes, they would see that their governments are taking control and destroying free will, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of protecting oneself and one’s family. Most won’t see it. All they see is that their government is giving them free, or low cost to them, health care; free, to them, college education; free, to them, food and housing; they say that the population need not protect themselves because the government will protect them. All the while there are riots, mass killings, terrorist attacks and threats of global guerrilla warfare that are being largely ignored except by the mass media which uses these circumstances to further the government’s agenda of disarming and weakening the people of the world.

The global economy is in a shambles with several industrialized nations either bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy. The working citizens are taxed to the point of poverty while those that can, but won’t, work are receiving a free living. Karl Marx would be proud that his theory of communism is now in full swing in some of the most democratic nations, “From each according to his ability to each according to his need.” I really don’t think even Marx’s idea was for the lazy to sit back and do nothing while the hardworking supported them. After all, “FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY…,” does not say that those that are able but unwilling to work should sit back and do nothing but should do the best he/she can to support themselves.

With the ‘give-me’ mentality of today’s population even Marx would be appalled. The world does not owe anyone a living. The world does not owe anyone anything. Today’s people think that what happened to their ancestors should be paid for today, at least in the United States. There are none alive today that owned any black, Irish, or Asian slaves and there are none alive today that were enslaved by anyone. The ONLY ones that are owed anything, at least in my opinion, are the American Indians. Even today their ancestral lands are overrun by an ever increasing population. The land set aside for them, as meager and harsh as it is, is even being overrun by other nationalities. The American Indian is the only one alive today that is owed anything.

Black Lives Matter, The Muslim Brotherhood, The Black Panthers, Anonymous, ISIS/ISIL, and whoever else is out there doing their thing against the world’s population (yes, Anonymous is actually fighting against freedom in what they do, or say they will do, by destroying networks and public works with their hacking into government systems), are nothing but terrorist groups bent on watching the world burn without regard to anyone or anything, even themselves. If they all got exactly what they wanted the world would turn to chaos and there would be no law, no order, and we would return to a time of feudal warfare where no one would be safe from harm.

The governments of the world relish these things. It brings them more ammunition to show that Martial Law is needed, that government needs to control everything in our lives. It is all orchestrated by these governments to seize power of the people and control the world with only a few elitists in command.

How are these governments keeping this under wraps right under the noses of their countries? Easily with mass media; using such unimportant things such as a speech given by a presidential candidates wife, a former athlete transforming from male to female, making marijuana legal or not, making gay marriage legal or not, anything that will catch the public’s interest to keep them from seeing what is actually going on. When the public does have outcry about government corruption, it is swept under the rug as soon as possible and replaced with something else that means nothing in comparison. If all else fails, the government will orchestrate a mass killing, a riot, a violent protest, a natural disaster (such as an oil spill or wild fire).

There are those that will never admit to this happening. There are those that will never believe that this is happening. There are those that would rather stay in their safe place with their heads in the sand and keep receiving the benefits from their governments. What these sheeple don’t realize is that while the wolf is feeding them, all that is happening is they are being fattened up for slaughter. The cattle, the sheep, the pigs, the chickens, all sit contentedly being fed and watered by the farmer not knowing that their life is only going to end in a slaughterhouse and when they finally realize it, it is much too late. Such is the life of those that refuse to see what is happening in their own world. We are being fed and watered only to be led down the chute onto the kill floor of a slaughterhouse.

History always repeats itself. Hitler did not conquer Austria. He was welcomed into leadership of a poor nation needing help. He promised paradise and gave it, for a while. It was too late when the Austrians realized that he was a monster whose only goal was world domination. His promised paradise turned into a living hell for those that he ruled over. Stalin and Lenin promised the same with the same result. Mussolini is included in that club also, as are the rulers of China, Korea, Vietnam and a host of other communist/socialist nations. The so-called free nations of the world need only look through their history books to see what becomes of an un-free society.

This is fast becoming one of the most dystopian worlds that any fantasy/science fiction writer could ever imagine. The Hunger Games, Divergent, Dangerous Minds, Mortal Instruments and a host of other stories written by highly talented, imaginative writers are only a precursor to what this world is becoming. Hollywood is a good indication of what is to come. Zombies, world war, poverty for the masses with only a few elitists sitting far away, protected from harm…. These are not just stories thought up for entertainment.  Men in Black made light of rags like The National Enquirer calling them ‘newspapers.’ Are they really all that far out there? For the most part I would say, “Yes.” But, there are those stories with the shred of truth that could become reality, especially when it comes to the dystopian world movies that are coming out of that far-left wing state of California.

