USA BAD, BAD DOGGIE

USA   "BAD, BAD, DOGGIE

Racism, bigotry and prejudice are all part of the mantra behind the current display of anti-American discourse in the kneeling protest movement occurring in what used to be the NFL and is moving into the NBA.  It’s not like our society hasn’t been hammered these last few years, with the narrative that our country is bad to the bone.  The phrase “dog whistle” is predominantly used as a slur used to describe conservative speech but almost never recognized in the march of liberal, progressive demonstrations. 

Race baiting has almost reached the level of being an acceptable means of gaining income and relevance.  In order to sway public sentiment and gain political power, using the shout of victimization due to color is an acceptable part of our society.  Justification for this claim is not without validity. When the history of our country is looked at in the long term, the propaganda used to promote the ideology pitting color against color, advantage vs. victimization is the loudest bark on our planet.   

We all translate our environment through the veil of our individual belief systems, and because of this our responses can be manipulated by feeding our beliefs with false information. Fear is one of the most basic motivators and is also the most easily manipulated by rumor and outright falsehood.  There is a reason that the tablets presented to Moses on that mountain included the commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness.” (http://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/11/force-fed-fear.html)  

The “take a knee” demonstrations are a direct result of the actions of such groups as the “Black Lives Matter”, “Antifa” and those promoted on various websites that help organize demonstrations designed to weaken our cohesive society.  The basis for these promotions are not altruistic nearly so much as they are part of the decades old battle between our free national concepts and socialistic and communistic ideologies.  Typical partial truths mixed with complete fabrications are the weapons of choice in the longest continual war endured by our country.  The technique of dividing the herd into smaller, weaker groups and spreading the fear of victimhood has spread across our nation thanks to groups like the Soros funded “Move on dot org”.  

I am fully aware of the sins of our fathers in regards to slavery, racial inequality and outright heinous forms of hate filled activity against our brothers of color.  I have to be honest in my assessment of the differences between then and now.  We are not the same society that incited the War fought against slavery and the American lives lost, primarily in the “white” populace.  We are not the society that segregates our people into the factions of “white privilege” and victimized “oppressed” colored citizens. The narrative that has been promoted regarding law enforcement, broad brushed, has appealed to those who have learned that being Black in our country is a condition with no real hope.  Race baiting politicians have helped to promote the idea that law enforcement is infected with bigoted, racists who set out to arrest and/or kill those of the colored community.  This belief has spread and has been used by the BLM movement which in turn has put a target on all of law enforcement.  That belief has no more validity than the beliefs that deny the HOPE that our country and our federal republic was founded on.  Blame narrative has put the plight and the blight of many neighborhoods as the result of white oppression when in fact the actual blame spreads across privileged and “victimized” all. 

Societies are living breathing organisms. If a large enough number of individual cells become infected, the entire organism suffers.  Our country is in great distress infected by divisive that divide this once united population.  A society that is divided by the narrative denying the move away from segregation in our country, denying our majority desire to be a cohesive mutually respectful society, becomes an easy prey for predators. The individual person is defined by what they believe and how they act in accordance with their belief systems.  Our society is the same with one exception and that is that the society is reactionary to the loudest noise and in some cases the most physically threatening groups, believed or not.

In the recent history of our society we have watched, mostly in silent apathy, the loss of many things we once wound our individual threads into a rope of strength.  Through the activity of social engineering we have suffered through attacks on Christian values and traditional moral and ethical constraints.  We have been a society sitting, as a whole, allowing our educational system to change us into a flock of sheep that no longer hold our country in esteem.  The push to remove staples of our society such as the “Pledge of Allegiance”, standing for our national anthem, the right of the individual to pray or even mention God.  The list goes on and on.  We are rapidly becoming a group of individual victims of circumstance, people who have to accept a position of not having any hope.  Instead of accepting any bit of self-reliance or responsibility. We no longer allow competition, score keeping, grading systems, free speech, as we rapidly move toward the infection of sameness.  Misinterpreting individual rights into the mantra “I deserve everything you have, regardless of my abilities and my effort to achieve” and if I don’t get the same things I am a victim. 

A note to the kneeling NFL and NBA millionaires:  What are you doing to help?  Are you a positive part of the answers to correct the poverty, the drug use and sales, the loss of business, the poor educational services, the indoctrinated hatreds and mistrust, the lack of hope and the vision of success.  Perhaps your present act of dissent is more detrimental than helpful.

PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY.. GO TO YOUR KNEES IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION.. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.

You might take the time to check out your belief system.

http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/Soldier_Lives.pdf ; https://youtu.be/lxaKUo5naoY   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaKUo5naoY 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d2_1451242991#XIfETKQXKv1Qgfwl.99   http://www.slamjamwbc.org/

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/airline-couldnt-help-sick-child-so-donald-trump-came-to-the-rescue/

JUST A THOUGHT NFL (Seahawks)

My humble response to the players of the Seattle Seahawks:

I fully understand that racial tensions have been a problem in our country but what I don’t get is why you blame our country for the fault of a dwindling few in our society.  You show disdain and total disrespect for our flag, our anthem and the history of progress our society has made toward inclusivity.  You talk about being committed to working toward equality and justice for all, but as a group your efforts toward helping the factual problems are for the most part extremely minute.

