As you can tell from some of my blogs, I’m a Conservative Republicans who voted and supported for Trump.

Mr. Rush Limbaugh is also a Conservative Republican as well. He can also comes across as a blowhard like Ed Schultz. The only difference between Limbaugh and Schultz is one is a Republican and the other was Democrat. Even Ed Shultz was a Republican at one time. He just went over to the dark side. He went where the money was at that time. This blog is not about him though. This time it’s about Rush Limbaugh instead.

The first time I heard Rush Limbaugh on his talk show, I had problems listening to him. I knew people who likes him and follow what he says. I just couldn’t grasp it all.

The thing that bothered me about him was this feelings that I get when I listened to him. To me, he felt that he was god; and you better believe him or else. He was so full of himself.

Believe me, people like that, I have problem with.

If you know that person personally either in your family or co-workers, or boss, they can become an emotional vampire. I won’t goes into that at this time because that is another near future blog.

The more I listens to Rush Limbaugh, the more I starts to understands him better. He may come across as a blowhard and like god; but I have to admit some of things he had said seems to be true. All you have to do is gather the facts to what he says. Just do your research and see for yourself.

I have to admit, I would loves to have his popularity with my blogs as well. I would like to have as many followers as he have.

Some people may thinks that I too can be a blowhard at times. Some people may even wondered if I actually knows what I’m talking about; since I’m no expert. Some people may wondered if I too thinks that I am god.

Well I’m not god and I’m no expert. I just have plenty of opinions about things that I happens to write about. I’m not saying that you have to believe everything I say. I just wants you to enjoy what I write. If you happens to believe more power to you.

I can’t fix the world’s problems; but I can at least shares my opinions with others.

I can only hope that is Rush Limbaugh’s motives as well. I don’t believe everything he says; but he is entertaining. It does seems that most of what he says seems to come true.

May that also happens to me as well.

Rush Limbaugh isn’t god; even though I, at one time felt that he saw himself as god. He is just a man, a celebrity. He’s an entertainer.

We have some similarities with each other. We’re both Conservative Republicans. We both have blogs out there to share our opinions with the world. He is just more famous than I am.

One thing, I think we both can agree on is: you have the rights to thinks for yourself. You can either agree or disagree with us.

Those on the Left don’t agree with that. They get angry if you don’t agree with them. They calls you derogatory, hateful, hurtful names. They are against us being free thinkers, like in the book, “1984”. They are against Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Speech.

If they had their ways, people like Rush Limbaugh and I will not be able to profit with our opinions. They will shut us up or may even have us killed. They may even try to censor us.

So if you like Rush Limbaugh; I hope that you can come to like me as well. Even if you don’t like us, you have that rights too. This is still a free country.

President Trump is wanting to keep America free too!

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Happy Halloween to all my readers out there(ha,ha,ha)!

As you can see I love dressing up for Halloween. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.

Some Christian church leaders may frown on this. They see Halloween as Satan worshipping.

I’m not going into that in this blog this time around; but I’m not saying I won’t down the road. I’m just going to keep it light and humorous for a change.

To me, Halloween is one of the most fun time for kids and adults alike. I mean, the idea of playing dress up is so much fun. (You probably didn’t knew this but it was my dream to be an actor in Hollywood, before Hollywood had gotten too weird and gone over to the dark side and became the Far Left.)

What kids doesn’t love getting candies and lots of it?

I could remember the fun I had on Halloweens throughout my life so far.

Plus more kids went out trick and treating for Halloweens than what they seems to do now. Now it seems they just goes to the mall instead. As an adults it’s fun to see the costumes the kids are wearing and the joy on their faces as you hand out candies.

It just seems because of all the scary stuff going on in the world today, kids aren’t trick and treating as much anymore. I can understand that. The world is becoming scary. You never know what people would do on Halloween.

If parents did their jobs; Halloween can still be fun and safe for our kids.

Even though both my parents worked, they made sure that we were safe on Halloween as well. I remembered when we were done trick and treating, my mother would goes through the candies stash we got to make sure that they were safe to eat. She would make sure that there was no open candies, and stuff like that.

As a kid, I think that she had an ulterior motives as well. She was going through to pick out her favorite candy as well.

There was some Halloween that it was raining out. I even remembered snow on Halloween.

My last year that I went trick and treating was when I was 12 years old and in the 6th grade. We were living on the farm and my mother took us 2 youngest kids into Hawley to trick and treat, while she visit with our grandmother.

