tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367096034023414252024-03-05T00:23:44.783-08:00What's Really Wrong in America?My musings on how a middle class American sees what's gone wrong in America.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236709603402341425.post-82581324968284900442023-05-27T10:40:00.002-07:002023-05-27T10:40:27.247-07:00Memorial Day 2023<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rco:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Memorial Day…</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">I won’t say happy Memorial Day because while it’s a weekend for enjoyment for many, for others it’s a solemn walk down a memory lane remembering those who were lost in so many wars and conflicts. Friends, family, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. While the mute white crosses and bronze markers stand silent in cemeteries worldwide, and are names engraved on monuments, countless others remain in sort of a limbo due to the ravages of war on their physical and <span></span>mental health. Still living but who also sacrificed in ways that will ultimately mean their demise. Those are the living dead from wars gone by. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our freedom was not won by the mouths of politicians, but on the blood and self-sacrifice of those who were prepared to give all for a cause. Politicians start wars; heroes fight them. And when they come home they have to fight not only the politicians for their due, but fight that damned war over and over again in mind and body.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every day is Memorial Day sometimes...</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3DOUJxbrqnnLtC4jwh6weq3Bbpnj8p6qEGOTWchsPnciKtZPddTFGIoSzUMFKlT4oFzUOwsAfzDjvQTfXgXercMrHE2S4pCxNElTogSPGzcVe7WLgn-NvvRe85L42W4f6NhMhZqKtJ8pEPJUsUVgob04r5-xKsUfpGLR6qG4tLtgeKwQrDYfgpXBnZg/s359/41Q1B3vMfML._AC_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="359" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3DOUJxbrqnnLtC4jwh6weq3Bbpnj8p6qEGOTWchsPnciKtZPddTFGIoSzUMFKlT4oFzUOwsAfzDjvQTfXgXercMrHE2S4pCxNElTogSPGzcVe7WLgn-NvvRe85L42W4f6NhMhZqKtJ8pEPJUsUVgob04r5-xKsUfpGLR6qG4tLtgeKwQrDYfgpXBnZg/w394-h238/41Q1B3vMfML._AC_.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><br /> </span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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watched a program last evening on how the diversity equity and
inclusion mantra has impacted our schools, it dawned on me this is the
exact road to socialism that is envisioned by the Democrat far left.
Schools dropping honors programs where the gifted and intelligent
children thrive and succeed, because those programs are not inclusive to
those who do not strive to achieve. The twisted logic is to force
everyone on the same level regardless of talent and ability; in other
words, lower educational standards to the least intelligent child in the
class. <br clear="none" /><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At least one school
has withheld honors certificates from the students that needed them for
college admissions so that all, including the non-achievers, would have
an equal college application possibility. Punish those who overachieved
in search of equity and inclusiveness. Create additional divisiveness in
our children, feed them lies that will separate them from their
parents, make achievement a bad thing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Spending tax dollars to tell children that any sex is okay and you can change sex preferences at a minutes notice is abysmal. No, it's sick. A boy decides he identifies as female today and wants to use the girls bathroom and is allowed to do so although tomorrow he may identify as male? A male with male genitals is allowed to use the girls locker room because he identifies as a transgender female? What the hell is this "identify" crap anyway. If I identify as the President of the US does that mean I can move in to the White House? If I identify as the Pope can I sit on the throne in Rome? This entire gender bending is not only immoral and outrageous but sickening as well. There are two sexes, male and female. Period. The new buzzwords "gender dysmorphia" is a nicely coined phrase that used to be called mental illness!<br /></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;">People who worked hard and
earned their wealth are now the bad guys; those who sat on their
collective rear ends on the public dole are now considered the heroes
who deserve everything at the expense of those who worked for it. Home
ownership is gained by work, not welfare. Moving up to a nicer home and
neighborhood is by hard dedicated work, not some government gimme
program. Regardless of color or national origin most intelligent people
strive to be better and have better. Government programs just destroy
that spirit.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Imagine working many years to achieve home ownership in a nice community, only to be told that simply because of that work ethic and savings you are an elitist and not inclusive. So the government will force lower income people into your neighborhood, using your tax dollars to subsidize down payments, help them relocate and settle, all in the name of diversity and equity. No consideration to what that does to a community, no consideration that people's work and living standards widely differ and you worked to get here while they did not. Then when those who move in allow their living standard, or lack thereof, to become a scourge on the community, many people will flee and the entire community dissolves into a ghetto. The government will then buy up homes, rent them as Section 8 and other subsidized program housing and increase the lower socioeconomic residency. Think that's a harsh statement? Look at the suburbs where the original homeowners fled because of HUD and similar housing programs and look at the before and after photos and videos. The ghettos in major cities just didn't happen by themselves, the government in it's wisdom was the driving force behind that. <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br clear="none" /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">I see this as becoming a two class country with the
filthy rich and the lower class. Middle class is being eroded with
costs and inflation and the government mandates. Forcing people to buy
all new appliances they cannot afford to meet some nefarious energy
goals, while not fixing the national grid to handle the surge. Ceasing
use of natural gas appliances including furnaces, stoves, dryers and hot
water heaters, and forcing replacement with electric at huge costs that
will never be recouped by consumers, even if they can afford to make the changeover, which many cannot. Doles to help low income families
move into upper class neighborhoods in the quest for inclusion, when
most of those who cannot afford homes also cannot afford to maintain
them. Government speaks of moving people to better living accommodations
improves their living standard....looks like they never looked at what
the huge expensive public housing became when populated with lower
socioeconomic groups. They turned brand new apartments into shit boxes
in short order and then complained the units were not habitable. I'm
sure there were toilets and sinks in place when built, but residents
taking them out and selling them seemed to be a regular occurrence. And
no, the cockroaches were not an integral part of the build either, they
came with the tenants. That is fact from someone who inspected those buildings when they were still halfway livable. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">We are at a crossroads in America. Our government has run amok with a system of installing misfits in key positions, trampling all over the rights of taxpayers, outrageous spending and give away programs, and trying to destroy the very fabric of society as we knew it. Those who continue to vote Democrat simply because they always have voted that way need to wake up and see what is happening. If they don't care about themselves they need to think about their children and future generations who will inherit this country.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is one time in my life I am glad to be old and will likely never see the outcome of these asinine policies and mandates. But my children and grandchildren, and yours, deserve better. <br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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In fact, studies show that it costs thirty to forty dollars to recycle just one solar panel and that produces just two to four dollars of recoverable materials, so recycling is a losing proposition. Windmill blades are an alloy that currently cannot be recycled so there are thousands of those huge blades laying in scrap piles with no place to recycle them at this time. Batteries, in some cases, can have individual cells replaced, but manufacturers of vehicles are using the battery packs as structural members of the cars, meaning they will not be replaced and as of now, those vehicles will become scrap at the end of their electric service life. Recent articles show a seven year old electric vehicle selling for eleven thousand dollars used, will require a fourteen thousand dollar battery replacement, but none are available as the manufacturer discontinued replacement batteries and none are available on the aftermarket. So what we have is a giant useless paperweight.</p><p>3. We have gas appliances in our homes because gas is much cheaper than electric for most appliances. In the rush to curtail natural gas usage, and make everything electric, nobody seems to understand the huge increase on our already fragile electric grid when we move to all electric. Remove gas hot water, cooking, heating, clothes dryers and replace those with electric gobbling devices and it will severely impact electric availability. For example...Electric dryer 4000 watts, electric stove 2000 watts, electric tankless water heater 8800 watts, electric home furnace 15,000 to 50,000 watts. Considering the average home duty cycle, on the low end that will add several hundred dollars to a family's electric bill and further tax the grid. In many areas we struggle to maintain the lights on due to lack of grid capacity, along with aging infrastructure. It's sad but comical to know that when the grid needs additional power the electric companies rely on gas fired "peaker" generating plants or the lights would go out!