What the world needs is more Mayberry and less Compton; more Cleavers and less Kardashians. More Happy Days and less Real Housewives…. Will it happen? Very doubtful in my lifetime; I’ve seen it all deteriorate into what it is. I’ve seen it go from Bonanza and Gunsmoke to South Park and The Simpsons. Our values and morals are much worse than what the Christian God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for.

A government cannot legislate into being morals and values. All they can do is legislate against them. A government cannot legislate the way a people think but can legislate against a way of thinking. A free nation is only as free as the people of that nation want it to be. A complacent, lazy people will not stop a corrupt government until that government is so powerful as to not be able to be stopped. That, my friends, is where this world is headed at a high rate of speed – a corrupt, powerful one world government that controls our very existence; a one world government that no one will be able to topple because it will be so powerful that it is untouchable. It will be a government that will decide who lives and dies at the whim of a select few; that will decide what a person will work at; where a person will live and how well; what each person will eat and drink; what will be allowed on mass media and in print. You may not believe me, but the Austrians didn’t believe Hitler was a tyrannical dictator, either.

Religions are set up by men to control their followers. If there is a higher power, something much bigger than humanity, where is it? Have the gods given up on this earth and are willing to let humankind kill itself off? There is no higher being as set forth by the organized religions of the world. Who was around when each of these religions were created? No one. There is no logical, scientific way to prove, or disprove, that any one religion is true or that their god actually exists. The Greeks, Romans, Celts, Sumerians, and a host of other civilizations each had their gods. Were they any less real than Islam, Christianity or Judaism? All religion is, is a way for man to have something to believe in other than him/herself. Something to blame when things go wrong or praise when things go right because there is no way that man can have control of its own destiny.

When what celebrities and athletes say is held in higher esteem than what common sense and decent morals are, then those celebrities and athletes begin to believe that they are above the common man. It is because of the common man that these people are in the position they are. Quit watching their movies or buying tickets to their games. See how long they survive in their bubble above the rest. They are no more than sounding boards for a corrupt system; in fact, they are part of that system. They are rich and hide behind their walls in mansions while telling the world that open borders and homes is what is needed. They despise the elite conservatives but are unwilling to give up their own riches.

What is the worst thing about the disparity between the rich and the poor is that everyone is poor unless the elitists want you to have more. We work our entire lives to barely survive and act like we’ve made it in life. The Rothschilds,  De Medicis, Kennedys and Hanovers are the ones that rule the world. The rest of the world is led to believe that it’s making it.

It doesn’t matter if you are Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, Christian, Muslim, Jew, you have no control over your own life. The governments of the world are bought and paid for. The religions of the world are bought and paid for. The world is told what to think by mass media which is owned by the elitists. Until the world wakes up and opens its eyes to what is going on it will continue to disintegrate into the chaos that has been so prevalent the last few years. Those terrorist organizations will continue to become stronger and more violent. Why? Because that is what those who are financing them want.

Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future is nothing more than a pipe dream. Terminator would be more what it will end up as. Until we, the people of the entire planet, wake up and start to take back the control, we will continue to fall. It’s time to wake up. It’s time to start taking back control. The time is now.

What is Right and What is Wrong?

     What is right? What is wrong? Is there a distinction between the two? It’s been said that nothing is either right or wrong but the thinking makes it so. An example of this is the difference between throwing someone off a building because they are gay and protecting that same gay person’s civil liberties. These are two different cultures; two different ways of looking at right and wrong. So, depending on what culture you live in depends on what is considered wrong.

     Here, in The United States, we have two different cultures that reside side by side. There is the conservative side that believes in self-sufficiency, self-reliance, smaller government, fiscal responsibility, the right to life, Christian values. Then, there is the liberal side that believes in big government that controls the population through regulation and laws. The many provide for the few that require help. In other words: from those according to their ability to those according to their need (which, by the way, is a Communist ideology). Liberals believe that it is a woman’s right to end a pregnancy simply because she doesn’t want to have a baby. Which is right and which is wrong? Or, are they both right and wrong?

     The Constitution of the United States became binding upon ratification by the ninth state, New Hampshire, on June 21, 1788. This document is the Law of the Land, permanent, binding and concise in meaning. It is not a ‘living document’ meant to represent the political agenda at any given time. It was written so as to be very difficult to change. The only way to change the Constitution is by an amendment which has to be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the States.

