In 1973, a charismatic doctor convinced 8 healthy people to commit themselves to mental hospitals. They had to prove their sanity to be set free. Their undercover mission would change our understanding of madness forever.

You may wonder why anyone would willingly commit themselves to a mental hospital in the first place. In this blog, I will show the horror of mental institutions and why we do not have them anymore. I call this “Funny Farm”; but like funny bones, it’s no laughing matter.

Like the song, “They’re coming to take me away,” where life is beautiful all the time, and I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats. Believe me mental institution is nothing like that song.

For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is?

You’d have to be crazy to get yourself committed to a mental hospital.

Psychiatry, as a distinct branch of medicine, has come far in its short life span. The field has rejected the shameful practices of the recent past-the lobotomies, forced sterilizations, human warehousing. Today’s psychiatrists boast a varied arsenal of effective drugs and have largely dropped the unscientific trappings of psychoanalytic psychobabble, the “schizophrenogenic” or “refrigerator” mothers of yesteryear who had been blamed for triggering insanity in their offspring.

I’ve seen firsthand when I was a child visiting my one brother, who was sent to Jamestown State Hospital in North Dakota. They had him drugged so bad, that he was slobbering when the family took him out for a day.

When a person thinks of mental institutions, you think about the movie, “One flew over the Cuckoo Nest.” There is a lot of screaming and abuse that goes on in these mental institutions. Some of these buildings are now haunted because of the abuse. Those that were patients there and eventually died in them, their ghosts are haunting those buildings to this day.

So what is mental illness? The question of how to separate sanity from insanity, of how to even define mental illness, rises above semantics, and above deciding what kind of specialist will care for you or your loved one during a time of intense need.

Psychiatry makes judgements about people-about our personalities, our beliefs, our morality. It is a mirror held up to society in which it is practiced.

Have we been looking at mental illness all wrong?

Once declared insane, you could permanently lose custody of your children, property, and rights to inheritance. Many would remain locked away for a long time, if not the rest of their lives.

Madness has been dogging humanity for as long as humans have been able to record their own history.

Doctors began to slice and dice their way through “insane” brains. They removed living people’s thyroids, women’s ovaries, and men’s seminal vesicles based on half baked theories about the genetic origins of madness.

In America, 32 states passed forced sterilization laws between 1907 and 1937-why not stop the spread of undesirables, they thought, by cutting off their ability to reproduce.

Rosemary Kennedy was a famous person who had that done to her by her parents and put into a mental institution. Her siblings were kept in the dark about it too.

I had a co-worker, I worked with years ago, when she was a child, her mother had the procedure done to her to keep her from reproducing. Knowing her, there was no real reason for her mother to have done that to her.

In 1967, when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, he passed several acts that hastened the demise of the institutions across the state-and the eventually the rest of the country soon followed.

Years ago, anyone with a disability, mental or physical were put away as a disgrace. Some were even aborted. Some adoption agency didn’t want handicapped people to be adopted. Before my Uncle and Aunt got their one son, the adoption agency didn’t want them to adopt him; but thank God, they adopt him anyway. He has Cerebral Palsy; despite being diagnose with that, he is able to do a lot of things.

Even actor John Ritter, has a brother, who also had Cerebral Palsy. Tex Ritter and his wife kept that from John growing up.

I had a sister, who recently passed away, who had dementia. Toward the end of her life, she had drifted back to a childlike state. I witnessed that firsthand. She was older than me, but because of her dementia, she was leaning on me like a child.

Because of witnessing firsthand her dementia, you can’t tell me that Joe Biden doesn’t have dementia himself. Believe me, the signs are there, if no one else want to believe it or not.

I had volunteered in helping Special Olympics bowling tournaments, and believe me, it was privilege to do so. Seeing people with handicap, physical or mental being productive in our society is something special; instead of having them locked away in a mental institution. Some of them even have very strong faith, and to watch them worship is amazing.

I may not have the patient to really work with them full time, because you will need lots of patience to do so. Even though, they may have an illness, they seems to be better off than some of the stupid people out there who are normal but does stupid things.

I’m glad that these mental institutions of the past are closed now and people with handicaps are becoming productive citizens rather than being locked up.

For several years now, news reports have been full of startling breakthroughs in genetic research. Scientists are mapping the human genome, seeking answers to the mystery of life. Some kinds of cloning have become a reality. Specific disease-causing genes have been isolated. We are in the first stages of a history-shaking genetic revolution.

What does your DNA say about you? Like, who are you and where have come from?

DNA is the molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism. It is made of two linked strands that wind around each other to resemble a twisted ladder-a shaped known as a double helix.

The DNA research is also behind cloning of sheep that became very controversial.

The scientific research involving DNA is used in research of finding cure for certain diseases. There is also research involving our DNA involving our heredity. A person who they are related to throughout history. A person can find their long lost relative by taking a DNA test. (or you can just win the Powerball and you will have relatives coming out of the woodworks.) Then you still will need a DNA test to prove it.

My mother told me that I have my real father’s nose. I have been told that I have my mother’s eyes. My mother even told me that I looked like my Uncle John, her older brother, one of the reason my grandmother kind favored me.

Now my mother looked like her sister, Aunt Rosella, and they both looked like grandma. My Uncle Frank looks like my grandfather, from the picture I have seen of him.

I may not have my step-dad’s DNA, but I’m still considered to be his son. Our DNA is not the only thing that make a person. It’s also the culture we were raised in. I was raised by my dad from the time I was 5 years old. He had been more of a dad to me than my real father; even though I don’t have his DNA.

Do you know that churches and businesses also have DNA?

The Dreadnought D-35 guitar was developed in the early 1900’s. It is known for its bold and loud tone. The back of the D-35 is unique, because of the shortage of wide pieces of high quality rosewood, the craftsmen innovatively fit three smaller pieces of wood together, which result in a richer tone.

My mother made the amazing homemade vegetable soup. She threw everything in it but the kitchen sink. Sometimes, she would even add meat. She sometimes would canned the soup in the Fall for the winter. She wouldn’t canned the meat though with it. When she did heat up the soup she canned, she would add the meat.

Much like the United States, it’s considered to be the melting pot. United States is a country of many nations and cultures. We are blended together to make one nation, united we stand-united we fall. It just seems like some of the American people had forgotten this country’s DNA. It seems like we cannot get along anymore. We can’t get pass other opinions. I mean, if we don’t agree with each other, argument arise, causing a rift in this country.

The last time this country was united was after 9/11 in 2001, after the World Trade Center was destroyed. Now, we are so divided, and can’t see eye-to-eye.

It shouldn’t matter what our political, religious, and views over the vaccine are, we should be united with one another. We should learn to get along.

It was only scrap wood, but Charles Hooper saw much more than that. Salvaging old timbers from a long-abandoned corncrib, he sketched some simple plans, felled oak and poplar trees, and painstakingly squared them with his grandfather’s broadax. Piece by piece, he fits together the old lumber with the new to build the beautiful postcard-perfect log cabin, tucked away in the trees of Northwestern Tennessee.

We need to get pass our differences be united with one another like our founding father intended. We are a melting pot of many nations and cultures, with many different opinions. We are blended together much like my family. If my step-dad could accept me as his son without having the same DNA, why can’t the American people learn to accept others despite of their DNA and opinions?

The church I go to is a multi-culture church, and we seems to get along with each others. If my church can do it, why can’t the United States do it once again?

Senator Eugene McCarthy made an attempt to run for President in 1968 against Lyndon Johnson. He was against the Vietnam War at the time. Because of him running for President, Johnson chose not to seek reelection, giving room for Senator Robert F. Kennedy Sr the nod to run for President. At the time, him and Hubert Humphrey were both from Minnesota.

Bobby Kennedy Jr. was compared to Eugene McCarthy when he threw his hat in the run for President against Joe Biden on the Democrats side. Now Bobby Kennedy Jr. is running as an Independent hoping to upset Biden’s attempt for reelection. The Democrats didn’t really want Kennedy, that is why he’s running as an Independent. They call him crazy because he’s against the vaccine. There is even a division within his own family. He was also censored by the Social Media and mainstream news media because of his stance on the vaccine, Covid, and Dr. Nazi Fauci. He stands for freedom also.

I have a hypothetical scenario involving 1968. Before I gives you this scenario, we all know that Robert Kennedy Sr. was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He was leading in the polls back then and looked like he would had gotten the nomination to run for President against Richard Nixon. Since he was assassinated, he never gotten the chance; so Humphrey got the nomination instead.

Now my hypothetical question is: what if Kennedy wasn’t assassinated? Would he had became President like his brother in John F. Kennedy? Would the Watergate scandal existed? Would Jimmy Carter become President in 1976?

We would never really know; but you wouldn’t want to mess with history anyway. Like the 1980s sci-fi classic, “Back to the Future”, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, they traveled back in time. In the movie, history was mess with which affected the future.

That’s why it’s so very important to know your history; otherwise we are doom to repeat it. Believe me, history has a tendency to repeat itself.

I just hope that Bobby Kennedy Jr and Donald Trump don’t get assassinated because the Democrats fear both of them. Russia and China will have their political enemies killed just to remain in power. Those 2 are a threat to today’s Democrats agenda.

Donald Trump calls Bobby Kennedy Jr. a smart man. Trump has nothing but respect for Kennedy. I think that it would be an awesome ticket if Trump had Kennedy as his running mate. He would gain some of the Democrats vote, those who doesn’t agree with the radical Left. It will pissed off few people but at the same time, it will show unity.

Instead with Kennedy running as a third party, it could cut in both Trump’s and Biden’s chances of being elected President. A strong third party candidate could possibly do some damage in the Presidential election. Both Kennedy and Trump are fighting for the freedom of the American people. This is why those on the Left compared Bobby Kennedy Jr. runs for President to Eugene McCarthy back in 1968. Biden will not debate both Trump and Kennedy out of fear.

God forbid, if somehow Nikki Haley gets the Republican nomination for President, I will vote third party and vote for Kennedy. Thank God Trump is beating Haley in the primaries.

There is something about Nikki Haley, I do not trust. She said that her mentor was crooked Hilary Clinton. That’s one strike against her. She reminds me of Michelle Bachman from Minnesota. I didn’t care for her either. Democrat millionaires are endorsing her to try to throw a wrench in Trump’s run for President. If they could get her nominated, they would turn around and still vote for Biden in the general election.

This is going to be another interesting election this year. We just need for Nikki Haley to wise up and drop out. Then it could be a 3 person race for President, with Kennedy giving the Independent party a better chance.

The scandal that I’m talking about here is Watergate. Now Watergate was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972-1974 that led to Nixon’s resignation .

The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington D.C.

During the whole scandal Nixon would denied by saying, “I’m not a crook.”

At the trial, E. Howard Hunt, who had planned the break-in and 4 of the burglars pleaded guilty. G. Gordon Liddy, who helped in the planning, and James McCord, refused to cooperate.

Chuck Colson was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Council to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. He was known as the “hatchet man.” He served 7 months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama. He had a lifechanging conversion because of his stint in prison. He was a born again Christian in 1973 and started a non-profit prison ministry.

On my birthday, Aug. 9, 1974, the year I turned 9, President Nixon resigned as President to keep from being impeach. Shortly after Gerald Ford became President for only 2 short years.

One of the thing that Ford had done that maybe he shouldn’t had done was pardoned Nixon. That may had hurt his chances for seeking reelection for his first full term as President. But he was loyal to Nixon. Was it a mistake?

Sometimes, not being loyal to a former President, like Mike Pence wasn’t to Donald Trump can actually hurt. At the first Republicans debate, Mike Pence was booed because he wasn’t loyal to Trump.

How George Bush Sr. was able to get elected President, was the fact that he rode on Reagan’s coattails and popularity.

Whereas, Al Gore, broke away from Bill Clinton’s popularity when he ran for President in 2000. He tried to disassociate from Clinton’s and his sex scandal.

The big question is: should a Vice-President stand behind a popular president as they seek their own terms or go out on the limb? Should Ford have been loyal to Nixon and pardoned him for his involvement with Watergate?

Even though, Nixon was President for at least 6 years, 2 terms, Watergate hurt his popularity. Whereas, even though, Clinton was impeach for lying and having sex with Monica Lewinsky, he was still more popular than Richard Nixon. Go figured!

I’m not defending Richard Nixon, like I said I was a child during that time. Seeing the Democrats as they are today, a person has to wondered if the break-in at Watergate was stage?

Even though, the Democrats were more normal back then, than they are today. When did the Democrats become crazy Leftist?

Think about it, wiretapping is nothing new. It was done during Watergate and it was done with the Russian hoax, made up by the FBI and the Democrats to slam Donald Trump. They had done it to President Kennedy and President Reagan as well. Even President Obama was somewhat guilty of wiretapping as well. It goes to show that some candidates will stop at nothing to get elected to public office or even reelected , just to keep the power.

In next week, blog, I will asked a “what if” question that may or may not affect Watergate. It will have to deal with the year, 1968 and what happened back then. I will also bring that into this election year as well. Stay tune!!

   What is the greatest love story?

   Some may say that Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest love story. Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare. He was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. 

    I have to admit that Romeo and Juliet is a great love story; but I’m not real big on it because of the old English is harder to comprehend than the American English. I had to recite a speech from Julius Caesar for Freshman English class in high school and that wasn’t fun. 

    Romeo and Juliet was banned from Florida school district due to it’s sexual content. They even tried to do that in North Dakota last year as well. Students will no longer be permitted to read many of Shakespear’s plays due to sexual content.

    Who hasn’t read or performed in any Shakespear’s play back in high school? I mean, it’s a high school tradition. You shouldn’t deny our students the opportunity to learn a classic; that is one of the greatest love story. 

    Back when Shakespear wrote the play Romeo and Juliet in the 16th century, it was a time in which the role of women was not to be a person in their own rights, but to be a wife to their husband and a mother to their children. Back then the role of Juliet was portrayed by a young teenage boy rather than a woman. Now Christians today will frown upon that. 

    Then there was a movie starring the late Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. The movie was “Love Story.” It was also one of the greatest love story in the last century. Ali MacGraw played a woman who was dying of cancer and a love interest for Ryan O’Neal’s character. One of the famous line from that movie was, “Love is never have to say you are sorry.” 

   Years later, that movie became real for Ryan O’Neal when the love of his life, Farrah Faucet came down with cancer and fought a long battle until her death. You could say that Ryan O’Neal lived that love story twice. Once in the movie and once in real life. 

    Just last year, Ryan O’Neal recently passed away. He is reunited with Farrah Faucet, the love of his life. They lived that love story. 

    Even though, Elvis and Priscilla marriage didn’t last, they had one of the greatest love story. Elvis loved Priscilla up to his death. He even tried to win her back. She loved him too and that was why she never remarried. She even wants to be buried beside him; even though they were divorce. 

    Before my folks were married, my step-dad entered the house in North Fargo, where my mother and I were living at the time. My mother thought it was romantic when he sat beside her while she was in bed, and said, “Marry me or you’ll never see me again?” 

    What do you think? Was it romantic? Was it a romantic proposal or just creepy? 

    When my mother shared that story and said that she felt that it was romantic, us kids just shook our heads in disbelief. They were married for 40 years before she passed away. Even though, I have gotten a dad and siblings out of it, I would tell my mother that it wasn’t very romantic. She should probably had said, “fine, see you!” 

    These were just few examples of the greatest love story ever written or told. Do you have your favorite love story? I would love to hear from. 

    This Valentine’s Day is a time to share and remember the greatest love story, either real or imagined.

    First, I want to congratulate the Detroit Lions for getting as far as they did. No one expected it! They almost made history.

    I also want to congratulate the Kansas City Chiefs for heading to another Super Bowl. As the Super Bowl is next Sunday, I’m rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs. I just hope that Taylor Swift doesn’t put a curse on them. 

