Things I Still Don't Understand
It seems that young revolutionaries want to rewrite our history but how is that possible? You cannot erase history; you can only learn from it. George Santayana once wrote "those who ignore the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it". So, I am wondering, if we consciously try to erase history and rewrite it as we believe it should have been, how will we ever learn of the mistakes we made in the past so that they are not made again? But here is a thought: Why not get back to teaching history in schools instead of advocacy and critical race theory which do nothing to unify us but much to divide us?
2. So if a police officer shoots a criminal after being assaulted by that criminal, it is the cop's fault but if a criminal shoots someone it is the gun's fault? Help me understand that, please?
3. I have lived in America for all of my 75 years. I am probably old-fashioned but it has been my experience that police typically leave you alone if you are not doing illegal stuff. So here is a novel thought: How about once again teaching our kids to be responsible for their actions and respect police, adults, and senior citizens? Shouldn’t this be a process that begins in the home and reinforced in our schools, churches, and synagogues? And how about a conscious effort to get back to God? Seems to me we have kind of put Him aside and it might be time to get Him back into our lives. We were founded on Christian Principles, weren’t we?
4. Does Black Lives Matter (BLM) include aborted black babies, murdered black police officers, black on black killings, or does BLM just apply when a white police officer kills a black man or woman?
5. So now the classic movie Gone with the Wind has been removed and high school students no longer are asked to read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain or To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Shakespeare’s works like the Merchant of Venice and Othello are deemed racist along with the witches in MacBeth and therefore no longer taught in our schools. The children’s books of Dr. Seuss are now banned. They have been banished from school curriculums, That is sad and a great loss from an educational perspective. But does anyone remember Hattie McDaniel? Well, she was the first black American Actress to win an Oscar for her performance in…wait for it… Gone with the Wind. Are her name and performance now cast aside and gone forever as a result of the new revolutionaries telling us what we can and cannot read or see? And where are our teachers on all of this? Why are they silent?
6. Rest in Peace Aunt Jemima (1893-2020) and Uncle Ben (1943-2020) Cause of death: Liberal Stupidity. Whatever happened to Common Sense?
7. Why would President Barack Hussein Obama have a Presidential Library? What the hell would it contain?
8. In the last eight years of the Obama-Biden Administration, which mercifully ended in 2016,, can you name any piece of legislation, any program that benefitted America and Americans coming from the Democrats? Come to think of it, Joe Biden, now our President and former VP under Barack Hussein Obama, has stumbled (literally) his way in the first seventy days of his Administration reversing everything President Trump did, especially all the things that were working, like curbing illegal immigration. But Biden has been in government for 50 years! What exactly has he done for America and Americans in all those years? Can you name one thing of note, other than singing the praises of Senator Robert Byrd, the Grand Cyclops of the KKK? That's not a joke. Senator Byrd was a leader of the KKK.
9. The Prophet Mohammed was a pedophile, murderer, and slave trader. That is a fact. Why are there no riots to burn down mosques? How about the Pyramids of Egypt. They were built by slaves. Why are there no riots and efforts to destroy these? Ditto for The Great Wall of China?
10. Maybe it's just me, but if I have a problem with my faucets, drains, or showers, I may call a plumber to help. If I have a question about taxes, I may call my accountant. If I have a fever or upset stomach, I may call my doctor. But if I want advice on politics or economics or international relations, I guarantee you I would not call Lebron James or any other athlete for advice. How about you?
11. I recall when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was laughing and high-fiving people for scamming the Trump Rally in Oklahoma and having teens and others register for advance tickets to it and not show up.
Fascinating! But here's a question: If these liberal democrats could do this and get away with it, why is it so unbelievable to believe they did not intentionally defraud the election in favor of Joe Biden? Am I the only one in America who does not believe a man who has had two sub-arachnoid hemorrhages (brain bleeds), who has difficulty speaking and keeping his balance, received 80 million votes? Have you heard anything about his medical report and physical yet? Shouldn’t we be provided that information about our President?
12. I find it ironic and a bit humorous that the very first thing the insurrectionist wanna-be tough guys who took over a six-square block segment of Seattle did was.....wait for it.....build a wall! Why did they do that? (Don’t answer that, I think I figured it out)
13. I recall the day that rioters in California tore down the statue of Ulysses S. Grant, former President and the General who defeated the Confederacy and wreaked havoc on the KKK in South Carolina. He was vehemently opposed to slavery. Wonder what he did so wrong as to elicit the ire of the mob? Could it be that the mob was not so concerned about Blacks but more concerned about simply tearing down everything to do with America? Makes you really wonder about just what BLM and Antifa stand for doesn’t it? And who the hell is in charge of these well-orchestrated riots…oh, I apologize…peaceful protests? You see, a mob has a leader, so who is the leader? George Soros? Barack Hussein Obama and OFA? Someone is calling the shots to undermine our way of life. I’d really like to know. Wouldn’t you? Where is the FBI when you really need them?
14. Sometimes I find myself wondering why we are so obsessed with trying to find intelligent life on other planets when we can't seem to find intelligent life right here on Mother Earth?
15. Why the continued mystery and disparity about the number of people who died from Covid versus those who died with Covid? You do realize there is a difference? I am just not smart enough to understand these things?
16. I note the genuine excitement on the part of politicians, especially in New York and New Jersey who voted to legalize marijuana. Their euphoria is based on having yet another revenue stream to tax, providing politicians more money to spend. What could possibly go wrong? Do you think that driving under the influence of marijuana will result in more traffic accidents and fatalities? Is that a far-fetched question? Why would we do this?
But here is what I do understand and for which I need no explanation: Americans live in the greatest country on planet earth, and I have been all over this world so I can make that statement. We have the finest medical care in the world; we've earned more Nobel Prizes than any nation earth by a factor of ten; we have pioneered the exploration of space and are innovators in technology. We have accumulated more wealth and prosperity than any other country on the globe and have the highest standard of living known to man. We have abolished slavery, prevailed in two World Wars and saved Europe twice in the 20th century, and rebuilt the entire nation of Japan in the aftermath of the devastation WWII wrought on those people. Instead of reaping the spoils of war, we invested to rebuild the nations of the world. And we did all of this in 244 years as compared to other nations whose histories go back thousands of years! America is, at least for now, a free country and, if you don't like it here, you don't need to destroy other people’s property and businesses to satisfy your primal, uncontrolled emotions, nor do you have to tear down our historical monuments. You can just pack up and leave. And, I am just guessing about this, but I bet if I looked carefully, I would not see any anchors on your asses keeping you here.
In a few short months, we will be celebrating Independence Day, the Birthday of our Nation. It is a golden opportunity to put aside personal differences and salute the fact that we all wake up every day as free men and women thanks to those who paid the ultimate price for that privilege. We have several vaccines thanks to the efforts and leadership of President Trump. We have the pandemic on the run and have started to recover and get back to work.
Stop the fear-mongering and prophecies of doom and gloom. And stop the bickering and nit-picking between Republicans and Democrats and start working together on behalf of the American people
We are Americans.
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