Month: May 2019

How do you get to know a person? You have to spend time with them, from there you can make your determination on the kind of person in front of you. I have had three instances in my life where I made a determination on a person’s character first hand. I spent 23 years in the restaurant business and met a lot of people, a few who I found out first hand, the outside perception did not equal my own first hand experience.

The first instance the general manager I worked for turned out to be the total opposite of the outside opinion. All he wanted was those that worked for him was to work hard and do your job. In he second instance, shocker, he was nothing as portrayed. I was told by this man to take an impromptu couple of days of vacation just after he moved to the store. I was able to surprise my girlfriend in Las Vegas. Guy number three, threw me under the bus big time and almost got me fired. Karma came back and bit him in the ass.

When Donald Trump announced his quest to be President people started coming out of the wood work to denounce him. He is a racist. He is misogynist. Ben Carson is black and is in his cabinet. Kelly Anne Conway was the first woman to win a Presidential Election as campaign manager. On the flip side good things he has done also surfaced. The kid he flew across the country in his plane because no airline would, because the boy need a medical procedure. The couple he helped in a broken down car along the highway.

Here is my take. We aren’t going to get close enough to Donald Trump to get to know him personally. We will have to take information where we can get it, do research. I don’t make my decisions from the news as a whole. I look beyond the news, both sides give their “view” not the news. I follow President Trump on all the major platforms. In the two plus years as President I can’t find a single thing that leads me to think he is racist and hates women, Rosie O’Donnell aside. I am still looking and get my wife’s input on all of the good, bad and indifferent information that comes down the pike. So in closing folks go beyond the news and do some research. We need to make our own opinions not “follow” the opinions. Until next time.

Folks this is going to be tough. Trying to wrap my head around this is taxing.

Let’s start with my experience. I have had the unfortunate time, twice to be involved with abortions. The first I was young and had no clue what to do. I was afraid to make a statement, have an opinion or do anything lucid. I basically left it up to my girlfriend at the time to make the decision. The decision was to abort. I was told by a friend” She would hate you for the rest of your life!!” The second time I was engaged to be married. Having been thru the first one, I was totally against it. One of the reasons was during the first one, I was in the room when it happened. It is not very pleasant, ugly to say the least. Anyway my fiance was not ready to be a mother, done deal, her choice.

So after the first abortion, I felt horrible, like I was going to pay dearly for my non decision. Being a redhead at least back then, everywhere I went for at least six months I would see little redhead girls everywhere I went. When I could finally forgive myself, I was able to move on. I wound up marrying this girlfriend 28 years later. My now ex-fiance, we are facebook friends and she never became a mother.

Moving on, we now have states allowing abortion to the day of birth, nine months! It is still hard to wrap the mind around. There are provisions regarding if the baby survives, do you give birth and then do the deal? What is next “aborting” your baby at one, two or three years old?

So in the 15 minutes since I finished the last paragraph my wife and I had a great discussion about this topic. Our perspective is basically, don’t spread your legs and make sure you wear a condom. As soon as you give up those choices, you loose the ability to abort. . Life is about making choices, life is the ultimate choice. Once you become pregnant it is not so much your body anymore, you share it and it took two of you to get to this point.

As my wife and I were talking, planned parenthood should be there to provide women with protection. Birth control not abortions. What planned parenthood does provide is abortions over birth control.

I usually end with “here is my take”, this topic goes way further than my take. I read an article recently that said aborted babies are not humans because they can’t think for themselves and aren’t capable of cognizant thought. You take any animal in the known universe and try to extinguish it what will happen? It will fight, for survival, for it’s right to be alive in this universe!! I can’t imagine a doctor looking at 9 pound 6 ounce baby whomever and saying goodbye forever!

Folks, here we are the 116th Congress complete in total ineptitude. As in at least the last three Presidential elections, Congress seems to afraid to do anything, waiting for the next President to be elected. Oh wait, there is a mid-term election so they all wait in expectation what will happen then as well.

The 116th Congress as reported in other news media has done nothing in the first 100 days. Since I started my blog, I have spent more time on what is happening, by whom and when it is being done. The biggest thing coming out of this Congress is still impeachment of President Donald Trump. Two years, 25 million in tax money, no collusion, can we move on, apparently it is not allowed. According to the Democrats a bill to protect late term babies that survive, did not have bi-partisan support. On the other side the Republicans who support it say they have asked for a vote 26 times. It comes across as “You didn’t do it correctly, no you didn’t do it correctly!” “You fix it, no you fix it!” These are our so called elected officials doing nothing but pointing fingers and having temper tantrums. Five year old children are not as hateful and dishonest.

Let’s go to actual impeachment. It would start in the House, guess who controls the House, Democrats. No surprise here it would pass with flying colors. It would then go to the Senate if they passed it, Donald Trump would be gone. Wait who controls the Senate, Republicans. A stalemate, who wins, no one, we the taxpayers loose, again!! Shale we flashback to 1998. Bill Clinton was knee deep in impeachment precedings. The House controlled by the Republicans and the Senate controlled by the Democrats. Gee what happened, he remained President. Chuck Shumer from New York had the best speech pertaining to impeachment then and going forward. He basically said if Congress went thru with impeachment in 1998, impeachment in the future would be used as a tool for either side to push their agenda. Aka tit for tat! Damn he was right!

Here is my take. Both sides in this dumpster fire should resign. We should be so lucky. Our interests are not in their interests. As I have already written, their six figure salaries, great health care, over million dollar a year staff. Vote when they work, can vote their own raises, don’t write any legislation. Travel to and from D.C. to their home on our dime. Can run for other jobs while being paid for their current job. Hopefully I am hitting a nerve. They need to go, we have the power to do it, it is called the voting box. We tend to fall for their B.S. every election cycle. Let’s be more intelligent on who we vote for, they may just be out there.

We continue to see women’s issues pushed to the fore front. I have no problem with it. I do have an issue with how it is presented.

Let’s start with my Mom. Mother of three boys, me being the youngest. She divorced when I was eight. She did the best she could trying to keep food on the table and raise us as best she was able to manage. There is a low point which I am sure she hopes we would forget. She is a strong woman, I still have a little fear in the back of my head of the ass kickings I received from my Mom. Everything she had to deal with, there was no complaining or woe is me. Just a straight out hold your ass accountable from sun up to bedtime.

We will move to my wife. We have been married for two years and together for ten years, this time around. Mother of four and went from stay at home Mom to bread winner faster than you can say damn!! She started the main body of her work doing destruction for a construction company. Sledgehammers and pry bars, the whole nine yards. Let’s move forward about ten years. She works for Home Depot at the pro desk, where the contractors come and get their supplies to re-build or build from ground up a house. Fast forward another ten years, she works for Lowes as a delivery manager. She makes sure all the contractors and the general public get their home products on time. She now is Vice-President of Five Dollar Enterprises. The main body of work for this company is bread delivery. She is hands on lifting and moving stacks of bread ten feet high.

Here is my take. My Mom had to deal with being a single mother, no complaints. My wife has worked in a “man’s” world her whole life, no complaints. They both walked the walk and talked the talk. What women need right now in my opinion is the so called female leaders to lead as my Mom and wife do. Lead, not continue to go ” woe is me” or “I am just a woman.” They are trying to hold me down because of this, that or the other thing. For anyone in life, respect is earned not just given to you. If you want to be equal, get out there and do it!!!