I was watching this video of Jordan Peterson and it made me think about my life…again. Peterson is an extraordinary specimen of Homo Sapiens. This man gets it.
On gratitude for life and living. He is spot on. Has my life always been a grand adventure. By no means, has it been. I grew up the child of an alcoholic. I was poor. I remember summers through which a decent meal was a miracle of giving. Father was a drunken fool out on a binge. Mother absconded with us to some secret location to avoid his violence. Extended family ignored us and were embarrassed by us.
But we made do. We laughed and loved each other and lived. We survived.
In the end, by some divine intervention or just plain old perseverance, my four siblings and I grew into successful adults. Each of us have had our trials and tribulations. Each of us received guidance and assistance along the way. In the end, though, we’ve all had successes and have become as independent and productive as we could not have dreamed growing up with an abusive father.
I often tell people that I was held back 18 years in life. I didn’t come out of my childhood and grasp the reality that my life was of my own choosing until I was 30 years old. Part of that is that I joined the Army when I was 17. One abusive relationship to another.
The Army didn’t know what to do with a kid like me so it shunted me aside. In time, though, I learned how to thrive in the Army system. A few years later, I outgrew the Army. It seemed to me that it held me back from something. Perhaps, I was right. Time will tell. I said my farewells to the Army and rejoined the rest of the world as a sovereign individual.
I am grateful to the Army. I was allowed to grow up there…with some guidance. I was fortunate in that system. It can destroy many people like me. The shiftless person who is distrusting of authority. A combination of negligent leadership and good leadership pushed and pulled me along.
After leaving the Army and joining the civilian world, I attended a bit of university. Both traditional and non-traditional.
One day out of the blue, I was called by a representative of KBR and thus began my journey into the wider world. I was conscious of the world but, even though I’d traveled in the military, I never completely accepted that it was there. Yes, I’d traveled in the military. I’d been stationed in Germany, Egypt and Korea. I’d traveled to France, Panama, Israel, and Jordan. I didn’t spend a great deal of thought on the rest of the planet, though. It was there. I’d probably die without seeing it.
After KBR hired me, I broadened my scope. Accidentally. at first. Then with purpose. I traveled to Thailand. Then all over Southeast Asia. Then China. Then the Middle East and other parts of Europe and the Mediterranean.
After KBR, I joined other outfits. MPRI came first. Then Mantech, AECOM, Dyncorp and Raytheon. I was a clerk at first. Then I moved on to become an advisor working with various parts of the Afghan National Defense Force.
I met extraordinary people and witnessed extraordinary events. I felt danger closely. I was shot at and bombed and rocketed and mortared. I felt death first hand and heard it whisper my name. Yet, I do not fear death.
Why? Because I felt that I had lived and was grateful to have lived as I had for as long as I had. Death had no hold over me nor the fear of death.
That brings me back to Mr. Peterson. Yes, life is suffering. Yes, I had experienced suffering. I’ve also experienced joy, love, passion and exceptional pride in accomplishing something greater than myself.
I had help along the way. Yet, the major decisions and many minor had been mine. I chose to go. I chose to live. Others helped me along the way. Opportunities had been extended. I chose to take those opportunities and to succeed within the scope of those opportunities. No one forced me to do so. I did not allow fear to hold me back. I took chances in life and those chances paid off for me.
None of those opportunities or successes would have come my way had I not chose to take hard paths along the way. I would not be who I am had I not suffered along the way.
Impeaching Donald Trump results in one of two things:
1. He is successfully impeached, prosecuted and removed by the HoR and Senate respectively.
This guarantees that one of the nut jobs running on the Democratic Party ticket wins which dooms the country to insanity as we have never believed possible. Witch Hunts to make Colonial Salem blush. Leftist Agendas canceling every good thing that existed in America. A crash of the stock market so spectacular as to be theretofore unimaginable. People imprisoned for thought crimes and speech. The Bill of Rights not abolished but eradicated.
2. The idiots of the House fail to impeach or the Senate fails to prosecute and remove.
Trump is guaranteed #Election2020. God only knows what he’ll do in his second term.
I like some of what Trump has done.