    As you know, the next man on her radar is Travis Kelso. She goes through men, like I goes through underwear. She’ll dates them and then when they break up, she write songs about them; whether they like it or not. Like Shania Twain sang, “Any Man of Mine , better be proud of me.” 

    Taylor Swift is a needy person. It comes with the fact that fame came early for her back when she was a teenager, much like LeeAnn Rimes and Tanya Tucker. This is her biggest issues that’s hard to get passed.

    I read a letter to the Editor in yesterday’s paper that said, “The trouble with Taylor Swift.” She is totally out of control. She lulled many people into thinking that she is a great person. She needs to check her ego at the door. She’ll probably say to me, “We’re never ever getting back together.” Or “Why do you have to be so mean?” 

    I’ve seen her concerts twice at the Fargo Dome. It was alright but it wasn’t the best concert I’ve seen. She had her nose so far out of joint that security was so strong around her. No one could get close to her. 

    Didn’t Travis Kelso heed the warnings about dating Taylor Swift? She’s the one mama warns their sons about getting involved with.

    Could it be the poison, Travis Kelso bragged about getting had made it possible to not heed the warnings? 

    Then again, when a person falls in love, they are blinded by the person’s faults. They can’t see the truth because their heart is too much involved. 

    Taylor Swift is like Kryptonite to Superman. Some men can become weak in the knees when it comes to her. She is like Delilah to Samson. We all know what happened to Samson. Delilah tricked him into getting a haircut; which took away his strength. 

    She is like the woman in Scarlette Letter, who had to wear the letter “S” to warns people about who she was. 

    Believe me, I understand the affect that some woman may have on men. I’ve had a woman who broke my heart and stabbed me in the back. Her name was Theresa. Luckily, I had friends who helped me get over her and the pain of being stabbed in the back along with getting my heart broke. 

    A warning to Travis Kelso, be on your guard when it comes to Taylor Swift. Don’t let her put a spell on you. Or is it too late for him? I hope that he has good friends that can help him if that relationship doesn’t work out. He’ll need all the help he can get. 

    I just hope that Taylor Swift won’t put a curse on the Kansas City Chiefs because of her involvement with Travis Kelso. If they lose the Super Bowl because of her, there will be a lot of angry people at him because of her. It won’t be just the fans, it may also be some of the team mates as well. 

    Go Kansas City Chiefs!! Don’t let the curse of Taylor Swift get you!

    In the first 2 parts of the series of “Be a Voice,” I showed how anyone can be a voice no matter who they are. The least likely person can have a voice and make a difference. It doesn’t matter who you are or what your issues may be. 

    This week in part 3 of this series, I will show how we must look passed a person issues, and see them how they are being used as a voice. 

   I mentioned that some people finds it difficult to see Donald Trump as being a voice for the American people. I even mentioned last week, Moses was a voice and chosen to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land by God. I mentioned that he had an anger problem and a speech impediment. I even mentioned how I too am a voice for the American people through my blog. Even though, I’m just an average joe with a speech impediment as well. 

    There was a country singer, Mel Tillis; when he talks he would stutter, but when he sang, you wouldn’t even know that he had a speech impediment as well. 

    Then there was one of the great pop singer, Whitney Houston. She had one of the beautiful voice when she sang. She could sing a phone book and it would sounds beautiful. But she had some issues that led to her early demised. 

    Whitney Houston was nicknamed, “the voice.” She was regarded as one of the greatest singers in history. She shared a birthday with me, born August 9, 1963 in Newark, NJ. She died February 11, 2012 at the age of 48 years old of Coronary artery disease because of drugs. She was a teen model on the cover of Seventeen in 1981. She was discovered by Clive Davis, groomed as a gospel singer. She is a first cousin to Dionne Warwick. She married Bobby Brown and they had a daughter. Now Bobby Brown was the one who got her hooked on drugs. 

    In a Diane Sawyer’s interview, Whitney Houston said, “Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Crack is whack.” 