When we, the fans, see you guys who are or should be heroes to our children acting out of ignorance due to race baiting and propaganda and disrespecting our country, our sentiment is shame on you.  Your obvious approval of groups such as BLM, Antifa is pretty evident but I implore you to look at the facts and the falsehoods promoted by these groups.

Our country is under attack physically and mentally by the actions of the terrorists.  Those terrorists, many of them have a “hatred” toward people of different races and creeds, it has been taught to them by parents immersed in an ideology. The same is true of most who hold on to the angers of the past without giving credence to the efforts made toward unification of a society.  Do we really want to wallow in the inequities of the past?  Do we really want to maintain the falsehood that our country’s people are bigoted and a bunch of racists who are out to hurt people of color?  How do you maintain that those under the wings of our country’s symbol, under the waving furls of our flag, those of every color, creed and race who have fought and died for our freedoms are deserving of your disrespect.

I am curious as to what the injustices are that cause you to protest and infect our country as a whole.  I am curious as to what percentage of police and first responders you think don’t care about people of color and don’t or would not risk their lives to help folks of another color or creed.  I am curious as to how many of the NFL elite are actually doing anything positive to create better environments and helping to elevate the opportunities in neighborhoods that are self-destructing.  If you want to protest, fine, but do your part to lift your fellow man into a place of equal opportunity, equal education and an attitude that shows the availability of success in our country.  Telling our young people that they are victims who are looked down upon and racially down-trodden due to their color is as much of a lie as believing that all police want to shoot black and brown, as believing that it’s permissible to kill cops and whites, and the belief that young people of color have less opportunity in our country than those who chose to be white. There is a lot of racism in our country being taught to our children, but it’s not all white against black or brown.  There is a disparity in our educational system but it’s not because whites are trying to hurt people of color.

My points are these: if you honestly want to change things, look for all the truth and disregard talking points; teach folks how to look for points of commonality as well as those that differentiate; stop teaching young people that they will be subjects of hatred and mistrust; understand that positive change is not brought about in the absence of hope; help people understand that neighborhoods that are filled with crime and violence will not improve without a concerted effort of investment.  NFL do something positive!  NFL players for the most part have received opportunities to be educated.  I suggest you help others to enjoy and to improve their world.  That is not accomplished by exemplifying fear and distrust.

If you support groups like BLM, Antifa etc. ask yourself if all that anger and if the causes for all those riots, looting and burning are based on fact or fiction.  Narratives starting with Trayvon Martin, who was depicted pictorially as such an innocent looking 12 year old youth.. (wasn’t). Regarding slavery, less than 1-1/2 % of U.S. citizens were ever slave owners.  Fact is almost all shootings at the hands of police involve a failure to co-operate with  law enforcement requests……………

If you want to change our country, dispensing disrespect and hatred will not be the answer.  If you want better results, be a better team… same with our country!

God Bless our country, our people, and our warriors.

RESPONDING TO SEN. FEINSTEIN re: United

Dear Senator Feinstein,

I can understand you opposing our President, and your party’s intent to state disdain over anything President says or does.  I do not understand your reluctance to change path on the N. Korea situation.

Today our President spoke before the United Nations Assembly and made it abundantly clear that the patty-cake policies that have been used to curtail N. Korea’s march of insanity are no longer going to be in use.  President Trump’s unmistakable straight talk regarding N. Korea should not have any false reading on what was said.  That fact, I hope, is easier understood in N. Korea than can be understood by one vested in politics as usual.

Senator, for you to detract from the President’s statement with your purely political complaining is beneath you and your office.  You have been privy to the lame policies that have allowed N. Korea the freedom to increase its nuclear capabilities.  As a private citizen of the independent thinking part of our society, I would like to make you aware of how sick and tired I am of you and your comrades in arms thinking of re-elections rather than the safety and welfare of the lowly little citizens for whom you were supposed to be working for.  You have had decades to prevent the precarious position our country is in at this time in history, but you still have the guts to complain about someone who is standing up to the blackmailing regime that endangers the entire world.  You should be ashamed of yourself.

RonBurres

WE WERE WARNED

WE WERE WARNED

I decided to change my routine this morning, I started to read in the New Testament.  Trying to break my usual input of politics and the study of current sociological malfeasance I denied my urge to turn on the usual media outlets.  Within the first three chapters of Mark I read the words of Jesus as he explained the inability to survive as a divided entity. 

Mark chapter 3:24-27  ²⁴ How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot last. ²⁵ And if a household is divided against itself, that household can never last. ²⁶ Now if Satan has rebelled against himself and is divided, he cannot last either -- it is the end of him.

Those words have survived for centuries but it seems that we as a society have ignored that warning when it comes to our own nation.

Abraham Lincoln: America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. 

Nakita Kruschev: We will bury you and 'We shall destroy you from within'. Words within the context of defeating our capitalistic democratic philosophy and our society through the use of words rather than physical warfare. 

