Fathers and dads comes in all sizes and forms. Today we honor them all with a special tribute to the simple man who cherished the simple life. They are the everyday common man.

My family could had been better off financially, if my dad would had patented what he had built with his own 2 hands and his own thoughts behind it. He only had an 8th grade education; but he was a self-taught man.

One of the reasons he didn’t patented what he created was because of his mistrust of the government. This is where I get my mistrust of the government as well.

My dad built the house we lived in on the farm himself with his own sawmill and woods. The house outlasted him; because he made sure that it was done right and made to last. Whereas anything built today is not built to last; but rather made to buy.

Now, the person who happened to have boughten our farm in the auction has literally destroyed it piece by piece. I just recently saw the destruction of our old homeplace and it was very upsetting. The window in the living room was taken out, the siding of the house was stripped. It was a total disaster and a lack of respect. They even cut down the evergreen trees that were in front of the house, nothing was wrong with them.

My dad would not be too happy if he knew the destruction that was done our old homeplace. He would probably roll over in his grave if he’s not haunting the place.

The house wasn’t the only thing he built himself. He built the woodstove in the basement himself. He created it in the shop before putting it together down in the basement. He made his own wagons to haul things such as square haybales and other such things out of old cars or just by scratch. He created his own welding truck that he used to get out to the neighbors farmers to fix their equipment; as part of his own business. He was able to fix up old tractors, combines for our own farming. He made his own root cellar to store vegetables from our garden; such as potatoes.

There was nothing fancy about him. He was just a simple common man living and loving the simple life. He even said that when he dies just put him in the ground six feet under and cover him with dirt. He didn’t need all that fancy funeral arraignment.

He may not had been a Cadillac man but I sure hope that he enjoyed the ride from the funeral home to the church. He would probably scold us for spending too much for his funeral. Even though, he did went out of his way to buy a nice headstone for his and my mother’s grave; it was more than just a marker. He had it built and then later his name was added.

He didn’t just built things for himself, the farm or the family; he also built things for others as well. He made someone else a woodstove also. He made a railing for Rollag Church from the road up the hill heading toward the church.

He was a jack of all trade and master of none.

Few years before my mother passed away, he built her new kitchen cupboards himself from his own sawmill. He even built a railing going up the steps to the backdoor of the house.

You could say that I got my mistrust of the government from him. You can also say that I’m a simple man myself because of him. I don’t have much fancy stuff in my apartment. I’m content to live the simple life; even if I ever win the Powerball or my blog ever goes viral. I would pick the seclusion of country over the city life any day.

He would had been totally surprised at how much the farm went for at the auction and the bidding war. Both him and my mother wouldn’t like who ended up getting the farm. They would had preferred someone else in the neighbor.

He never had a credit card. Whenever he wanted something that he couldn’t build himself, he saved up for it. He was very big on savings. You could say he was a Conservative; even though he never affiliate himself with any political party. He voted for the person instead of the party.

To all the fathers and dads out there, Happy Father’s Day!! It’s alright to be a simple common man; nothing wrong with that. I have more respect for those who just cherish the simple life and simple things in life. You don’t need anything fancy to impress someone. Just be yourself!

It sure would had been nice to have been better off financially than what we were; but children from rich family are starving for love and affection from their parents. They have this entitlement issues instead. They have everything but the actual love.

I have to say there was love even though he never really expressed it. I was taught to appreciate what I have and to be content.

With all that is going on in the world today; it makes a person wondered if the end is near, as bad as things are getting.

My mother would say, “the end comes for somebody everyday.”

If you read or watch “Left Behind,” they misinterpret the book of Revelation.

Now the book a Revelation is a difficult book to read, study, or comprehend. It’s easy to misinterpret. That’s one reason why some preachers won’t preach on the book of Revelation. I’m not even going to go there.

In the movie, “Left Behind,” they talked about being raptured. I don’t know what to believe on that. If there’s such thing as being rapture, I would love to be rapture up before it getting any worse; but I don’t delve into it like certain religious sect..

As my grandmother had said, “The Lord only gives you what you can handle and nothing more.”

