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live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-60139184319853715202017-06-03T08:07:00.000-07:002017-06-03T08:09:59.552-07:00Backlash Back into Reality<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />From Radio Head to leading psychological research to the results of the last election it is becoming clear that the American people are fighting back. What are they fighting? Simply put they are fighting the rush into a virtual reality the elites and the media are trying to take us. That is a magic place where fake news is applauded and where the end no matter how whimsical and nonsensical is justified, even when the most hurtful effects are upon the most vulnerable among us. <br /><br />The people are getting hit in the pocketbook by this headlong rush and the billions no trillions it is costing ordinary Americans. They are finally demanding results. All Americans are feeling the pinch and they are at a minimum demanding concrete results. <br /><br />The leak in the dam is beginning and will soon become a flood. When I read an article about the band RadioHead not giving into demands from the liberals to cancel its trip to Israel, I see hope. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4566578/Radiohead-hit-Israel-boycott-calls-divisive.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4566578/Radiohead-hit-Israel-boycott-calls-divisive.html</a> <br /><br />When I see that Connecticut is finally seeing the effects of unlimited tax and spend and bad policy upon their people and the Democrat leaders are waking up to defeat, I have hope. Connecticut is going broke, they are currently over $5 billion in deficit. The big companies and rich are leaving because the Democrat politicians in their pie in the sky liberal promises of a utopian world decided to finally kill the golden goose and take all her eggs. Ayn Rand’s cry of “Who is John Gault” is becoming known. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-tax-comeuppance-1496443958">https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-tax-comeuppance-1496443958</a> A word of advice on this Wall Street Journal article. The article is dulled out to non-subscribers, but here is a trick I learned. Simply tilt back your laptop screen and it comes in fine. The article is worth reading as it is the problem of the effects upon everyday Americans when forced into the liberal virtual reality utopia. Everyone suffers even those it is set up to protect.<br /><br />I’m a conservative and believe in conservative principles. I’ve read all the books or at least most of them that sings its praises but in the back of my mind I’ve always wondered why the liberals believed what to me was nonsense. I got my first clues when studying the constitution and its creation. That document was put together by both the conservatives and liberals of the time.<br /><br />My next insight came after reading Thomas Sowell’s book, “Conflict of Visions” which basically says there are two ways people look at their world and that has evolved into what we call liberal and conservative. Mr. Sowell was beginning to lift the curtain for me. Below is a link to a good review of that work. <a href="https://fee.org/articles/book-review-a-conflict-of-visions-by-reviewed-by-david-m-stewart/?gclid=CJCwxsDrodQCFQctaQodmnYGwA">https://fee.org/articles/book-review-a-conflict-of-visions-by-reviewed-by-david-m-stewart/?gclid=CJCwxsDrodQCFQctaQodmnYGwA</a> <br /><br />Then in 2012 came a book, actually more like a psychological treatise about “Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”. The title of the book is “The Righteous Mind”, by Jonathan Haidt. I just found it. Although Haidt is a confessed liberal he bends over backwards in trying to figure out the underpinnings of Dr. Sowell’s two types of visions. And he does it in a scientific way. This is not an easy read, it is a well indexed, referenced and massively footnoted work. I have not finished reading it and really only just started but I see it is setting my mind to working again on this problem. It seems like a good book but I don’t know yet if it is a great book. <br /><br />It is a good study of the two views people have of life and it is pointing out the righteousness of both. It is really diving into and trying to prove that indeed both “visions” are right but that reality lies somewhere in the middle. Haidt talks of emotional vs. rational thinking. He shows through clinical testing how they both need each other to survive. Here is a quote. “When the Master (passion) drops dead, the Servant (reasoning) has neither the ability nor the desire to keep the estate running.” I remembered something from the bible and I looked it up.<br /><br />Proverbs 29:18 King James Version.<br /><br />“Where there is no vision the people perish: but he that keepth the law happy he is.”<br /><br />I could write a lot here about the wisdom of the bible or the second part of the quote about keeping the law but suffice it for me to write that as a rule of law person I believe the above means that when the laws are inspired by vision/passion/faith in a higher power he that keeps it is indeed happy.<br /><br />I hope the rest of the book is as good as the first 40 pages.<br /><br />But back to my title “Backlash Back into Reality”. Ordinary people have had enough. This was clear in the last election. People are beginning to stand up and their voices are being heard from their outcry against the diabolical misdeed of Kathy Griffin with President Trump’s severed head to the public pressure towards the wayward sponsors of the Hannity show which have motivated them to come back to his show as sponsors. I see people voicing their own “righteous” anger. Even with the Governor of Connecticut beginning to see the “righteousness” of Free Enterprise there is hope that the crowning gift of Individual Freedom will be not far behind.<br /><br />I hope for a day when people see that the Common Good is best served not by government regulations but by protecting and enshrining the Freedom of the one to pursue what his or her passions and visions dictate.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Regards, Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth<br /> Bob carr<br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /> 231-728-3455</span>live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-77807111861610999342017-05-18T08:19:00.001-07:002017-05-18T08:19:11.422-07:00Getting back Reality<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Breitbart was a bear of a man. Put him in a fur coat strap on some snow shoes and a fur hat and he would be the picture of a Mountain Man. The reality is far from it. Andrew was a confessed liberal to start with and partied with the best of them. That is perhaps why he knew what buttons to push when arguing with liberals. Plus he had no fear of pushing those buttons, in fact he reveled in it. The hate the left had for him could be explained by his cross over to the other side as well as his vociferousness. But also his effectiveness at fighting them with their own tools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We see others who have crossed over which ignited the rage of the left. Ronald Reagan immediately comes to mind. Also on the more esoteric side there is author and playwright David Mamet who wrote a book titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Knowledge-Dismantling-American-Culture/dp/1595230971">“The Secret Knowledge”</a> which tells of the Left’s effort to dismantle American Culture. I read it and found it pretty insightful. He too was attacked but he never wavered, he just kept on producing great plays with great bottom lines, while the "critics and tastemakers" who control the media would have you believe Mamet is dead, the general public says the opposite. </span><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/07/conservative-playwright-david-mamet-isnt-going-anywhere/" style="font-size: x-large;">http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/07/conservative-playwright-david-mamet-isnt-going-anywhere/</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also there are other Conservatives who actually practice what the Left preaches and are hated all the more for it. Think Sarah Palin. The left talks of women’s rights and the right of women to be strong and how they should take on the male dominated power structure. Well Ms. Palin did just that and outed the Old Boys Club in Alaska and became Governor. She raised a “damaged” child, the Left you would think would be singing her praises. Why then did the Left reap so much hate upon her? It seems obvious that they disliked her because the Conservative Principles she used worked while the Progressive Principles the left has been espousing have never worked. They hate her for this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This brings me to the topic of my blog. What matters more, the reality or the appearance of reality? As I write this blog and research through the internet I find myself at the mercy of the “critics and tastemakers”. Even when I search for an alternative to the lefts mind numbing prodigiousness to spin everything their way I too admit to being forced into an alternative route with alternative "tastemakers". To find some truth in between is hard. However the control of the media by the left’s “tastemakers” needs to be fought against.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Breitbart knew (and let me borrow Mamet’s title) that “Secret Knowledge”. He tried to create internet platforms for an alternative to the left wing media in all aspects of it from movie to plays to music to news to government to politics to business. His main focus was to break into pop culture to give the young a conservative alternative to what they are inundated with. He tried to break the generational cycle and counteract the liberal educational system in his own way. He did this through the internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We of the right need to make our feelings known as we did in the last election. But not once every four years. Not just in politics either, we need to do it in everything we do. We need to make it personal. Sure we voted for Trump but where were we when Shelby school canceled an appearance of a Constitutional speaker? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We need to get local and vocal.We need to go to conservative movies and not go to liberal ones. We need to go to stores that espouse conservative values and not buy at Liberal espousing ones. We need at this point to climb out of the pity pot and choose sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the financial “bottom line” is the only avenue left for us to use in our free enterprise system, so be it, let’s not shy away from using it. As David Mamet’s plays are still popular in the larger audience hence his continued successful “bottom line”, so too can we say no to the “critics and tastemasters” who try to tell us what we should like. Come to think of it lets support Conservative “critic and tastemasters”. I realize to the pure of heart this seems like trading one taskmaster for another but sometimes sides have to be chosen. <b>After</b> the war the pure of heart can blame it all on Churchill and throw him out after the victory as long as they chose his side till won the war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think the conservatives have for so long been in the minority position that they do not know how to actually lead anymore. Plus human nature is to complain rather than to actually do something. I’ve seen this from the beginning of the Tea Party and since. Conservative groups like to sit around and complain but not do anything. When it comes time to gather up volunteers, from the 50 people in the group you are lucky to get 4 or 5. This is just not found in the conservative world but in the whole of human nature. The problem is the liberals are in control and those “4 or 5” liberals of the 50 have the control of the media and the government. They are the taste and task masters now. As the government takes over more and more of what we individually had to be responsible for we as a people are becoming more and more reliant upon that government and less and less upon ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The giant wheel of government now takes so much effort just to slow down that I fear sometimes in my darkest thoughts that we will never be able to reverse it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are seeing more and more of Orwell’s “1984”s predictions coming true but thankfully we are not there yet. But is “2084” that far away. My kids may live to see it, my grandchildren will grow up in it. Do I want to be part of changing what they will see or not? What will the world we give them be like.? What am I willing to do to change that dire future? That is the question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve heard Rush lament about this and he says that the truth will overwhelm the wall of falsehoods the media erects, but Rush mispoke because that wall will not crumble without us as a people pushing it over. Without our demanding that the truth be told?</span><br />
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live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-15104399244298505822017-05-15T15:51:00.000-07:002017-05-15T15:51:17.803-07:00When something you make to help you decides to help itself instead.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simply stated a system is too big when it can’t accomplish the goals it was set up to fix. A corollary to that would be that the system becomes too big to be accountable for making the changes necessary to accomplish its original goals. Or again simply, the institution becomes more important than those it’s trying to help. The case below shows how a Hospital in its drive to save money and get the patients out leads to a pretty sad and catastrophic end. Its inability to change is causing deaths.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Case in point. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The tragic death of Lauren Bloomstein 20 hours after giving birth to a healthy child. She was a neo-natal nurse and Larry her husband was a doctor.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/die-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.propublica.org/article/die-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Please read the entire article and keep in mind the problem we are having with the education system which seems unable to change its practices and punish the unqualified with the resulting dumbing down of the educational system through a model which seems based more on what is good for the system than what is good for the students. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">You will see the parallels - to me they were obvious. Everyone shifting blame until they landed on the fact that maybe the system was a fault and everyone seemed to agree that to fix that was too big to handle and it wasn’t their job. Nothing got changed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Does this remind you of any other problems?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It does me.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I see this in all aspects of society today, as industries whether it be schools, governments or businesses as they consolidate and become these mammoth entities incapable of change whose main goal in life is to protect themselves and less about protecting the individual for which they were started in the first place. If you still have doubts look at the VA Hospitals.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">A great movie about the inability of the education system to change is “Waiting for Superman”.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCZB_sy6Ws" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCZB_sy6Ws</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The problem is - there is no such thing as superman. It is only when enough individual people get together and create the political will does something get done. Or as the case in education, a system I feel is beyond fixing, individuals out of self-defense for their children have been able to over decades drop out and educate their own children. That has proved to be dare I say it, educational.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Individual liberty when actively pursued will force institutions to change or go under.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">We do this in the free enterprise system when it is not monopolized. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps Lauren and Larry Bloomstein were too much of the system to see it clearly, but their lawyers are not and I expect they will hit the system where they hurt. But will that really solve anything? Probably the only changes will be the hospital will have to raise the costs to the patients for the bungling of its doctors and nurses to cover its rise in mal-practice insurance rates. Just another example of a system too big to fail passing on the costs of its failures to those they are supposed to be helping.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That is what I call the breakdown of the “Free Enterprise of Ideas” that used to run this country that made it great.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Why is it so hard to change something as simple as reading charts and taking the patients’ blood pressure? Why does it take a Superman? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Because we have let the villains become a Supervillains.</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Bob Carr</span><br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com" style="font-size: x-large;">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span>live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-57376818198860279972017-05-12T06:19:00.000-07:002017-05-12T06:19:02.764-07:00"Rule of Law"<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">After years of working for the election of a “Rule of Law” Supreme Court in Michigan, I was apprehensive when I heard Chief Justice Robert P. Young was resigning. Who would Snyder pick to fill the vital role Justice Taylor played in our “Rule of Law” Court?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I was pleased when Governor Rick Snyder picked Kurtis Wilder. </span><a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/05/09/snyder-judge-kurtis-wilder-supreme-court/101469748/" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/05/09/snyder-judge-kurtis-wilder-supreme-court/101469748/</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">As to his bonefides concerning “Rule of Law”, he is quoted in the above article as follows. "The court ought to say what the law is -- not what it ought to be." Add to that he is an appointee of Gov. John Engler. On top of that our new Supreme Court Chief Justice Stephan Markman had this to say about Justice Kurtis Wilder. "(he) brings what has been a consistent commitment to the equal rule of law and unwavering support for the values of the constitutions of the United States and the State of Michigan."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That is good enough for me, if you’ll remember I was able to get various candidates for the Supreme Court to come to speak to us in Hart over the years. The “Rule of Law” in my opinion is the corner stone of a free and independent people. It is the check upon Mob Rule or as Former Chief Justice Robert P. Young categorized it an “empathy court”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There will soon have to be another appointee to the Mi. Supreme Court as current Justice Joan Larson has been nominated Trump to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. As you remember her name was in the running for the recent vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. All of these people were initially appointed by Governor John Engler. Mi. could be said to be the hotbed of “Rule of Law” judgeships.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">We need to keep that all in mind as these Justices face re-election in the future.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Let us all remain ever vigilant.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">To keep what we’ve gained and continue moving forward.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It is as always up to us to keep the “Rule of Law” now and forever.</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com" style="font-size: x-large;">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span>live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-28617916947552416632017-05-11T10:09:00.001-07:002017-05-11T10:09:42.248-07:00The Slings and Arrows of being in the Middle. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all know who the sling throwers and arrow shooters are. They are too numerous to mention because they have picked the easy way. It has and always has been easiest to tear down someone or something that is trying to do something. To pick apart what has been done. To destruct vs. construct. <br /><br />Usually they cloak themselves in far left/right rhetoric to disguise their lack of understanding of the real world or their inability to think original thoughts. You know the ones – the people who like labeling others and decry being so labeled themselves.<br /><br />The real world we live in is not that way. Individuals are not one thing –never one thing- they are many things all mixed up and self-formed to make a package that can survive in reality. Everyone makes compromises with reality in order to survive. We see it in literature. The greatest novels are all about the conflicts within ourselves over the righteous and self-righteous, over the ideal and the real. Of what we dream of doing and what we end up doing. Even the best of us can’t come close to perfection. But the best of us try. That is where real beauty is sometimes found, along with the happiness in overcoming the struggles found in that journey.<br /><br />People such as Glen Beck revel in labeling people and telling us what the “real” reality is. Other people such as Al Gore tinker with computer models and flimsy science while they both run around pontificating and getting rich by saying that the “sky is falling”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is their answer to the question of what can we do to avert disaster? Nothing except Pollyanna/Miss America answers like - do what I do and everything will be wonderful and the world will be saved and peace and harmony will be here. While one says all we have to do is use one sheet of toilet paper, the other is saying buy gold. The sad thing is – people believe them – a lot of people.