A historical Syrian adage “The word is mightier than the sword” has proven itself time and time again throughout our species history.  The use of words has been used as a prop for ideological propaganda to gain great success.  That success as far as benefit, is only in regard to effectiveness, but more in terms of its resulting debris.  The debris left scattered throughout our world by well-spoken, persuasive tyrants, ie. Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro and a list of others promising answers to discomfort, is quite similar to the fate suffered by those mammals scurrying after the pied piper as they rushed toward their own demise.

Our society has discarded pragmatism in favor of idealism, unfortunately, while thinking we can run and leap, we are still just crawling and stumbling not yet able to personify our goal of perfection.  Mankind in its climb toward becoming more god-like, more merciful, kinder and gentler than the rest of those in various food chains has some of us denying the nature of our world.

It is difficult to understand why, after all the forewarning and historical lessons we, as a society, have allowed our country’s government and educators to drive us toward the edge of a suicidal jump from hope and promise. Just as our physical bodies require healthy nourishment our society requires beliefs that are pragmatically constructive to its healthy growth and survival.  We would never allow our heads to be severed from our bodies on the promise and arguments of a thief.  To our detriment we allow power grabbing politicians to lead us toward the removal of our base concepts of self-reliance, hope of achievement and trust in those who lead. 

More reading of the Book gives warning in the beginning chapters.  Evil is able to coerce with lies, partial truths and false promises.  The story of Eve being enticed to act against the best interests of mankind by the Snake gives us the warning…  Not all things that sound really good, are and care should be taken before accepting a free lunch without looking at it.

It would make sense to be prudent in our acceptance of most all things that sound too good to be true.  Nor are all things we hear regarding the ill intent and history of others are factual and true.  It makes sense that we learn to be individual thinkers that delve into the truth of what we see and hear.  We need to understand the motivation behind what is fed into our belief systems.  The “GIGO” principle in computer language and input is understood in the world’s languages, but somehow, ignored when we choose our own personal operating systems. 

SOURCE, PURPOSE, GOALS, COST, UNEXPECTED NEGATIVE RESULTS, HISTORICAL SUCCESS RATE, IS IT GOOD FOR YOU PERSONALLY, IS IT GOOD FOR THE DIRECTION OF OUR COUNTRY, IS IT GOOD FOR MANKIND AS A WHOLE, IS IT A STEP TOWARD OR IS IT AN END GOAL , and most importantly, WHAT WILL THE UNEXPECTED RESULTS BRING. 

These are a few of the things we should examine before we dump things into our belief systems, and our choice of actions.  The need for self-education is more important today than any other time in man’s history, due to the intense manipulation of the mass.  The use of propaganda is a very silent and insidious tool and we are seeing the effect of some 50 years of the infection of the educational, media and entertainment personal information systems available to our people, most particularly attacking those not yet in control, our children.  Pragmatism has been overturned in favor of social engineering and letting others determine what the highest purpose of the individual should be.  We complain about school yard bullying, about bullies that pick the weakest link in the social hierarchy then attack them verbally and physically.  Yet those same “I’m better than you” who condemn the young bully, will use the same well-honed techniques of shaming someone they disagree with.

Our nation is in danger of being overturned by our younger generation, those who feel disenfranchised, who have been taught that our system and our society are bad for mankind as a whole.  We see multiple generations of our society attacking a duly elected political administration, decrying a governing system that has provided the world with so many positive things.  The result is predictable if we allow it to continue.  We cannot reverse this march toward extinction as a political and social system by the use of force.  We need to use truth, honesty, and history.  The same methods need to be employed, we need to educate our young people, not abdication our responsibilities as adults.

Our country and our President are under attack by a media and backed up by public idols (actual or self-titled) who regurgitate false rumor and innuendo.  The same techniques used by the schoolyard bullies are used to stop any possible chance of success.

Pray for our country, our people, and our warriors.

May God bless us all.

SNOWFLAKE?

Misconceptions continued.  Our population's penchant for tunnel vision when it comes to blame and schoolyard finger pointing, has put handcuffs on understanding.  It’s the centuries old problem of seeing the splinter in your eye while ignoring the log in mine.  Sad.  Pragmatism, logic, reason, open mindedness and common sense seem to be rejected concepts today.  We seem to be going through a stage of growth in our country that would make Dr. Phil tear his hair out.  Any sane person knows that a wounded relationship, based on believing derogatory rumor and innuendo, has little or no chance of healing and revival.  Our country is no less in danger of a major fracture. The statement below is a great example of the divisive nature of our society’s inability to have a sensible discussion regarding anything.

 

I am a firm believer that every human being on this planet has components within himself of both godliness and the basic nature of our animal.  The good dog bad/dog approach seems to be factual.  Who we are as a person is shown by which of those dogs we feed.

The apparent missdefined term of “Liberal-Snowflake” is not applicable to any of the traits listed in this statement, even though these traits may be a part of those who can be defined as Snowflakes.  I do find it interesting that there is probably a lot more in common between our opposing groups than believed possible. Once again my abhorrence to the mental use of “all” of any group has given the raised hair on the back of my neck cause to occur.  Having those traits do not classify you as a “Snowflake”.  What might make you join that group is the of use of a truthful statement to propagandize a falsehood. 

