God Bless America!!

     There are people who would like to eliminate the electoral colleges.  The Democrats would very much loves to eliminate it.

The only reason why the Democrats would wants to eliminate the electoral colleges, was because they lost the election back in 2016.

I’m here to tell you that if the electoral colleges was eliminated, the fly-over state; such as North Dakota wouldn’t have a say in Washington DC. Only heavily populated states, like New York, California, Texas, Florida, etc.  will have a say what goes on in Washington for the rest of the country.  These smaller populated state will no longer have a voice in the election.

Yet the Democrats would allow the illegal immigrants to continue voting in the election.

They complained about the Russians tampering with the election since they lost; but what about the ideas of allowing the illegal immigrants to vote in the election.  That is tampering at its best.  That is voters fraud!

It goes to show that the Democrats will stop at nothing to remain in power.  They don’t care about the American people.  They are just so desperate to remain in power and to stop Pres. Trump; that they will do almost anything, even if it’s illegal or unscrupulous.

Let us look at the latest thing they did.

Under the leadership of Sen. Dianne Feinstein from California, they went to smear a good man’s  name.  They tried to stop Brett Kavenaugh from being appointed to the Supreme Court.  They accused him of sexual assault.

Not only did they smear his good name, they made a victim out of Kristina Ford all over again.  They were just using her for their own gain.  They didn’t care who they hurt.

No wonder Kavenaugh was very upset.  I would be too, and so would you.

It was like a witch hunt; similar to the Salem Witchcraft trial in the 1600’s done by the religious leaders of those days.

He had every rights to be angry at the Democrats.  It was righteous anger.  Just like when the Pharisees persecuted Jesus and crucified him on the cross.

It was similar to the ’50’s when Sen. McCarthy made accusation to anyone who he felt was commies.

What teenage boys or even men as boys ever done inappropriately things with girls back in high school and college?

I’m not disputing that something happened to Christina Ford back in high school.  I’m disputing at the way it was handled by the slimy, sleazy Democrats.

They will stop at nothing to remain in power.  They cannot stand Pres. Trump.  They wants him out of office; and they’ll do anything possible to make it happen.  They don’t like the fact that unemployment rate is at it’s lowest.  Even lower than it was under Obama.  They didn’t like his tax cut; in which the working taxpayers got a bigger take home paycheck.  If you don’t like the increase in your take home pay, just give it to me.  Why give it back to the Government?

I’m here to tell you that President Trump has been very good to me.  And I’m just a blue-collar worker.

You can’t tell these Leftist Democrats anything like that.  They just don’t listen to reason.  They just wants to argue to the point that they become very violent.  They will name-call and everything else.

Years ago, when I first became a Republican while under Reagan, I had professor back at NDSU who was a Democrat.  I consider him a friend and a mentor.  He never tried argue his point or stoop to name-calling or become violent.  Back then we respected each others.

Now days, you might as well forget ever reasoning with them.  To them we are rednecks.

Who haven’t been attack either verbally or physically?  I know a few of these Leftist personally.  They just don’t wants to listen to reason.  To them, we don’t know what we are talking about.

Even Hillary Clinton and even Obama called us rednecks and needs to be controlled.

If there is  anyone who  ever been attack by these Leftist, I would love to hear from you.  My e-mail address is daleaheger@msn.com.

As I said in last week blog, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp lost my vote this election; all because she side with her fellow Democrats.

Matter of fact, I will not be voting Democrats anytime again.  That can be a hard things to swallow; because there is some bad Republicans out in Washington.  It just that the Democrats are worst right now.

This election, let us send a message loud and clear these Leftist Democrats.  The message we must send is DO NOT VOTE for them!!   May they lose this election.  May they lose the House and the Senate.

They hope to have a blue wave this election.  Let us tell them, HELL NO by voting them out of office.

This country is so divided right now because of these Leftist.  More divided than we ever been.  To make America great again, we must vote out the Democrats this election.

The Democrats thinks that they can win the women’s vote, by lumping them all together.  There is Republican women who will not vote for them.

The Democrats even thinks that they can win the black votes also?  There are blacks out there who are big Trump supporters out there.  Kanye West is one of them.  The Leftist media just ridicule him; like they do anyone who supports Trump.

If you remember few years ago how Clint Eastwood was called senile because of what he said at the Republican convention?

The American people is upset with our government and the corruptness in Washington DC.  Who are they more upset with.  My money is on the Democrats right now.

Don’t get me wrong, there probably a few good Democrats out there.  Those are the kinds that are becoming very upset with their party.  Some even are thinking about leaving their party.  The Leftist leaders and media is doing one heck of job in destroying the Democrats party as we know it.

Two weeks ago, I read a letter to the editor that said, “the two-party system isn’t working anymore.”  I kind of have to agree.

Even Max Schneider, who is running for the North Dakota House  said that they fight like cats and dogs in Washington.  The bad part is because of Heitkamp no vote on Kavenaugh, he is also running behind his Republican challenger as well.

Won’t you join me this election to vote against these Leftist, sleazy, and slimy Democrats.  Let us send them a message that we are mad as hell and will not take it anymore.  It’s very important that you go out and vote this November.  Vote against the Democrats!  Believe me, I will!  They will never get my vote again.  No matter how bad the Republican candidate may be.  I now regret ever voting for Obama; but I couldn’t stand both McCain and Romney.

