I Could Be Wrong.

  It has been a couple of weeks since my last posting. I was going write a 2 nd article on my opinion of the 14 th Amendment because it is a conversation that every State in the Union should be having. If you remember the 14 th amendment is the part of the Constitution that states that insurrectionist are not eligible to run for any office.   I have decided to write about why I haven’t been able to write for a couple of weeks. A couple of weeks ago I was feeling a little run down and a little achy. After lunch I checked my heart rate and I was 135 beats per minute. For those of you that have been following me for a while know that 6 years ago I had a heart attack and my wife administered CPR on me until the First Responders arrived. My heart had stopped for 6 minutes but thanks to my wife and the First Responders I am still alive a kicking. I spent 19 days in the ICU and had a quadruple bypass. Needless to say when I have a heart rate of 135 I get very concerned. I took a ni...

    A friend of mine sent me an article about Section 3 of the 14 th Amendment from the Social Science Research Network of a paper that was written by William Baude of the University of Chicago Law School and Michael Stokes Paulsen of St. Thomas School of Law. The paper is called the “Sweep and Force of Section Three”. It really started me looking at the 14 th Amendment and if it applies today. The paper, at times, is a little hard for a novice like me to follow but some of the points it makes really started me thinking.   We hear people talking about the 14 th Amendment a lot lately but I feel that we should be hearing about it even more. What is important right now is Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold an office, civil of military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress,...

  The Grand Jury report has now been released and it turns out that there were many more individuals they had recommended charges be brought against. The Grand Jury thought that twice as many people should have been indicted, a total of 39 indictments to be exact. Among those that were not indicted were Mike Flynn, David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, Lin Wood, and Lindsey Graham. For whatever the reason, they were not indicted is unknown. The one that I feel should have been Indicted was Senator Lindsey Graham. I have felt all along that he was trying to interfere in the election and the counting of the votes in Georgia. Graham claims that it was part of his job as the head of the Senate Judiciary committee but is it really his job to oversee other state’s election processes? Did he call States that Biden lost suggesting that they throw out ballots that were cast for Trump? We have 50 States and did he call and ask all 50 of the other States election officials? He did call elected offi...

  Recently, we did lots of driving, my wife and I just spent the last 3 days driving up from our home is Fort Myers, Florida to Wisconsin for my wife’s 50 year class reunion. My wife and I share the driving but we only drive about 8 hrs a day so that is why it takes us 3 days. We hit six states and got to see the price of gas along the way. The most expensive gas we purchased was actually in Fort Myers, Florida where we actually living. Everywhere else it was cheaper. Normally the most expensive gas is in Illinois but not this time. I found it even more interesting that gas was about 20 cents a gallon cheaper in Tallahassee than it was in Ft. Myers.   We did drive right through the Big Bend Area and right through the city of Perry that got slammed by the hurricane. Sad to see all that damage and like the Ft. Myers area, it will take years for some of them to recover. Sitting in the car I had a lot is time to look at the news and to look at social media. One of the things tha...

  White Supremacy and Nazis, what in the hell is going on in Florida? Members of two White Supremists groups were marching this Labor Day weekend in Orlando. They were raising the Nazi salute and yelling “Heil Hitler and “White Power”. The Anti-Defamation League had warned this was going to happen. They warned that two extremist groups the “Goyim Defense League” and the “Blood Tribe” were planning to gather in Florida for a joint demonstration they were calling the “March of the Redshirts”. The Goyim Defense League is described as a “loose network of individuals, connected by their anti-Semitism with the goal of expelling all Jews from America”. The Blood Tribe, led by White Supremists Christopher Poklaus as “a growing neo- Nazi group that claims to have chapters across the United States and Canada”. By calling the march the “March of the Red Shirts” I guess it is their way of imitating the actual “Brown Shirts” that marched for Hitler. The groups were yelling “Jews will not replac...

  Well, where should I start? Living in Florida I guess I should start with Hurricane Idalia that made landfall just north of Cedar Key in the Big Bend area of Florida. Because it made landfall after sun up and thanks to the Weather Channel I got to watch all the coverage live. The scene in Perry as the eye wall went right over the city was amazing but not in a good way. To see those 100 year old oak trees being so battered as they fought a losing battle against the storm was a sight that I will remember for a long time. They stood proud and defiant against the rain and the wind but in the end, many were not left standing. I know that everyone will see the oak tree that fell on the Governor’s Mansion, but, that tree will be quickly cut up and hauled away and any of the repairs to the mansion will be quickly repaired, all paid for by the taxpayers of Florida. That won’t be the same for the areas that have been hit all over the State of Florida. The Governor will tour the area and sh...