    One of Whitney Houston biggest hit song was a Dolly Parton hit song. The song was, “I will always Love You.” Because of Whitney singing that song, it was able to become a big pop song as well as a country song by Dolly Parton. I couldn’t imagine anyone else doing that song beside her and Dolly Parton. Vince Gill did it but wasn’t as good.

    There isn’t one pop singer who can light a match to Whitney Houston’s powerful voice. The closest one was Fantasia, when she was a contestant on American Idol. She had her issues as well. 

    Then there is singer from Great Britian, Susan Collins. When you looked at her, She was nothing to look at; but she had such a beautiful voice when she sang for Simon Cowell.

    It goes to show that anyone can be a voice for the people. King David was a man after God’s own heart; even though he had sinned when he slept with Batheba, a married woman at the time. He even had her husband killed in battle. 

   It doesn’t matter what’s in our past or what our issues may be, we can still be used to make a difference. 

   I know of a Nazarene pastor, Reverend Keith Bundy, who was blind. He was a brilliant preacher. 

   Some may not like the way I talk because of my speech impediment. 

   Don’t laugh or judge someone by their personality or how they may looks on the outside. Who knows, by inviting someone who you may not approve of, you may be inviting an angel. 

    Man will looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart. He knows what is in our heart. We may not approve of certain people but they could be the voice we all need in this time. 

    You are made just as God made you. You are beautiful and you have a voice that can make a difference. 

   Trump is seen as part of the problem, making it his biggest obstacles to be seen as a voice for the American people. 

   Let your voice be heard loud and clear! It doesn’t matter who you are or what issues you may have. I’m making my voice heard through my blogs. You will either like it or hate it. 

     As I said in last week blog, part 1 of Be a Voice, We all have a voice. The least likely person can be a voice for the people. Someone you wouldn’t give the time of day to; because you think “no way are they speaking for us, the American people. 

    In this blog, I will discuss my favorite Bible verse, Isaiah 6:8 and intwine it in this blog to make my point to having a voice and using it. 

    Isaiah 6:8 said, “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!.” 

    The first time I read this verse was before I accepted the Lord. I heard it from televangelist Dwight Thompson. It was his key verse he used in his ministry.

    Let’s take a closer look at this verse by looking at first verse 5; which read, ” Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips.”

    It goes to show that the Lord can and will used anyone He so chooses. It doesn’t matter what’s in our past or the flaws in our lives. Look at Moses for example: He had a speech impediment and an anger problem when God asked him to go back to Egypt to lead His people out of slavery and into the Promised Land. Even though he was a Israelite, he was raised by the Egyptian. He didn’t like seeing his brothers being abused, so he killed an Egyptian soldier and was soon banished from Egypt. His own people were scared of him and didn’t fully trust him. They didn’t see him as one of their own. 

   He even admitted that he has a speech impediment. Yet God was able to used him with the help of his brother, Aaron. 

    Let’s look at verse 6 and 7 now. Verse 6, “Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.” Verse 7, “With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sins atone for.” 

    I’m just a common working man with not much education and also have a speech impediment as well; but I’m given the ability and the voice to speak out against injustice in the world. I’m not that intelligent to actually fixed what needs fixing but I damn sure know what needs to be done to make America great again. 

   I can do this through my blog. This is my voice to the American people and the world. I’m full of opinions and I have a voice. I just have to be willing to used my voice to speak up. I’m no politician or holds a white collar job. I just have a little common sense and was raise right to know the difference from right or wrong. 

   Some may not like hearing my brass opinions and wants to shut me down on my job because I tell it like it is. They don’t want to hear it. They tell me that I better be nice and hold my tongue. Do you know how hard that is? 

    The same way, parents who spoke out against the school board for what the schools are teaching their children, they were called, “Domestic Terrorist,” and put on terrorist watch by the FBI and Joe Biden. 

   If my blog was bigger, I would have a bigger voice; then I too would be on the “Domestic Terrorist” watch. 

   United States were founded as a free country where we have the freedom to speak our mind and speak out against the Government. Those in Washington don’t like it. They want to be able to control what we say or write, if it’s don’t agree with them. 

