Not too long ago, there was a news story about a restaurant in North Fargo, where the owner was complaining about that they may have to close because they wasn’t able to get enough help.  The owner even said, “There is not enough workers.”

I got news for them, there are plenty of workers in Fargo-Moorhead.  They just got to be willing to pay them.  If businesses are not willing to pay, workers will just go somewhere else.

As I said in previous blog, North Dakota is so cheap; when birds fly, they go cheap, cheap.  The minimum wage is only $7.50/hour, the lowest in the nation.  Even Paul Harvey said before he died, North Dakota is the only state where people have to work 2-3 jobs just to make a living.

In the restaurant business, those who are waitress or waiter, gets either $7.50 or less an hour.  The owner figured that they get tips; so they don’t have to pay them more money.  Tips should not be a factor in how much they get paid per hour.  Tips are added bonus for them.  Some business prefer that you not get tips.  For example: once in awhile, I may get a tip at Kmart if I help a customer with a carry-out.  I’m not suppose to accept it; but what they don’t know won’t hurt them. That is an added bonus; so businesses shouldn’t use tips to keep from paying better wages.  Anymore than they should dictate that you shouldn’t get a tip either.

Why should workers work for less money, when they can go somewhere else for more money?  I mean, there are more and more day labor places plopping up lately.  People are choosing to work at these day labors jobs, because they get paid more an hour and they can choose to work when they want to.  I don’t see how they can make a living doing that.

I mean, I have done some works through day labor; but I only did it for extra money.  You can make a living.  Some days you get a job and some days you don’t.  Unless maybe this a way to fool the government during tax time.

I mean there is so much red tapes and hoops to jump through involving filing our taxes.  By making only so much, they can still get money back and avoid red tape.  Maybe some are on Government assistance and they only can make so much.  That is why we need to cut some of these Government programs, to get able body people working and stop smooching off the Government, the taxpayers.  I’m not saying that there aren’t people who doesn’t need help.  I’m just saying that there are people taking advantage of a good thing.

By eliminating some of these Government regulation, maybe business can pay better wages.

Today’s generation have a different perspective and work ethics.  They want more money and less hour.  They want more money for easier job.  My sister, Shirley, and I joked around once in awhile.  These young people will be taking care of us while we’re in a nursing home.  We would probably need a cane just to order them to take better care of us or else.

They want more money but they want to work when they want to.  Some of them think; since Kmart is a dying business, I should just quit and find a better high paying job.  They would!  Some of them wouldn’t even take a job for less money.

Sometimes, a person got to take the first thing that comes their way.  As Maureen Zimmerman, when she was a co-anchor on WDAY news, said to me when I was a teenager, “You just need to get your foot in the door.”  In other words take what you can get, get your experience, and work your up the ladder.

I remember years ago, I was hired by 2 restaurant, one was Randy’s and the other was the Viking’s Room in the old Holiday Mall.  Randy’s paid more an hour but at the Viking’s Room, I got more hour.  So what do you think was the better offer?  Even Randy’s paid more per hour, I got paid more at the Viking’s Room.  Getting paid more an hour doesn’t necessary mean more money.  They could pay more but they could make sure that they don’t give you enough hour.  So what good is that?

Today’s generation probably wouldn’t see it that way.

I put in 8 years at Fargo Country Club, and when I was finally offer a better paying job working at Concordia College.  Believe me, I took that job offer.  So you have to be willing to get your foot in the door by taking a job with less money until you can work your way up.

That doesn’t give businesses the license not to pay better wages to their employees, and offer decent benefits to them as well.

There are places that are very good to work for in Fargo-Moorhead, but they are hard to come by.  The reason, the turnout is very low.  When an employee is paid good, getting decent benefits, and treated well by management, they are going to stick it out.  When you have low pay, no benefits, and poor managements, you can’t keep help.  Don’s Car wash and Cash Wise are example of that.  They are always looking for help.  Even when Kmart had a bad manager not to long ago, they lost a lot of help and it was very hard to get help.

First of all, for those looking for a job, take what you can get until something better comes your way.

To the business owner, if you want people to work for you, you have to pay them more money, give them decent benefits, and treat them well.

There are business learning that.  Some of these fast food joints are willing to pay more an hour.

To those who say that I should jump ship and quit Kmart before they do end up closing, I say to them.  “I’m too young to retire but too old to move on.  I have never been out of a job for very long.  I have always found another job.  Besides, I still got my job at the Fargo Dome that I truly enjoy.  I’m now writing blogs for the internet, and I hope someday to get paid for these blogs.  So I’m not worried as some would be.”

 

 

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there.  Not all mothers are the same but all needs to recognize and cheered.

My mother been gone for 5 years now but her memory lives on.  She may gave birth to one child but she raised 7 kids plus nieces and nephews.

