I AM

HE SAID

MY NAME IS I AM

HE PAUSED

I WAITED

WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE PAST

WITH ITS MISTAKES AND REGRETS

IT IS HARD

FOR

I AM NOT THERE

MY NAME IS NOT

I WAS

WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE

FUTURE

WITH ITS PROBLEMS AND FEARS

IT IS HARD

FOR I AM NOT THERE

MY NAME IS NOT

I WILL BE

I AM ONLY HERE

NOW

MY NAME IS I AM

MORE OF THE SAME

In the words of President Ronald Reagan, “There you go again” seems to apply to the media, the democrats and the anti-America coalition.  We should all be used to the shiny object technique of fact deflection, but we don’t have to like it nor do we have to fall for it.

The shiny object this time is those nasty Russians, Vlad the rat, in particular. It’s easy to get the heads and attention to turn to an age old enemy, to get a misinformed society to believe the bad guy accomplished what couldn’t be accomplished.

In an attempt to delegitimize the valid President-elect, the anti-Trump group is giving Russia exactly what they aimed at. They are destabilizing the trust and belief that our election process has validity.  They are moving our society closer to an out and out physical division, using the ideological division that has been opened in recent years; a real physical confrontation being the goal of the Soros-backed “Move on” faction.  The use of partial truth to give credence to a lie has been an age old method of deception used for propaganda.

The shiny object used in this case, Russia, has moved our attention from fact toward mere supposition.  What is questionable is how effective were they.  Russian hackers did attempt to hack into the GOP and the Democrats. The media, in their effort to delegitimize PEOTUS Trump, has swung the national attention away from what is fact, using Russia as a deflection.  The facts they, and others are trying to deflect from, are HUGE.  It makes no difference what the intentions of the Russian hackers were, but the facts being deflected from do have value.

This shiny object is to direct us to the possibility that Hillary's loss in the election was due to the hackers abilities to sway the election in Trump's favor. If that were the fact, it is most likely also true that they were able to get top secret documents off Hillary’s private server.  I doubt the Democrats and Hillary supporters would accept that premise.

What really happened is that Hillary did have a private server with classified documents which were leaked to Wiki-leaks.  Democrat e-mails were leaked and made public. Those e-mails contained information that made both media and Democrats look bad.  Those e-mails were displayed in full and showed both sender and receiver.  Most importantly, they displayed factual information, not imaginative supposition and innuendo.  Those leaked, e-mails also gave factual proof of the collusion between certain media outlet representatives and the Hillary campaign.  The facts may have had something to do with adding to Hillary’s unfavorable status with the voters, the hackers not so much.

This battle is far from over and the war continues between ideologies and common sense.

Pray for our country, its leaders, its warriors and our children

God bless the USA

A DIFFERENCE IN REALITY

This election cycle has been filled with live examples of subject matter to be used in the psychology textbooks for eons to come.

Watching the recent interview of the current FLOTUS by Oprah it crossed my mind that we all perceive life through our own specific lens.  The question of “what color is the sky on your planet” somehow took on new relevance for me.  While watching the first lady pack-up her ideological baggage in front of the cameras it was clearly evident her reality and view of past events were different than what I had seen on my planet.  The interpretation of reality is clearly translated and viewed through the language of life influences.

“We are feeling what not having hope feels like”

What a telling response to Oprah's question regarding the Obama administration's success in accomplishing the “Hope and Change” of Mr. Obama's campaign rhetoric.  Her answer was a slam at the PEOTUS and referred to the mental anguish of the anti-Trumpers.  She was also describing why she felt her husband's tenure had offered the country hope for change.  She mistakenly assumed that a majority of our society felt the same things about our country as she had been taught to believe.  Sadly enough her husband our President for the last eight years saw our country through similar life lenses.

When Mrs. Obama looks at our country, through her own life lessons, she sees the country that has been involved in many atrocities and a country that needs to atone for its sins against minority groups.  She sees the country that the Rev. Wright condemned from his pulpit for the twenty some years she and Barrack attended.  She, in fact, sees a country that needs to correct its direction, a country that is racist in nature, and she sees most whites as being bigoted.  In her husband's slogan of hope and change, she knew the change he was thinking of, and the hope was the possibility that through the power of the presidency the would take place.  Her disdain for the current state of the nation has been very evident in many of her comments and actions.

I can well imagine how she views her hopes as being dashed and that all possibilities of the change are on the verge of being dismantled.  What I think she misses is the fact that another large portion of our population felt our hope for change was completely different than the change she and her husband envisioned.

The difference in what those changes were is a large part of the vote that moved away from Mr. Obama’s camp and the Democratic candidate.  A lot of saw our hope going out the window with a continuation of the change in direction that the Obama administration tried to force upon us.  Our country is so divided that a loss of hope will be experienced by close to half of our population regardless of which party is in control of our government.

My hope and my prayer is that our country will become more cohesive, and tolerant, and ready to unite behind goals that help each and every member of our country’s society.  For me Mr. Trumps “Make America Great Again” rings a bell of optimism and hope.