<br /><br />So what side should we be on? Wow – Now that is a really stupid question I just asked. It accomplishes nothing. I say neither side is right. If you really want to fight the good fight and suffer the slings and arrows try being in-between – in the middle of those two forces. Try getting something constructive done. That is exactly what elected officials are elected to do. They have to dig through all the BS piled up on both sides and decide what to do. They have to actually construct something then listen to all the criticisms from those of a more destructive ilk. <br /><br />But that is what makes a good leader, his ability to dig out the reality of the matter and find a solution that works for the group they are leading. The far Left and far Right seem to all have Right on their side and they all claim at some point to be best for the majority or the common good so how do we decide what to actually try to get people to do. What concrete things do we try to do?<br /><br />First above all is to figure out what allows American Individuals to decide for themselves – then let them.<br /><br />Thomas Sowell in his book “Conflict of Visions” which was his definition of the difference between the right and the left came to the conclusion from history that the Right thought we were born flawed and had to work at overcoming our baser instincts to create a workable society. While the left believed we were all born perfect and if we just passed the right laws that perfection would assert itself and create a perfect world. That is a great book and while my summary is a cheap shot at his great book, the point is that neither side is right and in my opinion we need to quit attacking everything from one side or the other and try sitting in the middle more. We need to find solutions that simply work. Americans are getting fed up with the inability of Congress to get things done. <br /><br />It is from the middle where reality is found. Woodrow Wilson (whom Beck would call the father of American Liberalism) had a counselor by the name of Louise Brandeis whom he later appointed to the US Supreme Court. Below is a NY Time article about monopolies of the current day and they allude to Wilson and Brandeis.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-google.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-google.html</a> <br /><br />From that I quote the author of the article, Jonathan Taplin. <br /><br />“While Brandeis generally opposed regulation — which, he worried, inevitably led to the corruption of the regulator — and instead advocated breaking up “bigness,” he made an exception for “natural” monopolies, like telephone, water and power companies and railroads, where it made sense to have one or a few companies in control of an industry.” A compromise in the face of adamant Ideological opposites. <br /><br />This Brandeis fellow didn’t like regulation of companies which would seem to put him at odds with the “Father of Liberalism” because he saw how corruption followed but at the same time something was needed that would keep the efficiency of monopoly while keeping some type of curb on the corruption monopolies too inevitably caused. In a word he needed a compromise from the middle. That compromise was the forming of a semi-regulated of what he defined as a “natural” monopoly. Today we call them utilities.<br /><br />Brandeis at this point was as I would say jumping in the middle in order to actually solve a problem with two conflicting sides. He soon found out how much harder that is because the slings and arrows were coming from both sides at once.<br /><br />It is in this middle that the President we call Trump is putting himself as he tries to do what is best for all America. He is catching it from all sides because he is trying to govern from there, a space that includes the Hard Hat working steel workers, the coal miners to the small town folks trying to get by and just want to be left alone.<br /><br />When most of America understands that the President needs all in his administration working with him to do the job, the media and the political elites do not get that concept. – The truth is in the pudding. Trump is getting results.<br /><br />The steel workers applaud him as their industry is rebounding as this quote from the New York Times by Patricia Cohen shows. {“If you could design a perfect administration from the perspective of the steel industry, this would be it,” said Thomas Gibson, president of the<a href="http://www.steel.org/"> American Iron and Steel Institute</a>, ticking off the president’s promises to hack away regulations and lower taxes, while fending off foreign competitors and embarking on a “Buy America” building program.”} <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/business/economy/steel-nucor-trump-policy.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/business/economy/steel-nucor-trump-policy.html?_r=0</a> <br /><br /> The coal miners applauded him too as he signed an executive order that starts to unravel Obama’s war on coal in March this year. Vice President Mike Pence said “The war on coal is over.” The President said. “The action I’m taking today will eliminate federal overreach, restore economic freedom and allow our companies and our workers to thrive, compete and succeed on a level playing field,” <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/03/28/coal-miners-rejoice-as-trump-unwinds-obama-era-rules.html">http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/03/28/coal-miners-rejoice-as-trump-unwinds-obama-era-rules.html</a> <br /><br />Good works will out albeit faster in business than in politics. The stock market is on a tear and the Dow is setting new all-time records. <br /><br />Who says trickle-down economics doesn’t work? The US Government just recorded a surplus of $182 billion. Need I say that what Trump is doing is working with business? <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-government-posts-182-billion-surplus-april-180943488--business.html">https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-government-posts-182-billion-surplus-april-180943488--business.html</a> <br /><br />As Trump goes on attack from one front to another the Dems are losing their minds as Rush Limbaugh gleefully says “the Democrat Party is going bananas — completely, totally unhinged — on the road to literal insanity.” <br /><br />The beauty of all this is that the Dems still don’t see why they lost the election. Any old line “CIO – Democrat” could tell them. They have lost the blue collar voters in droves. What used to be their solid go to base of support is leaving the Democrat Party. Why? Because the Democrats ignored and took them for granted and ended up calling them all the filthy names they used to reserve for Republicans. They in effect put them in the “Deplorable Basket”. The question is can the Republicans get their head out of D.C. long enough to take advantage of that?<br /><br />So my advice is to keep the faith and keep talking about the positives of what Trump is doing and let the Left walk off the cliff by themselves.<br /><br /> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth<br /> Bob Carr<br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /> 231-728-3455</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">What is that crisis? “… a crisis both of our church, a crisis of our faith, a crisis of the West, a crisis of capitalism.” By Steve Bannon.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve written in the past of what I call “the rhyme to the reason”. In other words what is behind the reasoning that makes it work? We can spew facts all day to prove any point or theory we wish to prove, but without a solid underpinning based upon what really works for humanity in general all you end up with is what we have now. A bunch of ideologues left and right screaming their own facts without listening to the people they claim to represent. This leads to what Europe has and we are beginning to see it here. Riots in the streets.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Steve Bannon said the quote above to a group of Conservative Catholics in the Vatican in 2014. I picked this thread up from a recent article ironically by Peggy Noonan who was complimentary of Mr. Bannon. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Ms. Noonan seems instinctually adverse to the tone of Mr. Trump and his advisers of which Mr. Bannon is one. She however does try to understand that which she is naturally disposed to be against. I give her credit for that. That is the least that journalism should be. That is what humanity can and should be.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">As an alcoholic I learned the same lesson Ms. Noonan said she learned from William Safire albeit in a different way. Safire’s advice was not to take the easy way which was piling on when someone is down but to look deeper and find the good that may be hidden. My lesson came at a smoke filled “round table” at the back of an AA meeting room after a meeting where some of the old timers would sit and share their wisdom in some blunt down home ways over cards coffee and caffeine. I was complaining about a certain person and after I was done venting my “friend” told me to quit bitching as it was giving him a headache and take that guy out for coffee and find something good about him. It wasn’t a suggestion at least the “shut up” part. But I did and although we didn’t become lifelong friends we did find common ground. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I’m tired of being told to act and think about how I and humanity should go back to our natural state. I want to lead my life by something more. Something more than how much money I can make, how many times I can have sex in a day or who I can manipulate into doing what I want them to do. Or simply just doing what makes me feel good. I’m of the age of Woodstock and what was there outside of great music and an enraptured press, was a mess. Most people had to leave after a couple of days because of hunger, thirst or just downright primitive conditions. People had to leave just to survive. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It is a place to visit, but you sure didn’t want to live there. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The rise of civilization is a constant work in progress. When we all do our share civilization prospers. Steve Bannon talked of “enlightened capitalism” as the best method we have found to date to help spread the wealth and the work of civilization to the most people. It is the “enlightened” part that Bannon was talking about – the part that Judeo-Christian religion has played in putting the “Rhyme to the reason” of capitalism and has made it a good influence on civilization.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">If people had to live only for themselves in a natural state we would soon find ourselves in another dark age of the strong living off the weak. In Bannon’s Vatican speech transcript… </span><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world?utm_term=.hmZVeODy5#.xg6PdQOy8" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world?utm_term=.hmZVeODy5#.xg6PdQOy8</a><span style="font-size: large;"> he said “… I think we are in a crisis of the underpinnings of capitalism, and on top of that we're now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Those underpinnings are; “… the underlying spiritual and moral foundations of Christianity and, really, Judeo-Christian belief.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The barbaric form of the struggle, the fight against Islamic fascism is the obvious struggle from without; but he also talked of the more nuanced forms attacking Western Civilization from within. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The obvious at least to conservatives is the rise of “crony capitalism” or in old fashioned terms fascism. Even the communist countries in their need to “spread the wealth” have had to allow capitalism to come in. This capitalism however was state run not what we think of as Free Enterprise. The great thing hidden in this was the tacit acknowledgement that Capitalism works.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Bannon then turns to another dire threat to capitalism and that is the Objective school of libertarianism of Ayn Rand. He said “Ayn Rand or the Objectivist School of libertarian capitalism.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“…is quite different when you really look at it to what I call the “enlightened capitalism” of the Judeo-Christian West. It is a capitalism that really looks to make people commodities, and to objectify people, and to use them almost — as many of the precepts of Marx — and that is a form of capitalism, particularly to a younger generation [that] they’re really finding quite attractive. And if they don’t see another alternative, it’s going to be an alternative that they gravitate to under this kind of rubric of “personal freedom.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Let me now use this youthful over exuberance as a sedgeway back to “Piling on”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">When “personal freedom” is used to avoid the rule of law, or to live off of what others have worked for, we see civilization start to fall apart. We start to lose the rhyme that makes the reason or what we do make sense.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Bannon talks of both the “crony capitalism” and “Objective Libertarianism” as systems which treat people as commodities. As in my terms “de humanizing” humanity – or advancing civilization at the expense of humanity.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Think about it. Objectivism relies upon a select few leaders of industry to control things. All the rest of humanity are but cogs in the wheels of progress. That is not much different than communism where everyone has a job to do and the state tells them what that job is and how to do it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The point is. It matters not what ideology we have but how we practice it – that is the rhyme to the reason. There is no ideology that achieves perfection without taking into account humanity with all its flaws. In other words it still remains up to us to live within whatever system the current ideology puts up in our way. Laws are simply society’s compromises on freedom. I’m just always looking to support whatever ideology that puts the least obstacles in our path yet advances civilization along the Judeo-Christian path.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I too as I write this understand that because people have the right to free speech it doesn’t mean that what they say is guaranteed to be right.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">If we lose the ability to talk with our enemies – to find common ground – to compromise then we might as well. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Have sex with our neighbor’s wife, then shoot him because we covet his car which we then steal, and tell the cops that you saw your other neighbor do it, all the while you are cursing God while worshipping the mighty dollar and doing it all on Sunday. Oh yeah least we forget, we ship our parents off to the re-education center or old folks home because they thought what we did was bad.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Who needs the 10 commandments? They are only the foundation for the Judeo-Christian beliefs which have guided Western Civilization since its conception.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span><br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com" style="font-size: x-large;">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /><br /> <br /><br /> live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-78707328271778947432017-03-20T02:30:00.000-07:002017-03-20T02:30:18.250-07:00Trump's Bellweather -- April 18th, 2017<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Long time and well liked Representative Tom Price from Georgia’s 6th District was picked by President Donald Trump to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services in his new Cabinet. An outspoken critic of Obamacare Representative Dr. Tom Price a long time Conservative and member of the Congressional Study Group was perhaps the most knowledgeable Health Care Congressman and will fit into his new role well. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">However that leaves his seat in Congress vacant – it needs to be filled. -- By a Republican.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Progressive Democrats are chomping at the bit – they smell blood in the water.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Are they right?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The Special Election in Georgia’s 6th District will be held this April 18th (less than a month away). All candidates from all parties will be on the same ballot. A candidate needs to get 50% of the vote to win. If not the two leading vote getters from whatever party will run June 30th in a run-off election.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a link with all the candidates and info.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia" s_6th_congressional_district_special_election="" style="font-size: x-large;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia's_6th_congressional_district_special_election,_2017</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Here also is a link explaining who the candidates are.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mdjonline.com/news/in-race-to-take-tom-price-s-place-in-washington/article_432f8978-f3f5-11e6-9428-6b9388cb788f.html" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.mdjonline.com/news/in-race-to-take-tom-price-s-place-in-washington/article_432f8978-f3f5-11e6-9428-6b9388cb788f.html</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The news along with Progressive Activists are calling the upcoming Special Election in Georgia’s 6th District a Litmus test of Donald Trump. They and their money are pouring into Georgia's 6th.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a link showing how messy this could be. The new Progressive darling is Jon Ossoff.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53785/jon-ossoff-georgia-anti-trump/" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53785/jon-ossoff-georgia-anti-trump/</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Note from the article. The GA-6th was where Newt Gingrich started and that from then till this last election it was considered a safe Republican seat by double digits. From another source.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/02/28/all-about-the-georgia-6th-congressional-district-election/" style="font-size: x-large;">http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/02/28/all-about-the-georgia-6th-congressional-district-election/</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Mitt Romney won it by 20 points, while President Trump barely won it with only 1 ½ points. Tom Price in his last election won it by 24 points. The explanation the article gives for this seeming anti-Trump feeling. – “The 6th District, which includes part of Atlanta and its affluent northern suburbs, is loaded with college graduates.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That is at least consistent, younger affluent (mostly white) college educated suburban voters trying to fit in by casting off their white guilt by voting Democrat. Well I certainly, as a biased reporter hope they will in a month need some crying towels and safe spaces as their candidate loses.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Well back to basics, there are 18 people in the Special Election. Looks like Bob Grey is the leading Republican Trump guy but not one of the leaders in the polls.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.11alive.com/news/politics/gray-launches-web-ad-defending-trump-attacking-ossoff/422189407" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.11alive.com/news/politics/gray-launches-web-ad-defending-trump-attacking-ossoff/422189407</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">However the snarking and the name calling has begun - Bruce LeVelle see the link below. Reminds me of the Presidential Primary – you? Also a wide spectrum of Candidates to choose from Tea Party to Libertarian and I’m sure some never Trumpers, the slate is full.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/03/16/pro-trump-boosters-clash-in-georgias-sixth-district/" style="font-size: x-large;">http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/03/16/pro-trump-boosters-clash-in-georgias-sixth-district/</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">As for polls, the leading Republican with good local and state connections would be Karen Handel and for the Dems it is Jon Ossoff. They both hold substantial leads over the other candidates at this point. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">While I don’t care for Ossoff, it would be unwise to under rate him because of his youth and some pretty stupid looking videos of him. (Do your own googling). He has a lot of experience in politics grass roots style. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ossoff" style="font-size: x-large;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ossoff</a> <div>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">He also seems politically astute, he put “Make Trump Furious” on his website and has been taking in money hand over fist since then. In two months he has taken in $2 million. He like Hillary will be flooding the airways with money. To tell you the truth I’m worried not so much about him as a person but of the image they will be making him into. The media is a mighty tool to fight. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The field is full and we need to pay close attention. (As I find out more I’ll post about it). If nobody get 50% in the primary then there will be a runoff of the 2 top vote getters April 30th for a final vote to see who's going to Washington. Once we have two candidates we need to do all we can from outside to help the Republican candidate win. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I remember in 2010 Republicans winning most of these pre-election elections which gave them a boost to their momentum going into that election cycle in which they took back the US House. Remember the Special Election that Scott Brown won and the boost that victory gave Republicans in that election?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">We need to do all we can to be sure the Dems don’t do that to us with the likes of Jon Ossoff.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I’m expecting no Candidate will get 50% of the vote April 18th and there will be a run-off June 30th. I’m curious to see how both Price and Trump will try to help out the Republican in the run-off and how much it helps.</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs517@gmail.com" style="font-size: x-large;">glhotdogs517@gmail.com</a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">What does “Speak Truth to Power mean”? I’ve been hearing that phrase a lot lately so I did some digging.