I Could Be Wrong.

  Freedom, we have been hearing a lot of people cry “freedom”. Why do people think that by electing a Democrat for President was taking away their freedom? What freedom was taken away? Why would people think that they have more freedom when the Republicans are in power? Those questions have to be asked and I am afraid that there are not real answers. The reason why? Everyone views freedom differently. Now I Googled the freest countries in the world and I came up with thi we are not even in the top ten. The land of the free and the home of the brave are not even in the Top Ten? This can’t be true but yet I believe it is. Now there are a number of things that I believe give us freedom and I will use what I believe because I know that other people will believe differently. I like the freedom of mobility. President Eisenhower gave us the interstate which made it much easier to get around this beautiful country of ours. All of a sudden the masses could drive to all the wonderful pl...

  Black Lives Matter and Supporting the Police, You Can Do Both. When I was young like a lot of kids, wanted to be a police officer. To protect and serve the community, who wouldn’t want to do that? To this day I look at our police as a very important part of our community. When I was lying on the front lawn with no heart beat and my wife performing CPR who was the first one there? A police officer. Part of their job is to be there when we need them and I needed them. I am alive today with the help of a police officer. Now, I will tell you that I am white but I believe that no matter what my color was he would have done the same thing. One of the dumbest phrases is “Defund the Police”. Now as I stated I am white. I try to understand the Black Experience but being white I have never lived the Black Experience so it is hard. I do not know what it is like to walk into a room and have people look at me like I don’t belong there. I do not know what it is like to be racially profiled...

  Just like the rest of you I react to the news of the day or lately the scandal of the day. Now I am reading that Governor DeSantis is trying to restrict mail-in voting. Now why would he want to do that? There are a lot of old people in the State of Florida and I am one of them. Why would he want to make it harder for older people to vote? Over two dozen states have introduced legislation to suppress voting. Now in the 2020 election here was no evidence of voter fraud that would have changed the election. Everything worked. I would think that that we should be encouraging voting. Our Country was founded on representative government. Men died so we could have representative government. Did we forget the phrase "No Taxation Without Representation”? Are we going to tax people while denying them representative government?  Now the very first election I voted in was in 1980 even though I had been eligible to vote in earlier elections. The big race was of course Carter against Re...

  Now we have another controversy with another Politian Governor Cuomo of New York. He is accused with hiding information from the Trump DOJ in fear of an investigation. Nursing home deaths are a lot higher than previously reported. Now I believe that no information should be withheld from the public. We have the right to know whether it is Russian interference in our elections to the number of people that have died of the virus. We have a right to know and any politician that hides things from the public should be called out. Thank god we have a free press to do that. Just think of all the things we wouldn’t know if it wasn’t for the free press. Now I live in Florida where our Governor makes it a policy to hide information from the people. Now during the period they call “in-season” we have a lot of part time residents. They own or rent property here and stay for the winter months. Now it was discovered that Florida was only reporting the deaths of Florida’s permanent residents....

  There has been a ton of posts on both Twitter and Facebook about the Impeachment trial, the acquittal and the insurrection. A lot of them I see show that the country is far from being healed. I really do that think that we can ever be truly being whole again without the truth. Witnesses should have been called. People should have been forced to testify under oath about what really happened. Politics should have been put aside for the search for the truth. I will look at Senators like Cruz and Rubio and know that they really are not interested in the truth. They are only interested in the power that they get from hiding the truth. I saw one posting that said that instead of trying to impeach maybe Democrats should try working with Republicans. Well, believe it or not that is what they tried to do with the impeachment. Most sane people know that Trump instigated that insurrection and was giddy over the assault. He did not care if Republicans or Democrats died. What he really hope...

  In today’s digital age none of us will be able escape history. Every Facebook posting, every Twitter we send and everything we share on the web has a chance to live for a very long time. Now most of us will not be important enough but a few, like our Senators, will not be able to escape history. All the recording and all the testimony will be there to be reviewed generations from now. I am sure that in a few cases their great great grandchildren will be asking “What in the hell were you thinking.” At times like these I try to look back in history so I Googled the President Johnson Impeachment.   Now he was impeached because he violated the Tenure of Office Act that he had vetoed but Congress had overridden that veto. Now it is a good read and what happened between the Senate and Johnson has repercussions even today. Now the Tenure of Office Act was later struck down by the Supreme Court but that power struggle has led directly to some of the race problems we have today. ...

  As I stated yesterday I do get a lot of comments to my post. Most of them are on Facebook.   I am going to continue with the reply I got from Rhonda of Indiana. All these criticize what Biden has done in the short time he has been in office. She next stated “Stopped the travel ban from countries that supported terrorism”.   Of the seven counties that Trump banded not a single one had a citizen that participated in the 9/11 attacks. Of the 19 men that participated 15 were from Saudi Arabia, 2 from the United Arab Emirates, 1 from Lebanon, and 1 from Egypt. I will ask, has his list really made us safer or, is it a list that’s only meaning was to appease all the Islamic Phobia that was running around at the time? I want real security and the only way to get that is to let the C. I. A, the F. B. I., and all those other agencies whose job it is to keep us safe do their job and believe them over the likes of Putin. Next she said “Hide illegal alien crimes from public scru...

  Because of my writings every once in a while I get feedback. I have been called a Nazi and loser. A libtard and a socialist libtard. I did get some feedback from a Rhonda in Indiana that was kind of interesting. I think what she was trying to do was tell me all the bad things that Biden has done since he was elected. It was a pretty long list so I thought that I would address them here. Her first comment was “Took recognition of the Golan Heights and West as part of Israel. Now I googled if Biden took recognition for Israel annexing the Golan Heights and came up with a blank. Now in the past he was in favor of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital but then back away from that. No matter what anyone does it is a very explosive situation. No matter what you do someone is going to be pissed. I just hope he can get them all back to the negotiating table. Next she said the “Removal of the 1776 project from the Education Department. Now I know she means Trumps attempt to rewrite his...

  This week starts the Impeachment trial in the Senate. Now it looks like it is just going to be another partisan vote. A man died and Trump has not been held accountable even though on January 7 th most everyone agreed that the insurrection was caused by all the rhetoric that Trump and his cohorts were instigating. What happened? Who applied all the pressure for so many to change their mind? Who is holding the leash on all these politicians? A man died protecting our democracy and it seems that isn’t a consideration anymore. We are no longer a country of law and order especially when it comes to people with money. All the people that incited that insurrection should be charged and tried in a court of law. They should be accountable to the people where the crime occurred. I always wonder what the tone would be if a Black president had done this. I would be willing to bet that there would be lynch mobs just waiting to string him up. The law has to be applied evenly if we are going ...

  I am really glad that I am an Independent voter. Being not affiliated with any political party gives me such a feeling of freedom. I don’t have to try and justify the bad behavior of bad politicians. Lately is seemed like there are a lot of bad politicians. My mother always told me that I was only as good as the company that I keep. The older I get the more I understand what she meant. Now they have voted to strip Marjorie Greene of her committee assignments. I have mixed emotions about it. She is a duly elected official from Georgia but she has said a lot of crazy stuff. Let’s look at some of the things that she said. She stated that the Parkland School shoot was a false flag, planned shooting with actors. Sorry Marjorie but real students died. She theorized that the Las Vegas mass shooting was an orchestrated shooting to bring down the 2 nd amendment. I really don’t think that Marjorie has ever read the entire 2 nd amendment and yes people really died. She prompted the Pizz...

  On February 3 rd a brave man sits is state in the rotunda of the US Capital building. He was a police officer, one of the men in blue.   At the same time we have the impeachment trial coming up and I am wondering what it is going to be. Will it be politics as usual or will people really be looking for justice and law and order. Well I know that there is going to be plenty of politics. What about law and order? Is there going to be justice for Brian Sicknick? Trump has never mentioned his name or the sacrifice he made for his Country. Now Brian was a vet that was deployed to Saudi Arabia. He also served in Kyrgyzstan in support for the war in Afghanistan. He was a man that wanted to serve this Country and his community. He died doing his duty, protecting our capital. Now I noticed on January 8 that forty-five percent of Republicans thought that the storming to the Capital was justified. Another fifty-two percent said that Biden was to blame for the violence at the Capital....

  Why is this country in such a mess? There are multiple answers to that question but one of the answers is that rich people do not want to pay taxes. Another is rich corporations do not want to pay taxes. So the problem is taxes right? Well maybe. Without taxes would we really be that great of a country? Without our tax dollars this country would never had achieved so many great things. I know this guy that is a really nice guy. A great conversationalist and dedicated father. His children are lucky to have him as a father. His wife is one of the sweetest ladies I have ever met. Now he has this beautiful huge house that is perfectly landscaped.   He has a 45 foot power boat that he keeps up north that works as a floating cabin. Now this man is smart and has worked hard to get what he wants and works hard to keep it. For me to live like him I would have to win the lottery. The one thing that I do not feel sorry for him is the taxes that he has to pay. He has a lot, more than ...