When someone tells me that there is proof that the earth is flat, another tells me that 9/11 was a government job, no one died in the Orlando shooting and Bruce Jenner is now a woman, I have a knee jerk reaction.  The problem is when the same person believes all of these things, I take pause. But even a blind squirrel will find a nut.

My dad, whom I admired dearly, always believed that the end of the world was just around the corner.  He based his beliefs on Bible passages.  Luckily I survived 15 end of the  world opportunities.  Sad part is, there are even more end world scenarios ahead.  Some even have pictures.

Several problems arise in even the most basic issue. Foremost is the news media has an agenda and they are dishonest to the core.  More times than not they simply don’t give ALL the information.  As an example the CDC received a commission to collect data on gun deaths.  A CNN reporter showed that over 33,000 people a year in the US are injured by guns.  She omitted to show that the CDC went further to show that 16 to 100 times more people survived because they used a gun (possibly to fill  the list of the 33,000).

This seemingly benign story not only revealed the actual findings but the commission for the study came from President Obama.  This segues into his “transparent government.”  With the number of “czars” used to skirt the constitution, the overt lies (I must emphasize OVERT) told by the government, I find myself talking with the conspiracy theorists.

There are two hurdles that I have to jump before I can begin to understand what is taking place before my very eyes.  First, that my government, the US government does not serve my or the people’s interest.  The repeated lies, cover ups and power plays by the current administration solved this one.  I now firmly believe the current administration to have an unAmerican agenda.

Madmen rise to power.  In hindsight we see they always possessed madness.  What interests me is those who saw the madness before the power grab.  Were these individuals as conspiratorial as the people I speak with currently?  Am I the only one who sees this through RATIONAL eyes?

If I could select a truly random sample of Americans and ask questions in a survey format,  I might be able to better understand.  For example, 1. Do you think most politicians are honest?  2.  Do you believe that most politicians lie?

You might be surprised at the results.  But let us take lies.  Let’s pretend that the vast majority of people do not like to be lied to.  Then you present not one lie but a series of lies that a politician tells.  My personal favorite is Elizabeth Warren stating she is 1/32nd Cherokee.  I have people make up explanations to address this lie. How many lies must one tell before you lose credibility?  Is 1/32nd simply a small lie?  Is one politician better because he or she lies less?

You lose your job for posting inappropriate pictures or texts but you are impeached for lying taking a bribe from the FBI and you get reelected to Congress.  I need to understand how anyone on either side of the aisle can allow this.

I’m not addressing your feelings or beliefs about Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump or President Obama.  I want to address the corruption and lies that surround Hillary Clinton.  They are not conspiratorial.  They exist in fact, not opinion.

Many of the discussions that surround her exist only because of her deceit.  The number of young people deaths by suicide and unusual circumstances will never come to light.  Similarly the current lawsuit in California asking to overturn the California primary results that have finally concluded with Bernie Sanders having defeated Hillary point to a larger problem.  Your votes don’t count, the fix is in, absolute power corrupts absolutely and the list goes on.

The people who support Hillary are, in my opinion, pinheads.  Ironically the California primary results show that people voted for another candidate only it doesn’t matter.  Your votes don’t count.

Let me see if I have this right.  Bill Clinton, an impeached liar, gets on a parked plane with the Attorney General who used to work in the Clinton administration and the FBI tells the press “no photos.”  Shortly after  the FBI violated the press constitutional rights, the AG Lynch sends information to the FBI Director Comey who was appointed by Bill Clinton and Comey who currently heads the agency that violated the constitution gets on TV and downplays/fudges/excuses (not sure of the word here) the facts of the case.

These actions use to make the press salivate.  The plethora of stories.  Why did the FBI agents deny photos?  Do FBI agents have an allegience to the constitution or to the people who violate the constitution?  Does the government now exonerate General Petraeus and Martha Stewart?

It really doesn’t matter for two reasons.  One the press is the enemy of the people in this takeover.  Two, the facts are there, history repeats itself and no one, including me will do anything but talk about it.  I could try to convince people to vote rationally but they seem irrational.  I might suggest the FBI agents read and then follow the constitution.  I might suggest the media go broke and report the truth.  I might suggest that a few brave souls who are not afraid to end up like Vince Foster and the string of others who followed to reveal information.

I might suggest massive protests against the DNC for their promotion and complicity (you can go after the RNC later as this issue is paramount).  I might say “I told you so.”  And then I might do nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I often wonder about the ancestors I have no information about.  They  came from somewhere in Eastern  Europe – Poland most likely.  I know this because my grandmother told me this.  Her parents lived in Poland.  The point is I am taking the word of my grandmother.  We may have been murdering Russian Cossacks and I’m fairly certain my grandmother would not tell me that.

I have a heritage that I honestly know very little about.  I am relegated to the history told to me about the country of my birth and the birth of my parents – the United States of America.  I accepted that history as mine, although my forbearers did not come here on the Mayflower, I like the American story.  It’s the only one I have.

Suddenly, and this is the appropriate term, I find that being a white male with blond hair and blue eyes is now persona non grata.  The history I grew up with now has me a native American murderer, a slave owner, a mysogynist and a greedy money grabber.

Don’t get me wrong.  I’m not upset by the change in attitude but I am concerned in the change in thinking from rational to irrational.  I now find comfort in my grand parents signing the book in Ellis Island as we weren’t here to kill the natives or own slaves.  Strangely a murdering Cossack has a better status.  Heck, I can’t even claim that.

I am well educated and let me say that I like the comfort of knowledge and understanding.  Not that what I know is right but that I can take a piece of information, place next to another piece of information and come to a conclusion based on reason.  Like taking 2 and placing it next to another 2 with a plus sign in between and coming to a conclusion.

I admit that I know very little about politics but because of my work as a forensic neuropsychologist I learned much about how the system works.  Twenty three years of listening to politicians in therapy, testifying about criminal behavior and testing thousands, I know more than the average bear.

Despite this self proclaimed knowledge I realize I know very little.  Most of my lack of knowledge comes from me not caring.  I was too busy coaching little league, making sure my kids were safe and chasing money to give to the bank to care about prattle of a few.

I played on a softball team with a US Congressman.  The guy, by any standard was a pinhead.  He bragged of his recent lifetime pension that I did not pay attention to.  He told of his medical insurance plan outside of Affordable Care Act.   By changing the district boundary he pushed out a fat cat Republican.  His law firm received lucrative government contracts until his Democrat ways led to a black Republican replacement who got his lifetime benefits and lost to another Democrat.  It became clear that this represented one party.  The “fat cat” party.  The whole time people thought their votes counted.

Rather than shout what I know from the roof tops, I removed myself from any leadership roles.  I hid from the crazy thinking.  I watched people with the sole intention of getting on the gravy train take office.  I witnessed corruption at every level.  And I said and did nothing.

I ran to Ecuador.  I decided to “check out.”  I wanted to know the feeling of having little with no alarm clock.  I had the ability to retire with few worries and I took it.

It seems that pinheads have computers, can travel and own media sites.  While truly avoiding the worries of Americans in a socialist country, I have to listen to Americans brag about the wonders of Ecuador.  There medical care is better than US care when it is only cheaper.  There are no guns, yes a few robberies (I was robbed twice).  If you have a police problem you simply pay off the police and the problems goes away.

Then the Orlando shooting occurred and I suddenly realized what I refused to see all the time – America is under attack.  But I did not get upset.  I did not get on a soap box and say I am right and you are wrong.  I have family that will not listen and they are rational.  Why would I care to convince the irrational?

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