 

 

This year is one of the biggest Senate race in North Dakota between Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Kevin Kramer.  The last time it was this important was 6 years ago when Heitkamp ran against Republican Rick Berg.

Back then I couldn’t vote for Heitkamp, because I felt that I couldn’t trust her.  I also couldn’t vote for Rick Berg either.  I had nothing against him personally.  I knew him when he started out and back then he was decent person.  What kept me from voting for him was that the power had gone to his head.  So that election, I wrote in my own name for Senate.

When this race begin, I was torn on who to vote for.

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp had done some good things as Senator for the state of North Dakota.  She even did good things as Attorney General.  She didn’t always vote straight party line; at least I thought.  When Pres. Trump first became President, he invited her and Kramer in his office for a meeting with talk of a cabinet post.

She went after the sex trade industry.  Which was a good thing, and even Trump sign that bill into law.

She did vote no on Trump’s tax plan, giving the working taxpayers an increase in the take home pay.  That increase led to more jobs and unemployment rate at its lowest, even lower than when Obama was President.

Who doesn’t like less money taken out of their paycheck?  I like seeing a bigger paycheck.  The Democrats don’t though.  It means less for them.

This wasn’t what help me to make my decision about Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.  What put the nails in her coffin was her no vote against Brett Kavenaugh for Supreme Court.  That proved that she is no better than her fellow Democrats.

Her no vote only shown that she don’t care about the North Dakota’s values.  She doesn’t want to be reelected.

I used to have some respect for her; but since that vote, that respect went out the window.

She is a baby killer just like all the Democrats.  With the exception of Sen. Manchin, who voted yes for Kavenaugh.  He was the only Democrats who had courage to stand up to his party and vote for what the people wants.

It goes to show that she didn’t read John F. Kennedy’s book, “Profile in Courage.”  Pres. Kennedy would roll over in his grave if he knew how the Democrats had become.  He was the last great Democrat President; and he would not be accepted by today’s Democrats.

I don’t want to go much with attack on the Democrats with this blog.  I want to save it for next week.  This is more against Heidi Heitkamp.  The baby killer, the liar and the list goes on.  I have no respect for her.  When she said that she will works with anybody; that is a BOLDFACE lie!!

She had lost my vote.  Hopefully, she will lose a lot more votes because of her vote against Kavenaugh.

Does this mean that I will vote for Kevin Kramer?  That is still to be determine.

My big concern about Kramer is that he is a career politician.  Yet the at the same time, I’m so angry with the Democrats and I wants to continue going forward with the Trump agenda.  I may vote for Kramer on that alone.

We need to continue moving forward.  By electing Kevin Kramer for Senate, we can move forward.

I sympathized with the farmers over this trade war that we are in right now.  At the same time, I understand why we are in this trade war.  If the United States was to buckle under pressure and give in to this trade war, it will show weakness.  And by showing weakness, the other countries will walk all over us.  The last time that the United States was strong and a force to be reckon with was when Reagan was President.  No countries dare mess with us.  We need a strong leader to remain strong.  Trump is a strong leader.  He may have a mouth that some people would love to shut up; but I have respect for him because stands his ground.

The Nafta bill that Pres. Clinton signed into law was a disaster.  The reason why the terrorist attack us in 9/11 of 2001, was because they were not afraid of us.  The whole time that Obama was President, the other countries was laughing at us.  The Chinese was slowly buying up United States.  Russian President Putin had no respect for Hillary Clinton.  He had more respect for Trump because he saw him as his equal.

A person needs to stand up for something and for what they believe in.  I’m taking a stand right now and standing up for my principles.  I may get some hate mails because of this week and next week blogs.  Then again, I’m the angry blogger, so be it!

This is only the tip of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.  You better stay tune for next week, when I go full barrow on the Democrats.  Believe me, they will deserve it.

So Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, you might as well pack up, because you are done.  You just kiss this election goodbye.  You have no courage to stand up against your fellow Democrats.  You are a liar, when you say that you will work with anyone.  This overlook the good you had done in Washington; now it’s time that you go home.  You lost my vote and my respect.

I have more respect for Sen. Collins because she did the right thing and voted for Kavenaugh despite receiving death threats.

If you are like me and feels the same way about Heitkamp and Kramer; and do not know who to vote for.  The reason for my picture on the top of this blog, with me wearing my Trump’s shirt.  You can write in my name on election day to vote for me; if you do not feel comfortable enough to vote for Heitkamp or Kramer.  Here is how you spell my name:  Dale Heger.  I won’t forget the North Dakota’s way.  I’m not one of those career politicians either.  I will put the people first.

Stay tune for next week blog, when the Democrats will feel my wrath for what they did.  As it said on that shirt, “There will be Trump Toupee.”  In other words: there will be hell to pay.

Mr. Rob Port is a fellow blogger from Minot, North Dakota.  He also has a podcast as well.  Some of his blogs are printed in the editorial of the Fargo Forum.

I don’t know if you read any of his blogs or any of his letters to the editor; or not.  If you had, you might have noticed his obsession with Senator Heidi Heitkamp.  It’s almost like he is stalking her for some reason or another.