Before I was born, the doctor told my mother that she couldn’t have any kids; then I came along.

My mother started out as a single mother.  So when Vice-President Dan Quail attacked Murphy Brown for being a single mother, I go on  the defensive.  My mother never married my real father.  Even if she did, it wouldn’t last, because he cheated on her.  She never went on welfare.  There was time that she worked 2 jobs to take care of me.  Luckily my grandmother lived with us to help take care of me.

My hat goes off to all those single mothers out there.  You got it very hard.  You have to be a mother and a father.  It’s hard to work and raise a family.  So Dan Quail, you were such an idiot.  No wonder the first George Bush lost his reelection.  He never stood a chance.  With Dan Quail as his Vice-President, Bill Clinton, and crazy as a fox, Ross Perot.  Bill Clinton was the better of 3 evil.  I mean the old joke back then was, “The CIA had order to shoot to kill Quail if anything happen to Bush.”

Now back to my tribute to mothers.

My mothers made sure that us kids never went without.  There was a time, I crawled up into her bed and bit her in the ass, only for attention, because I hadn’t seen her for a long time.

When I had my eye surgery, my mother was there pretty much the whole time.  She told me later that I told her to go home and all she did was went for a drive.

So when she had her stroke and was in Sanford on Broadway.  It was a Friday night during ribfest at the Fargo Dome and Montgomery Gentry was performing. After work, I walked over to Sanford to sleep in her hospital room to be there for her like she was always there for me.

A mother loves unconditionally all her children.  She loves like God loves us, unconditionally.  Believe me, there are members in my family that are not easy to love either.  My mother even loved all her grandkids and great-grandkids.  Some probably more than others but only reasons that she could explain.

When my step-dad proposed to my mother, he was only going to bring 2 kids to live with us.  Two was of age and they didn’t really count.  Now my mother told him all of the kids or no marriage.  That was how much the family meant to her.

Even before my mother had me, she was an aunt first and some of nieces and nephews thought of her as mother.  One even called her mother.  When the doctor told her sister, Rosella that Tony would never walk.  It was my mother who never gave up on him and got him to walk.  He beats the odds.

My mother wanted to be a nurse but could never lived her dream because she had to drop out of school to help raise her younger sister, Joanne.  She even had dream of me being a lawyer. For some reason, I don’t know why.

Even when I went to school to become a Chef, I have to admit, I learned more about cooking from my mother.  When she died, it was me to pick up the gauntlet to make her famous baked beans for dad for Christmas.

When I went out West 2 years ago on train to celebrate her brother, Leo’s 80th birthday and my 50th, I took the train.  Believe I could feel her presence sitting beside me on the train.  She would had loved to went along.  family meant a lot to her.  She hated to see family members fighting.  It hurt her so.  She didn’t like it with her brothers and sisters, and she definitely wouldn’t like it with her kids.

She even said if she could had afford it, she would had paid for my sister, Barb, who had cancer to seek recovery at Rochester.  She figured that she may had a better chance of survival.

My mother may be gone but her memory lives on.  Toward the end of her life, she was more concerned with her husbands and kids than her own life.

So it goes to show that mothers would do anything for their kids.  They would practically die for them.  My folks marriage may not been no bed of roses.  There love song was “Rose Garden”, by Lynn Anderson.  She had the unconditional love that all mothers have.

Yet there are mothers out there that probably shouldn’t have kids either.  Mothers who doesn’t seem to watch their kids.  Like the young child that was killed on University Drive in South Fargo in the pouring rain.  That mother was too busy playing on her phone to pay attention to her child.

Or how about mothers who let there daughters enter child beauty pageant.  They are setting up their daughters to become victims of child sexual abuse.  If a child is not 18, they should not be allowed to be in a pageant.

Or how about the reality show, Kate plus 8.  I think Kate was an unfit mother to be a part of that show.  She cared more the money than she did her own kids.  I mean child stars have a very hard time once they become an adult.

The only way they survive is, if they had a good mother with morals.

I don’t want to be so hard on those bad mothers out there, because this is there day to celebrate.  Thank God for mothers!  Without mothers, where would we all be?  I don’t care what kind of mother you may. My hat goes off to you.  I honor and respect you from the bottom of my heart.  I know that my own mother is up in heaven watching over me and all her children, grandchildren, great-grand-children, and even nieces and nephews.  She wouldn’t be happy to see any of her kids not getting along for whatever reason.

First, I have to admire Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.  She votes with a conscious not the party line.  I may be a Republican and she is a Democrat; but she does the right thing.  Hopefully the corruptness in Washington doesn’t get to her, the way it gets to all the others.  The Democrats may not be happy with her right now; because of her vote for Gorshach for Supreme Judge.  Keep up the good work, Heidi.  Maybe that’s why Pres. Trump thought of her to be in his cabinet.