<br /></p><p>4. Solar and wind power is great except when it's snowy, rainy, dark or the wind doesn't blow. In Texas their windmills froze several winters ago when it was inordinately cold and they could not deliver power. Homes froze, pipes burst and it was a general mess. Also this year in Texas, there was a huge temperature inversion with no wind so they again went dark. Solar panels have a finite life span, usually 20 to 25 years so they need replacement as well. The cost and the recycling or lack thereof is again a problem. Nobody seems to care about this. <br /></p><p>5. To add insult to injury the electric companies charge a minimum fee to solar users which in our area is currently ten dollars or the equivalent of about twenty six kilowatts at the .39 cents per kWh we currently pay in a tiered system first tier. (We have the highest electric rates in the nation). The utility wants to increase that to thirty five dollars or about ninety kilowatts minimum. So, why give the utility all that extra money for nothing when we can simply use more electric to offset that charge? And, since we send any excess from solar back to the grid, and are paid less than what we are charged for incoming electric, just quit conservation and use more electric which will result in the same bill? Once again, those on the headlong rush to go green have no clue about the backside of this quest. Solar was the carrot at the end of the electric bill stick but that carrot has withered away. <br /></p><p>6. The cost for families and industry to turn from fossil fuels to electric will be huge. People who heat their homes with oil or gas will be forced at some point to change over to electric, and those costs for a new furnace will be enormous. Same with stoves, water heaters and clothes dryers. Looking at current pricing of those items it will cost about ten thousand dollars or more for the transition to electric and the bills to operate those appliances will be increasing as well. If there will be subsidies for those who have to make the change, the costs will simply be divided and borne by the taxpayers yet again. There is no "free lunch" for anyone but the utilities and the government in this deal. And large industrial users will have an even bigger challenge...grain dryers for example use natural gas and converting to electric would shut most down. No grain means no food, folks. But the politicians never think of these consequences. <br /></p><p>7. California has decided no new fossil fueled vehicles can be sold as of 2035. Only electrics or non-fossil fueled vehicles will be allowed. Yet they have zero ability to charge all those vehicles and won't have anytime in the near future. Imagine an apartment complex with a thousand vehicles, which is about normal for a four to five hundred apartment complex. How will they get enough chargers, how will they put one in every parking space, how will they meter the electric, and what will that do the already sky-high rents? Then consider that many chargers on current networks are out of order, won't charge properly, won't charge every vehicle configuration, are vandalized, etc. And how will the already fragile grid handle that increased load? And of course all the new electric buses, trucks, trains, and other vehicles that will further impact the grid. Nobody wants to talk about that like there will be some magical unicorn who will grant us unlimited power for all the new "green" needs. </p><p></p><p>I am not against recycling, renewing, reusing and some green energy. But dictating the ways and means you will be forced to go green just is not a survivable future for America. The powers that be have turned their backs on the dirty energy that goes to make the green elements, the sad labor practices, the filthy air and landscapes in countries that make the "green" energy products we import, the closing down of nuclear power plants instead of solving the waste nuclear fuel issue. Every politician wants to be seen as a green savior but when they find they will be very cold sitting in the dark, it will be a sad moment of truth. Politicians and over zealous tree huggers seem to have no consequences for what they do to the country. They get fat and rich while in office, take no responsibility for their bad choices, have no consequences for their actions, and just leave the rest of us to deal with their blunders. <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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Savings for many is just a dream, as there is nothing left at the end of a payday but bills. People living on credit cards with inflationary credit card rates rising. <br /></p><p>3. Products we used to use are no longer available due to the lack of production. Add to that the shipping situation, and now we have to do with whatever we can find on the shelves, or on line, and pay the increased pricing. Overpriced cat food is in short supply and even a simple product like cat litter has increased in price about 20%. Automobiles are way overpriced, of course becoming less affordable due to all the new regulations and chip requirements and of course, dealer price gouging. <br /></p><p>4. Product shrinkage due to the huge increase in raw materials pricing reduces the amount in packages and even affects toilet paper. Imagine, toilet paper narrower and less sheets on a roll while the price increases. </p><p>5. Everything costs more. No matter where it is produced prices have been increasing out of reason. A house is so far out of reach for so many and apartment rents are pushing people onto the streets or out of the state. How can you sustain a $2000 per month roof over your head on a salary of $3200 per month. And that's at $20 per hour no less! The American dream of home ownership has hit the rocks. <br /></p><p> 6. Electricity and natural gas rates have risen severely especially since the grid is strained and the quest to make everything in our lives depend on electricity. Electric has increased 40 percent in many areas with one kilowatt of power now costing up to 50 cents in some states on peak usage hours. Cities are banning natural gas in favor of electricity while they cannot support the fragile electric grid now. In winter, imagine the cost of heating a home with electric, a typical electric furnace uses about 26 kilowatts a day and 182 kilowatts a week. That equates to between $75 and $90 per week for electric just to heat the home. Natural gas would be about $40 for the same time period, especially since there is no "time of use" penalty for using natural gas while there is for electric. </p><p></p><p>7. Lack of people to work as a result of governmental handouts over the past 18 months means business has slowed and work doesn't get done in a timely manner. The "Great Resignation" further impacts the economy as people just quit with no future plans to be employed. This results in greater uncertainty in programs like Social Security and Medicare which was funded by those working and whose recipients put in a lifetime of work to receive benefits. </p><p>8. Crime is rampant and has increased greatly over the past 18 months. The "no bail" policies along with restricting law enforcement in doing their jobs has emboldened criminals since there seems to be no consequence for their actions. People being let out of jail before the ink on booking forms is dry is sickening. Going after legally owned guns is a battle cry by the left while doing nothing about criminals with guns. It's more likely a criminal will walk out of jail after shooting someone than someone who steals a can of tuna at the market to feed themselves. <br /></p><p>9. Selective enforcement of laws on anyone who speaks negatively about the current administration smacks of straight communism and is reminiscent of Russia and China. Rioters can take over the streets and it's called a "protest" with protected First Amendment speech while they damage property, statues, firebomb buildings and injure civilians and the police, with no consequences. But when an opposing group does anything it's called an insurrection or a riot, swiftly curtailed and participants charged, jailed or otherwise harangued. Protests are only acceptable for the leftists and not for those who believe otherwise. </p><p>10. Schools used to be for learning the important elements of a future like reading, writing, math and the sciences. In 2022 they are now a bastion of far left ideology where there are no longer educational classes but indoctrination into depravity and forced learning about aberrational behaviors. Kindergartners are being brainwashed into a world of sex when they are not ready for such. Parents who disagree with this indoctrination are called "domestic terrorists" by school boards who then call on the FBI to investigate them. </p><p>11. In 2022 we can no longer call people Mr. or Mrs. or he or she. It has now been deemed appropriate to have as many genders or non-genders as you wish and God forbid you call someone by the wrong pronoun as you will be called out. A person born a male who has a beard and wearing a dress will go postal about you addressing "him" as "sir" and a person born a woman may take offense at being noted as a "her." I have now begun to address everyone as "Hey asshole" and that seems to work without any gender identification. And i find those with the stupid gender preferences answer to it quickly as well. </p><p>12. And there is a huge increase in illegal immigration. Sure we have always had illegal immigration but instead of a few hundred now we have millions flooding over the border and the current administration sees that as just fine. Catch and release and they never show up for immigration hearings. They end up on our system, from free birthing to medical, food and subsistence benefits and education in our schools. We have so many "English as a second language" courses that take away the learning experience from American students. Criminals from other countries see the US as prime opportunities for gangs, drugs and outrageous criminal behavior. We have lost control of our borders and Washington turns a blind eye. In fact they want to give the illegal aliens an ID card so they can get more benefits while American senior citizens and those needing assistance fall by the wayside.</p><p>13. Taxes continue to rise regardless of the economy. When gasoline is at the highest point ever, the idiots in California government would not abate the gas tax increase of July 1, because "the oil companies would make more money." Where that logic came from is bewildering as the motorist pays the tax, not the gasoline company. Instead of stopping that increase the state decided to give money away regardless of whether you drive or not, simply so they can give money to illegal aliens along with Americans who live in California. If they used the DMV registry as the basis as proposed, I suppose many illegals wouldn't get money as they don't register their vehicles anyway, have no license nor insurance. Leave it to Governor Newsom and the idiots in Sacramento to work out a way to give taxpayer money to illegals. <br /></p><p>14. This isn't Putin's war or Putin's price hikes as Biden postulates. It's the Democrats war on the American people that has created this. Prices were going astronomical before the Ukraine invasion. Wild spending in Washington that knows no bounds,Willingness to sacrifice America in the quest to go "green" has destroyed many energy sources. Those in control have no backup plans when this all fails. Even the village idiot has a Plan B, even if it means running away. And that's just what the village idiots in Washington must have as their backup plan...run and hide while America suffers. <br /></p><p></p><p>So, am I better off now than I was 2 years ago? Not only no, but HELL NO. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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I'm not saying if but when it fails as it is and will continue to do so.</span><br /><br /><span data-lexical-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Reading about the great droughts, super hot summers and extremely frigid winters back in 1936 and other years. The cycle repeats itself endlessly and even Alaska has 100+ degree temperatures in the past. The insane push to move everything to green energy will destroy the country because those pushing it have zero backup plans when it fails. Instead of slowly transitioning to other energy sources, their answer is to cut off every fossil fuel and energy source we depend on, and maybe some wizard will descend upon the earth to save those who will die due to their idiocy. It is laughable when the electric fails and trains and trolleys don't run, the mess cities and urbanites who rely on these transit systems find themselves in, then advising people to use cars, gasoline powered taxis and alternate transportation or stay home. That will surely help the economy.</span><br /><br /><span data-lexical-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">We all need to help the earth stay clean and green but not at the expense of life itself. Imagine a world without fossil fuels...electric power outages and loss of heat and air conditioning would kill many, especially the most vulnerable, the very young and the old. Transit systems would sit idle. Hospitals would not be able to run, or even, refuel backup diesel generators and those on life saving equipment would die. Natural gas no longer available for heat, cooking or fuel for industrial equipment, so factories close. Fire protection systems in homes, commercial and industrial buildings would freeze in winter with burst pipes. Pumps required to supply water and fire fighting would stop and any major fire would be uncontrolled. Crops will rot in the fields and farmers will stop planting due to lack of fuel for tractors and harvesting equipment. Natural gas for dryers that preserve our grain crops will be unavailable so much food will become unavailable. Starvation will soon follow.</span><br /><br /><span data-lexical-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">The anti-nuclear people helped destroy nuclear power in our country. Of course, now that the grid is over-strained, even Governor Newsom is trying to figure what can be done to increase the lifespan of the single remaining nuclear power plant in California. Diablo Canyon, that plant hated by environmentalists and doomsday sayers, and derided for being close to an earthquake fault is now saving our collective asses by provide 2256 megawatts of electricity (18 gigawatts annually) to homes that otherwise would be going dark. And that is 10% of the entire state's generation in one plant. I believe we need to figure out a way to re-use spent nuclear fuel and it seems people are now working feverishly on just that as they find it was a really clean source of energy if the waste could be utilized or otherwise disposed of. </span><br /><br /><span data-lexical-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">If you think the way we are going about greening is somehow okay, look at countries that decided going green was the only way. Look at their before green and after economies. The survivability for them is based on the UN and World Bank infusing cash and help, which of course we would never see in the US. They too had no Plan B and after Plan A failed it was too late. </span><br /><br /><span data-lexical-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">The insane rush to green will have catastrophic effects on everything we hold dear as Americans. </span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="i09qtzwb rq0escxv d1544ag0 dati1w0a pmk7jnqg j9ispegn rm21btxo" style="bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; left: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 12px; position: absolute; right: 36px;"></div><div class="rq0escxv du4w35lb j83agx80 pfnyh3mw i1fnvgqd gs1a9yip owycx6da btwxx1t3 i09qtzwb qpd6qd77 pmk7jnqg" style="align-items: stretch; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; justify-content: space-between; position: absolute; right: 9px; z-index: 0;"><div class="rq0escxv l9j0dhe7 du4w35lb j83agx80 cbu4d94t pfnyh3mw d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; 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line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">I found the exact reason the country is in such dire straits...two words that clearly are the backbone of what was America.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-weight: 600;">RESPONSIBILITY</b></span></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-weight: 600;">and</b></span></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-weight: 600;">ACCOUNTABILITY</b></span></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">The current clamor about abortions is based on no responsibility for actions. Thus failure results in an unwanted pregnancy and no accountability for the life that forms inside the womb. Of course in cases of rape or incest, the victim was not responsible and the current system doesn't hold the perpetrator accountable.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Parental abdication of responsibility has filled the streets with thugs and actors who might have well been saved from that life had parents actually taken upon themselves the role of parents. Not friends, or bystanders but parents. And when a child lies dead in the streets at the hands of another, the parents turn away from accepting any accountability for their failures, blaming someone else instead.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">People have become so comfortable blaming others for everything, making excuses for other's actions, feeding their zero accountability. Blaming inanimate objects for the actions of humans has become commonplace; guns, not criminals, are the cause of crime yet vehicles are not the cause of drunk drivers who maim and kill and eating implements like the fork is not the cause of obesity. Of course not...people choose to shoot others, drive drunk or overeat, but that seems to be out of the realm of comprehension for many. </span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Teachers abdicate the responsibility to teach based on the principles America was founded upon, rather spouting rhetoric and indoctrinating children into whatever their own warped sense of reality may be. And when they go too far and are caught, there is no accountability as the education system defends their actions while the children suffer the long term consequences.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">The public screams for law enforcement to be help responsible and accountable for every action, even those actions taken to protect the public against the worst of mankind. While fighting for the public, they are vilified at every turn. Yet the public turns a blind eye, and ear, to the transgressions of crooked politicians and refuses to hold them responsible and accountable at election time, voting the same bastardizations of destruction back into office time after time.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Things need to change in America or we are a doomed nation. Two hundred and forty-six years as of Monday we built this country on the blood sweat and tears of our ancestors and us. Those of us with generations of family in law enforcement remember the stories of how policing was "back in the day" and lament how it is today. Respect by the public has severely diminished and our justice system is no longer just. Catch and release has become the norm of the land, where criminals are out, often committing more crime, before the ink on the paperwork is dry.</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Have a safe and happy, healthy Fourth of July holiday and maybe hoist a cold one or a good aged Irish Whiskey or single malt Scotch to all the brothers and sisters, those who led us to the path, those who lost the good fight and those who continue the fight today and tomorrow!</span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Cheers and sláinte</span></div><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236709603402341425.post-61004526453059210322022-06-06T09:03:00.001-07:002022-06-06T09:03:58.618-07:00California Gold has turned to....<div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10kvgmc6g5 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">I once thought California was such a great place to live. Yet somehow I came to my senses and realize it's a great place if you want to be over regulated, over taxed, over burdened and have government decide how every facet of your life should be impacted. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">The latest solar debacle is only one of many reasons the rest of the country laughs at California. Imagine legislating that every new home must have solar as of January 2020, then figure a way to denigrate the value of that solar in favor of the power companies, who pleaded for solar contribution to the grid and energy saving. Imagine paying $15-20,000 for a solar array with the hope it would offset most of the electric bills, and finding out your investment has lost significant return on investment. Adding a huge fee to your monthly bill because you have solar and also reducing the price the utilities pay for the solar you generate. And this is what California government is doing...penalizing those whom they commanded to have solar. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">And the reasoning behind this is so asinine...because the government wants to give solar to those who allegedly can't afford it. And charge you for it in taxes and loss of ROI. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">IF every solar owner consumed every kilowatt they produced, the electric companies would be forced to build more natural gas powered plants to supply the grid, that "devil" natural gas so many cities are trying to ban in new homes and commercial construction. And gas powered electric "peaker" plants take years to build, so any help from their generation could be 5 years or more away, even IF they were built. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">IF there was no "solar farms" like many communities with much solar, that produced an abundance of excess power to the grid, more and more blackouts would be inevitable. Electric cars may be the wave of the future but charging them still impacts the grid in a negative way. And that grid is supported by mostly fossil fuel plants since since nuclear power is all but shut down in California with the exception of Diablo Canyon...one that environmentalists have been trying to shutter for years. But with the grid fragility, now the State is trying to keep it open as long as possible...another flip flop in government planning, or lack of as it appears. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">And, there is more...California is banning sale of all NEW small off road engines (SORE's) such as lawn blowers, trimmers and yes, generators unless they meet a new emissions rule by 2024. Generators and large pressure washers will be required to reduce emissions to 90% as of 2024 and be zero emissions by 2028. New stand-by generators for home use, portable generators for camping, and even in-frame generators on new RV's will not be allowed unless they are zero emissions, which the small engine manufacturers state is impossible. And that includes gasoline, diesel and propane. Zero emissions means electric, yet another blow to the fragile grid. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Your tax dollars at work: "The Legislature has allocated $30 million to be dedicated to sole proprietors and other small landscaping businesses in California to help them purchase zero-emission small off-road equipment, including leaf blowers, lawn mowers and string trimmers." These must be charged and imagine the number of depleted batteries and equipment that will produce. Huge solar panels on landscapers trucks to charge the dozens of batteries needed in a day? So you will be paying for the state to further burden the grid in their quest to completely ban internal combustion engines. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, many communities are mandating ways to build more homes, supposedly "affordable" but in reality each and every home built adds to the electric grid burden. Same as water and other utilities in short supply. A thousand new homes using 400 kW each per month requires almost 5 mW or 5 million watts annually to supply their needs, and more actually needs to be generated due to line loss, etc. </div></div><div class="ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10cxmmr5t8 ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10oygrvhab ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10hcukyx3x ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10c1et5uql ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10o9v6fnle ydp3c5314dbyiv7156740942ydpea8b6b10ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: UI Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams of the Golden State have turned into a far less precious metal...perhaps mercury, slipping through the fingers of our residents as they try to grasp on to what's left...</div></div></div><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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It was signed into law in 2017 by President Donald Trump </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">29 March is a fitting choice for a day honoring Vietnam veterans. It was chosen to be observed in perpetuity, as March 29, 1973 was the day United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam was disestablished, and also the day the last U.S. combat troops departed Vietnam. In addition, on and around this same day Hanoi released the last of its acknowledged prisoners of war. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">U.S. involvement in Vietnam started slowly with an initial deployment of advisors in the early 1950s, grew incrementally through the early 1960s and expanded with the deployment of full combat units in July 1965. The last U.S. personnel were evacuated from Vietnam in April 1975.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Some facts: </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era (August 5, 1964 - May 7,1975).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">8,744,000 GIs were on active duty during the war (Aug 5, 1964-March 28, 1973).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">2,709,918 Americans served in Vietnam, this number represents 9.7% of their generation.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">3,403,100 (Including 514,300 offshore) personnel served in the broader Southeast Asia Theater (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, flight crews based in Thailand, and sailors in adjacent South China Sea waters).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">2,594,000 personnel served within the borders of South Vietnam (Jan. 1, 1965 - March 28, 1973).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Another 50,000 men served in Vietnam between 1960 and 1964.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Of the 2.6 million, between 1-1.6 million (40-60%) either fought in combat, provided close support or were at least fairly regularly exposed to enemy attack.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">7,484 women (6,250 or 83.5% were nurses) served in Vietnam.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Five men killed in Vietnam were only 16 years old.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">The oldest man killed was 62 years old.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">58,148 were killed in Vietnam, 75,000 severely disabled, 23,214 were 100% disabled, 5,283 lost limbs and 1,081 sustained multiple amputations.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Over 130,000 suffered non-mortal wounds</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Of those killed, 61% were younger than 21 years old.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">11,465 of those killed were younger than 20 years old.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Of those killed, 17,539 were married.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">The average age of the men killed: 23.1 years.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Of the 2,709,918 Americans who served in Vietnam, less than 850,000 are estimated to be alive today, (2021) with the youngest American Vietnam veteran's age approximated to then be 60 years old.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Vietnam veterans didn’t come home to parades or welcomes. Many were treated poorly for doing what their country asked of them. They came home in ones and twos, unlike other wars where large numbers of vets were welcomed home with homecomings and festivities. Most vets never talked about the war; some carried the heavy toll it took on them to their graves. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">Many of those who served continue facing the effects of that war due to injuries sustained, illnesses caused by chemical agents, defoliants, and environmental exposures, along with PTSD, their children's birth defects and other long term medical issues. They still are fighting a war they will never personally win. Suicide among veterans runs high. Most humans could not remain unscathed by the horrors of war and some simply could not face that continuing burden anymore. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">On this day I salute all my Vietnam brothers and sisters, those alive and those who have crossed the bar to meet the Heavenly Father. We will all meet again someday in that big gedunk bar in the sky. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">And…</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">WELCOME HOME!!</span></b></div></div><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To all those who served, I salute you. To all those
who waited at home for their loved ones to return, I thank you. For all those
who didn’t return home, I pray for you. Veteran’s Day is an annual day where
the country is reminded of the sacrifices of those who were willing to lay down
their lives for the country we love. Sadly, most of the other 364 days the
veteran is forgotten by most of our country. It doesn’t matter whether they
volunteered, were drafted or what the circumstance, each and every one is a
brother and sister to every veteran who served. In service the only thing that
mattered was character and willingness to stand tall, in peace or combat. We
were all the same, and when the chips were down, each and every one was willing
to make the ultimate sacrifice for a comrade in arms. A true brotherhood and
sisterhood that few would ever find in the civilian world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Please take a moment to reflect on where we would be
without our veterans. Remember those who didn’t come home, those who did, and
those who still carry the burden of their service through illness and injury. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God Bless America<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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according to the latest data, along with a combined total of more than
700,000 from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Together, migrants
from Mexico and Central America represented 78 percent of the total." </p><p></p><p>2. We now have the highest gasoline prices in history, thanks in part to Biden's shutdown of American oil production. Isn't it great that he grovels at the feet of the Russians and Saudis begging for more oil when he destroyed our own production at home. Not only that but immediate unemployment of thousands as a result of the shutdowns, creating yet another calamity for oilfield workers.<br /></p><p>3. Natural gas prices are hitting historic highs, while production is nearing historic lows. As winter approaches and bitter cold envelops much of the nation, those who cannot afford the price to heat their homes will end up sick, or freezing to death, while Biden sits in comfort in a taxpayer funded house. </p><p>4. Food prices have increased significantly with a pound of chopped meat that cost about $4.00 a year ago now nearing $8.00 in many markets. This all in the past year. </p><p>5.Raging inflation is growing at an unprecedented pace of 5.4% for the past 12 months. And the GDP, the