I won’t go into too much of my opinion of Heidi Heitkamp in this blog, because I will share that in next week blog.

It seems that he really have it bad for her.  When you read it, it’s never anything good.  He is constantly critical of her.

With his obsession, he should come clean and confess.  Doesn’t he knows that confession is good for the soul?

I mean, I shared my obsession with the book, “1984” awhile back.  I came clean for my readers.  Shouldn’t he do the same?

Rob Port is a conservative like me.  He seems to be a blowhard like Rush Limbaugh and the late Ed Schultz.  Then again, some may say that I can be blowhard at times.

Rob Port wasn’t always a blogger, I bet.  It probably took him awhile to become famous.  It wasn’t until the last few years that we heard of him.

You got to start somewhere though.

I used to once in awhile write letters to the editor; that would be printed after they edit things in the letters.  It wasn’t until about 2 years ago that someone I know revealed to me that I could set up my own blog site; and write on whatever topic I so-choose.  I’m not as famous as Rob Port is right now; but who knows maybe some days I will be once my blogs goes viral.

It’s exciting to see the stats on my blogs.  I bet you that Rob Port felt the same way when he first started out.

I have people reading my blogs from all over the world.

Where we differ, Rob Port is strictly a conservative political blogger; and my topics varied from week to week.  Sometimes, I come across as an angry blogger.

Whereas, Rob Port needs to get his obsession of Heidi Heitkamp under control.  It’s almost scary.  Can he write about anybody or something else?

I usually write about topics that I know something about.  If I don’t know much about something; either I will do research on the subject or don’t write on it until I do.  I was taught one of the key things a writer should do before writing, is that they should at least know a little what they are talking about; just to be believable.

Some of my blogs get to personal for some people.  Yet it seems that when I write more personal blogs, I get more likes or sometimes comments on them.

I hope that some days I too will have what Rob Port has because writing his blogs.  I just wish that he would admit that he is obsessed with Heidi Heitkamp.

If you want to know my opinion of Senator Heidi Heitkamp, you can either read the blog that I wrote on her last year or stay tuned for next week blog.

Next week, I will be writing on the big Senate race between Heitkamp and Kramer.  In that blog I will give you my opinion on who I may or may not vote for in this coming election.

If Rob Port is reading my blogs, I welcome your inputs.  I want to know how you finally became famous with your blogs.  I want to know how long it took.

For those who have been watching Modern Family and for those who haven’t this is their 10th and possible final season on ABC.

For those who don’t know this the star, Ed O’Neil, was on another groundbreaking sitcom on Fox network.  That show was called Marriage with Children.

I will discuss the comparison between the 2 shows with a little comparison to this family; who happens to be part of my family.

Let us look at Ed O’Neil.  He was no Hollywood’s heart throb by no means.  Yet, somehow, the stars who played his wives on both show,  are very sexy.  We all know how sexy Sophia Vergaras is; even with her accent.  Well, in the Marriage with Children’s days, Katy Sagal, I would say was also very sexy.  It got me thinking, only in Hollywood can a man like Ed O’Neil be so lucky.

I cannot imagine anyone else portraying Al Bundy or even his character on Modern Family than Ed O’Neil.  He just fit both characters.

But did you know that he once tried out for the role of Sam Malone on Cheers?  It wouldn’t had been the same.

On Marriage with Children, Al Bundy was married but really didn’t love Peg.  He complained about his life in every episode.  In Modern Family, Ed O’Neil divorce his first wife and married a hot sexy wife.

In both shows, he played a father of 2 kids.  The daughter was the oldest in both shows.  If you were to intertwine the shows, you can almost put Marriage with Children into Modern Family, because of the similarities.

On Marriage with Children, Al Bundy made a quote that was, “Golf is not a sport.”  Yet on Modern Family Ed O’Neil’s character played golf and was a member of a country club.

Remember, Al Bundy wouldn’t be allowed into the country club.

On Marriage with Children, Al Bundy was a struggling shoes salesman trying any get rich quick scheme he could think of.  Whereas, on Modern Family, he had succeeded.

Both shows were groundbreaking shows.  They both depict the true family dynamics.

When Marriage with Children first came on, they were the first show on a new network.  That network was Fox.  Before Fox, there was only 4 channels and they were: ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS.  People had to get up to change the channel.  There was no remote for the TV.  They even had the old rabbit ears on top of the TV.  If you were lucky, you had an antenna on top of your roof as well.  There was no such thing as cable or satellite dish.

Another thing, Fox was a groundbreaking network at the time.  Now they are more conservative.  Fox news is probably more reliable than the other news network.

Marriage with Children was the first show that depict a dysfunctional family.  Before that, families on television seems to be so normal compare to everyday families.  Problems were pretty much solved within half an hour to an hour depending on the shows.  That isn’t life and Marriage with Children actually showed that way before Roseanne did.  Even the Cosby Show had this “perfect” family unit.

Modern Family was also a groundbreaking show in their own way.  They showed extended family with a second wife and a gay son with his gay husband who adopted a daughter from overseas.  They showed 3 smaller families; which is a part of one main family.

You probably wonder where that picture fits in with this blog?  I will try to explain it now.

As I mentioned earlier, they are part of my family.  Yet at the same time, they are what I would say a real life Bundy’s family.

