The Real American Hitler, another civil war is in our future

     I think when historians write about this period of time in American History they are going to describe it as one of the worst periods we have had.  Very similar to the Nazi/Hitler era in Germany.

    Hitler was a master at using media and the exploitation of a certain people to create hate and hysteria and nationalism. Much like the Hitler of our era except without the Nationalism.  Our Hitler hates America and everything it stands for even though America has provided him with opportunities his home country could never provide.  You see, our Hitler was born into a mixed race marriage that failed.  His father left his mother when he was a young boy.  He was then raised by his affluent grandmother on his mothers side of the family.  She saw that he attended the best private schools, demanded that he get good grades and eventually used his fathers heritage to get him into Yale  law school free of charge.  Then our Hitler set about working for state and local government making influential business government and political party connections until he eventually found himself elected president of the united states.  During his inauguration speech he proudly and defiantly declared that things were going to be different in America.

     What better way, in from what better office can you take a race of people who perceive themselves as trod upon, convince them of it and blame everyone else for their economic, educational, and overall lack of stature and respect in one country.  Then use the media and speaking engagements, and criminal violent acts to incite violence and blame others for the actions of the criminals.  You can even make an example of a high school thug and say he could have been your son to solidify in the minds of the group of people that your on their side and they again have been maligned.  You use gun violence and target shootings to give speeches blaming the courts, and businesses and white Americans for the plight of your people.  Then as a final piece to your plan you sign into legislation a group of executive orders giving rights to others causing distress and fear in a people where there was none before.

     Does all this sound familiar, it should because its exactly what Hitler did in Germany and its exactly what Barack Obama did here in the United States.  He systematically used his office as President and his use of media and the Color of his skin to strike fear and dissent in the country.  He has plunged this county into the worst civil unrest since the 1940's.  Bringing up slavery and racism and violence and daring the country to call him out on it.  He has done exactly as Hitler did,  given rights to one group of people and telling them they have been discriminated against and emboldened them to act as if they are above the law.  Telling them to be afraid of the rest of the country because they owe you and they are going to take your rights away.  This exact argument has done exactly that caused unrest where there wasnt any to begin with and caused a push back by the other side.  Now while his term is over he can sit back and watch the turmoil and violence that he created destroy this country.  Dr. Martin Luther King would be horrified and ashamed of his actions.

    For example just think about the latest actions by Pro Athletes and Hollywood actors and Musicians.  Tell me in what other country could this group of people have the opportunity and the potential to earn the income and have the widespread success they have had.  He has turned a group of Athletes that used to use their fame for good and behave as role models into a group of whining pansies that complain that they are being oppressed by the very people that pay hundreds of dollars a ticket to watch them play.  They complain about the system and how they are being exploited and we brought their ancestors here against their will.

     Well my questions is.  If that never happened.  If they were never brought to this country.  Just how advanced would they be, how advanced would their home country be and just what opportunities would they have there.  I for one would like those that think they have been wronged to go back where there ancestors came from and make a fresh start there.  The rest of you who believe this is a good country, who believe in the constitution and the Democratic form of government that we have here please stay and fight for your country.

   

A racist America

     Living a normal American life has become racist.

I listened to Trumps news conference today.  It was the most presidential he has been so far. Reading some of your responses on Facebook I decided that I've had enough of the pot calling the kettle black.

Those of you who continue to disparage his presidency go right ahead, especially if you can sleep at night and wake up every morning with a clear conscience.  I know some of you personally.  One of you lives off a trust given to her by her father who was a forward thinking central Republican.  He was a brilliant man and I think its awesome that youve never had to work a day in your life.  Obviously it allows you to spend the many hours of your day writing post on facebook on how much you hate Trump.

And you who has spent years going from one form of addiction to another.  Refusing to take care of your body and now suffering from all sorts of ailments mainly because you've become a fat alcoholic.  I remember when you used to drill holes in bathroom walls so you could look through them.

And how about the local dentist who post how bad Trumps morals are and how racist and ignorant he is while going to a black out party on weekends and having random sexual encounters.