measure of our domestic production, has only grown at about 2%. Inflation under the 4 year Trump administration was under 2% and in 2020 was just 1.4%. A sad commentary on where the current administration is leading America.<br /></p><p>6. Shortages of virtually every commodity are engulfing the nation. And Biden's answer is to order ports to operate 24/7, which does nothing to alleviate the bottlenecks due to an overwhelming number of empty containers and nowhere to stack them, which impacts the ability to bring in new containers. The scheme of extending over the top unemployment benefits has decimated the trucking industry as well as many other businesses. Truckers are in short supply and the ability to move containers in and out of ports has almost ground to a halt. </p><p>7. Employers cannot find sufficient workers, particularly in the service sector. Restaurants are reducing hours, closing, many even after surviving the onslaught of COVID. The extension of generous benefits of up to $900.00 a week allowed many lower income employees to live better on that than on employment, so why return. Yes, those benefits have stopped, but in the interim we bred a whole new group of people living on the government dole.</p><p>8. Biden promised no new or higher taxes on those making under his self-imposed cap of $400,000. Yet here we are with more and more new onerous taxes in place or on the horizon that will impact every American, no matter their income.</p><p> 9. Biden and his cronies decided we should all be under the microscope and proposed the IRS be privy to just about every withdrawal or deposit from personal bank accounts. Yes, anything over $600 would be under the gun, so the IRS could find tax dodgers. He wants to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, effectively doubling the size of the IRS. However those making billions will still be able to get away with paying little to no taxes using loopholes the ordinary taxpayer couldn't even begin to know. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay very little in tax versus their net worth or income per reports by ProPublica. "In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multi-billionaire and now the world’s richest
man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat
again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest
person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes." also "According to Forbes, the 25 richest people in the US saw their worth rise a collective
$401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in
federal income taxes in those five years, the IRS data shows. That’s a
staggering sum, but it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%".</p><p>10. The way Biden led, or rather misled, the charge out of Afghanistan is pitiful. Biden made the United States look like fools, led to the deaths of 13 heroic service men and women, left our allies to die at the hands of the Taliban and ran us out with our tail between our legs like a frightened puppy. No military leadership ever left all the armament, aircraft and weapons of war behind for the use of the enemy. Yet what we saw was no military leadership at all. And how many Americans and our allies have been left behind? It seems nobody either knows or will tell. </p><p>11. Biden's supporters in the House are willing to throw America to the sharks with multi-trillion dollar spending plans that will leave us, the taxpayers, our children, grandchildren and ever more generations with huge debts to pay. Nothing about these wild spending sprees can be considered self-funding, but those in the House seem to believe the Golden Goose will never die and it will be easy to squeeze just one more golden egg out. This is not an immortal Golden Goose folks!</p><p>12. The socialist and ultra liberal policies espoused by many in the Democratic party have led to the coddling of criminals and the vilification of our police and other law enforcement, while rioters and "protesters" destroy, injure and run amok in our cities. Look at Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and other Democrat controlled cities and it's apparent they have failed in every way possible. Failed their own citizens, many who are afraid to shop in their own city, failed to protect property, failed to provide the police adequate support. Many jurisdictions have set "no bail" policies so felons can be back on the street within hours and commit more crimes. Yes, even murder when out on bail just a few hours. When did it become acceptable to destroy public and private property with no accountability? When did only the leftist agenda count, when history can be reversed and rewritten to appease those who don't like it? When did any life matter more than any other, regardless of race, color or creed? When did we start letting anarchists rule the streets and then punish those who stood up against them? When did politicians stop answering to the people and pander only to those who create mayhem? <br /></p><p>We are in deep trouble as China and North Korea speed up nuclear development, armament and testing, Russia sits back waiting for our fall, and our enemies in other countries just wait until our weakness becomes apparent and we are an easy target. And what then, will Joe Biden wake up from his nap? Will he take actual command of this troubled ship? I fear not. The ship we call America is listing badly and the captain at the helm is too far gone to effectively control the rudder. We are running aground at full speed and the reef is fast approaching.</p><p></p><p>I always said God Bless America; now I simply say God Help America. <br /></p><p> </p><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Tax on top of Tax on top of Tax! The San Diego Association
of Governments aka SANDAG is sandbagging the public with an onerous and
outrageous tax plan.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The decision by SANDAG to tax motorists per mile is the most
ridiculously conceived decision in many years. This was more than thoughtless
and appears simply a way to increase funding, while leaving those who must depend
on motor vehicle transportation on the hook to pay for those who do not</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The premise for this tax is they don’t receive enough in
motor fuel tax so they need more money. Wait a minute; wasn’t the State of
California one of, if not the first, to push for improved fuel mileage for
cars? And when the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) improved, now SANDAG
complains it reduced their tax intake? And was the State not the first to press
for electric vehicles? And now those vehicles don’t use motor fuel so SANDAG
believes it’s time to increase taxes for everyone? </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Unincorporated area and rural residents will be
the major fall guys for this tax. In many areas we have no public transit
available and must drive distances to schools, shopping, doctors and the
necessities of life. This equates to an “inconvenience tax” because we have no
public transit conveniences available. Imagine living in Bonsall, Fallbrook,
Rainbow, unincorporated North and East County or many other areas and the driving
distances required just for daily living. </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Residents have to drive children to schools
because most of the county has no school bus transportation for other than
disabled children. This becomes an “Education Tax” for thousands of parents.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>What about the disabled and senior citizens who
require use of a vehicle simply to exist? Adding yet another burden on many who
barely can afford day to day expenses. </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>What about people who must drive for work or
drive for a living. Some drive several thousand miles a month or more, and will
be required to ante up a thousand dollars a year in road taxes? </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>What about the entire cross border traffic
coming into San Diego County? How will you force those drivers to pay the tax,
or will this yet be another tax where San Diego County residents are forced to
pick up the slack for out of country drivers? </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>If you live outside the County but drive into
San Diego, how will that fee be collected? And if you live on the periphery of
San Diego and another county, will you be taxed simply because you live here
yet most mileage is outside the county? </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>How will you collect these taxes from the many
thousands of vehicles that are unregistered in California but belong to actual
residents? People renew vehicle licenses at addresses out of state to avoid the
onerous registration fees in California. People who lease vehicles prior to
moving into California have out of state plates for years.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>What about the tens of thousands of military
personnel who have out of state plates legally; how will you collect the taxes
from them? </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Many roads in unincorporated areas are abysmal,
yet we pay our taxes like any other area and receive very little for those
taxes. SANDAG does nothing to improve those pothole filled roads, and the State
touts road improvements by the increased gasoline taxes. We sure don’t see that
money being spent here! </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10 <span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Does SANDAG really believe the public is so
gullible to accept that this new road tax will result in lowered gasoline
taxes? The way this is presented is that the new road use tax would be in lieu
of gasoline tax. What SANDAG doesn’t say is there is no plan to lower gasoline taxes;
this is to make up for the huge push for electric vehicles that do not use
motor fuels and still the moror fuel taxes will be paid by motorists driving
conventional vehicles. Taxes in California only go skyward, never lowered, as
“fees” that do not require voter approval are passed time and again to bypass
the public vote. Reduce a “fee” or tax and then it gets raised again in what
appears an exponential manner. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">California was known as the “Golden State” but that glow has
tarnished. The Golden Bear of yore has been replaced by the “Golden Goose” of
taxation, but these increases will, as the story goes, kill that Golden Goose
one day, perhaps sooner than later. Then where will the greedy governmental
entities reach for more money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
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RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236709603402341425.post-2507429213087615122021-09-20T14:45:00.007-07:002021-09-20T15:02:03.372-07:00Will America Survive?