As I mentioned in previous blogs, the Brady Bunch was a wish list of what I wish my family was like.  My family isn’t perfect.  It’s rather dysfunctional, and Marriage with Children depicts one part of my family.

The father, my oldest step-brother is very much like Al Bundy.  He has this entitlement belief, like  Al Bundy.  Even though he was married with children, was there really love or was it obligation.  He felt tied down like Al Bundy did.  They both looks for get-rich quick scheme.

Peg Bundy was very similar to my sister-in-law.  Peg was lazy.  She didn’t cook or clean.  She would foil Al’s scheme all the time.  She was a sex addict.

Kelly Bundy took after Peg in more ways than one.   She was also similar to my oldest niece, Tracy.  I love all my nieces and nephew; so I will get that straight first.  Kelly also had some similarity with Al Bundy as well.  She was looking for ways to break free from that dysfunctional family by any means possible.  I have to admit, I believe that Tracy is doing a wonderful job in breaking free from the bondage of the dysfunction.  I’m proud of her.  Yet at the same time, I’m very much concerned for her as well.

Now Bud Bundy, I would say was way smarter than his parents.  At least he was book smart.  He still falls in the same trap as all of the Bundy’s.  I’m very much concern about his real life counterpart, my only nephew.  He seems to be keeping up with the family tradition.

As dysfunction as the Bundy’s were, when push comes to shove, in the end, they always stood by each other.  This also goes with my family as well.

Even though my family is very dysfunctional, in the end when it’s all said and done, we are somewhat there for each other.  Some more than others!

I think that it would be fun to see the cast from Marriage with Children on Modern Family for their final season.  It will be just to show the connection between the two shows.

I love my family; despite of the dysfunction we all have.  Some days, some of my family members I would love to just give away.  All families have their problems.  There is no perfect family out there.  Even if they pretend to be perfect while in church.  They have their problems too.

I’m glad for the show Marriage with Children for showing the true dysfunctional family for a change.

The latest casualty in the lines of sex scandal is local one for North Dakota and happened just this past spring.  Just south of Fargo, in Richland School District to be precise.

If I got my facts straight, the sex scandal involved older boys hazing the younger boys.  The hazing I’m talking about is of the sexual kinds.

I don’t want to downplay this, because it’s still abuse.

Even though the older boys were sexually hazing the younger boys, the faculty, staff, and the school board were being held liable for it.

Now, I don’t think that they may or may not be liable for it.  I don’t think they made the older kids molest the younger kids.  I mean boys will be boys.

Plus, there is ways to keep things hush if they really wanted to.  I don’t believe that you can blame the school board for this, if they, themselves didn’t know about it when it was happening.

If they knew about it and did nothing; then they should be punish and held liable for it.

To me, it sounds like it was more of a sexual hazing, turned into sexual abuse.

It makes me thinks about the hazing that goes on in colleges fraternity.  I don’t know if it’s happen much up here or not though.

Hazing is forcing someone to do what you want just to be accepted into the group.  It can involved different kinds of abuse; even sexual.

I remember reading few years ago a book about sexual hazing in high school hockey.

Hazing is more about bullies taking advantage of the weaker ones.

If there is one thing that the Richland School District needs to take responsibility for is not combating bully.

They should had learned from the Columbine School’s shooting.  The ones doing the shooting were bullied at one time.  They just crack and went on a shooting spree.

Rather than the victims of abuse at the hands of the bullies, becoming violent to take back their lives; they finally came forward and told about the sexual abuse.

My hats goes off to them!!  It’s not easy to come forward and admit being molested.

The Catholic Church had been plague with the sex abuse scandal for a very long time now.  The church knew about it and kept on covering it up.  Priests were molesting the altar boys for a period of times.  They are slowly trying to do the right things now but it may be a little too late.  The sex abuse in the Catholic church may be the downfall of the church.  Even more than when Martin Luther did his reform and formed the Lutheran church.

There was a high school teacher from West Fargo who was recently charged with molesting some of her male students.

If anything the Richland School District is guilty of; it’s trying to cover-up the abuse.  So I’m glad for those boys who came forward and told their stories.  Kids do not needs to be abuse/molested.  They must be able to stay a kid for as long as they possibly can.

When a child is molested, their innocent is lost forever.   They must grow up fast just to cope with the abuse.

Girls are more apt to tell about being abuse.

Boys, on the other hand, finds it very difficult to talk about the abuse.  The statistic may show higher for girls being abuse; but in the long run, there probably just as much boys being abuse than girls.  It’s just tougher for them to come forward.

Boys are taught to be tough and take it like a man.  They are not to cry and show any signs of weakness.  Being molested shows their weakness.

Hazing is used to teach boys/men to toughen it out.

If a boy is molested by either another older boy like in the Richland School District or a man.  There is a shame factor.  There is a stigma behind it.  They are labeled queer, homosexual, faggot, etc.

In the example of the West Fargo School teacher who molested her male students, it’s a whole different story.  If a boy is molested by a woman, they are high-fived.  If they tell about it, they are to take it as their first sexual experience.

What teenage boys didn’t have a crush on their high school teachers?