I wish Sen. Hoeven would do that, but we all know he doesn’t.  He votes the party line; just because his buddy, Mitch McConnell from Kansas, vote a certain way, Hoeven feels that he has to too.

Mitch McConnell is so old and out of touch, that he needs to step down.  He had been in Washington so long that he is just corrupted by the power.  Pres. Trump wants term limits for our Senators and Congressman; and McConnell doesn’t want it, because he is afraid of losing his power.  So Pres. Trump should call him out on it, and that way the people can see how he just needs to go away.

Senator Hoeven done nothing for this state, not even when he was Governor.  He inherited the surplus from Gov. Ed Shaffer.  Shaffer wasn’t even part of the Establishment and career politician that is corrupted.

Even Hoeven’s wife said at a luncheon, “Do you know who I am?”  It’s almost like she expected special treatment.  Ya, we know who you are, Mikey Hoeven and we do not care.  You’re no better than anyone else.  You don’t deserve special treatment.

It was utterly ridiculous when people like Sen. Al Carlson criticize Gov. Burgum for wearing jeans at the capital in a session.  How stupid was that.  He’s the governor and he is setting a standard in Bismarck.  Al Carlson is just neo-Nazi that also needs to go.  Burgum should put his foot down and put them in their place.  Remember, Carlson didn’t even wanted Burgum, because he wasn’t a part of the Establishment, like Carlson’s buddy, Wayne Stengheim.  Stengheim been in politics so long that he is just corrupted, just like Al Carlson.

Look at the Minnesota side, Congressman, Colin Peterson also been in Washington way to long.  He wants to runs again for another term.  The people should say to him, “Hell no!  You been in there way too long!”

Amy Krochabar is the kind of Democratic Senator that votes straight party line.  She should take notes from Heitkamp.  Instead, Amy would vote with Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren no matter what.

Al Franklin, who wasn’t a career politician, still is just a buffoon.  He is as fall left as Minnesota’s counterpart.

I hate to admit it, but Gov. Dayton is doing a better job than I thought he would.  He got the state out of the black.  The State of Minnesota was struggling under Tim Pawlenty’s leadership.

I love it when Trump let McCain have it.  Sen. McCain is another one, like McConnell that should just go away and retire.  They both are so old and out of touch with what the people wants.  They are corrupted with power.  McCain is just jealous that Trump pulled off what he couldn’t.  McCain is no war hero.  He is a whining baby just like McConnell, and both needs to go.

So Pres. Trump should push for term limits for our Congress and Senate; and if they don’t want it, let the people know so that they will be found out.

Just like Al Carlson should step down as State Senator.

I don’t understand why Trump wants to side in with Paul Ryan.  Ryan was so against Trump too.  Since Trump won big in Ryan’s home state, Trump should use that against Ryan and force him out of the House of Representative.

At least Kevin Kramer isn’t a part of the Establishment, anymore that Heitkamp is.  Remember, Trump was considering both of them for his cabinet.  He didn’t think of Hoeven, because he knew better.

I have to admit, I didn’t vote for Kramer and Heitkamp the first time they ran.  I was afraid that Kramer was just another career politician; but he proved me wrong.

I couldn’t vote for Heitkamp the first time either; but I didn’t vote for Rick Berg either.  I couldn’t vote for Berg, because I felt that power had corrupted him.  I have nothing against Berg personally.  I knew him before he made in big in politics.  He was a nice guy.  The corruptness just corrupted him.  He should just stayed in the House for another term, but he became greedy.  As so many of these career politician had became.

Absolute power corrupt absolutely.  We didn’t have income tax until 1913.  It was under Pres. Woodrow Wilson that income tax was added into the Constitution.  That made him one of the worse President, and gave more power to our already corrupt Government.

As long as Heitkamp doesn’t become corrupt, I will vote for her.  I’m also in favor of term limits.  It will take away the power from our Government.  As I said in previous blogs, we also must eliminate the IRS and income tax.

May Pres. Trump clean up Washington from all the corrupted career politicians and work hard to get term limits.  May he also eliminate the IRS and income tax.  May we get more people like Heitkamp, Kramer, Trump, Burgum, Shaffer.  May it’s time that people consider me as Senator over Hoeven.

There is so much businesses closing right now in Fargo-Moorhead; it get me thinking about West Acres.  The last few months stores like: Kmart, Sears, Payless, Macy, Family Christian store, and many others had closed their doors.

I have this one thing to say.  If they close JC Penny and Payless in West Acres, there is no more reason for me to go the mall.  I prefer shopping at those 2 stores along with Family Christian store.  They are more up my alley.