If you listen to the Jehovah Witness, they try to convert you over to their religion by saying that they will be the only one left in the new earth. They even prophesied that the end was going to happened in the ’70’s. As you can tell, it never happened.

Few years ago, I went to prophesy seminar about the end time. At first, I didn’t realize that it was hosted by the Seventh Day Adventist.

So a person have to be very careful about these so-called end time prophecy. They can easily deceive you; just like the devil; who is known as the great deceiver. It’s important that you have your eyes open and truly knows your Bible or you will be easily deceived.

There was a so-called cult that committed suicide because they were following Hally comet and they felt that the end were near.

One thing it does say in Revelation, there will be wars and rumors of wars until the end time. When they work to take God and Jesus out of our schools and Christmas; that is what the devil wants to do. They are looking at taking God out of the Constitution as well. Those on the Left say it’s too offensive.

Ever since they took the Bible and prayer out of our schools, there had been more and more school shootings. They blamed it on the guns and guns manufactured. In the words of the great movie character, “Shane,” gun doesn’t kill, people kill.

Even though, I have been praising the President of Ukraine for fighting for their freedom against Russia as a hero; if the people only knew the truth that the news media doesn’t report, you might think twice. I heard that the government in Ukraine was very corrupt; much like our government in the United States.

We just don’t have our eyes open to the truth. And that’s the way they like it and that’s the way the devil like it. They don’t want us to know the truth. If we knew the truth, they couldn’t control us like they want.

The devil is the father of all lies and the great deceiver. He uses certain people to do his bidding.

Our moral values are being destroyed more and more. The values that our forefather is being destroyed as well.

We need to wake up and not just the church. It’s time we wake up and see what is happening right in front of us. If we don’t wake up, it may be too late. Maybe the end is near and Jesus will return for us all. If we’re not ready, we may get left behind.

Like the 7 brides who missed out on the bridegrooms because they didn’t have enough oil in their lamps and it burnt out. Are we going to be like them?

Are we going to remain asleep or are we going to wake up?

It’s time we get back to God! It’s time to wake up and see what is going on in the world. We need to quit destroying each other and this planet.

The last days are coming! We just don’t know when. We just have to ready and alert.

I may not know much about things but I do know what I know and have my opinions; and is willing to share them. These are some of the things we ought to know.

Young ladies should know how to change the oil and tires if they own a car. They should know how to fixed things around the house inside and out. They shouldn’t be afraid to get their hands dirty. I would respect women like that; more than someone who comes across so dainty. If she’s squirmish around creepy things or afraid to get her hands dirty, I want to say, “you’re no fragile doll.” I remembered one time my mother caught a mouse in the bathroom on the farm with a plunger.

Much like young boys should be taught how to cook, clean and even sew. It doesn’t hurt them to take a home-ec class in school. It’s good to know in case you don’t get married or even happened to get a divorce. It’s even good to know; so you can help your wife out with the housework. Years ago, some may think that boys should only do guy things; while girls do girl things. If a boy did anything that was meant for girls only; they were labeled, “fag.” They would be ridiculed by their classmates, and bullied.

Girls can do anything a boy can do and vice a versa.

It doesn’t hurt for teenagers to get a job when they hit certain age. I’ll never forget when my mother told me at the age of 13, I was getting a summer job. It wasn’t the fact that my family needed the money; it was to teach us the value of money and hard work. To show us that money doesn’t grow on trees.

I don’t believe parents should buy a phone for their kids. If they wanted a phone, they should work for it; so they can make their own phone payment. It will be to teach them the value of money. If they bought the phone themselves, they may take better care of it.

Much like, if they start out early making money, it will eliminate the idea of them feeling entitled and entitlement. Young people today isn’t taught that. Parents today are only after buying their love. If they start out early working for their money, they may appreciate it more when they do inherit things from their parents.

If they are taught the value of money when they are young, they may become a Conservative when they get older. They would appreciated it more. They wouldn’t feel entitlement.

We have 2 ears and 1 mouth, so we should listen more.

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Look at Trump and Elon Musk for example.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

There can be no greater accomplishment without risk.

If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbors.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

These are just some of the quotes.