I loathe the Left more than I am apprehensive of a second Trump term.
I prefer the 2nd scenario.
I’m not great fan of Trump but better him than any Democrat alive at this moment.
Trump stated truth: If one is wealthy or famous that women will let a man do anything and gave as an example; “grab ’em by the pussy.”
There is no falsity in that statement. It is absolutely true.
Why do you ignore the truth? Does it intimidate you? Are you one of those women who allows famous and wealthy men to do as they please with you and the fact that the statement describes your innermost truth frightens you.
I know for a fact that women out there…some…not all…but millions will, in fact, allow wealthy and famous men to do as they will with them.
There are thousands of American women who travel to the Middle East (Dubai) for 25,000 and 50,000USD weekend. They are paid specifically to allow wealthy Arab men to do as they please. One item that is specifically part of that menu is anal sex for Muslims believe that anal sex is halal whereas vaginal sex is haram.
So, pls, tell me what in that statement by, then civilian, Donald Trump was false and what part of it offended you?
I’ll wait. You won’t dare answer truthfully for the truth is the last item on the Leftist Feminist agenda.
Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let youdo it. You can do anything.
Bush: Whatever you want.
Trump: Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.
(Emphasis Red/Bold/Italics are mine)
Nothing in that statement is false. Women will allow wealth and famous men (a Star) do anything. That is a true statement.
Secondly, the U.S. Census is important for the purposes of distributing funds to the public. Taking a count of the people in the country helps the Federal government decide what areas of the population are in need of what services such as: welfare, housing projects, parks and other things mandated by the federal government.
The Democrats want to count illegal immigrants in the Census and not have them annotated as such so that they can boost the number of Leftist Socialist members of the House of Representatives.
This is why they do not want the citizenship question on the Census. This is why nearly the whole of the platforms of a majority of Democrats running for President in 2020 revolves around illegal immigration.
The Democratic Party doesn’t care about actual Americans. They care only about power.
It’s only Racist if Colin Kaepernick says it is and Colin says that Obama is a racist
Egypt is upset that a “King Tut” artifact was sold by Christie’s auction house in London. I don’t see it. The Islamic Government of Egypt has no more legitimate claim to Pharaonic Egypt than did France, England or the Mongols. Egyptians themselves sold much of this to outsiders. The government of Egypt now extant is not an extension of Pharoanic Egypt. This government is Islamic. If this Egyptian government goes full Sharia, they’ll destroy all of these ancient Egyptian artifacts because of Sharia.
As the current nation of Turkey has absolutely nothing to do with the Greek, Roman or Eastern Roman civilizations that existed in the area before Muslims conquered and occupied Constantinople, this current iteration of Egypt has absolutely nothing to do with and nothing in common with that of ancient, pharaonic Egypt. It would be hilarious to make a connection.
The governments that now stand atop Cairo and Constantinople are as much thieves and interlopers as Britain, France or any other colonial power from Europe. They are all foreign to the area. They all conquered those places. They all occupied those places.
Britain or France have as much claim to those artifacts as the current occupational States of Egypt and Turkey. The only thing that the current Egyptian government has in common with Pharoanic Egypt is the name.
That Muslims stole the name Egypt and used it for legitimacy does not make Egypt any more legitimate than the Palestinians calling themselves Palestine or if the Israelis had called their State the Kingdom of Judea. Egypt is not really Egypt. They are Arabic Islamic occupiers who use an ancient name as propaganda.
If they are real Egyptians, they should throw off the yoke of Islam and reopen the altars to Osiris, Isis, Amen-Ra and the other Egyptian Gods. Otherwise, they are simple occupiers and propagandists.
“While Putin’s trying to undo our elections, he’s actually undoing elections in Europe. Look at what’s happening in Hungary, look what’s happening in Poland, look what’s happening! You think that would happen on my watch or Barack’s watch? You can’t answer that, but I promise it wouldn’t have, and it didn’t,”
These Africans are beings sold as slaves by Africans RIGHT NOW!
Betsy Ross was born into a Quaker family. She grew up a Quaker. She was born in Pennsilvania which was a free State and had already abolished slavery. It is as likely as not that Ross was on the anti-slavery side of the equation.
