My dad had a very quiet way.  Until he retired.  He became an opinionated, in your face kind of guy.  I stood amazed at the transformation.  He said what was on his mind and he did not hold back.

Today I sat with older people who said they noticed similar changes in their parents.  It sounded like not all the opinions expressed by the parents did not have the desired results of the children.

Then I thought of my nurse friend from Texas who grew up a die hard liberal.  She believed that everyone should share equally, she wore clothes that reflected her generational stance.  Then she wanted a car and a house and went to work for the “establishment.”  She became a conservative and now rants against the liberal thinkers.

She does not like the amount of taxes and how it’s spent.  I pointed out that the Congress is a Republican Congress.  She fired back, “Are you stupid.  They behaved the same way when they had a Democrat Congress only worse.  They have an ideology centered around money and greed.”

“So why are you a conservative?” I asked.

“It’s not a party.  It’s a way of thought you moron,”  she said.

“Please explain,” I said. I felt bad at the non PC moron comparison, but I adjusted.

“Even liberals have conservative values, like me.  When they get older they see how stupidly they fell for all this media stuff.  They start saying what they really think before they die, but it is too late.  The financial/social idiots have control.  Just like in all the global takeovers,”  she said.  She did not spare my ignorance.  I had the flashback to my dad speaking his mind and me speaking (meekly) my thoughts.

It dawned on me that we were speaking about conceptual blending.  A truly human ability. To take a concept and merge it with another concept and form a new blended concept.  The problem comes in when one does not have a firm concept to begin with or a concept that is tainted.

In discussing this with her I brought up religion.  She acknowledged that the minority of religious views shown through the media have this tainted view of nearly everything.  “Can’t even do math without it being a gift from God,” she added.  She continued, “The narrow mindedness of the far right pales to the narrow mindedness of the left — not the far left, just the left,” she said.

“Explain,” I said as now I became interested.

There is a tolerance on the right, even among the religions, except for those nut jobs on the far right.  Just their existing is proof of the right’s tolerance.  But there is no tolerance at all for anything on the left.  It’s their agenda or nothing,” she gulped for air.  “Bush did things wrong so they elect a guy who is a muslim, who never had a job and he does what Bush did only with numbers that are horrifying.  And people have no jobs, he lies about the numbers, no wages to support the crazy spending and when the Congress tries to thwart the insanity, people claim its because of racism.”

“So what are you saying?”  I asked.

“The Left made Trump.  They have lied so much that when a person comes along and tells what he thinks and it’s the truth, he appears refreshing.  He may be real hope and change.  When the heavily flawed ACA comes about they will blame whoever is in office and not put the stupidity for that abomination where it belongs.”

This made me think and what I think is politically incorrect.

“establishment”

We, as Americans, have a war on everything.  We have a war on wage inequality, a war on drugs, a war on sexual preference, a war on racial interests, a war on religious beliefs, a war on women’s rights, even a war on correctness.

Rather than say that’s stupid or a political distraction (which it is) I want to go in a different direction.  I know that if something ever occurred to the United States, people would drop their need for wages, put aside their drugs. not care about the sex of the person beside them, hold hands with different colors, pray in the language of their neighbor, even allow for inappropriate behavior.  Because inside we are all Americans.

Why not show how good we are before something forces us to be real Americans

This quote from George Orwell unfolds before us.

I just watched Bernie Sanders get muscled off the podium by ywo girls from “Black Lives Matter.”  I like Bernie.  He tells us all the problems in a great way but he never gives a solution.  If he did I fear he’d back awat as he did from the force of the two girls.

Hillary Clinton has lied so much she makes Obama look like a truth sayer. Lying does not cost you an election as we have seen.  In fact, the fun in reading the news is the media spin on the truth.

Political correctness may have run its course and the pendulum might be swinging back.  The Donald does not say things that are politically correct but he is revolutionary in his words of truth.  He says what we are thinking.  There are some great lines ahead.

I used to be a Megyn Kelly fan.  Somehow I see as part of the system now.  She would have denigrated looking into someone’s past and cherry picking a statement about Rosie O’Donnell.  Hell, I’ve said that about O’Donnell and worse  The only other person who could change Washington is Ann Coulter but she’s not running.

We really could have Hope and Change.  But like Huxley said, you won’t like the truth.

