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2/2/2018

Wow, already a month into 2018! I hope you’re off to a good start and that you are at least hanging in there with a few of your New Year’s Resolutions. I’m doing well with mine although I do have to admit that only one of my resolutions is a pretty good challenge, the rest are definitely doable as long as I keep them in mind throughout my day.

As usual there are a lot of political posts this month. Articles include: 1) The new tax plan. 2) Profits and sales dropping rapidly at some of the mainstream media outlets. 3) White privilege and flight. 4) Are the rich getting richer? 5) Which colony was the only one not to vote for the Declaration of Independence? 6) Free abortions for illegal immigrants. 7) Political correctness on college campuses. 8) Iceland’s new law to prevent gender pay gaps. 9) Cool things about Camp David. 10) Is ignorance of the law now an excuse in the public sector?

Along with the above political articles are ones that address other areas of life: 1) Who are the wealthiest commercial actors? 2) One of the most beautiful voices of all time. 3) Life lessons about honest scales. 4) What’s unique about human beings? 5) The 12-year-old rape victim. 6) Transgender athletes at Olympics. 7) Who invented the “Hold” button on phones? 8) The Eagles. 9) Privilege test for middle-scholars. 10) What it takes to be a military leader.

Take care and make it a great month!

Honest Scales

2/1/2018

These are two verses from the Bible that I love: Proverbs 16:11 “Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are of his making.” Then there’s Proverbs 20:23 “The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him.”

The above verses make it appear that God is dealing with people who are dishonest which is true, but I think we can glean a little more out of it. What the verses could also mean is that God doesn't like it when people set the scale based on their measurement system (their truths) and, expects everyone else to live by it. It's human nature to judge others based on our standards of measurement but this doesn’t mean it’s fair or smart of us to do this.

God says the weights are created by him (Proverbs 16:11). We aren’t to set the scales he is…he not only sets the scales he decides what and who measures up. Which segues nicely into a very scary and profound verse: “Judge not lest we be judged.” – Matthew 7:1

Someone once said: “Don’t get on me for my sins just because they’re different than yours.” To this I say, amen.

Tax Lies

2/1/2018

The mainstream media with their usual biased reporting are providing interview after interview of Democrats about the new Tax Bill. Surprise, surprise, they're saying it's terrible. Pelosi said it will cause Armageddon. Some of them mentioned it will be responsible for killing millions of people. They said taxes will increase on the middle-class. Wow, I didn't know Republicans were so evil.

Okay, now for some truth since the media isn't covering it. The Tax Bill if passed isn't written in stone so if people start dying, if it starts to cause the end of the world, if peoples' taxes start going up, then they'll abort from the plan. They'd probably ride it out for 2018, but there's nothing that says they can't change it at any time.

This is a truth that Democrats certainly don't want known because it would take away from their divisive rhetoric. They know the truth that the tax plan won't lead to the demise of our country, yet they lie about it for political reasons. They know it can be changed at any time if there are problems, but they keep saying it’s permanent. They purposefully divide our country again and again. I’ve said it before but some of these people are more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

The Eagles

2/1/2018

The Eagles weren't originally seen as a potential hit group because their blues/country/rock music style was unusual for the times since classic rock and the British Invasion ruled the charts. Amos records took a chance on them including recommending a few music artists to join their group.

I believe the reasons they were so successful had to do with four things: 1) They had several band members who could write great songs. 2) Several band members could sing lead (none better than Glen Frey), which gave the band different sounds so it wasn't monotonous to listen to them (i.e. New Kid in Town, Hotel California, Life's Been Good to Me). All of these hit songs were sung by different members in the band. 3) Joe Walsh. Not only could he sing and play a variety of instruments (he's mind blowing on electric guitar), his facial expressions while performing are mesmerizing. 4) The group's harmonies were almost as rare as The Beach Boys.

After more than 40 years they're still performing, which I find amazing. My IPod is filled with their hit songs. Here's to The Eagles, one of the greatest bands in our lifetime.

Bin Laden's Pornography

2/1/2018

As usual, the CIA isn't going to release all the material they found at Bin Laden's compound. To be fair, they are releasing about everything but his huge stash of porn (true story). My guess is there are some senior CIA members who have a bunch of DVD's and magazines hidden under their mattresses from Bin Laden’s porn stash.

Steve Harvey

2/1/2018

I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Harvey began hosting America's Deadliest Catch; he's hosting everything else.

Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

2/1/2018

I just finished listening to a liberal call Trump a racist for wanting to build a wall. I find it interesting that they try so hard to separate Trump from the voters who voted him in office. The bottom line is if this guy is calling Trump a racist because of wanting to build the wall, then there's actually around 50 million people who agree with him; are all of them racists?

It truly shocks me that some people buy into this. If Trump were a racist, then why doesn't he change our legal immigration policies across the board? We have around one million legal immigrants from all around the world and from every race and religion, coming here annually so if Trump's a racist, why wouldn't he try to stop these people from coming in?

If he’s biased against a particular group, it’s the ones who break laws or the ones from designated countries who harbor terrorists (the same list Obama used). He doesn’t want a white person here illegally just as much as he doesn’t want a Hispanic coming here illegally. The fact is there’s no reason at all to call Trump a racist based on the wall he wants to build. If liberals can prove the other 50 million people who want a wall built are racists then maybe there's a story about Trump. Until then, it's a ridiculous argument.

I've said it before, but Trump's companies haven't discriminated based on gender, race, sexual orientation, etc., because if someone can help him make money, these other things are non-factors. The only color I know he's partial to is green...green golf courses and green money.