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The simplest definition is that when talking to “Power”, truth as simply stated as possible will eventually win out. Why? – Well, it’s the truth.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It was first used in the 1950’s by the Quakers in trying to convince governments to work towards peace. Their truth simply stated was the Love of God.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.quaker.org/sttp.html" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.quaker.org/sttp.html</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Since the Quakers the Left has, as it does with most truths, turned that saying on its head along with the “Speak Truth to Power” programs of Gandhi and Martin Luther King and Thomas Moore, to fit their own agenda. The Quakers, Gandhi and King talked of non-violence, the left as evidenced by the riots of late and since the 1960’s seems to relish and thrive on violence as SEN. TIM KAINE (D-VA) said “…fight in the streets.” “Speak Truth to Power” was changed to “Truth to Power” and now simply “Fight the Power”. </span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/12/1597418/-Rage-Against-Trump-FIGHT-FIGHT-FIGHT" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/12/1597418/-Rage-Against-Trump-FIGHT-FIGHT-FIGHT</a><span style="font-size: large;"> . Like the name implies their cry is fight-fight-fight. Not Speak to Power but to Fight Power.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That “upside down syndrome” the Left has is never more obvious than in their stance against “rugged individualism”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd recently published the book “Rugged Individualism – Dead or Alive” in which they trace what they call “Rugged Individualism” from our country’s founding to the present and what they think the future holds. They too are worried about it but are cautiously optimistic.</span><br /><br /> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rugged-Individualism-Alive-David-Davenport/dp/0817920242/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488817192&sr=1-1&keywords=rugged+individualism+dead+or+alive" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.amazon.com/Rugged-Individualism-Alive-David-Davenport/dp/0817920242/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488817192&sr=1-1&keywords=rugged+individualism+dead+or+alive</a> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I have constantly wondered whether in this new modern age with populations so large and interconnected that chances for “Rugged Individualism” to succeed seemed doomed and a thing of the past. I try in my own way to up hold that concept of individual freedom upon which our Constitution is based to the best of my ability but find the going “rugged”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I have taken some solace from what I’ve read so far from their book. In their eyes there is still hope. I posit that this last election was proof that “Rugged Individualism” was still alive and well though fighting for its life.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Here is my thought process.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The whole notion of Civilization implies several people in order to live together adopting laws and rules that all have to abide by in order for society to function. That in itself while necessary is the first encroachment upon individual freedom. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I like the safety those rules give us. I like the idea of police protecting me and my family when I cannot. I don’t mind paying taxes to ensure my safety and my ability to drive on nice roads, eat untainted food and in general live a life free of dire want for food, water and shelter and to be protected from common thieves and or homicidal maniacs. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That is all well and good but this feeling of safety can be addicting. I sit for example on the County Road Board of Commissioners and I hear the saying “If we can save just one life it’s worth it.” It is said as an argument against the cost of a project that someday might just save one life. As a board member I have to weigh these things. I also have to weigh all these decisions in reality. The reality is that people die because we have roads which allow people to drive at speeds which cause death when accidents occur. So while all life is important the choice is really what can we do with the limited resources we have that will save the most lives? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The trap here in Oceana County is the same as it is in Washington D.C. – Who wants to feel cold and heartless? Politicians definitely don’t want to. The only way out is to frame the answer as I just did into one of saving the most lives. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">On the other side of liking the safety of laws there is this and it is a big one: I at the same time want to be protected from tyranny. I want to be able to do what I want when I want as long as I accept the consequences and know what those consequences are.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There’s the rub, how can individualism survive? As communities get bigger and bigger we need more laws which if we don’t watch it will continue to shrink our individual freedoms. This brings us back to the meaning of “Rugged” in “Rugged Individualism”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">While most of us think of a “Rugged Individual” as one in rough appearance for example a “Mountain Man” wearing a fur coat from the bear he killed, walking with snow shoes checking his traps and living in the little log shack he built himself. Today as in the past, the term should be defined by actions not by appearance. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Davenport and Lloyd in their book look to the internet as perhaps the savior of “Rugged Individualism”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">What this Individualism has to do with “Speaking Truth to Power” is simple. In this day and age when speaking the truth of Individual Freedom to Power we need to be rugged not in looks (although it helps) but in spirit. While this should be easy because the basis of all the law in the land is the Constitution which enshrines individual freedom. 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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">It further does this through the “enumerated powers” clause. These are found in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This lists or enumerates the only powers given to the Federal government by the Constitution. The rest are reserved for the individual states or the individuals of the states. Here is a quote from Section 8. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The framers had a reason when they added “…or to the people.” That reason is to highlight the importance of and to protect individual freedom in the working of our form of government – federal, state and local.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I’m an alcoholic and a saying we have about our program seems apropos here. “It works if you work it”. For a long time we haven’t been working it. Along the same line Benjamin Franklin at the end of the Constitutional Convention replied when asked what they had given us. “A Republic Madam, if you can keep it.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Our American experiment in self-governing through “individual freedom” will work only if we work it. We need to speak the message of individual freedom to the Power of government any chance we get. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">While it is our job to protest what is wrong, it is also our responsibility to make the system work. That is what the rule of law creed implies. The rules we set up we should follow or we need to change the rules. The whole concept of majority ruling without any checks upon itself leads to suppression and subjugation of the minority simply because the majority can. (The French found that out in their revolution.) Eventually power will corrupt. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There has been nothing worse throughout history than a self-righteous majority. The term “Rugged Individualism” was first used by President Herbert Hoover. He wrote a book called “American Individualism” in 1922 which was very short essay but got a lot of attention. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rwBhmEfAd1oC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="font-size: x-large;">https://books.google.com/books?id=rwBhmEfAd1oC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Remember this is 1922 between the world wars. His concept of American Individualism transcended politics and ideologies – That always seems a good thing. That is real Truth to Power and refreshing, as it was coming from Power. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That is what President Trump is trying to do. He is speaking Truth to the real Power, the American People. Remember them? Those were the ones everybody, ignored, flew over and made fun of -- you know the ones who elected Donald John Trump as President of the United States of America. It is time for us to listen and do our part, seek out the truth and speak it.</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com" style="font-size: x-large;">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span>live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-2874798588120654972017-03-11T11:25:00.000-08:002017-03-11T11:25:16.871-08:00WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT CHRISTIANITY?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />10 years ago Dinesh D’souza wrote “WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT CHRISTIANITY”. In it Dinesh D’souza writes that religion is on the upswing all around the world. He reminds us that Christianity is still the fastest growing religion with Islam second and that secularism is losing the battle. To us in the West that doesn’t seem right or true but Dinesh proves it out with statistics. Christianity is losing ground in the US and Europe but gaining in all the rest of the world. China and India have the fastest growing Christian populations for example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a good read.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thedivineconspiracy.org/Z5253P.pdf">http://www.thedivineconspiracy.org/Z5253P.pdf</a> <br /><br />Why is this so? How can un-provable beliefs in the likes of miracles and impossible events be winning over secularism and plain old facts? Being a "Just the Facts Mam" guy I was curious.<br /><br />Dinesh writes {The Reverend Randy Alcorn, founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries in Oregon, sometimes presents his audiences with two creation stories and asks them whether it matters which one is true. In the secular account, "You are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three and a half billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces. You are a mere grab-bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance. You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system in an empty corner of a meaningless universe. You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from a microbe, virus, or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and at death you will cease to exist entirely. In short, you came from nothing and are going nowhere?' In the Christian view, by contrast, "You are the special creation of a good and all powerful God. You are created in His image, with capacities to think, feel, and worship that set you above all other life forms. You differ from the animals not simply in degree but in kind. Not only is your kind unique, but you are unique among your kind. Your Creator loves you so much and so intensely desires your companionship and affection that He has a perfect plan for your life. In addition, God gave the life of His only son that you might spend eternity with Him. If you are willing to accept the gift of salvation, you can become a child of God:' Now imagine two groups of people—let's call them the secular tribe and the religious tribe—who subscribe to these two worldviews. Which of the two tribes is more likely to survive, prosper, and multiply? The religious tribe is made up of people who have an animating sense of purpose. The secular tribe is made up of people who are not sure why they exist at all. The religious tribe is composed of individuals who view their every thought and action as consequential. The secular tribe is made up of matter that cannot explain why it is able to think at all.} <br /><br />The religious tribe’s “animating sense of purpose” is the key I feel to religion winning out over secularism. Science’s ignoble facts and reasoning provide us with all sorts and kinds of life improving luxuries and comforts. Nothing is wrong with that. But what is the why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Religion is the why. It provides the rhyme to the reason. Religion makes sense of reasoning - gives it a rhyme. Facts are one thing. Reasoning is another but the rhyme which makes sense of the reasoning is hope in something beyond oneself – religion – or the “animating sense of purpose”. As I would argue at AA meetings, our ability to reason and free will are the God given tools we have but it is how we use them that will determine how we go through life. <br /><br />Arthur Brooke of American Enterprise Institute in defining the basis of what makes capitalism work came up with the term “earned success”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He stated in his book, “The Battle”, “Knowing as we do that earning success is the key to happiness,...” we should as a society enable it. Please note that he talks of earning success. Not success given to you or money for that matter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is my idea that this act of earning is what triggers the mechanism in the brain which makes us feel happiness and it is that definition of “Happiness” that the founders thought of, as in the “Pursuit of Happiness”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/the-secret-to-human-happiness-is-earned-success/">http://www.aei.org/publication/the-secret-to-human-happiness-is-earned-success/</a> <br /><br />Brooks went on to say this. “To truly flourish, we need to know that the ways in which we occupy our waking hours are not based on the mere pursuit of pleasure or money or any other superficial goal. We need to know that our endeavors have a deeper purpose.” <br /><br />So now I’ve talked about the human desires for an “animating sense of purpose” and lastly to a “deeper purpose”; why are these important to us?<br /><br />I read an article recently about how religious or spiritual thoughts cause the brain to release endorphins stimulating the brain into a sense of well-being and pleasure. The article compared this religious endorphin release to thoughts about sex, drugs, and thoughts of peace and love etc. all of which release these endorphins. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/sex-drugs-ancient-scrolls-scientists-9356777?service=responsive">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/sex-drugs-ancient-scrolls-scientists-9356777?service=responsive</a> <br /><br />The article equated the good religious expressions with the bad – with a Lutheran woman reading the bible in Minnesota to an ISIS member contemplating violence. This endorphin secretion is again the tool, how we use it – for hope or self-destruction – is our own choice. The point is that the very thing – this thought of hope – while on the face of it may not be sensible or factual is the very thing that allows people to overcome insurmountable obstacles and perhaps the key to man progressing though history. Ironically the key to what makes Darwinism possible is religious fervor.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Regards, Bob Carr<br /> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth<br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /> 231-728-3455</span></div>
live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-14841352354488537372017-03-10T07:46:00.000-08:002017-03-10T07:47:34.303-08:00Trump is Making America Great Again<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all know that Trump promised to “Make America Great Again” – It is not a state secret. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">His whole focus is upon this effort to “Make America Great Again” foreign and domestic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If that were my focus then I would weigh every decision I made upon that simple question. I would base my domestic (social and economic) along with foreign policy decisions upon that simple question. "Will this make America great again?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come to think about it – bottom line, Trump seems to be doing just that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seems to be working already in the first month of his administration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Economically we have all heard how directly after the election the stock market took off and broke new records. Below is a link from Bloomberg to an article 3/8/2017 by Patricia Laya about Trump’s effect on jobs and wages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wages have gone up, unemployment has gone down. Even the dreaded “Participation Rate” has gone up. That tells us people are starting to get back into the work force. This article is filled with good news – one good thing after another. The Obama administration would have been ecstatic if they had a month with just one of those things happening. The only bad news is that government continued to grow albeit slower due to Trump’s hiring freeze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During Trump’s joint Congressional speech he said the following. “We are joined tonight by Carryn Owens, the widow of U.S. Navy Special Operator Senior Chief William Ryan Owens. Ryan died as he lived a warrior and a hero, battling against terrorism and securing our nation.” America saw and reacted to that reality with a long outburst of applause that seemed very genuine. Even the Dems stood and as they sat back down (around the 1:30 spot on the video below, the applause ascended to an even higher level and the tears of gratitude from Mrs. Owens came forth anew as she realized this outpouring was real. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was an American moment – this was a true moment of Unity of bringing America together, this was a perfect example of Trump’s “magic”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Emotionally this was a stunner. Politically it was a perfect example of “Speaking Truth to Power” as I will elaborate on in my next post. The “magic” of President Trump politically is shown when he interweaves a glimpse of how he governs personally when he added this. “I just spoke to our great General Mattis just now, who reconfirmed that, and I quote, ‘Ryan was a part of a highly successful raid that generated large amounts of vital intelligence that will lead to many more victories in the future against our enemy.’ Ryan’s legacy is etched into eternity.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">America runs best when it follows simple rules. Our Constitution is a simple document. It said all people have rights. It enumerates (lists) the few jobs the government is allowed to do, and then says “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The founders understood America will work best when Americans are free to make their own rules and take charge of themselves. Not the other way around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We the American people do our best when government is simple. America runs into trouble when those concepts become too complicated for us and others step in to help us understand why things can’t get better. When others tell us what actions to take, we feel less responsibility for our actions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s a responsibility thing. The disconnect we see between “self-governance” and what we have now starts there. When I decide which actions I take, by definition I take responsibility for them. When others tell me what to do they become responsible for my actions. For me to have freedom I need to take back the responsibility for my actions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">The “Big” comes with our new Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his fast and early movement in changing the Justice Department. </span><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PIVOTING_JUSTICE_DEPARTMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-04-09-13-22" style="font-size: x-large;">http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PIVOTING_JUSTICE_DEPARTMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-04-09-13-22</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The article points out Sessions self-recusal may clear his path for what he wants to accomplish and the reshaping of a bureaucracy he must do to accomplish those goals. The article talks of Sessions being tougher on violent crime, immigration and drugs. I’m focusing on his marijuana stance in this blog post. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In another article linked below</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-marijuana-comments_us_58b4b189e4b0780bac2c9fd8" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-marijuana-comments_us_58b4b189e4b0780bac2c9fd8</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Sessions is quoted as saying 2/27/2017 -</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“I don’t think America is going to be a better place when people of all ages, and particularly young people, are smoking pot,” Sessions said to reporters Monday at the Department of Justice. “I believe it’s an unhealthy practice, and current levels of THC in marijuana are very high compared to what they were a few years ago, and we’re seeing real violence around that.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That brings me to the “Small” in the title of my blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Those almost exact thoughts were expressed at a Michigan Township Association (MTA) meeting I attended Friday night in my Township of Newfield. I had a Republican meeting in Fremont earlier so I was late getting to the MTA meeting. The highlighted topic of the meeting was about the effects of marijuana dispensaries upon townships. Luckily I was not overly late for that.