God Bless the USA

AS HERCULES SLEEPS

I can imagine Hercules the strongest man of Greek and Roman mythology.  He was hero of superhuman strength and courage who performed twelve immense tasks or “labors” imposed on him and who after death was ranked among the gods.  I wonder how mythology would have treated that myth had it been about a man equipped and able to perform but decided to take a nap instead.

That weird thought jumped into my mind as I watched thousands of Syrian inhabitants of Aleppo trying to escape the horrors of war that has seen some half a million of their countrymen killed.  I cannot help but think that the Hercules of countries, the U.S.A., slept through their responsibility to mankind.  Our nation’s leader, so called leader of the free world, has abdicated our responsibility.  His theme of leading from behind is not a rally call to achieve victory over those inflicting the plague of war.  The Obama doctrine has been to defer, defer, defer. 

Once the protector of lives, and societies our nation was forced into a slumber which allowed evil to inflict racial, and religious eradication upon entire groups of the populations.  We were once such a power in the world that no country would chance a confrontation.  We existed as a force of peace through power and our resolve not to let another holocaust occur. Much like the biggest kid in school we had the choice of being the schoolyard bully or the guy that protected the unpopular nerd.

I keep hearing our intelligentsia spouting the rhetoric supporting the Obama doctrine.  America has no stomach for war.  To my way of thinking, that is not entirely true.  We also do not have a desire to watch our sons, daughters, friends, die in a war that was never conducted with the intention of winning.  Containment is not a strategy that inhibits bad behavior.

 As our country brought WWII to a horrifying end with the use of the atomic bomb the world was dramatically aware of a change in world dynamics.  There was an entity capable of causing death on a large scale and no country wanted to test our resolve in its use.  There were a few that decided they could equal that power but to use it would be the cause for mutual destruction.  That prevented all from the utilization of the weapon.  That was the positive effect, there has also been a negative effect upon our own society.  We struggled with the mental images of the destruction and death caused by our dominance of weaponry.

We were no longer proud of the fact that we had ended the war of centuries, the end that actually saved millions of Japanese and American lives, we gradually replaced that pride with shame.  That shame has cost the United States and the world innumerable lives and countless wealth as we no longer fought to end the conflict but fought instead to maintain a moral standard.  This exercise has extended every conflict we have engaged in since that time.  The Viet Nam protests shouted the disdain and the revulsion of war as a means of stopping the advancement of Marxism even though most regarded Communism as a dangerous enemy.  The Communists on the other had used this abhorrence of war to enact a subtle but effective campaign, that of infiltrating those who entertain and those who teach our children.  This has proven more effective in changing our country and our society than any other method since our country’s birth.  Woe is to us if we continue to hide our heads in the sand.

This blight has produced the political climate which has caused the abdication of responsibility towards our fellow man.  Our use of the false belief of refusing to take a substantial active part we have a kinder gentler nature than the rest of the world.  Strutting about on our high horse, while millions are being killed and maimed is truly shameful.  This taking place because we failed to act to the best of our capabilities.  History if there is to be any future for us will see us not as leading mankind to a better world, but as traitors to mans existence.

We were as capable as Hercules, but we slept.

Pray for our country, the world, and love your neighbor.

God bless the USA

a TRINITY OF RESPECT

Today is the 7^th of December, seventy-five years after the surprise attack on our country.  Pearl Harbor docked the U.S. naval fleet, the attack sank or damaged the entire fleet.  The American casualties of 2,008 naval personnel and another 710 wounded, 109 marines lost their lives and another 69 wounded.  The attack also killed 68 civilians and wounded 35.  All in all the attack killed 2,403 and wounded 1,178 non-combatants.  

The United States had to this point opted out of the war, but this surprise attack on our fleet and our country sucked us into the whirlpool of war.  WWII had begun with the awakening of the “sleeping giant”.

Today, December 7^th, 2016 is one day of remembrance that caused me to think about our country’s history and how some of our country’s inhabitants have chosen to disrespect the positive aspects of our country’s history. 

In my religion, Christianity, the Blessed Trinity is revered as the Triune God, a God comprised of three persons within the being of one God.

I stopped to think about what these three national symbols of respect meant to me personally, and to a lot of our society.  It brought to my mind the similarity between these three and the Trinity of my religious beliefs. These three, the pledge, the anthem, and the flag are separate but comprise the one unified purpose.  The purpose of respecting the history of a nation which brings the rainbow of humanity into a place of unity and freedoms. 

THE TRINITY OF RESPECT:

• The American flag, “OL” GlORY” was designed during the birth of our nation and has stayed as our national symbol.  The flag carries with it a silent statement of our journey through history, the joys, and the sorrows, the successes and the failures, the acts that bring us pride, and the warts of shame that have prompted change and improvement.  http://www.pbs.org/a-capitol-fourth/history/old-glory/ .  It’s an interesting note to history that respect and awe for our flag brought about the other components of respect of country.
• After a British bombardment, amateur poet Francis Scott Key was so inspired by the sight of the American flag still flying over Baltimore's Fort McHenry that he wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" on Sept. 14, 1814. It officially became our national anthem in 1931. 
• In 1892, the flag inspired James B. Upham and Francis Bellamy to write The Pledge of Allegiance. It was first published in a magazine called The Youth's Companion.