Some of the costumes that I wore throughout Halloweens were amazing. As I kid, I would dress up as Superman for Halloween. My favorite superhero.

When I went to college, I went to a few Halloween parties where I dress up. In this blog, I will give you some ideas of costumes that I worn so far in my life.

Way back in college, I dressed up as a caveman. I was skinnier and the costume was short, so when I bent over, a person could see my shorts.

I even dressed up as a person from the 50’s. I wore jeans with white t-shirt, black wig, and sunglasses.

I can’t remembered all the costumes I worn because it was too many.

Back in 2008, I dressed up like Obama. I worn the mask of his liking along with a blue suit. I heard someone say that that was the best costumes ever. I went to a Halloween party dress like that; and the people just loved it.

One time I dress up as a prisoner with the prison costume and all. I was working at Kmart at the time, and the manager just didn’t get it. I was making a statement at the time. Halloween was a time for me to make a statement.

I even dressed up as a slave and I used my Kmart id number as my slave number. Once again the manager just didn’t get it.

In 2016, I dressed up as Donald Trump. I wore his mask along with a suit. I think I had gotten more negative comment with that costume than I did with Obama, go figured.

If you remembered last year, I dressed up as a doctor for Halloween. That costume was just perfect since I work at Sanford. I had people calling me doctor at work.

I would even sometimes decorate for Halloween; not as much as Christmas though.

I try to make sure that I have candies for Halloween just in case I get anyone going trick and treating, and if I happened to be home. Living in an apartment, there isn’t many who goes out trick and treating like when I was a child.

I miss those days of innocence. I still likes dressing up and I will probably do it until I can’t do it anymore.

In a way, Halloween is almost like those on the Far left who feels that they are entitled to things. Like the joke goes, “Trick or treat! I’m entitled to your candies.”

Like in the Steven King movie, “Storm of the Century,” “give me what I want and I will go away.”

So when they comes trick and treating welcome them with candies for their pumpkins or bags. Don’t put anything in the candies that will harm the kids. Don’t ruin Halloween for them. Don’t take away their innocence!

I may not like going out to late after dark if I don’t have to anymore; but I still love Halloween and dressing up for it. I know that I will wear this costume to work on Halloween in the daytime. Who knows maybe I will wear it that evening when I work at the my other job as well.

Be safe this Halloween! May you get plenty of treats. Have fun, because that is what Halloween is all about, having fun. You are never too old to have fun on Halloween. I don’t care what age you are. Some even decorate their car or their place.

Have a Ghoulish time!!!

For those who may wondered how or why Trump was elected; or about those crazies on the Far Left, I’m here to hopefully explain this to you.

I believe that it started way back with Pres. Nixon.

First of all if you remembered your history, you would know that there was a heavy protest on our college campus against the Vietnam War. Some of these Liberals today were possibly protesting on campus and possibly doing drugs and smoking pots.

Another thing that hurt Pres. Nixon was the Watergate scandal. I won’t go into that too much because that is a whole different blog. All I will say that the American people was starting to get upset with our government at that time. Not much was able to be done at that time though.

The reason for that was because of the baby boomer and the older generation wasn’t up to changing Washington.

Now I’m a Generation X. I just missed being a baby boomer by a year. So I can relate very easily with the baby boomer.

The Generation X was responsible for starting the change. They just couldn’t get enough support because of the older generation; who held the country back. It wasn’t until the Millennial came around and the older generation started dying off before any real changes started to happens.

I just had to give you this information to help you see where I’m coming from. Now back to the real reason for this blog.

Pres. Nixon resign as President right on my birthday, Aug. 9, 1974; and Gerald Ford took over as President. Now Ford never stood a chance to be the kind of President he could had been. I mean, Nixon, the Watergate, and the Vietnam War hurt him.

So in 1976, Jimmy Carter was elected President. I won’t go into too much about him because I will save it for another blog once he die. All I will say is this: Carter was different than what they had in Washington.

President Carter only served one term and I will explain that in a different blog. In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected President. Reagan was anti-establishment and a Republican. He was the reason I became a Republican in 1984. He gave the Generation X a voice in Washington for the change that is happening now. He was the last great Republican president. Reagan served 2 terms.

Yet, Washington still wasn’t ready for it. Both the Republicans and the Democrats fought against it and Pres. Reagan. So in 1988, the first George Bush was elected president. He only was elected because he rode in on Reagan’s coattails. Yet he was the old school Washington establishment. He only served one term though.