When you go out in the morning, you want to know what the weather would be like. You want to know if you will need a jacket or an umbrella. So it’s the weatherman job to inform us.

Much like, it’s the news reporter to report the news to inform us. It’s their job to give us the facts. Yet the fake mainstream news media fails in doing that. They were bias when it came to Biden. They went after Trump but never once reported on Joe and Hunter Biden illegal scams. If they had truly done their job, the election of 2020 could had a whole different turnout.

Just like, we need to know the facts on the vaccine that they so desperately pushing on us. They don’t want us to know. They know if we knew the whole facts, they couldn’t force us to get the poisons.

Also the same goes with the knowing the facts on Coronavirus. We have the rights to know all the facts on it. Yet both Dr. Nazi Fauci and Bill Gates don’t want us to know about it.

These are some of the things we ought to know. If there is anything you feel that we need to know that I didn’t mentioned, I want to know. Inquiring minds need and want to know.

The war over in the Ukraine since Russia attack back in February is still going strong. The reason was as President Zelensky of Ukraine said, “The Ukrainian will never becomes slaves to Russia and Putin. You have to keep fighting for your freedom; otherwise you will lose it.”

I have to admire him for that; because he is showing himself as a true strong leader. The thing is: he wasn’t a career politician. He was a comedian and an actor. He’s shown strength as a leader; something that is truly lack in Biden.

Putin isn’t very happy that his takeover of Ukraine isn’t going as plan. Putin is like a spoiled brat who isn’t getting his way. That is very scary because he is even more dangerous now.

Before Russia attacked Ukraine, the Canadian truck drivers were protesting all the mandates set up by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Mandates such as: wearing of the masks and getting the vaccine(poison).

Now Justin Trudeau is cry baby wimp. He was hiding away out of fear. He even called them domestic terrorist. He was doing all he could to stop them from standing up for what they believed in. He would do whatever he could from freezing their bank account to ciphering their gas. It was wintertime, and they needed the gas to stay warm.

In my book, Justin Trudeau is no better than Putin. They both are evil dictator and should be taken down. I have no respect for him what-so-ever.

Even our worse president, Joe Biden is weak link who I have no respect for. He called those who stormed the Capital as being domestic terrorist. Anyone who would disagree with him are terrorist.

I got news for Biden, we are not terrorist. I love this country will stand and defend it against those who are out there to destroy the United States. I will continue speaking out against people like them. This is a free country and we have the right to stand up for our freedom.

Our forefathers fought and died so that we may be freed. We are not going to let their death be in vain. We are not going to let those on the Left take away our freedom.

Millions of men and women gave their lives so that generations to come could live as citizens of a public, united around principles founded in our Constitution. This is the purpose of the regular election of government officials, for your vote is their performance review. Voting is our responsibility to provide feedback to the elected officials. Therefore, elect men and women of principle who, as statesmen, will risk their House or Senate because they choose to care more for themselves than the American people they represent. Remember those in government worked for us; not us working for them, like they think. So it’s our Civic duty to vote!

Sometimes it can be a very difficult to go to the pull to vote. Sometimes there is no decent person to vote for. After voting, you have to take a shower afterward because you feel so dirty.

It’s even hard to trust if your votes matter; especially when you see cheating done by those in office or by Big Tech who wants to control the election results. Like what happened in the election of 2020.

Then there are people who continue electing the same person to office.

We need people in office who share our values and the values of this country. They need to share our principles as well. If they don’t, just don’t vote for them.

We haven’t had a real decent candidate running that we can feel comfortable with for a long time; at least since 2000. George W. Bush over Al Gore or John Kerry were both bad. John McCain and Mitt Romney were Rhinos Republicans. In 2016, people didn’t like Trump or Hillary Clinton; and then in 2020, people didn’t much care for Biden or Trump.

This midterm election, it’s time to throw the bums out and elect someone who share our values and principles. It’s time we show them who is the boss. It’s time to let them know that they work for us; and that they are doing a very poor job at it.

No matter what Biden may say, we are not domestic terrorist; just because we choose to speak out against their tyranny. We have the rights to stand up for our freedom.

