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  Sometimes I just have to vent. Why is it that whenever something that goes wrong in the world it is some Democratic President’s fault? It looks like Syria has fallen. Their President, Bashar Assad has fled the country. Trump took the opportunity to, of course, blame President Obama for not doing enough go help Syria during his time in office. What was Obama suppose to do? Was he supposed to help Assad gas more Syrian people because that was what he was doing? Assad, with the help of Russia and Putin ruled Syria with an iron fist. The United States was in Syria to help the Kurds fight ISIS when Assad was gassing people rebelling against his regime. Obama asked Congress for support to stop the gassing of civilians that Congress denied. It was the Russian support that helped Assaad remain in power up until now. When Trump took office, we were still in Syria battling ISIS and Assad was still gassing his own people. He talked tough about doing something about Assad but of course did n...
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  At times I get so confused. We seem to have had all these wars going on. Not real wars mind you but we still like to call them wars. We have had the “War on Poverty”. We have what Christian’s think is a “War Against Religion”. It seems that every social struggle we like to call a “War”. Of course, the granddaddy of them all was the War that Nixon started and that is the “War on Drugs”. The War in Vietnam started a counter culture in the 60s especially on our campuses around the entire nation.   Now it is unfair of me to say that the Vietnam War was the only thing that made the 60s, what some would say, explosive. We had the Cold War in full swing. We had President Johnson’s “Great Society”. We had Civil Rights and all the violence that came with the Civil Rights movement. We had a social revolution from what many would consider the counter culture of things like the Hippie Movement and alternative lifestyle. The 60s put the liberal into the mainstream conversation. From ou...
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When Michigan and Ohio State play a football game you know it will be a hard-fought battle. The 2024 contest was what we expected from those two programs. Though I am not a fan of either team I am a college football fan and appreciate a good rivalry game. This year's game was supposed to be an Ohio State blowout. Michigan was unranked at 6 and 5 and Ohio State was among the top teams at 10 and 1. The experts can talk all they want but the game is actually played on the field and, in this case the experts were wrong. The 19-point underdog Michigan was victorious.  Even though it was a great game what everyone will be talking about is what happened after the game. The visiting Michigan team, after the game, of course, celebrated their hard-fought victory and Ohio State seemed a little stunned. During the post-game celebration, a Michigan player was running around, waving a big Michigan flag. The news reports said the Michigan player tried to plant the flag at midfield but I watched t...
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  Transparency in Government. Is that important? Do we have a right to know who is running our government? Personally, I think we do. I have always thought that we do. Any action and investigation done by any branch of our Government should be made public to the American people no matter which party is in power at the time. We are supposed to have a government by the people and for the people so we, the people, should have a right to know everything. Do we have a right to know about an official's personal life? If it involves criminal behavior and even criminal business behavior, then yes, we have a right to know. These investigations should not be held in secret.  The House Ethics Committee has been investigating Representative Matthew Gaetz. He has appeared to have broken a number of laws such as sex with a minor which some people may call Statutory Rape. Paying for sex with a minor. Drug use. It has been stated that he even showed pictures of his underage conquest on the Fl...
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We are being told that because Trump won the election, all of us should support him. At least that is what one of his lawyers said. Alina Saad Habba stated that everyone supported Obama when he was elected and should support Trump now. Talking like that really makes me sit up and take notice. Better yet, lying, like that makes me sit up and take notice. It is straightforward to check and see how much support Obama got from the Republican Party and from the Republicans on the Hill in general. America has been known for having a very short memory but when you are 71 years old 2009 seems like just yesterday.  I don't think we have had a Republican Party that wanted to work with a Democratic President since Johnson. All of my life, the political divide has deepened in America to the point where we are today. That "Party Before Country" that Newt Gingrich brought to the Republican Party during the 1990s really pushed me over the edge. His contract with America had nothing to d...
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The election is over, but the fight needs to go on. We need to start talking about the issues that we will be facing not only in our country but also in the entire world. To conquer those problems we first have to recognize that there is a problem. One of the biggest obstacles is our ability to separate the truth from the lies. You would think that would be an easy thing to do but this is what makes it so hard to solve today's problems. In today's world of alternate facts, the truth becomes very elusive. This is what I'm going to be concentrating on in the future and I hope there are people out there willing to help me.  We have many issues that need to be tackled. There is Climate Change. There are shootings in our schools that take the lives of too many of our children. There is the drug violence on our streets. There is a growing homeless problem. There is the healthcare problem. I know there are many problems and, I'm going to continue to write about them.  Living i...
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Veteran's Day is a day I never really started to appreciate until I visited two National Cemeteries, Arlington National Cemetary and The Little Bighorn National Cemetary. The peacefulness of those two cemeteries left me with a feeling of the peace that was fought for with the lives that were laid to rest there. Another place that moved me was the National Mall, where the Vietnam Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and the Korean Memorial left me with a great appreciation of the sacrifices made by those few for what is supposed to be a grateful nation. Have I honored them properly? Probably not. Has the nation honored them properly. No! Veteran's Day is more of a way to make a political statement than to honor our Veterans.  I was watching TV the other day and a commercial for the Wounded Warrior Project came on. Like many charities, it has been marred with scandals of misuse of funds by the people who run the charity, and not enough of the money was actually going to the peopl...
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  The nation has spoken. That is how it is supposed to happen: We go to the polls and vote for who to guide the country's direction for the next four years. Some of us are happy with the results and some of us are sad with the results. This election, more than any other, has polarized the nation. We are a divided nation, and this election has made it so we will remain divided. I don't know if I will live long enough to see a united nation. Maybe I am just ignorant and we have been this divided all along because what I am witnessing now shows how little we have come since the 1950s.  I remember the racism from the '60s and the struggles we, as a nation, tried to overcome that hatred which is racism and bigotry. Many things have changed since then but many things have remained the same. The one thing that has remained the same is that we still have a race that believes it is superior to all of the others. When much of America talks about American Exceptionalism what many beli...
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  I grew up in Kenosha, a city in the very corner of Southern Wisconsin. It was the home of the Rambler and was once written up in Playboy as Sin City, USA. The year was 1980 and there was a hotly contested Mayoral election between John Bilotti challenging Paul Saftig. I was sitting around, watching TV about an hour before the polls closed, I decided to vote. I had never voted before so I made sure I had my driver's license and a current gas and electric bill to show proof of residency. I registered right there at my polling place which just happened to be Saint Joseph High School just two blocks from where I lived. I voted that night for John Bilotti. When I got up the next morning I saw the guy that I voted for won by one vote. No one will ever convince me that my one vote didn't matter. From that day on I have voted in every election since then.  Since that day I have also been in favor of making it easier to vote, not harder. I was able to register to vote, even on electio...
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 Living in Florida can be really interesting at times. Some people may use other words like bizarre and strange, but I still like to say interesting. The interesting thing starts with our governor, Governor Ron DeSantis. He is the guy who started calling us the Free State of Florida. He began calling us that about the same time, he began to eliminate things like Diversity, Training, and Inclusion. We are the Free State that bans books. We are the "Can't Say Gay" State. We are the state where Climate Change is not part of the Government's vocabulary or record. We are the State if you disagree with the Governor's interpretation of things he may threaten to sue you. Yes, Florida is a very interesting State but, if you want to say disturbed or bizarre I won't argue with you.   Florida was hit by two hurricanes in just a couple of weeks so we have been seeing an awful lot of DeSantis trying to look like an effective leader during a crisis. He is in front of the cam...
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