     The Constitution states that federal law supersedes any law of the States. Article VI is clear on this. Federal law is supreme and if any State law conflicts with Federal law, Federal law holds.

Article II explains how the President is elected. After the election of Donald J Trump in 2016, the liberal left has bemoaned the use of the Electoral College, saying that it is not fair. The Electoral College is set in stone in the Constitution. This is to make it fair to all states, from the least populated to the most populated. The States argued during the construction of the Constitution about how to make each State fairly represented. This is why the House of Representatives is filled by population and the Senate is filled with only two representatives from each state, and, the Electoral College was set up to represent each state fairly in any election for the high office.

     The Bill of Rights; the first ten amendments to the Constitution are the most important. Each one states certain inalienable rights to each citizen of the United States. Each is concisely written so as not to be misunderstood. There is no interpretation to be used.

     Amendment One provides several rights protections: to express ideas through speech and the press, to assemble or gather with a group to protest or for other reasons and to ask the government to fix problems. It also protects the right to religious beliefs and practices. It prevents the government from creating or favoring a religion. The Supreme Court has stated that burning the American Flag is protected under this amendment. Burning a flag, rioting, destroying property, etc., is not speech, a gathering, or asking the government to fix a problem. These are actions. Actions are not speech. The Supreme Court, in my opinion, was wrong in their decision to allow flag burning as freedom of speech. Rioting, looting, destruction of property, etc., are against the law and are in no way an expression of ideas through speech or the press.

     Amendment Two protects the right to keep and bear arms. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This is the entire amendment as it was written. There is no room for interpretation. Although the liberal left would like to believe that this is an outdated right because we have law enforcement officials to protect us, this was not meant for that reason. This was written because of what the Colonists had just fought a long war to overcome. There is no debate. This has nothing to do with hunting or feeding your family. It has everything to do with protecting yourself, your family, your community, your country from tyranny; to keep this nation free and safe from enemies, both foreign and domestic.

     The Third Amendment prevents the government from forcing homeowners to allow soldiers to use their homes. Before the Revolutionary War, laws gave British soldiers the right to take over private homes.

     The Fourth Amendment bars the government from unreasonable search and seizure of an individual or their private property.

     The Fifth Amendment provides several protections for people accused of crimes. It states that serious criminal charges must be started by a grand jury.  A person cannot be tried twice for the same offense {double jeopardy) or have property taken away without just compensation. People have the right against self-incrimination and cannot be imprisoned without due process of law (fair procedures and trials.) This amendment is one of the most important, in my opinion, and the most abused, by citizens and law enforcement. OJ Simpson was charged with murder and acquitted. Then, he was charged with a civil crime of wrongful death. Are these two crimes different? Only in the way they are prosecuted; same crime, different wording. In a legal search, personal property can be taken as evidence. Is that property returned or compensated for if the accused is found not guilty (innocent and not guilty are two different things). As for being held without due process, this is for citizens of the United States. War criminals, foreign nationals, illegal immigrants all have cried out, and the liberal left has joined in the cry, that they are entitled to due process under the Constitution. They are not held to the Constitution. They are not citizens of this great nation. War criminals, especially, cannot be expected to be protected under the Constitution. They are fighting against that law and the destruction of that law.

     The Sixth Amendment provides additional protections to people accused of crimes, such as the right to a speedy and public trial, trial by an impartial jury in criminal cases, and to be informed of criminal charges. Witnesses must face the accused, and the accused is allowed his or her own witnesses and to be represented by a lawyer. Here again, war criminals cry out that they are treated unfairly because they are not allowed protection under this amendment. Why should they be protected by the very thing they are fighting to destroy?

     The Seventh Amendment extends the right to a jury trial in federal civil cases. I have not researched if there are any cases that have not been protected under this amendment. As far as I know, every accused has been given the right to a jury by trial.