I’m proud of those young boys who came forward in the Richland School District in the sexual hazing  from the older boys.  It took courage.  I’m even proud of those boys who came forward against the West Fargo school teacher and the abuse they had suffered as well.

Hazing and sexual abuse is not an easy subject to talk about.  It’s even tougher for boys.

I was waiting for the right time to write this blog; and now the time had come.  Sen. John McCain had just died of cancer.  It’s now time for the truth to comes out about him.  The media didn’t want to offend him upon his death.  I’m not about to sugarcoat the truth for no one.

Some may say, “why don’t you just let it rest?  He is dead.”

To them, I say, “He doesn’t deserve any respect.”

As Paul Harvey would say, “Now, the rest of the story!”

This past week upon reading the letters to the editor, I saw that I’m not alone in thinking that John McCain was no war hero.

According to one of the letters, the American people should reconsider their praise of him.  In another letter, the writer said that he was no maverick.

They called him a hero just because his plane was shot down over Vietnam and he was a POW.  Do you call that being a war hero?

That is nothing to be proud of!

What was so great about the Vietnam War?  Nothing good came out of it!

I lost my cousin, Joey because of that war.  I was 3 years old when he was killed.  I never had the opportunity to get to know him.  Even his nieces and nephews didn’t get a chance to know him.  From what I heard about my cousin, Joey, he adored his family.

The only thing John McCain adored was the power and money behind being a Senator.

My cousin, Joey was more of a war hero than he was.  Even my Uncle John Heger was more of a war hero than McCain.

My Uncle John was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attack.  He was just lucky that he wasn’t on the ship that was bombed.

McCain was a war monger.  He proposed going to war with countries we didn’t need to.  Some people were afraid that Trump would get us into a war.  So far, he kept out of a war because the other countries are afraid to attack.  If McCain had his way,  he would had gotten us into wars.

He supported the Nazi in Ukraine, Al-Quaeda in Libya, Isis in Syria and Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran.

When the governor and sheriff from his home state of Arizona was working to stop illegal immigrants from coming into this country through his home state, he called them out on it.  He didn’t back them up.  He joined the side of Obama and the Democrats and criticized them for it.  He was against the wall being built just like George W. Bush and Jeb Bush.

Who needs 9 mansions anyway?  With his 9 mansion, he could housed some of the homeless population.

It was John McCain who made the first attack on Donald Trump.  Trump was only defending himself; which I don’t blame.

The only reason John McCain attack Trump was because he was jealous that Trump was able to do what he couldn’t, and that was become President.  Thank God!!

The only reason he got the nomination was because Rudy Guillani just fizzled out during the primary of 2008.  McCain was about to drop out.

As Guillani was fizzling out, Obama was just getting warm up.  He was beating Hillary Clinton.  I first wanted Guillani because of what he did as Mayor of New York City after 9/11.  When he gave up, Obama promised changed that won this Republican over.

The change came but it wasn’t the change Obama was talking about.  The Tea Party started under George W. Bush and really hit their stride under Obama.

McCain was so angry with the Tea Party.  He even ordered an investigation from the IRS.  The IRS should investigate his estate!

It was the Tea Party movement that started the American people to start a revolt and throw their support to Donald Trump.  McCain didn’t much care for that.

The only reason McCain chose Sara Palin as his running mate was in hoping of winning the women supports from Obama.  When the fake news media attacked Palin, McCain did nothing to protect her.  He left her out to defend herself.  He was not man enough to stand up for her.

I’m not saying that Sara Palin was the right choice.  I’m just saying that she didn’t deserve to be treated the way she was from McCain and the press.

The politicians of New York are not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act.  They boldly preach what they practice…If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success.  They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

John McCain had no principles.  He had no integrity.  He was just in office for himself.  The rest of the American people gets screwed over.  If he had principles, he would had done the right thing and step down when he found out that he was dying of cancer.  He could had used that time to spend with his family in his 9 mansions.

As bad as Harry Reid was, at least he did the right thing when Trump became President, he stepped down.  Even Paul Ryan is stepping down from the Speaker of the House.  McCain should had step down when he knew that he was dying of cancer.

It reminds me of North Dakota own Senator Quentin Burdick.  Toward the end of Burdick’s life, he just became a figurative person to be wheeled around to special meetings.  He was useless.

Because of people like McCain, we needs term limits for our Senators and Congressman.

Here is a little joke:  McCain met St. Peter at the Pearly gate and said, “do you know who I am?  I’m a war hero.”

St. Peter responded, “I know you not.  What have you done for the people is all that matters.”  Then St. Peter send him downward.

Now with John McCain finally gone, there is still others that we need to get rid of.  It’s time for Mitch McConnell to go and he can takes his buddy John Hoeven with him.  We also needs to get rid of Lindsay Graham, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi.

This election, the people in Minnesota needs to do the right thing and get rid of Colin Peterson.

We need to help Pres. Trump to clean up the swamp in Washington, by getting rid of these lifers, and then get term limits.

As you can see I have no respect for John McCain and I know that I’m not alone.  He was no war hero.  He didn’t deserve the praise that he was getting.  The American people needs to reconsider who is a hero and who deserves our praises.  It sure wasn’t John McCain!

I have more respect for Aretha Franklin who died just a little before McCain.  Aretha Franklin will be remembered, McCain will not!

