Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  We are hearing that the 14th Amendment para 3 does not apply to Trump because it has the word support in it and his oath did not contain the phrase SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION. Isn’t that special, that if a specific word is not included it does not apply to ___.  How many court cases are going to be relooked because a contract did not use the same word the lawyer did in the courtroom. Maybe the time has come to make the piper pay instead of getting away with figuring a way out.

  His friends in the former Soviet Union have been looking for a way to take us down since the Second World War. If we are going to play games with the words we use to protect ourselves from the less honorable of our society we are on the way to the cesspool of despair known as communism or some form of government that provides no freedom for the people living under its rule. 

  The privatization of schools and post offices and everything else that has been overseen by governmental departments means less control of everything because there is less government participation. That is good for the people that want less government involvement in things. It allows more free will of management to set wages, limit benefits, hire and fire without possible repercussions. It allows censorship to be a local issue run by a very few both in the schools and the libraries as well as what can be sent in the mail. It also means less taxes for the rich and if you don’t think that is important look at what happens every time a Republican gets into office. 

  Our country chooses its leaders through elections and those leaders must campaign to get elected. If we treat a campaign like a job interview not a beauty contest then we should get some reasonably decent applicants to serve. This is not to say that good looking people are not capable or can not do a good job, just saying do not pick the person based on a photo, read their bio and listen to what they have to say on important subjects.

  How did we get Trump, well no one listened to him on important subjects, he listened to all the whiny butts and then told them what they wanted to hear. He attacked other people running for office and told lies about them. If he heard or read something that was negative on anyone he repeated it, over and over again. Did anyone hear him say how he would deal with a particular problem or issue? Most likely they did not as he had no solutions to anything he was just gas lighting to the crowd and “telling it is like it is”. For the sake of augment he told it the way the most dissatisfied among us viewed it. Why is their view important, because they feel that they are the ones deserving and everyone else, especially anyone of a different color, or different attitude should be kicked to the curb and taught a lesson about who runs things.

  Mr. Trump had no prior experience in politics, yet a good number of people thought he would be a good President, as he proved them wrong. He had a shot at it and did not do well, many others have suffered from the one hit wonder game in politics, so pick up you cards and go home. Why does he feel he should get back in the White House? Is it because his ego can not accept the one tour, is it because he did not steal enough from the treasury? Is it because he had not fulfilled his deal with Putin to sell us down the river? Or was there some other self serving reason for this effort, it is a sure bet that it is not for the good of the United States.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Today is Friday the 13th, a date many people associate with bad luck, but is Friday the 13th as unlucky as many people believe?

Not likely, but don’t tell that to someone who hides under the covers every time Friday the 13th rolls around on the calendar because that person probably suffers from paraskevidekatriaphobia.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the scientific word for someone who has a fear of Friday the 13th.

The day, for those who fear it, is often riddled with superstition and bad luck, but is it as unlucky as many people believe?

It’s derived from the Greek words for Friday and thirteen with phobia, or fear, tacked on.

There are many theories about why Fridays which fall on the 13th day of the month are unlucky.

Some believe that the Friday the 13th superstition has an origin in Norse mythology. In one story, the evil god Loki is said to have crashed a party with 12 guests and tricked the blind god Hod into killing his brother Balder, the god of light, joy, and reconciliation.

Also, according to Norse mythology, it was the Vikings who decided a hangman’s noose should have 13 loops and in British tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.

Others believe Friday the 13th has origins in Christianity. According to the Bible, Jesus was crucified on a Friday, and there were 13 men at the Last Supper — Jesus and his 12 disciples. In addition, Judas the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table and, for that reason, 13 is considered to carry a curse of sorts.

In some places, it is also believed that it was Friday the 13th when Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit.

Another significant piece of the legend is a particularly bad Friday the 13th that occurred in the Middle Ages. On this day in 1306, King Philip of France arrested the revered Knights Templar and began torturing them, marking the occasion as a day of evil. Both Friday and the number 13 were once closely associated with capital punishment.

In Numerology, every number has a particular meaning. The number 13 symbolizes “Death”. It’s a picture of a skeleton with a scythe, reaping down men.

Tradition also has it that God confounded languages at the tower of Babel on a Friday the 13th, and Solomon’s Temple was destroyed on a Friday the 13th.

Friday is named for Frigga, the goddess of love and fertility who was exiled in shame to a mountain and labeled a witch. Some believe that every Friday, Frigga held a meeting with 11 other witches and the devil – a group of 13 – and plotted ill deeds for the upcoming week.

By some estimates, businesses lose millions of dollars on Friday the 13th because people are hesitant to make deals, travel, or shop as they would at other times.

In France, a dinner for 13 is thought to be unlucky, and superstitious hosts may hire a “quatorzieme,” a professional 14th guest.

Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue and there is no gate 13 at many airports, the numbers go from twelve to fourteen.