One of you makes desparaging comments about Christians and Christian beliefs that are far beyond the level of "grab her by the pussy"

I have had a far from innocent life.  My point here is non of us are perfect, and some of you who are most critical of Trump have and lead lives that are no better and you have no room to judge.  

Golden Corral at its Finest.

     Sunday for fun I took Brian to a Golden Corral for dinner.  He had never been to a Golden Corral before and had no idea what a treat it would be.

     While we were eating,  I started looking around the restaurant and noticing all the different ethnicities that were eating there.  Mexican, American, Indian both dot and feather, young and old, almost all were families with a few single diners there,  one even reading a book as she enjoyed here evening meal.  One thing that struck me, there were lots of children all very well behaved and none of the babies were crying or wailing.  Very unusual these days even at higher end places.  As I was sitting there I thought to myself I wonder how many of these folks cared about Donald Trump or Russia.  I somehow doubt that they wouldnt give it a thought if it wasnt on the evening news every night.  They are busy worrying about paying their bills.  How they are making the rent or the house payment, how they are going to get through the blistering hot Arizona summer and keep the A/C on in their house.  For them,  Golden Corral is a once a week or month treat to take the whole family out.
     These are the very people that our elected officials are letting down.  They are directly effected by the law's and policies that the congress and senate pass or fail to pass.  Many of them have no idea how their children are going to pay for college, if they go to college at all.   They are the absolute backbone of America and we are letting them down.  All of us who post daily to Facebook and complain about Trump.  Those of us who tune in to the View and watch the gaggle of idiots parading by to talk shit about our government with no idea how to make things different.  Every one of us who watches CNN or Fox, or ABC, who tells us daily that Disney is their parent company with their one world view and believes the shit they tell us without using our brains to figure it out for ourselves.  When we blindly follow the media, our congressmen and senators without questioning them, We Lose.  When we vote directly down party lines, We Lose.  When we hear daily about the plight of our retired service men and women and their total lack of proper health care, We Lose.  When we fight about what gender is allowed to use the bathroom, We Lose.  When we conciously choose to discriminate against on people because they are different than us, We Lose.  We Lose the most when we forget that we are all Americans and we should be fighting for each other.  We shouldnt be fighting because we are Democrats or Republicans, that is secondary.  Every one of us knows the difference between whats right and wrong and we are totally loosing sight of the big picture.  The big picture is what is good for America.  We can be diligent Americans without taking advantage of the rest of the world.

Pissing on the Constitution

     This week a Federal Judge, William H Orrick blocked enforcement of Trumps Executive order prohibiting Sanctuary Cities from receiving federal money, and forcing local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

     I view this as a blatant and political assault on the Constitution and the laws of the United States and on my rights.  Where in the Constitution does it say the a City, State, County, Person, Business, etc can break the law without facing the consequences.  A judge ruling that a City can break the immigration laws of this country, and then not be penalized is basically the same as saying nobody has to pay their taxes because they dont believe they are being taxed fairly and there will be no penalty.  I dont want to wear my seatbelt because it makes me uncomfortable and I dont have to pay the fine when I get caught.
   
     We are a nation of laws.  Those laws are written to protect us.  The very idea of a Sanctuary city flies in the face of the very way this country is run.  Sanctuary cities cost the taxpayers money, in hospital care, legal fees, safety, and too many other ways to mention.  The very thought that people can come here illegally, do nothing to become citizens, and enjoy all the freedoms and services that we enjoy here should be appalling to everyone in this country.  Those of you that disagree need to sign over your paycheck to those cities that need the money to pay their bills.  Because as long as you dont feel the consequences of their irresponsible actions you wont care.  There are plenty of AMERICAN CITIZENS that need and deserve our federal dollars.  How about the federal money that those sanctuary cities rely on go just into our Veterans Administration.  That program alone is in shambles and our elected officials appear to be to useless and stupid to do anything about it.

     A judge is supposed to interpret the laws of this country and see that they are enforced the way they are written.  Applying personal views to the legal system is supposed to be beyond their reach.