 

In honor of the last big holiday weekend of summer, we celebrate Labor Day weekend.  Labor day marks the end of summer, like Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer.

In North Dakota, school begins at the end of August.  Whereas in Minnesota, school starts after Labor day.

My question is: why can’t North Dakota starts school after Labor day instead of before?

Family still goes on vacation up until after Labor day.  It’s harder to go when the kids have to start school before Labor day.

I know that there isn’t much to see in North Dakota compares to Minnesota.  That is no excuse not to start school after Labor day though.  The state is right next door to Minnesota.  Many who lives in North Dakota have lake cabins in Minnesota.  Some who don’t, still goes to the lakes to fish or just to get out of town.

I think that school should start after Labor Day and ends before Memorial day.  To make that happens, they can cut into the time off that the teachers/students get during the school year.  I think they get more time-off than I did when I was in school.

When I was in school, if we had too many storm days, we would either make it up during our Christmas break, Easter break or the end of the school year.

Who doesn’t love storm days?

I have to admit I believe the education system is better in Minnesota than it is in North Dakota.  I don’t know if it’s because they start school after Labor day or what.

I don’t understand, because these two states are right next to each others.  So what gives?

I will give an example:   my family was living in West Fargo up until I was in the 5th grade and we moved out on the farm south of Hawley, MN when I started the 6th grade.  What was the highest reading level in North Dakota was the lowest level in Minnesota.  To me it was like starting over.  I was stunned and not very happy.

I also noticed, shortly after school is let out for the summer, about July.  The retail stores starts promoting back-to-school sales.  Now that is so stupid.  Let’s the kids enjoy the summer.  Why should they have to worry about back-to-school supplies in July?

When we were kids, my mother would wait until August to buy our school supplies.  Even as teenagers, we had part-time summer jobs to help with some of our school supplies and clothes.

Kids are constantly growing.  Clothes that you buy in July may not fit your kids by the time school starts.

School is nine months of the years.  Summer is only 3 months.  So summer is very short, and kids need to enjoy the summer weather.  So by having school starts after Labor day and ending before Memorial day, the kids can have a good summer vacation.

While in school, kids are coop up.  Then the teachers wonder why they are so hyper.  Think about it!  There is no place for the energy to go.

Some of the kids who are labeled with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)  may not have it at all.  They just have so much energy from being coop up for 9 months of the year.

Kids need a chance to be kids.  Once you’re an adult, everything goes downhill from there.  Once you are an adult, you have responsibility that must be attend to.  Then we start missing those good old days of our youth.

Believe me, I missed some of my childhood days; and I don’t think I’m alone there.

I think that North Dakota state legislators should look at starting school after Labor day instead before.  I also think that all states should make sure to end  school before Memorial day.  It will be good for our kids.  It will allows them to be kids for as long as they can.  It might even curb their hyperactivity.  Kids shouldn’t have to be drugged because of the so-called ADD.

There is a wide divide between the 1% and the rest of the country.  The homeless population is becoming a huge dilemma.  It really had grown the last while; even under Pres. Obama.

Upon reading this, you may be surprise by what you read; since in a lot of my blogs I come across as being a conservative.

For the longest time, I saw the homeless person as a wino and in need of a bottle(alcohol).  We were always taught never give a bum money when they beg, because they will just go buy more booze.

I remember years ago as I was cutting through the alley on the way home as a shortcut in the evening.  I happened to spied a bum digging through the dumpster.  Let just say, I was scared, and I never took that shortcut in the nighttime again.

Since then I had came up with a different realization about the homeless.

There are families out there who are homeless. They are homeless because they lost their job and home for some reason.  Some are homeless because they cannot afford a house or even renting an apartment.

Cost of living may be low in North Dakota; but renting an apartment can be very expensive.  It all depends where you rent an apartment.  The nicer the area, the higher the rent.  In the slum area, rent will be cheaper, but the crime rate is higher.

Sure a single person can have roommates, but who will wants the headaches.  Sometimes personalities will clash.  I would rather not have a roommate unless it happens to be with my wife if I had one.

There are two of the reason for the homeless dilemma now.

I’m also learning that a lot of the homeless have some form of mental illness.  Because of their mental illness, it’s hard for them to hold down a job.  Some of them with mental illness becomes alcoholics.

Some of the homeless are Veterans.  Some were in the Vietnam War.  Now that war had caused some real trauma for them; thus the reason for their mental illness.  Which proved that war was a war that we shouldn’t had been in in the first place.

Some of the homeless had been in prison.  I think this is one of reason the returns rate for those returning to prison is high.  No one wants to give them a chance to move forward.  Some who had been in prison has some form of mental illness as well.

I have to admit, when the Church United moved into the old Plunkett’s building just on the outskirts of Moorhead, I was skeptical about it being there.  Like the 1%, I felt that it would be an eye sore.

My question is: where do you put them and what to do with them?

The 1% people even thinks those living in trailers is an eye sore.  They are called trailer trash.  Living in a trailer house is cheaper than a house though.

The Democrats wants to throw money at the problems but doesn’t have a solution.  They figured, if they did that and put them on welfare.  That way the taxpayers will have to suit the bill, and they will win over their votes coming election day.