What hurt him and was thorn in his side was Ross Perot. Even though he was a third party candidate, he took in more vote than expected. Because of all that Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992.

During all this Generation X was growing up and becoming a big part of making a change in Washington. Whereas the older generation was starting to die off.

I remembered as kid growing up, my step-dad would always say, “United States is due for another Civil War. The American people is going to get so fed up with our Federal Government, high taxes, and high regulations.”

In 2000, George W. Bush was elected President. I’m here to tell you that I didn’t vote for him. I voted for Elizabeth Dole instead. The Established Republicans was afraid of her for some reason. They were so determined to nominate George W. Bush. They wanted to keep their power and control.

For those who don’t know this, the Tea Party movement was started under George W. Bush.

In 2008, Obama was elected president on the idea of change. He knew that America wanted a change . He even promised that change; even though it was different than what we actually wanted.

This Republican voted for Obama in both of his election. I didn’t much care for McCain or Romney. They represented the old establishment.

Finally in 2016, Trump came along with the slogan, “Make America Great Again!” I have to admit, I was afraid of him at first. I wanted Ben Carson. I came around to vote for Trump and I’m glad that I did.

He is draining the swamp in Washington. The news media and the Democrats doesn’t much care for him because of what he is doing for this country. He is only doing what the people wants.

He doesn’t play by the rules in Washington!

Now because of Pres. Trump, we have these Far Left on the Democrats side. They are pure nut jobs. They want to destroy America; by making it into being a Socialist country. They want to take away our freedom and all of our rights as American citizen.

If you don’t agree with them they will attack you with hateful words and action. They don’t think that we have the rights to think for ourselves. Anyone who voted and supported Trump is called derogatory names. They will even spit on us and throw things at us. They call us racist and a bunch of rednecks.

The more they attack us and try to impeach Trump, the more I will vote for him. The more they keep this up, I will never vote for a Democrat again.

So what is happening right now in America; you could say that my step-dad was right. I’m just glad that he isn’t alive to see it. He would be laughing at these Democrats. I believe that he would approve of Pres. Trump; even though he was an Independent voters, who usually voted for the Democrats.

This may or may not surprise you; but I always enjoyed history. History was one of my favorite subject in high school. But what can you do with a degree in history? My grades in history was exceptional.

What we learn in history can help us from repeating things and making the same mistakes over and over again. But first, we must study our history to prevent repeating it.

Even though there was some things I was never taught in history class. There are some things the teachers will leave out. Sometimes, teachers may be a little bias too.

For one thing I wasn’t taught about the Vietnam War in History. I was taught about what was going on in this country during the Vietnam War. It could had been that it was still fresh on the people’s minds. I don’t know the reasons. We could had ran out of time during the school years.

What you are not taught in history class; you can look it up on-line. Thank God for the internet.

Few years ago, I read in the paper, that today’s high school students are not taught about the Holocaust. Some don’t even know what the Holocaust was. Ilhan Omar is one prime example; especially at what she says about Israel.

Teachers are more Liberal than they were when I was in school. They will slant history like the fake mainstream news media just to suit their own agendas. Some may even try to rewrite history if they could. If they don’t agree what was in the history book, they may either overlook it or change it a little.

Luckily for the internet, we have the opportunity to really know what happens in our history.

There is this person I know who just recently became a teacher. I heard her say, “if any of her students did a history report and it wasn’t in the history book or she doesn’t agree with the truth about the history information; she will fail them.”

Believe me, if I was a parent of that child that she failed because she doesn’t agree with the historic information; I would take it to the schoolboard and have her fired.

So many of these Liberals, teachers, news media, and the Leftist Democrats are trying to rewrite history. The reason, they don’t agree or like what they see.

Let’s get straight the point!

As you know the Democrats under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and these Leftist are trying to impeach President Trump. They have nothing on him. They couldn’t get him for the Russian collusion involving 2016 election. So they are now trying with this Ukraine incident; which is just big theater, just a joke; and a bad one at that.

They dislike and disrespect him so much that they can’t see straight. They know deep down that they can’t beat him in the 2020 election. They just wants to stop him so bad that they will stop at nothing to bring him down.

They should learn from history.

I mean back when Bill Clinton was President, the Republicans went and impeach him. Believe me, he was guilty; whereas Trump did nothing wrong.

President Clinton was guilty of the Whitewater scandal; yet it couldn’t be proven. All the Republicans were able to get Pres. Clinton on was the fact that he had an affair in the White House with an intern(Monica Lewinski); and then he lied about it.