If the Flag of the United States of America is offensive and reeks of slavery then so to does every African Flag extant.
There would have been no African slave trade were it not for Africans selling their brothers and sisters enmasse for hundreds and thousands of years.
Everything African is offensive and has slavery connotations.
This includes Egypt and Islam which originated in Arabia in the Middle East.
As a matter of fact, being African and Black Pride is offensive and carries connotations of slavery because Africans were extremely proud of their Slaving history and became extremely wealthy from the sale of human beings into bondage.
If this shoe is offensive and has “slavery connotations”…
How is this shoe not offensive and how does it not have “slavery connotations”…
Egypt is one of the first empires to hold slaves. Essentially Egypt invented slavery. Egypt started slavery thousands of years before the United States of America existed and there are slaves being bought and sold in Egypt right now.
And then there is this shoe…
Africans grew immeasurably wealthy from the African slave trade to the Americas and elsewhere. Africans grow wealthy from selling and trading in the human bondage business at this moment.
No! White people are not solely responsible for slavery or the enslavement of millions of Africans. If everything White is offensive to people like Colin Kaepernick, why isn’t everything Black and African equally offensive to them. Is Colin Kaepernick a simple minded racist? More and more, it would seem that this is an explanation for his behaviors and mindset.
I was a supporter of Colin Kaepernick as you would inevitably find by perusing my blog. I am reconsidering that support and finding myself more and more on a different side. It would seem that Colin Kaepernick has initiated a War on Whiteness.
What should be done with these children who are taken to the border and across the border by their criminal parents, guardians and kidnappers?
Should we put them out on the street. Simply throw them across the border? Shoot them? Euthanize them?
Perhaps, we should place them in your home so that you can take care of them since you feel so for them?
Those “cages” are simply fenced in containment areas. Such would be used for any person who committed illegal acts. And I’ll remind you that crossing into another nation without the proper documentation/permissions is illegal. It is a criminal act.
Perhaps, the parents should be held responsible for dragging their kids to the border and preying upon the bleeding hearts of Leftists who can’t operate in reality and, therefore, encourage these parents and other more nefarious persons to drag children into these circumstances.
The United States Government did not ask these people to come. The United States Government did not invite these people to come. The United States Government did not snatch these folks from their homes in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras and place them into cages. These people took it upon themselves to attempt to enter into the country illegally and/or under false pretenses.
If there are children in cages, it is the fault of the parents and the criminals who have kidnapped these children and are trafficking them across international borders.
You speak to humanity and humanity’s values. What human value is it to encourage people to run to the US border and overwhelm that border with thousands of folks when the Border Control and Customs and Immigration folks do not have the capacity to deal with that large, abnormal influx of migrants.
What human value is it that states that you demand that others fund your desire to allow these people to come to America and become a drain on the taxpayer?
What human value is it that demands that I fund your charitable impulses?
Please. Do tell.
If you care so much about these people, why aren’t you there caring for them instead of in your home preaching self righteous nonsense.
Get a move on. Kids in cages are suffering because you are too lazy to get off of your duff and help them!
100% of all jailed US criminals and 100% of pedophiles are Homo Sapiens.
Humanity’s values? That’s laughable at best.
Humanity has brought us socialism, greed, abortion, communism, religion, conquest, occupation, Nazism, fascism, slavery, rapine, pillage, war and every other evil that has ever been perpetrated upon humanity.
Why does humanity get a pass when you are so hard on Christianity?
That’s a bit hypocritical, don’t you think.
Humanity’s values are not values. They are conditional and inconsistent, violent.
What are these human values that you believe exist.
For most of human history, we have preyed one upon the other.
Yet, I’m supposed to believe that humanity has values other than war, violence and lust.
Romans 13:1-2 New International Version (NIV)
Submission to Governing Authorities
13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
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In the Roman Empire, the law of the land was that one must worship the Roman Emperor as God. Were Christians who refused to do so sinning against God?
Does not worship of a mere mortal emperor as God directly contradict the First Commandment?
Did Christians ever stop to think that the Book of Romans was inserted as Roman propaganda.