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Guest speakers were Oceana County Sheriff Craig Mast and two members of the State Police Drug team. As I walked in Craig Mast took the stage and talked about how opposed he was to marijuana use. While this could have turned into a moral type of thing it didn’t. Craig backed up everything he said with facts. He talked about all the crimes that currently occurs at the places that legally grow marijuana here in Oceana County. Whether it is grown indoors or out. He said if you grow it you will have someone breaking into your house or cutting/digging through/under your fencing to steal it and then the Sheriff will have to send an officer out to write a report on it. He has already had many calls to investigate these crimes. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The thrust of the meeting was informational. It focused on facts relevant to whether Townships would be better off - or not - passing ordinances allowing dispensaries into their areas. Sheriff Mast thought creating dispensaries would only escalate the theft problem into more violent acts. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">He and the State Police talked about how younger kids were getting involved and the widespread corruption of the doctors and the over production of the home growers and in general how hard it was to try to police this activity along with all the added expenses. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">--------------------------</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I have been torn on the marijuana use question for a long time. All I seem to hear is pro-legalization talk from the media and most politicians. Even Jeff Sessions had to walk back some of what he said about being against “medical marijuana”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">To tell the truth it was actually refreshing to hear the facts against its use at this meeting. I got up quick after the talk and shook Craig’s hand and thanked him for saying what he said. I told him it needed to be said. (I didn't vote for him but I will admit he is growing into the job well). Unlike Sheriff Mast I have done more than my share of drugs including marijuana and have seen the effects it has on me and upon my friends especially after prolonged use. After 20 some years of abstinence I occasionally meet friends I had back in the day that are still using and I’m shocked at how “burnt out” they seem. Trying to talk to them about anything current is a struggle. They seem stuck in time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I’m still on the fence about medical marijuana but am definitely against recreational legalization of it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">So there you have the big and the small of it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Believe me, I have a lot of libertarian friends and I hear all the time about the arguments for “de-criminalizing” marijuana. How it is an individual choice and doesn’t hurt others, how it would get rid of the overcrowding in our jails and on and on. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It was nice to hear some common sense based on facts for a change refuting those arguments at the MTA meeting. I know most politicians are seeing a “new revenue source” and are in favor of it. Some of them are conservatives and I ask them if you are a conservative why do we need more money for the government? </span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well this argument will not go away no matter what the Sec. of Justice, the Oceana County Sheriff or the Mi. State Police does. But it was refreshing to hear the other side of the story. Being a “Rule of Law” guy I think you know where I stand. I also sit on the Newfield Township Planning Commission and I will have my say – at least on the “Small” of it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Come next election I’ll have my say on the “Big” of it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com" style="font-size: x-large;">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Senate confirmation process has been one of the longest, hardest and bitterest in US history.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But honestly did we expect any of this to be easy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Case in point as to the longest. </span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Steven Mnuchin confirmed by the US Senate 2/16/2016. According to the Forbes article below it was the longest wait any President - ever had to wait for his Treasury Secretary to be confirmed. The article was written by Champaign Williams.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/02/16/after-much-scrutiny-senate-confirms-trumps-treasury-pick-steven-mnuchin/#467931a146f3" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/02/16/after-much-scrutiny-senate-confirms-trumps-treasury-pick-steven-mnuchin/#467931a146f3</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Case in point as to the bitterest in and out of the Senate. Betsy DeVos for Education. </span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">As to the bitterness, click on link for the article and please read the tweets at the end for some common sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In life as in most things when a new Coach, CEO or Governor or most other leaders are hired, it is expected that they will bring along with them people that they think will help them carry out their new duties and responsibilities. People understand this. As for the Presidency, there is usually grumbling and some protests from the minority but not in recent memory to this extent.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Again Why – Simple Trump is seeking a nearly primordial change to government and his Cabinet are the pieces on the chess board.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In Trumpeze it is called a Yuge change. A change in how we look at government and the private sector and ultimately how we look at ourselves individually and our individual place and importance in the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Kenedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” After he was shot, his successor LBJ basically said go ahead ask us we’ll give it to you and now Trump is asking in effect; if you don’t want government always telling you what to do, ask not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your own damn self. Those were my words but I think you get the idea. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Trump is asking for a really - really big change in the government. (Oops a little more Trumpeze it's catchy). A change back to people which will ask them to take more care of themselves. That is what he believes his mandate from the people is. We will see if that is what the people really want.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The government is up in arms. This change is far bigger than I realized until I started looking at the numbers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">For example this is a change from Teachers Unions in state run schools to Educational Choice championed by Betsy DeVos. Educational Choice is where public money (your tax money) follows the students to whatever school you want them to attend whether it be public or private – union or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump promised this type of change and is nominating a cabinet he feels will help him institute it. This change includes breaking up the status quo. Sounds easy, but remember the US Government employs nearly 22 million people not counting the Military. Putting that in context there are only a little over 12 million Americans employed in manufacturing. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Wow.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955000-12329000-government-employees-outnumber-manufacturing" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955000-12329000-government-employees-outnumber-manufacturing</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">See the difficulty. Then think of all the government grant money that flows out to the local communities, and the jobs currently dependent upon it. Think about it - this will be a huge change. Conservatives when they talk about jobs mean the private sector, when Democrats talk of jobs they mean government jobs. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Over the last decades our country has gone from manufacturing to the service industry. Here is a quote from an article. “Most Americans work in the service sector. …., the biggest was education and health services (22.7 million workers), followed by professional and business services (20.3 million) and retail trade (just under 16 million). Manufacturing employed 12.3 million Americans; about 22.2 million were government workers (nearly two-thirds of them at the local level).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well the Senate has just confirmed his Treasury Secretary (Steven Mnuchin) who would lead the change in tax laws and his Health and Human Services Secretary (Dr. Tom Price) who would lead the dismantling of Obamacare. Remember that these department heads once sworn in have to set up their own leadership team. That takes time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The media is not giving him time, but most people are willing to.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That is why new administrations in the past were allowed a “honeymoon” to be able to get the kinks worked out. The media has not given a honeymoon to Trump and is lambasting him for not doing his job before they’ve given him a team to do it with.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Just some thoughts on Steven Mnuchin the newly confirmed Secretary of Treasury.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Remember Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which caused the implosion in home prices? Remember the Dems up in arms defending them. Mr. Mnuchin has vowed to get rid of them. (That was just after the election). More recently there is this article which says Mnuchin wants to re-capitalize them putting them back into the private sector. This would level the playing field of mortages.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/17/02/9074950/steven-mnuchin-may-now-be-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-inv" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/17/02/9074950/steven-mnuchin-may-now-be-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-inv</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">For all this from government back to the private hands type of change to work Trump needs overwhelming support from his base. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lot of his base get some form of government help, either they work for government or get some benefits from them. I sit on the elected County Road Commission Board, I’m also on a couple of local boards and our job seems to be to seek and spend government money. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is where you often hear people saying “If we don’t quick grab that (government) money some other county will”. </span></div>
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I then read an article about Gen Z and a backlash of their own. This backlash seemed to be against the liberal establishment and their thought police. This new “counter culture” is mainly centered on college campuses. It’s main battle cry is “Freedom of Speech”. <br /><br />As far as speech goes these young freedom loving people are taking up the banner and in effect echoing the cry, “Leave Us Alone”. They are rebelling in order to regain their freedom to think and reason individually freely and publicly and not be told or forced into thinking and acting a certain way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the article which is linked below, I came across the term “regressive left” which is perfect for the chaos coming from the left these days.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/17/student-lefts-culture-intolereance-creating-new-generation-ofconservatives/">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/17/student-lefts-culture-intolereance-creating-new-generation-ofconservatives/</a> <br /><br />I set about to find out if this Gen-Z backlash against the left is actually happening. Heck I didn’t even know what Gen-Z was or who the guy with the crazy name Yiannopoulos was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Kind of reminds me of a younger version of a crowd waiting to get into a Trump rally.<br /><br />This new young group above are the ones being crowded, pushed, cajoled and beaten into being a liberal and while most are too afraid to speak up to the 83% of the liberal professors who grade them; they are more willing to show up at events like the Milo rallies. <a href="http://lidblog.com/conservative-students-college/">http://lidblog.com/conservative-students-college/</a> <br /><br />If you think differently check out this googling of about college kids turning into Conservatives <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=college+kids+turning+conservative&start=0">https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=college+kids+turning+conservative&start=0</a> <br /><br />Page after page of articles about the abuse Conservatives receive on Campus across the fruited plain of Freedom. This thuggery of the Left extends beyond the Ivy walls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Backlash is happening on all fronts.<br /><br />When I first started this blog years back I knew that the conservative cause was the one that took guts to be in. I lived in "the hood" of downtown Muskegon. It took guts to admit and talk like a conservative. My first blog was titled “Live Dangerously Be a Conservative”. Try knocking on doors for a Conservative Candidate in a 10-1 Democrat precinct like mine was. That is where the action was and according to Milo still is and then some. Imagine being a Gay Conservative and young on a College Campus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Courage wise I rank him up there with Ann Coulter.<br /><br />I’ve always repeated the old saw about how conservatives win the arguments but lose the election. Well I knew “Fun” was the grease that would make us win again. My hero Andrew Breitbart tried to his dying day to do just that. He tried getting Conservatism into the mass media and social media, he tried making it cool again to be Conservative. He died trying. Milo is taking it a step further. Is it any coincidence that Milo Yiannapoulos works at Breitbart News?<br /><br />You can then understand my joy when I heard the quote above from Milo about facts and fun. It is worth repeating. “The facts are no longer on the Left’s side – nor is the fun. So have fun, tell the truth – never stop laughing at these people. These people deserve to be laughed at, they deserve to be ridiculed off their pedestals because they are preposterous.” <br /><br />The Backlash against the left is of their own making. People of all ages or generations of freedom loving people will fight when told what to do and how to do it – just as the left did when they were younger. It’s instinctual. Our Constitution enshrines it, calling our rights inalienable. <br /><br />That was the driving force behind our nation’s great experiment in “self-governance”. </span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">“Death by China”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Just watched the documentary “Death by China”. It was produced in 2011. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMlmjXtnIXI" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMlmjXtnIXI</a><span style="font-size: large;"> This one is streaming or if you want it is on Netflix.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Obama was President then. It was narrated by Martin Sheen a liberal actor activist. By all methods of pre-judging this should have been a Liberal blitz against free enterprise and Republicans in general. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It was and it wasn’t. The main reason for this Chinese “trade war” was placed at the feet of the huge International Corporations and the very rich. There you go, that was the liberal mantra then as it is now. It is as hypocritical then as now. But in retrospect after 5 more years of President Obama since it was released this movie can serve as a pretty resounding pat on the back of our current President Donald Trump. Whom the narrator Martin Sheen called an “Empty Headed Moron” just 3 months before the Nov. 2016 election. Guess Martin was narrating by the word and not from the heart. But of all the candidates it was Trump who incessantly campaigned about the horrible really horrible trade deals we have with China and how we need to even up the trade balance between our two countries and he promised to do just that.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In the past, my blogs have mentioned how the Dems and elites in general have ignored what they claim was their base. This documentary shows through interviews with liberal stalwarts of the Democrat base how the trade deficit with China is killing America and stealing our money ideas and above all jobs. They are stealing those jobs from that base that won the election for Trump. From people on the street interviews up to Richard Trumpka President of the AFL-CIO and all sorts of liberals in-between, we find out that Middle America - working class America even in 2011 was being used as cannon fodder in the fake trade war with China. I call it fake because one side – our side – wasn’t fighting back and for a fight as I see it two sides have to be engaged. Otherwise one side is just considered an accomplice of the aggressor. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“Death by China” was an expose showing how China has through currency manipulation and illegal subsidies of exports and trade barriers to imports ruined the balance of trade with America. How have through these practices enticed American companies into moving our manufacturing and jobs into China. The movie explains pretty graphically how through this China is able to re-engineer our technologies and in effect steal our best and brightest ideas. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I remember liberals telling me that it was ok to lose the “dirty” factories and how we in the US would supply the brain power and ideas and somehow survive and even flourish without manufacturing. I guess they thought we would supply all the services to the up and coming Chinese. You know the beauty salons, work out gyms, nail places, and hamburger places. Huh? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This documentary was excellent as compared to most conservative documentary works in explaining what happens when you lose manufacturing - when you make less than you consume. Richard Trumpka President of the AFL-CIO was quoted as saying America – “Can’t be a world power if you don’t make anything but Hot Air.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Though written in the age of Obama, it explains how it was the entry into the World Trade Organization under President Clinton that China is breaking the back of America’s might. Part of the program showed how then Governor Clinton picked up support by blaming top Corporations for shipping our jobs to China – for not caring about the working man. People believed him and he became President. As President he quickly threw his weight behind China becoming a member of the World Trade Organization. In his speech he talked about how through free trade we would be hiring thousands more to supply the demand of a growing China. He promised jobs, jobs, and more jobs. People believed him and he won a second Term.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The Democrats ever since my youth called themselves the Party of the People. Well with the China deal the people were finally and for good sold out by the Democrats to the International Corporations which they so love to tell you they hate. I guess they love their money more. Republican Administrations while talking a good game of free trade made the same sell offs. They too did little to hinder China and put “America First”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Well reality settled in and the jobs left the steel belt and it turned into the rust belt. Because of a lack of strong Presidential leadership China has continued its winning trade war with America and Middle America was hurting. Then along came Donald Trump promising to make America Great again. He said outright that he would bring China to heal, along with renegotiating other bad “global” orientated deals back into the favor of the US. Along with seemingly an anti-business streak, an anti-coal perversion and a record of deceiving and ignoring their so-called base the Democrat Party has suffered massive losses in that base. The American people needed an alternative to that and voted Trump in because they believed in him. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">For those of you interested, this movie is a perfect example or primer on how to talk to all different kinds of liberals. There are sections of why China is bad for the environment, bad for the working man, bad for rural America, even why their products are bad for your health. You name a liberal cause and this documentary is telling Democrats to believe that China’s intrusion into the American economy is bad for it. In other words they are reiterating what Donald Trump has repeatedly said.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In Trump’s inimitable negotiating style before he was elected he told the Wall Street Journal about China "I would talk to them first…..Everything is under negotiation, including One China.” To think that Trump has backtracked on his promises about China is simplistic and not in line with his above quote. Things are changing in China, their “boom” is slowing way down, and they have been forced lately to prop up their dollar “Yuan Renminbi” to the tune of $800 billion. This seems to put the US and Trump in even a better negotiating position in my opinion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Any action plan will also have to wait on Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnunchin to be confirmed by the Senate. As Trump said in his news conference his picks are being unduly held up and stalled for way longer than normal.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Well as you can tell I was impressed with the documentary but more than that I saw unlimited ways to talk to liberals in favor of Trump and his policies. Although I doubt Martin Sheen would admit it, he has made a great case for the policies of President Trump and against the previous Democrat and Republican Presidents waffling when it comes to China.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In general also people are starting to wake up to the realities. A backlash is building against the constant barrage against Trump in the Media. As they proved in the Primaries and Election the ignored and discredited people in Middle America – fly over country - have a voice and can speak up. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The Media portrays President Trump as way down in the polling numbers when he is not. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/prez_track_feb16" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/prez_track_feb16</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">According to a Presidential Tracking poll for today 2/16/17, 55% of likely voters think Trump is doing a good job.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">After listening to the Trump PR in the Green Room, I can see why. Wow did he hand them their heads and did it with a smile to boot. The Media is falling all over themselves trying to find a way to spin it. It is becoming funny to hear it. It’s like laughing after the same people cry wolf or say the sky is falling for the thousandths time. People are just shrugging it off and judging Trump on his actions – the media is losing their credibility. Their proof has left their pudding a long time ago.</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> glhotdogs513@gmail.com</span>live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-5083094872173828272017-02-15T08:05:00.000-08:002017-02-15T08:05:59.742-08:00Tools of Freedom <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Facts are the tools of Freedom. President Truman once said “The only thing new in this world is the history you don’t know.” A study of the past – knowledge of what works and what doesn’t – helps us all understand and deal better with the choices we are confronted with.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The Media and the Education system seem to be conspiring to limit our exposure to the facts of history. I think this is to limit our ability to judge what they tell us as truth.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In the past, we the prime movers of the American Experiment in Self Governance have made our decisions on facts – on historical facts. We could find them in libraries and in schools but mostly we learned from our self-experience in life. Those life lessons learned along the way. When I borrow money I learned early I have to pay it back or bad things happen. If I tell a lie it always comes out and bad things happen. You know - the lessons of life and how we survive it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">So to our government. We learn by the doing, from studying what worked for us in the past we can learn at least what not to do in the future. For example we as citizens need information to rightly judge a Candidate’s policies. We need a knowledge of history to do that. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Below is a great article in the NYT’s Magazine about the decline of the quality of history being taught in schools and why it is important? This is worth taking a few minutes to read through. Remember this was published in 1985 before the Times went off the cliff.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/magazine/decline-and-fall-of-teaching-history.html?pagewanted=all" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/magazine/decline-and-fall-of-teaching-history.html?pagewanted=all</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The Time’s article talks of how our Democratic form of government is dependent on an informed citizenry. It has always been my contention that we learn best by making and correcting our mistakes. History is our tool to learn from the mistakes of others and conversely from the triumphs of others.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This is a great article surprisingly or not, from the New York Times Magazine. The article quotes Naomi Miller a professor at Hunter College as saying: ''My students have no historical knowledge on which to draw when they enter college, they have no point of reference for understanding World War I, the Treaty of Versailles or the Holocaust. They think that everything is subjective. They have plenty of attitudes and opinions, but they lack the knowledge to analyze a problem.'' </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Sound familiar? Try seriously discussing anything with nearly anybody and what you end up with is an argument not based on facts but attitudes and opinions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This brings me to the most important tool in our kit that helps keep the individual freedom inherent in “Self-governance” sharp and handy. That tool is simply, how to think. Not learning what we are taught to think but to learn how to think for ourselves. To succeed personally and as a country we must learn how to think through problems using the facts. We do that by learning how to find then weighing all the facts and by knowing which facts are relevant to the situation and which ones aren’t. What helps solve the specific problem and what doesn’t? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Our children need to know how to cut through the clutter which confuses problems and see the relevant facts.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">How can they learn this if they are not taught this in school? In fact if they are admonished for doing this by their teachers how will they ever learn? Or even worse by the State/National bureaucratic structure dictating how and what local teachers teach? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">What has caused this decline in the teaching of History and how to think?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The article goes on to say the combining of History and Social Sciences was the culprit for the diminished importance placed on history. One telling quote I pulled follows: “Those (History) studies that do not contribute directly to the goal of training students to take their place as members of society ''fail in their most important function,'' said the Committee on Social Studies, formed by the prestigious National Education Association.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Again the Social Sciences are seen as telling students where they fit into society, instead of giving them the tools to make their own decisions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Further on the article talks about the importance of “Critical Thinking Skills”. “These are important reasoning skills, but it is difficult to understand why they should be learned at the expense of history.” Indeed it is my opinion that History and the facts learned are the very glue – the context that allows “Critical Thinking Skills” to succeed. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Teaching kids anything depends more on the teacher than the subject. A good teacher in the early grades needs to bring history to life and make it exciting. At that age the learning of the facts needs to be taught with a good story to make them stick. Good teachers make that effort. Later after accumulating enough facts the older students can then learn why great leaders did what they did with the facts they had. </span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The good teacher at this point will ask their students, what they would do in the same situation. Their following discussion if based on facts is the start of “self-governance”. The students need to learn the good feeling that comes from thinking for themselves. This feeling is the same as one feels in doing a job well. A contentment of self if you will. The Amish believe that simple “Honest labor, providing for oneself and one's family, is a calling that leads to greater Godliness,” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One side note on facts. They are a convenient face saving excuse for admitting you might be wrong. "I used the wrong facts and now in seeing your facts I agree with what you say." </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">After getting ready to publish this post I received my local Newspaper the weekly Oceana’s Herald-Journal and on the front page was an article titled “Proud to be an American” by Amanda Dodge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The article was about Miguel Quinteros a legal immigrant from el-Salvadore. What caught my attention was that Mr. Quinteros was a High School History teacher in Pentwater. While the article was about his life history and his immigration struggles I lifted one quote that seemed appropriate in this blog. It is a quote from Miguel. “I like to show my students how we can connect a historical event to something that is more relevant, and how the foundation of this country have led to what we are as a country.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That is what I like to do, that is what I think History is for; to show us what worked in the past and how we can make it relevant today.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Or as Harry Truman said, “The only thing new in this world is the history you don’t know.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I and teacher Mr. Quinteros might add. “Learn from it”.</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> glhotdogs513@gmail.com</span></div>
live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-89452687803648416022017-02-12T10:20:00.001-08:002017-02-12T10:22:57.414-08:00Who's to Blame for the "Silent Majority"?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is America. We all have freedom of expression. It says so in the Constitution.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; <u><i>or abridging the freedom of speech,</i></u> or of the press; or the right of the people <u><i>peaceably to assemble</i></u>, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Underlining and Italics mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let me ask this to illustrate a point, why is the “Silent Majority” considered silent? Who labels it silent, who is responsible for its silence? I’ve considered myself to be in that “Silent Majority” – I’m not too silent. I bluster in my blogs and at political meetings and have taken it to the streets on occasion. But that isn’t the question. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again the “silent majority” by definition is a majority of Americans. Are they really silent? Who determines their level of silence? What noise or commotion is it they make that causes some to feel the need to label them with such a moniker? Why are they thought to have such power?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simple – They vote. Once every 2 years. The Media has to pay them attention then - and seemingly only then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More precisely it is when they vote contrary to the way the Media thinks they should that Middle America gets labeled such by the Media. – That labeling somehow seems to justify the Media’s own ineptness. At least in their own mind. (“Look the “Silent Majority” suddenly said something!) That coincidently is the only time that the Media pays them any mind – during an election cycle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is not that they were silent but that the Media and decision makers found it easier to ignore what they were saying the rest of the time. The “Never Silent Media” otherwise is too busy to actually listen, they are too busy telling the decision makers what they don’t know (making it up) – about how Middle America really feels, what they really think. Then as with this last election the media and all who believe them are dumb founded when the “Silent Majority” stands up to be counted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again – That the “Silent Majority” is only paid attention to during an election – that is a great failing of not only the media but the Parties as well. It is however a great opportunity for anyone who sees that failing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Barack Obama saw it and as the “Community Organizer” he was, took full advantage of it. While we think he may have had advantages (adoring Press etc.) he had fewer in the beginning. Remember Hillary was the “Anointed One” by the Media before Obama out organized her. He didn’t have all the media etc. on his side in the beginning. He created his own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The media as with all “big groups” are too top heavy and bogged down with what they want reality to be, instead of what it is. (Read they begin to live in their own virtual reality or bubble). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just like computers that have too much garbage in, eventually the garbage comes out. It's not pretty when they step in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then as quick as a politician kisses a baby, the “Silent Majority” after it wasn’t “Silent” in the only venue it has (the election) the Majority again becomes silent at least to the ears of the Media. The power structure goes back to business as usual, the Media back to singing its same old tired tune and the majority is forgotten again for another 2 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The point I’m trying to make is that the only time average Americans have a real voice that is counted is during an election. Once the vote is over so is their voice and the media goes back to telling us the news they deem fit for us to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Middle America/Rural America/Working America had become upset and angered by this Media ignorance this lack of respect in the past and it has done some good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The biggest tool fighting this has been the confluence of the internet all its various forms of news, as a welcome myriad of different sources of news cutting into the media monopoly. That has spawned some alternative news sources to the main stream media. Again Americans are being offered a choice to pick and choose from which news to trust in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Americans by nature love that freedom and are using it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine Americans being trusted to decide something for themselves and not needing to be told what to believe by the Media. Again trusting Americans to be able to “self-govern” and not be dictated to. (sarcasm intended).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sure I’m a blogger and have my own prejudices, and what I write isn’t the greatest of journalism. But it is honest and I try to check my sources. The public can feel free to read this or not. Sometimes the lone voice in a free market rises to the top. My picking Trump as winning the election was way ahead of the regular professional media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our American experiment in “self-governance” is protected by the Constitution. For it to work we need to adhere to its rules. There must be freedom speech, religion, and all the other freedoms backed up by a “Rule of Law” in which everyone knows the rules and what their punishment will be if those rules are broken. This country works when free markets are not curtailed by monopolistic stifling government regulations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Free enterprise is the surest fastest and most successful engine propelling people out of poverty that the world has come up with yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For that however, free enterprise needs to be free for all to attempt if so inclined.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The same is true of the news. The more news sources the better – the more sources to choose from the better chance the honest news brokers rise to the top. It forces people to think. When people have a choice to see both sides we generally pick the best one. America is based on the idea of the people knowing the truth or at least knowing a lie when they see one. Our Republic is based on our electing representatives that hold these truths self evident. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is when the will of the people is denied that trouble starts. What kind of guts does it take to start a business? To risk all knowing that you’ll have to live “poor” and work long hours with only a small chance of success? What guts for a “nobody” to run for office? What guts to start an action committee for a cause? Why should you want to do that? Why should America want you to? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The answer is that this constant churning of people failing and succeeding at the small level is what raises that cream to the top. Plus mistakes made at the bottom are a lot easier to correct than when you wait to make them at the Federal level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that cream that 1% if you will are the Microsofts and Googles and Amazons of the new age. Here I must add the Intels who announced with Trump they are finishing a $7billion plant in Arizona hiring 3,000 workers. Yes these fledgling ideas started as ideas and rose to the top and now employ millions of people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They keep our economy ticking. They pay the majority of the taxes. The same churning in local politics is how a myriad of ideas battle it out to see which ones work and which ones don’t. Which Candidates rise which ones don't. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where individual freedom reigns, the cream has the best chance of rising to the top.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But I digress. In our American Experiment the burden of success lies not in the President or the leaders but in the choice the voters make on Election Day. It is the responsibility of the voter to pick and choose wisely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it is more than that i</span><span style="font-size: large;">t is the responsibility of the voter to make their voices heard all year and not allow themselves to be labeled the “Silent Majority” As Barack Obama recently said “It is fine for everybody to feel stressed, sad, discouraged, But get over it. move forward to protect what we’ve accomplished.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I agree with him on that. As we see the never ending Trump bashing, I'm getting over it real quick and moving forward to protect what we've accomplished. A Trump President.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: , sans-serif;">Hey You should too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For further reading to be up for my next post try these links.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trump economic progress. </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/02/08/intel-gets-cozy-with-trump-investing-7-billion-into-us-chipmaking-facility/#59bf49ed7874" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/02/08/intel-gets-cozy-with-trump-investing-7-billion-into-us-chipmaking-facility/#59bf49ed7874</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How to get Trump supporters organized by the king of Community Organizers, Barack Obama. </span><a href="https://www.ofa.us/" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.ofa.us/</a> <br />
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live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-34138013029444982642017-02-06T03:00:00.000-08:002017-02-06T03:00:07.675-08:00The Reform Movement of Donald Trump<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Donald J. Trump a Reformer.</span></b></div>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Peggy Noonan’s article, “In Trump’s Washington, Nothing Feels Stable”. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://patriotpost.us/opinion/47268" style="font-size: x-large;">https://patriotpost.us/opinion/47268</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I love this lady’s writing, always have. She is a Reaganite, she was a speech writer for him. Her job was to not only catch his feelings and emotions and put them into speeches but to help guide those emotions, make sense of them and put them into words and phrases that would resonate with Reagan’s voters. That message was a populist one too but with a more light hearted and folksy delivery than President Trump. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Her latest article I first heard about on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show driving to work. He basically lambasted her for it. Rush did admit that he didn’t read the article but the headline was enough for him. My problem is not his. I can’t afford a subscription to the WSJ so I can’t read her posts as they come out. They only give me a teaser to lure me into buying a subscription. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">For her posts I have to wait a couple days until the Patriot Post publishes her articles. Then they are free. I was hoping that Peggy Noonan had made her headline as a teaser and then would in effect say that while things didn’t feel stable, anytime you make big changes to the whole bureaucratic culture things indeed don’t feel stable within that culture, and will not until those changes start to become the norm – that takes a while. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">After finally getting and reading her article, I see she didn’t say what I had hoped. In fact she seemed pretty derogatory towards President Trump. Rush nailed it again. Why would I think otherwise? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">However I do agree with some of her points. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But first let me say that the people voted for Trump because he promised to get things done and to fight the establishment and their way of doing (or not doing) things. He promised to do things which was different to start with. Peggy Noonan needs to come to grips that Donald Trump isn’t Ronald Reagan. Trump is who he is and if he was to change very much he would soon seem fake and false to his voters. Then he would have his base on top of all the other forces against him. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Secondly, Trump is an outsider and has been in office just a couple of weeks. I think I’ll give him a little time to work the kinks out of his new staff et al. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But I do agree that Trump could do 3 things to help himself out, I think he will and is indeed already starting. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">1. Trump needs to help his allies help him, with a little warning and better communication of what he is going to do so they can get their own houses in order. How exactly you do that in the “Leak Fest” that is Washington I do not know. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> A. Vice President Pence a former Congressman has taken an office in the Capital building. “He’ll have a place on the first floor of the Capitol, one floor down from Ryan’s and down the hall from Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s, an area where lawmakers can easily reach the vice president.” That is a quote from the McClatchy news link below.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article130609524.html" style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article130609524.html</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It seems Trump is still setting things up. Remember he still doesn’t have his full cabinet through the stubborn Senate.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">2. Another quote from Noonan. “But this should be said: The president and his advisers are confusing boldness with aggression.” But even this while on its face seems correct it is misleading. The forces against him and his staff as she says are extensive. “…the Democrats and the press arrayed against them, half their party’s leaders wishing they’d go away…” Robert E. Lee knew the same feeling of being “up against it” and through audacious small surprise strikes he kept the enemy at bay and nearly won the day. What Peggy Noonan doesn’t seem to understand is that Trump NEEDS to keep his enemies unstable. How many times during the primary and campaign have we seen Trump called out for his Machiavellian tactics? How many times did those tactics work for him? Like they say, “the best defense is a good offense. Should he stop now? I think not. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But I’m not stupid, Lee lost the war. These tactics are best used by a smaller force. Again we need to help President Trump when we can however we can. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 3. Don’t let the enemy know their own strength. On this Peggy was right. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I quote Noonan in this pearl of wisdom, the like of which she is so great at creating. I mean this literally, it is not satire. “You should never let your enemy know its own strength. They discovered it in the Women’s March, know it more deeply now, and demonstrated it to Democrats on the Hill. It was after the demonstrations that Democratic senators started boycotting the confirmation hearings. They now have their own tea party to push them around.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This I totally agree with. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I do find it telling that Peggy Noonan thought of the tea party as pushing the Republicans around. They did of course but she seems to see them as an enemy. But back to topic. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">When I first saw the candid shots on TV of the Women’s March I was immediately reminded of my being in the first big Tea Party rallies. Everyone showed up, like they were happy they made it to the party, but no one quite knew the reason for being there - what happens now? Everyone just looked around and you got a sense from their smiles that they knew one thing for sure, they were not alone. They felt community in that and their gathering – a sense of their strength. That was a rare thing to see. I saw that same sense from the regular people in the Women’s March – the same smiles and of doing something important but not quite knowing what. The bussed in agitators not so much. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In the case of the Tea Party that spontaneity lasted quite a long time, a year or more before the different groups on the right got better organized and took it over. With the Women’s March, the leftist groups took it over immediately, all the pop stars etc. telling the Women what to think. Then days after all the radical leftists and then the politicians came out in force trying to fly under that Woman’s March flag. That was so obvious that there is already a backlash from the everyday Americans who were in that march especially when they see the rioting and looting and the non-sense going on across the country. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">How that backsplash plays out I don’t know. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">What I do know is that when Rural/Mid America sees all the “fake” backlash to Trump that these radicals are spouting being put out by the Media, Dems, and the rest of his enemies; they know it for what it is. Propaganda. Big City, Big Government, and Big Media propaganda. The voters proved they knew BS when they saw it and in the only place they have a voice left they used it – in the election of Donald John Trump as President. Then the Media went back to ignoring them. Below is a link to some of the “fake news” that the media is going back to. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/errors-from-the-press-are-piling-up-in-the-opening-weeks-of-the-trump-administration/" style="font-size: x-large;">http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/errors-from-the-press-are-piling-up-in-the-opening-weeks-of-the-trump-administration/</a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">President Trump is a Reformer, he didn’t ignore them – he highlighted them. That is the reform Trump is trying to do. That is the social movement he is trying to motivate. That is why he is catching so much hell from so many in power. He is reforming the whole power base of Washington. As another Reformer of the past and guy who started the Democrat party Andrew Jackson said about reforming and the power of the people. “Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The question is are we willing to be regenerated? Do we still have what it takes to follow Jackson’s statement and demand to and fight for becoming self-governing again? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Arthur C. Brooks in his book “The Conservative Heart” in the chapter titled “How to Build a Social Movement” said four things needed to be done. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">1. Launch a rebellion.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 2. Declare majoritarian values.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 3. Claim the moral high ground.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 4. Unite the country behind an agenda. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Trump launched his rebellion and he declared majoritarian values hence he won the Primary and Election. He is struggling his hardest at claiming the high ground and uniting the country behind his agenda – he is struggling to get his message out. To do that he needs to follow some of Peggy Noonan’s advice about messaging and better communication – letting people know his agenda and why it is the “higher ground”. I’m willing to give him time to do that yuge task. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The country wants and needs a leader to get us out of this “malaise” of feeling impotent and useless and under the thumb of government. How he does that is what will be the proof in the pudding of the Trump Presidency. Peggy is right people will judge his claim to high ground by how he gets there. Peggy is wrong in that his people are willing to give him plenty of leeway in getting there. They trust him and know him to be honest in his goals. These people still have a voice even when the media drowns it out with their mumbling mania. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth</span><br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com" style="font-size: x-large;">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> 231-728-3455 </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">PS. I look at Andrew Jackson as the original Reagan Democrat/Blue dog </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> “The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.”</span>live dangerouslyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05667239977434492134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004922666333282718.post-88781416362860585702017-02-03T16:54:00.000-08:002017-02-03T16:59:46.200-08:00Pastors Preaching Politics?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One sunny morning a few years ago I was working in our newly formed neighborhood garden (Love Community Garden) in downtown Muskegon. As far as Muskegon goes this was the “hood”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had canvassed our neighbors and found lots of people willing to set up and take care of our 30 some little 4’x8’ raised beds. Each neighbor got one, we didn’t ask what Party they were in. We found suppliers and friends willing to do the work to build the plots and fill them with dirt and the rest was history. It is running to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I sat there that Sunday in 2008 while tending my own little plot, moving church music wafted down to me. I started listening and as the windows were open this warm summer day I could hear the sermon fairly clear. The minister was extolling the virtues of a Candidate whom could be the first “black President” and how his congregation needed to get out and vote – to do their civic duty and be part of this historic event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was reminded that day of the importance sermons from the pulpit had played in helping to form our nation. I had seen old movies of pastors and ministers preaching in favor of freeing ourselves from the yoke of British rule. Then later about freeing our Society of Slavery. Years later I took part in a daily re-enactment of the original Boston Tea Party at the Boston the Tea Party Museum. It was in a church and the minister was really a rable-rouser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back to the garden in 2008, as I listened to the minister in that little Baptist Church rouse his flock I also remembered that I had little luck in my efforts trying to get local churches of a “Conservative” bent to do anything at all to help with the starting of our Tea Party, and later even with “Right to Life” or anything else related to politics let alone give a sermon in direct support of a candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They told me they were afraid of losing their tax exempt status. The Pastor above Love Community Garden didn’t feel so constrained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As things turned full circle I read on 2/3/2017 that President Trump went to his first “Prayer Breakfast” in Washington – an annual “must do” for Presidents. While most of the news was all about the President saying he was going to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger the new host for “the Apprentice” who’s rating have fallen: I could not help jumping on the following quote of Trump. “I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution,”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I see now others have noticed and talk of it is picking up steam. Here is an article from the federalist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again to remind myself of the historical importance of the freedom of speech by our religious leaders I did some more digging and came up with somethings I had over looked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know of “Patriots Day” I had forgot it was named after the events which happened April 9th, 1775 in Lexington. I had also heard of the “Minutemen” and their “shots fired heard around the world” and through history. What I didn’t know was the specifics I found in the following article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One pastor Jonas Clark, was hiding two patriots in his home, Samuel Adams and John Hancock under guard of 12 of Clark’s men. During the confrontation on Lexington Green from which came the “shots heard around the world” another 65 or so of the Pastors congregation formed the Minutemen who stood up to 800 heavily armed British soldiers. Well the rest is history. Though the role religion played in it may have been downplayed. The importance of Pastors never can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />So the shot I heard at Wednesday Prayer Breakfast when President Trump said the following was no surprise. {…allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution,”} By getting rid of the Johnson Amendment which threatens any 501C-3 tax exempt organization with the pulling of their exemption if endorsing a political Party or Candidate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One thing to note all 501C-3s are affected by this Johnson Amendment of the tax code. That would include Universities, Tea Parties and all sorts of enterprises which are titled non-profit. We will have to wait and see if the secret executive order pertains to all 501C-3s or just the religious ones. The article bellows talks of the “executive order” on religious freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seems from my experience in 2008 and later in life seeing the political left centered teachings in most universities, who they let come and speak etc. at their University, and the labor unions; the law does what the Framers knew laws did, especially lots of laws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Selective enforcement of those laws soon becomes the norm and the government bodies trying to enforce those laws soon became politicized. Picking and choosing what laws to enforce and upon which groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am of the general opinion that without the Johnson Amendment religious organizations can talk politics as they see fit. Some will talk one way and others will talk the other, some will be in the middle and some may decide to stick to the Scripture and leave it up the individual their political views. Either way the individual still has the right to go to whatever church they see fit - right left or middle or “no-church”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the depths of hardships came the term “Stay the Course”. Its exact history is vague and probably has to do with staying on course in the open ocean long ago. It is almost always used however when people are beginning to falter in their task out of fear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a rallying cry. Winston Churchill used it when all seemed lost. Democrat war hawk Congressman and DNC Chair Henry Jackson quoted Churchill’s use of it many times urging Americans to stay the course in fighting back Communism. Boy have times changed eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ronald Reagan, during the 1982 midterm elections urged Americans to “Stay the Course” and vote in majorities to keep his economic policies going. Well history showed that the Dems picked up 27 seats in the House and 1 in the Senate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I can believe the movies, “Stay the Course” was a favorite rallying cry by our troops against the British in our battle for Independence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we follow the history about the midterm elections especially 1982 we see that the President’s Party really takes a hit. We need to try to do something about it. What I wonder. Ideas?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wouldn’t mind hearing President Trump asking us to “Stay the Course”. He will not ask for help that is the way he is – we know that. I'll bet he's probably wondering; “Where in hell are my supporters? Why aren’t they staying the course so we can make America Great Again?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come to think about it I think the House and the Senate Republicans should think about Staying the Course and backing the President, their President – but I forget they don’t now and never did have much of a backbone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The media and the whole basic system of power in this country is being turned upside down. This is a true test of the “Peaceful Transition of Power” that we are so proud of in this country. How we handle this will let the world match our deeds with our rhetoric. I'm afraid they see us wanting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Right now it looks like in the Media that we are falling apart and our proud belief in a peaceful transition of power is at the breaking point. Trumpsters still believe in it, but the Media thinks now that the election is over they are back in charge and can run the show. They still don’t or won’t understand that the whole political correctness that rules them and their narrative is what people voted against when they voted for Trump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Media and the Left thinks it is having itself another 60’s moment – their one big claim to fame. Hoping they can bully away all opposition with rallies in major cities backed up by bands of thugs intimidating the average American egged on by no-nothing movie and rock stars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shinning city on a hill? Hell no its starting to look like a banana republic fomenting just another Coup D’et.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reagan would be freaking out - rolling over in his grave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember the hell the left and the media gave him for cleaning up New York and making the streets safe again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Judge Jeanine Pirro interviewed Rudy Giuliani. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The former Mayor, said that President Trump’s immigration action is just like the rest of what he’s been doing since he has been in office – doing what he promised to do. Negotiate on behalf of what is best for America, not the rest of the world but for America. And then – wait for it - actually doing something. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I agree with Mayor Giuliani that this “ban” is based on danger to America and its citizens. It is not a ban on all Muslims, nor on all Muslim countries. Nor is it a ban on all Muslims in those 7 countries. It is a vetting process above the normal vetting process for anyone coming into this country who have reason to be vetted, because they come from a country known to knowingly send terrorists to America. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were not included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Priebus (Trump’s Chief of Staff) explains how it is not a Muslim ban, and how the order so says that persecuted Muslims as well as persecuted Christians are given preference in the executive order. When asked, Reince said that they are looking into possibly expanding the number of countries for further vetting of immigrants that pose a danger to the US of A.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How indeed. We did good - our part - by voting for Trump we thought that was supposed to be all there was to it. A President and majorities in the House and Senate we thought something might get done. OOPS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again what can we do? I make no promises but I’m trying to put together some of the ideas I’ve blogged about recently about how to help President Trump, about how to force the media to try to cover our side of the story from the bottom up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m thinking about starting an educational “lyceum” type of organization much like we did with the Tea Party movement. Then having our own rallies in favor of policies that “Make America Great”. Having educational Lyceums before the rallies to get everyone on the same page about how to talk to the media and to give people something to come out for. That kind of stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please I can’t do this alone. For it to work I need help setting this up. I will be doing something in the near future I won’t be able to do nothing. I'm to heartbroken over what is going on to just do nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will post blogs about it and I’ll need help from volunteers from those who came out and voted for Trump – from those who are willing to “Stay the Course”. If I know you, you might just get a call. Better check your caller ID if you don't want me asking.</span><br />
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<br />How many times since Trump announced he was running for President has he been told that?<br /><br />How many times has he disregarded that advice?<br /><br />How many times was he proven right?<br /><br />The number is incalculable. Donald (John) Trump is now President and few people probably now have the cajones to tell him “You can’t do that”. He has earned the right to do what he thinks is right. The election gave him that right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You Can't Touch This.<br /><br />During the campaign, advisers I’m sure told him to concentrate on solid Republicans, he didn’t exactly do that. From the beginning he had a different idea of who would make up his base. He went after them – regardless of what any know it all’s told him. He somehow knew what the average American was thinking – what most Americans dreamed of. This was a self-confident man. If to most people Trump was confusing, his confidence wasn’t.<br /><br />He spread out to campaign in the heart of Middle America to Union Workers, and minority voters finding those who didn’t believe the BS that America can’t be great again. Trump was willing to go anywhere he thought the message should resonate. He went anywhere, board rooms, universities, Black Churches, Unions - anyplace.<br /><br />As RW Bray a Black GOP leading recruiter in Texas said, the black vote is won by connecting with people right in their communities, sitting in the same church pews, and building individual relationships. In the article in the Daily Caller by Amber Randall she points out that Bray was successful by connecting with individuals within the Community. She quoted RW Bray. “when somebody lends you a helping hand, I don’t really think you care if they are Democrat or Republican.” This in “Trumpian” logic seems redundant to say, applies to all people. <br /><br /><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/10/meet-the-fiery-black-republican-whos-killing-it-for-trump-in-texas/">http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/10/meet-the-fiery-black-republican-whos-killing-it-for-trump-in-texas/</a> <br /><br />Trump was connecting with a lot of people who before were seemingly hidden to and unaccounted for by the “crack team” of GOP operatives, the media and the “Crack Team” of Dems too.<br /><br />Remember Trump visiting a Detroit Church 2 months before the election?<br /> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/politics/donald-trump-black-voters-detroit.html?_r=1">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/politics/donald-trump-black-voters-detroit.html?_r=1</a><br /><br />While this article is so very negative saying that Trump’s support is nearly 0 among black voters and a bunch of other negative stuff, in retrospect the author seems almost comical. Trump won more black votes than McCain or Romney. He did this by simply showing up and caring.<br /></span><br />
