tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77097884244179605902024-03-02T12:28:58.313-05:00Keeping it Simple (KISBYTO)Helping Others Help Themselves through our Values: Love, Respect, Integrity, Ethics, Faith, Inspiration, Balance, Humor; and our Knowledge Base.Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.comBlogger1864125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-68257644539175633952023-10-15T06:00:00.008-04:002023-10-15T06:00:00.142-04:00Happy Birthday Dad!<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIFCaENZCE1yABC4xyIE7LCFGU7PtBGpQRaQCgao-wVfsdkRlqMJeR5pav3MrpyK3WF6r9LogASHTSPiZt5qBhdOdgWHQXyDKDojC6vqW1iIvk5ZY2qW7ZdK_9t_s8Xf9fAAZr0tP3HCmkMUnEKPIY9ufij9zoRsAEDRGQbeDxeRubW7fGZnuqwniUyVA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="202" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIFCaENZCE1yABC4xyIE7LCFGU7PtBGpQRaQCgao-wVfsdkRlqMJeR5pav3MrpyK3WF6r9LogASHTSPiZt5qBhdOdgWHQXyDKDojC6vqW1iIvk5ZY2qW7ZdK_9t_s8Xf9fAAZr0tP3HCmkMUnEKPIY9ufij9zoRsAEDRGQbeDxeRubW7fGZnuqwniUyVA" width="194" /></a></div><br />October 15, 2023<p></p><p>Each day, I walk into my den to see what in new and what are my ‘to do’ items for the day and say good morning, Dad. This is the man who guided us through those challenging years – trying his best to set good examples, of honesty, fairness, and teaching each of us more about life in general.</p><p>His soul has moved on to a new adventure – probably helping others. I’ve learned and continue to learn more about our souls and what I can expect when my time comes.</p><p>I’m also looking forward to seeing him, Mom, Howard, Granny, and so many more when it’s my time to move forward.</p><p>Today, we celebrate Dad’s 98th birthday! Happy Birthday Dad!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Much Love,</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-78549253465734354702022-07-17T15:00:00.001-04:002022-07-17T15:00:00.186-04:00NEVER FORGET YOUR FRIENDS!<p style="text-align: right;">July 17, 2022</p><p> </p><p>I originally posted this article on Facebook on July 17, 2015, and again today – in celebration of some one very special. </p><p><i>Many years ago, a newlywed young man was sitting on a couch on a hot, humid day, sipping frozen juice during a visit to his father. As he talked about adult life, marriage, responsibilities, and obligations, the father thoughtfully stirred the ice cubes in his glass and cast a clear, sober look on his son.</i></p><p><i>"Never forget your friends," he advised, "they will become more important as you get older." "Regardless of how much you love your family and the children you happen to have, you will always need friends. Remember to go out with them occasionally, do activities with them, call them."</i></p><p><i>"What strange advice!" The young man thought. "I just entered the married world, I am an adult and surely my wife and the family that we will start will be everything I need to make sense of my life."</i></p><p><i>Yet he obeyed his father; Kept in touch with his friends and annually increased their number. Over the years, he became aware that his father knew what he was talking about. Inasmuch as time and nature carry out their designs and mysteries on a man, friends were the bulwarks of his life.</i></p><p><i>After 60 years of life, here is what he learned:</i></p><p><i>Time passes.</i></p><p><i>Life goes on.</i></p><p><i>The distance separates.</i></p><p><i>Children grow up.</i></p><p><i>Children cease to be children and become independent. And to the parents it breaks the heart but the children are separate of the parents. Grandchildren too grow up and begin busy lives with little time to spend with the older generation.</i></p><p><i>Jobs come and go.</i></p><p><i>Illusions, desires, attraction, sex ... weaken.</i></p><p><i>People do not do what they should do.</i></p><p><i>The heart breaks.</i></p><p><i>The parents die.</i></p><p><i>Colleagues forget the favors</i></p><p><i>The races are over.</i></p><p><i>But, true friends are always there, no matter how long or how many miles away they may be. A friend is never more distant than the reach of a phone, or a need, barring you, intervening in your favor, waiting for you with open arms or blessing your life.</i></p><p><i>When we started this adventure called LIFE, we did not know of the incredible joys or sorrows that were ahead. We did not know how much we would need from each other. Love your parents, take care of your children, but keep a group of good friends. Dialogue with them but do not impose your criteria.</i></p><p>Refer this text to friends who helped make sense of your life. I already did.</p><p><br /></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-63101500857858585982022-06-02T09:35:00.000-04:002022-06-02T09:35:59.448-04:00A SAILOR DIED TODAY!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNAunGDmJpRer5xBO_I5CLaXLTDrxcGEFV0vy4Nd-BM498IcjTG2kxEJNnblRWRZENnotoqBbalcXF1E0q66Bf-pgYHpkQA4xusezQy-5VOzZ0vIn-70nwFULah38N9QcOJ-FMcozbd8gczkjTADY5gYFfLJy2CMJd_4eEGZdWwCHuIlBX_mpQXe5k/s1500/81d3eh8z7XL._SL1500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNAunGDmJpRer5xBO_I5CLaXLTDrxcGEFV0vy4Nd-BM498IcjTG2kxEJNnblRWRZENnotoqBbalcXF1E0q66Bf-pgYHpkQA4xusezQy-5VOzZ0vIn-70nwFULah38N9QcOJ-FMcozbd8gczkjTADY5gYFfLJy2CMJd_4eEGZdWwCHuIlBX_mpQXe5k/s320/81d3eh8z7XL._SL1500_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Fair winds and following seas brother!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A SAILOR DIED TODAY!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He was getting old and paunchy</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And his hair was falling fast,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And he sat around the Legion,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Telling stories of the past.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of a war that he once fought in.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And the deeds that he had done,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his exploits with his shipmates;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They were heroes, every one.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">His tales became a joke,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All his shipmates listened quietly</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For they knew where of he spoke.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But we'll hear his tales no longer,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For he has passed away,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And the world's a little poorer</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">FOR A SAILOR DIED TODAY.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He won't be mourned by many,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Just his children and his wife.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For he lived an ordinary,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Very quiet sort of life.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He held a job and raised a family,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Going quietly on his way;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And the world won't note his passing,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">'THO A SAILOR DIED TODAY.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When politicians leave this earth,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Their bodies lie in state,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While thousands note their passing,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And proclaim that they were great.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Papers tell of their life stories</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the time that they were young</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But the passing of a Sailor</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Goes unnoticed, and unsung.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Is the greatest contribution</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To the welfare of our land,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some jerk who breaks his promise</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And cons his fellow man?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Or the ordinary fellow</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who in times of war and strife,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Goes off to serve his country</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And offers up his life?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The politician's stipend</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And the style in which he lives,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Are often disproportionate,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To the service that he gives.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While the ordinary Sailor,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who offered up his all,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Is paid off with a medal</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And perhaps a pension, small.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is not the politicians</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With their compromise and their ploys,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who won for us the freedom</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That our country now enjoys.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Should you find yourself in danger,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With your enemies at hand,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Would you really want some cop-out,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With his ever waffling stand?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Or would you want a Sailor--</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">His home, his country, his kin,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Just a common Sailor,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who would fight until the end.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He was just a common Sailor,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And his ranks are growing thin,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But his presence should remind us</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We may need his likes again.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For when countries are in conflict,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We find the Sailor's part</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Is to clean up all the troubles</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That the politicians start.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If we cannot do him honor</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While he's here to hear the praise,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Then at least let's give him homage</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">At the ending of his days.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Perhaps just a simple headline</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the paper that might say:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A SAILOR DIED TODAY."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">This was posted on Facebook on May 27, 2022, by Master Chief Peter T. Yeschenko. Thank you, Master Chief, for sharing.</span></i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-81658392724587922942022-01-29T12:00:00.001-05:002022-01-29T12:00:00.230-05:00Did you know...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4E5r6HPuh-0/X_CwSmgA13I/AAAAAAAAaEo/s6czSDFvCUgNavEmDml2euSG_-DYURZeACLcBGAsYHQ/s605/E4B7BE91-B731-4A97-86F3-07F61D022741.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="605" height="343" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4E5r6HPuh-0/X_CwSmgA13I/AAAAAAAAaEo/s6czSDFvCUgNavEmDml2euSG_-DYURZeACLcBGAsYHQ/w419-h343/E4B7BE91-B731-4A97-86F3-07F61D022741.jpeg" width="419" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-62170164211843183772022-01-20T21:45:00.009-05:002022-01-20T21:45:00.226-05:00Enjoying Telegram<p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; 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font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><b>MJ’S PREPARATION GUIDE</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">I will state what I believe is going to happen, based on MY research. I suggest you do your own research & do what’s best for you & your family. This guide will be based on worse case scenarios.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><b>WHAT I EXPECT:</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- #<a href="https://qalerts.app/?q=%23%2334" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">34</span></a> We will lose all communications. No Internet & no television due to public arrests</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- #<a href="https://qalerts.app/?q=%23%2334" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">34</span></a> The Emergency Broadcast System will be activated</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- #<a href="https://qalerts.app/?q=%23%2334" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">34</span></a> The military will bypass the MSM & provide WE THE POEPLE with one voice, our Military</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Martial law will be enacted.</p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="color: black;">a. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law" style="color: #0563c1;">What is Martial Law</a>?</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- I believe emergency services will still available, but plan as if they won’t.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- No Highway travel, possibly limited local travel.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Communications will be down for 2-4 weeks, but prepare for longer</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">🚨</span> <b>FOOD</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Canned or Dried, non-perishable foods are best. Consider foods with lots of calories. *BABY FOOD *PET FOOD.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">▪</span> Canned Beans, Fruits, Meats & Fish, Soups, or Vegetables.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">▪</span> Hot and Cold Cereals</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">▪</span> Rice</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">▪</span> Powdered Milk</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">▪</span> Granola & cereal Bars</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">—— <a href="https://www.delish.com/kitchen-tools/a31810645/how-to-ration-food/" style="color: #0563c1;">FOOD RATIONING GUIDE</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">When things happen, categorize everything you have into groups–like perishables, canned goods, grains, and frozen food. This will help determine what you need to eat first (perishables) and what you can leave for later (canned and packaged goods).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">🚨</span><b> 2ND AMENDMENT & PROTECTION</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Don’t own a firearm? Here are just a few ideas. Please check your state laws before purchasing.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">1. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/SABRE-Pepper-Keychain-Release-Access/dp/B07ZJSQL6C/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=pepper+spray&qid=1628463538&sprefix=pepper+&sr=8-3" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">PEPPER SPRAY</span></a> or wasp spray</p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">2. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stun+guns&ref=nb_sb_noss" style="color: #0563c1;">STUN GUN</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">3. Baseball Bat(s) or anything that you can swing.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">4. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Master-JM-031B-Serrated-Cord-Wrapped/dp/B00DS0E24Y/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=machetes&qid=1628463760&sr=8-4" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">MACHETES</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or Knives</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- <a href="https://www.gunstocarry.com/gun-laws-state/" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">NRA Resource</span></a>. If you do own a firearm, brush up on your states Gun Laws; most importantly, relating to self defense & “stand your ground”.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">🚨</span> <b>COMMUNICATIONS</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><b>- </b>First, whomever you want to stay in contact with, make sure you talk to them to have an emergency plan in place.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- LANDLINE TELEPHONES</p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ham+radio+handheld&sprefix=HAM+radio&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_9" style="color: #0563c1;">HAM RADIOS</a></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cb+radio+handheld&ref=nb_sb_noss" style="color: #0563c1;">CB RADIOS</a></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=satelite+phones&ref=nb_sb_noss" style="color: #0563c1;">SATELLITE PHONES</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">—— <a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.offthegridnews.com/how-to-2/landlines-the-dinosaur-phone-technology-that-could-save-you-in-a-crisis/amp/" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">HERE IS A GUIDE</span></a> to Understand the difference between LL, SAT, HAM, CB that I <b>highly recommend </b>you read before purchasing anything.</p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=long+range+walkie+talkies&sprefix=long+range+&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_11" style="color: #0563c1;">LONG RANGE WALKIE TALKIES</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=solar+crank+radio&ref=nb_sb_noss" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">SOLAR CRANK RADIO</span></a> which also have a radio, flashlight, ports to plug items in etc..</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- <a href="https://qagg.news/darkness.php" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">LIMITED ACCESS TO SOME WEBSITES</span></a>. This is a little bit more of a technical guide for a possible workaround (computers only, not mobile devices) to possibly give you access to some websites</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- TG SIGNAL May Possibly Work</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">🚨</span> <b>ELECTRICITY/ENERGY/POWER</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Should electricity go out, consider ways you can charge or power your <i>ESSENTIAL</i> items.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=propane+powered+portable+generator&sprefix=propane+powed+portable+generator&ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_32" style="color: #0563c1;">DUAL FUEL GENERATORS</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a. Duel = Gas & Propane. Gas may be unavailable. Propane, you can store for a long time</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>b. Deep Freezer? You will only need to run the Genset 10-15 minutes in the morning & evening to conserve gas. This should be enough time to keep items frozen. Consider adding a few gallons of water to your freezer</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=portable+power+station&sprefix=portable+power&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_14" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">PORTABLE POWER STATIONS</span></a> can be charged via solar, car outlets, and wall outlets (make sure you get the correct accessories)</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Charcoal or propane grill? Consider buying extra charcoal or a few tanks of propane gas</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=flint+fire+starter&sprefix=flint+&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_6" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">FIRE STARTER</span></a> to start a fire</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">🚨</span> <b>WATER</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">Should you lose access to water, consider ways you can store or gain safe drinking water.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- If events begin, fill your bathtub, washing machine, buckets etc..</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/LifeStraw-Personal-Camping-Emergency-Preparedness/dp/B07C56LR6N/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=life+straw&qid=1628470952&sr=8-3" style="color: #0563c1;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1f6bc0;">LIFE STRAW</span></a> Good for 1,000 gallons</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Cases of water</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">🚨</span> <b>MISC SUPPLIES/INFO</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Bible</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Medications</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Batteries</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Toiletry & Plastic Utensil items</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Compass & Maps</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- First aide kit(s) & medical supplies</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Anything Solar</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Lighters & matches</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Candles<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Personal Care items (soap, toothpaste, etc)</p><p class="p4" style="color: #1f6bc0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="s2" style="color: black;">- <a href="https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/" style="color: #0563c1;">Bug Out Bag Guide</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Identify & talk to leaders in your community. Make a plan.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Talk to you local Sherrifs office.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">- Understand your areas demographics.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The suburbs of PA will be vastly different than NYC. A possible indicator of where trouble may occur is where ANTIFA & BLM rioted last year.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"><b>FINAL THOUGHTS:</b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">The safety of everyone of this country will be exhausted by our great military. Humanity will be tested. I believe there are more good people than bad in this world. I believe this will be a time we as Americans unite. God will provide. Continue to pray & have Unshakeable Faith in God.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">MJ</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-12721332862267196652021-08-03T20:45:00.001-04:002021-08-03T20:45:00.243-04:00Honor Real Hero<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xznZj4zMLfY/YQnhrJPScOI/AAAAAAAAa0E/-yEDgyWHacg2j08LFC9mLB8WCL8gXoXvwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/106385104_2665194363796048_1228354443923783175_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="948" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xznZj4zMLfY/YQnhrJPScOI/AAAAAAAAa0E/-yEDgyWHacg2j08LFC9mLB8WCL8gXoXvwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/106385104_2665194363796048_1228354443923783175_n.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><p></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0in 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Reposted on FB<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0in 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">By my cousin<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0in 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Anita Barngrover <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0in 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0in 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Rick Edwards<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0in 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">June 26, 2020 <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">You’re a 19-year-old kid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Its November 14, 1965. LZ (landing zone) X-ray.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Your family is halfway around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">You look up to see a Huey coming in. But... It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s passing,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Now… YOU pass this along.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 6pt 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Honor this real hero.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-7781451350966615952021-08-02T01:30:00.001-04:002021-08-02T01:30:00.243-04:00My Commandments <p> </p><p style="text-align: right;"><i>Terry Orr </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt;">The Ten Commandments<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Early on in my life, the Ten Commandments just did not set well with me.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Too many negativities </span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Granny Greenwell’s fantastic teaching, her common sense about everyday life – seemed a much better approach to life</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">My discovery of the “Native American” Ten Commandments resonated with me </span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I studied several different versions into what my 13 Commandments is now </span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mJfvDl48cJw/YQeA-UKXwJI/AAAAAAAAaz4/KlQ_gZFtlUorg5Ljx0cLUQZb0DN3yhY2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/mqdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mJfvDl48cJw/YQeA-UKXwJI/AAAAAAAAaz4/KlQ_gZFtlUorg5Ljx0cLUQZb0DN3yhY2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/mqdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 18pt;">My 13 Commandments<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Treat the Earth and all that dwell therein with respect</span></i></li><li><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Open your heart and soul to the Great Spirit</span></i></li><li><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Show great respect for your fellow beings</span></i></li><li><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Work together for the benefit of all Mankind</span></i></li><li><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Take from the earth what is needed and nothing more</span></i></li><li><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Give assistance and kindness wherever needed </span></i></li><li><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; 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</style>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-76353949012300917342021-07-28T22:10:00.001-04:002021-07-28T22:10:00.233-04:00Take a Knee<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dDwtvGiO-Yk/YQIMpLRGnXI/AAAAAAAAazo/On0sNZGvIsom8kuQuFGeSTySBcgpcFAJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/225654809_10220260131158888_315244893500457855_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dDwtvGiO-Yk/YQIMpLRGnXI/AAAAAAAAazo/On0sNZGvIsom8kuQuFGeSTySBcgpcFAJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/225654809_10220260131158888_315244893500457855_n.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">July 28, 2021 <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Facebook post by my loving cousin<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cindy McCune Baldwin<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This was originally for Colin Kaepernick but there are others who followed that cowardly hypocritical act of his. It would be wonderful if their hearts could be touched and changed by these truths.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.79999923706055px;">Take a knee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(Author attributed to Ted Nugent)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Take a little trip to Valley Forge in January. Hold a musket ball in your Fingers and imagine it piercing your flesh and breaking a bone or two.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There won't be a doctor or trainer to assist you until after the battle, so Just wait your turn. Take your cleats and socks off to get a real Experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Then, take a knee on the beach in Normandy where man after American man Stormed the beach, even as the one in front of him was shot to pieces, the Very Sea stained with American blood. The only blockers most had were the Dead bodies in front of them, riddled with bullets from enemy fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Take a knee in the sweat soaked jungles of Vietnam. From Khe Sanh to Saigon, anywhere will do. Americans died in all those jungles. There was no Playbook that told them what was next, but they knew what flag they Represented. When they came home, they were protested as well, and spit on For reasons only cowards know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Take another knee in the blood drenched sands of Fallujah in 110-degree Heat. Wear your Kevlar helmet and battle dress. Your number won't be Printed on it unless your number is up! You'll need to stay hydrated but There won't be anyone to squirt Gatorade into your mouth. You're on your own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There are a lot of places to take a knee where Americans have given their lives all over the world. When you use the banner under which they fought As a source for your displeasure, you dishonor the memories of those who Bled for the very freedoms you have. That's what the red stripes mean. It Represents the blood of those who spilled a sea of it defending your Liberty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">While you're on your knee, pray for those that came before you, not on a Manicured lawn striped and printed with numbers to announce every inch of Ground taken, but on nameless hills and bloodied beaches and sweltering Forests and bitter cold mountains, every inch marked by an American life Lost serving that flag you protest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No cheerleaders, no announcers, no coaches, no fans, just American men and Women, delivering the real fight against those who chose to harm us, blazing a path so you would have the right to "take a knee." You haven't Any inkling of what it took to get you where you are, but your "protest" is Duly noted. Not only is it disgraceful to a nation of real heroes, it Serves the purpose of pointing to your ingratitude for those who chose to Defend you under that banner that will still wave long after your jersey is Retired.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you really feel the need to take a knee, come to church on Sunday and pray for liberty and justice for all. There will only be gratitude and a plea for His Continued grace and mercy on the land of the free and the home of the Brave. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">It goes like this, GOD BLESS AMERICA!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-35441262158342892592021-07-24T19:41:00.000-04:002021-07-24T19:41:28.137-04:00First Draft CC VA/WV/KY/TN - Glossary of Terms<p> <i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hello one and all,</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is the first of two tables under construction of all of us. Next one will be for Acronyms and Aberrations. </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please review and forward you comments, recommendations, and additional terms to terryorr22015@gmail.com</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">I will remove this post next Saturday, July 31, 2021.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you. </span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q-98CZAe7DQ/YPyk5O8wQYI/AAAAAAAAayM/TQpTIhrhMrQpp-RGZLKkmgFIulBjiYGaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/signs%2Bof%2Bsp%2Bawakening.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q-98CZAe7DQ/YPyk5O8wQYI/AAAAAAAAayM/TQpTIhrhMrQpp-RGZLKkmgFIulBjiYGaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/signs%2Bof%2Bsp%2Bawakening.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>Affirmations</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The action or process of affirming something or being affirmed, emotional support or encouragement. </p><p><b>Alignment</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Spiritual alignment is defined as the body or flesh being in total submission to the soul, the soul maintaining a position of submission to the spirit, and the spirit in a position of submission to God. A creature’s general moral and personal attitudes are represented by its alignment: lawful good, neutral good, chaotic good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, lawful evil, neutral evil, or chaotic evil. Alignment is a tool for developing your character’s identity. Matching vibration and frequency.</p><p><b>Awakened Soul</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The ‘Awakened Soul’ is the final step – the progression of the Old Soul who has undergone immense spiritual work. It is impossible to awaken completely all at once – we must first begin to awaken for short moments, hence the necessity for Old Souls to journey through an awakening process. Everyone awakening is unique to the soul’s journey.</p><p><b>Awakening</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Begins with an individual’s awakening to an awareness of its own consciousness. The awareness of Truth or the discovery of deception. The recognition and realization of one’s external programming and conditioning. The elevation of one’s frequency and vibration breaking down.</p><p><b>Breaking the Cycle</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This is referencing the Generational Curse, one becomes aware of the negative actions imprinted on children during childhood and chooses to reverse the negative patters by forgiving and releasing one’s own childhood trauma’s and replacing this practice with the thoughts/tools of unconditional love.</p><p><b>Conditional Love</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The giving of love and approvals based on judgement of individual actions and personal achievements. Withholding one’s love and affections. Key rule is one must earn love and approval. </p><p><b>Conscious Observer</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It comes through your now moment. It comes through being the conscious observer, being tuned in in relationship with your body and your environment. There’s no judgment, because in this now moment you know better, so you can do better in every next now moment. And nothing went wrong. You didn’t do anything wrong, because it’s all led you to right here right now, this conversation in this moment, which is reminding you of the power within you, reminding you of the truth of who you are, reminding you how to access the wellbeing that’s always available to you, reminding you how to allow your natural wellbeing, your vitality, your vibrant body. It’s reminding you that your wellbeing is here for you, it’s just something you need to tune in to. </p><p><b>Consciousness</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>An awareness or perception of an inward psychological or spiritual fact: intuitively perceived knowledge of something in one’s inner self. The awareness of our own mental processes, such as our thoughts, feelings, and sensations. It is possible that we are the only beings on this planet that have this type of self-awareness or level of consciousness and the ability to introspect, or look inward and examine these processes.</p><p><b>Cup 100% Full</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The shift from thinking your cup is half full vs. half empty to I responsible to keep my cup 100% full. Key is taking full responsibility for one’s happiness and thoughts of feeling full. </p><p><b>Decision Matrix</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is a list of values in rows and columns that allows an analyst to systematically identify, analyze, and rate the performance of relationships between sets of values and information. Elements of a decision matrix show decisions based on certain decision criteria.</p><p><b>Do the More with Less</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Key Buckminster Fuller law of application </p><p><b>Elevate Experience</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Elevate, enhance, exalt, heighten mean to raise or make higher in some respect. To elevate is to raise something up to a higher level, position, thought or state of mind. To enhance is to add to the attractions, desirability, and joy of something.</p><p><b>Embracing</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Embracing change, sickness, pain, accidents, relationships, loss, financial, career, allow these events to awaken your attention, look for new answers, solutions, faith, and discoveries around these events, being in the moment or now is key to embracing what every happens to you at any given moment.