It's a Girl on Fire Thanks to Tom Steyer Thing

Dear America,

"live righteously and love everyone"  

Tea Yogi

truth is,

this is probably next to impossible,

given the world in which we live.

The latest Chicago murder stats, 2018:  HERE

Baltimore murder stats, 2017, now surpassing all other American cities of populations greater than 500,000:  HERE

And thanks to the growth of corruption and cartels, just south of my home town, lies Tijuana, Mexico -- and with two months still remaining in 2018, this once sweet Baja city, perfect for tourism, offering everything from silly chachkies to tequila to street tacos with just a quick trip across the border, returning home complete with, maybe a velvet painting of Elvis, or a colorful woven blanket for less than 10.00, or even just a handful of Chicklets sold by little Tijuana children, or nuns, as you wait, and wait, and wait, in the long line of cars going back to the USA --  MORE than 2,000 murders have already been committed.

Some of you may know that I follow a minister -- John Gray -- on both television and via Instagram...and he posted this message over the weekend:    "A 97 year-old Holocaust survivor was killed for being Jewish yesterday.  In the United States.  Let that sink in."  Apparently, it was first posted by Jada Pinkett Smith... but no matter --  either way we find it -- once it, in fact, sinks in, we are surely left speechless.  In shock.

Question -- was the Pulse Nightclub shooting, June 2016, President Obama's fault?  That shooter killed 49 people -- at the time, this was found as the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation's worst terror attack since 9/11; and it was just a little over a year ago, the people of this great country experienced the Vegas shooting --  killing 59 innocents, in attendance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival...and yet, to this day, there is still no more information on motive than on the day it happened -- was that Trump's fault, too?  

Black Lives Matter formed under the age of Obama -- and in turn, attacks and homicides against our police officers in uniform and protecting our neighborhoods have skyrocketed; is Obama to blame for that?   

The Obama administration was linked to an organization/political campaign running against Bibi, no less...what kind of political interference, against a friend of America, is that -- moreover, this attack in Pittsburgh was at the hand of an anti-Semite and Trump hater who seems to have more in common with some of Obama's political allies -- like, Louis Farrakhan -- than anyone else.  Shame on who?

This past weekend's tragedy speaks of horrible, unthinkable hatred... killing eleven people in a synagogue, solely based upon their Jewish religion.  

From CNN:  

"Authorities on Sunday released the names of the 11 victims, all of whom were from Pennsylvania. They included a married couple, a pair of brothers and a beloved physician. 

Joyce Fienberg, 75, Rose Mallinger, 97, Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, Cecil Rosenthal, 59, David Rosenthal, 54, Daniel Stein, 71, Melvin Wax, 88, and Irving Younger, 69, were from Pittsburgh. Richard Gottfried, 65, was from Ross Township and Bernice Simon, 84, and Sylvan Simon, 86, were from Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County Chief Medical Examiner Karl Williams said."

But like every other mass murder, or homicide -- the cause goes directly to the actions of ONE person, a person who is clearly not of the right mind --  be its origins from a heart full of bigotry,  a criminal mind, an evil intention to do harm, a mental illness or overall lack of well being or ability to cope and live peacefully with others...There is no amount of gun control that will stop this kind of madness.  None.

Evil people will find a way to do evil, be it from a gun, a knife, a car, a plane, a bomb in a backpack or mailed....or even with their two hands wrapped around a neck.

But even people like Tom Steyer needs to tone it down a wee bit -- about this hatred towards the entire republican party; don't liberals want to "live righteously and love everyone" like everybody else?  What's with the continuing hate against good Americans who only mean well....and that goes double, for this president.  Trump doesn't hate Americans or America; Trump wants to make America, all of America, great again.  Republicans don't hate other Americans or America; republicans want to make America, all of America, great again.  What's not to love about that?

Steyer said -- 

"I think his response to the tragedy [Saturday] was appropriate, but there's something much bigger than that going on here, which is the atmosphere that he's created -- and that the Republican Party has created -- in terms of political violence," Steyer said. "If you look across the political scene, what you see is routine, systematic lawlessness. ... We see it in a president who has been breaking the law systematically, as a candidate, as a businessman, and as a president."

Seriously?

That is reckless rhetoric at it's greatness.

Really?  The republican party is responsible for the atmosphere of political violence?  Shameful.  

