Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  There are so many issues to deal with in the world it is difficult to know which should get considered at what level of importance. It really depends on where you stand on the stairs as to what you believe is most important.

  Issue, handling of classified information. If you have had no experience with anything in this order you have been living under a rock. Classified information does not just mean national secrets that may cause or stop a war, it also refers to corporate secrets that create huge amounts of profits or losses depending on if the secrets are kept or not. Businesses can suffer major layoffs or huge hiring booms and that means money gained or lost in communities and by private individuals. So if you compare a loss of classified government information to a monetary situation in the millions then it does become more important, at least to the average person.

  Issue, global warming. Living in some regions of the country allow you to have fairly consistent weather year after year. Other parts have very different swings with extremes in either hot or cold depending on the season. The areas of dramatic change are seeing things like the death of entire populations of some animal and plant species because they were not prepared to deal with such changes.

  Issue, Wars and the unnecessary pain and suffering that come with conflict. What are the conflicts about, greed A wants B’s oil, land, water, place in the sun. B does not want to share it as “be my guest, take whatever you want”. B may be willing to sell you the oil, rent you the land or the place in the sun but not out right give it to you, not good enough A wants it to be totally his so he will kill to get it. WAR. Another reason for conflict is not believing in the same God. How dare you not bow to our sacred Deity. He is the one true God and you must obey and follow or die. Nice choices. One variety of monkey has come up with a way to calm the situation and keep things peaceful, that is with sex, maybe mankind should take lessons.

  Issue, Birth Control, Seems such an odd thing to be bringing up when most of us thought this was a done deal a long time ago. We were wrong, as the Republican Party has once again brought this fight back to the table. They want all birth control removed from the US. Somehow the idea of sex without producing offspring does not seem right. They are preaching against it and campaigning against it as they did before and finding the leaders of these movements being caught in “John” stings. The simple truth is that it is another way to control and that is what that party is all about. There are very valid reasons for birth control, one is the size of the population of the world. It may not be in the propaganda material but the idea may be to make sure that birth control is encouraged in places where the population wears darker tans so that their numbers decline and make sure fairer skinned people do not practice birth control so that once again they can dominate the world. In the meantime they will continue to practice the archaic subversive laws that they have enacted and hope to enact on us.