Constantine the Great made Christianity an official religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th Century AD. After he did so, he convened a council in Nicaea to craft the Christian religion and establish doctrine and dogma.
In effect, a Roman Emperor decided what was Christian and what was outside of official Christianity. A Roman who was not baptised until his death. A Roman who decreed himself a Divine Entity on par with the God of the Christians.
No Christian whom I know who is aware of this questions this system or the addition of Romans to the official catechism that became the Roman government approved version of the Holy Bible (book) of Roman Christianity.
Prior to Constantine the Great, several Roman Emperors decreed Christians to be heretics or, generally speaking, rabble rousing madmen primarily because they would not participate in the officially sanctioned State religion of Rome. Jupiter Maximus was the supreme being and the Emperor was a God on Earth. All Roman Citizens were to worship this divine emperor whilst on Earth.
If we take this Romans chapter and verse at face value, it would seem to dictate that Christians were wrong in refusing to worship the emperor as divine.
This directly contradicts the First Commandment:
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:2-3).
No other gods before me. No other Gods should be worshiped. Certainly, no other God should be set higher than YHWH.
How do we account for this contradiction?
Was the Book of Romans a forgery and not written by the Apostle Paul as we are taught. If so, how do we trust any book in the Roman Emperor’s Bible. Each Book was chosen because it supported the State and Official Culture of the Roman Empire under Constantine the Great.
Obey the State. Worship the Emperor as Divine. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
Romans gives false doctrine that contradicts Ieshua’s teachings. Give unto Caesar that which is Caesars. If we are truly Children of God, nothing belongs to Caesar. If we are spiritually connected to the God of Abraham and he is the One True God, there is no way that the Romanized Christianity of our age can be truth. It is a falsehood. It is a lie.
Perhaps, the anti-Christ has been in control of the Church for 1600 years in the form of the Papacy sitting upon the chair of Peter. What if the anti-Christ created Christianity?
The Leftists keep concentrating on inanimate objects. A firearm can kill no one. People have to pull the trigger.
These people have an issue. There is something that these people have in common that pushes them to these acts and it isn’t the firearms.
What is it that causes these people to hate life, freedom, themselves and others such that they are willing to murder randomly?
Stop blaming the fucking guns. The guns are beside the point.
In countries with strict gun control, they are killing folks with whatever is at hand. Knives, machetes, sledge hammers. Hundreds of people were killed in the Balkans with sledgehammers and mallets. The Khmer Rouge murdered millions with blunt objects.
This is a human issue. It’s not a “gun control” issue. This is going to continue to be a challenge until we start to investigate why people resort to killing their fellow humans as some sort of purging of their own hatred or angst or….whatever it is.
Concentrating on the firearms will solve nothing. It will simply change the methodology and the tools.
Take away the guns and they’ll use knives, machetes and bombs.
I hate the way the NCAA censors and erases history. Those games happened. Those schools should be able to proudly display accomplishments…even if they were “tainted” by scandal.
The favored treatment of UCLA, John Wooden, UNC, Duke and Coaches Smith and Krzyzewski are cases in point.
All schools have had scandal. Yet the NCAA simply ignores those scandals. These are clear cases of favorable treatment.
It would seem to me that if there was anything closely resembling consistency in what is considered “justice” in the NCAA, UCLA, Wooden, UNC, Smith, Krzyzewski and Duke would all have wins, seasons and Championships erased.
With Juwan Howard returning to Michigan as the head coach of the basketball team, the NCAA should take time to address these issues with Michigan, the Fab 5 and the rest of the collective that is the NCAA Basketball union.
John McCain was hated by the Democratic Party. Until, that is, Trump started openly hating on him. Now, McCain is the “hero of the Republic.”
McCain was a war monger. There never existed a possible intervention with which John McCain would not lovingly spoon in his 1970s waterbed. McCain loved interventions more than he loved Cindy.
Aren’t Leftist Democrats supposedly against these interventionist policies?
How, then, is John McCain suddenly the Great Hero of the Republic to the Democratic Party , CNN & MSNBC?
Oh…because Trump hates him. That is the simple explanation.