And just where, in fact,  is Trump committing systematic lawlessness?  By obliterating Obama's leftist Executive Orders?  By obliterating Obama's climate change redistribution of America's wealth?  By obliterating the under the cover of darkness deal with Iran and the nuclear agreement, which somehow paid Iran billions of dollars in American cash?  

Or how about when the entire Obama Administration fed Americans, and the United Nations, and the rest of the world, this lie -- that the Benghazi terrorist attack was all because of a video; which, if you all recall -- during the night of the attack -- Obama had the audacity to exit the war room, just to get a good night's sleep before flying to the Left coast for a fundraiser the very next morning...American forces were willing and able to fly over from Italy that night, and they were told to stand down....Shameful.

Oh Steyer --  "You can't find prominent Democrats who are leading chants with violent overtones. ... all the kinds of attempts to play to people's strongest emotions."   That is hilarious.  

Um, you mean like, Ms. Maxine --- make'm pay and get in their face--- Waters?  Or like, Hillary Clinton's cat call for continuing the incivility until such time democrats are back in power?  Like that?  Like Eric Holder, insisting on kicking back?  Like Obama once said in a rally, if they bring a knife to a fight, we bring a gun?  Stuff like that?  Shameful.

I will take actions by Tea Party for 200 dollars, please; prayers and all, any day of the week and back again, there is a right side to stand and I know exactly where it begins and ends.

The thing is -- I'm just sick of this nonsense.  Just sick of it.

So live it up, leftists.  Live it up.  For the world you are creating -- by way of mass media propaganda, building big  government dependency, establishing illogical economical solutions that has basically ruined America's healthcare system, along with your latest leftist flip-flop -- with the insistence of open borders subjecting Americans to unimaginable costs of millions of illegals, and of course, the general, all-round hostility towards conservatives and republicans, making character attacks upon an entire political party -- is all thanks to you.

I feel sorry for you, Steyer -- and all.  IF this is how you play nice with others; if this is how you show your tolerance; if this is how you argue on the specifics and the merits of our differences, then there is no hope for us.

Here's Trump, with some of his last twenty four -- "The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!"  

and this -- "There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame..."   "...of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony. Fake News Must End!"

Truth is -- no matter the occasion, no matter what is happening around you -- you are either on the side of right action, choosing to do the right thing, choosing to love everyone, choosing to live righteously --  OR you're not.  There is no line in-between; you are either there, or you're not there.    You are either doing the right thing, or you are not.  You are either saying the right thing, or you are not.  

Ripping an entire political party for political gain -- and blaming an entire party for the political violence and instability -- is not only juvenile, it is wrongheaded.

At the end of this day,

all I can do or say is pray.

May God bless the friends and families of this horrendous attack; and may all of America one day make peace with this, and most especially, with each other.

It's not lip service. 

It is just the direction we -- ALL of US --  really must go.  

It is not okay for you to hate me just because I live and vote and have my being wrapped around conservative ideals under the Republican party.  I voted for Trump and more than any other time in my adult life, am really proud that I did.  And I support democrats, and the Left, as a whole, to be continue to be wrong about nearly everything, and to continue to argue public policy on the merits.  

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I love my party; I love what the republican party stands up for; I love what prominent republicans have done for this country -- like, Abraham Lincoln, like Ronald Reagan -- two of the very best presidents America has ever had.

We MUST find a way to live righteously and love one another, or else.  Or else.  

But come to think of it -- I have no interest to see what "or else" actually looks like, or acts like, or talks like.  No interest at all.  

[But much obliged to my muse on the day -- for this girl's fire is expressly due to that Tom Steyer...suddenly, he's like the blind sheikh of leftist elitist socialist dreams, with the media fawning over him like nobody's business...keep it up, dude, keep it up. I can do this all the live long day.]

 

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America,

I'm finding myself strolling down memory lane this morning.

It must have been that letter from papa; I started looking at the scribbled three pages in the handwriting I've always known, the envelope still intact with the 7 cent 'airmail' stamp in the corner -- as it came all the way from Honolulu over the Pacific to San Diego -- and it immediately moved me to another place and time. 

1962 was the year.

The little number for the day, highlighted exclusively on Dear America,  is from '67, featuring A Taste of Honey, with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.  If you're not from Southern California, you may only recognize the name Tijuana in connection with drug lords and massive shoot outs with local police and gangs, or perhaps on Dave's top ten list of reasons not to venture south for cheap tacos from street vendors or paper mache flowers.

To it's credit, Tijuana is the birthplace of the infamous Caesar Salad and an easy jaunt for prescription drugs  -- where it is widely known to be less economically challenged, shall we say, and an acquisition where certain papers that are normally required, are not.  The irony huh, for some things we see Canadians migrating south to the United States, all the while Americans are doing the very same thing -- however simultaneously risking life and limb.  Guessing we'd do anything for cheap Prozac and Viagra.

Having now meandered off on a little sub-culture, it was the sound of the trombone that took me there -- "there" being childhood. Not only did my papa play the trombone, he occasionally brought it out of the closet to wake us up to pull weeds on a Saturday morning or to liven up the cocktails when hosting parties for fellow officers -- now talk about good times.

Anyway, I think what set into my subconscious from the letter was what papa said about 'the sights, the sounds, the tastes...' aspects of life.  Certain things just take us there in an instant; and for me the smooth sound of a trombone -- even as much of a violation before noon on a Saturday -- is still a sound that makes my heart sing. 

Any time I hear a trombone, papa bing! which moves into the smell of bacon with pancakes on Saturday - bing!  the smell of wet dirt pulling weeds - bing!  the splash of the hose in the face by a younger brother -- bing!  the sun shinning on the back that's getting burned -- bing, bing!

Growing up, the television certainly didn't raise us, but by all accounts we spent alot of time being entertained by it.  Just think about the era:

• Variety shows -- Bob Hope, Carol Burnett, Laugh In, Flip Wilson, Sonny & Cher
• Late Night -- Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett
• Cartoons -- Roadrunner, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, Flintstones 
• Family 'Reality TV' -- Brady Bunch, The Jefferson's, The Partridge Family, The Cosby's, The Walton's and Little House on the Prairie, Sanford & Son, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family
• Friday Night double header -- Love Boat and Fantasy Island
•  Sci-fi pop Icon -- Star Trek (don't care if there were others, this was the only one that mattered)
• Crime Investigation -- Hawaii Five-0, Magnum PI, Colombo, Starsky & Hutch, CHIPs
• then of course, Gilligan's Island, MASH, Hogan's Heroes, Leave it to Beaver, Jackson Five...

I think TV tells us more about ourselves than we'd care to know.

Nevertheless, as I was mesmerized by sitting in front of the tube last night with my baby girl, all of thirteen now, I got a chuckle.  We were actually sitting there watching sitcoms reminiscent of an era gone past, reconfigured and updated to display what is funny in family today.  I actually woke up this morning captivated by this nagging thought, the ABC line up now appearing on Wednesday night's is a basic copulation of the times.

So bare with me a bit,
Hank (Kelsey Grammer) portraying the out of work corporate sports equipment mogul, trying to find his way back from the brink, in utter desperation at times and looking like an idiot, but funny
The Middle (Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn)  The typical overworked, average -- very average and sometimes below average -- family with a host of more problems within 30 minutes than anybody would rightly know what to do with, but funny
Modern Family (whole slew of funny people all put together) characterizing what the typical family and extended family consists of , branching out to things like old white guy marrying the young trophy wife -- and proud Latina, the family expands to his daughter -- mother of two and wife to the dorkiest dad on the planet, and also to his son -- gay and partnered with Fred Flintstone meets Chaka Khan, who recently adopted a little Asian baby girl.  All I can add is, funny, very funny.
Cougar Town (Courtney Cox) the desperate little hottie and divorcee, at forty questioning everything, except apparently her good sense on dating,  a show capitalizing on what may work in Hollywood only looks silly in real life (cuz it is).  I have to confess, ONLY seen this show once.  For starters, it was funny, but not that funny and second, it is just not worth staying up passed my bedtime.

Is this America, or what?

Let's just hope that the magnification may be a little off for entertainment purposes, but the essence may be spot on.  And to tell you the truth, television hasn't really made me laugh in awhile (unless it was a show based around the premise of someone making a total fool of themselves on National TV, as in American Idol or America's Got Talent tryouts.)

Perhaps it is just a guttural reaction -- being inundated with stupidity in the world, personal wealth of only pocket change, and family issues of my own -- that I found myself laughing hysterically over the escapades and slap stick of everyday life according to TV on ABC, I don't know what it was.  All I can say is, thanks, I needed that.

Where is the truth?   Where is the reality in reality TV?  Where do we tell lies, in exaggeration or in leaving something out on purpose?  Where is the line we draw in the sand?

