- Not The Only One!
- Post #106
- 30 Nov. 23
- ” Then, There were Two”
- Howdy,
- Welcome once again, and welcome to the post Thanksgiving, pre rush to Christmas edition of the blog ☺️☺️. When I was a kid, I remember the local weather man, and his name was Joe Folks. He use to do a promo spot for a local car dealership. He use to wear something a kin to a cowboy hat , and it was white. The slogan was something about the good guys always wear white. It was supposed to imply that they were good guys about getting you a deal on a new automobile. Now, whether that was true or not, I don’t know, but I just remembered that it was about being good and being connected to wearing white hats☺️☺️. I think for most of us we decide early in life about what is good and what is not .I think that there are times when our views on certain things will change with age and maturity, and we will begin to look at certain things in a different light. When we are young ,perhaps it’s a free for all on what we ingest in our bodies and as we get older we may become more discriminating and selective about that process.
- I think at most things in life we seek out the best, or what we would consider to be our thing. We like champions, people who excel at whatever there thing may be. I think that I would prefer the Egyptian cotton, with the high thread count , over just the ordinary sheets , made out of who knows what ☺️☺️.We like it when the super hero prevails over the villain, and disrupts their evil schemes. We rally and chant, U S A,, when our country takes home the gold in a particular sport in the Olympics. We both admire and relish the slogan of Top Gun, being” the best of the best”. I think some how we feel slighted when we watch some romantic movie and in the end the couple doesn’t end up together, if just goes against our sense of fair play, or the happily ever after. We can take a public scandal, or perhaps some public tragedy, and we have some preconceived notion as to how that should play out and what would be justice, or a resolution for us to sleep better at night. And whether the good guys wear white hats or not, we like it when good wins out over darkness and chaos.
- We are a nation of almost four hundred million people now. We are in the top ten of nations who produce graduate degrees, be it masters or doctoral, so we are pretty educated, notice that I said educated and not smart, and there is a difference ☺️☺️. As the last remaining ” Super power”, you would think that we or expect that we would be better educators at the lower levels. However we lag behind in literacy, in prenatal care, and we are sideways with the Nation’s debt, lack of affordable housing, and an exploding homeless population. We produce over two hundred new millionaires each year . By all accounts we are a prosperous country and plagued by many things that would make you think, maybe not so much!!. We have one of the highest per capita for lawyers, go figure!!☺️☺️.
- A snapshot of the nation would say that we are a mixed bag, which is true for most countries, but our highs and lows, seems to have a great chasm between them. No where is this more on display than at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which is adjacent to some of the poorest neighborhoods in the nation’s capital. This brings me to three little requirements. Maybe you learned this in grade school or some where else along the way, but there are only three little requirements for being President. This hasn’t changed or been modified since our first Prez, the old cherry tree chopper himself. Oh ! , and by the way the cherry tree thing is a myth, or just never happened ☺️☺️ . The first is being at least thirty five years of age. You must be born in the U.S, and been a resident for at least fourteen years, and that’s it !
- No where in the constitution, the Bill of rights, or anywhere else does it state that you have to have a college degree, have been a member of the Armed forces, which I think should be added, and most significantly, doesn’t state anything about common sense, intelligence level , or a general Competency. In a day and age of technology, just so much information, and again almost four hundred million of us, how is it , just a little under a year to go, our two leading front runners are the geriatric squad ☺️☺️. There have been hundreds of studies done on wisdom, and there is no coalition between age and wisdom. This means that some very young people can posses the gift of wisdom and at the same time, many older adult, can just miss the bus in the wisdom department all together, and oh ! boy is that ever on display right now ☺️☺️. Even if we throw out half of the population base, still a pretty big pool to choose from, so again, how did we end up with Dumb and Dumber, and they can actually take turns as to who leads as dumber☺️☺️.
- What does it say about us as a Nation, as people who come from a strong heritage of work hard and get it right? I refuse to believe that this is our best offering for the highest office in the land. I don’t much care which side of the isle you lean towards , you’ve got to be thinking….and this is our future? This definitely doesn’t represent the best of the best. One of the requirements for being president is that you must be thirty-five years old, maybe we need a cut off age on the other end as well. Old Joe, really doesn’t have it together and there are some real concerns about his competency and If he actually knows what day of the week it is and if he could answer a multiple choice question about what his name is ☺️☺️. I believe that he maybe the first president to have actually won an election based on how much people just hated the other guy. Ahh, yes,” The Donald”, a man so hungry for power, that he is willing to do and say anything to acquire it. Again, I blame us. See back in the nineties, with the constant barrage of scandals surrounding the Clintons, we argued that character doesn’t matter ,so why should we be surprised that we now have a person constantly under scrutiny about not just bending laws, but breaking them as if he was tearing through a tape at the finish line of a race☺️☺️. The Donald’s ego can not be contained, and many of his supporters are in a cult like trance, and would blindly follow him over a cliff. I don’t want to tell you that it’s all bad, but you really have to search really hard for the good. He will say or take certain position , that you think maybe you could come along side of, and not even thirty seconds later, be way off in left field on one of his big conspiracy theories, once more. People have accused him of having a God complex, and I don’t know if that is true or not, but one thing that he did steal from God is that, You are either with me or against me, and while people may have questions about where they stand with God, or their relationship with God, the “Trumpster” leaves no room for ambiguity☺️☺️. I don’t want to go off on Trump and make it sound like Joe is just a doodling old grandfather who has lost a few marbles. He is just one more in a long line of constitution haters,, as they trample over personal freedoms and rights, and the kicker is, he’s completely oblivious to it, because he doesn’t even know his name on most days. He’s a rubber stamp President, whatever they, “the party” tells him to do and say. Maybe not so much a rubber stamp president, as much as a puppet, who knew that Jeff Dunham got it right with his portrayal of Walter as Biden ☺️☺️☺️,, just Google it!