I am an individual, moderately conservative in almost every respect.  I do not see myself as a hateful misogynistic, racist, nazi, war monger with a bigoted approach to understanding and accepting those of different beliefs, races, religions and skin color.  I would classify myself as a pragmatic, empathetic American conservative.  Just as some of you may resent being classified as a bleeding heart liberal progressive with Snowflake tendencies, I have resented being categorized as a person who hates gays, one who would strip all federal programs designed to help others etc.  I have put up with those designations of conservatism for some thirty years, sometimes out of fear.

Just for a view of what this one conservative Trump supporter would include in the probabilities of one being a “Snowflake” is the following group of clues:

1.        An inability to accept the election of our President under the centuries old tenants and laws of “The United States of America” which puts the Electoral College above that of population centers.

2.        The adherence to the religion of political correctness as defined by the progressive world view of what is acceptable or not.

3.        The need to remove all forms of competition and recognition of superior achievement in favor of simply being a part of.

4.        Revulsion toward opposing viewpoints and beliefs, to the extent of denying freedom of speech to those who hold those views.

5.        The elevation of feelings to a priority position in everyone’s life regardless of morality, subjugating all other choices of action to that one yardstick.

6.        A lack of pragmatic, logical reason pertaining to what our body politic should be providing our population and the rest of the world.

7.        The presence of a sense of moral superiority over anyone who does not fit into the currently accepted belief structures.

8.        The refusal to seek truth that might diminish your current distaste and anger toward us poor misguided, deplorable, hateful conservatives.

One thing I must emphasize is this fact. If you are a Snowflake, a liberal, a progressive, a “Never Trumper” or a Democrat, I do

not hate you,

I do not wish you ill, I don’t want to inhibit or prohibit your right to think the way you do or to promote your beliefs.  I might, however, consider you to be woefully misinformed.

God bless our country, our people and especially those with whom I may disagree.

Support our country, its warriors and our endeavors.

"GIT'R DONE...."

So much to do and so little time…

There is, as usual, the correlation between the body politic and the body of an individual.  We are in a situation, nationally, the same as any one of us would be in as a result of incision, laziness, fear or plain procrastination.  There is not one of our nation’s ugly situations that could not have been, honestly and effectively, taken care of years ago.  Our politicians and lawmakers have consistently acted not in our country’s best interests but instead have based their decisions on the ballot box.  Our people have enforced that ignorant approach to governance by our what “I want”, selfishness and the “gimmee” syndrome.  Our politicians are like any other animal on our planet that gravitates and relies on the easiest means of gaining sustenance.  They have learned the easiest way to maintain their positions as elected officials is to basically bribe and promise the electorate anything that gets the sheep to follow the gift truck.  We are experiencing the result of a chosen parent who has decided that their two year old child is capable of making decisions for the entire family.  Politicians who cave into the tantrums of ill informed, angry mobs in order to collect them into ideological herds that will repay them at the ballot box, are traitors to their ethical purpose.

Quite a few of us, who are attached to the more conservative ideologies, are upset with POTOS 44 for “kicking the can down the road” need to be honest.  It ain’t the first time all those cans got dented and a bunch of those dents bear the conservative footprints.  Sadly, that “give to get” buy the vote is not the fault of the politicians, it is the fault of whoever has failed to teach how to make rational well informed choices.  What the individual wants is not always what is best for the all.  One of the titles “The art of Selfishness”, pointed out that not all selfishness is bad.  Our country can only sustain itself out of a position of strength on all fronts, out of a sense of cohesiveness and unity that gives opportunity to each and every one of our citizens.  That type of system will only continue if it is governed with factual, logical decisions that will give our country the ability to survive.  The demise of the USA will affect you, me and most of the free world in a detrimental fashion.

Our nation came about through the belief that all men are created equal, that all men have the right for self-determination and the right to choose.  Those tenants cannot be ensured for all of us if we are ruled by the squeaky wheel of selfishness or by the whoredom of political vote purchasing.  Good choices are not going to be made by a society that allows itself to be separated into groups by propaganda that has led individuals to believe that “they” have been and are being treated unfairly by some other group in our country.  Some degree of truth is always a part of propaganda and that is what makes it so insidiously effective.  Unfortunately, like in the case of racism, there are still some pockets of that occurring in our country, but, not all white people, not all people of color, not all Hispanics, not all men, not all women, not all democrats and not all Republicans, not all the wealthy and not all those on welfare are screwing you over or anybody else. The odds are that anyone preaching with the word or the inference of “ALL” is trying to influence you with some form of propaganda and are lying to you.  As individuals we each have an obligation to our neighbors to be reasonable and knowledgeable about the subjects we are asked to vote for.  We have an obligation to be honestly and factually informed before we jump on the bandwagons (demonstrations) of anger that result in personal and property damage in order to bring awareness to a “problem”.  Just a thought: “not everything I believe is true and not everything you say is wrong.” One thing I am 99% sure of, is the statement I just made is true of you too.  We need to start moving our feet out of ideological concrete and start looking for points of agreement rather than the “me right, you wrong” disbelief that puts an end to reason and discussion. 

The results of “kicking the can” have our nation on a very precarious cliff with another cliff just about everywhere we turn.  North Korea, Iran, Russia, Syria, Afghanistan on the international Military cliff; our society torn apart by the practice of dividing us into racial and economic components; vicious crime and murder rate in our cities are just a few of the problems that should have been handled and were not. 

The solutions for immigration, DACA, our border is not really all that impossible to see solution for, but because of politics the obvious answers are not coming forth.  It should not be that difficult but due to desired appearances, or optics as it is called today, common sense does not and will not prevail.  Stop the illegal border leakage, set up a reasonable means for those under daca to gain citizenship, give illegals a opportunity to become legalized, set up a visitor work program for those who seek employment in our agricultural supply chain.  These all have a way to come to a logical, comprehensive and compassionate solution once we remove the politics.

The answer to ending our longest armed conflict in Afghanistan would not still be happening if it were not for the political correctness of trying to appear as the most humane nation in the history of mankind.  Guilt over the bombing that ended WWII has been politicized to the point of not completely fighting the conflict with the intention of winning. 

As for our national debt… if it were your debt, just how much would your be willing to increase your debt load if your earnings were dramatically decreased?

Open your eyes folks, and be totally honest.  We must survive in order to help any one.

God bless our country, our society, our warriors.  Help us to understand and to love our fellow man.

HELP ME UNDERSTAND.. PLEASE

I'm really trying hard to understand why interpretation of our century's old language has been so scattered. It's as if the "tower of Babylon" is being revisited. When President Trump condemned ALL hatred, bigotry and racism, in the past that word ALL would have been inclusive, and would have included the White supremacists, the neo Nazi's. Why is that so difficult to understand. I am also trying to understand why those folks who objected, to those mentally deranged hate filled jerks, and arrived at the scene wielding baseball bats looking for a fight and getting it, shouldn't have been included in that word ALL. In context of that group vs group exhibition of hate there were also people in that park who came there to protest the "Nazi" like practice of erasing past histories. History that, if erased will undoubtedly be repeated due to a lack of awareness of consequence. Why is it ok to hate our President? I also fail to understand why the fact that I am a Christian conservative, who believes that hatred is a form of murder, that believes I have been directed to love my neighbor, that believes in forgiveness, that believes people can be changed, that believes in honesty and truth, Why should I, as a supporter of our President, be called a Fascist, a racist, a hater or be considered to be a bad person.🤔 Feel free to respond https://www.facebook.com/A-Response-2-by-Arbee.../

LIKE IT OR NOT... POINT YOUR FINGER AT

Wow.  We as a nation could not ask for a better chance to do some real soul searching.  That search should tender positive results for our nation, our society as a whole.  Will the lesson be squandered?  Most likely the answer is, probably.  Unfortunately the sad practice of playing the blame game will continue, the indoctrination of ideologies, the refusal to let go of past angers will foster more of what the mirror of Charlottesville could let us see. It seems pretty clear as to what the results of hatred and anger can be, but as to the real causes behind it all, put the blinders on because we don’t really want to see the why.  We miss the why because we always want to blame the other guy in lieu of seeing all sides of the matter, including our part (as in all contests) our side.

The majority, of the United States of America citizens, are aware of the hatred generated by indoctrination in the children of radical Islamists.  When we see Isis parents, pounding the bigotry of their beliefs into 4 and 5 year old children in order to ensure the survival of the ideology, the parents themselves show us the effects of indoctrination.  When we see the indoctrination of fears and hatreds being smeared upon the minds of our own children we are unable to see the correlation.  We are not born into this world in a state of fear, anger, and hatred.  Somebody has to teach us who to fear and hate.  We also have to be taught how to act and react to our targets.  That mental sickness, and the acceptance of it as normal makes it ok for me but not for you.  Indoctrination can be a very subtle force, and in most cases it is hidden by generations of repetition.  

In our own country this form of anti-(choose your poison) is turning our country into hundreds of small groups at odds with one another because of some injustice, real or perceived.  The United part of our society is unravelling at an exponential rate, fueled by the words of those who would see our country fail.  We as a society need to fall back on the adage, “United we Stand, divided we Fall”.  We as individuals need to take an honest hard look at the facts of our history, the actual results of our way of life, the progress our way of life has made in all forms of human endeavor.  Our growth has not always been pure and beautiful.  There have been some very ugly growing pains along the way and those need to be recognized to the same degree as are the successes.  We as a people need to be able to put our place in this time in perspective to where we have been, how we failed and how we succeeded.  Trying to erase the facts of both good and bad will not change where we are today but it will increase the probability of failure tomorrow. The above preamble takes me to the subject that prompted the following commentary from this plain and simple citizen of the United States of America.  What teachable possibilities have the violence in Charlottesville (8/13/2017) given us and what can we hope to change.