When Sears closed, it didn’t hurt my feelings any.  As I said in my past blog, it was a big mistake for Kmart to bail Sears out.  Sears is the downfall of Kmart.

Sears and JC Penny are the two oldest retail stores.  They both started in the earlier 1900.  Other stores, such as Montgomery Wards and Woolworth are gone.

I prefer shopping at both Payless and JC Penny, because I gets good deals on clothes and shoes.  When they go. why should I bother going to West Acres?  There will be no more reason to go shopping there.  Sure the Food Court is nice; but a person can eat any other place.  I can go to Best Buy, but I do not have to step into West Acres.

I don’t shop at Macy and Herbergers because they are too expensive for me.

It seems all the managers at West Acres care about is bringing in Specialty store in the mall.  Stores that only attract certain type of people.

Also, On-line orders are becoming very huge.  More people are choosing to order online.  I don’t know about you, but I prefer seeing what I’m buying.  I prefer trying on the clothes before I buy it.  Each styles fit differently with the sizes.  Yet, there are people, millennium in particular who prefer shopping online.  They thinks that it is more convient.  To me, it is just pure laziness.  I don’t like to shop either, but it’s best to see what you are getting before you buy it.

Don’t get me wrong!  I did order some stuff on online last year for Christmas.  Sometimes to find the hard stuff, a person have to shop online.

Another thing is the rent is too high for businesses to stay open at West Acres.  Haven’t the managers learned the valuable lesson from past malls in Fargo-Moorhead?

First, let us look at the old Holiday Mall, in South Moorhead.  In the 70’s Holiday mall was booming because of stores like Tempo, Ben Franklin, Piggley Wiggley, Foss Drugs, and Viking Rooms café.  As a child, while living in West Fargo, our family would go to Holiday Mall on Sunday after church.  We would have lunch at Viking Room and shop those stores that I mentioned.

When Kmart decided to open their store in Moorhead, so they can be open on Sunday, Tempo became scared and decided to close up shop.  When Tempo closed, Alco opened but it wasn’t the same.  Soon the Holiday Mall became a dying breed.  In the 80’s, Viking Rooms was out there but there wasn’t much other business worth shopping at.  There was Best Buy; but Best Buy made their best move when they opened near West Acres.  Soon Holiday Mall became no more.

Moorhead Center Mall is another example that the manager of West Acres can learn from.  What is in Moorhead Center Mall?  The parking lot is full but what is in there?  There is nothing worth while.

Even the old Northport Mall is also dying breed.  The reason why they are dead is because the rent is high and all the businesses is moving south, near West Acres.  Yet there are still people living in North Fargo.  Where are they to shop that is convient?

It seems that JC Penny and Kmart is running a race just to see who will close first.  There both struggling and are a dying breed.  We need these type of stores.

So you managers at West Acres get smart before it’s too late.  Because if Payless and JC Penny close, you will lose this customer.  I can go to another Verizon other than the mall.  I can go to Best Buy without even going to West Acres.  I can even stop eating in your food court.

I like wrestling as much as anyone; but there is something about WWE that makes a person wonder.  Is it real or fake?

What they do in WWE is more for entertainment purpose.  In a real wrestling match in high school and college they don’t go as overboard as they do in WWE.  They don’t use a chair or any other objects in the wrestling match.  It’s just two people wrestling on a mat.

I went out for wrestling back in the 4th or 5th grade.  I didn’t really get a chance to compete, because I became sick and missed out on a lot of trainings before the tournaments.

I remember my mother telling me how much she loved watching midget wrestle.  She said, “it was fun to watch.”

That is what watching wrestling on WWE is just pure entertainment.  Those wrestlers are showman.  They are there to entertain us.  They’ll go all out to do that to.  Starting with psyching their opponents out.  They’ll use whatever means there is to win.

Some wrestlers is even on steroids.  Now steroids is on dangerous drug.  It can wreck your body and your mind.  I don’t understand why people choose to use steroids.  When just working out is the best way.  They just want to be bigger and stronger than their opponents.

Like I said, “it’s entertainment.”  I remember watching “Dynasty” in the ’80’s, and the biggest episodes was when Krystal and Alexis would fight.  People just love watching them fight. Linda Evans and Joan Collins were friends while filming “Dynasty.”  Men would pay almost anything to watch women fight, either mud, jello, or however.

That is the way it is with wrestling on WWE.  People like to be entertain no matter what.

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t want to meet some of these wrestlers on the streets.  Some are very scary looking.  I’m no fighter!

Yet some wrestlers may just be a teddy bear that they don’t want the fans to know.

Like I said before, I like wrestling.  I was a fan of Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage.

A lot of their wrestling match is mostly talk just to psyche their opponents up.

Wrestling is a very dangerous entertaining sport.  These wrestlers have to make it entertaining, just to be famous and rich.  Because they can’t do it all their life.  They do have a lot of physical aches and pain, and even mental pain as well.

When you watch WWE, the wrestlers doesn’t wear protective gear, like they do in high school and college wrestling.  The reason why for the protective gear in high school and college wrestling is for their safety.

I had a classmate that I graduated with who was a star wrestler in high school.  He got hurt in a wrestling match and to this day he pays for it.  He now would get epileptic seizure every once in a while if he doesn’t keep up with his medication.  I found this out when we were at our all-school reunion and were downtown in Hawley during the parade.  He had a seizure right next to me, and I have to admit, it scared me.  He fell very hard on the ground, hitting his head.  He let out a scream as he was going to down.  He nearly landed on my foot.

So you see, wrestling can be very dangerous sport.  So those in the wrestling field have to do whatever it takes to make it entertaining, so people would enjoy watching it.  They are trying to make a quick living, because they know deep down that they can’t do it forever.

When their wrestling career is over they have to find something else to, if they aren’t killed or injured real bad.  Jesse Ventura became an actor and the governor of Minnesota.  He now does the talk show circuit.

Wrestling isn’t the only thing hard on a person, so is boxing.  Mohammed Ali was the greatest boxer ever, in my lifetime.  Look at what happened to him.  He came down with Parkinson’s Disease, until his death recently.  He would be truly missed.

So what do you think?  Is wrestling on WWE real or pure entertainment?

Happy Easter everyone!  I know that it may not be politically correct; but I’m not the kind of person to be politically correct, as you can tell from my blogs.

It seems Easter has lost it’s true meaning.  Easter had become way to commercialize, like a lot of these holidays out there.

Easter is suppose to be a time to remember that Jesus Christ had rose from the dead and reigns in Heaven until the undetermined time of His return.  He conquered death and Satan, so that we can have victory.  He will return again.  Jesus is alive!!

To all you skeptics out there that may be reading my blogs, and I know there are probably a few, I’m not apologizing for this blog.  Peace be with you also!

Some may say that Jesus was just a prophet.  There is no reason to really celebrate Easter.  If that’s the case, why do we do it?  Can’t be the Easter bunny?  Anymore than it can be Santa Clause to why we celebrate Christmas?

Easter, just like Christmas has become too commercialize.  The retailers are capitalizing on this holiday as well.  It just another holiday for an excuse to spend money.  As though we need an excuse.

It seems every year people have to buy a new Easter outfit for church, clothes and shoes.

Speaking of church, it seems the only time church really gets filled is around Easter, Christmas, wedding, and a funeral.  Especially, if you are from a Lutheran or Catholic background.  There are people who does go to church every Sunday.  It just during those time more people flock to church than ever.

When I was a child, the only time my folks went to church was for Easter, Christmas, wedding, and a funeral.  Before my mother died she went to church more often and became saved and a believer.

Another thing about Easter and retail is that it’s similar to Halloween.  How, you may ask?  Look at how people goes out of their ways to buy Easter candies and baskets.  Rabbits don’t lay eggs, chicken do; but somehow rabbits gets associated with Easter eggs around Easter time.  People would die Easter eggs after they boiled them.  Then they would hide them for the kids to find.  Or they would put them in an Easter basket.  There is just another reason to buy candies for Easter.

My mother loved those peeps.  To me they are way to sweet.  I loved the malted eggs, jelly beans, or the small chocolate eggs candies.  This year, I didn’t buy much Easter candies though.

When people think Easter, they think Spring and the end of winter.  So they celebrate. Jesus is the last things from most people mind.  They want new clothes, spend time with the family, they do major spring cleaning, and even start planning a garden.  In the 1800’s, the ladies would have to get a bonnet to wear to church on Easter Sunday.

With my family, growing up, my mother would buy us new outfit for Easter that we would wear to church the first time.  She would get Easter basket with candies for us kids.  Sometimes she would hide them and other times she would just put them on the kitchen table.  She would baked ham for Easter dinner. While it was baking in the oven, the whole family would go to church.

I remember, one Easter, my mother took us kids to St. Mary’s Catholic church in North Fargo, right on Broadway.  There was five that she took, the 2 oldest wasn’t there.  Maybe she only did it one time because we were too much to handle, by herself, or else we started going to a Lutheran church.  The reason we went to St. Mary than, the Bishop was there doing the service then.

Also around Easter time, usually was dad’s birthday and my sister, Bonny’s birthday; so she would also have a birthday cake to celebrate their birthday as well as Easter.  We even celebrate her birthday at the same time, when the family got older.  It was time for the family to get together.

As Easter became a time  for buying new clothes, housecleaning, gardening, and merrymaking.  Let us think rather in terms of what Easter really means for our lives as we face the uncertainties of a chaotic world. Easter isn’t about all that.  It’s about Jesus and the fact that He’s alive!

I remember when bars were closed on Good Friday.  Now it’s just another Friday.  Like Easter is just another Sunday.  This past weekend, there was a concert at the Fargo Dome right on Good Friday.  It was a good concert.  I worked it.  Lee Brice and Dustin Moore were there performing with Brett Young.  Years ago before bars were open on Good Friday, that would never happen.

So you can see, time is a changing.  People are getting away from the Lord and church.  As this happen more and more, the end can’t be far off.  Jesus will return again.  As Reba McEntire sings, “We must get back to God.”

This blog is more local.  You have been hearing in the news lately about Craig Cobb and his neo-Nazism thinking.  He even purchase an old church building in Nome, North Dakota; in which to start his own cult, so-to-speak.  You also heard that the church mysteriously burned down.

He is a racist pig in my book.

As I mentioned in previous blogs, I don’t like the illegal immigrants coming into this country.  Or them coming into the country and can’t speak English.  But if they come into this country legally and learned our language and culture, I’m find with that.  America was founded by the melting pot theory.  We all started out as immigrants.  The only natural born American citizen was the Native Americans.  He must had forgotten that.

Is he a monster or a wounded individual?

If you know anything about the history of Adolf Hitler, you would remember that he was labeled a monster.  Did you know that when Adolf Hitler was a kid in school, he had a Jewish teacher that was abusive toward him.  That was one of the reason he hated the Jews.

I wonder if maybe, Craig Cobb had a similar experience to make him the he is.

I mean, it’s all possible.  He’s from that generation Martin Luther King Jr. “I had a Dream”, speech.  I remember a lot when I was growing up, all the racist comments made by my step-dad.  But that don’t make me a racist; anymore than his comment on women makes me a sexist.

Even though, my step-dad came across as racist, he still voted for Obama over Hillary or even McCain.

In my book, the Neo-Nazism and KKK are way worst than the Militia in Montana.  The Militia is only trying to take back America for the people from the Government.  Yet the government seems to attack them more.

The Neo-Nazism and KKK have to hide their face by wearing sheets.  Believe me, they should to.  They should hide in shame for the shame they put on America.

Some of you may think that I’m pretty brave right now.  I’m going to tell you of a nightmare I had when I was a kid.  In the nightmare, I was in Detroit Lakes and I witnessed the KKK mistreating a black guy.  So I went up there and told them to knock it off.  They first asked, “Who I was?”, and then started chasing me.  I woke up scared and was afraid to go back to sleep.

Craig Cobb is giving Trump credit for his popularity right now.  Trump has nothing to do with him being a monster.  I don’t believe Trump is as much as a racist as Cobb is.  That church he was going to start in Nome, ND, he was going to name it after Trump.  Pres. Trump should put his foot down on Cobb.

I don’t know what started the fire in Nome but say, “good riddance.”  He doesn’t love America the way he does.  If he did, he would love all race.

If he wants to blame anyone for this mess though, he can blame Pres. Obama.  Pres. Obama had a chance to really make a difference in this country.  Instead, under Obama, we had more racial uprising than ever.  Obama wasn’t what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had in mind with his “I had a Dream” speech.  He could had but he brought out more racial tension instead.

So who is really to blame for Craig Cobb?  Is he a monster or a wounded individual?  Is society or his childhood responsible for his behavior?

I may seem brave for writing this blog.  I have this thought, if anything happen to me, you probably can guess what happen to me.  I piss the wrong person off.  Believe me, I knew a person who was a member of the KKK, but that was years ago.

So Mr. Craig Cobb and all your so-called friends, in the words of Rodney King, “Can’t we all just get along?”

As I mentioned in last week, this would be a two part blog.  Big brother is watching us.  The Federal Government had gotten too big for it’s own good.  In “1984”, the government also had gotten too big.

Our Forefathers were afraid of this happening too.  The Federal Government job was to oversees the state and local government and to protect the country, and that’s all.  But these career politicians been enjoying the power that comes with it.

One of things that Pres. Reagan tried to do was to give the power back to the state and local government; where it belongs.  We shouldn’t have to pay federal income tax.  We need to eliminate the IRS.  We need a flat tax rate.  It’s not the federal government to worry about healthcare; but rather the state take care of their own people.

Obamacare is a mess!   We needed better health insurance, but there is just too many flaws in Obamacare.  People shouldn’t be force into it.  To fix the problem is very tricky though.

Paul Ryan had a healthcare bill that could be worse than Obamacare if it didn’t work out.  Even Pres. Trump realize it.  To fix the problem, a person must be very careful.  A perfect analogy is, it’s like cutting a wire on a bomb.  If you cut the wrong wire, the bomb could blow up prematurely.  Trump realize that.