</p><p><b>Energy Blocks</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>negative feelings and emotions we hold onto that block the flow of energy within and through our bodies vital organs (mostly on a subconscious level) That’s where you get stuck. That’s where you get bogged down. That’s where the vibration flows. That’s where things are dense and heavy. And so it blocks your natural wellbeing and that’s what manifests in your body is a blockage of energy, a block of vibration which causes deterioration, which causes misalignment, which causes lack of harmony, which is dis-ease, which causes disease. (TC) </p><p><b>Energy Shifts</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the universe is all energy manifesting in different forms. We are surrounded by these energies. Our solar system and planet are moving through a higher more energetic cloud in this part of the galaxy. There are continual waves shifting the energies at every level. </p><p><b>Expanded Awareness</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>By using expanded awareness we can take in more information from the world around us, both in terms in what is observed from a rational conscious state, as well as subjective experience.</p><p><b>Experiential</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Transformation: Successful transformations demand new capabilities. To build them, experiential learning leverages the intimate link between knowledge and experience, There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education/training.</p><p><b>Forgiveness Others</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The revelation, awareness and understanding of the power of forgiveness, choosing to identify all past transgression and ask for forgiveness</p><p><b>Forgiveness Self</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The revelation, awareness and understanding of the power of forgiveness, choosing to identify all the negative responses projected onto others, and asking yourself for forgiveness.</p><p><b>Frequency</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is the number of complete wavelengths (also known as cycles) that occur within a specific time. A wave with high frequency means it occurs more rapidly or often and is also considered shorter. Frequency is used to measure all sorts of wavelengths, such as light waves, sound waves, and brain waves.</p><p><b>Full Human Potential</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Arose out of the counterculture milieu of the 1960s[1] and formed around the concept of cultivating extraordinary potential that its advocates believe to lie largely untapped in all people. The movement took as its premise the belief that through the development of “human potential”, humans can experience an exceptional quality of life filled with happiness, creativity, and fulfillment. As a corollary, those who begin to unleash this assumed potential often find themselves directing their actions within society towards assisting others to release their potential. Adherents believe that the net effect of individuals cultivating their potential will bring about positive social change at large.</p><p><b>Generational Curse</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The cycle of repetition of emotional, physical, and psychological abuses passed down from one generation to the next. Negative Patterns, Imprints, Scars, and Wounds inflicted on the children of a new generation. The one’s we love most.</p><p><b>Global Impact</b>: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Have a strong positive energetic effect on humanity. Problem/Solution/Impact</p><p><b>Grounded</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mentally and emotionally stable, admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious remains grounded despite all the praise and attention, someone who make good decisions</p><p><b>Healing Power</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the ultimate, ultimate healing power is your vibration, and you access your vibration through positive thoughts, through good-feeling thoughts, through good-feeling emotions. So it is so important if you want to heal your body long-term and realize the wellbeing that is here for you, the most important thing for you to do in this now moment is being aware of choosing good-feeling thoughts and reaching for the highest vibration of the truth of who you are and feeling the love that you are and the worthiness that you are.</p><p><b>Healing Thoughts</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The ultimate, ultimate healing power is your vibration, and you access your vibration through positive thoughts, through good-feeling thoughts, through good-feeling emotions. So it is so important if you want to heal your body long-term and realize the wellbeing that is here for you, the most important thing for you to do in this now moment is being aware of choosing good-feeling thoughts and reaching for the highest vibration of the truth of who you are and feeling the love that you are and the worthiness that you are. </p><p><b>Heart Consciousness</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Higher vibrational frequency, access to the universal information grid, limitless creativity, out-of-the-box thinking, confidence/character/integrity, kindness, feeling, compassion, intuition, instinct, calmness, understanding of others, thoughtfulness, and living from your heart. Awareness and connection to a higher power via your heart (God, Creator, Source) understanding the limitation, traps, and landmines of the mind.</p><p><b>High Impact Life</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Have a strong positive energetic effect on someone life, path, or thought process. </p><p><b>Human Condition</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Big 5 human conditions we all must face, “health, relationships, financial, career, and Loss/death”, </p><p><b>Human Experience:</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is the ultimate source and justification for all knowledge. Experience itself has accumulated in human memory and culture, gradually producing the methods of intelligence called “reason” and “science.” Is the ability to process memories by the conscience mind. It’s the result of the mind’s interaction and liaison between your physical body (your brain and the chemical interactions it engages with) and the non-physical or spiritual soul.</p><p><b>Illusion of Control</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There is only one thing I can control in this life, and that is my reaction/response to whatever happens. </p><p><b>Impeccable</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Innocence in attitude, thought and actions, purity in connection with your divine plan and purpose, flawless, faultless, unblemished, spotless, immaculate, pristine, stainless, perfect, exemplary. </p><p><b>In the Flow</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But the more you judge the negative emotion or what it manifested as or any of that stuff you’re just creating more negative emotion. So if you can just embrace whatever’s going on. Not anything as bad. Just embrace whatever’s going on. Whatever has happened till this now moment embrace it, embrace it. And so you do that through coming into the presence of the now moment. And we agree, we agree with you, and our teachings are that your power is in the now moment, your power is right here right now. Feeling guilty about the past, eating yourself up for the past has no power in this now moment. Stressing about the future, worrying about the future has no power in this now moment. This now moment is where you tune in and you allow, you allow the high vibration, the love that you are to flow through you in this now moment. </p><p>Infinite patience:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Only infinite patience produces immediate results, he who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed, have “eternal wait” infinite patience. when you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot. </p><p><b>Information Field:</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(universal electrical magnetic field) New discovery that all information is accessed through different states of consciousness via Informational Field, the brain accesses, processes, evaluates and acts on all information field inputs. </p><p><b>Information Field</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a Bayesian statistical field theory relating to signal reconstruction, cosmography, and other related areas.[1] IFT summarize the information available on a physical field using Bayesian probabilities. It uses computational techniques developed for quantum field theory and statistical field theory to handle the infinite number of degrees of freedom of a field and to derive algorithms for the calculation of field expectation values. Keys to tapping into this information field. Knowledge is not retained between your ears?</p><p><b>Intention</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Intention is a mental state that represents a commitment to carrying out an action or actions in the future. Intention involves mental activities such as planning, forethought, and meditation. Folk psychology explains human behavior on the basis of mental states, including beliefs, desires, and intentions.</p><p><b>Intuition</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Someone using a quick understanding to interpret but without using reasoning or perception, a snap judgment. The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning, a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.</p><p><b>Karmic Curse</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Throughout Reincarnations and generations we create Karma lessons and debt. The Karmic Curse is the unpaid karmic debt that transcends incarnations. </p><p><b>Know Your Truth</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Your authentic truth, your soul’s purpose, is found through dialogue with your Higher Self—a dialogue that’s not always conducted consciously. For many, their Truth arrives in dreams. For others, it falls out of their mouths by “accident” while talking about “something else.” But there are ways of making the dialogue conscious, exercises you can do to develop your connection with your Higher Self. Much the way physical exercises performed again and again will strengthen your physical muscles, these spiritual practices will strengthen your ‘muscles’ for connecting with your Guidance.</p><p><b>Leverage</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Use (something) to maximum advantage. is the action of a lever, or the power to influence people, events or things? </p><p><b>Listening to Your Body</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That is the fastest way to transform anything in your body and it’s the fastest way to begin healing your body right now and manifesting your wellbeing. And the more you can tune in to your body and communicate with it and let it tell you what it needs, the more vibrant, the more energized you will feel. And you will know what to eat, because in that conscious moment ask your body is this good for me? Do you want this? Is this going to support my perfect health? Does this support my wellbeing? Is this good for me? Ask your body and listen to what it says. </p><p><b>Living in the NOW</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Being in the moment means being mindfully aware of what is going on right here and now, in our experience, and this includes any thinking we do about the past or future. Much of the time our experience does not have this quality of awareness or mindfulness. </p><p><b>Magic & Miracles</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It is generally believed that magic is the act of a human being whereas a miracle is the act of God or any divine power. The magic within miracles is where human belief is focused on divine power that synthesizes human Magic into Divine Miracles. (SL)</p><p><b>Manifestation</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3 steps; decide/meditate/action, free will to decide and choose, meditating on your desire, and action or acting on your choice in the physical since. The process of manifestation has three main steps. The first one is your decision. The second one is invocation. And the third one is physical action. And meditation is actually the second step. So the first step is you decide. You use your free will to make a choice about what you wish to manifest. Then you use meditation to magnetically draw that choice, that decision into reality. And number three, then you act on that magnetic choice.</p><p><b>Manifesting Transformation</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That is the vibration of miraculous healings. That is the vibration of manifesting the transformation that you want. You must get in alignment to that vibration in this now moment and start allowing the healing energy of source to come through you, to you. Allow it to flow through you and begin to transform your body, no matter what it is. No matter what it is.</p><p><b>Mass Consciousness</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>An intentional intent on the part of a larger group to manifest positive a thought or idea to shift the current reality of the humanity condition.</p><p><b>Mass Meditation</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Community based platform that unites like-minded people in an effort to raise the consciousness or awareness of an environmental, or humanitarian initiatives or volunteer based programs. </p><p><b>Measurable Results</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>100% focused on helping solve problems in the world in a direct and most efficient ways, that has no other goals or agenda than in providing “help to those in need”. We measure results with our ability to create new strategies to successfully impact our “Service to Others” models.</p><p><b>Meditation</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is a practice of concentrated focus upon a sound, object, visualization, the breath, movement, or attention itself in order to increase awareness of the present moment, reduce stress, promote relaxation, and enhance personal and spiritual growth.</p><p><b>Mind Consciousness</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lower vibrational frequency, limiting, restrictive, in-the-box, compression thinking, old theory based, excepted industry conceptual, the irrational thought, (mind activity only) lacking true emotions, feelings of guilt, shame, fear, and lacking compassion for other’s experiences. Dominant negative thought or mental atmosphere, thought forms are mostly disassociated in relationships with (God, Creator, Source) higher the institutional educational training the more resistant one is to the truth, change, and connection with your higher self. </p><p><b>Mind/Body/Spirit</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mind body spirit also refers to an approach to wellness that encompasses all factors that either raise or lower health. An example would be making the connection that for some reason you just “don’t feel well” when doing a certain activity or being in a certain place.</p><p><b>Neural Networks</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The connections between neurons are called synapses — they typically link the axon of a neuron with the cell body or a dendrite of another neuron. (Direct coupling between axons, and between dendrites, is also possible. … Synaptic plasticity involves the strengthening and weakening of synapses. The brain is a collection of about 10 billion interconnected neurons. Each neuron is a cell [right] that uses biochemical reactions to receive, process and transmit information. A neuron’s dendritic tree is connected to a thousand neighboring neurons.</p><p><b>Oneness, Unity & Equality</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All One with God (creator/source) in spirit/soul. That we are Oneness, in mind/thought, (universal mind and consciousness) and that we are All Unified (Unity) and Equality. (no race, color, size, class, etc.) All human living together on this planet. This is the journey we all must travel to experience The Shift from Mind Consciousness into Heart Consciousness.</p><p><b>Perfect Health</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When you connect into this positive vibration the clarity will be there. When you start making good-feeling thoughts about your body, your body will begin to cooperate with you. It will tell you what it needs. And the more you can live in alignment to your vibration and to your body, being aware and tuned in, the easier it will be for you to manifest your wellbeing and to give your body the things it needs to heal itself, to maintain your wellbeing, to revitalize, to energize. But if you’re looking outside of you for answers about your body they are never going to be the highest truth for you. The highest truth for you is going to come from within you. Embrace, embrace, embrace where you are right now. Be at total peace with your body. And in this now moment you can choose a better-feeling thought, a higher vibration. Begin allowing your healing and start manifesting the perfect health that is here for you. And through your conscious communication with your body you can begin making choices that help you feel more revitalized, more energized, and allowing your amazing body to fly and function the way it intended to. </p><p><b>Pineal Gland</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Every human being’s Pineal Gland or The third eye can be activated to spiritual world frequencies and enables you to have the sense of all knowing, godlike euphoria and oneness all around you. A pineal gland once tuned into to proper frequencies with help of meditation, yoga or various esoteric, occult methods, enables a person to travel into other dimensions, popularly known as astral travel or astral projection or remote viewing. With more advance practice and ancient methods it is also possible to control the thoughts and actions of people in the physical world.</p><p><b>Positive Energy Effect:</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reflecting/Mirroring Conscious Heart, Impacting Everyone Around You, Spouse, family, partners, friends and acquaintances, making everyone you come in contact with a better person</p><p><b>Positive Mental Atmosphere</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A positive mental atmosphere is the belief that one can increase achievement through optimistic thought processes. A positive atmosphere comes from observational learning in the environment and is partially achieved when a vision of good natured change in the mind is applied toward people, circumstances, events, or behaviors (Wikipedia). Since it is difficult to quantify (measure) the effects of a positive mental atmosphere, it can be considered a philosophy and a way to approach life.</p><p><b>Positive Thoughts</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Positive thinking is the process of creating thoughts that create and transform energy into reality. A positive mind waits for happiness, health and a happy ending in any situation.