That impeachment just blew up in the Republicans’ faces. They were the laughing stock in Washington. Just like the Democrats are today. It cost them the House and the Senate, the following election. It took them a few years for them to get back control of the House and the Senate too.

If the Democrats continue with this foolishness, they too will lose the House once again. The Presidential candidates will not get elected in the 2020 election.

Even though, the Republicans went all out to impeach Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Pres. Clinton was able to work together to balance the budget.

Just like Tip O’Neill and Pres. Reagan was also able to work together in end. They had respect for each and were friends when all said and done.

You can’t say the same thing with Nancy Pelosi and Pres. Trump. It’s pure hatred on the Democrats sides. Nancy Pelosi is only trying to appease her own Leftist party.

Like I said earlier, if they would just learn from their history; they wouldn’t be doom to repeat it and make the same mistakes. Instead of rewriting history, we must learn from it.

What they are trying to impeach Trump on not only will it hurt them; it will also hurt Joe Biden.

What they are accusing Trump on, President Obama had done the same thing when he was President, and no one bat an eye.

To me, it’s like they are saying, “an employer doesn’t have the right to do a background check on possible employees.” That’s all Trump may or may not have done involving the Ukraine and Joe Biden; and even Hillary Clinton.

The Democrats will never ever get my votes again because of what they are doing.

Next week, I will discuss more about why I like President Trump even more today, in part 2: “We got who we got because who we had.”

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What does the world thinks of the church today?

The church today is struggling. They are having a difficult time in reaching the young people. Church’s attendance is lower than it was years ago.

It’s not because people are working on Sunday; even though that is part of it.

The fact is people are choosing to have fun instead. They want to party and live it up. They want to drink and have sexual intercourse with whoever they want. Their motto is, “You only live once.”

I’m not criticizing that. Believe me, when I was in my late teens and early 20’s, I too loves to party. I was a party animal.

I believe what is keeping our young people out of the church is how they perceived the Christians inside of the church.

First of all, there are those who believed that you can be a believer and still live it up. There are some that say that they believed in God. They just wants to have their fun while they are young.

Then there are those who perceived those in the church to be hypocrite. They sees them as being self-righteous. They sees them as being very judgmental over their lifestyles and choices that they make. They feel that if they are Christians, they should love everyone like Jesus does; and not judge them.

For example: some believed that those in the church are being judgmental over those who are homosexual. I’m not going too far into that because that is a whole different blog.

The point I’m getting at is that those in the church are perceived as being Self-righteous.

I have to admit, even though I’m a Christian and have been since 1990, I have struggled with the ideas of self-righteous people in the church.

I’m going to start at the beginning, I was baptized Catholic as a baby and confirmed Lutheran. Yet, I didn’t really knew the Lord until later on in life. I came to accept the Lord in 1990 after the Lord spoke to me. But first, I saw a movie called, “I Know my first name is Steven.” It was about a boy who was kidnapped and molested. I related to him; to reason I may tell you later in another blog. I then had the TV on to Dwight Thompson, a televangelist. At that time, I didn’t much care for televangelist. Somehow, I couldn’t turned the channel because of some forms of spirit. Then one evening he preached on Luke 15, the Prodigal Son. That night, the Lord spoke to me saying that he loved me and was always there for me. I cried as I accepted the Lord. I was soon re-baptized, by being submerge in water. I’m now a member of a Nazarene Church in Moorhead, MN. The church is Bridgepointe Community.

As I said earlier, I too had struggled with self-righteous people in the church. I almost left the church because of it. I still believed in God and Jesus. I just didn’t believed in the church.

I think that this may be one of the reason that keeps the young people out of the church. They may believed in God and Jesus; but they see some of the people and/or the pastor as being self-righteous.

I believed that young people are searching for something and not finding it in the church. They are finding it elsewhere; like a cult for example.

There are churches that are trying to reach the young people. They are going to where they needs to go. I give credit to Prairieheights Community Nazarene Church for doing just that. At the same time they are not becoming lost to the world.

As Jesus said, “even though we lived in the world, we are not a part of the world.” it doesn’t mean that we are to become self-righteous though. Remembered, Jesus accused the Pharisees of being self-righteous and look where that got him. They crucified Him!!

I have been teaching Sunday School the Sermon on the Mount series. It’s a very good lesson on how we are to live for Jesus. It’s also show us how we can reach the lost without being judgmental.