      I hope the Trump administration fights this ruling to the supreme court sparing no amount of legal expertise to prove his case.  I for one am tired of seeing my rights walked upon because somebody views their rights above mine.  Thats what we have laws for.

Deleting the History of America

    I saw on the news this morning that the city of New Orleans is going to remove the four monuments that it has commemorating the Confederate war.  So the United States, in its efforts to make all the socially correct police happy have decided to slowly and systematically erase our history.  I have news for all you folks crying about the events in the growth of this nation that offend you.  You're the issue, not history.  You're successfully making you're opinions more valuable than those of others.  Trying to wipe out a period in American History that had a huge part in the shaping of this great nation is the true tragedy here.  You're putting American on the same level as the Taliban tearing down historic monuments, and you are becoming the American version of ISIS and their history of destroying anything non radical muslim.  

    

     You cant change history or hide the bad periods in the growth of a country.  As offended as you may be over slaver, or lack of human rights, or womens issues.  The Confederacy was real.  Many passionate men fought to keep this country one.  Removing the monuments, and the historic sights totally dis respects the battle the country went through.  Your desire to be socially acceptable insults the lives lost on both sides during the time.  You take a teachable moment about history and the struggle of the time and wipe it from the conversation.  How do you plan to educate the younger generations so they will not make the same mistakes of the past.  

    I would suggest those of you lobbying for political correctness take a cue from Germany and taking the time to preserve the concentration camps.  They havent bull dozed them down.  They are living memorials to the lives lost and tragic examples of a terrible time in the history of German and the Jewish people.  Millions of people travel to the camps every year to pay their respects to the lives lost and to feel the sheer magnitude of the event.  Preserving the camps gives light to the tragic events in history in the building of Germany and the world.  They preserve historic proof to remind us of the vile tragedy that occurred there and how persecution and ignorance can get out of control.  

 

    Its a sad day in America when our country stops embracing our history good and bad as an example of the struggle, the work, the tragedies, and the triumphs of our country as it continues its evolution.  

The Pup and Pop Compound

    Those of you who are friends or followers on Facebook know that the Pup and I have decided to buy a house.  Brian has been thinking and talking about it for the better part of the last year and we started are looking in earnest in January.  We found one and ruled it out because of the driveway, and tried for 3 others all the while going back to the original find and saying we really like everything about that one.  After looking at it during an open house,  driving the R8 up and down the drive and driving by the outside half a dozen times we decided to actually look at the house and then of course Made an offer. Offer accepted.  Inspection, Appraisal, loan approval, closing date on May 5th.

    Our realtor, Lori Murray has been fantastic.  The listing agent has been a bitch, and more about her at a later date after we close.  Lets just say that Lori has earned her pay with this one and she deserves to be treated much better.

    We have spent countless hours watching HGTV, Flip or Flop, and all sorts of home shows.  We have been to several home furnishing stores from the very high end to the cheap and dollar store variety looking for ideas and items to put in our new to us home.  We dont have much furniture.  Basically two bedroom sets, a couch, and a small dinette, a teakwood entry table that is more art that furniture, an antique dresser.  Not exactly a collection of heirlooms to fill a home with.  One of the things that has struck me while watching these home improvement shows is how much the designers get paid, how cheaply they fix things, how utterly stupid the people they design for seem to be, and how little actual creativity they use while re modeling these houses.
 
     I always believed that a house was supposed to be a home, and it was supposed to be an extension of your personality and taste.  You spend most of your life there it should be filled with things that bring you happiness, things you enjoy and it should be comfortable and usable.  On one home show on HGTV, this couple from Texas gets paid to remodel homes after they are purchased before the new owners move into them.  Three episodes in a row they painted the brick on the outside white, the tile or the brick on the inside white and the cabinets in the kitchen white if they didnt replace them.  They actually put two white couches, glass and metal end tables, and white drapes in a childrens playroom. The only thing child appropriate was a wall bin for their toys and a big chalk board easel.  Un believable.  While looking at home design stores we found the most popular colors for wood furniture is whitewashed grey, it was in every room in every store,  stainless faucets of every shape and size.   glass or white tubs and showers and cheap ass colored glass tile accents everywhere.