If we don’t stand up for something, we will fall for anything. If we don’t stand up to those who want to take away our freedom; we will become like slaves in our own country. Don’t let them tell you that we have no right; because that’s a lie. Show them who’s boss!!

The President of Ukraine has my utmost respect; while Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden don’t. What about you? Who do you respect? Are you willing to stand up for what you believe in?

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

You’ll never know what you can do unless you just do it.

In Philippians 4:13, “I can everything through him who gives me strength.”

One of the kids stories is about the little engine that could. As you were trying to do something when you were a child, you were told that story to encourage you to never give up and keep on trying. You were told to keep saying, “I think I can, I think I can;” until the task was done.

Hopefully you had parents who encourage you to never give up. Keep on trying! Hopefully, you have people out there in your corner to support you and your dreams. Without their support, it’s easy to just give up the fight.

If you have people who always criticized you and doubt that you can even do it. You need to get them out of your life once and for all. If they are not willing to be in your corner, then they are not worth having around you. They will only hurt you and keep you from achieving the task at hand.

Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger. Just tell yourself you can do it. Ignore those who dare to criticize you. They are just jealous. They want to see you fail. When you fail, they win. Whatever you do, don’t let them win!

Just say to yourself, “Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There’s plenty of room.”

You just got to go, go, go!! It makes no difference where just so you go, go, go! Remember at the first opportunity go! You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then you practice. And when you finally get up there, forget all that and just wail.

I may not be expert or a genius but that’s not going to stop me from doing things. I will not let people tell that I cannot do it. I have opinions and I will express them. If they don’t like it or they want to criticize me; that’s their problems.

There are people out there who encouraged me to create a blog because I have sent letters to the editors and had few published.

Do you know anyone who is so critical of you and everything you do? They just wants to cut you down.

Believe me, I know people like that. I even work with people like that. They are nice to your face; but once you are not around, they are quick to criticize you and say, “I had to redo it all!” They’ll even post it on Facebook. They think they are so much better than you. In reality, they are a bully. They want to see you fail. They’ll go out of your way to hurt you.

There’s a song by Mark Wills called, “Don’t Laugh at Me,” that says it best. That song was my mother’s favorite song.

They think that they are so much better than you. As my mother would say about them, “They think their shit doesn’t stink, but their farts give them away!”

Who needs them? They do not need to be a part your of life. You do not need to have them around if they are going to constantly criticize you either verbally or go behind your back and redo things and then rub their nose just to make fun of you.

I’m not going to saying this person name; but I know you may know someone like that. You may even know that particular person.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it anyway. Prove your critics wrong!

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” In other words, if you don’t succeed, try, try again.”

If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

To dare is to lose one’s footing. Not to dare is to lose oneself. The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Take risks. Ask the dumb questions. Fail if you have to, and then get up and do it again. As teachers would say, “There is no stupid questions.”

Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody may thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. Don’t let your critics cut you down because of their jealousy. Don’t let them bully you with their words and/or action.

As the ads for Nike shoes, “Just Do It!” Just tell yourself you can do it. I am somebody that my critics are jealous of. They just want to hurt you to make themselves better. Remember, you do can all things despite what some people may say or do to offend you.

I hope those who are reading this blog will be encourage to just do it. Ignore your critics!

JUST DO IT!!

Ronald Reagan became President after the 1980 election after he defeated Jimmy Carter. He was the first President to have been married twice and divorce. He was an actor from Hollywood back when good things came out of Hollywood. He was the oldest President elected; who was older than William McKinley when he was elected. Now Biden is older than what Reagan was.

Reagan didn’t comes from money as so many politicians had. One of his first job was as a lifeguard. He first married actress Jane Wyman and they had 2 kids: Maureen and Michael Reagan. Actually Michael was adopted by Ronald and Jane. Their kids were probably more Conservative much like them.

Ronald Reagan was a Democrat before becoming a Republican. He voted for FDR for President. What he said to why he switched to being a Republican was the fact that he didn’t leave the Democratic party, they left him. In other words their values didn’t match up.

I believe that both John F. and Robert Kennedy wouldn’t be accepted by today’s Democrats much to the same way. They both were too Conservative for today’s Democrats.