</p><p><b>Pre sentence</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is sometimes represented as a hyperplane in space-time, typically called “now”, although modern physics demonstrates that such a hyperplane cannot be defined uniquely for observers in relative motion. The present may also be viewed as a duration of being in the moment. </p><p><b>Prime/Source/Creator/God:</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One Infinite Creator/Prime Creator/Oneness/Infinite Intelligence/Intelligence Infinite/The Force, the true single creator of all the universe, all energy and matter created and souls journey through the cosmos of experience, learning oneness, unity, equality, and harmony. </p><p><b>Process of Discernment:</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is the ability to obtain sharp perceptions or to judge well (or the activity of so doing). In the case of judgment, discernment can be psychological or moral in nature. Within judgment, discernment involves going past the mere perception of something and making nuanced judgments about its properties or qualities. Considered as a virtue, a discerning individual is considered to possess wisdom, and be of good judgement; especially so with regard to subject matter often overlooked by others.</p><p><b>Quantum Mechanics</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The branch of mechanics that deals with the mathematical description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles, incorporating the concepts of quantization of energy, wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, and the correspondence principle. Including quantum field theory, is a fundamental branch of physics concerned with processes involving, for example, atoms and photons.</p><p><b>Rebalance</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But the ultimate, ultimate healing power is your vibration, and you access your vibration through positive thoughts, through good-feeling thoughts, through good-feeling emotions. So it is so important if you want to heal your body long-term and realize the wellbeing that is here for you, the most important thing for you to do in this now moment is being aware of choosing good-feeling thoughts and reaching for the highest vibration of the truth of who you are and feeling the love that you are and the worthiness that you are. </p><p><b>Releasing</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Being present with your feelings and emotions. To feel your emotions means to allow them to arise in the body and notice the sensations that occur. When you feel an emotion coming on—whether it’s fear, shame, guilt, worthlessness, resentment, emptiness, or loneliness— tools and methods to release these emotions and feelings on a conscious or unconscious level. </p><p><b>Releasing</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Biblical Reference, Sedona Method Practice Tools) the awareness that the subconscious mind records and plays back all negative actions and responses. Working to release these negative thoughts from one’s mind allows the individual to live more freely in “The NOW”. Key step to Living from the Heart</p><p><b>Religion vs. Spirituality</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Roman conversion from Cesar’s to Papal Rule, Constantine co-opted the Christian faith (100 + small secs of differing Christian beliefs at the time) and created/formalize what is now known as the Roman Catholic Religion, Roman Catholic Religion was designed to control the masses by guilt/shame/fear. The 13 Wealthiest Roman Ruling Families could no longer afford all the military campaigns and occupation of foreign countries. 3 of the most prominent wealthy families from Rome broke off and moved to England and that was the beginning of the British Empire. Constantine was the last Roman Cesar, he created the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. which intern put together to 66 books from (80 + texts) of what we now call the Bible.</p><p><b>Sacred Geometry</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sacred geometry involves sacred universal patterns used in the design of everything in our reality, most often seen in sacred architecture and sacred art. The basic belief is that geometry and mathematical ratios, harmonics and proportion are also found in music, light, cosmology. This value system is seen as widespread even in prehistory, a cultural universal of the human condition. Link Below</p><p><b>Self-Responsibility & Accountability</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Responsible, the state of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management. accountable; subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something, responsible, and be answerable. Being capable of being explained, explicable, and explainable. </p><p><b>Self-sustaining & Self-perpetuating</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Able to continue in a healthy state without outside assistance, perpetuating itself or oneself without external agency or intervention.</p><p>Source Energy/Prime Creator/Infinite Intelligence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>These are the descriptions given to a higher power, intelligence, or creator. We subscribe this to be an individual and personal reference/decision/description not a religious or human authority representation. </p><p><b>Synchronicity</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship, yet seem to be meaningfully related. During his career, Dr. Carl Jung furnished several slightly different definitions of it. the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection</p><p><b>The Challenge</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The facing of life’s most pressing issues and overcoming what is considered the ‘Big 5 Life Challenges” Relationships. Health, Money, Career, and Loss (death) </p><p><b>The Higher</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Self: Is a term associated with multiple belief systems, but its basic premise describes an eternal, omnipotent, conscious, and intelligent being, who is one’s real self. Blavatsky formally defined the higher self as “Atma the inseparable ray of the Universe and one self.</p><p><b>The Journey</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is a spiritual journey you would take to find out who you are, what your problems are in life, and how to come to peace with the world. The purpose of a spiritual journey is rarely to find an answer; rather, it is a process of continually asking questions.</p><p><b>The NOW</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>At the present time or moment, is the time that is associated with the events perceived directly and in the first time, not as a recollection (perceived more than once) or a speculation (predicted, hypothesis, uncertain). It is a period of time between the past and the future, and can vary in meaning from being an instant to a day or longer. </p><p><b>The Observer</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In science, the term observer effect means that the act of observing will influence the phenomenon being observed. For example, for us to “see” an electron, a photon must first interact with it, and this interaction will change the path of that electron. The goal of the observer is to see without reacting. To see life as a series of lessons and to observe is to learn from those lessons. </p><p><b>The Path</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The purpose of life, including our human life, is the evolution of consciousness. The aim of our human existence is to become as fully human as possible, to realize or make real the full potential inherent in the human condition.</p><p><b>The Quest</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A long or arduous search for something unknown, or a longing to understand a new truth, In literature, an archetype is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. An archetype, also known as universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting.</p><p><b>The Shift</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Moving from Unconsciousness, to Consciousness, Experiencing Heart Consciousness, joy, bliss, happiness, peace, calmness, a sense of purpose at a higher vibration and frequency</p><p><b>The Soul</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is defined as one person, or is the spirit and essence of a person. An example of your soul is the part of you that makes you who you are and that will live on after your death. An example of soul is the part of you that will go to heaven and be immortal, according to the teachings of certain religious texts.</p><p><b>The Spirit</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the nonphysical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; referred to as the higher self. It is estimated that a spirit retains 85% of one complete soul, while the incarnate soul in physical form is less than 15% of one’s essences or higher self. </p><p><b>The Veil</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The veil blocks our memories of previous incarnations and the truth of our true power as humans. That is why we sometimes call it “the veil of forgetfulness.” Because of the veil, we can’t remember our past lives after incarnating. We can’t remember what life is like for us in between physical incarnations when we dwell in the spirit realms. We can’t remember who or what we really are. We can’t remember the real reason we came to the physical world. Since we can’t remember these things, we are lost and don’t have a map.</p><p><b>Thrive</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thrived, or throve thrived, or thriven thriving, thrives. To grow vigorously; flourish: To be successful or make steady progress; prosper: to grow or develop well or vigorously, flourish, prosper, burgeon, bloom, blossom, mushroom, do well, advance, succeed, boom more </p><p><b>Transformation</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Profound personal transformation is initiated by the realization that you are capable of direct access to the Divine. This is the realization that the wisdom of the Divine can be discovered deep within you. There is a wide range of means that can facilitate self-mastery through personal transformation.</p><p><b>Transforming the Human Experience</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>transforms the human experience so that individual, families, and communities an elevate their mind, body, and spirit resulting in a world that becomes a better place for everyone. </p><p><b>Transhumanism vs Spirituality</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Humanity is now at the crossroads of evolution with 2 choices. Transhumanism is the path of transforming man into a strong, faster, smarter, and living longer through biology & technology, vs. the path of Spirituality, evolving by connecting with a higher power/source/creator and the development of the spiritual gifts and practices raising one’s vibration and frequency. </p><p><b>Triggered</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Unresolved issue or sensitivity to certain topics or discussions that can be easily triggered by others unknowingly. </p><p><b>Unconditional Love</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The expression of showing love for the person/soul/personality without conditions, while reserving the right to object to the persons actions/decisions/choices. Self-worth and value not tied to achievements, looks or actions. </p><p><b>Unity Consciousness</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Human consciousness usually displays a new awareness. When one experiences unity consciousness its primarily tied to one’s emotional shift or transformational change. One is united with others in mental awareness and emotionally feeling, as aspects of a single unified conscious experience.</p><p><b>Vibration</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A person’s emotional state, the atmosphere of a place, or the associations of an object, as communicated to and felt by others. There is a vibrational scale elevated by moving into higher states of love, the lower range is that of fear. </p><div><br /></div>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-81255926609537676142021-06-30T21:45:00.001-04:002021-06-30T21:45:00.232-04:00Sharing the love for all of humanity<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nugEgkCMrNo/YN0bq-Ha8qI/AAAAAAAAaos/woU_h1yTyy0FrDeYR_nkVF6uAKmZPnPUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/208241917_4108433805910035_3716615796773063662_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nugEgkCMrNo/YN0bq-Ha8qI/AAAAAAAAaos/woU_h1yTyy0FrDeYR_nkVF6uAKmZPnPUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/208241917_4108433805910035_3716615796773063662_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>June 30, 2021</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Credit goes out to (the author) several people who collective made this such meaningful and loving story. Thank you one and all.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I pulled up to the hardware store and watched this take place right in front of me. This guy sees two kids walking in the pouring rain while one is pushing his broken bicycle and he stops everything he is doing and spends 5 minutes getting drenched with rain while he fixes this little boy’s bike. These kids rode off so happy and he left with a smile on his face from ear to ear. As a matter of fact, he put a smile on my face too. This is the America that I know. High five to you good sir!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The greatest thing I can do as a human being is serve God and serve my fellow man. It never goes out of style to be a good person. In a world full of takers, be a giver. In a world full of selfish people, be the selfless one. In a world full of anger and hate, be the one who always shows love. I spend my life helping others who are struggling with addiction. My wife and I work 7 days a week helping folks who are struggling. If you or someone you know is struggling and needs help finding detox and treatment resources, then message me immediately. It’s time to start helping others. You can change the world, one person at a time. (author)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We are more that the media think and preach. It is past time to stand up and show who we really are, and teach our children to believe in the good and not what media, politicians, and negative social media want us to believe. Just do the right thing. Treat others the way you want to be treated. Know there are bad people who will hurt you, so be careful, but let your light shine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We need to spread the good news every chance we get. So I'm sharing...lets get it viral.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is how Americans are supposed to act towards each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I worked in construction in the fifties and no one spoke of color. All the guys took care of me since I was young with no experience. The good old days when people looked out for each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So awesome! Some folks need to learn from this lesson! We all need to help each other...always!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thats the American way absaluty brought a tear to my eye it was a joyous tear and people like him and I and you who ever reads this we are every where...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Love this!!!! It’s America you just have to believe it and be a decent human being!!! Posting positive things we see is part of the solution, much of the negativity is fabricated<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Doesn't get much better than that. Those kids will remember that their whole life and hopefully pay it forward when they have the chance!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We need to share this type of stories because I believe there are many more people out there helping others - they just don’t make the news and they should<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kindness knows no bounds. Opportunities to show kindness are all around us… we just have to slow down and act.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Actions like this change perceptions of one another. They’ll never forget this situation and will talk about it even when they’re older.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"A man never stands as tall, as when he kneels to help a child " - Roman adage</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Teach em young.... they'll do the same. Faith restored. It doesn't cost a nickel to be a good human being. Some of the biggest things in life are really the small things we do for each other. That's alright alright alright with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is contagious.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If enough of us practice this, it will be the norm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If our leaders set the example, it will be the norm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There's hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There are still kind people in the world God is always around to touch a person when they need help no matter what color they may be. God don't care about a color jus give home the praises<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is America! Just the way I grew up, not colorized, just American kids riding their bikes & having fun!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is awesome, we need more positive posts like these. If we all participated in doing acts of kindness our world would be a much better place for sure. Try it, I dare each and everyone of you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Awesome.....this is why I don't buy into the division and alleged racism problem in our Country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This Life All About Helping Hands No Matter What Colors Humans Races<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Is Working Together<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And Don’t Need Racist War<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Just Need To Have Peace Helping Hands Together<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yes need to go back to the basics when people were proud of America, stood up for what they believe in without getting shamed. When the news would have heart warming stories like these. When hate wasn't being taught by our government. We need to all ban together and spread the love no matter what race, gender or political views are. God bless America!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You're a good person for providing this touching moment in America.. Positive posts like this provide hope that there is still goodness in our country. I see a gentleman with a mighty good heart helping two young men who will probably never forget his kindness. If not for your post, I would have continued to skim through my FB routine without pause. But thanks to you and these three unassuming souls, I stopped for a few minutes to enjoy the pause that refreshes. Made my day, brother...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is wonderful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But now you just never know... could he be a trafficker/kidnapper or could he be a genuinely good man helping a kid. It's just so sad. I hate that I have become so cynical and untrusting of the human race<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Love it! this is exactly what we need more of from people. If we would just slow down and realize that we are all in this together. We all need a little help some time. If everyone would just be willing to take the time to help others when they can this world would be a better place!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What I love most about this post was, this part. "I saw this guy get out and help these two kids."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Not, "I saw this black man helping these two white kids." It was about the kindness this man showed in general not about the kindness a black man showed to two white children.</span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji";">❤❤</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I know that acts like this occur many many times a day all across our great country. Wouldn’t it be great if our media would report just a small sample of these acts of kindness/humanity instead of only negative BS all of the time?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And I so love that those 2 little boys didn’t see distrust or fear from a that large “black” man. Obviously their parents haven’t taught them racism and skepticism. Oh what a better world this would be if all parents could/would teach their kids this, then they would grow up to be this amazing man and we could stop identifying each other by color.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At the time I prepared this article, there were 41K likes, 2.8K comments and 185K shares.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The post was originally posted by Mark Cosgrove in Independence, Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thank you, Mark. You certainly gave us all a moment to share and remember how beautiful life can and is in our wonderful country. God bless you Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-70837813806453821642021-05-24T15:00:00.001-04:002021-05-24T15:00:00.285-04:00Memorial Day 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m7mRGjrEGU4/YKvss_2jy3I/AAAAAAAAais/q2g0coEKQeY0vJjaRiwxsgmH9GXu7B9oACLcBGAsYHQ/s684/Memorialday2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m7mRGjrEGU4/YKvss_2jy3I/AAAAAAAAais/q2g0coEKQeY0vJjaRiwxsgmH9GXu7B9oACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Memorialday2021.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Gotten from Facebook<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">May 23/24, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Posted by Disgruntled Vets<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Reposted by Steve. F. LaFata<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here's some ground rules for this weekend:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Don't wish me a Happy Memorial Day. There is nothing happy about brave men and women dying.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. It's not a holiday. It's a remembrance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. If you want to know the true meaning, visit Arlington or your local VA cemetery, not freaking Disneyland.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. Don't tell me how great any one political power is. Tell me about Chesty Puller, George Patton, John Basilone, Dakota Meyer, Kyle Carpenter, Mitchell Paige, Ira Hayes, Chris Kyle and any other heroes too numerous to name. Attend a Bell Ceremony and shed some tears.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about. I have carried the burden all too many times for my warriors who now stand their post for God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. Say a prayer... and then another.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">7. Remember the Fallen for all the Good they did while they were here.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">8. Reach out and let a Vet know you're there, we're losing too many in "peace".<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-75723411854688402632021-04-15T12:45:00.001-04:002021-04-15T12:45:00.271-04:00That's How Life is...<p style="text-align: right;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Share Facebook post from my cousin</span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anita Barngrover<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for sharing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April 15, 2021</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Good morning to one and all. I read this post a few minutes ago and thought how this applies today in America.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We are in a New Great Awakening – like the many we have successfully accomplished in the past. This one is Good vs. Evil. America is having trouble coming to grips with what to believe. Who is right and who is wrong? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dr. Charlie Ward has helped me to refine my moral compass. His guidance to research things yourself. Then you can decide what is right or wrong. It is really that simple. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This journey will have lots of bumps in the road, many challenges, broken hearts, difficult decisions to make. Remember God is inside of you. Have those important talks and together you will fine the correct answer and direction to go forward. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I pray every day to the Lord, I thank him each morning for another day to carry out his will, to do the right things, help others in need, spend time reading and researching what has happened, what is going on and what is to come. To separate the truth from evil.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">May the good Lord bless and watch over each and every one of you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2obrDsiTQU/YHhsj_K1suI/AAAAAAAAaco/1z8e9vVOUKwVRn2NQ8OkWNKjUelz01AhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s612/147072239_10159737944311977_1194427457730365299_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="408" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2obrDsiTQU/YHhsj_K1suI/AAAAAAAAaco/1z8e9vVOUKwVRn2NQ8OkWNKjUelz01AhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/147072239_10159737944311977_1194427457730365299_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><i>Lisa Parry Ward<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><i>February 6 · </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Every month Martín’s parents took a trip to see Grandma and came home on the same train the next day. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">One day the child said to his parents:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">′′I'm already grown up. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Can I go to my grandma's alone?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">After a brief discussion, his parents accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">They stood with him as he waited for the train to exit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">They said goodbye to their son and gave him some tips through the window. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Martin repeated to them:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">′′I know. I've been told this more than a thousand times."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">As the train was about to leave, his father murmured in his ear:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">′′Son if you feel bad or insecure, this is for you!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">And he put something in his pocket.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Now Martin was alone, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">sitting on the train as he had wanted,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">without his parents for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">He was admiring the landscape out the window. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Around him some unknowns pushed themselves in. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">They made a lot of noise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">They got in and out of the train car. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The conductor made some comments about him being alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">One person looked at him with eyes of sadness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Martin was feeling more uneasy with <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">every minute that passed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">And now he was scared.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">He felt cornered and alone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">He put his head down, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">with tears in his eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">He remembered his dad had <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Put something in his pocket.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Trembling, he searched for what his father had given him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Upon finding the piece of paper he read it:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">′′Son, I'm in the last train car!".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">That's how life is,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We must let our kids go<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We must let them try new things. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">But we always like to be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">In the last car, watching,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">in case they are afraid <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">or in case they find obstacles and don’t know what to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We want to be close to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">as long as we are still alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">(Adapted from Unknown author)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-86404998979104686702021-02-08T18:00:00.005-05:002021-02-08T18:00:05.658-05:00President Trump said …<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3vXVqbSbL-8/YCG1xA4UlFI/AAAAAAAAaJM/CKLy74o5HDAX4wapH0q4BbQGnIzpAvbEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/DJTCA.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3vXVqbSbL-8/YCG1xA4UlFI/AAAAAAAAaJM/CKLy74o5HDAX4wapH0q4BbQGnIzpAvbEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DJTCA.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Terry Orr</span></i></p><p style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">February 8, 2021 </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump said: "Let's blow up the white house!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Madonna.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump said: "Lock a 10-year-old in a cage with child molesters."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Peter Fonda about Barren Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump said: "We need another John Wilks Booth!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Johnny Depp<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump said: "I fantasize about standing over Donald Trump Jr.'s dead body!"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Tom Arnold<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump: *Holds up a bloody, decapitated head*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Kathy Griffith<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump: *Shoots a likeness of Snoop Dog in a music video, has him in a body bag on his album cover*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Snoop Dog about Trump<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump said: "I'd like to take Biden behind a barn to beat him."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Joe Biden about Trump<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump said: "I dream of punching him in the face."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Corey Booker, US Senator<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">President Trump said: "Harass the staff and supporters in public and refuse to serve them."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait, that was Maxine Waters, congresswoman<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">But according to the left-wing media/DNC talking points, it's Trump with the hateful rhetoric... all in the name of TOLERANCE.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Then! Trump said, "everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not." (Note those last 7 words!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Ooh my bad... that was Ms. Kamala Harris herself!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Maybe it was when he said, "I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. And maybe there will be, when people realize that this is a policy that they defend."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Oh wait.... that was Pelosi - when she wants to push a policy or agenda...<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Sooo... What DID President Trump say about unrest and unlawful destructive protest??<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence"</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> ~ President Trump </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">👆🏻<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">"I condemn ALL white supremacy ... I have ALWAYS denounced any form of that!"</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> ~President Trump </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">👆🏻<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">"Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, Neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans!"</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">~President Trump </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">👆🏻<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">"We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">"We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> ~President Trump </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">👆🏻<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Note..... key words</span></u><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">...<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">"PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTICALLY MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD"</span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">But it is the Democrats and those seeking self-gain that say they are all about peace and coming together, right? </span><span style="font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">🤔<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Stop believing mainstream media and stop spewing off from emotions and research - <u>seek facts and truth</u>! You have heard the saying right... <b><i><span style="color: red;">"The Truth will set you free!"</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Stop being chained down by hate!!!</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><br /></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"><i><span style="color: #e06666;">(Copied from a friend on Facebook)</span></i></span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-65016211187315851032021-01-27T12:30:00.004-05:002021-01-27T12:30:01.976-05:00I'M PROUD TO BE A VETERAN!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FsQ-pQpMw1Y/YBGbggnL23I/AAAAAAAAaG4/2a51RfdkpUIX0uheyaxqj9H_FzR7SKzVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/rwg1809.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="600" height="124" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FsQ-pQpMw1Y/YBGbggnL23I/AAAAAAAAaG4/2a51RfdkpUIX0uheyaxqj9H_FzR7SKzVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h124/rwg1809.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b><p></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Thank you, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Bruce for sharing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">TO UNDERSTAND A MILITARY VETERAN, YOU MUST KNOW - <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We left home as teenagers or in our early twenties for an unknown adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We loved our country enough to defend it and protect it with our own lives.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We said goodbye to friends and family and everything we knew.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We learned the basics and then we scattered in the wind to the far corners of the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We found new friends and new family.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We became brothers and sisters regardless of color, race or creed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We had plenty of good times, and plenty of bad times.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We didn't get enough sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We smoked and drank too much.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We picked up both good and bad habits.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We worked hard and played harder.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We didn't earn a great wage.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We experienced the happiness of mail call and the sadness of missing important events.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We didn't know when, or even if, we were ever going to see home again.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We grew up fast, and yet somehow, we never grew up at all.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We fought for our freedom, as well as the freedom of others.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some of us saw actual combat, and some of us didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some of us saw the world, and some of us didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some of us dealt with physical warfare, most of us dealt with psychological warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We have seen and experienced and dealt with things that we can't fully describe or explain, as not all of our sacrifices were physical.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We participated in time honored ceremonies and rituals with each other, strengthening our bonds and camaraderie.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We counted on each other to get our job done and sometimes to survive it at all.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We have dealt with victory and tragedy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We have celebrated and mourned.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We lost a few along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">When our adventure was over, some of us went back home, some of us started somewhere new and some of us never came home at all.