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<br />In that speech he said. “For any who are hurting: Things are going to turn around. Tomorrow will be better.”<br /><br />Remember Trump saying to minorities, “What the hell do you have to lose?” He was saying give me a chance, I'll make things better.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/19/politics/donald-trump-african-american-voters/">http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/19/politics/donald-trump-african-american-voters/</a> <br /><br />Trump seems to have found/created his own political base by meshing Union Workers, a growing minority interest in results, working stiffs whether Union or not, and just your average formerly overlooked and ignored people. These people are scattered all over the previously divided political spectrum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did people really believe he could make everything better for everybody? No they knew better, but they also got to know him through his whirlwind “Make America Great” tour connecting with millions. What they trusted and believed was he meant what he said and that he would try his hardest to accomplish what he promised. That was new and refreshing. His coalition came out in droves to let him do just that.</span><span style="font-size: large;">I personally</span><span style="font-size: large;"> was reminded of Roosevelt on the speak to the heart idea and at the same time of Eisenhower in his leadership ability but most of all of Reagan with his connection with people and their belief in America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then perhaps he "Can Do This".<br /><br />Regards, Bob Carr<br /> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth<br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /> 231-728-3455 <br /><br />PS. In Peggy’s article she mentioned Joshua Green in Bloomberg Businessweek. I pulled it out of Google, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-reince-priebus/">https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-reince-priebus/</a> <br /><br />Well worth reading. I’ll quote one typical Trump thing said when talking about how obvious it was to him what the people wanted and how bad the GOP was at doing anything. He said this about how easily he blew through the GOP competition and resonated with the people. <br /><br />{“It’s funny,” he told me, delighted by the swift triumph of his influence. “It’s like the paper clip: a very simple thing. But one guy got rich, and everyone else said, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ ”}</span><br />
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<br />The newer ones of which I’m talking about were scattered across the country before the Civil War. They were made up of local then later traveling speakers talking and helping to educate the citizens of the day on the topics of the day. Abraham Lincoln gave one of his first public speeches at the Lyceum in Springfield which started to get him noticed. They were an example of what made America Great. Individuals getting together to fill a need. In this case a means of educating themselves. <br /><br /><a href="http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-lyceum-movement-purpose-leaders.html">http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-lyceum-movement-purpose-leaders.html</a> <br /><br />“The Lyceum movement was founded on the principle that local speakers would share information within communities.” We see this concept practiced today in many different forms but the concept of locally sharing information at a grass root level remains the same. <br /><br />This movement started in 1828 before the Civil War and flourished up until that epic struggle. This like so many of our great ideas started with the ideas of self-sufficiency and individual freedom but morphed into something different through the years. <br /><br />From the article in the beginning, “the idea of being self-taught was popular at the time. Back around 1800, Thomas Jefferson had upheld the notion of the yeoman farmer, a self-sufficient, rural laborer, as the ideal democratic citizen. Since that time, the virtue of being self-sufficient had remained important and extended to a desire to educate oneself. So, Holbrook (the founder) brought these concepts and beliefs together. In 1826 he implemented his new theory about adult education by organizing the first lyceum society in Millbury, Massachusetts.” <br /><br />Freedom loving people are thirsty for knowledge for their own betterment. They are willing to take it from where they can find it. Remember this movement was before the advent of the internet and even public education as we know it. <br /><br />Why do I think we could us a Lyceum now? <br /><br />From my days in the Tea Party I see a need for an alternative to the isolated and reality distorting effects of the internet. I love the internet. Where else can I within seconds of typing “Lyceum” into my google search bar could I come up with hundreds of thousands of things written about Lyceums? It is a wonderful tool. It borders on miraculous. <br /><br />Why then do we need to go to the bother of getting in our car and drive to some location and maybe even pay a small amount to sit and listen to some speakers talk about what they want to talk about? What is it that makes learning things in a group of people more – fun? <br /><br />Why do 100,000 people fill The Big House to watch the U of M football team? Why do people travel miles, hundreds of miles to spend hours finding parking places and then walk miles to sit in a small wooden/plastic chair for 3 hours without much of a clear view of seeing the game? Why pay big money for a hotdog and pop/beer when they could sit at home and with no effort sit in their comfortable lazy boy and stuff their faces while watching up close shots of the action with replays nonstop? <br /><br />It’s that indefinable sense of community one gets, that feeling that we are not alone. That little extra feeling that what we do is ok and in some cases even good and necessary. Trump new that feeling, so did I as I watched videos of the long lines of people hoping to get into one of his huge venues. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I felt it before that during the Tea Party days at the large rallies where attendees who were just average folk standing around looking at each other and smiling, sensing how cool this was but not really knowing what to do. I was part of it locally when we in Oceana County put on our own type of (Lyceum) to show case the State Supreme Court nominees. There we were face to face with the candidates, talking with them before and after. Also another time we put on an event show-casing 7 primary candidates for the US Senate seat in Michigan. Up until that point all 7 together had not been in one place, and here they were in Hart Mi. talking with people and everyone enjoying the experience. People to this day remember that event and ask if I am putting on another event like it</span>. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Just thinking of the comradery again starts me thinking of how and when to do another such Lyceum. </span></div>
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<br />Till then don’t forget about our own Cozy Conservative Corner which meets every Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock am at the La Fiesta Restaurant down town Hart corner of State and Main. All are welcome. Kind of a mini Lyceum with only ourselves as speakers. We just sit and eat breakfast and talk politics. Numbers range from 3-15, usually closer to the lower end. Political Candidates and elected officials welcome to attend. We’ve had our State Senator and State House Rep. Also one time we had our US Rep. We ask them all to just keep the campaigning to a minimum. A good place to listen to your constituents. <br /><br />Regards, Bob Carr<br /> Live Dangerously, Tell the Truth<br /> <a href="mailto:glhotdogs513@gmail.com">glhotdogs513@gmail.com</a><br /> 231-728-3455</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peggy Noonan’s article from Patriot Post. </span><a href="https://patriotpost.us/opinion/47019" style="font-size: x-large;">https://patriotpost.us/opinion/47019</a><span style="font-size: large;"> Titled “President Trump Declares Independence”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In the article Peggy paraphrased Trump’s inaugural message as: “Remember those things I said in the campaign? I meant them. I meant it all.” I think she finally gets it, gets the message Donald ran on. That message was above all a message of honesty and that he is willing to do what it takes to get the job done.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Now I hope that she comes to understand that his inaugural message was not one of conciliation over the victory achieved but one for the “ordering of his Taking America Back” battle. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Look no further than our nation’s battle for its freedom and Trump’s method. After we won our Independence in a few short bloody years, we next “ordered” our government to secure our “Noble Experiment in Self Governance” by writing the US Constitution and ratifying it in a few more politically charged years. Implicit in the Constitution was the American People’s responsibility to keep Freedom self-sustaining. Or as they called it at the time self-perpetuating. That was what the “Noble Experiment” was all about. Not winning the Revolution or writing the Constitution – that was just the process, but actually taking part in the day to day stuff of self-governing our Republic.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">After Trump won the bloody election, his battle now is now to re-order the government bureaucracies to enable his policies and promises to the public to be implemented. With his cabinet nominees and their confirmation he is setting up the process he needs to “Re-Order” the bureaucracy in what will be a never ending battle empowering average Americans to control their government again. To enable “the people” to control the process once again. Implicit in that is people are willing to share in and take up that battle. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Trump is offering a path to freedom for the people. If they are willing to take up his offer and do the work is the big question. He knows the biggest perhaps non ending battle will be to talk the country into helping him to fight the uphill battle against the 4th branch of government, the bureaucracy. He knows that this fight will take a few years like the election fight before it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I emphasize with Peggy Noonan and a lot of my friends for being taken aback by Trump’s “bluntness” and coarseness as politically she was formed during the Ronald Reagan era. She was a speech writer for him. He was the “Great Communicator”. He communicated with a self-deprecation and folksy humor that none since have been able to match. It is in the realm however of actually getting things done today that the true test lies in the fight for self-government. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Will the “….plain, unfancy and blunt to the point of blistering.” President Trump be more effective in achieving his goals than was President Reagan’s calming, humor filled attempt at accomplishing the same thing. I really don’t know the answer to that. Time will as always tell that tale. But we are dealing with apples and oranges in that comparison.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">What I do know is that the culture of Reagan’s time was different than it is now. I’m afraid that if Ronald Reagan would have run in this election and primary things may have turned out different for Reagan than they did for Trump. Again I don’t know – nobody does. Apples and Oranges. What I do know is that the media and academia back then were not so overtly anti conservative/pro big government. They since have had a couple of decades to hone their skills, so has the bureaucracy in its own self-interest. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Big Government, big Media and big Academia have formed an alliance so strong that no Conservative has been able to make a dent in it until Trump came tweeting along. I believe Trump’s “blunt”/honest delivery was exactly what was needed to marshal the forces outside of the mass media. He is gathering his forces as best he can, through tweeting and bluntness he is forcing what is against him to at least put out the news. Remember this is new territory. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I believe now he is trying to “re-order” the power base through new methods outside of what Peggy Noonan calls the norms to enlist his base of support and drive them to action. He didn’t invent tweeting, what he did was to gather an army of millions of tweeters enabling him to do an end run around the “Media” becoming in essence a media source himself. Those who he is aiming to influence are those scattered pockets of people not totally dependent upon government for survival or upon the media to think for them. They look at government as an obstacle to be overcome. I’m talking the average working class family struggling to make ends meet, trying to get ahead on their own. I’m talking of those without a voice or anyone to represent them and their needs. I’m talking about the forgotten majority of this country that the Media has ignored, belittled and condescended to for so long. You find these pockets sitting around kitchen tables and in small bars and restaurants, hanging out at local hardware stores and beauty parlors, and sometimes crudely discussing their struggles. The odor of non-political correctness wafts from them as a breath of fresh air. FDR found those same people, then Reagan did, now Trump has. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Three different people, three different means of messaging, the same message –“I care we can help make things better.” Now it is Trump’s turn. I hope and I think Peggy Noonan secretly is hoping that Donald Trump in his charge to become President Trump did not burn too many bridges to be able to win the fight for the things she believes in. How else can Trump communicate with the people that elected him? The Media won’t, how can Trump force them too? So far he is finding a way. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">All the media elites, the big shots will put a negative spin on whatever he does or says. How else can he get his message out? Rural/middle America has no one blaring out its message for them, to the extent the Mass Media does for the left. In order for this new form of “self-governance” to work, new tools are needed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Trump is the first one to use the weapons the Left popularized and the right reviled – bluntness, coarseness, irreverence, but what makes him different and what people admired in contrast to the blaring from Politically Correct religious like whacko’s was his honesty and his willingness to risk all to be honest and fight against those who weren’t.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">What does Trump lack, what is he fighting? Here is what Peggy had to say about that in her article. “Normally a new president has someone backing him up, someone publicly behind him. Mr. Obama had the mainstream media — the big broadcast networks, big newspapers, activists and intellectuals, pundits and columnists of the left — the whole shebang. He had a unified, passionate party. Mr. Trump in comparison has almost nothing.”………. Then she said “He really has no one but those who voted for him.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“He really has no one but those who voted for him.” Who is that? Did you vote for him? </span><div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">I believe President Trump knows all this instinctively and is doing what it takes to win his battle to reorder the government so he can go about his major business of making the government a tool to make the people’s freedom self-sustaining. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I ask the American’s who voted for Donald Trump, do you really want what you said you do? Do you really want government to leave you alone? Do you want all the things you heard Trump promise? If so what are you willing to do to help the man out? Are you actually willing to sacrifice for your freedom?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">You are his only support in this battle to re-order and diminish the top heavy government that more often than not stands in the way of common sense and our ability as a nation to get things done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In that piece skip the liberal first paragraph intro. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Young Abe Lincoln at 28 years of age shortly after becoming a lawyer and moving off the land into the smallish city of Springfield gave a speech to a local gathering of like-minded people, a conservative party group. In it he said the above quote, and also. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Lincoln’s speech is well worth the reading if for no other reason than to marvel at the level of beauty the English language can evoke. Newt Gingrich said Trump’s speech was great, and also that it was written at the 4th grade level. Both speeches were great and both were written for the common man and media of the time. For those of you who think we are far smarter now than 100 years ago – well we are not in many ways.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Lincoln lamented nearly 180 years ago in that speech. “Such are the effects of mob law; and such are the scenes, becoming more and more frequent in this land so lately famed for love of law and order; and the stories of which, have even now grown too familiar, to attract any thing more, than an idle remark.” Wow what would Lincoln think if he was alive today in our “Progressive make the world perfect” New Society ruled by feelings and not the rule of law? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">What would he think of the “Occupy Movement”, of masked thugs dressed in black throwing rocks and bricks at police while burning cars and breaking store windows with baseball bats? What indeed! He would be outraged. He would also be mocked and scorned by the media.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Peggy Noonan again put it pretty well when she asked Trump voters. “Do they understand what a lift daily governance is going to be, and how long the odds are, with so much arrayed against him, and them?” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">That will be the true test of whether Trump voters will stand behind Trump and to what extent. Will they be the “fair weather Patriots” or the actual Revolutionaries.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />As I watched the Inauguration of the 45th President Donald J. Trump I picked up on some things I didn’t know or thought curious.<br /><br />The J. stands for John as in Donald John Trump. Never paid attention or thought I needed to know that.<br /><br />The First Lady is Stunningly Beautiful. Jackie O. and Michelle eat your heart out.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then later as he praised the economic recovery under Obama I wondered when Shep drank the kool-aid. Better question was when did I drink it because I thought Smith was at least “fair and balanced”? I was half expecting him to talk next about a tingle running up his leg over the equanimity and calmness of the Obama’s in defeat, or the perkiness of Hillary – he didn’t.<br /><br />I did get a new appreciation for Ed Rollins however for calling out the protestors for what they were. He said they were creating “Anarchy in the Streets”. Shep actually said that was a stretch. Isn’t it ironic that it was on CBS not Fox that I first heard anything about policemen being hurt by the rocks and bricks being thrown at them? <br /><br />After the police cleared one part of a corner there were bricks and stones all over on the street, it was obvious to the viewing public. Just not to the commentators.<br /><br />From viewing the live feeds it was obvious to me that in places there were as many or more photo-journalists than protesters. Later I saw something to that effect on Drudge.<br /><br />The Morman Tabernacle Choir as they sang America the Beautiful caught hold of my mind as I tried to follow the unfamiliar words of the 2nd and 3rd verses. The part of the 3rd which said <br /><br />“O beautiful for heroes proved<br /> In liberating strife.<br /> Who more than self their country loved<br />And Mercy more than life!"<br /><br />That was especially poignant to me on a couple levels. First the tribute to those who died to keep America Beautiful and especially the words, “In liberating strife.” That hit a nerve as I’m always talking about how progress is made through conflict and what we gain through struggle we value more than what is given to us. <br /><br />I agreed when I heard Rush after Trump’s speech call it in one word “Uncompromising”.<br /><br />After years of watching Republicans and politicians back down and not do what they promised the American people they would do; it was indeed refreshing to hear Trump’s “Uncompromising” speech.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blew the media away.