We need to stop accepting violence as a form of discourse for change.  We need to stop accepting partial truth as fact. We have to stop attributing the actions of a few to the all of other groups.  We need to accept and learn from our past.  We need to look for ways to effect change through the use of reasonable discourse.  We need to start acting like a society of adults rather than one comprised of toddlers.  We need to understand that forcing political correctness merely masks hatred, bigotry it doesn’t change those illnesses.  We need to embrace our differences at the same time as we recognize and respect the rights of one another to have different goals and beliefs.  I am quite sure that everyone has their own list, but as individuals we need to inspect our beliefs in the face of fact not fiction.

God Bless our Nation,

our warriors,

and our leaders.

Love your neighbor, and yourself.

Pray for peace and understanding.

Like it or not... HE'S RIGHT

CHARLOTSESVILLE, VIRGINIA… 8/13/2017… Who are we supposed to blame?

In a city, known for being a great place to be an American citizen, a clash occurred at a “White Nationalist” demonstration.  Once again our duly elected President can say or do nothing right.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides - on many sides,” Trump said.

Ted Cruz on his twitter feed: “It's tragic and heartbreaking to see hatred and racism once again mar our great Nation with bloodshed.”

President (past) Obama tweeted a quote from Nelson Mandela, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."

In contrast to the facts, almost every report of this conflict  and Mr. Trumps reaction, no mention of the opposition of this demonstration is named, nor is the context of the Presidents condemnation of all those factions at play.

Some of the reality of this situation has been obscured in order to heighten the “anti-Trump”, anti-USA”, resistance movement talking point that Trump is a bad, bad, person.  The real causes involved in this sad part of our societies growth pain are basically what the President called out, bigotry and hatred.  Like it or not, Mr. Trump was right when he called those two sicknesses, hatred and bigotry, as being the basic causes behind  the rising fever of divisive conflict in our nation.

This demonstration was a objection to the removal of a segment of our history, a statue of Robert E Lee.  I am not a white nationalist but I disagree with the current pump up of political correctness.  The cheer leaders of this bastardization of our history include those groups which would pull our people into the mire of hatred.  The antifa group, a major part of the Resistance Movement, also arrived at this demonstration in a state of preparedness’ for conflict.  You will be hard pressed to find mention of this fact.  Once again, like it or not, President Trump was absolutely correct in saying many factions were at fault.

Hatred , bigotry, racism is being promoted by so many divisive components of our society and by those who would see our way of life, capitalism and democracy, fail and disintegrate.  Many say that the war in Afghanistan is our longest war, but that war has only been going on for a mere 15 to 16 years.  The propaganda war being waged on our country through propaganda, education and Medias has been conducted against us for some 60 years.  This “fifth column” is finally coming out into the open and its effect is catastrophic  and is evidenced by the almost complete division of our society since the Civil War. 

Like it or not, our President is 100% correct when he calls for our people to abandon hatred, when he calls for us to unite behind the tenants of our system of life, the one based on the merging and acceptance of the color race and creed of our neighbor.  Like it or not, as individuals, we need to look in the mirror and see if we have been infected by our national sickness.

Pray for our country, our people, and our President.

Pray for healing of our Nation

Pray for the elimination of all forms of hatred and bigotry.

GOD BLESS THE USA

LIKE IT OR NOT

 

Like it or not facts are not always stronger than fiction. 

In the last 75 years I have seen the art of twisting the truth into a weapon being used on our society by our own people.  We are at war, and we are not winning.  We have spent millions of dollars, lost blood and lives fighting wars in countries far distant from our shores.  We are facing threats of attack from North Korea.  The U.S. is experiencing cyber intrusion into our financial, economic and military systems from so many fronts that it’s difficult to keep them straight.  It seems there is some new confrontation occurring on a daily basis.  One might think those are our greatest dangers.  (Our war in the Middle East has been our longest war and one of our most ill-advised undertakings of our short history as a country.)

The fact is the most dangerous war we are in is the one we are having with ourselves, with our achievements and our own history.  The “fifth column” is alive, organized and active and it has spread like a cancer across our country.  We are like lambs being led by the “Judas Goat” to cutting our own throats.  That war has far surpassed any other in terms of span of time, cost to our nation and the absolute danger to our way of life.  The weapon and method used against us is using the pliable minds of our own children being contaminated through the propaganda being taught in colleges and universities we pay for. 

The truth of the matter is this mental contagion is the product of our own making.  Years ago our parents began abdicating the responsibility of child rearing to the primary educational system.  Rather than instilling the ethics of honesty, hard work, compassion, and yes, the Ten Commandments, we allowed our way of life to be corrupted.   We have allowed our way of life to erode as the rock into sand.  The constant pounding of discontent and identity separateness has unraveled the strength of unity into the weakness of a single thread.  Through the power of communication media, our collective knowledge base is shown to be lacking.  Were you to stop twenty random people (under the age of thirty) you would find few that know anything about our country’s history, its political and economic systems and the positive results that have been contributed to our world as a whole.  You will find, however, that they are quite knowledgeable regarding the warts and moles marring the beauty of our nation.  We are at war, we have been at war, a war for the minds and hearts of our people, society and our country.   This war has been hidden for over 60 years and is now moving into public view.  We see it on our streets, on attacks on our law enforcement and first responders, and most recently against the President of the United States. 