I don’t know if anyone seen the movie on the internet called, “Thrive, the Movie”,  by Mr. Proctor.  He also talked about the government becoming too big and corrupted.  He mentioned that Pres. Thomas Jefferson was the first president that did not want the Federal Reserves in this country.  The Federal Reserves came here from France.  Jefferson saw that organization as being corrupted.  Pres. John F. Kennedy was the last President to be against the Federal Reserves.  Some may even say was the reason why he was assassinated.  When you take on a big organization, you are somehow killed or disappeared.  Kennedy was a Nationalist, and today’s Democrats wouldn’t accept him.

President Reagan had faced opposition from the Democrats, his own party and even the press.  He was a Nationalist, just like Pres. Trump.

In “1984”, anyone who took on the organization called the Big Brother faced opposition.  The watchdogs for big brother was the media.

You can say what you want, but it seems that the media, the press is the watchdog for our corrupted big government.

When I took journalism class, we were taught that a good reporter are to ask the 5 w’s, who, what, where, when, and why.  Do they do that?  Hell no!!  The news media doesn’t inform the news, they make the news.  They’ll the words around just to suit them.  I wouldn’t doubt that they are on the government payroll, just like in “1984”.  They are very leftist media.  They never went after Hillary like they did Trump.

The last great reporter was Walter Cronkite.  He reported the news with integrity and honesty.  We always had yellow journalism throughout history.  It just had gotten worst once Cronkite retired.  Dan Rather was mild to what we got now.  CBS was criticize for being very liberal, but that’s nothing. Look at MSN, NBC news.  They are even worse that Rather.  Rachael Maddow, she needs to be taken out behind the barn and taught what it means to have integrity as a reporter.  I mean, throughout the election coverage, she didn’t want to even think of Trump winning.  Then when Trump won, the smirk was wipe off her face.

I could go on forever on these fake news reporters and name them one by one.  But I will save it for a later day and right the opportunity.

I admire Pres. Trump for sticking it to the man.  I admire the way he goes after the media, the Established Republicans and the Democrats.  Keep up the good work!  You got balls!  We need more people like you.

If you noticed my blogs, I too stick to the man.  I’m just not as vocal as Trump.  Some may say, there goes that angry blogger again.  Who is he gonna attack this time?  Yet people seems to really enjoy those type of blogs.  There are more viewers for them, then there are for the softer blogs.

At times, I tell myself, I should try to be kinder.  That’s not me though.  I got to be me!  I’m not going to sugarcoat the truth.  I don’t think you would want me to either.  I, too is a nationalist.  I want to make America great again.  I want to give America back to the people and out of the corrupted Federal Government.  If the big brother is reading this, and I know they are.  I’m ready and I’m not alone, anymore.  Thanks to Pres. Trump, there are more of us and we are becoming stronger.  We don’t want to be a one world government, like in Europe, or in the book, “1984.”  We want our country back to what our forefathers had intended the government to be.  They would not be very thrilled to how corrupted they have become.  George Washington would even want his name take off Washington DC as corrupted as they are.

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How many of you had read the book, “1984”, George Orwell?

It was written in 1948 and was reinstated to the best seller list in 1984.  I read that book in 1984, because that was the year I graduated from high school.

In that book, it talks about Big brother and how he is watching us.  Do you feel scared?  You should be!  Big brother is watching us now even more.  Let us take a closer look at this:

We expect our President to do what he promised to do.  When he sets out to do just that, people complain or tie his hands.  They want President Trump to protect this country.  But when he sets up regulations to keep the terrorist out of this country, the people complain.  They say, “You can’t do that!”

How else is he suppose to protect this country?

President Clinton could had prevented 9/11 when he was in office.  The terrorists was in this country training and learning all they can about us and our culture until the opportune time to attack us.  President Clinton just invited them in with open arms.  President Obama did the same thing when he was President.  Hillary would had also done the same thing.

Then when 9/11 happened, what did Pres. George W. Bush do?  He declared war with Iraq and Afghanistan.  All that war did was turned into another Vietnam.  It didn’t destroyed the terrorist.

Bush made it impossible to go Canada without a passport.  When I was kid, it was easy to go to Canada; and we went quite often.

It’s easier for those from Mexico to come to this country than it is for us to visit Canada.  I don’t understand.  I thought Canada was our allied.

Since it’s easier to come to the United States through Mexico, the terrorists enter the country that way.

Pres. Trump mentioned on building a wall in front of the Mexican boarder.  I don’t know if that’s the best idea, but something needs to be done.  The Mexicans and illegal immigrants our coming into this country and either taking American jobs from us or getting help from the government.  They are getting all these assistants and we, the taxpayers are paying for it.  That is what the Democrats and Established Republicans wants.  That way, they can get more votes.