Since Ronald Reagan had political dreams, his wife, Jane Wyman didn’t had the same dream as he did; so they soon divorce. Then Ronald met his second wife, Nancy Davis while on a movie set. She became the love of his life, and they were married up to his death. They had 2 kids as well. There names were Ronny Jr. and Patty Davis. They were more Liberal than Maureen and Michael. I would say that they were kind of wild; much like George W. and Laura Bush daughters, Jenna and Barbara. Patty was a thorn in Nancy’s side so-to-speak, with her wild living. Whereas Ron Jr. appeared on Saturday Night Live dancing in his briefs playing a broom like a rock ‘n’ roll guitar in a takeoff from the movie “Risky Business.” So you could they were an embarrassment.

When Reagan was elected President inflation was at an all-time high because of Jimmy Carter. It never had been that high until now under Biden; which inflation is even a little higher. Plus gas prices were also high and there was long line at the gas pumps as well. Another thing that hurt Carter and helped Reagan was the fact of the Iranian hostages that was taken during Carter’s Presidency. Carter didn’t or couldn’t do anything about it when he was in office; making him weak and the worse President up until now as Biden had taken the title away from him in a short time.

Now Ronald Reagan wasn’t part of the Established Republicans, so he had difficulties within his own party; much like Donald Trump did. Reagan also had the same problems with the Democrats and the news media. They hated Reagan like they hated Trump today. The only difference, Reagan had more tact than Trump. He was able to used his sense of humor in his favor. I don’t think he would be able to do that today though.

Reagan made quite a few movies, was President of the Screen Actors Guild, and the Governor of California all before becoming President. His 2 most famous movies were “Bedtime for Bonzo” and “Knute Rockne.” Bedtime for Bonzo, the media made that one famous to ridicule him when he was President. Whereas a line from Knute Rockne was, “Win one for the Gipper!” He used that line himself whenever he wanted to get something passed Congress and the Senate.

Even though George Bush was Vice-President under Reagan, they really didn’t get along. Reagan didn’t fully trust Bush, their policies were different. Much like John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The only reason Reagan had Bush as his running mate was because he wanted to show unity within the Republican party.

When Reagan was President, Tip O’Neill was the Speaker of the House. Now O’Neill was a Democrat; yet they had the utmost respect for each other despite being from 2 different political party. They were friends as well. It’s unheard of today!

I remembered the day when Reagan was shot. I was in my 5th hour class when the Principle, Mr. Pederson came over the intercom to say, “Pres. Reagan was shot and school was dismissed.” When I got home, my mother was watching the news on TV and I could swear there was a tear in her eyes when she saw the news. I think it reminded her of when Kennedy was killed.

Thank goodness, Reagan survived the assassination attempt! He joking said to Nancy, “I forgot to duck!”

In 1984, the year I was able to vote for the first time, was the year I became a Republican; all because of Reagan. Reagan had the charisma to attract the young people as well. Not only was he Conservative; he was anti-government. He even said, “The Government isn’t the solution, they are the problems.”

Even though I was a young college Republican, I had a professor who was a Democrat and a state Senator. His name was Dr. Thomas Matchie. Back then we had respect for each other and he even became my advisor. Because of Dr. Matchie, I do more reading today; so that I can come up with ideas for my blog and able to give readers the facts, the whole facts.

There isn’t that kind of respect on college campuses today for anyone who happens to be a Republican. Most of the college professors are Liberals. There is a lot of hatred for anyone who is a Conservative Republican on college campuses and abroad. Look at ANTIFA for example. Yet the Leftist news media blamed Trump for the hatred. It’s not Trump fault, believe me! He just stood up to them; much like Reagan did in his days; except Reagan did it with a sense of humor.

I had a chance to see Reagan in person back in 1986 when he came to Grand Forks on the UND college campus. I’m so glad I did too.

Other world leaders respected Reagan as well. Margarette Thatcher had the utmost respect for him as a leader. He was able to keep United States out of war while building up our defense. He told Gorbachev, “Tear down that wall!”, in reference to the Berlin Wall.

His policies was known as Reaganomics; which stood for the trickle down affect. All the good policies he did came through in the ’90’s when Bill Clinton was President. Clinton tried to lay claim to the good economy; but Reagan was the one who deserved the credit for it.

In 1984, Reagan ran for reelection against Walter Mondale, who was the Vice-President under Carter. So he had 2 strikes against him. #1 was Reagan’s popularity and #2 was Carter’s unpopularity. They even tried to used Reagan’s age against him; but it only backfire when he said, “I will not use age to exploit my opponent youth and inexperienced.”

Even though Reagan started showing signs of having alzheimer, he was still more cognitive than Joe Biden; who may have dementia. You can’t tell me that Biden doesn’t have dementia; because I will not buy it. I will put Reagan’s state of mind up against Biden’s state of mind any day, and Reagan still was more stable than Biden.

Reagan was the best President we had in my lifetime up until Trump. I have to admit, even though I like Trump for what he did for America when he was President, Reagan still got him beat. I’m a Republican today because of Reagan. Yet, there are some Republicans I definitely doesn’t approve of. They are the Rhino’s Republicans. Trump brought me back to the Republican party. I wasn’t happy with George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney; that’s why I couldn’t vote for them. I think that Reagan would agree with me. He would approve of Trump but at the same time he would laugh at his mean tweet. He would totally disapproved of all those on the Left who are pushing Socialism. He saw Socialism as Communism.

Just like John F. Kennedy was the last great Democrat President. There was never one that could light a fire to him. He wouldn’t be accepted by today’s Democrats. He would say that the Democrat party had left him as well.

What did your mother wanted you to become when you grew up?

All mothers want the best for their children. They want their children to have a better life than they had. Mothers would want their daughters to marry a rich man. They would even say not to marry someone like their father; if their father was abusive or cheated on their marriage.

They just don’t realize that daughters would marry someone like their father anyway. While sons would marry someone like their mother. It’s because the way they had grown up. They grew accustom to that type.

Daughters may go to college and return home with a guy, their mother didn’t expect. It breaks a mother’s heart when that happen.

Sometimes, a mother would give up their child; so the child can have a better life, one they cannot give them.

Now that’s better than not having the baby at all. Yet at the same time, they could end up even having a worse childhood than thought possible.

My mother always wanted to be a nurse; but she had to dropped out of school after her father was killed by a train, to help take care of her baby sister, Jo-Anne. She even had a chance to go to Germany with a guy who was in the military; but her mother wouldn’t sign, since she was not quite 18.

My mother’s dream for me was to become a lawyer for some reason. Now can you imagine me as a lawyer?

Even though mothers have big dreams for their children; why is it so hard for them to let them go when that time comes? They do all they can to hold onto their child and the memories of their childhood. They would save whatever they can that hold special memories of their child, just to hold onto them for as long as they can.

My mother kept my old cub scout shirt, high school graduation gown and even my baby blanket.

I love my mother very much. I miss her; but she was a pack rat.

Deep down she didn’t want to let us kids go because she was afraid.

My mother may wanted the best for me. She wanted me to have a life she never had; yet at the same time it was hard in letting go. She wasn’t able to become a nurse like she wanted. She wasn’t much in really dressing up; because she felt she had no real reason to get all dolled up.

Today was Mother’s Day. A day to honor your mother and her crazy dreams she have for you. It’s pipe dreams. My mother is gone now and so is her dreams not only for herself but also for me. I will treasure the memories I have of my mother. She may not had been a nurse and I’m definitely not a lawyer.

My mother did worked part time in nursing home as a cook; so that’s the closest she came in living her dream of being a nurse. I worked in a hospital myself; so I believe that my mother would be happy for me.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there!! Don’t never give up on your dreams for yourself and for your children. It may not comes true as dreamt but you never know what could happen. Keep dreaming and praying!

Don’t get me wrong, we all need money to survive. There are those who make money their gods. I mean the small letter god not the capital letter God.

One of the 10 commandments is “You shall have no other gods before me. I, the Lord is a jealous God.”

Here’s a verse that is happening today more and more lately. The verse is 2 Timothy 3:2, “People will be lovers of themselves and lovers of money.”

In Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve 2 masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

Yet those in power and have lots of money are doing just that. They have become lovers of money and of themselves. They don’t care about the people they serve in Washington or anywhere.