In the end times, there will be even less people in church than it is now. Christians are being persecuted because of their faith and will be before Jesus returns again.

It’s not just the world’s fault though. Some people in the church are just too blame. Some of them bring it on themselves. The Pharisees did in Jesus’ days as well.

Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest President. He became President after the assassination of William McKinley.

He was a rough rider from New York.

He was a distant relative of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Even though FDR was a Democrat, Teddy was a Republican. He was a Nationalist.

Even though he was from New York, he loved North Dakota. To him, North Dakota was God’s country. He had a vacation home in North Dakota. It was a place he came to, to go hunting. He loved hunting.

He was in the top ten of the best President. It depends on what polls where he ranks.

You can find his likeness on Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota.

One of the things that you probably didn’t know about him. He was an Environmentalist. Now that is an oxymoron for being a Republican; since those on the Left thinks that Republicans cannot be an environmentalist.

He was also known as a Progressive. Back then Progressive means something totally different than what it does now.

His most famous quote was “Walk softly and carry a big stick.”

With what we know about Teddy Roosevelt, I was wondering what he would think about the oil boom in North Dakota?

What would he thinks about the Keystone pipeline?

I will tell you what I think he would think. First of all he would like the idea of harvesting our resources.

Yet at the same time, he would not approve of the pipeline. He wouldn’t approve of the pipeline going through the badlands of North Dakota.

When the Native Americans were protesting the pipeline being built across their burial ground. I was on their side. It went too far when those on the far left got involved. They took it to the point of being violent.

I also thinks that Teddy would approve of Pres. Trump. He would sees him as a man after his own heart.

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North Dakota wasn’t always one of the riches state due to the oil industry.

Under Gov. Art Link, in the late 70’s and early 80’s, he closed the oil fields in the Western part of the state. For reason, I don’t fully understand. All I can say, “he was a Democrat.”

Anyway, when the oil fields were closed, cities like Dickenson and Williston became almost like a ghost town. They were drying up and loosing people right and left.

Since the oil boom, both Dickerson and Williston had grown quite a bit.

Not only did the oil boom help those 2 cities grow; it puts North Dakota on the map and be noticed. It’s still a fly over state; but at least it’s finally being recognize for something.

People would link North Dakota to South Dakota; and there was talk of merging the 2 states and making it into 1.

Another State that North Dakota was link to was Minnesota. For example: I had an Aunt who thought that North Dakota and Minnesota was the same state; and she was from Casselton before moving out West to Seattle.

It was hard to keep the young people in the state after they graduated from either high school or college. There was really no jobs in their fields.

Ever since Ed Shaffer was governor of North Dakota, the state’s economy was booming. He opened the oil fields again. He worked to bring jobs into this state to keep the young people in. Of course, he was Republican also. Since Shaffer, the state of North Dakota had a Republican governor. Before Shaffer, the Republicans couldn’t get elected governor of the state.

This blog isn’t about Shaffer or the Republicans controlling the Governor. It’s about the oil boom in the state.

As good and important the oil boom was to the state of North Dakota’s economy, for putting the state on the map, for job prospects, and for bringing new businesses in to fight to keep our young people in the state. It wasn’t all perfect.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for that.

Some of the downfall of reopening the oil fields are as followed.

I actually believe that the oil company had taken advantage of North Dakota’s naïve. I mean, as the title said, “Black Gold-Texas Tease,” who haven’t seen the original Beverly Hillbillies? The oil company took advantage of the characters, because they saw them as bunch of hillbillies and hicks. I actually thinks, the oil company saw the people in North Dakota as being a bunch of rednecks; that they could take advantage of. Because of that we weren’t prepared for what came out the oil boom.

First of all, I’m glad that we are harvesting our own resources. It keeps us from being dependent on Foreign oils. It keeps us from dealing with terrorists. It keeps us from dealing with the enemies of Israel. It’s boost the economy of North Dakota and made the state competitive with other states, such as Texas.

There are things that came out of this oil boom that cause me to be alarmed.

One of the things it did, it brought in a bunch of riff raffs and crimes. Not everybody is qualified to work the oil fields. It’s a hard and dirty job. The crime rates had risen since the oil boom. It’s getting to the point I don’t feel safe being out after dark in Fargo anymore.

The cost of living in the Western part of the state is much higher now. People on fixed incomes cannot afford to live there anymore. There was poll that showed that to rent an apartment in Williston cost as much if not more than New York City.