The Established Republicans(1%) people, just wants to ignore the problems and maybe it will goes away.  They just wants to hide them off in a little corner.  They don’t want to deal with the problems.

I know that Jesus said in the Gospels, “You will always have the poor among you.”  It’s just getting worst that’s all.

The saying goes, “Give a man a fish and they will eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish and they will eat for a lifetime.”

We can’t keep throwing money at the problems like the Democrats would like to do.  We can’t ignore the problems either.  We need to find away to handle this dilemma before it gets even more out of hand.  I don’t have the answers to this but I know that something needs to be done.

You can’t force businesses to raise minimum wage, they have to do it on their own.  You can get them counseling to deal with their mental illness; but you can’t make them go.  Like the saying goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink it.”  That is why I’m against court-ordering people to treatment.  They’ll go but they won’t get anything out of it.  They got to want to get the help to better themselves.

Years ago, people with mental illness were locked up in an asylum; so that no one would have to deal with them.  Now, it’s good to see that there are organization out there to help them to become a vibrant part of the community.

Maybe something like that can be done to help the homeless.  It may even cut down on the prison population as well.

At the same time, somehow employers needs to look at raising their wages and be willing to give them a chance.

I have to admit that can be very scary.  The big question: can you trust them?

I know that I have kind of seen the light on this homeless dilemma. My views had change a little.

 

 

For those who don’t know, we are coming up to the anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley.

Now Elvis was the King of Rock and Roll.  This blogger is paying tribute to him.

Before Elvis became famous, he was a truck driver.  He went into a recording studio to record a song for his mother.  The rest became history.

Elvis was born in Torpedo, Mississippi and raised in Memphis, Tennessee.  He had a twin brother that died.

If you look at this picture, you might think that the younger man in the military uniform was Elvis.  A lot of people thought that he looks like Elvis.  Even when he and his family went down to Memphis.  (Enough of that)

Elvis first recorded for Sun Record; along with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Roy Orbinson.

Elvis loved his mother very much.  He even recorded “Mama likes the Roses” and That’s alright, Momma,”  for her.

When he became famous, he bought his mother a mansion in Memphis.  He named that mansion, “Graceland.”

When Elvis first started out; so did television.  He was known as being a true entertainer, that made the girls swoon.  Not only did he had the killer looks, he also knew how to shake it for them.

The first time that Elvis was seen on TV, the so-called religious leaders didn’t want the camera to show him shaking his hips.  They felt that it would too sexual.

As I mentioned in my blog, “Made for each others,”  these religious fanatic throughout history tried to control people, like Pharisees did in Jesus’s days and our government does today.

Elvis had made lots of movies in which he sang in them as well.  It was due to his manager, Col. Tom Parker.

It was while stationed in Germany when he joined the service; that he met Priscilla, who became the love of his life.  She was just a teenager, so he kept that relationship platonic until she became of age.

Some say Priscilla reminded Elvis of his mother.

Even though he dated many starlet, his true love was Priscilla.  They were married in Las Vegas.  They had a daughter, named Lisa Marie.  He was a doting father.  Lisa Marie was born in 1968.

As I mentioned earlier, the ladies just went wild for Elvis.  They loved his looks and the way he shook his hips.  Also when he  sang, it was like he was singing to them personally.  He got right down to them and sang and kissed them.

My mother was no exception for having a big crush on Elvis.  She had every records and saw every movies that Elvis ever did.  Just before Elvis died, he was in Duluth, MN.  My step-dad and brothers were up there catching smelt at the same time.  My mother was upset that she missed the opportunity of seeing Elvis perform live.  Maybe my step-dad was afraid that my mother would leave him for Elvis.

As I said in the beginning, we’re coming up to the anniversary of Elvis’s death at 42 years old.  His mother was pretty much the same age when she died.  In a way, he had this premonition that he too would die young.

Fame was just too much for him to handle.  It all happened quite fast.  He struggled with drugs as well.

Before he died, he tried to win Priscilla back.  She was the love of his life.  Actually, he was also the love of her life as well.

When he died, it was sad time in the seventies for many; especially women.  I know that my mother cried.  He died from a heart attack while in the bathroom of Graceland.

To this date, his estate is worth millions.  Lisa Marie Presley is very rich.  Sales for Elvis’s memorabilia sells like hotcakes.  Graceland is even open for tours.  The fans can also visit his grave at Graceland.

As I said earlier, Elvis was the King of Rock and Roll.  It was because of him, Rock music got it start.  Yet today’s Rock music probably doesn’t recognize him or they had forgotten about him.  He is now more link to Country Music.

Even though, these so-called religious fanatic tried to stop them from showing him shaking his hips on television; he also had gospel recording as well.  There isn’t many artist who had charted the Rock, Country, and Gospel music like Elvis did.

As said earlier, my mother had a crush on Elvis.  So I grew up listening to him.  I have to admit I even wanted to be a singer just like Elvis.  I wanted that fame and attention as well.  I even performed during lunch hours at the school.

That picture in the beginning was of my cousin, Ernie.  Some would say that he looked like Elvis.

Elvis will always be remembered.  He missed out seeing his grandkids; which he would had adored, as much as his only daughter, Lisa Marie.  Long live the KING!!

Here is one of the reason I like this time of year, one of many.