   Anyone who makes a statement against them, they try to shut down and shut them up. Both Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy Jr. are just 2 examples. 

   Yet at the same time, there are people who cannot believe it’s possible that Trump is a voice for the American people, much the same way the Israelite couldn’t believe that Moses was the one to lead them out of Egypt. He was seen as one of the 1% and part of the problems.

   And with Bobby Kennedy Jr., they called him the Anti-vaxxer, and sees him as being crazy. Some of his own family members don’t want anything to do with him. 

    We all have a voice. It doesn’t matter who we are. We just have to be able to use our voice to speak out. We have to let our voice be heard loud and clear. They may try to shut us up; but we cannot let them shut us down. 

    One person cannot fight city hall alone. We just have to have someone who is willing to fight and lead the people. 

    I will used what the good Lord had given me to continue speaking out for the American people. It’s our God-given freedom. 

   To all my followers out there, hear my voice and get out there and make a difference. Let them know that we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Do what you can to send a message to our government in Washington. Let your voice be heard loud and clear. 

   You don’t have to like Trump. You just have to hate what they are doing to our freedom. 

   I will conclude this 3-part series next week, with having a voice despite having issues. Nobody’s perfect! As my mother would say, “if we were perfect, we would be in heaven instead hell on earth.”

   What does it matter whether we call someone who breaks the law to enter the country an “illegal alien” or an “undocumented immigrant”? What’s the difference between a Christmas tree and a “holiday tree”? Doesn’t global warming pose the same threat to our civilization regardless of whether or not we rename it “climate change” or more recently, “the climate crisis”? Why quibble over semantics?

    When people describe a distinction as “just semantics,” they mean to dismiss it as trivial. But how many of those people know what the word “semantics” means? 

    Political correctness is like a man attempting to give himself a nickname. Political correctness does not merely mask the harsh realities to which clear language refers; it actually contradicts the underlying meaning of words, thrusting culture through the looking glass.

   As you can tell from my blog, I’m not political correct. I give the people what they want to whether they like it or not. 

    Some defenders of political correctness have admitted that they use language to manipulate reality, but they maintain that their conservative opponents do the very same. 

    Sometimes, I can get myself into trouble because I’m not afraid to tell it like it is. Some people are easily offended by what I say. Some may not like what I say because I pull no punches. I will not sugarcoat the truth for anybody, If you are offended, that’s your problem; so cry me a river.

   Traditionally, our society has frowned on lying. We have believed that “the truth shall make you free.” Yet in this political correctness society we live in, they consider the truth destructive and lies compassionate. If words can define reality, it isn’t even lying at all.

   Who cares if you call a poor black man “black” or “African-American” when neither moniker will help him to escape generational poverty?

    For the politically correct, conservative speech is violence, and leftist violence is speech. Sounds like the book, “1984” doesn’t it? 

    Conservative reacted, as they always have in the face of politically correct aggression, by doubling down on their support for “free speech.” They opposed all forms of “censorship” and to the leftist “snowflakes” who seek safe spaces from harsh realities by refusing to engage in the marketplace of ideas. 

   James Madison described this system as: What is government itself but the greatest of all reflection on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. 

   Donald Trump is like liver and onion. You either like or you hate him. He has been a voice to the American people against our corrupt government in Washington from those on the Left to the Rhino Republicans. But because of who he is and his tactic they finds him offensive and to some a joke. They cannot fathom him to be the one to take on the system. They cannot take him seriously because some sees him as part of the system that they hate. 

    It goes to show that God can use anyone to be a voice for the people. Some you may not approve of or even believe. You too can be a voice! 

   In this blog and the next 2 weeks blog as well, I will so how anyone can be a voice. It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter what is in your past. May I be a voice for the American people with my blog. I will continue speaking out against the injustice of our corrupted government and against political correctness. If you are offended by what I say in person or in my blog, cry me a river. I’ll tell like it is! Take it or leave it!! Stay tune for part 2 of this series on “Be a Voice” next week. 