I remembered hearing because of the oil boom out west, the Bismarck Kmart store had a hard time in hiring help. They would just put the box of product out on the floor, because they had no help to stock the shelves. The reason was because of the pay didn’t match the cost of living.

I remembered when I took the train heading out West for a vacation. The train would go by Williston and the oil fields work camps. I mean, you could see those camps from the train as it went by. It looks like a slum area. It was worse than the old west. It was even worse than the inner city of Indianapolis; when I went there for a work & witness trip.

I think this is one of the reason the homeless population is as high in the state of North Dakota. The people are coming up to the state for jobs because they hear that the state is busting with jobs, due to the oil boom.

Like I said earlier, not everyone is able to work the oil fields. Not everyone can work these jobs that is being created by new businesses coming into the state. Some may have to do blue-collar work to make a living.

Even with the surplus, those in our state government don’t want to raise wages. Then they wondered why people have to work 2-3 jobs to make a living. They wondered why alcoholism is a big problem in the state. Some are even working past retirement age and/or until they die.

I won’t go into that because that is a whole different blog.

I didn’t mention the Keystone Pipeline because I’m saving it for next week blog; which will be part 2. Here is a clue to part 2: Who it may be about may surprise you.

There is so much talk about censorship as of lately. Even more now than ever before.

In the 70’s there was a movie/Broadway play called, “Jesus Christ, Superstar.” When that movie first came out, some in the Christian community protested it and tried to get it censored. They felt that it didn’t represented the Christian community and Jesus Christ.

Also in the late 70’s and early 80’s Tipper Gore and some of the Christian leaders took it to the House of Representative to censor what we listen to. They were responsible in putting warning labels on records; especially songs that they felt were offensive. One of the song was, Rocky Mountain High by John Denver. They felt that it was about getting high on drugs. As John Denver states, “It was about getting high on nature through the Rocky Mountain.

When the book, DaVinci Code came out, the Catholic church wanted to censor that book and later on the movie. All it did was boost the sales for the book.

When Harry Potter first came out, once again the Christian community protested and tried to get the movie censored. They feared the theme of witchcraft was damaging.

Yet, when the Lord of the Rings movies came out about month later; there was no protest by them. Why is that?

I will tell you why: the author of the Lord of the Rings series was a Christian; whereas the author of Harry Potter wasn’t. They were being judgmental.

Every time a certain group would protest and try to censor something, no matter what it is. It gets people’s attention. They go fast to check it out just to see what’s all the buzz. So why try to censor and boycott; when all it will do is boost the sales?

Look back in history, during the Roaring 20’s. It was the Christian movements that tried to banned alcohol. All it did was led to bootlegging; and eventually overturn.

How about when Elvis started out? The Christians back then didn’t much care how he would shake his hips. So they censored his appearance on television, that they would not show him shaking his hips, by only showing his top half. That didn’t last long.

I know that I probably mentioned these before in previous blogs. I only mentioned them again as I hope to get to the point of this blog.

There is movie that may or may not get shown called, “The Hunt.” The basis of that movie about hunting the deplorable. Now the deplorable is what Hillary Clinton and the fake mainstream news media called all those who voted and supported Trump.

There are people who felt that it was an inappropriate time for that movie to comes out because of the hate and violence out there right now.

Let me ask you this one question. Would Hollywood thinks twice about making a movie about those who voted for Obama and hunt them down?

My answer to that question is “Hell No!!”

That is off the subject.

I’m not in favor of censorship; even though that movie gets me upset. I stand by the Constitution. In the Constitution, there is such a thing as Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression. We have the right speak our mind.

As I said in my blog about 1984, “The lead character, a reporter was being censored by Big Brother.” It seems that book is becoming more and more true.

Before it was some Christians protesting and wanting censorship. Now, it seems, that it is those on the Far Left that is wanting censorship. They want to censor anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Just like Big Brother in the book, “1984.”

They wants to censor Pres. Donald Trump, when he tweets. Yet, when those on the Left; especially the Squad; it’s alright. Where’s the justice?

As I said in my past blog, Roseanne was fired from her own show because of her comment that she made. Yet, Whoopi Goldberg was still able to say hateful things about Trump. Shouldn’t Whoopi been fired? I say that she should have.

There is a big stink involving censorship and Facebook. Those who are Conservative are being censored and some even shut down on Facebook because of their views.

The group Dixie Chicks was also censored because of their comments about Pres. George W. Bush. It cost them a great penny. I have to tell you, they didn’t deserve the treatment they gotten. I have to admit, I took their side.

