Just Sayin

  I care less about what happened in the past, other than to learn from it. That is its only value. Humans don't make hurricanes, and tornadoes, those are naturally occurring. We do have something to do with the severity, length, and frequency of them both. We can't exist in the environment without having an impact on it, both negatively, and positively. That is a fact and it is not in dispute, what is in dispute is to what degree our existence impacts the environment. People quit watching the legacy news because they don't like the message, which devoid of entertainment, they in turn watch Fox News, because it is entertainment and not news. Entertainment since it began in the public domain and has pandered to the lowest common denominator of the human character. Entertainment has no substance, just emotion. It makes us feel different, but does not enlighten us. I forgive, but I am not looking for forgiveness, or absolution, not from anyone in this world anyway. In this ...

  Your problem is that your vision encompasses the past. Which is good and bad. Bad in the sense that is not where society, the economy, technology or humanity are going, and good to see past mistakes, and avoid them on the way forward. The past is only needed for remembrance, and understanding. Understanding our mistakes, and remembering not to make them again. He is fake. Take a closer look at what he is dynamic, about. He is not forceful, he is reactionary. You mistake a narcissist bravado for dynamic. You see what he wants you to see, which is a perception. In life, and politics perception is neither reality nor truth, it is merely slight of hand illusion. He is not capable. He only understands how to manage, not govern, managing is leading the few, governing is leading for the many. There is a difference. As for running the country like a business, when there is a profit, who gets the dividend. As for a demonic agenda, You act like putting people out of work, is Christian. Or...

  That is why the war on drugs failed. The government can't legislate morality effectively. As human beings with our own devices, will fall back on our vices. Remember; knowledge is the path to being whoever you want, and the power to be who you will be. I f he wants to prosper in hell, he needs to negotiate with the devil. Remember the old saying, "If I owned Texas and hell, I would rent out Texas and live in hell." Well to do that, one has to deal with the devil.

  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 indifferent.

  The Trumplican Party wanting to do away with DEI, and the so called "Critical Race Theory." We have racism and discrimination in this country from both the majority, and the minority. The only to eradicate racism is through education. With education comes understanding. With understanding comes empathy, and with empathy comes a tolerance of the rights of others. This from both sides. The liberals are guilty of it, with the tearing down the memorials, of the Confederacy. That is a a period we would, as Americans, like to forget. But we can't. It is part of our history. A history that we have changed, not eradicated, but changed for the better. We need to teach that. The Trumplicans want to whitewash the entire history, so as not to make the white children feel and about their race. White children need to know that some of their ancestors were bad, but some of them weren't. Because some were bad, doesn't mean they are bad. The white children need to know that whi...

  Today Dr. Jay Sheridan passed from this life to the next. I would like now to stop and reflect about the profound affect Doc had on me as an angry young man, just starting out in this world. I am a student of Dr. Sheridan’s; the class of 1983. It is because of Dr. Jay Sheridan, that I write to this day. I would like to take this time to inform you of the influence that you had in my life. I had a hard bringing up, mostly due to my own temperament and arrogance. I did not start writing until I was about 16, for a girl, and after an unfortunate encounter with the sun. It was not until my senior year at Yuma High did I show anyone. I turned one in to you; a poem called The Wind that Whistles. It was one of the first I wrote. You validated what I hadn’t realized I could do, and that is write. You made me believe that I could actually get a thought across to another in words. I have written some 250 or 300 poems since. It was that beginning that gave me the confidence to go on writing...

  I am going to comment on the passing of Pete Rose. I am going to comment only on his baseball career. I am not going to pass judgement on any of the rest. As there are plenty of players who were great on the diamond but less than stellar people. We all have our foibles, it is not for me to judge, so I won't.   That being said, when I was young, Pete Rose was the man in the summer. He was tough, he hit the ball, and slid head first. That became the norm in the 70's.  Rose was a consummate hitter. I saw him foul off 25 pitches, in order to  get a ball he liked, then hit a single. That was in 1985 against the Padres. That wasn't the game he got the last hit, it was the series though, if I remember correctly. He had an eye for pitches. He had one speed, and one focus, that is what made him a great player