Jimmy Durante a comedian, actor, singer from the 40s 50s and 60s used to sign off his performances with “Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are”  I heard a story and I can’t confirm it but I wish it to be true(after all this is the internet)  that Durante worked as a door to door salesman in his youth.  He came to a house where he met a Mrs. Calabash who encouraged him to follow his dream.  He lost contact with the dear woman but never forgot her influence on his career and hence the shout out at all his performances.

We all have a Mrs. Calabash.  Some of us are fortunate enough to have more than one.  But there is always a special person.  Mine is my sophomore year of high school biology teacher.  He is long gone but I salute him daily.  Mr. Tabor here’s to you.

He made demands on young minds that are discouraged today as politically incorrect, possibly prohibited.  He used red ink, he gave failing grades, he asked how you came to not grasp the material (exposing your lies about doing your homework)  It wasn’t only what he said but the way he said it.  You’d of thought he was auditioning for a Shakespearean play.

He gave out daily quizzes to see if you were grasping your assignments.  He’d give out eight to ten true/false statements and he’d add, “If you get them all wrong, I’ll give you an A”  To some that seemed a reprieve.

He gave you the opportunity to look inside of yourself.  He hit a nerve in my development.  I try to imitate his language, his manner and his thought process.  All I come away with is me.  I think that’s what he wanted.

I’m sure each of us students came away with a different take on Mr. Tabor.  I wonder what life is for people who don’t have a Tabor or Calabash or worse a negative role model or who have a role model but don’t see it or acknowledge it.

Quite often it’s a teacher, a parent, or a friend.  So I bid you to acknowledge that one person who keeps creeping into your consciousness as an influence and acknowledge them for what they did for you.

I attended an energy workshop yesterday.  I don’t understand any of it and iI think I go because of a need to learn, get out of the house away from the internet and to mingle.  I happen to like the presenter and want to support his efforts.  Because I have no money my support must take place at his free workshops.

I once had loads of money.  I worked hard for the outrageous sums.  I fought to balance time with the kids and relaxation but the needs of the American drive overwhelmed me.  Then I lost EVERYTHING.  I am officially poor by anyone’s standards especially with my education and past.  I found all kinds of energy in having nothing.

I listen to people talk about  their property, their money and how poor they are and I had a major shift in my thinking on American thinking.  I sat next to a buddy at this workshop and in walked one of them.

It was not so much that she looked like a ghost as much as  she sat down and spoke of her interactions with the ghosts that made me want to hear more.  I was not eavesdropping as much as gaining valuable information.  In fact she spoke loud enough so we all could could enjoy her interviews of the other worlds.

She knows a guy who knows a guy who makes predictions — “and he is never wrong.”  So I leaned closer.  In case you are wondering, it did become difficult to maintain a straight face.  This was a scene from a movie.  Anyways this guy said the US dollar would collapse somewhere between September 15 and September 28.  She added this coincided with the 2.5 meteor destined to strike the earth at that same time.

I had just researched the meteor strike because I wondered how they could not know the exact time of the impact but they were sure of its location.  In looking at the internet investigation sites I told my friend that NASA says there is no meteor of any size coming our way in that time frame.  My friend said, “Of course, NASA is part of the cover-up.  I have started my preparations and am stock piling supplies.”

“What are you storing?” I asked.

“”I have been storing lots of alcohol, mostly beer and enhancing my marijuana stores as well,”  he said without smiling.

After his statements I realized the seriousness of the threat.  If we got hit by this meteor not only would the US dollar collapse but the world would look at a nuclear winter as well.

Oh yeah, back to the internet investigation.  It seems that a phone conversation between a woman from Australia and a guy she is interested in who lives in the U.S. was shared as she tried to get him to meet her on a vacation during her time off from work between September 15 and September 28.  He claimed to work for a US government agency that happens to know of an impending meteor strike in between those exact dates.  It turns out he does not work for any stellar agency.

She was suspicious and wrote looking for assistance on the internet.  Two things came to mind.  First he’s not really into the girl and second is the definition of stalking — where two people are dating, only one doesn’t know it. Well opportunists on the internet saw an opportunity to get people to look at their blog/web sites and ran with the impending dollar and meteor crash.  They had to extend the date to include September 13 because of a Jewish holiday that would assist in a coinciding with the scriptures.

So I typed meteor crash  and ELE (end of life event) and saw my mistake.  I needed to refine my search as I had to wade through previous ELE meteor strikes,  The 2013 that never occurred still dominated the pages. So that’s when I refined my search to learn that the impending world crisis centers around a stalker and the need to promote.

I think I might still buy some canned food because my friend already has the necessary things.

Go figure.