Category: Politics & Religion

What if White people were the minority in America?

What would America be like if African Americans were the ruling class? What would television and every other aspects of America be like?

What would it be like if white people were experiencing racism?

The terms black and African American are used interchangeably in this article.

What If?

What would America be like if Black people were the ruling class?

White’s in America are the ruling class, but it may take years and decades to change about blacks.

What if the majority of television shows featured black casts?

What if all the commercials featured black characters?

What if the majority of the doctors were black?

What if most police officers were black, and it was the white people who were causing all the problems in America?

Statistically speaking, White people in America are becoming the minority, no longer are we the majority.

Remember that America is a nation mainly of immigrants – all of our ancestors came here from somewhere else.

What if it was White people who lived in the more inferior parts of every city?

What if it was mainly the white people who were committing many of the crimes?

What if it was the Black people fighting in the Civil War to ensure that White people were free and could vote?

What if Robert E. Lee had been black?

What if it were the White people who had been the slaves?

What if in the fifties and sixties the hospitals were blacks only, instead of whites only?

What if it was White fathers who had “the talk” with their sons?

“The Talk”

“The Talk” is a conversation African American parents have with their children, especially their sons, who live in America. The following are several examples of things black parents tell their children about interacting with police and society. If you are white, try to imagine what this would be like for you!

Don’t wear a hoodie. Don’t try to break up a fight. Don’t talk back to cops. Don’t ask for help. But they’re all variations of a single theme: Don’t give them an excuse to kill you.

Treat the police the same way he would a Klansman because they were often the same in parts of the south. Interact with them as little as possible. If you ever get stopped for a traffic violation: Use your Sunday school manners, and keep your hands visible, and above all else, do not argue.

Ask the police before you reach for your license. Ask the law for permission to get your insurance card and registration from the glove compartment. Do not answer any questions. Provide items requested.

Another man described, my son, and I were getting out the car at the shopping mall, the police approached him and asked him: “Did you just leave the mall?” I intervened. I instructed my son to “never, ever answer a question from the police.” Ask the police: “Am I free to go?” Do not answer any questions. Be polite. Be cordial. But never answer any questions. Keep asking: “Am I free to go?” “Am I under arrest?” “What are the charges?” “May I make a phone call?” However, do not dart. Do not get smart-alecky. Do not run. If the police start swinging, drop to the ground, protect your head and vital organs by curling up in a ball on your knees.

My God, this explains so many things!

Walking on Eggshells

Black people have to walk on eggshells everywhere they go practically. And so, this should help White America to understand better Why America IS where it is!

Here is a link that talks about everyone who has some form of racism, whether they recognize and acknowledge it or not.

In looking at much of what blacks learn about the police, it would appear that blacks often have acted and reacted in ways that have caused the police to behave in the ways they have. Why else would they behave as they do?

Cause and effect?

The “N” Word

My grandparents were from Arkansas, and I must admit that I did hear the “N” word occasionally as I child. Usually, in a phrase like “N’ toes or an “N’ rig.

I have heard that some black people even call each other by that name, affectionately, but get upset when white people use the word.

They fail to understand that their parents and grandparents have been trying to get that word eliminated from American culture, and they are still using it.

If you don’t want white people to use it, take the hint yourself and quit using it.

I think many people would agree it is time to retire the “N” word!

Systemic Racism

Systemic racism is both a theoretical concept and a reality. As a theory, it is premised on the research-supported claim that the United States was founded as a racist society. Racism is thus embedded in all social institutions, structures, and social relations within our society. Rooted in a racist foundation, systemic racism today comprises intersecting, overlapping, and codependent racist institutions, policies, practices, ideas, and behaviors that give an unjust amount of resources, rights, and power to white people while denying them to people of color.

I grew up in one parent, middle-class home.

As I got older, the systemic racism that society had taught me began showing itself. One day as I was driving, I was passed by a car filled with black kids. A vehicle with white kids would have produced no thought in me. But the idea that instantly popped into my head when their car passed me was, “I wonder what kind of trouble they’re going to get into.” They’re probably going to go rob a store somewhere.”

I don’t know where the thought came from; it just came.

Why was I thinking differently about this car filled with black teenagers?

I had a friend growing up who was black and was never treated wrong when I was with him. He and I were good friends for a time, and then I think he or I moved and we lost touch. I think he was going to a different school. I heard years after we graduated, he had become a store manager at a local grocery store.

I don’t remember being taught anything about blacks in the school other than just basic history stuff.

Our History

There are many in America today trying to rewrite our history, including many in the Democratic Party.

Every country has a past and some, a lot of shed blood. Those events have made us into who we are today the good and the bad.

Abraham Lincoln may have been a great president, but he didn’t believe blacks deserved equality with whites.  The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free all enslaved people, as some have supposed.

How is toppling these statues going to help us move forward? Tearing down statues does not change American History, nor does it help improve our current situation. It offends American’s some of whom have fought for the freedom these protesters are enjoying!

I have never wanted to be in law enforcement. Still, I have always heard that you should become a law enforcement officer if you tried to commit a murder legally. Sadly with so many people now having the ability to capture video on their phones and how police are treating blacks, this appears to be a true statement.

I know there are police academies throughout America, and background checks. Are future officers tested to see if they have a bias against people of color?

Our court systems are attempting to prosecute these officers, but this is a slippery slope.

Our court systems need the help of law enforcement to put criminals behind bars, and there is some apprehension in some courts about prosecuting police.

How could we weed out all the crooked cops police?

Bad Teachers & Bad Law Enforcement Officers

America’s educational system certainly hasn’t been able to rid itself of bad teachers. Isn’t that why we have the PTA?

If this organization was genuinely working, why are so many children failing in school?

Suppose law enforcement officers do not police themselves and rid themselves of bad officers. In that case, they will bring their whole departments down, and that is what we see happening across America.

The black community has believed if they had blacks as police chiefs, some of these problems would go away. The police chief in Minneapolis is black! Still the problem persists.

As long as the police and teachers’ unions protect these kinds of people, we will never get rid of them!

Maybe the public should create its own “List” of bad cops and bad teachers and explore the same tactics law enforcement officers employ.

Law Enforcement Escalations

Our government has a history of escalating conflicts, to justify the use of force.

Let’s face it, men with a gun will like to hurt or kill something once their adrenaline kicks in.

In February of 1993, our government escalated what had been a relatively peaceful situation into one that wasn’t. The Branch Davidians didn’t escalate the conflict, Law enforcement did!

Timothy McVeigh was a former member of the Army, honorably discharged in 1991. A conflict at Ruby Ridge and the one in Waco Texas finally set him off. He decided to bomb the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh was also a racist, so not the best example to use here, but the point is our law enforcement use excessive force when they decide to. Period!

How do we fix America?

Can we fix America?

Why are police officers jumpy when they approach a vehicle?

Finding no answer online, I came up with one my own.

When a policeman/woman pulls someone over, they cannot always see everything in your vehicle. If you were out of your car standing, they would have a full view of you. But in your car, they don’t.

In a traffic stop, I am asked for two things: my driver’s license, which most people have in their wallet or purse, and your vehicle registration, which should be in your glove box.

Suppose I reach anywhere else without telling the officer what I am doing. In that case, this might cause an officer to be jumpy.  Add to this, some cars today have tinted windows, so this further prevents law enforcement from seeing into a vehicle.

Even though the driver’s and passenger side windows are supposed to allow police to look into the vehicle, some cars have completely blocked out the windows.

I guess the reality of much of this is that I can never know what it is like to have a constant feeling of suspicion until I can walk in the shoes of a black person.

Oprah Winfrey was asked to leave a store once in Switzerland because the clerk did not think she could afford the handbag she wanted to purchase. The clerk did not know who she was!

I’ve heard of other cases where people are followed in a store simply for the color of their skin. Shopping while black.

Why do police shoot to kill instead of just wounding someone?

Back to the earlier statements—police officers are not taught to kill anyone, nor are they trained to “wound” anyone. Officers do not aim for hands, feet, knees, firearms, knives, etc. Instead, during a deadly force confrontation—when lives are at stake—officers are taught to shoot center mass, meaning the center of their intended target. If all they see is the suspect’s head, then that is their target. If they see the entire body, they then aim for its center (center mass).

Why aim for center mass? It is the most massive available target, and easiest to hit when under extreme duress during an incident that sometimes happens within a fraction of a second.

Shoot to kill or to wound? The answer may surprise you.

How did police and law enforcement procedures develop? 

These kinds of policies develop over time and change depending on the situation and what needs to happen.

How do we change law enforcement? Patiently and carefully through introducing new ideas and ways of doing things. Law enforcement will have to be better at working with communities to hold bad officers accountable, which means moving the police unions out of the way if by force if necessary. Police are allowed to lie when questioning a suspect, which can make their job more efficient. If an officer leads a suspect to believe someone implicated them in a crime, they may confess quicker. Simultaneously, a person with a guilty conscience might confess to something they didn’t do.