It goes to show, if you don’t agree with those on the Left, the fake mainstream news media will try to censor you, to silence you. Believe me, when my blog was shut down in June for just over a month; I thought for sure that I was being censored. I felt that that I had offended someone.

I’m here to tell you, I will not be silenced. I will speak my mind until the day I die. This is still a free country. We have right to the Freedom of Expression and the Freedom of Speech. I will be like the lead character in the book, “1984.” I will continue despite anyone who wants to take away my freedom. I will die for my rights of the freedom that I have.

It says in the Bible that those who proclaimed to be a Christian will be persecuted for their faith. It seems like it is happening more and more too. You got to watch what you say or else. You are not allowed to say things about certain groups or you will be sued or charge with a hate crime. Yet, those on the Left can continue saying whatever they want to anyone who disagree with them.

As you have already probably heard, the oldest and first Kmart in North Dakota is closing it’s doors in mid-December. Believe me, it’s a crying shame to see the store go under and close their doors.

Kmart had been around for a long time. Not as long as Sears though. The Fargo Kmart store had been around for over 50 some years.

At one time, Kmart was one of the top retailers. I remembered when they opened the Kmart in Moorhead. The reason for opening that store was to be able to be open on Sunday. When they was about to open that Kmart, Tempo; which was in the old Holiday Mall became scared. They felt that they couldn’t compete with Kmart. So they closed their doors!

I remembered as kid, the Fargo Kmart store had a cafeteria that was in the back of the store. They also sold flavored icy drinks. It was a family friendly store.

They would have the blue light special that would flash and the manager would announced, “blue light special!” , and they will tell you where you can find it.

The next 2 Kmart, one was in North Fargo near NDSU. One of the reason that one was closed was because when the Fargo Dome opened up, customers from the Fargo Dome would used Kmart parking lot to avoid paying high parking fees at the Fargo Dome for events.

The other Kmart opened not far from Target, in the Burington Coat store. They opened that store to gives Target a run for their money. They did ok for a while too. The reason for closing that store was because Wal-Mart opened up nearby.

Where the original Kmart is in South Fargo, there is nothing down there to give them a run for their money. It’s a prime location. This part of town will be lost without Kmart; unless something worthwhile can comes in and take over.

I’m going to give you reason why Kmart had been failing the last few years. Some people would think that Wal-Mart is to blame. They are not at fault. They could had survived Wal-Mart. Some things were cheaper at Kmart than at Wal-Mart and vice versa.

Wal-Mart was the cheapest, then came Kmart, and Target was a little more expensive. Target is considered to be the rich’s Wal-Mart. The poor/working class would shop at Wal-Mart and Kmart; whereas the rich wouldn’t be caught dead at a Wal-Mart and Kmart stores.

Here is what killed Kmart:

Kmart should never merge with Sears. As I said in my blog, “Sears was an albatross around Kmart’s neck.” Also in my most recent blog, the oldest retailers, I mentioned that Sears was the downfall of Kmart.

Another things that killed Kmart and even hurting other retails, like Pres. Trump had said, is on-line orders. People don’t shop in retails anymore. They would rather shop from home in front of the computer in their pajamas and shop on-line through Amazon. It’s convenience. I have to admit that I had shop on-line. The reason for shopping online is because you can get things that you can’t get in the store.

The biggest thing that had killed Kmart is the management. It starts at the top. This is where the head honchos wouldn’t want the public to know. They wouldn’t be too happy with me for sharing this with my readers.

Most Recently, Eddie Lambert was the CEO of Kmart/Sears corporation. Let me tell you, he ran Kmart into the ground and he didn’t care.

They should never merge with Sears. If they didn’t had Sears dragging them down, I actually believe that Kmart could had survived.

The upper managements had made many bad choices in the last few years. They never paid the workers very much either.

The original owner of Kmart took care of the employees. I’ve seen old pictures; where Kmart’s employees actually had fun while work. Maybe that was why some of the Kmart’s employees stuck it out as long as they did.

I feel sorry for them. It’s hard to start over; especially as a person gets older.

I’ve heard recently that there was a no logical reason for closing the Fargo Kmart store. Earlier, they renewed their lease for 4 more years. The sales at the Fargo Kmart was as good as Bismarck. Those 2 Kmart was the top in sales. If any Kmart should close; it should had been the Minot store.

What these upper management were thinking, no one really knows. They are not telling anyone.