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the first time in
my life, I am afraid for the future of America. Not only do we remain deeply
divided, but many of the current happenings place our future in jeopardy. To
name a few:</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
We are short of water, electric and potentially natural gas, but building goes
on unbridled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The current administration shut down a key pipeline project, cut off others, halted oil production, yet we are dependent on foreign oil when we could become energy independent. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Governmental entities, state, local and federal are mandating renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Some are forbidding natural gas in new homes. However even the top experts say we cannot be self-sustaining on those sources; the wind does not blow at sustained speeds all the time, turbines are subject to catastrophic failure, and on dark, rainy or snowy days the solar output is often negligible. California for one is all agog at getting everyone in an electric car, while they have power grid failures all the time, and are frequently asking people to conserve as the grid is overloaded. And on housing...how can we sustain all those new all-electric homes with such a fragile national grid? For some levity, after California dumped all their fossil fueled plants, when the grid was close to blackout they added more...yes..natural gas peaker plants to supplement energy, and will build more. What a joke! <br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have a housing
shortage but truly “affordable” housing is a myth in many areas. A working
family making $100,000 combined salary can hardly afford a home in an area
nobody wants to live in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The current open
border policy continues to allow huge numbers of unvetted illegal migrants to
enter the country. Most will end up living on the government dole and we don’t
even know how many who enter have terrorist leanings. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lies and innuendo
pervade Washington, with the current administration disavowing the Afghanistan
debacle and the future terrorist issues we will face. 13 Americans were sent to
their death and during their transfer to American soil, our demented president
couldn’t tear himself away from looking at his watch. What an affront to those
who died protecting American lives during that tumultuous time, and their devastated
families. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a shortage of
workers because the government made it easier to sit at home instead of
working. This impacts every lower and middle echelon occupation from restaurant
workers to truck drivers. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking of truck
drivers, gasoline and fuel oils in many areas are in short supply because no
truck drivers are available to move it to market. Same with many food chains
who cannot get drivers to move groceries to the stores. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crime has mushroomed in
the cities and has spread to the suburbs as well. The number of homicides is
out of control; imagine 60 shootings in a weekend in your city, as it was in
Chicago this past weekend. The anti-gun folks want you to believe it's because
of legal gun ownership and want to decimate the Second Amendment, while turning
that blind eye to the criminals who commit this violence. Illegal guns on the
street are the problem; most gun related crimes take place with a stolen gun or
one that has been "ghosted" and is untraceable. Not what a legal gun
owner has. But while the far left cries foul when anyone is stereotyped or
broad brushed with a moniker, they don't mind broad brushing legal gun owners
as criminals. And when the multitude of shootings and murders is in black and
Hispanic neighborhoods, why does it become a white problem when the politicians
in those cities, mostly black themselves, fail to address the problem and blame
it on "white oppression".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why is it that antifa,
Black Lives Matter and other far left organizations seem to have no
accountability for mayhem; those in political power refuse to have them
arrested, charged and prosecuted, yet more than willing to spend millions or
more to identify, capture and prosecute anyone who dares fall on the right? Why
is it "First Amendment" rights to maim, loot and destroy, but not
tolerated if a white person has something to say? They are then deemed to be
"racist" or a "white supremacist" even though they just
want their voice to be heard too. Why is arson, property damage, destruction of
public property and injury to others all okay if the leftists do it, but when
confronted by people who believe in the law, they are wrong? Something has gone
very wrong in the way the law is being addressed in America.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Law enforcement
officers are retiring or leaving the profession in record numbers. Vilified by
the far left government and media, those who risk it all every day to protect
our land have become fed up. People want the police to have their backs when
trouble comes visiting, but won’t stand up and have the officers back when some
low life or politician makes him, instead of the criminal, to be the bad guy. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fewer people working
and contributing to Social Security means the system will run out of funds many
years sooner than predicted, leaving many who depend on that meager income in
jeopardy. Current estimates are that by 2035, the benefits will be lowered to
75% of current benefit levels. In addition, those not yet of retirement age
will find their future Social Security benefits reduced because they are not
working and contributing. And, the politicians see Social Security as a
political football, so they don’t fix the system at all. Increasing taxes, and
benefits, on those high wage earners, over a million dollars for example, would
buoy up the system to solvency. But God forbid the politicians tax their big donation
benefactors. They would turn a blind eye until the inevitable failure occurs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking of Social Security,
the programs to target and prosecute scammers on Social Security Disability and
Supplemental Security Income is dismal. Tens of billions of tax dollars are
diverted to scammers every year and the actual rate of successful prosecution
is minuscule. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Medicare is another
political football. Each year Washington spends billions massaging the plan to
make it less effective and penalizing physicians who actually care for their
patients. When Medicaid, a social program that serves indigents and illegal
immigrants as well as welfare recipients pays better than Medicare, many
doctors are no longer accepting Medicare patients. Sad when those are the
people who likely need care, especially preventive care, the most. When an illegal
immigrant can get a kidney transplant, while an American citizen waits, is just
incomprehensible. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Veterans, who laid it
all on the line for America, continue to be short changed. The Veteran’s
Administration is short-handed and overwhelmed with the healthcare needs of
veterans. Getting an urgent care or dental emergency appointment is impossible,
leaving either a self-pay or simply going without care if one cannot afford the
out of pocket payments. Veterans who were exposed to toxic agents and other
ravages of war wait decades for adjudication of claims; many die long before
they receive any payment that is due. Agent Orange veterans suffered for many
decades while Washington battled whether to give them the care and benefits
they were due. Imagine being exposed in 1961 or even as late as 1971 and being
denied benefits until 2020? That’s what happened with the Blue Water Navy operation
off the cost of Vietnam. Even the “Brown Water Navy” who operated in and around
the coastal waters and rivers didn’t receive recognition until 2011. <br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taxation
of those who are honest and pay their taxes will become yet another burden as
the unbridled spending in Washington continues. The promise to increase tax
only on those who make over $400,000 annually is a lie; trickle down politics
will end up costing all taxpayers in the end. And those with multi-million dollar
incomes have means to shelter their income against taxes. Many have moved money
offshore to avoid taxes at all. “Jeff </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bezos, chief executive of Amazon and the owner of The
Washington Post, paid $973 million in taxes on $4.22 billion in income, as his
wealth soared by $99 billion, resulting in a <b>0.98% “</b>true tax rate.” Jun
8, 2021. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another political football as
the incumbents don’t want to rattle their sponsors. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Why do we
send millions and billions of dollars to foreign countries that hate us, and happily
accept the money because we are fools? What was once the strongest nation on earth
has become a folly and fodder for shame and humiliation worldwide. It's inconceivable we sent money to the Taliban after leaving Afghanistan! On Sept 13, 2021 the US sent 64 million dollars to Afghanistan
as part of a humanitarian aid package. And the UN whined about needing 600
million. And, get this, the Taliban said we need to give more because we have
it! They took the country…let them deal with it! When did it become in vogue to
give aid and assistance to an enemy?</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where are
we headed? I have no clue. We are on a severe downward slide that appears to
have no end. Criminality appears to be okay as long as a person is of color or
otherwise non-white is involved. If a Caucasian or other race is shot
righteously by the police it’s not even mentioned, but if that person is of color,
it becomes a protest, riot or whatever you want to call it. The race card is
thrown at every opportunity, turning races against each other. That
fermentation of discord is fostered by those in Washington, especially the “Squad”
comprised of people who actually seem to hate America while holding office as “elected”
officials. When did it become their right to hate the country they were elected
to serve? When did the criminals and illegals have more rights than a law
abiding citizen? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am more than worried for sure...only time will tell how America fares...and it doesn't look promising right now. </span><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">America is no longer a united country. In the past 18 months
or so we became a deeply divided troubled country that has allowed what were
heretofore splinter groups to take over, overrule the majority, and force their
will on our citizens.Everything now hinges on race or some perceived "right" to do whatever they want. Miscreants protest that they have the right to free speech and want their First Amendment rights, as they scream profanities in your face, but do it back and you seem to have no right to free speech. A far left radical can speak anti-American rhetoric and hate to your children in school, yet if your child, or you protest, you will be ostracized and ridiculed. Something went way wrong in how our Constitution and laws are interpreted. <br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The far left has not only allowed, but actually fostered,