Let me throw out another theory regarding why Trump wants to build the wall and see if it makes more sense than him being a racist. Maybe, just maybe, he's doing it so we can slow down illegal immigration which means we could vet more people and make our citizens safer. Maybe Trump likes the fact (like our border patrol does), that we'd be able to steer people to different areas along the fence. Meaning there could be open sections in the wall that are manageable to protect and allow our people to work the other side of the fence as well.

Technology is a Robin to the wall which is Batman. Liberals who weren’t willing to do anything at all in reference to enhancing border security are now coming to the plate because their greatest concern is that President Trump will accomplish one of his major goals. It has nothing to do with the wall being the right thing to do therefore they’re now bringing up other things we can do technology wise which is something Republicans have already been trying to do but were getting blocked at every turn.

Why are liberals so adamant about not building a wall? Why don't Border Patrol have the biggest say in whether it would be effective? What in the world do liberal politicians know about securing our borders? The many Federal agencies that would be impacted by the wall (i.e. ATF, Border Patrol, CIA, DEA, DHS, FBI, ICE, etc.), should be able to work together on a border control/patrol plan and then present it to the applicable committees. The bottom line is if greater than 50% of the people from these organizations agree to various components (like building a wall), then we should do it if the costs are realistic.

How could we go wrong listening to the people with the expertise? Could you imagine if you worked for Border Patrol over the last nine years and you’ve had to catch and release? Why don’t we take our prison costs down and just catch and release all criminals? Crazy right? Around here we'd call it "Carolina Crazy" because our crazy compared to "California Crazy" are two completely different things. One thing for sure is that liberals would be on board with this because one less felony on the books means one more vote for the Democrat Party.

I don't know if you've noticed but over the last 20 years it's getting much easier to source produce outside of the United States (like from Brazil). California had a lock on a lot of the agricultural business, but then other countries came in and began cutting deals with supermarket chains across the country for good produce during the off seasons for fair prices.

California needs the cheap labor because their state must have competitive prices. So at one end of their mouth they're talking about taking care of the little guy with a $15 an hour minimum wage while at the same time creating an environment where people are willing to move into a community and do the tough jobs for little money.

The wall will be a tool to help us follow through on current immigration laws; it’s not a new law that Trump pulled out of his hat because he’s a racist. If you're a liberal and you're playing this race card I beg of you to put it back in the deck. Although this won't help much as you've pulled the card out so many times it's much more worn than the other cards, so you can no longer hide it.

Hillary Beats Rape Rap for Client

2/1/2018

The media ran so far away from this true story in order to protect Hillary during the election. In 1975 she and her law firm attacked the credibility of a 12 year-old rape victim by saying she was interested sexually in the older man in question. Hillary said plenty of other things as well to get her client off the hook. She was very proud of winning the case even laughing at getting the rape charges dropped.

What about the 12 year-old rape victim? It's not a laughing matter to her or her family and friends. With Hillary's campaign out selling how she cared about women, they had to do everything they could to squash this story; and the mainstream media, gladly pulled off an assist. They also protected her over one of her campaign members sexually harassing one of the workers. She was told she should fire the man but as we've seen in the inner-circle of politics, it's hard to get rid of someone who has dirt on you. She chose to let him stay and according to reports today, is regretting what she did.

But do you see the big picture? Time and time again she's thrown women under the bus when it fits her narrative. She doesn't care about women, she cared that women might get her elected the first female President of the United States. Hillary has shown time and time again that when push comes to shove, she cares about no one but herself. She's shown us who she is her entire career yet for some reason there are people who still believe in her integrity. P.T. Barnum was correct when he said: “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

White Flight

2/1/2018

Detroit is one of the first cities where the term "White Flight" was used to depict the massive amount of white people leaving for other cities. White people don't stick around (currently 10% of Detroit's total population), if there aren't job opportunities. White people will leave if there's too much crime in the area they live.

Most people who live on welfare don’t pay too much attention to what's going on in the private sector. As we’ve seen in places like Detroit, things fell apart around them and when the smoke cleared they realized they were living in a war zone with blocks of empty homes.

Detroit has had every opportunity to shine without Republican representation and without white citizens holding African Americans back, but the results have been deplorable. Citizens in Detroit can say it has nothing to do with demographics or Democrats running everything and that's certainly fine to believe what they want but they might want to consider some alternative theories before it's too late. The Democrat Party isn’t your friend.

Become Rich, Join the Public Sector

2/1/2018

A report showed 30,000 Federal Government employees were making around $200,000 a year. Not a typo...$200k! They were also getting 20 vacation days on average, 13 sick days, and 10 Federal holidays; basically, they were off work for over two months.

I've written before about how a public-sector employee helps our economy much less than a private sector employee. If we start having talented private sector employees going to the public sector to make more money, we're in serious trouble. To add insult to injury, these Federal employees were given $351 million dollars in bonuses. Are you ready to march on D.C. yet?

I realize some people don't like discussing or reading about politics, but this could be dangerous. While we were sleeping (so to speak), the above transition took place where an average government employee in general (not just the crazy salaries above), became much more lucrative than what the private sector offers.

Would you consider searching out your representatives via Bing or Google and then send them a brief note about how livid you are about the public sector making more than the private sector. Across the board, the public-sector averages 27% more in salary and benefits.

Even if you don’t enjoy the topic of politics, I strongly believe you owe it to your children to put the hammer down on government abuse because if you don't, your children will end up with a marker they can't cover. The economy will crash. Money put into retirement funds will dissipate. Healthcare will be for the elites. Jobs will go away. If you don't think this can happen look up countries who have gone bankrupt which includes Greece. You think rioting is bad here now, wait till people start losing the basics.

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