The state lotteries of France, Italy, and elsewhere never sell tickets with the number 13.

The fear of 13 has also prompted most high-rise buildings not to have a 13th floor. Hotels do not have room number 13.

It is interesting to note the contrasting history of the number 12 with the number 13.  We have 12 months a year, 12 zodiac signs, 12 hours a day and even 12 days of Christmas — the prominence stemming from the historical influence of the New Testament of the Bible and other Judeo-Christian traditions.

But no matter what the origin, the fact is that many people are superstitious about the number 13 and are highly superstitious when it falls on Friday.

Any month’s 13th day will fall on a Friday if the month starts on a Sunday.

  Others are keeping much closer tabs on the events in this country than I have been so it comes as a shock to hear some of the things that are really happening to our nation.  We have all kinds of efforts being put forth to bring the government to a stop when the temporary   funding runs out. For reasons beyond explanation there are people that feel our form of government needs to change. One group is in favor of a dictatorship. One wants a king and yet another would like it to be more or less a free fall with the richest among us making the rules and everyone else having to live with the consequences. 

  Do we want to live under rule by a foreign power such as Russia or any other power? I don’t really believe that we do but there is not a great deal being presented as a solution to stop such a thing from occurring. Were the initial efforts put in place to make this happen between 2016 and 2020? Considering who was in the White House and his actions it would not come as a surprise to find that support to set up a dictatorship were very much put in place, all that was needed was a win in 2020.

  The states run by Republican Governors and Legislators are very much on the order of going feudal in their approach to leadership. They are pushing school vouchers, limiting women’s health care and other rights. Turning back the clock and hoping to rewind the privilege of the upper classes by grinding the poor into the ground. Destroy the schools, libraries, health care and everything that assists the less fortunate so that people have to ask the very rich for help and that means they get to hold people hostage once again, or in bondage, take your pick.

  Go back to a time when everything was owned by very few individuals and your ability to make a living depended on that person granting you a place to pursue that work, whether farming or making pottery or tools, whatever. To know that you were paying tribute to that family with every breath you took because if they did not allow you the space and opportunity you would have to find another overlord that would. All the stuff you have read in books by Dickens or seen in movies made from books of that era is not fantasy. When power is given to a very few and rights are taken from many you end up with situations that are out of nightmares. That is how groups of people disappear and no one seems to know anything about it. That is when you have the elimination of those that cannot fend for themselves or be productive. Don’t believe it, check out the history of almost any place that has ever had a written history.

  We have laws that allow political lying to be a part of our daily fare on the air and in print. It’s politics and they lie, what else is new. Well if you don’t take the time to look for the truth and you are willing to give the liar power by putting him or her in office then that makes you pretty stupid. The trouble with that is the rest of the world sees it and can not figure out why in the name of whatever do we keep voting these idiots into office or funding them. Most of these morons think that if they tell a lie 3 times it magically becomes a truth.

  As I mentioned recently the first job of our uniformed services is diplomat or should be and it should be the first position we take as visitors to other countries and as hosts to those that visit from other countries. Think about how much nicer things would be if we greeted one another with a smile and a kind word rather than a sneer and a bitch because we did not get what we wanted. In other words “Do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You”.

  Our political leaders have chosen people that have not made good impressions on our neighbors around the world in all cases. Not surprising as the people chosen to head some of the agencies here at home have been manned by people that want to destroy that organization, such as the Post Office, and the Board of Education. The reasons for these efforts are again an attempt to remove rights or at least limit rights so that a few are again given power over the many. The real dilemma of this is that the person behind these moves has the backing of some that claim that they are willing to go to war to put him back in the White House to crown him King. Prefer to put him in a sewer and call him turd.

  One of the basic truths about todays political picture is that is contains to many old faces. Behind those faces are some rather dried up brains that do not see anything through the lens of tomorrow but rather the haze of yesterday. We need new, fresher thought and ideas from the generations that are going to pay the bills that are being run up by the current crop of hacks. Far to many are still of the mind set that the exploitation of fossil fuel and the waging of war are the best ways to raise your GDP. There has to be a better way.

  There is a song that says God is watching us, and if he is is he amused or horrified by what he sees. Are we being visited by ET’s and is the reason we are not being contacted is because we are too ignorant to greet without wanting to kill, we are to war like, or because ???

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Just a reminder in this world of turmoil and hate.

Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love

There’s nothin’ you can do that can’t be done
Nothin’ you can sing that can’t be sung
Nothin’ you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy
Nothin’ you can make that can’t be made
No one you can save that can’t be saved
Nothin’ you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time
It’s easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

There’s nothin’ you can know that isn’t known
Nothin’ you can see that isn’t shown
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be
It’s easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
Yee-hay (love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
Yesterday
(Love is all you need)
Oh
Love is all you need
Love is all you need (oh yeah)
Love is all you need
(She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney