Category: "Announcements"
Homelessness is not a Federal Issue
So many thoughts this week, but the one I want to focus on is homelessness, meaninglessness, and our drug “crisis.”
I guess my libertarian side is coming out, because I think our talking heads have it all wrong, this week Trump especially. He has suggested that the homelessness situation in some of California's cities is a disaster.
It is, but it's not his problem …
Avoiding Civil War
So it looks like people are trying to point us towards a new peaceful revolution. The thing is that this is not how revolutions work. They are bloody. They lead to civil unrest, war, people killing each other in great number for stupid reasons.
And it's coming from the left. It's the thought police, the language of disgust, usually a shrill disgust from the far left declaiming that anything to its right does not see the world correctly, and further is racist, xenophobic, and malevolently aligned to keep the “good people” down.
And who are the good people?
Condolences to the McCain Family
I will leave it to the historians to argue about Senator McCain's legacy. At this point, it matters not. He has done his service.
All that there is to do now is offer my condolences to his family.
Every man fills a space, and for Senator McCain's family, that space is now empty.
May they be comforted by his memory. And may they live to make him proud.
It's easy to stand on the side and criticize. Whether we agreed or not, we should take heart that there are people who will step up to serve, And if we don't or didn't agree, perhaps now is the time to stop criticizing and step up.
Thank You Senator McCain for your service.
Reason to be Hopeful
So I haven't written in a while. I've created for myself a challenge so that I can responsibly fund my life and be on the road campaigning, and I've let my posts slide.
To be truthful, I also agree with a lot of what President Trump says he is trying to accomplish, and while he may be a little more brash than we might expect from a proper statesman, he's also saying what needs to be said, and confronting power structures which do not operate to our advantage.
If You Choose War . . .
If you want to see it as a tragedy, I'm not going to take that away from you. Tragedy is a part of the human condition. We all have our tragedies, individual, group, religious, national even.
It's what you do with that tragedy that's on you. A constructive way to deal with a tragedy might look something like asking yourself:
