Lying is never good for a person to do; but sometimes lying can be the only way. It just seems more and more lately people are choosing to lie over telling the truth. They don’t want to hear the truth when it’s being told. They factcheck you or try to shut you down for speaking the truth. Sometimes, you are put in Facebook jail. If you are truthful, some will say that you are being hateful.

In this blog, I will give you 5 jobs that seems people get away with lying. Are they really lying or do they just believe that what they are saying is true? Are they lying to protect themselves or the innocence?

Number 5 jobs that people seems to get away with lying goes to the lawyers. This kind of make sense. If they are a defense attorney, they have to do whatever it takes to prove their clients innocent. They have make a good case for their client if they are any good at a being a lawyer.

A good example of this is the movie, “Liar, Liar.” In that movie, Jim Carrey plays a lawyer who is also a father. His young son made a wish that his father would not be able to tell a lie. The reason for that wish was because his father promised to be there for his son but never showed up; and it constantly happened. The boy was deeply upset and hurt because of it. He wanted his father around like all little boys do. Anyway, because of that wish, Jim Carrey’s character couldn’t properly do his job as a lawyer to defend his client. He was being truthful to every little things to the point of being hurtful not only to his client but to the judge and everyone else in the courtroom. It was a comedy, and Jim Carrey was perfect for that role.

Number 4 jobs that people seems to get away with lying is salesmen. As a salesperson, you have to do whatever it takes to sell a product to make a profit. The only way they make money is by how much sales they make. They work on incentives, not hourly like most people. The more they sell, the more they make. It doesn’t matter if you are a car salesman or whatever you are trying to sell.

An example of this is Cadillac Man. It starred the late Robin Williams as a car dealer who is spread thin financially as he is in his love life. He’s dating more women than he can remember, and the local toughs he’s borrowed money from want it back.

What goes along with salesperson is advertiser. They advertise a certain product but do they actually use that product. In other words, do they actually believe in the product they are trying to sell? They have to make the public believe in the product to make a sale to make a profit.

Just like when they offer a free meal or whatever just to get a person to come and check it out and possibility buy. Most recently, I went to a community day downtown Broadway after work because they offered free meal. Well to be honest, there was no free meal-no nothing. It was a joke set up by the mayor of Fargo, a bad joke at that. When they advertised free meal, they did it to get people downtown for community day on Broadway; which is false advertisement. Very much like salespeople!

Number 3 jobs that people seems to get away with lying is the meteorologist, or also known as the weatherman. This used to be #2 but you’ll see why they dropped to #3 and who took the #2 spot a little later.

With all their fancy equipment to forecast the weather, they still can’t get the weather straight. The old joke goes like this. If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change. They can’t seems to get the weather straight and you are caught holding the bag.

They pretty much the get the weather report from the same place but if you listen to different weather stations, each station has to put their own little twist in predicting the weather. I usually watched WDAY for the weather by John Wheeler. I’m not saying that he’s accurate but he seems to be closer than others. Even the weather app on your phone isn’t always accurate.

Number 2 jobs that people seems to get away with lying goes to the news media. They simply have stolen this title from the weatherman. They are slowly creeping up to #1 as well. It’s to the point that a person cannot believe the news being reported anymore. This is why they are known as fake news. They don’t report the news anymore; but rather tell what they want to tell, and not give you the facts, the truth.

When Walter Cronkite and Peter Jenning did the news, you could believe them. They had integrity. They have no integrity anymore. After Walter Cronkite retired and Dan Rather replaced him, was when news reporters had lost their integrity. Dan Rather became the father of fake news.

I can tell you this as fact because I’ve studied journalism when I went to college.

Can I get a drum roll please? The #1 job that people seems to get away with lying is the politicians. This comes as no surprise at all. Even though the news media is working hard and fast to take that title away from them as well. No wonder the American people have such a mistrust of our government and the politicians. Lying comes very easy for them. I don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat. They are very good at lying to the American people.

If you are not good at lying, my advise to you is do not get involved in politics. Politic is a dirty business, with no integrity for those involved. Those in Washington lies to the people just to get elected. They make campaign promises but never keep.

Like the song by Merle Haggard, “When a president goes to the White House and does what he says he will do. We all we’ll be eating rainbow stew and drinking that free bubble up.”

There you have it, my two-part blog on lying. If you agree with my top 5 choices of jobs that people seems to get away with lying, press the like. Is it alright to lie? Should a person lie or tell the truth even if it may hurt someone’s feelings?

We all have been lied to in one way or another. Most recently, we have been lied to during the Pandemic by the mainstream news media, our government on the Left and Dr. Nazi Fauci.

LIE: a false statement.

TRUTH: the quality or state of being true.

that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.

a fact or belief that is accepted as true.

As George Washington said, “I shall not tell a lie. I did cut down the cherry tree.”

Now that is unheard of by today’s politicians.

Growing up, we were taught that honesty is the best policy. Yet, it seems like more and more today people are less honest. People would rather hear lies than the truth. It seems like the truth hurts. It’s not politically correct to be totally honest these days. You might hurt someone feelings by being honest with them.

Take for example: Simon Cowell, he was brutally honest to the contestants on American Idol and America’s got Talant, and was criticized for it.

You may wonder why I’m holding up this book if I’m not making reference to it in this blog. Hopefully, you will see why in the next 2 blogs; with the direction I’m going with this. It may seems like I’m lying by not using this book as reference but hopefully, you’ll see I’m not.

Let us look at President Bill Clinton when he said, “I did not have sexual relation with that woman.” It was his definition of sexual relation that made him say that. We all know different though.

That’s what is different with telling a lie and telling the truth. It’s how you interpret it.

How about when the first George Bush Sr said, “Read my lips, no new taxes!” He wanted the people to know that he wasn’t lying. That is why some people would say, “read my lips.”

You can also tell through body language if a person is lying or not. If a person is lying they fidget because they are uncomfortable. When Pinocchio would tell a lie his nose would grow. That was used a lot to tell if a person was lying or not.

There are some who are a chronic liar; so that doesn’t always work. Once a liar is always a liar. In other words, if you are good at lying, you can cover it up very easily. If you are not good at lying, people will see right through you. It depends on if you have a poker face or not.

Like if a person is joking with a straight face, it’s hard to tell if they are joking or serious. Now that is hard to determine.

Let us use this for an example: Let’s say your wife or girlfriend asked you if the outfit they are wearing makes them look fat. Now guys, you don’t want to be honest with her with your answer; you could be sleeping on the couch or in the doghouse because of your answer.

It used to be that honesty is the best policy; but not anymore. If you are applying for a job, there are somethings left unsaid. For example: people who have been in prison do not want to come out and admit they were. They may not get hired. This is probably why there is a high turnover rate for those in prison; because they are not given a chance. That is a crying shame!

Just like if you don’t admit to a disability you may have that could interfere with you doing the job.

You are not supposed to lie to your employer; but yet your employer may lie to you if they decide to get rid of you for some reason. They’ll do it in away that you can’t dispute it.

I’m not real good at lying. I don’t have a good poker face. Some people can become good at it though.

During the Pandemic, whenever someone would post anything on Twitter or Facebook involving the virus or the vaccine, they would get shut down by the fact checker, saying that you were lying. Some will end up in Facebook jail because of it.

Yet, even though Dr. Nazi Fauci was constantly lying about the origin of the virus and the vaccine, people choose to believe him over the truth. It seems more and more people are choosing to believe lies over the truth. They don’t want to hear the truth. They don’t want to admit that they were wrong all along. Who does wants to admit they were wrong all along?

Just think when the truth finally does come out over the virus and the vaccine, those who have been lying to us will have eggs on their faces.

A person who lies constantly, have to keep on lying to keep up the appearance. Once you tell a lie, it will get bigger and bigger just to cover up the first lie.

People would rather be told a lie than the truth. They would believe the lies being told them even when they do hear the truth.

Stay tune for next week part 2 blog, when I will give you 5 jobs in which people seems to get away with lying. It may or may not surprise you.

Patrick Henry most famous speech was: “Give me liberty or give me death.” It was delivered in 1775. It was given in Virginia at the start of the Revolution War. It was a fiery speech that is still relevant today; even though those on the Left would very much like to forget about.

As we get ready to celebrate the 4th of July this year on Tuesday, let us talk about how our liberty is at stake here in the United States; as those on the Left, Biden included is out to take away our liberty and freedom.

Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.

By liberty, was meant protection against the tyranny of the political rulers. It was needful that there should be an animal of prey than the rest, commissioned to keep them down. The aim, therefore, of Patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community, and this limitation was what they meant by liberty.

The will of the people, moreover, practically means, the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, of those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority, the people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this, as against any other abuse of power. The limitation, therefore, of the power of government over individuals, loses none of its importance when the holders of power are regularly accountable to the community.

Those in power in our government is out to take away our liberty. They are turning this country into Russia and China. They are forcing control over the American people all because they are consumed by the power they have over us. President George Washington warned that this could very much happened.

They are so corrupted with power that anyone who seems to be a threat to them; they are willing to do whatever it takes to stop them. It’s our Democracy rights to vote; but they don’t want that to happen. I don’t care if it’s Trump or whoever it may be. They will do whatever they can to see to it that doesn’t happen. This is so similar to Russia and China. This is similar to third world countries that had their government leaders overthrown because of the tyranny.

Before Nelson Mandella became President of South Africa, he was sent to prison because of the corrupt government. It happened in the ’80’s under Apartheid. I’ll talk more about that in future blog.

Not only are they going after Trump, who is a frontrunner for the Republicans, by pressing false charges against him; they are also going after Bobby Kennedy Jr. as well. He is becoming a thorn in Biden’s side. He is gaining in the polls on the Democrats side; which Biden and those on the Left can’t stand and is very much afraid. They call him the Anti-Vaccer, because he spoke out against the vaccine and Dr. Nazi Fauci. They are even comparing him to Eugene McCarthy.

During the election of 1968, Eugene McCarthy was vocal in his intent to unseat the incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, He had a 42% showing in New Hampshire when Senator Robert F. Kennedy entered the race, forcing President Johnson to withdraw and Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey to entered. This all led up to Robert Kennedy being assassinated.

I don’t know about you, but this scares the hell out of me, thinking what length those on the Left will go through to stop Bobby Kennedy. Could he end up with the same fate as his father and uncle, President Kennedy. I sure hope not! I wouldn’t trust our power in control right now. If they are willing to do whatever it takes to stop their opponents either Republicans or Democrats; much like those countries I mentioned.

There is this rumor that Trump could pick Bobby Kennedy Jr as his running mate. Now that would just put the final nail in Joe Biden’s coffin. I won’t go into detail with that either; we’ll just wait and see right now for possible future blog.

Biden is becoming like a dictator along with those on the Left.

Biden and those on the Left is willing to do whatever it takes to take away our liberty. They tried to mandate, forcing everyone to get the vaccine. Biden, himself, even said, “You’re all gonna pay!” No one has the rights to force you to get something you are against, not even your job. I don’t care if it’s a hospital or what else! Yet, it happened! People lost their jobs because of their tyranny.

They want to take away our rights to bear arms and to protect ourselves. They rather take away our guns and put it in the hands of criminals. This is so similar to Russia and China.

The race for the White House is becoming populated with more and more candidates throwing their hats in the ring. Why not one more? How would you feel if I ran for President in 2024? I will fight for our liberty from those in power. I will stand for America! I will put America first. I will not deal with Russia and China; but rather put them on notice.

A vote for Biden is a vote for China. A vote for Biden is a vote against our Liberty.

Whereas, a vote for me is a vote for Liberty and for America!

Are you done with Biden and those who wants to take away our liberty?

Once again, as Patrick Henry said prior the Revolution War, I say it again, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

Have you ever noticed that there isn’t anything good on tv anymore? Tv is not worth turning on. It doesn’t even pay to have cable anymore; even as everything is so damn high.

When I was young, there was only 4 networks on air; until the ’80’s when Fox television hit the airwaves. Most people had black and white; except for those who can afford to have color tv. Some have had antenna on the roof of the house; but most had rabbit ears on top of the tv. The rabbit ears had tin foils wrapped around to helped with the reception. There was no remote. You had to get up to change the channels. Usually, those sitting on the floor closest to the tv was the remote. Sometimes, the knob for the channel was broken; so you had to used a tweezer to change the channel, or leave it on at the channel all the time.

They had good wholesome tv shows back then; not like today. The whole family could sit down together to watch tv without being disgusted. It was family time. The living room became the family room.

Saturday night was a big family night in front of the tv for my family; since it was the only night my mother had off from work. We had the tv set on to ABC network for their lineup of T.G Hooker, Love Boat and Fantasy Island. My mother had a crush on William Shatner who played T.G. Hooker.

On Friday night, we would watch Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas. On Sunday night, we would watch the Wonderful World of Disney back before they gone Woke and actually had good wholesome tv shows. I developed my first crush on Farrah Faucet because of watching her on Charley’s Angels. Later on, I developed a crushed on Linda Evans when she was on Dynasty. I soon discovered her on her first series, Big Valley; which also co-starred Lee Major from Six Million Dollars Man and the Fall Guy. He was also married to Farrah Faucet.

We even enjoyed watching the Brady Bunch, Partridge Family and Gillagan’s Island, even the reruns.

Some of the tv shows that were made back then couldn’t be made today. All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, and even Marriage with Children couldn’t be made today because of the controversy. People today would be too offended by those shows now days. They were wholesome tv shows!

Now days, the tv shows are so raunchy and unwholesome. They have more reality shows on tv such as The Bachelor, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and Real Housewives. I have not seen those shows and don’t care to. People on those shows are just cashing in on their 5 minutes of fame in hoping to remain famous.

They even remade some shows and simply destroyed it. Roseanne made a reboot and then when Roseanne made a comment, she was fired from her own show. They killed off her character and changed it to the Connors. They simply destroyed the show in the process.

Another reboot is the show, Wonder Years. The original version was way better than the remake. The original show was a family show; whereas the remake, Hollywood chose to make a statement instead of focusing on the true storyline.

Now that Fox News fired Tucker Carlson from his highest rating show, there is no real reason to watch Fox news anymore at his old time slot. Because of this, I’m looking at getting rid of my cable. It’s such a hassle to get rid of to save money.

With technology now so complicated, a person have to be an engineer or an IT person just to adjust your tv to get rid of cable. If you use the Firestick, you need a WIFI just to hook it up. It’s not set up for common everyday folks to be able to watch even local network.

Don’t they realize with this new technology with our tv, it makes it easier for the Government and even China to spy on us?

Watching tv is supposed to be a way to escape the cares of the world. Now it’s best to shut the boob tube off and read a good book; and not on Kindle either. To read an actual book.

With all this advance technology, nothing works like they’re supposed to. Nothing is made to last. They are made to buy instead. A person has more problems with equipment breaking down now more than ever. They fixed one thing and wreck something else in the process.

No wonder, there are people who hate John Deere and Ford? You can’t fixed things yourself, you have to take it in for repair or buy a new one when it breakdown. Not everyone is an engineer or an IT guy. Not everyone has a college degree. The older generation is being left behind because of technology.

If I was more technologically, I could maybe do a vlog along with my blog; but I’m not. I know enough but not enough to advance my blog.

I got an indoor antenna and is in the process of installing it so I can get rid of my cable to save some money. Wish me luck!!

Can’t find anything good on tv? Turn it off!! Sit down to read a good book instead!

This month was all about they don’t make things like they used to in a month long series. If you enjoyed this series, let me know.

My dad was a hard man built strong like this corn stock he’s standing next to. As you can see he was proud of his corn.

Life made him into the man he was. He didn’t have the easiest life. He’s only had an eighth grade education. He was a veteran. He always says, “join the military, it will make a man out of you.” For the first few years of his life he was in an orphanage that was rough for a young boy. All because back then when his birth mother had him, she was a single mother. At that time it was unheard of to be a single mother. His adopted mother took him in for her husband and also since he was related to them from a distance. He grew up during the Great Depression and the Dirty 30’s.

He was a Conservative but never politically active. He was against big government. For some reasons, he hardly took a bath and he smelled like it too. He wasn’t big on getting an education; but rather common sense. He always says, “A person can be book smart but not street smart.”

As you can see, the corn stock that he’s standing next to is a little taller than him. The reason for that was because we had good soil on the farm to grow a garden and crops. He was against using chemicals in the ground as fertilizer. He believed in natural fertilizer.

We raised Black Angus because like him, they were sturdy and easy keepers.

He built the house we lived in himself with his own sawmill and woods. The house wasn’t anything fancy but it was a home. There was no need for the person who bought the farm to destroy the house. It needed minor repairs because of the years it stood, the test of time.

Too bad they don’t build houses or anything like that anymore! Everything is so cheaply made but expensive to buy. Things are not built to last-they are built to buy!

He didn’t care for Ford automobiles because they weren’t made like they were when Henry Ford was alive. He worked for Steiger tractors but didn’t much care for them and wouldn’t allow them on the farm. The reason was because he saw how they were made. He hated Steigers as much as some hated John Deere.

With only an eighth grade education, he was a self-taught man. He was an engineer without the education. He built our wood stove that heated the house and even built one for someone else. He used older vehicles to create something out of it, such as his welding truck or wagon to haul hay and stuff. With the all that he created, our family could had been better off if he had patented it. Since he wasn’t a people person and hated big government, he chose not to patent what he created.

He loved the great outdoors, like hunting and fishing.

He may not fathered me but I was still his son. He raised me as his own. Like my mother would say, “any man can father a child, but it takes a real man to be a dad.” He was more of dad to me than my real father. I may not have his last name; but then again I don’t have my real father’s last name as well.

Don’t let anyone tell you that a step-parent doesn’t have rights to step-children. There are people who believed that too.

What man would take on the responsibility in raising another man’s child? It’s a huge responsibility.

I am the man I am today because of how I was raised. If you don’t like it; that’s just way too bad. My dad taught me a lot about life and things. He taught me how to tie my shoes, zipped my jacket how to fish, of just a few things.

My folks are gone now. They made 40 years together. It wasn’t no bed of roses for any of us, especially mom. Dad wasn’t perfect; but he was more of a dad than my real father. When I die, I want to be cremated and buried my ashes with my folks in Rollag; rather than be buried in Jamestown by my real father or in Casselton by my grandmother.

They don’t make men like my dad anymore. God threw away the mold when he created my dad. He was one-of-kind. We had our problems as all kids have with their dads; but I’m proud to have him as a dad. He wasn’t perfect. He had his flaws, as well as his good points.

I’m thankful he was my dad because there are children who doesn’t have a dad around to help raise them. There are many children who are born to a single mother and fathers who wants nothing to do with their own child. Now that’s a crying shame, especially the way our nation has become.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there who took on the responsibility of raising another man’s child. Thank you for stepping up to the plate! I’m glad that my dad had stood up to the plate to be a real man, a real dad to me.

When you go to the movies, you can’t watch without first getting some popcorns. Have you noticed how bad the movie theater popcorns is? It’s not worth the money you pay for it!

Well now it seems that the movies are becoming that bad as well. The price you pay to go to a movie is outrageous and movies aren’t as good anymore. They put more emphasis on the special effects and less on the storyline. Hollywood isn’t capable of coming up with new ideas of their own. Instead they rather remake a classic and they ended up destroying it in the process.

They’re too busy getting political, that they are neglecting the art of making good movies. Hollywood stars think they speak for Middle America. Well, I got news for them! They don’t speak for Middle America. What they want, most Americans don’t want.

Since movies are so badly made, movie theaters have created theaters to be like your home theater with surround sound. They now have recliners in the movie theaters. Is it because the movies have become sleepers, that they want people to be able to go to sleep while watching movies?

It’s been awhile since I have been to a movie, even seen a good movies. When you want to take a date out to the movie, it’s cheaper to take them out for dinner than to a movie. Plus, you’ll get your money worth.

I’m not a big Tom Cruise fan, because he has such a big ego, an ego as big as Texas. He can come across as a jerk. It has nothing to do with that he’s a Scientology. Look at how he treated his three ex-wives, Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes; or even his kids, especially his daughter with Katie Holmes. Let’s put it this way they are a lot happier without him.

Luckily, Mimi Rogers didn’t have any kids with Tom Cruise. Nicole Kidman adopted 2 kids with Tom Cruise; but once she married Keith Urban, they had kids of their own.

One thing I do have to give Tom Cruise credit for: when it comes to making movies, he focused on making good movies that people can enjoy, like Hollywood is supposed to do.

The reason you go to the movies is to escape the cares of the world. You want a chance to relax and to be entertained. Now instead you being propagandized with the subliminal messages in the movies.

I don’t know about you, but I prefer the older movies. They had better storylines. Sure they didn’t have the special effects; but they don’t make the movies.

I liked the original Planet of the Apes movies better than the remake; because of the storyline, the special effects just ruined the movies for me.

Hollywood recently remade the old John Wayne movie, Rio Grande, starring Jeff Bridges. Let’s put it this way, John Wayne is the king of all Westerns. Jeff Bridges is a good actor but he should had known better than to remake a John Wayne movie, being that he was from that generation and so was his father.

The movie, “The Star is Born was made at least 4 times. I don’t know much about the first one. The second one starred Judy Garland; but I have to admit the third one was the one starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Now I’m not a big fan of Barbra Streisand. Maybe because that version was more in my lifetime.

To this day, I haven’t yet seen the movie, “The Titanic” by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The reason for not seeing it was because that movie was a remake, just told differently. Why ruin a good thing?

Don’t get wrong, there are some good movies out there. I loved the movie, “The Help.” Even though it was based during the Civil Rights movement of the ’60’s, it was more than just racial discrimination. It was about the differences between the rich and the poor. A person can easily relate to that movie today. It should had won an Oscar.

I loved the movie, “Lord of the Rings.” It did win an Oscar for Best Picture. It was filmed in New Zealand and the director Peter Jackson took advantage of the beautiful scenery in making the movie. He kept it real to the book as well.

There’s one movie I loved as a child and that was the movie, “ET”. I cried during that movie. Once again it was the storyline not the special effects. I hope that Hollywood doesn’t remake that movie.

Most recently Hollywood is remaking the movie, “Little Mermaid.” They have changed it from animation to live action. They’re ruining that movie by going Woke with it.

I can’t believe I wanted to go to Hollywood, California when I was younger. I’m glad that I never made it out there. Hollywood has gone downhill. They have gone Woke and pure crazy with their Leftist views they’re trying to push on the rest of America.

When it comes to making movies, Hollywood isn’t coming up with new ideas and new stories. Instead they are choosing to remake old movies, and ended up ruining them instead. They rather tell the rest of America how to live rather than make good movies we can actually enjoy.

Old Hollywood is dead and gone! Hollywood stars of today cannot fill the shoes of the old Hollywood legend.

I know that I’m going to get criticized for this blog. Not only by Hollywood but also by those who still sees nothing wrong with movies today. They thinks that special effects is the answers to making a good movie. If you don’t have a good story, what good is the special effects?

Hollywood needs to stop going Woke and start making movies that will entertain us. Especially with the high cost of movies and popcorn.

We go to the movies to escape the cares of the world. We don’t want to be preached to their way of thinking.

I’m not a musician, but I admire those who are. Some spend many hours perfecting their craft, taking lessons and/or practicing. They learn what it takes to make melodies that please the ear and what it sounds like when the score falls short. People who can detect a specific sound and produce the perfect complement, or harmony; to the original sound are pretty cool in my book.

When I was a child, one of the things we did was pretend to be in a band that we called ourselves The Ding-A-Ling Brothers and Sisters. Of course, I was the lead singer; and I’m not really the best singer. I wrote a lot of songs, at least the words. I had one song put to music and a recording was made of it. The song was “Open Up.” My first musical instrument was the recorder; which recently I bought another recorder to hopefully practice it again, and maybe play it in church some day. I got my first guitar when I was around 12 years old. I even played the harmonica and a little piano, that I learned in junior high music class. During lunch hours at school, I would perform by singing to the fellow students. You could say, I was the class entertainer. One of the song I would sing would be “Joy to the World.”

When it comes to music, I prefer the old time rock and roll; the good old times music, when singers main goal was to entertain us by singing. Now it seems they have gone political as well.

Yet there are some songs out there today that I actually enjoyed. One song in particular is “Take Me to Church” by Hosier. If you watch the video on YouTube, it’s dark. Some so-called Self-Righteous Christian would condemn me for listening to that song because of the context in the video. I don’t look at the context, I looks at how the song moves me and the message it proclaim.

To you, Self-Righteous Christian, yes I do like the song, “The Lord knows I drink,” so don’t judge me!

When Maren Morris came out with her first hit song, “My Church,” I actually enjoyed it very much. I even said that she would goes far. How quickly my tune had changed on her though. She gone off the deep end, gone political nutjob. She became a part of the Black Lives Matter and the Woke. Maren Morris had a feud with Brittany Aldean over parenting style. She called her out for being transphobic. She criticized Jason Aldean’s wife over her controversial message comparing growing out of a “tomboy” phase to gender transitions.

When Jason Aldean did what a good husband should do, and came to his wife defense, the feud heated up between Maren Morris and Jason Aldean. I took the side of Jason Aldean in that matter.

There was a time when the Dixie Chicks was under attack because of the criticism of President George W. Bush; which triggered a backlash. I have to admit, I stood by the Dixie Chicks though.

When Brad Paisley first came out with his first song, “He didn’t have to be,” that song became a favorite of mine because of my relationship with my dad. I predicted that Brad Paisley would go far.

Pink made a statement to the pro-life movement, “Let’s be clear: if you believe the government belongs in a woman’s uterus, a gay persons business or marriage, or that racism is ok, then please in the name of your lord never (expletive) stop listening to my music and going to my concert.” So I was surprised when Pink decided to return to the Fargo Dome this summer, knowing North Dakota’s pro-life stance.

I have some favorite songs that I loved listening to as well. When I don’t come back don’t come a looking, for example. I like the song, ” I will not comply ” by Blind Joe; because it’s an anti-vaxxer’s song, and I’m against the vaccine.

What’s your favorite song? I gave you some of mine.

What was your first concert that you attended?

My very first concert was Sylvia, at the Red River Valley fair.

What was the worse concert you went to?

The worse concert for me was the Statler Brothers. I felt that it was a letdown from stories I heard about their concerts.

What was the best concert you’ve seen?

I have to admit, the best concert for me was seeing Paul McCarthy. When he came to the Fargo Dome, I was working backstage and his stagehands told me just stand out to the side and watch the concert. Even though, we had to stand the whole time, it was just amazing being so close to the stage and even seeing him when he got off the stage and walked by.

One of the good things about working the Fargo Dome, you can see some amazing concerts and some good performance. Some are real nice and some are jerks.

I have nothing against today’s singers standing up for what they believed in. I just wish they put more effort into making good music instead. Rhianna’s performance at this year Super Bowl was just horrible.

What do you think about all this? I would love to hear from you in the comment below. Or even like the blog.

This is only the beginning in the series they don’t make them like they used to. Stay tuned during this month of June.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in his “I had a Dream speech,” “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that this nation will not judged others by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

We then can live in a country where we are also free from our past.

Don’t let what happened to you and your family hold you back in life! You can find freedom from depression, anger, abuse, insecurity, and addiction. We don’t have to live in the past but we can learn from it; so that we can move forward. It doesn’t matter the color of your skin or your background. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor.

We live in a country where we are free. We honor those who fought and died for our freedom; and not just this Memorial Day weekend. The sacrifices they made so that we can be free. That’s what freedom is all about and why so many are coming to this country.

When we hear those crying out because of the corruption in America, those on the Left thinks the answer is gun control, and more government is the answer to the problems in this country. They just want to control us by taking away our freedom.

Don’t blame guns, the devil or even God! If we sow bad seed, we’ll reap a bad harvest. But if we sow good seed, we will reap a good harvest.

We live in a day and age when many believe there is no such thing as right and wrong.

The government will tell us the problem is with guns or MAGA Republicans.

Joe Biden and those on the Left wants to take away our freedom anyway possible. They thinks that Socialism is the answer. In reality, they are turning this country into China.

Joe Biden wanted to forced everyone to get the vaccine(poison) If you don’t get it, you’re a MAGA Republican.

There are states that were changing their voting procedures to prevent cheating. They’re adding voters ID’s is needed to vote. I think it’s a good idea to prove who you are. North Dakota has that in place. Joe Biden and those on the Left is saying it’s racist, and those pushing for it are White Supremacy. If you are for it, you’re a MAGA Republicans.

Another thing that North Dakota has in place is the fact those who worked the polling place are both Republicans and Democrats. That way, the election can be fair to everyone.

The only reason the Democrats don’t like it is because they can’t get the illegal immigrants to vote.

Voting is a privilege. It’s an honor and our civic duty to vote. But it’s also a choice. Sometimes, the choices is so bad, you just don’t want to vote. Or you feel so dirty; that you need to take a shower afterwards.

Those on the Left enjoys their freedom but seems to hate America. They call it a racist country.

America is not perfect; but at least we are free!

Yet there are those who wants to take our freedom away. They are out to rewrite history and the Constitution.

God bless the U.S. A. this weekend and everyday!!

Let us remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom! If it wasn’t for them, we would still be under the control of the Monarch in England.

We need people like the President of Ukraine, who is holding his ground against Russia for the sake of freedom for his people.

One of these days, we shall all be free!!

Don’t let anyone tell you that pets doesn’t have feelings. They are nothing like children or a part of the family.

As I mentioned in last week blog, we can learn a lot about animal emotions. Take it from someone who had 2 cats and had dogs growing up as well.

There’s an AI experiment in which if animals could talk, what would they say?

Animals may not be able to talk like us; but they can still communicate. Last week, I talked about Koko, who was able to communicate through the use of sign language.

Animals have their own special way of communicating, we are just unaware of what they are actually saying.

Growing up, we had a small dog named, Peanuts. We got her when we were out West from our cousins. As we were eating a picnic lunch on the road, Peanuts wouldn’t eat and we couldn’t figure out why at first. Then when it started to rain, she was the first to get to the car before the family. Once in the backseat of the car, she then ate. She knew it was going to storm before we did.

Whenever we would say to her, “want to go by-by, she would excitedly run to get to the car before us.

She had her favorite chair in the house that she would sit in. One time, we brought in a stray black cat to feed and warm up. That cat, Blacky, was in Peanuts favorite chair. Peanuts look up the chair as to say, “that’s my chair,” and jumped up beside Blacky. That was the start of a beautiful friendship between them. When Blacky was fighting with another cat, Peanuts came to his defense by running up close enough barking to scare the other cat away from her friend. When Blacky was killed and Peanuts saw his body, she was very sad for the lost of her friend. She would cry herself to sleep.

As she was older, she had 2 puppies; and we had no idea that she was fertile. She was a good mother to her puppies.

There are some people who shouldn’t have pets or even children. If they abused their pets; who’s not saying that they wouldn’t abuse their children?

What would you think if you came upon a car during the hot summer day, and there was a dog or a child inside? Hopefully, you would do the right thing and report it for the sake of the dog or child.

My one cat, Snowball, was abused by his previous owner before I got him. He was scared at first, and took years to warm up. He came to trust me but it took longer for him to trust others. He loved giving me kisses. He would lay on my chest as I slept and kissed me. He would even lay under the covers. At the same time, he would hide under the bed if any strangers came to the apartment. When he misbehaved, it was easy to disciplined him; since he loved to sleep with me. I wouldn’t let him sleep with me if he misbehaved.

He tried to hang on as long as he could for me and his girlfriend, Tabitha; but he knew his time was up, when I ended up putting him down. He lived to be 18 years old. Toward the end of his life he was happy with me and Tabitha. He was happy to have a girlfriend; even though it took Tabitha a little time to adjust to him; since she was a Diva.

Moving on to raising children. There was a young child who was killed when she was hit by a car on South University near the old Kmart in the rain. I’ve seen the child while waiting for the bus with her mother. That mother shouldn’t even had that child. Instead of watching the child, she was playing on her phone, not paying attention to her child. That child would walked aimlessly unsupervised. Anyone could have snatch the child up. So it came as no surprise that the child was killed when she was hit in the rain by an oncoming car. I felt bad for the child. I felt bad for the person who hit the child, because she has to live with the guilt. But I didn’t feel sorry for the mother. Am I a bad person for that? No, because she shouldn’t have any kids.

How do we raise children in the age of fear? Who wasn’t disciplined when they were a child? Sometimes, disciplining is needed to raising healthy children and pets. Now days though, parents are afraid of discipling their children because they fear being labeled bad parents. I’m not saying that you should abuse them. There is a line between abuse and discipline.

When you have small children or even pets, there is no vacations. Packing can be a challenge.

Being a parent or an owner of pets is like being a CEO of a small business.

Margaret Mead wrote, “A society that cuts off older people from meaningful contact with children, a society that segregates any group of men and women in such a way that they are prevented from having or caring for children, is greatly endangered.”

To get my grandmother to take her insulin, my mother held me over her head by threatening to take me and leave. She was accused of being mean to her mother for doing that. Was she?

One good thing that came out of the Pandemic was the fact that parents were able to finally see what was being taught to their children in schools. Now they are speaking out against what is being taught. They are going to school board meetings, speaking out. They are being labeled domestic terrorist for doing so. There was a Senator from New Hampshire who recently told that the parents should shut up and let the teachers teach their children. Those on the Left is blaming the parents for the poor education of their child.

Children learn by watching others. Much like pets also learned by watching their owners. What kind of role model will you be to your children?

Even Joe Biden chimed in by also calling parents domestic terrorist for speaking out against the school board over the way their children are being educated. He even said that the children isn’t the parent’s children; but rather everyone children.

You know who said that first? Adolf Hitler said that, as he was recruiting teenage boys to be part of his Nazi organization. Hitler was after the children for his own agenda; much like Biden and those on the Left is after our children today.

I’m glad that parents are finally standing up for their children. It’s the parents responsibility to raise their children, not the government and not the teachers.

Just like those who own pets, they have to step up and treat them right. Don’t abuse your pets and don’t abuse your children! You can discipline, just don’t step out of line. There is a thin line between abuse and disciplining.

Those who mistreat their pets, are more likely to abuse their children. Pets are as much part of the family as your kids. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Here’s a virtual Mother’s Day hug to all mothers out there. Happy Mother’s Day to you all!!

The book that I’m holding is called, “Mama’s Last Hug.” In this blog, I will be talking about a mother’s hug. This book talks about animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves. I won’t go into much details on animal emotions; because I will save it for next week blog.

The Gorilla Foundation, from Woodside, California had a gorilla named Koko. Her trainer was Francine Patterson. Koko had an active vocabulary of more than 1,000 signs of what Patterson calls “Gorilla Sign Language. I found Koko quite interesting when I took a Psychology course and came upon that study. I even get emails from that foundation. This is my connection I have with the late Robin Williams. Robin Williams had befriended Koko on his many trips to this foundation to visit Koko. When Robin Williams passed away, Koko took it quite hard.

You probably wondered why I mentioned this? I came upon this book and it reminded me of Koko. I may had never met Koko personally, but from the studies, I found her to be fascinating.

It goes to show that even animals have emotions. They feel just as much as humans. Don’t let anyone tell you different!

Do you know that there’s healing in getting a hug? I don’t care if it’s a hug between a couple, friends, siblings, or even parents. When I was younger, the big thing was that guys don’t hug guys. Some say it’s inappropriate. It’s not the hug but how it’s administered to another person. For the longest time I had a hard time in accepting a hug from a male friend because of that belief.

Just like it’s healing when a mother would kiss a child’s boo-boo. When a child falls and get hurt, not only would a mother put a bandage on it; she would also kiss it to make it feels better. I remembered, one time while running out to the car after being picked up at the babysitter. I fell and got up and continued my way to the car, where dad was waiting. My mother told me that I asked him to kissed my owie. So you see, a child knows that; much like animals knows.

My mother had a hug for anyone she knew. She would hug her kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews; and so on.

She told me that my grandfather would paid his kids and grandchildren to give him a hug; since not many wanted to hug him. Whereas, my grandmother would asked, “what do you want” if anyone gave her a hug. I never witnessed that though. So maybe my mother inherited her affectionate from her father.

I remembered as a child, my mother would tell us kids to go give dad a hug goodnight. When we did that, he would turned his head and reluctantly gave that hug. I do remembered him giving us a whisker rub though.

My mother had so much compassion. Everyone who knew her, loved the fact that she was willing to give people hugs. She would even hug someone; even if that person hurt someone she loved. My step-brother, Ronny, knew that when he asked her for a hug.

It goes to show that there is special power in a hug.

I’m glad that my folks wasn’t alive during the Pandemic when everyone was force to stay home and 6 feet away. It would had been hard on my mother to do that. She loved her family, and seeing them brought joy to her life. A chance to give hugs and kisses she really enjoyed.

The year I turned 50, I was on a train going out West to Washington State to not only celebrate my 50th birthday but also my Uncle Leo’s 80’s birthday. I imagined my mother sitting beside me on that train. I imagined her hugging her brother for his 80th birthday.

I miss my mother and the hugs I had received throughout my life from her; since I was a child to before she passed away.

I’m not the hugger she was. Maybe I take after dad that way.

My mother was the emotional person who worn her heart on her sleeve; while dad wasn’t emotional. Yet, they somehow complete each other.

When people came to visit, they came to visit her because of her loving-kindness. Then dad would get that companionship as well. Everybody who knew my mother, loved her. She didn’t have a bad things to say about anyone. She’ll tolerate someone even though she didn’t really care for that person. I can’t do that like she could.

My mother may be gone, but knowing her, she’s up in heaven giving everyone a hug. She’s hugging her parents, siblings, nieces and nephews. At the same time, her spirit is watching over us down here as well. At times, I can still feel her hugging me whenever I needs a hug.

To those who mothers are still alive, if you can go see her and give her a hug, letting her know how much you love and appreciate her. If you live too far away to see your mother in person, call your mother to tell her that you loved her. A mother doesn’t want gifts and cards. They just want to know that their children hadn’t forgotten her.

I love you, mom!! I missed the hugs and kisses I received from you.