     The Eighth Amendment bars excessive bail and fines and cruel and unusual punishment. Here is an amendment, an inalienable right, that seems to have gone by the wayside without a murmur from the citizens of this great nation. Fines are exorbitant for some of the smallest offenses. Some people are charged high bail fees while others accused of the same or worse crimes are let go on their own recognizance. I understand the idea behind a flight risk. But, through personal experience, I have seen the unfairness of the judicial system on fines and bail. As for unusual punishment, once again, there are cries from the left that minorities, illegal immigrants, and war criminals are treated unfairly in their punishments. Is this the case? I would have to research hundreds, if not thousands, of individual cases to make a determination on this. The left would cite a few minority cases as the norm and this would be an injustice to the whole. Yes, there are cases where justice is unfair. The scales are tipped against the accused. Lady Justice is peeking from behind her blindfold at times. But, I believe, for the most part, that justice is equal for all according to the crime committed as far as race, color, sex, national origin, etc. are concerned.

     The Ninth Amendment states that listing specific rights in the Constitution does not mean that people do not have other rights that have not been spelled out.

     The Tenth Amendment says that the Federal Government only has those powers delegated in the Constitution. If it isn’t listed, it belongs to the states or to the people. The one thing a person must realize with this amendment is that Federal law supersedes state law if there is a conflict.

     Why, you ask, did I list out and explain the Bill of Rights? Because this is where the conservative right and the liberal left differ and it becomes a matter of right and wrong. The left, it seems, only use these rights if it benefits them. The Second Amendment, for example, is only used for protecting government officials, celebrities, and other high ranking citizens. The everyday Joe doesn’t need to protect him/herself. The First Amendment, as long as a person agrees with the left, free speech is fine; disagree and you are castigated and your right to free speech is muffled. The press has become a liberal opinion publication instead of reporting facts. Sensationalism and being the first to report on something is more important than actually investigating to make sure the rumors are true. And, when called out on false reporting, it comes down to free speech. Rioting and destruction of property is now an expression of free speech if it is for a liberal cause (I don’t, personally, recall any conservative march or protest that became violent and caused property damage).

     So, what is right and what is wrong? It all depends on the way you think. To the liberal left, the socialist/communist ideology is right even if it infringes on the rights of the people. To the conservative right, the Constitution is the supreme law and there is no interpretation thereof. Personal freedoms, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the American way; at least to the right. The left seems to think that the only way is to force everyone to their way of thinking regardless of how someone feels.

     I don’t care if you are white, black, brown, yellow, red, pink or polka-dotted. It doesn’t matter to me if you like the same sex or the opposite sex. You are from Russia, Indonesia, Mexico, Asia, Guatemala, the UK… as long as you aren’t trying to destroy my rights, liberties or my country I have no problem with you. If you come from a country that is known to harbor, train, export, or finance terrorism against my country, then stay out of my country. The President has every right, in fact, has the responsibility, to keep those who may do this country harm out. It really doesn’t matter if Achmed is an Oxford scholar and distinguished dignitary; if he resides in a country that is known to produce terrorists, then the possibility of him being a terrorist is greater than someone that resides in a country that is not known for that.

     The liberal left would like everyone to believe that every living soul on the planet is a friend. That we should allow all immigrants, refugees, the tired and poor of every country, into our borders regardless of where they come from. This is sheer idiocy. I put to you a question: if there were a hundred M&Ms in a bowl and two of them were poisoned, would you know which ones not to eat? Would you eat them anyway? The liberal left would like us to do just that. Without knowing, for sure, that refugees and immigrants from the Middle East are not terrorists, we are to allow them into our country; even though the terrorists have stated quite clearly that they will infiltrate into peaceful, non-Islamic countries as refugees. Their goal is to fulfill the Koran’s law of destroying the infidels in any way possible. So, what does the left want to do? Invite them in.

     The liberal left would like everyone to believe that a woman, who consciously indulged in unprotected sex and became pregnant, should be allowed to end the life of the unborn child that she, and her partner at the time, conceived. The Supreme Court, in 1973, decided that it was a woman’s right to end a pregnancy. Is this right? Is it the moral thing to do? For the liberal left it is. It is just fine to do away with a self-inflicted inconvenience simply because she wants to. In the case of rape or incest it would be a different matter, but, in the case of consensual sex, what was she expecting when she had sex with that guy; a Sony TV or an Xbox?

     The conservative right, on the other hand, believes that a child, unborn, has the right to be born, to live. Life starts at conception, not twenty eight weeks later. Pro-life, pro-choice, how about having the common sense to practice celibacy unless you want to have a baby? Make your choice before you get pregnant then you wouldn’t have to end a life.

     I realize that the liberal left would counter all points made here in some way or another; that is, if they even read it or reply to it. That is what they do. Ignore what goes against their way of thinking or dismiss it as racial, anti-woman, or some phobia.

     Just my opinion.