<br /><br />I guess I should be glad for the Schumer speech and the leftist commentaries trying to belittle Trump. After all it was that same old same old Politically Correct miasma of literary nothingness which insulted then galvanized ordinary working people around Trump who was the only candidate fighting back. <br /><br />To win a battle against an entrenched enemy one has to mount a more violent offensive which may be against our better angels but is needed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Think of Abraham Lincoln after talking about “our better angels” in his first inaugural speech trying to placate the Confederate States. Shortly after the speech the Civil War started. After losing battle after battle you could see his relief in finding Generals like US Grant. Finally someone who would do anything necessary to win. He perhaps didn’t like Grant or his methods but Lincoln understood the necessity of him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been trying to come up with an idea of how to develop a way for the Party to fight back against the constant barrage of the Liberalness predominant in the media and academia. I’ve had little success, but nevertheless I’ve had some – enough here and there - to keep working at it. Part of the research is to find out what others are doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tues. 1/17/18 I went to a “round table” of 2nd District Republicans of Michigan. This is an official Republican group comprising the Counties of the 2nd Congressional District of Michigan. Mike Hewitt is the Chair for that and his idea was to have the 2nd District meetings held in different places around the District so those not able to travel so far could make it. He hoped new faces might turn up. Good idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even here in this friendly environment I found things got complicated too quickly. That is the way of the world. That is also what Conservatives are fighting against when you hear them talk about smaller government and more local control. The meeting was a classic example how fast things get complicated even by those trying to un-complicate them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The contradiction is formed from the idealism of no government and a government that can get something done. We talked at the meeting about that very thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a direct function of size. Most everyone there was an elected official of one stripe or another. Most understood the “compromises” that are necessary to get something done in the political world. We all understand that. Things need to get done on the Macro and the Micro level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While nothing was accomplished on the formal side, some meetings of the minds and networking was accomplished. I too felt buoyed up some that others were struggling with the same problems I was. The purpose of the meeting after all was to explain the process and purpose of the 2nd District, and that was accomplished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My main take away was a reinforcement that for things to get done at the local level, the local people have to take the lead and that from the 2nd District on up the chain, there has to be a willingness to help those efforts out - or at least get out of the way. But above all people have to help themselves - they should be encouraged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The local efforts, where the “Politics really is Personal” idea proves</span><span style="font-size: large;"> one on one efforts are what swings elections and are what needs the most help. It is also the most labor intensive. The state Party has had the right idea but perhaps should shift more of its focus on actually helping, teaching and learning from those who are already doing it and how to help them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We need to stay away from the one size fits all approach and let the local who are trying tell the Party how it can help. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bottom Up Politics. You are the foundation upon which all else rests. When the foundation moves all else shakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like I meant to say my main take away was that if I wanted something done I needed to do it or at least organize it myself and not expect any help from the state/national party. If I got some then great, but not to spend my time bitching about not getting any help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That is wasting my time and effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would like to aim at a type of “strike force”. I think we need something to keep those fired up doing things. I harken back to the idea of the Tea Party and being on line organizing something all the time to help the cause and keep people interested. A protest rally here a support rally there. Picking a candidate then getting 2 people who would get 2 more and then 2 more to march in a parade for a favorite candidate. Easy stuff, yet effective stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out doing the competition. Not letting them have their way that is what I want.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the 2nd District Round Table Tuesday, Joan and Richard Runnels of modest means, passed out a printed page of things they had done themselves to help Republicans in their (Lake) County during the last election. Lake County is one of the poorest counties in the State. No one gave her handout much credit including myself. Mostly everyone sat around making excuses why things couldn’t get done at the State level. The biggest excuse was that it cost a lot of money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I was trying to get ideas for my next blog, I remembered the handout the Runnels had handed out. I dug it out, unfolded it and read it. I was sorry I hadn’t read it fully at the meeting. But upon reading it I did have some questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I called up Joan the next day and asked her if she had gotten any help from the State Party money wise. She said they had promised to help them, but the Runnels never saw anything from them. They spent their own money doing all of the things listed below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was because of the work of people like the Runnels that we won Michigan. Sure the State Party did it’s best with the high tech stuff, but it was the Runnels in their own neighborhood where votes changed from Democrat to Republican.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">{1. Door to door campaign starting July to election.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> 2. Buying several ads in newspaper.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> 3. Purchased campaign signs for several candidates.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> 4. Robo calls were made for candidates.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> 5. Put on meet and greets for 3 candidates.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> 6. Used my home for a pick up location for yard signs and advertised in newspaper where to pick up signs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hard work turned our democratic county around and we elected a Republican Sheriff, kept our Republican prosecutor, elected a New Republican clerk, 5 Republican commissioners and Republican Road Comissioner. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> First time in over 25 years a Republican majority in Lake County.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> This is grass roots politics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some background, the Runnels were voted out of the Republican County Party. Thus forcing them to go the way they did. While they were not the only factor in turning Lake County Red they have had a large impact. It seemed they were the only Republicans in Lake for a long time before the “Uprising”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apart from inter-party rivalry, I agree </span><span style="font-size: large;">this is the work that needs to be emulated and copied. This is where the State Party needs lend it's hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the type of thing that the State Party needs to facilitate. A little money here and there and maybe we can start keeping people interested in helping out. The talk at the Round Table was that to hire office help for each district would be too much. Here is a clue, people can and want to help themselves. They could use a hand as needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Joan and Richard did their own office work. They set up the North West Conservative Alliance so volunteers would have a name and place to gather around. No membership dues. I also asked Joan if they raised any money from other concerned people in Lake County, she said no. The (NWCA) meets on the 1st Thursday of the month, around 6:30pm at Pompeii’s a pizza place in Baldwin? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The natural progression in the life of humans as they grow and mature is for them to start out idealistically and gradually over time and the maturing process become more conservative. Many books have been written about this and you can get lost in the weeds easily while losing sight of the reality of the situation. Or losing sight of the more realistic motivations people are ruled by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To paraphrase Winston Churchill. "If you are young and not a liberal you have no heart, if you are old and not a conservative you have no brains."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But to boil it down, simple self-interest is the key motivation. Whether it be the childish “I want this” to the concept of saving and doing without for your children; this is what I mean by self-interest - the good and the bad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because of this “latent conservatism” and relying on self-interest I see a possible great future for Republicans to be able to make inroads in previously thought to be Democrat strongholds – with what I’m calling “Closeted Conservatives”. That is of course if the Republican Party can see it as in their best interest to do so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Great article about the history of the Democrat and Republican parties and the way they have changed over the last 80 or so years by Seitz-Wald and Patula titled “Democrats left in the Lurch”, January 18th, 2017. This is written with an eye towards what the Democrats need to do to rebuild their party. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This however is chocked full of what Republicans should do now and in the future. Just use your imagination a little. It also is full of overlooking the main problem for the Democrats and that is their condescension and unwillingness to face reality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">People didn't vote for Hillary in Michigan because she didn't make enough campaign stops. It was her "Better than You" attitude brought out so succinctly with her witty remark that people not voting for her were a basket of deplorables.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hillary tried and Joe Biden lamented about the loss of “white working class America” of which I’ve previously blogged. Hillary was always talking about helping the middle class and Joe when looking at a Trump rally lamented. “We lost because of awful lot of hard-working Americans who live in areas where we did not pay much attention to,” he said (a little disjointedly) at a reception. “Barack Obama won these people. They are not racist. They did not vote for the Democrats this time.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m half expecting some of the non-governmental unions to start backing at least some of what Trump is trying to accomplish. If you are a union guy, what's not to like about bringing jobs back to America? Especially with his ideas of renegotiating NAFTA and getting out of TPP. He has already before being sworn in put pressure on Companies to come back and to create American jobs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know a lot of the rank and file voted for Trump. From my experience Biden was right. I saw it wherever I knocked on doors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But above that even, we had a real candidate who people felt they knew and were ok with what they were getting. Maybe he wasn’t the most polished and maybe he wasn’t this or that but people knew what they were getting. He spoke to truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With Hillary and the rest of the political class in general they knew from experience what they were getting and it was BS. They had enough and were ready to go off the reservation. Middle America had a choice this time and they got excited about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve blogged for years about the bureaucratic nightmare that is Washington. I remember in one of Newt’s books he finally answered the question of why he wasn’t able to accomplish more of the Contract with America than he did. He said when he was Speaker of the House he kept on some of the old dogs as heads of the Committees because he thought their wisdom would help. He said that was a mistake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He didn’t drain the swamp well enough and seems afraid Trump won’t either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He realized too late that they were the problem and caused his plans for the type of change he envisioned and wants Trump to make to falter through delay, inaction, and just getting bogged down in amendments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Newt knows from whence he speaks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the PoliZette article I pulled this quote. “Trump, Gingrich said, has a chance to upend an Establishment that has ruled for 84 years — dating back to the New Deal. He said the president-elect should not expect Democrats, the media, or the permanent bureaucracy to simply roll over.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well anyone with a TV will see that the Media isn’t or has plans to roll over any time soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Big job, some would say an impossible job. What do you think, is it doable, do you think he could use some help? Well people said the same about Trump beating 17 other Republicans and winning the nomination and the the election? – well forget about it right? He got a lot of help doing that from who? You? He won.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He proved himself to the voting public. They voted – Trump won.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He did it. To be precise, we helped him. How can we help him now? I don’t have the answers but I might have one. Put your own thinking cap on. Use the imagination God gave you, the freedom the Constitution gave you and get out of the house and deal with the reality nature gave you and find a solution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trump needs our help. If you think turning Washington on its head is a good thing, leave your biases and agenda at home and figure out for yourself, “What can I do today” to help make this happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the national stage. On the state stage. On the local stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Outside of the cities, locally Republicans/Trumpians are doing ok. We have control of more state governments than in any time in our past. That can and will change if we don’t make ourselves heard. My counterparts on the left are working their hardest to make that change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some bigger things are cyclical and against us if things remain unchanged. I'm talking Demographics and minorities increasing etc. But we have a superior message and if we can connect we can earn trust. But that is a personal one on one thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can be the "One" - you are needed to help out. You simply need to start asking questions - figure out where to start. Find a candidate you like and simply ask, what can I do to help? I have barely enough money to eat but I can find things to help them out with. Knocking on doors, or walking in parades or just showing up at events they have. Some feel more comfortable in a Party setting, find yours. Grab a phone book or google on line. Ask questions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Believe me anything you can do is very much appreciated. Remember also that the main axiom in politics is that “Politics is Personal”. It works both ways. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Same for state politicians. They are still pretty accessible at this level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the National Stage, this last Trump election showed just how effective local people making local efforts were upon the election. When Obama first ran I saw firsthand the effect local effort had on that 2008 election on Obama’s side. I simply tried to duplicate it for Trump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What to do now?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Think about the election coming in 2018. Think US Senate. I could not think of a better gift to give our new President than a larger more Trump centric US Senate majority. With only 8 Republicans vs 25 Democrats up for re-election this looks doable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here in Michigan where Debbie Stabenow seems unbeatable I think it necessary to find a decent candidate and mount a good grass roots fight to force the Dems to at least put more effort into defending her, thus giving us better chances in other Senate races to pick up a few seats. Heck it is not un-doable to think we may be able to have a veto-proof Senate for Trump in 2018. But I’d be happy to pick up 2-4 seats and I think 6 is possible. We would need 8 for a veto-proof Senate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember too that the Dems are in a defensive frame of mind and because they lost Michigan in the Presidential race Stabenow who is rising in the ranks of Senate minority power (#3) will be able to demand more money from big donors and the DNC than she would otherwise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Along those lines, what if Senator Joe Lieberman who is an Independent but caucuses with the Dems changes and starts to caucus with the Republicans? Just thinking. Remember he introduced glowingly Trump's nominee for Education Secretary Michigan's own Betsy DeVos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just thinking positive, try it you’ll like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is what the Hill thinks about the 2018 Senate races.</span><br />
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<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/306210-10-senate-seats-that-could-flip-in-2018" style="font-size: x-large;">http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/306210-10-senate-seats-that-could-flip-in-2018</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s a thought.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Laura Ingraham</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laura Ingraham is thinking about running for US Senate. Her opponent would be none other than Tim Kaine the former Governor and sitting Senator of Virginia. Also he was the Democrat National Chair. Remember he was the Kaine in “Hillary/Kaine”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wow that guy is almost as unbeatable as ----- Hillary. LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the article in the Washington Examiner by Paul Beddard, 1/15/2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To unseat a sitting Senator with national creds and a $1.6 million war chest already in a state most think isn’t up for grabs would be a daunting task. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laura Ingraham was always one of my favs since I started blogging, she was also a blogger she is a fighter above all she is not a politician with her own national creds. From the first time I saw her and read her blogs in that geeky unrelated to reality way, I felt we had something in common. I followed her whatever she was into. In 2015 she set up Lifezette. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.lifezette.com/" style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.lifezette.com/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laura is Editor and owner of the site. </span><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeZette" style="font-size: x-large;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeZette</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seemed to be modeled along the Breitbart website. As Breitbart News was broken down into Big Government, Big Journalism, Big Hollywood etc. Ingraham’s site LifeZette is broken down into PoliZette, MomZette, HealthZette, FaithZette, and PopZette. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I liked about her from the start was her tongue in cheek humor, her feistiness and that she was really smart. She was a Supreme Court Clerk for Clarence Thomas for starters, dummies and braggarts need not apply for that job. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is hope I believe for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hillary/Kaine won Virginia by 5.3%. Tim Kaine was the Governor of Virginia then ran and won the Senate seat in 2012 with nearly a 6% margin. Remember that was in an Obama election year, he was Governor and his opponent George Allen was relatively unknown outside the state. The big boy donors stayed away from Allen except the Koch brothers did put up $35 k. Like I said not much big money went into that race. The big question in my mind would center on Laura Ingraham’s ability to attract some of the big donors to be able to kick start her campaign. I think she is the only one with the ability to connect with the “Trump Deplorables” and at the same time bring along the highbrow Republicans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interesting question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why is Virginia a “deep South” state voting Democrat lately? Well it is becoming a suburb of Washington on the Potomac. Half the Bureaucracy lives in Virginia. Compare the election map with where Washington DC is. The deepest Blue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do hope she thinks this through and decides to run. I’m thinking Donald Trump would be in favor of it. He did consider her at one point to be his press secretary. I’m hoping he holds rallies for candidates he likes. She would need his help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Either way that would be a good race to put a great deal of effort into as the Dems are on the ropes and will be trying desperately to hold onto the seats they have. We need to make them pay dearly if they want to hold Virginia. If they don’t put all their effort into Virginia and Kaine stumbles or Laura with Trump pull a Trumpian type campaign they may find themselves facing another unsuspected Kaine election loss not unlike the Hillary/Kaine one they still can’t get over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heck, I’d even help set up a crayon, playdoh fund for the poor losers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One thing people are forgetting is how good Trump was with the whole campaign with the people thing. Think what he could do to help candidates in 2018 if he continues trying his damnedest to drain the swamp and the people see progress?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For this Senate upset to happen, Trump needs to prove to his voters that he is continually fighting in that war Newt talked about and doing all he can to win it. We proved what an informed and upset rural population can do when they rise up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If Trump stays fighting in our corner we can do it again and better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With good leadership at the top, and lots of help from the Bottom Up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Find something to do and “Swoosh” just do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Regards, Bob Carr</span><br />
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