10 Ways Police can legally lie to you:

  1. They can lie about having physical evidence
  2. Police can trick you into giving them your DNA
  3. Police officers can provide mock tests to “prove your guilt.”
  4. Police may lie about have an eyewitness
  5. Police can lie about recording your conversation
  6. Police can lie about having an accomplice’s confession
  7. The law will try to imply that your refusal to cooperate will be damaging to your case
  8. Police can lie about what will happen to other people
  9. They will lie about wanting to help you out
  10. Police may ignore my request for a lawyer

Pt. 2

If police lie, how can we know what is truth?

In the past, some officers have been caught on camera unbeknownst to them and lied about shootings. If it hadn’t been for the fact that someone had seen them on camera, we might never have known the truth.

What happens when white people become a minority in America?

Minorities are gaining on whites, but it will take at least another hundred years before blacks and Hispanics are a ruling class in America.

Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority, with roughly 17.8% of the U S A population. The total white population is 61.3% and African Americans. Blacks in America make up 12 to 15%, depending on where you’re looking.

What these numbers show is Latinos outnumber African Americans in America. Still, Latinos were never slaves in America, and that is where many of these issues began.

Some have learned subliminally; blacks are less than; they are thieves; they will steal from you, so don’t leave your things unattended when they’re around.

The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923; it is a proposed amendment to the U. S. Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the traditional distinction between men and women in divorce, property, employment, and other issues. 38 U. S. states have ratified the ERA. It needs to be confirmed by the twelve remaining states, then signed into law by all.

America needs the ERA to be the law of the land – it will put us on the road to equality.

In 2019, 259 Black people were killed by police in the United States. By comparison, 182 Hispanics, 13 Native Americans, and 406 White people died. Black Americans’ rate of police shootings is much higher than any other ethnicity, at 30 per million people. This rate stands at 23 per million for Hispanics and 12 per million for Whites.

BLM & Socialism are not solutions to this problem.

America must re-evaluate who she is and who she wants to be going forward.

It may be time to re-evaluate our constitution and come to some joint agreements about our current and future needs by having town hall meetings across America.

For America to change, people in law enforcement, politics, education, religion, and others will need to retire or leave the office.

America will have to hit the reset button.

I think it will take a catastrophic event for our country to change. An event that would unite our country in a way that 9/11 didn’t.

Unfortunately, President Trump feeds much of the racial tensions by continuing to adopt policies that separate and divide various parts of the population, including the LGBTQ communities.

HATE IS HATE MR. PRESIDENT. Maybe it is time for you to go back to your real estate business and rebuild your brand!

I do not think Electing Joe Biden or Kamala Harris is going to fix this issue either.

Biden has not said anything about the democratically controlled cities currently having meltdowns in some cities.

Much of these issues seem to exist pre-dating Trump’s Presidency.

Which means they also existed under Obama? Wasn’t Biden VP then?

If Biden and Obama were not able to fix the issue, Biden and Harris won’t either.

Until next time,

White Guilt & Shelby Steele

Steele believes that white people after the civil rights movement began helping African Americans too much and created a situation where African Americans are now dependent on whites for their way of life

The American people have allowed our politicians to hijack our political system, and the most recent bunch, including President Trump, act like a bunch of spoiled kindergartners.

Author Shelby Steele in his book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, believes that whites after the civil rights movement began helping African Americans too much and created a situation where blacks are now dependent on whites for their way of life.

Whites created affirmative action to help them out, but it has not worked out the way they thought.

I remembered my first job at Montgomery Ward in 1984, our store had hired an African American woman as part of this affirmative action program, to be the supervisor over myself and several other white people and we had to train her to do her job.

I thought this was ludicrous, even funny at the time. I am paid $3.35 an hour, and I am going to teach my supervisor how to do her job?

What I remember was I had no respect for her!

Looking back, it still amazes me.

So white people are part of the problem instead of helping we’ve hurt them.

Mr. Steele has another book called Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country, and was recently interviewed by Mark Levin on his Fox show called Life, Liberty, and Levin.

Mr. Steel is also African America.

I will have more to say about the book at a later time but believed it was essential to making people aware of the book now given all the different racial issues America is dealing with right now.

Until next time

Understanding Trump

As a public person, I think Trump is hideous at times!

At other times he tends to say things sounding racist.

Trump is cocky, egotistical, full of himself, and a narcissist.

Trump’s behavior at times resembles that of a child – someone who doesn’t get his way. Often he takes his cues from “the Church” world, aka, in some cases, ignorant people. Trump is a loyal person, and in a business setting, loyalty has its place.

Trump recently rewarded the loyalty of his good friend Roger Stone by granting him clemency in July.

As the leader of the free world, it could be very problematic.

Often Trump reminds you of a bull in a china shop, reacting to something instead of thinking it over first, then merely responding.