Usually around July and August, a person can get some fresh vegetables either from the garden themselves or from a vegetable stand.

There is nothing like eating fresh vegetables right out of the garden.  Plus it is healthy eating.  But you still have to be careful.

In May, after around Mother’s Day, is the time to plant a garden; at least around here.  I’m not saying that it won’t freeze.  I’m just saying it’s almost a safe bet.

Planting a garden can be hard works; but the rewards is so much better in the end.  It is fun to work out in the garden and watches everything grows.  It may be hot outside.  You may even get a little dirty.  But dirt doesn’t hurt anyone!

Some of the peoples think that they had discovered organics vegetables.  I’m here to tell you that we always had organics vegetables.

There are people who put fertilizers and chemicals on the garden to help it grow and to keep the pest away.

Let me tell you: those chemicals in our pesticides and fertilizers is poison.  They makes the fruits and vegetables that we eat unhealthy and strictly bad for you.

The best fertilizer is true manure or none at all.  Growing up on the farm, my step-dad never bought those fertilizer.  He either used manure from the cattle or the chickens we had; or he didn’t used any fertilizer.  There was enough nutrition in the soil.  We never used pesticide to keeps the pest away.  We never sprayed that poison.  Sometimes, we will set traps to catch rabbits and gophers.

I have a cousin who has a compost for his garden.  That is another more natural way in planting a garden.

There is one thing I do agree with Al Gore and Global Warming, and that is all these chemicals that is put either in the ground when planting a garden or sprayed on our fruits and vegetables is actually causing a lot of damage to this planet.

When it rains, the chemicals runs off and into other areas to pollute.  There is a small lake in Rollag that is highly polluted because the farmers used fertilizer on their field and it had ran off into that lake, polluting it.  Even the Red River is polluted because of all the chemicals put into our soils and it runs into the river.  The strange thing is, we drink out of the Red River.  Sure, there is chemicals to purify the water we drink.  Yet it is still poison!

This is one of the reason I was against the Dakota Pipeline being built in North Dakota.  If that pipeline was to bust, the oil in it will pollute our soil so bad that farmers cannot plant a decent crop.  Remember, next time Sen. John Hoevan is up for reelection, he voted for the pipeline; so vote him out of office with a big old thanks for poisoning us.

People were healthier years ago when they ate fresh vegetables.  They didn’t have all the chemicals we now have.  I’m not saying they lived longer.  When they died, they died of a heart attack due to good old fashion hard work.

With all these poisons from the chemicals in the fertilizers and pesticides, no wonder we are becoming sick.  A lot of these poisons caused cancer.  People are becoming so immune to all preservative that they cannot fathom.  There is so much preservative in all of our food that we eat.  It’s downright unhealthy.

When you buy can vegetables in a store, they are so unhealthy.

I loved going out into the garden and getting fresh vegetables and just eating it right there.  I do not like cook peas that you buy in a can; because they are just too mushy.  Yet, I loved eating fresh peas from the garden.

When a person get some fresh vegetables from right out of the garden, just shake the dirt off and eat.  Some people think, you can’t do that.  You need to wash you food.  A little dirt doesn’t hurt anybody.  I’m still alive and healthy; and I had a little dirt on vegetables that I ate right out of the garden.

When you are fighting other animals for your fruits and vegetables, you know that you are eating good healthy food.

When you get zucchini from a garden they should be a decent size.  When you buy zucchini in a store, they are so small, it doesn’t pay.  Yet there are people who do not knows how to fix zucchini; so they buys them from the store rather than a vegetables stand.  They just don’t realize that zucchini gets to be big and long.  You can bake zucchini bread, fry, and sautéed.

I remember as a teenager, my mother would fixed BLT for lunch on Saturday with the fresh lettuce and tomatoes from the garden.  That was so delicious!  My mother would either canned or freeze the vegetables so that we can have fresh vegetables during the winter.  She would even can homemade vegetables soup.  Then during the winter, all she needed to do was add the meat or heat it up by itself.  I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.

Eating salads is good for you.  Yet when you add the salad dressing, that what makes it fattening.  I’m looking for other ways to eat salad at home without using salad dressing.  It’s hard because it needs some flavors.

I love this time of year because I can eat more fresh vegetables.  Yet I’m not limiting myself in eating healthy food.  I have been finding some organic food that I can fix and be healthy.  I have now ate Quinoa, couscous, and Tabouleh.  I even bought some Farro.  I’m not saying that I eat healthy everyday; but I’m working at it daily.  I even put 2 Tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar in a glass of cold water.  That is suppose to help prevent kidney stones and help curb appetites.

So if you don’t have a garden check out your local vegetables stand.  Make sure the vegetables you buy isn’t sprayed with pesticides and there was no chemicals in the fertilizer.  Make sure that either the fertilizer was natural or none at all.

You want to eat healthy but you don’t want to eat poison that comes from our pesticides and fertilizer.  If the government wants to do something right, they should banned those pesticides and fertilizers.

Eat your vegetables!!  They are good for you as long as they don’t have these poison chemicals on them.  My mother always made sure that us kids ate our vegetables.  My real father hated when my mother bought me vegetables with my meal.

Kids who are reading this are going ewe.  Vegetables will help you grow big and strong.