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We have told amazing and hilarious stories of our exploits and adventures.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We share an unspoken bond with each other, that most people don't experience, and few will understand.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We speak highly of our own branch of service, and poke fun at the other branches.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">We know however, that, if needed, we will be there for our brothers and sisters and stand together as one, in a heartbeat.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Being a Veteran is something that had to be earned, and it can never be taken away.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">It has no monetary value, but at the same time it is a priceless gift.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">People see a Veteran and they thank them for their service.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">When we see each other, we give that little upwards head nod, or a slight smile, knowing that we have shared and experienced things that most people have not.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">So, from myself to the rest of the veterans out there, I commend and thank you for all that you have done and sacrificed for our country.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Try to remember the good times and make peace with the bad times.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Share your stories.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">But most importantly, stand tall and proud, for you have earned the right to be called a VETERAN.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #385723; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I'M PROUD TO BE A VETERAN!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Please share with all your Veterans and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-63637594791211746042020-12-05T19:30:00.003-05:002020-12-05T19:30:01.570-05:00"There is no Santa Claus?" <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn1rbf4MIVU/X8wlFHxP0NI/AAAAAAAAaCA/TwfzFJojgFIoJlgp75yuKDsuj5RM-c8mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Jonathan_G_Meath_portrays_Santa_Claus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1464" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn1rbf4MIVU/X8wlFHxP0NI/AAAAAAAAaCA/TwfzFJojgFIoJlgp75yuKDsuj5RM-c8mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Jonathan_G_Meath_portrays_Santa_Claus.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Tremendous message borrowed from a friend:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit Grandma on the day my brother dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," he jeered. "Even dummies know that!"<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her "world-famous" cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus?" she snorted, "Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad!! Now, put on your coat, and let's go."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">"Go? Go where, Grandma?" I asked. I hadn't even finished my second world-famous cinnamon bun. "Where" turned out to be Kirby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. That was a bundle in those days. "Take this money," she said, "and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car." Then she turned and walked out of Kirby's.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, the people who went to my church.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">I was just about thought out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker. He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock's grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough; he didn't have a good coat. I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked real warm, and he would like that.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">"Is this a Christmas present for someone?" the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down. "Yes, ma'am," I replied shyly. "It's for Bobby."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">The nice lady smiled at me, as I told her about how Bobby really needed a good winter coat. I didn't get any change, but she put the coat in a bag, smiled again, and wished me a Merry Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat (a little tag fell out of the coat, and Grandma tucked it in her Bible) in Christmas paper and ribbons and wrote, "To Bobby, From Santa Claus" on it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy. Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker's house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially, one of Santa's helpers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Grandma parked down the street from Bobby's house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk. Then Grandma gave me a nudge. “All right, Santa Claus," she whispered, "get going."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his door and flew back to the safety of the bushes and Grandma.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Fifty years haven't dimmed the thrill of those moments spent shivering, beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker's bushes. That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were -- ridiculous. Santa was alive and well, and we were on his team.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">I still have the Bible, with the coat tag tucked inside: $19.95.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">May you always have LOVE to share,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">HEALTH to spare and FRIENDS that care...<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"> </span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">And may you always believe in the magic of Santa Claus!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Thank you, Nancy Monroe, for sharing this wonderful story.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-79407095060652925682020-11-14T11:30:00.002-05:002020-11-14T11:30:01.002-05:00A little something to ponder<p style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sharing a good Facebook posted by great friend Steve LaFata, Thank you Steve</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbETRxi1fxI/X7ADnisNyiI/AAAAAAAAZ_k/A_BEX8xGKxgXOg3e2aSRPh9UIBZJtWQawCLcBGAsYHQ/s946/123652297_10224648059287652_5296861159732572450_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbETRxi1fxI/X7ADnisNyiI/AAAAAAAAZ_k/A_BEX8xGKxgXOg3e2aSRPh9UIBZJtWQawCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/123652297_10224648059287652_5296861159732572450_n.jpg" /></a></b></div><b>A little something to ponder..</b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">I asked one of my friends who has crossed 70 & is heading to 80 what sort of changes he is feeling in himself?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">He sent me the following very interesting lines, which I would like to share with you ....<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#1 After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children, my friends, now I have started loving myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#2 I just realized that I am not “Atlas”. The world does not rest on my shoulders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#3 I now stopped bargaining with vegetables & fruits vendors. A few pennies more is not going to burn a hole in my pocket but it might help the poor fellow save for his daughter’s school fees.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#4 I pay my waitress a big tip. The extra money might bring a smile to her face. She is toiling much harder for a living than me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#5 I stopped telling the elderly that they've already narrated that story many times. The story makes them walk down the memory lane & relive the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#6 I have learned not to correct people even when I know they are wrong. The onus of making everyone perfect is not on me. Peace is more precious than perfection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#7 I give compliments freely & generously. Compliments are a mood enhancer not only for the recipient, but also for me. And a small tip for the recipient of a compliment, never, NEVER turn it down, just say "Thank You"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#8 I have learned not to bother about a crease or a spot on my shirt. Personality speaks louder than appearances.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#9 I walk away from people who don't value me. They might not know my worth, but I do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#10 I remain cool when someone plays dirty to outrun me in the rat race. I am not a rat & neither am I in any race.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#11 I am learning not to be embarrassed by my emotions. It’s my emotions that make me human.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#12 I have learned that it's better to drop the ego than to break a relationship. My ego will keep me aloof, whereas with relationships I will never be alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#13 I have learned to live each day as if it's the last. After all, it might be the last.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">#14 I am doing what makes me happy. I am responsible for my happiness, and I owe it to myself. Happiness is a choice. You can be happy at any time, just choose to be!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">I decided to send this to all my friends. Why do we have to wait to be 70 or 80, why can't we practice this at any stage and age....<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">I stole this, I don't know who to credit it to, but thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Good to share<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-25218197567949872202020-10-19T20:15:00.003-04:002020-10-19T20:15:02.211-04:00Everything is about to change!<p> </p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to captor the words the Pat has written her. She has clearly done a superb job. It is my hope that as many Americans as possible will read this article at least once, before voting. Thank you.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Patricia Coakley <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">October 19, 2020 <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Facebook<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility expressed by strangers and acquaintances, even some that I consider friends. I look at people I know, some for years, that are so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone. You can't justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female Vice President.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Universities that advocate equality, discriminate against one ethnicity - Asian-Americans - in favor of a different ethnicity - African-Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">People who have never owned slaves are told they should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">People who have never been to college are told they should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their - often useless - degrees.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">$5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you can go to college for free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">And, we are somehow "racists" for pointing out all this hypocrisy?!?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We are considered to be "fascists" if we believe in American exceptionalism and that the principles our republic was founded upon are the best in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Nothing makes sense anymore; values, morals and civility seem to have disappeared and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it is "racist" to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Wake up America. The great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, the band is playing on the quarterdeck and the decks are listing greatly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The choice is yours to make. What will it be? Time is short; make your choice wisely! </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 6pt 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-28937175481542117782020-09-24T16:30:00.001-04:002020-09-24T16:30:03.924-04:00Enough with the Victimhood: Millionaire Athletes and Their Lost Cause<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Sharing a Facebook post thats </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>totaling</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i> fitting today - </i></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Salty Dad <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">September 8, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">If a white person had written this, he or she would immediately be declared a racist and shunned by all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Enough with the Victimhood: Millionaire Athletes and Their Lost Cause<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">by Sylvia Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0bqVAFCCmU/X2z7sF7QzUI/AAAAAAAAZ6g/aw6JjEAx6J46Q9XoxMeCDvnEpdh8sbunACLcBGAsYHQ/s480/41368552_1367217723410000_1159299397897420800_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0bqVAFCCmU/X2z7sF7QzUI/AAAAAAAAZ6g/aw6JjEAx6J46Q9XoxMeCDvnEpdh8sbunACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/41368552_1367217723410000_1159299397897420800_n.jpg" /></a></i></div><i><br />I must admit I have never in my life purchased a ticket to a sports event. I am not a sports enthusiast. But I am an American black citizen, and I have had it up to the gills with black people who embrace victimhood. I also highly resent my being expected to do the same in order to affirm my "blackness."<o:p></o:p></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Black victims these days, for the most part, are the product of decades of Black Americans being used primarily by white progressive leftists to advance an anti-American agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The current brouhaha surrounding the despicable behavior of NFL athletes toward the National Anthem and the American flag is a prime example of what the Left has done to my race.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">One must assume these players and their guilt-conflicted white coaches and owners (and victimhood-inflicted black coaches) are being manipulated by the Left, because no intelligent, thinking people would deliberately cut themselves off at the knees. Essentially, what these young misguided mostly black men are doing is ensuring the demise of their lucrative paychecks.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Further, I would wager that if these teams consisted of all white athletes, none of this idiocy would be allowed. We are witnessing this travesty because the vast majority of players are black and can whine "oppression" if appropriate action is taken against them for their unconscionable behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The twisted reasoning that claims these protests are to highlight "injustice" and "police brutality" is a laughable crock. What they do in fact is dishonor valued symbols of this nation's heritage and cover over truth about black crime.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Black males bear the brunt of police encounters because black males commit disproportionately more crimes. Police encounters with black men are so often confrontational because so many of these men, especially the young, don't think "compliance" applies to them. They foolishly assume they are above the law and disrespect for police officers is an act of honor.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">These young blacks, sadly, took much of their direction from racists Obama and Eric Holder during Obama's destructive, eight-year regime and Holder's corruption of the Justice Department. These two men, abusing their federal powers, gave young blacks the impression they need not heed the law, because laws are somehow unjust when they are applied to black Americans. The NFL lot, and any other athletes taking a similar stance, are also influenced by Obama's and Holder's disdain for law and law enforcement.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I am not familiar with one case where a black suspect to a crime was not proven legally to have caused the behavior against him, particularly in cases where the police officer involved was exonerated by facts. Michael Brown of "hands up, don't shoot" infamy is one good example. Blatant lies were spread to cloud the truth about Brown's case.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Back in the day when I was growing up in the racially segregated South, the opposite prevailed in many cases. There was much injustice particularly toward black men, but not today. Today, too many blacks have been fed the notion that it is now "pay-back" time, and they can flaunt their lawlessness because some whites flaunted theirs during an earlier time in our nation's history.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Although Obama and Holder no longer wield power in this country, some of their minions continue on the pernicious path of "paying back" American whites for wrongs, real or imagined. But as the saying goes, there is a new Sheriff in town and he is not guilt-conflicted. He expects fair play under law and tolerating pay-back is not part of his agenda. Black Americans, when they break the law, can no longer claim victim status simply because they are black. Those days are over.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">American laws and law enforcement personnel will be respected in America, again; our traditions and values will not be impugned in America without consequences, again. Anybody unsettled about this turn of events is welcome to leave this country. I suggest all the black players try a country in Africa, and see how successful they will be at making millions playing games. They will all soon learn what oppression really means.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Some self-directed, independent-thinking blacks (and there are many of us) have offered that if these millionaire protestors want to tackle some real problems, they might consider the thousands of black children killed in abortions annually (by the progressive Left), or perhaps the many, many young blacks murdered routinely on inner-city streets by other young blacks (in cities run by progressive, leftist Democrats), or the downright criminal state of education of black inner-city children, orchestrated by the progressive leftist National Education Association (NEA). The NEA's aim is to produce unintelligent pawns to feed the cause of progressivism.