Before The White House, Trump worked seven days a week and played golf often.

Trump has led a relatively sheltered life but knows his business. He is an excellent negotiator, that is what is needed in America to get us out of some of the bad deals previous administrations have made.

Much of his frustration comes from not having the authority as President to do what needs doing. Donald is President of the United States, and he resigned CEO of the Trump Organization. In his own company, what he said went.

Recently attempting to extend unemployment benefits, which he doesn’t have the authority to do; he was frustrated because Pelosi and Schumer had tried and were attempting again to pad the bill with benefits for Planned Parenthood; abortion funding in a Covid-19 benefits package?

Trump and the Apprentice

The first exposure for many American’s and the world to Trump before he was the 45Th President was through his reality show “The Apprentice.”

Created by Mark Burnett of Survivor, Burnett asked Trump to head up his next show about a businessman who would award a one year contract with one of his companies and $250,000 to the contestant who could do the best job accomplishing multiple tasks on the reality show.

Trump appeared at the beginning of the show to explain to the contestants:

what their task was going to be

checking progress during the show

then the boardrooms towards the end of the show, where he famously said, “You’re Fired” to at least one contestant.

Early on, two of Trump’s assistants or close advisors would sit on either side of him as the boardroom discussions got underway.

Eventually, two of Trump’s children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, or Eric, would sit in those seats.

Most Americans had little exposure to Trump than heard about him occasionally in the news about one of his divorces or one of his many building projects.

“The Donald,” as some call Him, has a larger than life personality, and he is a successful real estate developer.

I have never met Mr. Trump but have been an observer much of my life, and these are the conclusions I have reached about “The Donald.” To understand anyone, it helps to know where they came from, the beliefs they have, and where those beliefs originated.

Norman Vincent Peale meets Donald John Trump

When Donald was a boy, he and his family attended Norman Vincent Peale’s church. Mr. Peale is the man who wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking.” 

The modern-day Peale is probably Joel Osteen, who wrote a book several years ago called “The Power of I Am.”

Today and shortly after Trump was elected, many in the media often say he is lying about something he has said.

To understand where Trump is coming from, you must understand this.

Trump speaks forth how he wants things to be

In the Bible, in the book of Genesis, God called things into being, the creative process. God gave Humankind mental abilities, and God intends us to create the way he does, using our words.

 A man named Bob Proctor and a woman named Mary Morrissey created a program called Magic In Your Mind that teaches us how to use these six mental faculties God gave us: Imagination, Intuition, Perception, Will, Reasoning, and Memory. Since school taught us little to nothing about these gifts, you might check this program out. Intuition is our ability to talk to God. Prayer is when we speak to God. Click here to learn more about this program.

Donald Trump does this, better than any person alive today that I have seen. Trump is calling things that be not as though they are. Trump is speaking forth what he wants to have come to pass, whether negotiating a new trade deal, meeting with a world leader or whatever the task before him is; he does the same thing when talking about one of his buildings and how it’s selling.

Peale understood the power of a positive confession.

Why would you call for things to fail? Even though this is what many in Washington believe he is doing, you don’t change a situation by continuing to look at the same circumstance you need to focus on what you want to have happened.

God created Humankind to operate this way. It does not matter whether you believe in God or not. Every human being is a spiritual being, and we are all connected to the one who created us.

Trump the celebrity

In many ways, Trump has the same kind of life many celebrities have; he’s always had people around him run interference for him or insulate him from the masses of people.

Many celebrities have agents, managers, publicists, attorneys, security, and other assistants around them. Getting to the average star takes you having to go through a lot of other people first. Even on social media, where celebrities have millions of followers, it is unlikely they will see one specific message; it would have to be unique somehow. When a star goes to an awards show or is walking the red carpet, it is often the handler’s around them that decide who gets to interview them and when to keep walking.

Trump has been the CEO, and he is not used to having to report to anyone. Daily reporting to congress, the senate, and the American Public is a new experience for him, and it has taken him some time to get used to it.

Trump is the owner of his company, and what he says goes.

Trump has the money to hire the best attorneys and advisors to guide him in his decision-making concerning his real estate empire.

It has taken Trump almost four years to find people in Washington he can trust and surround himself. Washington is a whole new way of doing business for Trump, that is what he needed Pence for, to guide him and show him how this new “business” of government worked.

Once Trump settled into Washington, his family has stayed out of the headlines and focused on running the family business.

Part of the trouble is that Trump is obeying and sticking to our Constitution, and the Democrats are violating it regularly.

Trumps Business Dealings

There has been much reporting on his dealings, both good and bad. Real estate developers and any other businesses, for that matter, get tax breaks from a city or state when building a building or whatever their project is, especially if there are going to be different stores within the building providing jobs to hundreds or thousands of people. Wal-Mart gets tax breaks when it builds its stores.

One of the reasons I initially voted for Trump is the relationship he has with his children. are healthy, vibrant, successful people themselves, and three of the five work for him in the family business. I think that says a lot about a person when their children want to be around them and work with them.

A Present from Wuhan

In our current election cycle, many things have been happening. At the start of 2020, our economy was still quite strong. Then in late January, reports from Washington State about a mysterious new virus that came from Wuhan, China.

The international community either banned or limited flights to and from China once the virus became known. Trump followed.

Biden has come out now and said wearing a mask should be mandatory.

1. Why has it taken the Democrats six months to say anything about Covid-19?

2. America is a free country – you cannot make people wear a mask. Businesses can and are refusing service to people who are not wearing masks. Wal-Mart came out in July, and you must be wearing a mask to enter their stores similar to signs that say no shirt, no shoes, no service. What’s the big deal?

3. I live in Texas. Tell us what the CDC guidelines then allow us to make that decision for ourselves and our children. Please don’t tell us what we ought to do.

4. I wear a mask at the grocery store, and anytime I am indoors around people I do not know. I am less concerned while walking my dog outside.

5. Upon entering any of the clinics, doctor’s offices, or hospitals in town, your temperature will be taken, asked a variety of questions, and wearing a mask is mandatory to gain entrance into the building.

6. Assuming that you could make it compulsory, how are you going to enforce it? And what is the penalty for not wearing it? I’m not sure Mr. Biden is aware that many jails are releasing people because Covid-19 is spreading there.

Trump has had some missteps during this crisis. I think he should have been wearing his mask a lot more, but others in government offices, house members, and senate members were not wearing masks regularly until a few weeks ago. The message many may have gotten is maybe we didn’t need them.

However, going back to what Trump learned from Peale, Trump also understands that what we focus on with a lot of intense emotion, we attract, so I know that he does not want to draw that to himself or America. However, most church-going people do not have an understanding of most things that our President has.

Gloves, masks, and toilet paper are hard to find. I went to a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market last week, and it was the first time in four months the toilet paper aisle was full, and there were pallets of products throughout the store.

What causes this to be such a problem is everyone in other countries is also in need of the same products.

I can’t help but ask. Is it possible that when the Obama administration messed with the healthcare system, early warning signals got removed due to people not understanding? I have not been able to find out anything about this, just saying! This article contains many of the things that allegedly happened under Obama.

Michelle Obama recently said, this President was ill-equipped to handle this crisis; that there should have been a plan to handle this kind of situation.

Isn’t this what the  CDC or a previous administration should already have had in place?.

SARS and MERS didn’t cause the same devastation that COVID-19 has because they aren’t as quickly transmitted. Rather than moving by casual, person-to-person transmission, SARS and MERS spread from much closer contact, between family members or health care workers and patients (or, in the case of MERS, from camels to people directly). These viruses also aren’t spread through presymptomatic transmission, meaning infected people don’t spread it before they have symptoms. Once people got sick, they typically stayed home or were hospitalized, making it harder for them to spread the virus around.

I agree Obama is right but is it Trump’s failure or our whole system failure. No one at the CDC seemed to have a preemptive plan for a future SARS or MERS. It might not have occurred to anyone at WHO or CDC, but keep in mind coronavirus mutated, so could anyone have seen this coming?

I agree that we should have been more prepared, but is that Trump’s neglect or our systems?

I say again, is it possible there was an early warning system or possible plan in place, in case this came to America?

Remember 911

In 1993 terrorists exploded a bomb in the World Trade Center’s parking garage, which was supposed to cause the North tower to fall into the South tower, so should we have been looking for something to happen in the future?

Clearly, we weren’t!

I cannot name any other time when anyone has intentionally flown an airplane into a building. Until 911, I don’t know if anyone had ever thought of that other than the people who did it!

My belief is America should already have had a plan in place for such an event as this.

I’m not sure which government branch would have done the planning.

In this case, probably the CDC.

In the case of 911, Homeland Security!

Crisis Creating Democrats

I do not know how the democrats would be handling this crisis. So far, I have not heard any of them, ANY OF THEM, until recently, say a word about how they would be doing things (see number 1 above). I don’t even want to imagine what Hillary Clinton might have done.

I find it appalling that many cities in our nation, as of this writing, are having an absolute meltdown with various groups protesting in their towns. I find that government leaders in these cities are doing nothing about this, merely stepping back and allowing it to happen; it betrays their voters’ trust and their Oaths of Office, all of them took swearing to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, along with the laws of their cities and states.

I will address some of my views about this in a future article.

Interestingly, we heard about all the chaos in cities for weeks, but nothing in the last two weeks.

Biden and the election are today’s focus.

Since these are democratically run cities, is it possible if and when Biden is elected, the fighting and chaos will just somehow come to an end?

Many in the Democratic Party are doing their best to turn America into their version of a new Socialist country. In socialism, the government makes most decisions without input from the people; healthcare decisions are made for you—no need to vote anymore. Dinesh O’Souza discussed this in his book, the United States of Socialism No country has been able to make this work successfully for very long.

If you are a citizen and want America to pay for everything, get ready to pay 40% + in taxes, and that’s just on the lower income brackets! Everyone will pay more!.

How would a country without law enforcement look?

Who would you call instead?

Trump is a Bully!

America was the world’s bully long before Trump came along!

Trump recently lost his younger brother, Robert Trump, and has admitted bullying him when they were younger.

Trump likes to bully and pick on other people but does not like it done to him. Most bullies are cowards when confronted.

In the Trump organization, Robert Trump (The ‘nice’ Trump) was the person people went to when they had a problem.

As far as his use of social media, isn’t everybody using social media today? Isn’t this how people communicate today. Twitter allows Trump to instantly connect with and talk to his base and the whole country.

It is easier for me now to understand why Hillary Clinton was using email. That’s just been a few years ago when everyone was upset by that. Don’t we all do that?

I thought being from New York Trump’s skin would be thicker!

I was disappointed he removed America from the Paris Climate Agreement only two years after Obama had entered us into it.

In closing,

I have decided that Yes, Trump appears to be a bigot, a racist in some cases, and along with Pence a homophobe.

Trump, along with VP Pence and the Church world, believe Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer people woke up one day and decided to be gay.

Have they ever thought about how stupid that is?

Why would anybody choose to be gay?

I didn’t choose to be gay. God created me that way. The church simply does not understand God or his word. Romans 1 is talking about heterosexual people!

Jesus Christ told his followers if they loved him, they would obey him. The church today is not listening. That means  Christians today are false unbelieving believers who defy their Lord’s commands.

There are a lot of stupid and ignorant people in America. Now I can add Trump to this list.

However, Trump has gotten a lot of good done. Imagine all the good he can do in four more years.

Trump needs four more years. There are still trade deals that need renegotiating, and that’s who he is.

Do I vote for the bigot and homophobe who’s done some good things or the person who wants to implement socialism in America?

What to do, what to do?

Until Next Time,

David

Here is a list of 125 things Trump has accomplished.

Here are the first ten:

Trump recently signed three bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.

Trump finalized the creation of the Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face harsher consequences.

Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the two years before he was elected.

Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.

Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.

 Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018, the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.

Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.

Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA), which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.

Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding moms.

Maybe in 2024, another businessperson with a smaller ego will run and win the presidency. Perhaps he or she will have better leadership abilities and be better at uniting than the current President.

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Colorado Wedding Cake – America moving Backwards?

A Follower is someone who does what the person they believe in does.

If we are not going to bake cakes, take photographs of gay weddings, then we don’t need to be doing it for heterosexual couples who are living together before they get married and maybe have children.  Sin is sin, as the religious world tells us, and it should be treated equally.

‘Supreme Court will hear Colorado gay wedding cake case. ‘

Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, refused service to Charlie Craig and David Mullins

2019 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would review the case of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his beliefs — a legal fight with high stakes for both religious activists and civil-rights advocates.

The outcome “could have a substantial effect around the country, depending on how the court rules,” said Carl Tobias, a court analyst, and professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.

In particular, Tobias said, it’s almost certain to impact the ability of same-sex couples to seek so-called “expressive” services provided by people such as florists or bakers.

“From their perspective, it’s important in terms of dignity and being full citizens,” he said.”

“I’ll sell anyone any cake I’ve got,” he wrote. “But I won’t design a cake that promotes something that conflicts with the Bible’s teachings. And that rule applies to far more than cakes celebrating same-sex marriages. I also won’t use my talents to celebrate Halloween, anti-American or anti-family themes, atheism, racism, or indecency.”

“The government in Colorado is picking and choosing which messages they’ll support and which artistic messages they’ll protect,” said Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which took the baker’s case.

The couple and civil-rights groups, however, see that argument as a thinly veiled excuse for prejudice.

“This has always been about more than a cake,” Mullins said Monday through the ACLU of Colorado, which is representing the couple. “Businesses should not be allowed to violate the law and discriminate against us because of who we are and who we love.”

Freedom for All Americans called the couple’s denial of service a violation of Colorado’s nondiscrimination law.

“All of us cherish the American promise of religious freedom is which protected under the U.S. Constitution, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to discriminate against others,” said the group’s acting CEO, Kasey Suffredini. “This case will be an important opportunity to have a national conversation about the values we all share as Americans and the importance of equal treatment for everyone.”

On the same day, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the baker case, called Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission; it ruled on another religious dispute — finding in a 7-2 decision that religious institutions could seek state money for nonreligious needs.

That outcome stemmed from the efforts of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, to get state funding to resurface a playground.

Rules – Judgment – must be the same for all

If Christians in America or the world for that matter want to discriminate, then their rules must be applied equally.

When a heterosexual couple enters one of these businesses, here is what needs to be asked:

  • Are you currently living together?
  • Are you having sex?
  • Are you pregnant, or do you already have children?

If we are going to go backward in our country, which is what discrimination is, separating people lets at least be fair about it.

The Church cannot and should not be allowed to use the bible on a specific group of people one way then completely ignore it on the majority of the population, including those who fill their pews.

If a Christian business began asking everyone who comes into its store the above questions, they would soon find themselves out of business. The church today does not address heterosexual sin, which is what they claim the majority of the people are, and they discriminate against the few so the many can act; however, they choose to.

Growing up in the church world, I can count on one hand the number of messages I have heard that address heterosexual six, but I’ve heard dozens more addressing other sins.

Is it a Choice or Born that way?

The church world convinced itself a long time ago that gay people chose to be that way.

Does that make any sense, Church?

Why would anyone choose to be gay?

The church world, along with the thousands of missionaries sent out into the world, teach and spread racism, and homophobia throughout the world.

Why would anyone choose to be part of a group that is so hated around the world, unless it is who they are!

If the church had asked the above question, it could have had the answer to homosexuality a long time ago. I was born that way.

Yes! There may be some in the world who were molested as children and got off on the ‘gay’ path, but they are not me. I have known since I was five or six, as has every other LGBT person. We are who we are!

Child psychologists have learned by the time a child is six or seven. The child knows who they are.

In my view, the church of the twenty-first century is about as far away from God as you can get. Slandering his name instead of living the way he told us to live in his word.

At some point, the church is going to have to decide what they are going to believe collectively.  We have already had church splits happen in our country over the gay and lesbian issue.  The devil must be laughing his little red ass off!

Last Days

I believe the church today is nothing like the early churches, and that is the whole point Revelation chapter 2 & 3 is trying to make, but most people who are studying revelations are missing the point.

Church, if the rapture happened today, 99% OF YOU ARE GOING TO BE LEFT HERE, AND YOU WILL GO THROUGH THE TRIBULATION! Think about that for a while.

The majority of the church today is not doing anything that Jesus told us to do.  We are little more than a cult.

A believer, A follower is someone who does what the person they believe in did. You don’t just read about it. Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, spoke in tongues. Few believers today do the Word, and those who do are judged by those who don’t.

James said, “Don’t just read the word, DO WHAT IT SAYS!”

I read a book last year, ‘Conversations With God – book one’ by Neale D. Walshe and God told him, the gospels were written years after the disciples died, which means the information was second and third hand information. A New revelation of God in the twentieth century, not a nineteen hundred-year-old message.

I guess it had never occurred to anyone in the church that the Bible passed through many hands before it got to us, and since man likes to add things along the way, our bible is not in its purest form. Man often embellishes when he tells a story.

Anybody can call themselves a Christian, but it is only the man or woman who lives as Christ told us to live who is. This rules out the majority of the Church world in 2020.

Trump, Pence, and the lot of them should be ashamed of themselves and be on guard. God is watching! Judge others and you to will be judged!

How this case resolved

The Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado baker who refused to create a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple was treated unfairly has been met with a fury of reaction at the beginning of LGBT Pride Month. 

Conservatives are praising the decision as a win for religious freedom while the LGBTQ community see it as a step in the wrong direction. GLAAD was also quick to say this isn’t a case of “religious freedom,” but it is one about “religious exemption.”

Until Next Time,

David

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Are we the United or The Divided States of America?

I recently enrolled my first book, The Adventures of Daniel, Jonathan, and Mark into Amazons KDP Select program that means for the next 90 days; it will be exclusively available on Amazon.

If you enjoy gay erotica I encourage you to check out the book. It’s been two years since the books release.

I am editing book 2 in the series and also thinking about splitting the different short stories into books. There seems to be an appetite for erotica shorter stories.

I got sidetracked this past year with other things and many distracting thoughts, so I wasted a lot of my time.

I want to wish everyone a belated Happy New Year 2020! I hope this is a year of growth for everyone.

Happy New Impeachment Year America

Our Christmas & New Year’s present from the Democrats is the Impeachment of President Trump!

Did he err in the Ukraine mess? Probably, but before 2019 we never would have known anything about it. It is not for the people of a nation to know about or understand all the inner workings of our government.

I am disturbed by the whistleblowers who were listening in on the calls. Why were they listening? I have heard no discussion of this, but I am not watching the news 24/7. Some of us have other things to do. Aren’t these people supposed to be protecting our President?

If Obama or Bill Clinton had done the same kind of thing (& maybe they did), would our nation be reacting the way they are?

Part of the whole election of our leader’s philosophy is that we don’t want to or need to know everything that our leaders do. What it takes to keep a nation safe, like America, there are plenty of things we the people don’t need or want to know. We the people don’t know what it takes to keep us safe or in our current lifestyles of aloofness in our world, we seem to like it that way.

Democrats and Republicans are both acting like a bunch of spoiled kindergarteners.

Today we know too much about how things in our country work.

America is becoming the laughing stock around the world; often, we tell other nations how they should do things while having an unkempt house back home!

My How Things Have Changed

When I was growing up in Texas whenever a reporter was interviewing someone, the reporter’s sexuality, political views, etc., were never an issue – I didn’t care what the reporter believed; their job was to report the news, not be a part of the story.

Social Media today allows us to know almost anything about someone, and I’m not sure that it is a good idea. Do we know too much?

Today, when many in the media are interviewing a candidate they do not agree with, I can hear it in their tone of voice or the questions they ask or the disapproving reactions they give during the interview or when they are talking about it to their colleagues. In some cases today, news organizations are telling us what we ought to believe, be it ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, or CNN.

People on the Left have been out for Trump since the minute he was elected. Pelosi and other Democrats have said they began looking for a way to Impeach Trump from almost the moment he was elected!

Does anyone else have a problem with this?

What has happened to us?

How Social Media is Destroying America

Ellen Degeneres, last September,2019 was photographed at a Cowboys game sitting next to former President George Bush and the LGBTQ community as well as many others had a meltdown.  On her show the following week, she addressed the issue and reminded all of us that we need friends, even though we may not necessarily agree with every position they have on issues.

Many in America are punishing people using social media; people who they may have liked before, simply because a person is seen with people they do not like or agree; or they disagree with their position on an issue.  

Is this the America we want?

What happens when we become one of the people others do not like? We will become victims of the very rules we helped write, and that is what is beginning to happen to people with these extreme views.

America has become a nation where everyone expresses their opinion about everything. Some in our country live their entire lives online.

Several years ago, another comedienne, Kathy Griffin, appeared holding the severed head of our President in her hand. I’m sure people like her thought this was funny, but I was proud of the public backlash against the move. Even those on the Left thought this went too far.  Mrs. Griffin’s career is still recovering from the misstep.

Granted before Trump was elected, the only exposure most of America had had of him was through The Apprentice. Trump was normally only seen twice on the show. The first time introducing the contestants to their task for that show, the second was in the boardroom where two of his children sat.

Trump seems used to having people run interference for him or having a spokesperson. I’m sure he’s had his share of attorneys who normally do the talking, and he is there for photo opportunities; Trump enjoys the attention!

America knew of him through His brand Trump, which meant a certain level of luxury and panache.

From Bad Trade to Better

Trump is a negotiator! Many of the photos of him in Trump Tower show him with a phone in his hand. That is who he is and what he does. Negotiation involves giving and taking. Duh! In his office in Trump Tower, it looks no larger than an average master bedroom closet.

Trump is in the process of getting America out of many of the bad deals former presidents and their administrations had negotiated to deal with trade and other issues.

I am amazed at all the bitching from Washington about all this. It is a process. One step at a time; Trump has begun the process, he may or may not finish it.

Commentators and politicians alike are griping their heads off. Help the man or shut up!

Quit standing in Trump’s way. The deals he’s negotiated to help farmers will help them. It’s not perfect! It’s a start. If you want to bitch, direct it towards the administrations that got us into the bad deals in the first place.

In an election year, patience is not the thing to be asking for, but it is what is needed.

Obama Mocks Trump

I have heard Obama said some things at a dinner one night in 2012 that hit Trump the wrong way, and that is why he ran for President. I agree with some who have said Trump did not want to be president.

Some of the decisions in our courts are taking us backward instead of forward.

Do we want a segregated America again? That is where we are going!

AMERICA WHAT DO YOU WANT? DO YOU KNOW?

It’s going to be difficult to vote for someone if we don’t know what we want.

Maybe I should run, couldn’t do much worse than what we have now!

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