I keep returning to one of my favorite books, “As a Man Thinketh”, the premise being that what a man thinks and believes is the real who and what he is.  The same holds true for a society.  Our current state of disarray is a result of what our collective minds have allowed our society to believe and be.  In our desire, as a Judeo-Christian based nation, to be considerate loving folks, we now find ourselves overly protective of every whim, of the individual, and to be the guiding factor for the rest of us to condone to the utmost.  

An overzealous drive to be known as a nice person, a generous person, a charitable and caring person each of us in our own way has contributed to the separateness of all the different groups we have chosen to be included in.  The self-imposed definitions of good and bad are no longer used just to change our own actions but are now used as a defamatory judgement of our neighbors.  Contrary to popular belief, you are not always right and there are always unexpected results.  That is a fact in all reality and it’s true for you and most importantly for me in our society.

We are at War. Our enemy is what is being infused into the minds and hearts of our people.  The weapons of choice are: creating discontent through the use of the words “fair and unfair”, “acceptable and unacceptable”, “right and wrong”, etc.

The age old trick of deception is the use of slivers of truth and fact interspersed with falsehood in the intent to direct and mislead.  That is basically the art of propaganda. It has proven to be a highly effective tool, used for good and bad, in the fight to control societies, be it our own or that of the world in general.  When used against an enemy, it is generally used to create fear to weaken their intent.  Within our own society it is used to lead us in a direction of collective thought congruent with those who are leading us. 

A question might be, “where are we being led”, and who is doing the leading, and why?

A ? the ART OF THOUGHT

Just a ?: Is actually thinking  a form of extinct human activity?

This article is one that I originally wrote sometime before the changing of the United States Presidential office.  Strange how somethings just don't seem to change.  Dichotomy reigns supreme.

Why is I Love Lucy, still available on tv with Ricky’s strong Latino accent saying “Lucy you got some splainin to do”. Isn’t splainin a racist slam?

Why is it Trumps fault that the Russians were allowed to hack into voting processes in 39 States during the 2018 election cycle?  Didn’t that election take place during the Obama reign?

Why is President Trumps team accused of collaboration with the Russians when Hillary facilitated the sale of 25% of our Uranium resources to the Russians and the DOJ and Congress raised the loud sound of crickets?
Why is Sessions accused of stone walling the congresses attempt to pin the Russian hacking debacle on the trump team while the liberals faction treated Holder with kid gloves.
Why was the misleading of the American citizenry during the Benghazi “matter” not criminal?

Why was the destruction of some 30,000 plus documents by then Secretary of State Clinton declared to be a nothing nothing, nothing  by the POTUS Obama not to be questioned?  Hmmm would that be considered obstruction of justice?
Why is Congress being forced to waste our time and money on a purely political contest when the American people voted in a repair team.

Why do politicians focus on winning the next election cycle with childish mud-fights rather than helping our country.

Why would Liberals not want to stop the insanity called Obama care with a program the will help people?

RESPONDING TO RATHER

Remarkable.  The infamous Dan Rather penned a heartfelt editorial piece regarding what he sees as a pending calamity to our country.  He sees President Trump as the epitome of disaster, a viewpoint held by a vast number of our country’s citizens.  Using his credentials as a self-proclaimed Dr. of psychology, like so many others, he has proclaimed the POTUS to be paranoid and of “of questionable mental fitness.”

My response to his editorial has nothing to do with the past history of Mr. Rather's ideological bent towards creating false narratives to give credence to his beliefs.  I do, however, disagree with so many of the beliefs he has taken to heart and I will attempt to look at our state of division from a different point of view.

In the first paragraph, there were so many points of disagreement that I debated about wasting my time on an article so steeped in talking points, innuendo and propaganda.  The report, by the Truth Examiner,  also is worded as to create a colorful picture of reality.  To my point, “Trump’s paranoid accusations have taken Rather to his breaking point” is an example of spreading an attitude through innuendo.  Sometimes, in the scope of reality, that which seems to be paranoia has just perception as a foundation.  I do agree with parts of what Mr. Rather is putting forth in his essay and that is the point that our country is divided to the point of creating a danger to our citizens and to the very fabric of our country and our society.  We do not agree on the causation of this great divide.

Rather writes: “On one side we see understandable outrage, with many questioning the mental fitness of our Commander and Chief.”           

AR2: The outrage he is speaking of is understandable, not because it is based on facts but it is based and entrenched in many minds due to the practice of spreading fear through the media which Mr. Rather represents.  As citizens, we have become oblivious to the amount of mental manipulation foisted upon our societal mores on a daily basis.  Our perception of “what is” no longer depends on factual foundation but it is now formed by whatever the elite coastal P.C. police have decided is in our best interests.  The progressive religion of making the rest of us conform to what they perceive as being a higher moral standard.  This past political season has proven that not all of us are in agreement with that elite group.  My contention is this: that so-called “understandable outrage” is there but is based on false narrative.