- I honest to God, didn’t want to make this about politics. I think that something is wrong with us as a Nation. Yes, we are sick and twisted. I mean, I get it, you would have to be out of your mind in the first place to want that job. Everyone is always second guessing you, and no matter how hard you try, you can almost always count on half of the population being pissed at you. The pay isn’t that good, but the perks are over the top☺️. We are the last and only major player who is not on the metric system. Is it to hard, or do we just like the bullseye on our backs? We stand alone at the top of the mountain and we have some straight up haters globally who would just love to topple us. The good news for them is , all they have to do is wait for it, because we are doing it to ourselves, again , let me point you back to dumb and dumber☺️☺️ Here is the sick and twisted part, why would anyone in there right mind subject their family to that kind of scrutiny. It’s not just that they want you to be squeaky clean, something that none of us are , but they want to hold you up to standards that they couldn’t obtain themselves. Then we lie to ourselves and tell us that they should be held to a higher standard, because of the loftiness of the office, again let me point you back to dumb and dumber☺️☺️. And I’m convinced that there are people out there, who’s whole purpose in life is to tear others down. They want to dig into someone’s past, thirty or forty years ago, and scrutinize every word, every thought, every decision that they ever made. If that is not far enough, then they will do a deeper dive then ancestry. Com , and I’m sure that they will find that someone in your linage owned slaves or was the grand Pooja for the Klan☺️☺️. Its just about anything to discredit people. I never knew my great, great grandfather, but some how, I’m supposed to be held accountable for his choices…. both ludicrous and ridiculous!! . We grow and mature and sometimes we see things differently as we get older, but some how it’s important that they choose the Fruit Loops over the more sensible Special K or grape nuts☺️☺️. Good grief people, this is why we don’t have good people standing up to lead the charge for a better America. We want the same old, so we get the same old. We need to stop with the cancel culture. In all of our life times, we will do bad things, but hopefully some good ones as well along the way. We need to stop with the mentality of a bad thing, wipes out or cancels everything else that was ever done. I can piss people off here, while, I’m not holding him up as some great standard barrier. The things that O.J. Simpson did and was accused of, should not have discredited all that he accomplished as a football player in both college and professionally, I know that is not a popular stance, but they are two different segments of one person’s life. God knows that I have done things that I’m ashamed of, but I’m not going to try and make myself feel better about it, by pointing fingers at others, and pretending that they are so much worse than myself. How would you like to be judged by a collection of your worse days all put together ?
- The one thing that we desperately need is fresh ideas and a fresh fire of new blood in our political system. If we don’t wake up and get our heads on straight ,the next election cycle may give us a Kardashian running for president against someone from another reality show, like the real housewives of you name it, after all, we have already determined that Character doesn’t matter☺️☺️.We need statesmen once more and not career politicians . I’m not sure how out of hundreds of millions of people, that we some how determined that we would have two old guys play rock em sock em robots, when they should have both already been down for the count☺️☺️. I just have to admit that I find it rather humorous that this is our best offering at this time and place. Like most comedy it comes with an element of sadness and truth, and we have to laugh just to keep from crying sometimes. . I remain steadfast and up beat , because I know who is in control of it all. Scripture tells us that all government is under God’s dominion and ultimate control. So whether it’s good government, or not so much!, God can use it all. No !, I’m not saying, let’s just see how screwed up we can get it, to see how God can make sense out of nonsense, but He does and will continue to do so. All powers and dominions are under God’s sovereignty, yes even dictators, somehow they serve a purpose for a season, and then they are toppled and replaced, and we have seen plenty of that in recent history One day God will set all things right again, as they were supposed to be from the beginning .
- Before I go, I really want you guys to think about why we don’t have a better political gene pool to which to choose from. I made reference as to how we just love to tear people down and to focus on the negative or the bad, but very little to nurture and foster good future leadership. I think it comes down to us wanting to hold people to an incredible standard , that we can’t measure up to ourselves, but not just that, but we hold them to a standard that even God has forgiven us of much of the same and many times worse things . If God can forgive us, shouldn’t we be forgiving others. Remember, we all have crap, and just because it’s not out in the open for all to see…..it still comes with a stench ☺️☺️
- . Till Next Time ✌️ Peace !
- Sandy The Southerner
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