honesty

If anything comes in 50 shades of gray...

...it's honesty...

...from the little white lie your child tells you ...no mom I didn't eat that cookie...to the lie from the murderer...not me, I was in New York City when that dude got his throat cut...

How much does the honesty of others affect us personally?....

the little white lie by a child or a friend...disappoints us but it really doesn't affect us.

How a about a Prime time News Anchor...Brian Williams?...are his lies important?..
...I think so...he reports news...I like to believe that when someone reports the "news" it is actually based on facts. If reporters want to lie, then, write op-ed pieces or write a blog, but don't call it news.

So the Liberals believe...that Williams just made a "little white lie" in judgement, but they can't save him so they have gone after Bill O'Reilly on the reporting he did in the 80's about the Falkland Island wars and, also, about someone who commited suicide after the Kennedy assassination...

...David Corn and Daniel Schulman in "Mother Jones" claims O'Reilly wasn't truthful...wonder how long they have been sitting on that info in order to make a name...

...Mediamatters.com/blog claims that O'Reilly is under "heavy Criticism"...yeh...by the blue boys..

...Jon Stewart claims that "no one watches O'Reilly for the truth"...(I do)... and that William's lies were no big deal (a little BS is okay...they all do it)..we need to just move on...and then he goes on to make fun of "Watter's World" and his piece on global warming while reporting in the snow in Boston...

...I guess Stewart's jibes at the red side are really good humor but Watters' stuff isn't funny...maybe only the smurf people cna't see the humor (get it ...liberal...blue...Smurf)...sorry, I should have to explain, but even I have to say it was a mighty leap...

so...William's lies in current time are to be erased because someone claims that O'Reilly fudged on the truth over 30 years ago...that's an even mightier leap...

What about the V.A. Secretary's stretch of the truth.  Robert McDonald told a homeless war vet that he had also been in the Special Forces but he wasn't....whoa...there's a whopper that will harm the world...

...take a gander at McDonald's military record...

...completed Army Ranger Training...took courses in jungle, artic and desert warfare...earned a Ranger Tab designating him as a graduate of Ranger School...but, he nevr served in a Ranger Battalion or any other special ops unit....

so his lie is....a small stretch of the truth which harmed no one...or it is the same as a national news anchorman lying about being shot down in a war zone...

...I'll let you decide that one...throw O'Reilly in there too...how serious is  something that was reportd on 30 years ago and now someone wants to parse words and definitions with him...

...also, remember...O'Reilly's show is not prime time national news...he is not reporting on the news, he is doing a cable show...a good show...but, a show...and ...it is slanted towards the red hats...

The only thing I'm sure of...if you wear a blue hat...you get to say whatever you want and it's only a slip of the tongue...but, don't put on a red hat and have an opinion...wearing a red hat leads directly to lying...I learned that in Logic 101...in college...at Berkley...(now there's a lie...a big lie...I never went to Berkley..)...now if I ever get famous...those are words that will come back to haunt me...

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just saying...

another day of thoughts

Al Capone's Car...supposedly used by President Roosevelt for transportation when responding to the Japaneses attack on Pearl harbor...

Not true for several reasons...pictures prove and logically saying the the government didn't have enough money to get a car that would sufficiently protect our president...hey...we were not a third world country then..maybe now, but not then...don believe the Capone car story going around the net...

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SAT scores...did you know

African Americans get 240 points added to their scores
Mexican Americans get 180 points added to their scores
Asians Americans get 40 points deducted from their scores

...first I must confess that the point amount may be off a few as I couldn't find that info on the web...but the points are close and the idea is there and it is true that Black Americans and Mexican Americans do get points added and Asian Americans get points deducted..

...second...who do we want running America?...the smartest?...or?...

I always thought that if someone was smarter than me I would hire that person to run my store..or work for that person because my chances of doing better would be....well I guess better.

...What is that principle...oh yes...The Peterson principle..."Eventually people get promoted beyond their ability to do the job"...