This is absurd. The United States of Absurdistan.
It’s also called duplicity, hypocrisy and deviousness.
Stop pretending to love and admire John McCain simply because Trump reviles him. Deep in your hearts, you, the Democratic Party, revile McCain as much as you hate Trump.
The only thing transparent about the Democratic Party is their dirty tactics, smear tactics, duplicity and hypocrisy.
There were viable alternatives in the 2016 Election. Americans were too cowardly to choose a better candidate. Instead, they stuck to the “lesser of two evils” paradigm which is killing this Nation.
20% of eligible voters in the US hated Donald Trump
20% of eligible voters in the US hated Hillary Clinton
That is 40% of eligible voters.
Another 20% or so hated both candidates.
That is 60% who either did not vote or voted against a candidate instead of for a candidate.
Instead, that 60% could have voted * F O R * a candidate.
They could have voted for the Libertarian Candidate or for the Green Peace Candidate.
I voted for the Libertarian Party and Gary Johnson.
Americans had alternatives. Americans were simply too stupid to do so.
Someone please come on here and tell me that Johnson would have been a worse President than Donald Trump.
Please. One of you daft, party line following morons come and tell me this so that I can smack you upside the head.
Instead, you let diversionary tactics such as “he didn’t know what Allepo was” and other inane, meaningless smears turn you off to a viable alternative.
Johnson has had more success in life than 99% of Americans. Yet, these same people felt that they were better than he.
Basically, what I’m saying is that you, Americans, are stupid and you suck.
To make matters worse, Democrats want to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote. We have folks who are 30 & 45 & 69 & 56 who cannot vote intelligently. It’s no wonder that the Democrats want children to vote. They love unintelligent, emotional, uninformed voters. The Emocratic Party thrives on emotional voters and diversity of lack of information and UNtelligence. As does the Conservative Leftist Republican party of fools.
Sam doesn’t want to pay his Mother’s medical bills. He wants YOU, the Tax Payer, to pay them.
“‘You’re an actor. Stick to acting.’ No, motherf–ker. I’m a human being that feels a certain way. And some of this shit does affect me, because if we don’t have health care, sh-t, and my relatives get sick, they’re going to call my rich ass. I want them to have health care. I want them to be able to take care of themselves. This is how I feel. And I count to one hundred some days before I hit ‘send,’ because I know how that sh-t is.”
Having health care provided by the State is not taking care of oneself.
What Sam wants is for the State (i.e., the Tax Payer) to take care of his relatives instead of his “rich ass.”
That is some sorry ass shit.
I don’t give two shits what he says about Trump but that is the real motivation of most of the Hollywood types. They want their less affluent relatives to be cared for by the State (i.e, the Tax Payer) so that they do not have to spend their own money on their own relatives.
That is some regressive fucking shit, Sam!
What a piece of shit.
I’ll still go see his movies because I go to the movies to be entertained and don’t give a fuck about the political opinions or, in this case, the lack of compassion, stealth hate for relatives and the poor, or complete fucking greed of these millionaire actors. I pay to be entertained. Hollywood educates only the fools and the daft.
Bottom line, the justification for Sam Jackson’s hatred for Trump is that Sam might have to pay his Mother’s doctor bills.
It is funny that the party of no morals is going after Trump over moral scruples.
It’s FUCKING hilarous.
Kinda like an evangelical going after someone for prostitution and that evangelical is Jimmy Swaggert.
This is all….ALL…..all about war. It’s about the Neo-Libs teaming up with the former Neo-Cons to keep pushing towards war with Russia or China or Iran or NoKo or anyone who can keep those receipt waterfalls for the Military Industrial Congressional Complex.
Sorry Lefties, you’ve been sold out. You are now [again] the Party of War.
I’m all for it.
Let’s crash this market.
Whatever does that, I’m for it.
I do have a question, though.
What does a check prove?
Trump gave his lawyer a check for 35,000USD. That proves exactly what?
Does Cohen have an email that says; “Mikey, take dis 30 Grand and give it to da ho. Take da udder 5 Grand fo yo’self. Buy your wife [or mistress] something nice.”
I hate the way the 