   Recently, George Santo was expelled from Congress for lying to his contingent in New York. I’m not defending him, but rather to say, “why him and not others?” They all have lied in Washington in one way or another. Shouldn’t they all be expelled as well? 

   Besides, isn’t up to the voters of New York to decide his fate? They all voted for him. They bought into his lies. 

    Then again, the mainstream news media is as much too blame. If they would do their job of actually reporting the news, the full story, the outcome would have been much different. Let’s take a look closer at this: They had such hatred for Trump that they couldn’t see straight. They refused to see the facts about Joe Biden, when it was right in front of them. They would factcheck anyone over Joe and Hunter Biden just to keep the truth from getting out. If the American people knew the truth, the 2020 election would had a much different result. 

   About the same the time as George Santo was being expelled from Congress, Senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey and a Democrat was charged with accepting bribes, including cash, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz in exchange for political favors. He was also charged with conspiring to act as an agent of Egypt while serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 

    Shouldn’t he be expelled also or is it just one-sided in Washington? Only the Democrats can lie and get away with it; while the Republicans are runs through the ringers. I mean, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. They should be treated equally in the eyes of the law; but they are not. 

   In this blog, I will name a few others who have lied to the American public. But first, it’s up to the American people to decide who to vote for. Just like it’s the news media job to actually give the American people the whole facts and not be partial. Before you vote, check the facts to make the right decision. What does their action speaks? Does it speak for them or are they talking out of both side of their mouth? 

    Here are some lies told by some of them: The first President George Washington said, “I did not cut down the cherry tree.” Actually, we don’t know if that was a lie or not but it’s a good example. Was he telling the truth or was he lying and the axe used to cut down the cherry tree on the ground next to him? 

   North Dakota former Senator, Kent Conrad lied to the people of North Dakota when he said, ” I will not seek reelection for Senator.” By doing that, it gave Byron Dorgan permission to seek the run to become North Dakota Senator. They were buddies! When Quentin Burdick passed away that same year, what did Kent Conrad do? He ran for reelection. He tried to spin it by saying, “It’s not reelection, it’s just running for Burdick’s seat.” It’s still reelection, I don’t care how he may spin it. 

    The only reason Kent Conrad was elected in the first place was because of the scandal involving Senator Mark Andrew of him suing the old St. Luke’s hospital in Fargo. To some people that was more of a no-no than what Kent Conrad did. Or was it the fact that Mark Andrew was a Republican and Kent Conrad was a Democrat? 

    When the first George Bush ran for reelection, his slogan was, “Read my lips-no new taxes.” What was he trying to prove there? When someone says, read my lips or look into my eyes; they are hoping that people will see the truth in the lips or the eyes. The eyes hold the truth supposedly. A person who is a good liar can lie through their teeth. Some people can talk out of both side of their mouth and make people believe it. Usually the best liars will get elected. We are gullible enough to believe the lies being told to us. 

    One of the most famous liars and lie is from President Bill Clinton. He was lying to everyone when he said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Who was he trying to fool? We all know the outcome with that. Yet, he felt that since it was oral sex, it wasn’t sexual relation. 

    Even Hillary Clinton was in hot water when she was questioned over Benghazi. She made the comment, “What difference does it make?” She was hiding the truth from coming out just hoping she would get elected President. 

    Al Gore, himself, lied when he said, “I invented the internet.” 

    Back to Joe Biden, he lied and is still lying when the facts came out involving his involvement with Hunter Biden’s illegal business dealings. Joe Biden said, “I have nothing to do with my son’s business.” When it has been proven that he had received money into his bank account from Hunter’s illegal business with China and Ukraine. Joe Biden even said, “My son, Hunter, is a good boy.” Then again all parents have to say that about their kids. 

    The list is numerous. In other words, I could go on and on, but I think you get the message. Not just George Santo lied, but everyone of them in Washington had lied one way or another. He shouldn’t had been the only one expelled. It should also be up to the American people to make the right decision. They also needs all the facts given to them from the news media. They need the whole story and not what the news media choose to tell the American people. 

   As my mother would say, “You can go to hell for lying as you can for anything else.”