I Could Be Wrong.

  Anyone can comment on my blog, but I always hope the comments are civil and well thought out. I am also on various social media outlets. The comments on one of those outlets got so bad that I restricted it to people I follow. It is very rare to have a civil political conversation with people because most of the time it just isn’t based on the truth. Too many times, people try to kidnap the conversation just to push their own agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate. It is really hard to have a conversation with a person who tries to use logic to justify their racism, bigotry, and hate. My last blog was about the executive orders Trump had written on his first day of office. I got a response that I found very interesting. This anonymous poster wrote, “Are we looking at stupidity or something even more sinister, sabotage on behalf of the Deep State?” I don’t have any idea what the guy is talking about. Was he insinuating that I was part of the “Deep State”? I had to look up what the D...

   The Trump administration has begun and just like the last time I was hoping that he would calm down all the vibrato and become an actual leader. It is too early to tell but it isn’t looking good to me so far. An inauguration is an event that is supposed to be a celebration of the continuation of our democracy. A celebration of our greatest document that has endured our Constitution.  The Constitution is the document that established our government which is sworn to be protected by the incoming administration. The document ensures we have a government of the people, by the people, for the people. It is a day that in the past was used to ensure the incoming administration would work for all the citizens of this great country. It is supposed to be a day of unification. From what I have read so far I don't think it is off to a good start.  One of the first things Trump did was to pardon 1600 of the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol. He said he was going to do...

  When disasters occur, we often see the best of people but we often also see the worst of people. The catastrophe in California caused by the wildfires is no different. We see the best in people and we see the worst in people. We see neighbors helping neighbors and we see people looting. We see people stepping up to the plate and doing extraordinary things and some people are just talking trash. We see a lot of love but we also see a lot of hate. The whole process just amazes me. I love seeing people doing what they can. I love people doing things with no strings attached. I hate bitter-controlling people trying to tell everyone what others should be doing to support these victims when they are not stepping up to the plate themselves. Venessa Bryant the widow of Kobe Bryant the great Los Angeles basketball player is one of those people who stepped up to the plate. She was at Dodger Stadium giving away free Nike Basketball shoes and other items. The first thing that came to my mi...

  I spend a lot of time researching what I write about. I often write about the problems that I feel the country is going through. I am always trying to figure out how we got here in the first place. Looking backward often helps to move forward. I can look back over the past seven decades and compare what I see today. I can see the great advances we have made and where we have been stagnant or even gone backward as a society. When it comes to informing people what is happening, we are going backward. We have a 24-hour news channel that is just a propaganda channel of the Conservative Republican Party owned by a Billionaire and the channel's purpose is to impose the conservative will upon the American people. We have had Billionaires buy some of the biggest newspapers in the country like the Wahington Post and the Los Angeles Times and then censor what the papers can print. What that is, is Billionaires making a mockery of the 1 st Amendment. We have Billionaires controlling our so...

  The worst thing happening in America right now besides a felon reclaiming the White House is the fires in Southern California. There are 24 confirmed dead and I am sure that number is going to continue to rise. Every day we see the destruction in the news and on the web. Famous people have to evacuate their homes. Some have returned to find their homes just fine and others have found their homes completely destroyed. My wife has a High School classmate who posted pictures of his completely destroyed home on Facebook. It was a sad sight to see and I feel sorry for him. I hope his Oscars survived because he earned them. Those pictures and stories of the celebrities who have been forced to evacuate from the encroaching fires have been heart-wrenching. Some have lost their homes and others have returned to find their home just fine. What I have a problem with is the people who are not rich and famous whose lives have been completely destroyed and who don’t have the resources to start...

  What have we become as a nation? I am pretty sure that is a question that much of the world is asking. This week I am reading there is a Fox News person calling on us to attack Canada, we have Trump calling for us to take Greenland for our economic security, and Tommy Tuberville is saying that we have to take back the Panama Canal in case we have to go to war over Taiwan. Trump has not been sworn in and taken the oath of the Presidency but we have chaos already. Trump campaigned on a lot of issues but I hate to say it wasn’t the annexation of Canada or Greenland. It also wasn’t about taking back the Panama Canal. Trump vowed to have the biggest deportation in the history of America. What I am reading now it looks like it is not going to happen as easily Trump made it sound. We are a country of laws and procedures which Trump will try and bypass but not without a fight. Deporting the numbers that he has promised just isn’t going to happen. In fact, you could actually say that hi...

  How do we address all the hate that we have now? The only thing I can attribute what is happening in the world is because of hate. Hate is such a big subject it is hard to write about. I am a believer we are taught to love and we are taught to hate. I swear some people just look for excuses to hate. They use their hate as a tool to lash out for their own failures. I am not any different from the person next to me and I am capable of feeling the hate that is all around me. There are things I passionately hate such as racism and bigoty. I hate bullies. One thing I have never let happen to me is to hate something so much that I would drive a truck into a group of people celebrating the New Year. That is hate that has been distorted into a rage I never want to feel but I need to try and understand. In fact, I think understanding what causes this rage may just help us all avoid the violence that this rage can cause. Is there a difference in the hatred and rage that leads to a school...