violence in our streets. Leftist politicians have goaded on and supported
violent groups that have destroyed tens of millions dollars in property,
looted, injured people, and left what were beautiful cities a shambles. Police
were forced by politicians to stand by and watch the carnage and not to act as
they had been trained, to maintain peace and order.Cancel culture is destroying our history, some which was not to pretty, but history all the same. Just because someone doesn't like what happened is no reason to change it. And worse, absolutely no reason to allow it to be changed to some unicorn and rainbow idea to assuage some splinter group.<br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizens and police are assaulted, and when arrests are
made, the left leaning district attorneys and politicians collude to let them
loose with no charges. The miscreants then go out and do it again. The no bail
system allows hardened criminals to roam the streets free of concern they will
be in jail with a high or no bail. A true catch and release system with virtual
impunity to the offenders.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The leftist politicians, including governors such as Newsom
of California, have opened the prison doors and allowed those who should be
behind bars to live among us, continuing their criminal activity without fear
of the police or prison. Numerous convicts have been released from jail, only
to murder, rape and otherwise cause mayhem upon the citizens of our country. One
city in California wants to drop all “enhanced gun charges’ that were imposed
on criminals who used a firearm during a crime. Their logic? That it is unfair
because 89% of people in prison for a firearms enhancement are of color! That
should speak volumes in itself…when statistics show that many crimes are
committed by people of color the incarceration levels sure seem commensurate?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The widely held belief by the left that criminals are the result of poor upbringing and just maladjusted is bullshit to say the least. They don't bother to tell you that many are the result of fatherless homes where the mother has a dozen kids with "baby daddies" who never take responsibility for their offspring, generations of welfare recipients who never work but generate income by birthing more children they won't take care of. And a system that won't force fathers to contribute to their child's living expenses and require birth control to stem the huge populations of unwanted children. And, regardless of race, color or origin, parenting is a lost skill among many families. Parents are too much trying to either "keep up with the Jones'" or just so self-centered they don't take the time to be real parents. Many parents want to be their child's friend instead of a guardian and mentor. Latchkey children have become the norm, rather than unusual. Babies dumped in daycare from infancy to the time they go to school; then taught by teachers who are no longer the true mentors of children. Many intelligent parents no longer trust the education system with their children due to the far left and hate America curriculum.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Educators use the leftist, Marxist and communist ideas to indoctrinate and brainwash children from the time they enter school. Teaching a child they can be whatever sex they choose at any time, or be sexless, and change it at will is ludicrous. Fostering the idea that any sexual deviancy or alleged preference is "normal" and should be embraced by all? Respect and tolerate but embrace? Putting forth educational materials that require children to not only accept, but embrace other lifestyles, is not what most parents want. However, with the parental abdication of responsibility that is so prevalent, they leave the door wide open to this type of teaching and forced conformity. A child that does not accept what they are being fed is ostracized and often retaliated against for not following the line. Kind of what happened in China and Russia where people were sent to concentration camps for not following the "party" line. How far are we from that?<br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our elected officials, and I use the term “elected” loosely,
have manipulated and bastardized the voting system to push into office people
who actually hate America, and who spend their time on the taxpayer’s money
spewing vitriol against the American people. The “squad” in our nation’s
capital is a perfect example of people who were elected by those who could care
less about the country, but rather themselves and what they can get for free.
When an elected official can spew hate against America and not be censured or
ousted, you can see where we are heading. The Democrats are protecting the
haters and penalizing those who would dare speak against them. <span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The police are aggressively targeted by criminals because
they are supported by far left wing politicians and groups, whose sole purpose
is to destroy the America we loved. When antifa or Black Lives Matter riot, destroy
loot and injure, they are allowed to do so with impunity. Yet when a police
officer legitimately strikes at one, they are disciplined, criminally charged and
often fired, based on the complaints of minority groups. <span> </span>It seems the far left has made it okay to
shoot an officer but if one shoots a criminal armed with a gun, the far left
caves to the cell phone video of an alleged witness, and the officer becomes
the victim of a merciless crusade to destroy him and his career. The activists state that all police are bad, but if someone says that all blacks are criminals the uproar is unbelievable. Of course, neither statement is true; there are a few bad apples in every barrel, but the leftist narrative pushes the bad cop agenda every time. Guess they never read the stats.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The far left wants everyone to believe guns are the problem in this country, but not the criminals who have them. They believe it's necessary to register those with legal ownership of firearms, try to confiscate them, but that doesn't dissuade the criminals from having a gun and using it. When an elderly woman who steals a few cans of cat food that she intends to eat, because she didn't want to take the tuna that was more expensive, receives a harsher jail term than a career criminal who beats someone senseless and takes their wallet, the system is way more than broken. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">We have become a country where work ethic is failing, where simply demanding more gets the attention and action of politicians who just want a vote. Instead of handing out free alcohol at the polls, they promise more freebies for the lazy and ungrateful. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Those who demand everything free are getting what they
demand, and the administration has no idea how they will pay the piper
when time comes due. Those who were never slaves demand reparations from
people who never owned slaves, yet the politicians will spend millions figuring out a "fair" way to give those people money for something they never witnessed or endured. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">People who took out student loans and remained in school for a decade or more taking useless courses, some to avoid real work, now demand the student loans be forgiven. Yet they have done nothing to deserve it; just more far left rhetoric from politicians to promise something for nothing. Veterans who were willing to give their life for their country didn't have their GI Bill loans cancelled...they just keep paying. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Senior citizens have gotten the bad end of the stick for years. In California, Governor Gruesome Newsom has handed out millions in funds to illegals and low income families yet senior citizens, many whom live way below the poverty line, got nothing. The Governor found that allowing people to take the child credits and other credits not available to seniors could entitle them to money in the form of tax rebates. I can only hope the recall against this useless politician is successful. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Housing is certainly in short supply, but the infrastructure to support new housing is woefully inadequate. In California, for example (as well as many other states) electricity demand already outstrips production and rolling blackouts and outright shut downs are not uncommon. Water is in severe shortage due to the numerous droughts with no rain in the foreseeable future that could help fill the reservoirs. But the politicians constantly approve new housing developments, some with a thousand or more homes. In 2020 for example, there were 59,000 single family homes and 47,000 multiple housing units (apartments and condos) for a total of 106,000 new homes built. Yet there is no water and a sparse supply of electricity. To add comic relief of sorts, the politicians want to cut the credits and credit for excess generation from solar panels people already own, so they can give more freebies to people who don't have solar. Guess they see anyone who bought solar an elitist and deserving of flogging by the electric company! Nobody seems to recognize how much solar cost people to install, even on modest homes it was a mandated expense to have it installed on all new homes as of </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">January 2020</span></span>. So, instead of selling power back to the grid, people have installed batteries for their nighttime use, or stopped conserving at all, which will make the electric problem worse. Nice work, politicos!</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">There was a time when many of us would lay down our lives for our country. Many did, some of whom were friends and colleagues. The times now dictate we would lay down our lives to protect our families from what this country has become. What a sad commentary on how America has devolved. Our current administration in Washington DC is pushing, not leading, our country into an abyss we will never crawl out of.<br /></span></p>
<p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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hour of the 11<sup>th</sup> day of the 11<sup>th</sup> month in 1918. That’s
when the Armistice was signed, signaling the official end of World War I. For
years it was called Armistice Day and honored our men and women who served our
country so valiantly in the defeat of Germany. In 1954, the name was changed to
Veterans Day.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Arial", "sans-serif"">Those who
served, and continue to serve our country, come from every walk of life. Age,
color, creed, national origin or political beliefs aren’t of importance when
you are facing an enemy on the battlefield. They all work as brothers and sisters
in arms with a common goal, protecting the United States against all enemies,
foreign or domestic, and helping give the oppressed and enslaved the
opportunity of freedom. <span> </span><span> </span>Many are injured, sickened, maimed or killed as
a result of their service; unselfish sacrifices made by those who keep our