Believe me, I have nothing against immigrants.  My grandfather, Frank Heger the 2nd came into this country as a child.  During World War 1, he fought for this country; even when it meant going back to his home country of Germany to fight his relative there.

If this immigrants comes into this country legally and are not terrorists, than I welcome them.  But otherwise, we need to protect this country.

There was Catholic Priest, by the name of Father Sinner, who brought Mexicans over illegally.  His brother, George Sinner was the Governor of North Dakota at the time.

According to the Constitution, it’s the United States job to protect the country and oversees the works of the state government.  The Federal Government had gotten too big for it’s own good.  Our forefather, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson feared that this would happen to.

It’s just like in “1984”, where Big brother is watching us and our every moves we make.  President Trump is a Nationalist and he wants to give this country back to the people.  Pres. Reagan was the last Nationalist we had.  He tried to put the power back into the state, where it belong.  Remember, it’s up to the state to govern themselves.

Look at what happened in Europe, when European country merge together to become one country.  Just like the book, “1984” and just like the Bible predicted would happened in the end time.  When we become One World, Satan will take over; and soon after that, Jesus Christ shall return.

As Paul Harvey would say, “Stay tuned for the rest of the story, the next time.”  You won’t be disappointed!

What’s not to love about the circus?  The circus is clean family entertainment, fun for the whole family.

These weirdo leftist, the Peta organization wants to destroy it like everything else they touch.  They are no better than these global warming activist.

As you know, Ringley Bros. and Barnam and Baily is no more.  Luckily the Shriner’s still have their circus though.  But for how long?

The reason that Ringley Bros. and Barnam and Bailey is no more is because they were force to take the elephant out of the circus by Peta.  Shame on you, Peta!!

If the Shriner’s circus end, than what?  The Shriner’s does good things in the community.

You all heard of the Shriner’s hospital, for example?

I have another example and I’m a prime example of their good works in the community.  I’ll start at the beginning, when I was born, I had what the doctor called, “A Lazy Eye Syndrome.  My left eye didn’t move and I had to wear an eye patch; which I didn’t much care for.  When I was 4 years old I had surgery at the old St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo, ND.  My mother was a single mother, working 2 jobs to support us.  She was not on welfare and by deadbeat father wasn’t even in the picture, since he abandoned us when I was 2 years old.

How the Shriner’s got involved was, my mother worked with a Shriner’s member and because of that she didn’t had to pay  a very big hospital bill.  I don’t know how much it was at the time.  I’m just grateful for what they done for me and my mother.  I will always be grateful to the Shriner’s for that.  I’m so glad that they still put on the greatest show on earth, the circus.  Let us do all we can to stop Peta from destroying America’s greatest family pastime.

That is what Peta wants to do.  They do more harms than they do any good.  Look at all the animal research they are involved with.  That is more harmful than the circus.  The animals at the circus is taken better care of than what Peta says.  They lies like the press and these career politicians.

Look at Seigfried and Roy, I’m pretty sure that they take very good care of their Siberian tigers.  I know someone from Hawley, MN, who raised a lion from a cub.  She takes very good care of that lion.  I don’t believe that these animals at the circus is being abuse.

If that’s the case, they Peta should take a look at the zoo.  Especially at the zoo in Fargo.  The last time I was there, the animals wasn’t very well taken care of.  That zoo looks worst than Waphenton zoo.

 

The zoo was created to preserve the animals and save them from extinction.  They have to have some form of natural surrounding to do that.

Another thing, Peta would like a person to make sure all your pets have all their shots.  I’m here to tell you that is a very bad ideas.

I had a cat, named Snowball, that lived to be 18 years old and only one major surgery in his life.  He didn’t have all those shots and he was born on the family farm.  Before I got him, he didn’t have a very good life; but once he came to live with me, he was happy as can be.  He was healthy, up to the point I had to put him down.

 

My other cat, Tabitha is about 13-14 years old and she too is healthy.  Once she got fixed, she put on a little weight because she wasn’t able to regulate her food.  I had to take her in to be gloom and the Hawley Vet, told me to put her on a diet.  Once I did, she is now doing very well.  Both of them, did not have all those shots that Peta and the Vets preferred that they have.

Sometimes, if a person has the time, it is better to make your own pet food than buy it. It’s healthier with no added preservative.  A lot of these pet foods are made in China.  I won’t go there but you get the picture.

So when the vets or doctors tells you that you needs shots or surgery, do your research first.  Do not take the advice at face level.  Treat your pets like you wants to be treated.  I believe that animals in circus is taken care of well.  Peta is just out to destroy everything they touch. They are so far out there, that they are out of touch; and they are doing more harm than any good.