Rather writes: We see Trump’s allies rallying under their shared hatred of our previous President.

AR2: The talking point trying to present the noticeable racially (fictional) hatred on the part of President Trump, and those of us who have been tagged as deplorable, racist, bigotted, ignorant and morally deficient, has no connection to the irrational policies of the previous administration.  Our disagreement with the previous administration is not due to racial color but to the policies and methods in play during that period of our history.

Rather writes: We do know that there were numerous contacts between close aides to Donald Trump and senior Russian officials at a time when all indications point that the Kremlin was actively trying to undermine the integrity of our election.

AR2: This is a pretty far stretch in the practice of innuendo.  That statement is clearly making the connection between any contact with Russian is tied to an attempt to influence the election process in favor of Mr. Trump.  This bit of unsubstantiated rhetoric has been widely promoted by the detractors of President Trump in the continued onslaught of political partisanship. There were contacts for sure but the why is most apt to be “because it was their job.”

Rather writes: It is long past time that we have a complete and independent bipartisan investigation, especially since the director of the FBI is under such a cloud of political manipulation. Now is the time to breathe the cool winds of impartiality and facts. We need statesmen of steady head and temperament willing to put country ahead of politics. We cannot afford for our democratic institutions to be consumed by a bonfire of lies, innuendos and conspiracy theories.

AR2:  So I have to admit, there is more than one part of the Rather commentary that I agree with, and the above statement is the other.  Although I agree with the need for an investigation, I am quite sure the outcome will not be what is expected by the progressive faction of our society.  The reason being is POTUS will be found to not be paranoid.

The recent flap regarding the possibility of wire-tapping the Trump campaign (denied by the Obama side) has been proven to have credibility.

http://thehayride.com/2017/03/video-mark-levin-goes-on-fox-friends-lays-out-the-proof-that-trump-was-surveilled/

 Trump’s error with his tweet was to say that Obama was the one behind the surveillance, when Obama may not have ordered the illegal wiretap of an Amerian citizen, he was made aware and he allowed it to occur.  Not good.

Seek truth, not validation.

God bless our country.  God bless and protect our President.  

God give us all the ability to discern fact from fiction.

THE RULE OF REGULATION

 Most governmental agencies survive not by the good they provide but by getting budget approval for their continuation.  To increase their longevity it is absolutely necessary to create the appearance of being something we can’t do without.  The EPA is a sterling example of an agency allowed to run amok and there are thousands of citizens that have felt the damage of being over regulated.  It is time for sanity to take over the controls.  Agencies, under the constitution, are not the law makers.

The “fake news”, that President Trump has been “trumptweeting” about has tried to restate Mr. Bannons Q&A at C-Pac as the administrations attempt to dismantle our entire government.  Once again proving the Presidents point of view as being valid.

Bannons comment regarding deconstruction of the regulatory system is not the same as translated by the Daily Kos.  This is a prime example of what President Trump is railing about.  There is intent behind the choices made on Trumps cabinet that is a fact.  He is striving to get our country back on the track of the rule of law.  The giant bureaucracies that have done so much in our country to inhibit individual rights have just been called out.  The idea of most, originally, was to make sure that the rule of law was being followed.  Over the course of time, each of them has taken over the job of congress, which is the passing of laws.  We are at a point in our republic that dictates our lives not by rule of law but by regulation.  The purpose of some of the regulations used by bureaucracy mandates is not so much for the public good as it is for the survival of the individual agency involved under the guise of good.  That is the object of attack, and it is much needed.

It always amazes me how the progressive liberal faction in our country is in such ideological lock step, regardless of actual reality and effect policies might have.  We are watching a form of insanity play out on our tv’s, our computers, and our phones.  We are seeing the efforts of some liberal educators to propagandize both history and current events, and what adds to the effect of that propaganda is that most actually believe what they are pouring into those young minds.  What is really terrible is that generations of our society will end of dealing with the effects of their ability to revise actual history, to revise our language, and to mis-interpret current events in order to advance a false narrative.

While the original purpose, of establishing an agency to carry out legislated law, was similar to creating a department within a company it has morphed into a system of pure bureaucracy.  Interesting result when I looked up the actual definition of that word. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bureaucracy  gives more than one definition and none of them sound as if our elected body of legislators have any part in the kind of, or number of regulations enacted.

bu·reauc·ra·cy 

1.

a. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.

b. The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.

2.

a. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head did not know much about bureaucracy.

b. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.

3. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

bu•reauc•ra•cy

1. government by a rigid hierarchy of bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.

2. a body of officials and administrators, esp. in a government.

3. excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, bureaus or administrators.

4. administration characterized by excessive red tape and routine. 

Operating under the guise of protecting our people these agencies are able to control and to affect almost every phase of our lives in a country created to give our people freedom.

It has been said that there is always a faction of humanity that seeks to control.  That is very seldom accomplished with a prism of transparency. 

Just a thought in passing: How transparent is the current administration?  How transparent was the last administration?

Pray that God gives our people the gift of discernment, that we may be able to differentiate between fact and fiction.

God Bless the USA