Just Sayin

  It has been brought to my attention by someone smarter than I, that I may have used profane language in excess when posting on this here medium. She was correct to point that out to me. That was an oversight on my part. I am educated and well read, and shouldn't use lazy language like that to make a point. I write well enough to make my point without using profane language. So I apologize to all who were insulted or embarrassed. This apology is in no way for the content, just the delivery. I usually don't get into personalities with politicians, because politics isn't personal for me. That being said, when it comes to the Bush family, it is personal. The Elder Bush cut my crippled father off of Social Security, and made a 55 year old crippled man go out and work after years on Social Security Disability, all because of bs Republican politics. My father had to go to work and do manual labor (which is what he had done all of his life and was the only thing he knew) which ex...

Evil can't be reasoned with. It either wins, or it doesn't. To eradicate it means to treat it inhumanely. The trick is to eradicate it, and still retain humanity.  Good men, do bad things to bad men, in defense of the good, the bad, and the innocent.  Evil in defense of good, is neither evil nor good, it is just.     

  I sit up in the morning before day breaks and watch it come alive. I sit and listen to music, and watch it begin, the way it does every other day. I think about what lay ahead, not what lays behind. I enjoy the peace and calm before the tempest that will be the day, a day that will be both too long and too short, and wait with gilded anticipation for the dawning of the next one.

D ue process from the Smith and Wesson Amendment.

  Whatever populism is, conservatism isn't," Populism believes that everything is clear, known to the public and should be directed into the policy and not be refined in the Constitution. That is the antithesis of conservatism."                                             George Will

  The adage of ‘cultural appropriation’ is a bastardization. It wrongfully casts cultural practices as some sort of  corporate intellectual property.

 I just learned of the passing of a childhood friend. One I have known for some 42 years. Keith Shoemake was a friend of mine from the 4th grade at Crane School here in Yuma. Keith and I were cut from the same mold in that we tended to think outside the box. We both went our own way much to the chagrin of the establishment. We had to do things our own way, and paid a terrible price for our troubles. He was a free thinker, funny, and sometimes deep. He, like me, had a great amount of difficulty in his life. Mostly brought on by us being us. I still remember his punk haircut and those crazy socks he used to wear. Standing there in front of the cafeteria in the quad as freshman. I remember him at parties and the punk music that he all but introduced to Yuma High. He was different in a good kind of way. I had breakfast with him in San Diego awhile back. We got together because of FB. He was a brother in a struggle; a struggle to be who we wanted to be, not who others wanted us to be. T...

  Yes ma'am, but the same problems are had with can internal combustion cars. All forms of transportation, need to be powered by something. Whether it be horses by hay, ships by steam and movement of water, to the internal combustion engine, to the latest iteration: the Electric, or battery-operated vehicle. It is evolution.   That being said, it will take 30 or more years for the country to shift to alternative forms of energy, like solar, wind or what have you. Some other form of energy must be exercised to get the electricity to charge the car. When society transitioned from horse and buggy to horseless carriage, the same problems were encountered, so it took a while. Those us who were born before 1980, will be gone well before electric cars become the norm. It is the younger, 40 and under generations that will see electric and battery-operated cars as widespread as internal combustion are now.