It's enjoyable to hang around people who think like we do. Some people might not exactly think like we do but they know how to play the game and tell us what we want to hear. The problem is if we surround ourselves with people like this it may seem like a good thing, certainly more fun where there's less conflict, but the fact is we'll never reach our full potential unless we hang out with some people who might rub us the wrong way at times.
Winnie the Pooh said something very profound once, and it was: "How lucky I am to have something which makes saying goodbye, so hard." Reminds me that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was wood, that he was one of them." - Unknown
Sounds so much like many of those in the Democratic Party. Mary Read, also known as Mark Read, was an English pirate. She and Anne Bonny are two of the most famed female pirates of all time. Read began dressing as a boy at a young age as it was the only way her mother could secure an inheritance for her from a relative who passed away. Playing a boy for so long, she ended up in the British military when she was a teenager and had to play the part of a male soldier. After her service, she went back to living the life of a female and got married.
When her husband died she moved to the West Indies around 1715. She met two pirates, Captain Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny in 1720, so she decided to try the adventures of pirating at the "old age," back then of 35 years. They were a very successful crew but a little less than a year into Read's time on the water, Captain Rackham's ship was captured by the British. He was swiftly executed but both Read and Bonny claimed to be pregnant and received delayed sentences. Read was never executed and instead died of a fever in 1721 at the age of 36. There are thousands of amazing stories throughout history, what Mary/Mark Read did, is one of them. It's not about the gun, it's about the bullets. A gun without bullets is useless. It's not about the bullets or the gun, it's about the shooter who puts the bullets in the gun; a gun without bullets or a shooter doesn't have a purpose. So where should the 2nd Amendment argue begin? What is the base denominator in the entire equation? Thus why many Democratic politicians don't get it; actually I think they do, but creating division to influence power, is how they roll.
Bram Stoker (Dublin, Ireland), was pretty much a one-hit wonder, but when he wrote "Dracula," in 1897 (he was 50 at the time), it became a "War of the World's," moment as he had people scared to death that the story was true. Using his skills as a newspaper writer, he wrote a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and fake newspaper clippings, which made the account of the book appear real.
The character he created, Dracula, has been used time and time again throughout television shows and movies. The Werewolf might not have ever been created without first, Dracula. Stoker died from what was believed to be a heart attack in 1912 at the age of 64. The legend of Bram Stoker and Dracula still lives on which I find absolutely amazing. Anyone who doesn't believe the mainstream media is horrifically biased against the Republican Party, especially Trump, is dangerously naïve. The same verbiage that is said amongst Democratic Party leaders makes its way to the media who report it as gospel. They constantly give coverage to what the Democrats have to say, but rarely interview leaders of the Republican Party.
Take the latest assassination of Iranian general Qassim Soleimani. They've attacked Trump relentlessly over it. Why in the world should they be upset that a terrorists was killed? The words Democrats are using and their partners in the mainstream media is that General Soleimani didn't pose an "imminent threat," so Trump shouldn't have had him killed. What do they mean by imminent threat? We know he's a threat because we know what he's done. All the terrorists who were killed (remember the deck of cards), from 9/11, weren't according to their terminology, an "imminent threat," they were killed because of what they did and the likely potential to do it again. Even though it shouldn't, it still shocks me how so many people are sheep. They no longer use common sense and logic. If they did, they'd realize that this whole "imminent threat," propaganda is so outrageous that the perpetrators should forever lose their credibility. But it won't happen, because some people hear only what they want to hear and if it has anything negative to do about Trump, they're all in regardless of the truth. It's both scary and sad. Starting quarterbacks in the NFL generally wear red vest during practice so they aren't hit or tackled. Needless to say, this takes away the joy from many of the defensive players who make a living off quarterback sacks. With this in mind, you can imagine their excitement at practice when the back-up quarterback runs some plays and he isn't wearing a vest. Here's to all the back-up quarterbacks who actually get beaten up more during the season than the starting quarterbacks. :)
One of the unique things about growing old with your spouse is that you still recognize each other from when you were young. I'm sure that my wife Maggie has changed over time, as have I, but she's still the same beautiful girl that I met in Charleston, South Carolina 37 years ago. This is a wonderful ability God gave us.
Watching politicians on both sides of the aisle and in taking in all the stories from the mainstream media, I've come to learn that the most compelling of lies are comprised most entirely of the truth.
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Author: John Mann |