     We want our house to be an expression of us.  Old and young, durable, comfortable, fun, happy, and a place that we never want to leave and where our friends want to come and stay.  I always thought that a re model should be easy if the house has good bones to begin with.  In my mind some things are timeless.  Tile on the floor and in the kitchen and bath.  I hate corian, its expensive, dull, cheap looking, generic, and low class.  When you compare the cost of granite or marble to corian, spend the extra and get something durable and timeless.  I love all kinds of tile, I think it never gets old, it shows craftsmanship.  A good designer can find a way to update the look and accent the quality of the tile work without having to paint it or replace it.  We are going to update our house personally, starting with the bathrooms, some paint on the inside and out, and some landscape.  Awesome furniture can make a house look incredible and we plan on having great furniture.

     Look for a Facebook page soon much like we do our racing page.  Pup and Pop racing, but this will be called Pup and Pop's Compound.  I will launch it after we close with a facebook live walk through before we move in so we can document what we have to start with and what ideas we have.  This house has great bones and a personality that is just begging to be turned loose, and we think it is perfect for us.  You may not like what we do, but it will be original, different, comfortable, I think timeless, and it will most definitely be US.

     So the fun begins on May 5th.

I Hate Mondays

     I hate Mondays.  Not because I dont like my job or meetings or anything normal like that. Because I have to go back to the gym after taking two days off.  You see I go to the gym five days a week because I feel a responsibility to take good care of myself.  I made a decision three two years ago to change my life.  I work out 5 days a week while my asthmatic lungs are searing at the end, my knees are starting to buckle and my hips hurt like I have an elephant sitting on them.  I do it because I refuse to be one of those people screaming about being on free health care.  I do it because I refuse to be fat, to take pills for blood pressure, for high cholesterol, for diabetes, for joint pain.

       I loath those of you who bitch about losing their health care while doing nothing to help yourself.  When I look around the gym and observe those around me, they are young, old, walk with cane's and walkers, they wear knee braces and elbow braces and tacky headbands,  they wear leggings and other clothes that should never be worn in public.  I see them every day.  Sweating, working, struggling, grimicing, groaning, everyday.  They bring their headphones, their magazines, their towels, their work out partners and their diligence. They get my utmost respect.  Those of you taking selfies several times a day, complaining about knee pain, back pain, leg pain, your blood pressure, your lungs, your feet and you are shaped like the Michelin man, I loath you the most.  Your ignorance and your laziness makes me angry enough to get up every day and go to the gym.

    Why does it make me angry.  Because of your sheer fat ass laziness you force the rest of us to be healthy because you get free health care.  You see your too ignorant to realize who pays for your free ACA health care.  The rest of us do.  I pay,  Every person with a health care plan pays for you.  Most of us have deductibles so high that we cant afford to get sick.  While your medication and health care is free we pay co pays and deductibles and high prescription prices so you can be a pig and abuse the system.  You dont take one millisecond to think about who actually pays for your "Free"  healthcare.  Every person on a group plan pays for you.  Every person on social security pays for you.  Every person on Medicaid pays for you with a 14% surcharge on every medicaid transaction.  Every doctor pays a fee for every person they treat. Every employee on a group plan pays for your health care.  Every small business pays for your health care.

  YOUR health care is not free, the government doesnt pay for it the rest of us do.

    So next time you go to Sunday brunch with your buddies, or go to beer bust, or a pool party, or out to your favorite bar on Friday night look around the room at the people and just take a minute to look at those people who take good care of themselves.  Look across the table at brunch and notice who is eating healthy.  Because every day you sit on your fat ass and complain that your feet or your knees hurt and then whine that you will die if you lose your health care.  I think you should get up off your lazy ass and thank everybody you see who has a health plan and pays for it.  Thank your mother on social security and thank your neighbor who is 65 and on medicare, thank the real estate agent who pays for a private plan, thank the teller at the bank.

    Because thats who's paying for your health care.  Not you.