I know at times my opinion can sound provocative or 'out there'.  I know it is just my truth, and not yours.  And I also know the story played out my little head is different from yours, and so on, and so on.  But here's the thing, who's reality are we living in and what choices do we have for changing it, if we don't like what we see?

Perhaps then, what we may want to look at is just WHAT it is we choose to pay attention to and how do we react in return, as the line blurs between reality and make believe tests the truth; the reality is, this is how we make a day which turns into a life with the ability to walk down memory lane.  This is how we all do it, every day.

Remember when we landed on the moon, how there was speculation if it was real or on some back lot studio in Hollywood? The reality of landing on the moon, let alone getting out of a spaceship to walk on it, was so out there, some people questioned if it was true.

"Question with Boldness"

Glenn Beck

What I think we are beginning to see, is a story line unraveling, or perhaps it's just a problem with the lighting (someone is looking into it as we speak).

As I have noted before, President Barrack Hussein Obama, was voted into office by way of how he projected himself on the big screen.  He captured the hearts of all of us, even some conservatives, to the degree that this one man was changing the face of America -- which the majority felt deep inside was for all the right reasons, and for the right kind of change. 

The people who actually voted for him, besides the steadfast Democrats or 95% of African-Americans, were people who believed he was the right one to place in the highest office of our country after two years of hard core commercials, documentaries, reality TV and mini series journalism. 

IT was the really big show, the pitch, the madmen of politics whipping up margaritas; and like I said in my VERY FIRST BLOG (July 23, 2009) today --and yesterday too-- are showing syptoms of the "Day After" -- remember how it feels, the day after?  Party's over.  Everyone has gone home. All that is left are the dirty dishes.

We see it in the reaction by the Human Rights Campaign -- a knee jerk reaction going something like this:

"I shaved my legs for this?" 

Let's be honest, The MAN has made some PROMISES --
what between Hispanics, African-Americans, Gays, Environmentalists, Al Gore, Europeans, SEIU/AFL-CIO, MS and BS NBC, ABC, CBS, the poor, Hollywood, David Letterman, Jeannie Garofalo, Seniors, Small Business (yeah right), TIDES Foundation, ACORN, Polar Bears, Hillary, Chavez, Palestinians, Pakistan, Russia, China, Chicago, Public Option, NY Times, Trial Lawyers, Harvard, and any and all Community Organizers- except those with any Judeo-Christianity roots...

I know there are more, I just got tired.

Truth is, the MAN won valiantly, dominating his rival, because of who we thought he was --
a true blue born and raised AMERICAN.  A CENTRIST.  A MIDDLE MAN.  Someone who could lasso both sides of the isle and tie us all up together, harnessing the American spirit, emboldened, for all the world to see. We voted for him seeing victory for American Ingenuity, Free Enterprise and as an answer to our prayers for Small Business American capitalism; Obama was the one -- he's our man, if he can't do it, no one can -- our faith was placed in him to get it all done, everything that is.  The man was gonna fix everything.

Now,  the man knew that small town America was hurting and at one of her lowest points in history; we were unstable, plumped down in one catastrophe after another, overworked and underpaid, vulnerable to any promise that walked on by. 

It was a blizzard, too; having to find our way home, up a hill, for what had to be at least a mile.

And deep down, we thought of him to be very much like ourselves -- good, hard-working people, who believe in God, raise children to be anything they want to be, and hold ourselves accountable, responsible and lucky to be in charge of our own destiny and most definitely, our own lives in a country demonstrating and living under the Constitution of the United States of America.

What we are watching now,
just a man,
who happens to be peeking out from behind the curtain.

Make it a Good Day, G

"Beware of the Prophet making profit."

Dennis Miller, 10/14/09, with Bill O'Reilly

Tune in Next Week ...  when G continues

 "The Mirage"

Coming to a home theater near you, a literary mini series comes to life, masterfully captivating the hearts and minds if I dare say so myself, even if I'm not exactly sure... of exactly what I'm gonna say...or even if it will be good...

oh poppycock, details!

Oh my, this just in, and I'm not kidding this time.  I leave my blogworld for one minute and tune into Fox, and what do they have going on but a search for a kid, who somehow disappeared after launching his father's weather balloon (that looked an awful lot like a spaceship).  But all humor aside, the kid is missing.  Gone.  So now, I'm really gone so that I can find out more about this  -- and we'll see you again right here, tomorrow.

Same bat channel.