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I am annoyed by the expressions of "sincerity" gracing the faces of the NFL protestors-as if to convey the "hallowedness" of their cause. In actuality, they provide a picture of grown men allowing themselves to be made fools of by the progressive Left. I don't doubt, however, that some of these men have been coerced into compliance with this lost cause, either through threats of violence or shunning (from coaches and players). Alejandro Villanueva of the Pittsburgh Steelers and former Army ranger is very likely a victim of such threats. He was publicly castigated by his leftist coach for his patriotism. The coach demanded unity behind an ignorant cause.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">And finally, this issue has nothing to do with First Amendment rights. President Trump's speaking out against the clownish behavior of the athletes, on behalf of the majority of American citizens, does not mean he can or would stop any of these misguided people from making fools of themselves. To restrict them, as a government entity, would indeed be a violation of the First Amendment ... But their employers, if they were to develop even a modicum of testicular fortitude, could and should fire them for doing major damage to the bottom line of the business. The rest of us non-millionaire "Joes" would certainly be pink-slipped by an employer if we dared to be so clueless about the necessity of profits and so disdainful of the sensibilities of customers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I will wait patiently for the true sports enthusiasts to vent their rage by simply boycotting the games. It will be sweet revenge to witness the slain goose cease producing its golden eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-84782776735732119362020-09-22T21:00:00.001-04:002020-09-22T21:00:01.707-04:00The Coming Coup<p> </p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Bloggers Notes: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: yellow; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Below is an email I received today;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: yellow; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">All letter coloring as in the email, except those in green – they are for endnotes; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 115%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">References and the actual publish article are provided</span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">“Unfortunately, something like this doesn’t surprise me.<span> </span>Hope I am wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Subject</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">: The Coming Coup? -- The enemy will wear an American face and be financed by Soros and the new World Order gangsters--swamp Republicans as well as Democrats.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We need us a George Patton—a chesty Puller— and a General Smedley D. Butler—and a Robert E. Lee—and a General Wade Hampton — and a General MacArthur.<span> </span>Remember the last Bush president voted for Hillary.<span> </span>McCain was a Democrat in action— so are all on the Council of Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg group and the International Bankers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">This would have been deemed tinfoil hat territory a few years ago, but today it sounds plausible that those crazed with Trump Derangement Syndrome would plan a coup to remove the President even if he wins re-election.<span> </span>I hope there are enough bold and savvy people on the President’s team to keep a sharp eye and plan for the worst, while building a coalition to rally to his side if needed.<span> </span>Perilous times indeed.<span> </span><i>~ BZ (hat tip Cuz Chip)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">The Coming Coup?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"><span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Michael Anton </span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">— 4 September 2020 — The American Mind (<i><span style="color: #00b050;">Claremont Institute<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[a]</span></b></span></span></span></a> </span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">) </span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup</span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">. You might have missed it, what with the riots, lockdowns and other daily mayhem we’re forced to endure in this, the most wretched year of my lifetime. But it’s happening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">It started with the military brass quietly indicating that the troops should not follow a presidential order. They were bolstered by many former generals—including President Trump’s own first Secretary of Defense—who </span><i><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">stated openly<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[b]</span></b></span></span></span></a> </span></i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">what the brass would only hint at</span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">. Then, as nationwide riots really got rolling in early June, the sitting Secretary of Defense himself all but <i><span style="color: #00b050;">publicly told<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[c]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="color: #00b050;"> </span>the president <span style="color: #c00000;">not to invoke the Insurrection Act. His implicit message was: “Mr. President, don’t tell us to do that, because we won’t, and you know what happens after that.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">All this enthused Joe Biden, who threw subtlety to the winds. The former United States Senator (for 26 years) and Vice President (for eight) has not once, not twice, but thrice confidently <i><span style="color: #00b050;">asserted<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[d]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="color: #00b050;"> </span>that the military will “escort [Trump] from the White House with great dispatch” should the president refuse to leave. Another former Vice President, Al Gore, publicly agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">One might dismiss such comments as the ravings of a dementia patient and a has-been who never got over his own electoral loss. But before you do, consider also this. <span style="color: #c00000;">Over the summer a story was deliberately leaked to the press of a meeting at which 100 Democratic grandees, anti-Trump former Republicans, and other ruling class apparatchiks </span><i><span style="color: #00b050;">got together<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[e]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="color: #c00000;"> (on George Soros’s dime) to “game out” various outcomes of the 2020 election. One such outcome was a clear Trump win. In that eventuality, former Bill Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, playing Biden, refused to concede, pressured states that Trump won to send Democrats to the formal Electoral College vote, and trusted that the military would take care of the rest.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The leaked <i><span style="color: #00b050;">report<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[f]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="color: #00b050;"> </span>from the exercise darkly <span style="color: #c00000;">concluded that “technocratic solutions, courts, and reliance on elites observing norms are not the answer here,” promising that what would follow the November election would be “a street fight, not a legal battle.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Two more data points (among several that could be provided). Over the summer, <span style="color: #c00000;">two former Army officers, both prominent in the Democrat-aligned “national security” think tank world, wrote an </span><i><span style="color: #00b050;">open letter<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[g]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="color: #00b050;"> </span><span style="color: #c00000;">to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in which they urged him to deploy the 82nd Airborne Division to drag President Trump from the Oval Office at precisely 12:01 PM, January 20, 2021.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">About a month later, Hillary Clinton </span><i><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">declared<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[h]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">publicly that Joe Biden should not concede the election “under any circumstances.” </span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The old English major in me interprets the word “any” to mean “no,” “none,” “nada,” “niente,” “zero,” “zilch” “bupkis”…you get the idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">This doesn’t sound like the rhetoric of a political party confident it will win an upcoming election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">The Cover-Up in Plain Sight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">These items are, to repeat, merely a short but representative list of <span style="color: #c00000;">what Byron York recently </span><i><span style="color: #00b050;">labeled<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[i]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="color: #00b050;"> </span><span style="color: #c00000;">“coup porn.” York seems to think this is just harmless fantasizing on the part of the ruling class and its Democratic servants. For some of them, no doubt that’s true. But for all of them? I’m not so sure.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">In his famously exhaustive discussion of conspiracies, Machiavelli goes out of his way to emphasize the indispensability of “operational security”—i.e., silence—to success. The first rule of conspiracy is, you do not talk about the conspiracy. The second rule of conspiracy is, you do not talk about the conspiracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">So why are the Democrats — publicly — talking about the conspiracy?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Because they know that, <span style="color: #c00000;">for it to succeed, it must not look like a conspiracy. They need to plant the idea in the public mind, now, that their unlawful and illegitimate removal of President Trump from office will somehow be his fault.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Never mind the pesky detail that the president would refuse to leave only if he were convinced, he legitimately won. Remember: Biden should not concede under any circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The second part of the plan is either to produce enough harvested ballots—lawfully or not—to tip close states, or else dispute the results in close states and insist, no matter what the tally says, that Biden won them</span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">. The worst-case scenario (for the country, but not for the ruling class) would be results in a handful of states that are so ambiguous and hotly disputed that no one can rightly say who won. Of course, that will not stop the Democrats from insisting that they won.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The public preparation for that has also already begun: streams of stories and social media posts “explaining” how, while on election night it might look as if Trump won, close states will tip to Biden as all the mail-in ballots are “counted.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The third piece is to get the vast and loud Dem-Left propaganda machine ready for war</span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">. That leaked report exhorted Democrats to identify <span style="color: #c00000;">“key influencers in the media and among local activists who can affect political perceptions and mobilize political action</span>…[who could] establish pre-commitments to playing a constructive role in event of a contested election.” i.e., in blaring from every rooftop that “Trump lost.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">At this point, it’s safe to assume that unless Trump wins in a blowout that can’t be overcome by cheating and/or denied via the ruling class’s massive propaganda operation, that’s exactly what every Democratic politician and media organ will shout.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Stop the Presses<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">What then? <span style="color: #c00000;">The Podesta assumption is that the military will side with the Dems. There are reasons to fear they might. The Obama administration spent a great deal of political capital purging the officer corps of anyone not down with the program and promoting only those who are.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Still and all, determining the outcome of an election would be the most open political interference possible from our allegedly apolitical military, and <span style="color: #c00000;">it’s plausible that the brass won’t want to make its quiet support of the ruling class agenda that overt</span>. The aforementioned Chairman has already stated that the military will play “<i><span style="color: #00b050;">no role<a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">[j]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i>” in the outcome of the election. That’s probably not a feint, but one wonders if it will hold given the obvious attempt to influence military thinking by people like Jeffrey Goldberg in his recent Atlantic essay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Can the Dems rely on the Secret Service to drag Trump out? I have my doubts on this one. I’ve seen the Service up close; it really is (or strongly appears to be) apolitical. It has a job to do: protect the president, whoever that is. Officers take that job very seriously. If they don’t believe Trump lost, I don’t think they can be counted on to oust him. On the other hand, were they to believe he did lose and was refusing to leave—a scenario I find impossible to imagine but the Democrats insist is just around the corner—it’s possible the Service might act?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Barring all that, what’s left? Remember that phrase from the Dem war game: “street fight.” In other words, a repeat of this summer, only much, much bigger. Crank the propaganda to ear-drum shattering decibels and fill the streets of every major city with “protesters.” Shut down the country and allow only one message to be heard: “Trump must go.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I.e., what’s come to be known as a “color revolution,” the exact same playbook the American deep state runs in other countries whose leadership they don’t like and is currently running in Belarus. Oust a leader—even an elected one—through agitation and call it “democracy</span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The events of the last few months may be interpreted as an attempted color revolution that failed to gain enough steam, or as a trial run for the fall. Is the Trump Administration prepared?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Here’s one thing they </span><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">[<span style="color: #0070c0;">Trump supporters</span>] <span style="color: red;">could do: play their own “war game” scenario so as to game out possibilities and minimize surprises</span>. They should also be talking to people inside and outside of government whom they absolutely trust to get a clearer sense of who on the inside won’t go along with a coup and who might.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">They also need to set up or shore up—now—communication channels that don’t rely on the media or Big Tech. Once the ruling class gives word that the narrative is “Trump lost,” all the president’s social media accounts will be suspended. The T.V. channels, with the likely exception of Fox News, will refuse to cover anything he says. Count on it. He’s going to need a way to talk to the American people and he has to find the means, now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">For the rest of us, the most important thing we can do is raise awareness. If there is a conspiracy to remove President Trump from office even if he wins, they’re telling you about it precisely to get you ready for it, so that when it happens you won’t think it was a conspiracy; you’ll blame the president.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Don’t be fooled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[a]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup/">https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn2"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[b]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/us-military-chain-of-command-trump-orders/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/us-military-chain-of-command-trump-orders/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn3"><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[c]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; 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font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/coup-porn-resistance-sees-military-removing-trump-from-office">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/coup-porn-resistance-sees-military-removing-trump-from-office</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="edn10"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><a href="applewebdata://D926B34A-E942-42F4-90FA-C1669D919DDC#_ednref10" name="_edn10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[j]</span></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/chairman-joint-chiefs-says-no-role-military-presidential-election-n1238772">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/chairman-joint-chiefs-says-no-role-military-presidential-election-n1238772</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-48097073693903186952020-09-22T12:49:00.001-04:002020-10-07T11:09:01.470-04:00 Vietnamese-born, AMERICAN Patriot!<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Sharing an email from <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Bruce Klein <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Thanks so much</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><br /></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The kneeling NFL players and obnoxious Hollywood celebs should read this --or have someone read it to them!<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">VIETNAMESE IMMIGRANT</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> -- <b>Well Done</b>. <i><span style="color: red;">The difference between legal and illegal. This is something everyone in America should read…. It looks like we did some good after all!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">On Saturday, July 24th, 2010, the town of Prescott Valley, AZ, hosted a Freedom Rally. Quang Nguyen was asked to speak on his experience of coming to America and what it means. He spoke the following in dedication to all Vietnam Veterans. Thought you might enjoy hearing what he had to say: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Start Quote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">"35 years ago, if you were to tell me that I am going to stand up here speaking to a couple thousand patriots, in English, I'd laugh at you. Man, every morning I wake up thanking God for putting me and my family in the greatest country on earth. I just want you all to know that the American dream does exist and I am living the American dream. I was asked to speak to you about my experience as a first generation Vietnamese-American, but I'd rather speak to you as an American.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">If you hadn’t noticed, I am not white, and I feel pretty comfortable with my people. I am a proud US citizen and here is my proof. It took me 8 years to get it, waiting in endless lines, but I got it, and I am very proud of it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">I still remember the images of the Tet offensive in 1968; I was six years old. Now you might want to question how a 6-year-old boy could remember anything. Trust me, those images can never be erased. I can't even imagine what it was like for young American soldiers, 10,000 miles away from home, fighting on my behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">35 years ago, I left South Vietnam for political asylum. The war had ended. At the age of 13, I left with the understanding that I may or may not ever get to see my siblings or parents again. I was one of the first lucky 100,000 Vietnamese allowed to come to the US. Somehow, my family and I were reunited 5 months later, amazingly, in California. It was a miracle from God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">If you haven't heard lately that this is the greatest country on earth, I am telling you that right now. It was the freedom and the opportunities presented to me that put me here with all of you tonight. I also remember the barriers that I had to overcome every step of the way. My high school counselor told me that I cannot make it to college due to my poor communication skills. I proved him wrong. I finished college. You see, all you have to do is to give this little boy an opportunity and encourage him to take and run with it. Well, I took the opportunity and here I am.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">This person standing tonight in front of you could not exist under a socialist/communist environment. By the way, if you think socialism is the way to go, I am sure many people here will chip in to get you a one-way ticket out of here. And if you didn't know, the only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aimed at your head. That was my experience.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">In 1982, I stood with a thousand new immigrants, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and listening to the National Anthem for the first time as an American. To this day, <u>I can't remember anything sweeter and more patriotic than that moment in my life.</u><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Fast forwarding, somehow, I finished high school, finished college, and like any other goofball 21-year-old kid, I was having a great time with my life. I had a nice job and a nice apartment in Southern California. In some way and somehow, I had forgotten how I got here and why I was here.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">One day I was at a gas station, I saw a veteran pumping gas on the other side of the island. I don't know what made me do it, but I walked over and asked if he had served in Vietnam. He smiled and said yes. I shook and held his hand. This grown man's eyes began to well up. I walked away as fast as I could and at that very moment, I was emotionally rocked. <u>This was a profound moment in my life</u>. I knew something had to change in my life<b>. It was time for me to learn how to be a good citizen.</b> <b>It was time for me to give back</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn't just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Brothers and sisters, to be a real American, the very least you must do is to learn English and understand it well. In my humble opinion, you cannot be a faithful patriotic citizen if you can't speak the language of the country you live in. Take this document of 46 pages - last I looked on the Internet, there wasn't a Vietnamese translation of the U.S. Constitution. It took me a long time to get to the point of being able to converse and until this day, I still struggle to come up with the right words. It's not easy, but if it's too easy, it's not worth doing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Before I knew this 46-page document, I learned of the 500,000 Americans who fought for this little boy. I learned of the 58,000 names inscribed on the black wall at the Vietnam Memorial. You are my heroes. You are my founders.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">At this time, I would like to ask all the Vietnam veterans to please stand. I thank you for my life. I thank you for your sacrifices, and I thank you for giving me the freedom and liberty I have today. I now ask all veterans, firefighters, and police officers, to please stand. On behalf of all first-generation immigrants, I thank you for your services and may God bless you all."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Quang Nguyen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Creative Director/Founder<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Caddis Advertising, LLC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">"God Bless America"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">“One Flag, One Language, One Nation Under God”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">For those who understand, no explanation is needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Please Forward this to all your friends and ask them to forward. Interesting when we have illegals here in the U.S. waving Mexican and other country flags. Cry Baby NFL players not respecting our flag and national anthem. Others rioting and looting and saying how terrible America is.</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> <b>Time for true Americans to wake up at what is going on.</b> <b><u><span style="color: red;">Time for our Washington D.C. swamp to be drained and some true Americans that love and understand to take charge.</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-81860297108089667742020-09-21T16:30:00.001-04:002020-09-21T16:31:01.627-04:00 A manner of perspective …<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o_NRbSJ124I/X2kMpY5zJ_I/AAAAAAAAZ6M/ahv5TliXZeY_gXFWz9-vOgd5LgIIaxQ-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/usflag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o_NRbSJ124I/X2kMpY5zJ_I/AAAAAAAAZ6M/ahv5TliXZeY_gXFWz9-vOgd5LgIIaxQ-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w447-h225/usflag.jpg" width="447" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><i>Sharing a Facebook Post </i></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump’s arrogance, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump’s confidence. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump’s nationalism, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump’s patriotism. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You hear Trump’s unsophisticated words, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I hear Trump’s honesty. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump’s racism, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump’s words being misconstrued and twisted by the media daily to fit their narrative. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump as a Republican, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump as a Patriot. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump as a dictator, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump as a leader. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump as an Authoritarian, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump as the only one willing to fight for our freedoms. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump as childish, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump as a fighter, unwilling to cave in to the lies. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump as an unpolished politician, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump as a breath of fresh air. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You think Trump hates immigrants, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I know Trump is married to an immigrant. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump putting an end to immigration in America, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump welcoming immigrants to America LEGALLY. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump’s cages at the border, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Obama’s cages at the border. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see Trump with a struggling economy, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see Trump with an amazing economy until the Democrats shut it down. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You see the violence in the streets and call it “Trump’s America”, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I see the violence in the streets of Democratic run cities who are refusing Trump’s help and call it “Liberal America.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">You want someone more Presidential, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td><td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 233.75pt;" valign="top" width="312"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’m happy we have someone who finally doesn’t just talk the talk but actually walks the walk. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 24pt;">You and I? We see things very differently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-1613077095875506572020-09-16T12:00:00.001-04:002020-09-16T12:00:04.738-04:00Law Enforcement Officers <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fqJezP4uCyM/X2Ix4l38b0I/AAAAAAAAZ5Q/nWTNKM6ghL0eG57_AbanKJmuR_NoFxOYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s980/attleboro_Website_banner2-980x160.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="980" height="89" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fqJezP4uCyM/X2Ix4l38b0I/AAAAAAAAZ5Q/nWTNKM6ghL0eG57_AbanKJmuR_NoFxOYgCLcBGAsYHQ/w546-h89/attleboro_Website_banner2-980x160.png" width="546" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p align="right" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Lucida Blackletter"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Terry Orr <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri during the 1950s – 1960s we respected and honored our local Police Officers. Some of us were lucky enough to play baseball for the Police Department – it was truly an honor and rewarding experience. In some ways, those years help mold me into join the U.S. Navy – <b><i>to protect our way of life</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">In all walks of life, we have folks who fall into several different categories – those that excel, those who get up each and every day to do their best, those who just get up punch the time clock, those who are just passing time – waiting for another handout and those who are simply bad apples in the basket. History tells us that this has been a way of life since the beginning – sadly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-adatd5YDOZ8/X2IyVRPfW3I/AAAAAAAAZ5k/DUaG6mi5UHIukjuwYWoThetVmxRduGHqACLcBGAsYHQ/s225/LawEnforcement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-adatd5YDOZ8/X2IyVRPfW3I/AAAAAAAAZ5k/DUaG6mi5UHIukjuwYWoThetVmxRduGHqACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/LawEnforcement.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span><i style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Sharing a Facebook Post</span></i></p><p align="right" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Steve Lafata <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Thank you, Steve</span></i><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">If you are a Law Enforcement Officer and need a break, you can come park outside our house. If you are thirsty, we will bring you a drink. If you are hungry, we will fix you something to eat and serve you a good strong cup of coffee. If you are hot, we will invite you inside to cool off. If you need backup, we will stand with you. If you need to cry, we will hug you and let you. If you need to talk, we will listen. If you need to pray, we will <span class="textexposedshow">kneel with you. If you are wrong, we will tell you. If you are right, we will support you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">We only ask that you don't lose faith in Americans. We are NOT all against you. Please see the good people that are here for you. We are not loud and obnoxious like these media seekers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 4.5pt 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">God bless you and your family and thank you all for all you do to keep my family and me safe!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aqaTtYLz_Sw/X2Iyp7dAshI/AAAAAAAAZ5s/6UkqUOmzvYob4WniMQKaLR8HQIB5vupngCLcBGAsYHQ/s539/18af25ec339bac7d3c3c8a15dcc930b5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aqaTtYLz_Sw/X2Iyp7dAshI/AAAAAAAAZ5s/6UkqUOmzvYob4WniMQKaLR8HQIB5vupngCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/18af25ec339bac7d3c3c8a15dcc930b5.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Remember the next time you see a Law Enforcement Officer, they are people just like you and me, doing their very best to protect you and your family. Thank them for all they do, yesterday, today and tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><br /></p>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-86115144549384668672020-08-31T20:45:00.001-04:002020-08-31T20:45:00.463-04:00Election Day 2020 What to Expect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1B3GvAH7Ms/X02VcXsIhhI/AAAAAAAAZ38/hIYc8XCafzw2hVVW_X7fFnj6IYvXwWDfACLcBGAsYHQ/s512/USAFlag2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="512" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1B3GvAH7Ms/X02VcXsIhhI/AAAAAAAAZ38/hIYc8XCafzw2hVVW_X7fFnj6IYvXwWDfACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/USAFlag2020.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Please take a few minutes to read this article at Politico.com<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Garrett Graff does an excellent job in capturing the key items that may impact our President Election on November 3, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;"> </span></i></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: right;"><i><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.79999923706055px;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.79999923706055px;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.79999923706055px;">8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #696d70; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">You may think you know how bad Nov. 3 will be. But all signs point to something far, far worse.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"> </span></p><p align="right" class="story-metaauthors" style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #696d70; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span></p><p align="right" class="story-metaauthors" style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #696d70; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt;">By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="vcard"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">GARRETT M. GRAFF</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="story-metatimestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(105, 109, 112); font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: right;"><time datetime="2020-07-24 04:30:45" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #696d70; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt;">07/24/2020 04:30 AM ED</span></time>T<o:p></o:p></p><p class="story-metatimestamp" style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #696d70; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span></p><p class="story-metatimestamp" style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="story-metatimestamp" style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; 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</style>Warren Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03458787042758448344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709788424417960590.post-47157352318668080942020-08-20T02:00:00.001-04:002020-08-20T02:00:05.605-04:00Think maybe you’re being played?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sharing an email from a good friend<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Interesting thoughts <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Should the Pyramids be torn down since they were built by slaves?<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">While we are getting rid of stuff, let’s get rid of rap music that promotes violence and hate.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Are we the only country dumb enough to start another civil war because we are offended by the first one? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Racist.<span> </span>Noun.<span> </span>Someone who opposes race riots.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">It took Nancy Pelosi 34 years to get offended by those Confederate statues.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">50 years of Affirmative Action is finally paying big dividends for America, huh?<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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Welcome to actual communism, you morons!<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maybe it’s the people, not the police, that need better training.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Robbery in progress.<span> </span>Better go online to see how PC civilians think we should handle it.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I haven’t seen a single welfare office set on fire anywhere.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our country will become a better place when everyone realizes there are only two kinds of people in it ... Good people and bad people.<span> </span>Ethnicity doesn’t matter.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">BLM = Burn.<span> </span>Loot.<span> </span>Murder.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; 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mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Are you being treated poorly by the police?<span> </span>Well, have you tried not breaking the law to see if that helps?<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Does anyone see the irony in the fact that the Floyd funeral spectacle had a police escort?<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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