freedoms intact, and fighting for people they will never know. Many residents
in the United States owe their life here to those who fought in their countries
to give them a chance at a better life. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
<span face=""Arial", "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;">Veterans' Day isn't
simply an identified moment in time. It's a day where every one of us needs to
thank those who served this great country, both the living and those who have
passed on. Those of us who served will never forget them; please take a moment
to remember them too</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I know this is Canadian but it is so appropriate to honor all those who sacrificed so much for our nation and the world. Please remember and honor all veterans on November 11. </span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2kX_3y3u5Uo" width="320" youtube-src-id="2kX_3y3u5Uo"></iframe></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236709603402341425.post-58699069133212827512020-10-26T13:38:00.002-07:002020-10-26T13:38:29.869-07:00The Thin Blue Line<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">It's a very sad time for the Thin Blue Line. The left portrays them as crazed killers, the liberal media portrays them as hired thugs, politicians see them as a pawn to use in maintaining their personal status quo, and the "activists" use them as a stepping stone to further their own warped agenda.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Officers getting hit by explosives, lasers and Molotov cocktails is okay, but cops firing less lethal munitions or crowd control gas is inhumane. Take away crowd control means and then tell them they cannot use deadly force. Meanwhile, the citizens who deserve protection and service get screwed as the politicians keep them from doing their job the right way. When a cop is murdered there might be a one-line somewhere in the press; when a thug is righteously dispatched they get front page coverage and the cops are denigrated and vilified.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Brothers and sisters, you have become cannon fodder in a war you don't have options to fight. When did it become okay to have a politician say you simply stand and be hit, assaulted, abused and killed? When did it become okay for politicians to stand by and watch their cities be destroyed? </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I don't have the answers but by God's help, we need to turn this around fast. Time is running out on the America we love and cherish and are willing to lay down our lives for. Yes, willing to sacrifice for America and not some scumbag politicians.</span> <br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say,
lives are never going to be the same.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life so
hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their
own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">You can't justify this insanity. We
have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">We see other countries going
Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Somehow, it’s un-American for the
census to count how many Americans are in America.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">People who say there is no such
thing as gender are demanding a female President.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Universities that advocate equality,
discriminate against Asian-Americans in favor of African-Americans.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Some people are held responsible for
things that happened before they were born and other people are not held
responsible for what they are doing right now.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Criminals are caught-and-released to
hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR
rights.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">People who have never owned slaves
should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">If a dude pretends to be a woman,
you are required to pretend with him.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">It was cool for Joe Biden to
"blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense
if Donald Trump inquires about it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">People who have never been to
college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for
their degrees.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Immigrants with tuberculosis, HIV,
and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is
vaccinated.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Irish doctors and German engineers
who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but
any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">$5 billion for border security is
too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for "free" health care is not.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">If you cheat to get into college you
go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for
free.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">And, pointing out all this hypocrisy
somehow makes us "racists"!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"> Nothing makes sense anymore, no
values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it
is racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">We are clearly living in an upside
down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and
immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers
is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">
</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Wake up America, the great
unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water and
sinking fast.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The choice is yours to make. What
will it be? Time is short, make your choice wisely!"</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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They never contribute anything to society and will do whatever it takes to continue feeding on the hind tit of society. Won't work a productive job, live in mom's basement, live on welfare or other assistance programs, and drain the country of not only cash, but the human vitality that propels people and a nation forward.<br /></p><p> Then we have the do nothing's. They wait for everyone else to do what needs to be done, and then criticize them for doing it. They want things done for them, or to turn out the way they wish, but won't lift a finger to help. Then they bemoan that things are not going their way! </p><p> Look at the situation honestly and without bias. How do we fix some of the big problems our country faces?</p><p>People decry the police shooting of a person, color irregardless. But why isn't there the same hue and cry over the hundreds killed in the neighborhoods where nobody seems to see or know anything after the shootings? Why do dozens and hundreds of people of color die in their own neighborhoods, not at the hands of anyone but their own people? Why is there no movement to stop that crime and murder? I can't answer that, but the beginnings of safe neighborhoods start with the residents. As long as thugs and murderers get away with their crimes, there will be no stopping them. People need to stand up and fight back. And, de-funding the police especially in areas that are crime ridden is moronic. Less police equals more crime in the inner cities and that's a fact. </p><p>Why as a nation do we allow welfare and social service programs to run rampant where people can be on the public dole for generations? Doesn't anyone ever require that the recipients work? How does it occur that people can have ten babies, all paid by the social service system and never work a day in their lives? Doesn't matter the color, race or creed, this type of system fraught with fraud has gone on long enough. Sadly, those who often need help the most are denied because the monies are going to those less deserving. And that just is wrong! Not to get biblical, but the saying of "give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime" is so true. Those who want help need to get moving and help themselves. Yes COVID-19 is a hindrance but this persisted for decades way before the virus came to visit. <br /></p><p>Why is there always a left and right in government? Is there never a middle ground? Why do politicians seem to spend their time in office fighting, cutting down the other party, trying to screw the opposite side instead of actually working for the American people who pay their way? IF the politicians spent as much time actually doing the work of the public, they wouldn't have time to fight so much. And why do politicians pander to a vote rather than what's good for the people? Giving free money and medical support to illegals seems an odd way to spend the American taxpayer's money. <br /></p><p>And why do politicians get free healthcare and a huge retirement when they serve as little as one term? The American people struggle to pay for healthcare and the politicians get a free ride. No matter so many want to become senators and congressmen. What's good for every American is what the politicians should be getting and no more or less. </p><p></p><p>It doesn't matter what color you are, you can be successful. This white privilege is a bunch of crap developed by idiots who have no idea what they are talking about. Let's see...starting working at 13, helping keep a house as well, going to school, working part time through high school, fighting a war through military service, going to college out of one's own pocket while working and supporting a family, never asking for a hand out and doing what was needed to survive and grow. If that's white privilege it isn't all that wonderful. And what's interesting is that men and women of color were doing the same thing at the same time. Many were successful doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers and so much more. They had what...black privilege? No, what they had was drive and a wanting to be someone, to be better. and they succeeded.</p><p></p><p>If you want to be nothing, don't work, do drugs, be a thug and commit crimes, loot, steal and burn and disrespect authority you can bet that will be your entire life. You will become nothing, be nothing and likely die on the street in a hail of bullets or a drug overdose or the wreck of a stolen car. Your mom will cry at the loss of a child, but she shares much of the blame, and now the guilt, for how you turned out. The lack of parenting and any controls allowed you to become nothing more than a stain on the pavement, the recipient of a bunch of dollar store candles and cheap balloons in a makeshift memorial. Just like the one a block away, and several blocks further and more. </p><p> Finally, if you think these "movements" care about you that's a big mistake. They are designed to create chaos and when it's all over, you will be back where you were, likely poorer and perhaps in worse shape than when it all started. Look at those around you when you protest or march or whatever it is you do. They are there for the thrill of getting away with criminal activity in the name of the First Amendment. Don't let their enthusiasm end up with you creating situations where you have to face people exercising their Second Amendment rights. That will not be a positive outcome. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Atom 1.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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