The reason they gave was to save money on gas, when they bring a truck up with freight. They could had done the same thing by closing Minot instead of Fargo.

Who knows what they were thinking?

Here is my thought on that: since both the Fargo and Bismarck stores had higher sales, they both got bigger trucks. With Bismarck and Minot stores open yet, they could combine the 2 stores. I still can’t wrap my head over their reasons for choosing to close the Fargo Kmart.

Like I said earlier, there is nothing in South Fargo after Kmart close. What will the people do?

My heart goes out to my former co-workers at Kmart; especially those who had been there a long time and still can’t retire. It’s hard starting over. I was one of the lucky one when I left Kmart over a year ago. I’m glad the opportunity came along when it did. I saw the writings on the walls.

In light of all these school shootings the last few years, I felt that I will mentioned what is missing in our schools.

This may be very controversial and there may people who will disagree with me. I welcomes your comments.

There is now high security system in the schools today. Higher than what it was when I was in school. They have scanner like the ones you finds at the airports and the courts. In hoping to stop guns from entering the schools.

The latest news, some schools are allowing teachers to carry guns to arm themselves in case of would-be shooters to protect themselves and the students.

They are asking for trouble when they do that.

They even have armed security guards inside the schools. Some schools even have lockdown, like a prison.

Back when I was in high school, from the ninth grade and up we were allowed to go up town Hawley during lunch hour instead of walking over to the elementary school for lunch; if we didn’t much care for the lunch being served.

In some schools that is being taken away.

Also back in High School in Hawley, students would crossed the road from the high school to smoke. Some may even had done drugs.

Since it was just off the school grounds, nothing could be done.

That was mild compare to what the schools today is facing.

I have gotten in a debate with a person over with what I’m going to share in this blog years ago. So here is what I feels is missing in our schools today.

The moment they took the Bible and prayers out of our schools, violence have gotten worse.

I understand the reason because the ACLU had gotten involved and felt that it was a form of discrimination to non-Christians or other religions.

All religions pray in some form or another. It doesn’t matter if your are a Christian or not. You could be a Muslims or whatever, and you still will pray.

Even if you are not a Christian, you can still meditate. It’s that quiet time to begin the day.

It was during the Columbine school shooting, that the shooter aimed the gun at a Christian student and threatened them deny Christ or die.

Another things that is missing in our schools is morality. Young people today are not taught morality, at home and at school.

Parents are either too busy with work to spend time teaching their kids, or are not in the home anymore because of divorce. So they leave it up to the teachers.

People morality are way different than it was when I was a child. Just look around today and you will see.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m for allowing children to be themselves. That’s how they develop. They still needs some form of morality.

There is a lack of discipline in our schools. When a child misbehave, they send them to the school counselor to help the teachers understand why they are misbehaving.

These school counselors diagnosis the students as having ADD; when they may or may not. Then they highly medicated them. That way they can control the students better.

Kids need to be kids. It’s part of the development process.

Maybe they act up because they are bored. They are not being challenge in our schools.

Now days, kids have their own cell phone. I think when they are in school they shouldn’t be allowed to have them. If parents needs to get a hold of their kids, they can call the school and relay a message to them like the old days.

Back to the discipline part, I’m not saying that teachers should beat a child senseless. I’m against corporal punishment that was in the old Catholic schools. Yet the students needs some form of discipline; so that they can learn morality, learn what’s right and what’s wrong.

Yet today’s children are ruling the schools. If a teacher lays a hand on them to discipline them, they scream child abuse.

If they do a good job to be rewarded, and the teachers gives them a pat on the back. The students may say, “the teachers touch me inappropriately.”

I don’t even know if they say the pledge of allegiance to the flags anymore.

When I was in school, and the first thing we did everyday was say the pledge and salute the the American flag.

I’m not saying that there wasn’t fighting in our schools. I’m just saying, school was safer back then. Students were taught morality. They were discipline if they misbehave. They were allowed to pray. Our founding Fathers would roll over in their graves if they knew what is going on in our schools today.

If you want to stop the school shootings, it is time for this country to get back to God. It is time that our students are taught morality. It is time that they are discipline properly when they misbehave. Not beat them, discipline them!

It is time that they are allowed to pray and bring their Bibles to school if they want.

We don’t need to arms our teachers or have security guards. We must not tie their hands though. That way they can teach and challenge the students to be who they are meant to be.

Not all students needs to be medicated to be kept under control.