...so...if we start with someone who does not have the capability of managing their first job...my on my...what happens when they are moved further up the line?...

Maybe it would be better to educate all our young people and not have to pretend they are what they are not..what about it Washington?...can we put some of our wealth into the youth of America...All the youth of America...

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on gay rights..

interesting story the other day...successful New York gay woman wants her 6 year old daughter to be gay also..

Why?...better opportunities...according to mom...

brings up two questions in my mind...

first - I thought that being gay wasn't a choice...well is it?...or isn't it?

second - I thought I heard gay people saying that they couldn't or wouldn't raise their children to be gay...well..do you?...or don't you?..

I guess this falls under the category of everyone wants their children to be like them...

nothing wrong with that...unless of course, your a straight person upset about a gay child...then you're prejudice and have no understanding...

Hey mom...how about letting her be what she wants to be...as it should be with all children...accept and learn something about loving your fellow human human beings...even your children...do not take the prejudice you were raised with into our new world....

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just saying

just thinking ... again

Giuliani and the pres...

Giuliani said Wednesday that he did not believe President Obama “loves America.”

“He doesn’t love you. He doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up: to love this country,” said Giuliani. (New York Post)

Whoa..did that cause a mess...now we can find our seats on the head of a pin and add another stupid argument to the agenda...less see ...

...What do we call the murdering bad guys in the middle east?

...Should Giuliani be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail for using his right of free speech and challenging the Obama's love of  America...

A fire storm is raging...somebody criticized our president...bad...bad...bad

So...why not?..Why can't we criticize Obama...because he's black?...Bush II was severely criticized...he was fair game...say what you want...write what you want...fine..that's our right...but not with Obama...interesting...

I don't know whether Obama loves America but I do know he doesn't love the America that became the greatest nation to ever exist...that was evident from the beginning...he was going to change America...he did...he has made us weaker...poorer... more derisive...and less safe...

but, he claims the world is safer today than it has ever been...you look it up...you check on all the killing going on...I don't know about you, but I don't feel safer...

Speaking of being safe..the bad guys from the Middle East are calling for their brothers in mayhem and murder to attack the Malls of America...their modus operandi...kill innocent unarmed people...

My questions to the the Muslims of America...

How I do I know you're not one of the Bad Ass Baddadi boys or girls..how do I know the girl in the niqab at the mall is not hiding a suicide bomb...

How do I know that the Middle Eastern looking men entering the Mall are not going to use my life to earn their way in an after life that I do not understand...

Sorry if I have some questions...if I'm nervous...If I shy away from you...

But, I have two questions for Home Security...running out of money?..poetical issues?...

...1st - Why can't we back off on the illegal aliens in order to fight the Bad Ass Baddadi shit heads..
...2nd - Do we really have a threat against the Malls of America...or is this a trick to bring the republicans to their knees?...

Just thinking again...

idles thought

Western Shootout..Las Vegas

Seems we are going back to taking the law into our own hands. One mom dies because she had to attempt her own  form of justice...threaten me?...threaten my daughter?...well by god, my son has a gun and watch out because we're coming to get you...

mom dead....

young man in jail...probably life...

but, what the hell...I have my rights and I have the right to own a gun to protect myself....

what part of stupid am I looking at here?

Yes...we can all own guns...even the dumb...the bad...and the idiots..

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hint to protect your credit....get in touch with the 3 credit bureaus and have them put a credit hold on your SSN...will cost you a few bucks...Cal. the highest about 30.00 per bureau. Then if someone steals your identity he/she can't open up any more accounts or buy anything. You can always go back to the bureau and have your credit line reopened...

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thoughts from the liberal side...

"The Mobil refinery fire was set on purpose so they can justify raising gas prices."

"The train derailment and explosion in West Virginia was on planned to prove that we really need the pipeline."

I didn't say it..I don't believe it..but it's apparently what some folks think and believe....

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finally...we are going to get the nut cases in the middle east under control by giving them jobs...

okay...is that what the Wal-Mart announcement on new wages is all about?....

One must wonder if we have all the unemployment in America, especially in the big cities and in the black communities, why our government wouldn't do two things...

1st - create some jobs for our black youth...

2nd - kill the crazy bastards that are threatening us and they won't need jobs.

So the logic here is...run wild kill...rape...behead and you go to the head of the job line.

Thank God for Martin Luther King...if not for him we might have that very same thing going on right here in the dumb old USA...

Never have figured out how we have money for the rest of the world and none for our own...

Hey..it's from both sides of the fence...both the libs and conservs...it's all about them...nothing about you...you...you..

Maybe after we find jobs for the killers in the middle east someone will pay attention to the black youth right here in down town Chicago...Detroit...New York ...Philadelphia..Los Angeles...


Maybe not...we haven't for the last 200 years....why start now.


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the good...the bad...and the ugly

the good...naturally our side
the bad...naturally ISIS and all who fight with them
the ugly...the president, the house, the senate, TV news, the talking heads - hell I could be here all night

Confusion reigns not only in my mind but I believe in every body's minds.

Is ISIS a radical Muslim group or just a radical group? That seems to be what the talking heads are arguing about and in the meantime, whoever the hell they are, they are storming through the middle east like Sherman marched through Georgia and General Patton marched through Europe.

We argue about what to call them and they lop off some more heads. Why can't we just agree that there the bad guys and paint black hats on their heads. After all, they do have the black flag to lead them while they kill anyone who doesn't believe as they do.

So, lets unite under a white flag and become the good guys and kick the hell out of them. The key word here is unite. But, they are there and were over here. It's not our war. Maybe, but we have the Mexican drug cartel cutting heads off all the time. Oh I know. That's Mexico and what the hell does that have to do with America. Again, it's not our fight.

I guess I'll have to wait until they get to Texas or Arizona with some kind of coalition between the bad guys before I see anyone become concerned. Well believe it or not, our leaders in Washington would have afternoon tea trying to figure out if Texas and Arizona were worth saving.

Maybe if they attacked the big rotten apple again that would wake someone up. It did once, but after Bush exacted what they figured was enough revenge we patted them on the butts and said naughty-naughty.

Supposedly the big hats at the Pentagon are saying we cannot defeat ISIS even if we use all our air power and send in ground troops. You have to wonder why. Is it in our rules of combat doctrine? Our troops have to carry cards that tell them when and who we can fight against. In the mean time his nibs, Abu Bakr alBaghdadi, just says kill every thing that walks...take no prisoners, unless it's someone he can put on TV and cut their heads off.

Now, since we can't beat them,  the latest plan is to defeat them with jobs. I guess that's why there was all that hullabaloo about making McDonald's pay higher wages. Sure that should work. Hey Mr. Baghdadi, Sir, if you take your friends and go home we will get you all a job a McDonald's. Why the wages should be S18.00 per hour. Just think of all the Hookah you could buy with that and I'm sure Micky D's would throw in all the Big Macs you could eat...such a deal.

Why do I think Mr. Bad Ass Baddadi is laughing?  If you don't, then I guess you've fallen for the BS flying around Washington.

By the time our leaders come to some kind of agreement whether Mr. Bad Ass Bad Daddy is a Muslim on a Holy war or just enjoys burning people to death of cutting their heads off, he will control all the Middle East and then watch out.

Songs of the dead

I hear the voices of

the dead.

 sing the songs of life.

Their songs of life

follow me.

I need to stop and listen.

Their songs are

in the breeze

that rustles the light of the stars

Their songs are

in the morning

when the sun says hello

Their songs are

 the choruses of calm and peace

dancing in the meadows

I hear their songs

above the red rock canyons.

 wafting in the wind.

Their songs

sing to me

through the hawks that soar above

their songs

sing to me

through the lizards that flit across the rocks

I  walk through my life and

listen to their voices.

 sing the songs of nature.

It is the force that creates my soul.

Without their voices

my soul would be lost.