This trinity remained as an integral part of the glue that gave our national society the cohesiveness of unity. The unity that endured through numerous trials, errors, and successes these all worked together to make our nation The United States of America.  

Throughout our history people of all nationalities, colors and creeds have arrived at our shores and borders to join our citizenry, to partake of our possibilities and a chance to fulfill their dreams of a better life.  These people learned to speak our language, to respect our laws, and to respect each other as part of the same nation. A nation that the pledged allegiance to as they recited the Pledge of Allegiance. 

Today we see people burning and stomping on our flag. People who choose to disrespect our national anthem. Education administrators disposing of the recitation of our country’s pledge of allegiance.  To me, these actions give cause to reflect on why and how this could have happened.  We wounded by the disintegration of our national unity, the erosion of faith and beliefs that once gave strength to that unity. 

We have allowed the dissent of the 1960’s activists to infect our society.  It has invaded our government, and our educational system to the extent that many in our society are no longer aware of the obstacles we have corrected and overcome throughout our history.  We have allowed our borders to be infiltrated by some who have no intention of becoming an integral part of our society.  The immigrants who once came with the purpose of assimilating into our society are now parsed with divisive elements with no intent of assimilating. 

The “Cold war” was never just against nations, it was against ideologies, and that war has never been won or lost.

Pray for our country, love your neighbor, pray for peace and understanding.

God Bless America

 https://youtu.be/Pu9hVMe4C9E   Paul Harvey (Newscaster) paste to browser

https://youtu.be/x8qZ82FMZdM  Red Skelton says the Pledge of Allegiance

HUBRIS/DENIED

Wow! What a difference an election makes. An entire class of the American population is shocked by the outcome of the recent election of Donald J. Trump.  They are blaming every possible causation of that result with one exception, that of the common sense of the people.

HEADLINE: Hubris seems to have cost the Democratic party this election.  In sticking to their indoctrinated beliefs that they are the superior faction (in every way), they refused to look at the facts.

Denial: refusal to satisfy a request or desire. 2. a (1) : refusal to admit the truth or reality (as of a statement or charge) (2) : assertion that an allegation is false b: refusal to acknowledge a person or a thing: disavowal.

Hu·bris: [ˈ(h)yo͞obrəs]: excessive pride or self-confidence.

synonyms: arrogance · conceit · haughtiness · hauteur · pride ·

self-importance · egotism · pomposity · superciliousness · superiority · big-headedness · cockiness

antonyms: humility  (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.

In their usual misinterpretation, of how correct they are in their ingrained beliefs and judgments, they completely misjudged how sick and tired most of us are of hearing how ignorant, uninformed, racist, bigoted and just plain stupid we are for not accepting their policies and ideology.

Most of us are just sick and tired of being fed an intellectual diet of bovine excrement, non-existent  transparency, politically correct language and policies.  We are tired of Senate leaders who refuse to act on legislation because of a President who puts his political beliefs in front of our nation.  The recognition of that discomfort, at a national level, propelled Mr. Trump to one of the highest electoral victories in the last few generations of voters.

It is,  apparently, not enough that we have been subjected to the name calling of the last nine months.  In their pain and anguish, the democrats are continuing the fight and spreading the hatred.  It is a precursor of the next round of division in our country.  Instead of looking to the policies, that have been rejected, the Democrats have blamed racism for the failures of their ideological stance of the 1950’s and sixties.  Thanks to the race baiters their ideology is stuck on the misbelief  “white folks” want people of color to remain as second class citizens.  That misconception is another of the reason for the recent defeat of the Democratic party.  Just as their hubris neglected to recognize that as a weakness during the election they continue to hold on to that part of their narrative and belief.  As a conservative, I sincerely hope they continue their hubris.  As an American I would much rather see the complete evaporation of their judgemental, all knowing pride.

As a side note, I reiterate my oft-spoken belief, that All is never a correct way to describe a group of individuals when at most it should be some and in most cases a few.

The actual truth of the people of our nation is that most of us respect the other person's humanity, rights and freedoms, the rights of their individual beliefs.  Most of our people will give a helping hand to another human being regardless of any difference.  Most of us do not wish harm on any other person.  Most of us do not judge another by the color of their skin, their educational level, their economic level, UNLESS those judgemental attitudes have been taught to them.

To trade one form of prejudice for another doesn’t make you better or different but it can make you a bigot of another color. Arbee

I might suggest that in the best interests of our country that the Democrats do an honest appraisal of what really happened, and adapt a position of humility in place of hubris.  That just might help heal the effect of the policy of divide and conquer which is no longer effective.  We, as a nation, do not have to accept the socialistic world view of a borderless international governmentally controlled species.  There is a better path for us.

Love your neighbor, Pray for our country, support our military, and stand up for law and order.

God Bless our nation and it’s leaders.