Some say the root of all evil is money. It’s not money but the power that comes with it. Those who are rich also have the power of money that goes with it. They used that power to flaunt it over those who are not rich.

Those who are rich can get away with anything illegal. They can afford a good attorney to get them off with just a slap on the wrist.

They thumb their noses at anyone who doesn’t have what they have. To them, we are beneath them. We are not welcome in their circle.

Then again, who would want to be a part of their circle? With their snobbish attitude, who would want to be a part of it?

I mean, I would rather have friends in low places than someone who thinks they are so much better because they have so much money and power.

If anyone tries to interfere with their power they have over others; they fight back. They do not like anyone to take away their power.

The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi lived in a gated house in California; while her contingent are the poor working class people. She doesn’t much care what her people thinks of her.

She is not alone in that way of thinking either. She got the money and power so why worried what others think about her. A lot of them thinks that way too.

It’s like the rich man who had died and sees that he went to hell while the people under him went to heaven. He beg for them to have mercy. The Lord told him that he got what’s coming to him. This isn’t completely accurate but I think you get the message.

The Established Republicans hated the Tea Party because they were shaking things up in Washington D.C. The career politicians hated Trump because he was draining the swamp.

Before Trump even ran for President, he was their best friend. He was part of their circle. Once he ran for President and became President, they feared him. They feared that he would interfere with their power that they have over the American people. They didn’t want to lose all that power that money can buy. They had gotten used to all the perks that comes with being in government. Trump was doing things they could never do or even thought of doing.

This make me think of the best movie I have seen, “The Help.” One of my favorite scene was where someone baked a pie and offered it to her rich boss who treated her like a slave. The pie turned out to be made with her shit. She even said, “Eat my shit!”

I’m sure a lot of people felt that way toward their rich employer.

Even though, that movie was based in the ’60’s and dealt with racism; it is more than racism. It was about the rich flaunting their wealth and power over anyone beneath them.

Another person who was a part of the rich and powerful in-crowd is/was Elon Musk. Since Elon Musk had used his money and power to buy Twitter to fight for our freedom of Speech and Expression; They are pissed at him. They hate him as much as they hate Trump. Because both of them are going against everything they believed and stand for.

It good to see Elon Musk fighting for our freedom and buying Twitter. The big question is: what’s in it for him? No one does something like that without a motive. They want something in return. They are flaunting their money and power, making themselves so much better than the rest of us. They are not lover of people but rather lover of money.

The more they have, the more they want! My step-dad hated people who brag about what they have and rub our noses in it.

The point I’m getting at is: don’t let money be your god! Don’t let money and the power that goes with it consume you to the point that you becomes lover of money rather than of people.

If you do that, God will take it away and give it to someone else. That’s why those in power were/are afraid of Trump and Elon Musk. Those who are rich are constantly living in fear because they are afraid of losing it all. They will fight tooth and nail to hold onto what they have including the power that goes with it. They have more fear than the poor working class; because they brought it all on themselves.

I mean do you want that kinds of life, living in constant fear all the time? I don’t!

What healing remedy did your mother used on you when you were sick growing up?

We all know that hot bowl of chicken soup is good for a cold and so is orange juice.

Do you know that you have natural herbal remedies in your kitchen for whatever may ails you? I will share some from the book, “The Green Pharmacy”, by James A. Duke, Ph.D.

First though, when I was sick with a sore throat as a child, my mother would rub Vicks vapor rub on my neck and chest; and then wrapped my dad’s sock around my neck. I went to bed like that.

Do you know that mint is good for an upset stomach?

During the 1800’s, people would drink whiskey to help soothes toothache. Whiskey was used for practically everything back then much like duct tape today.

Let’s look at what also can help a toothache: Clove is a safe and effective for a throbbing toothache pain. You just put the fresh cloves next to the tooth that is throbbing. You can also used ginger, red pepper, and rhubarb.

If you are suffering with a cold or a flu you can use: garlic, ginger, black cherry, citrus fruit containing vitamin C, Elderberry, and onion. During this pandemic to keep my immune system healthy, I have been taking elderberry syrup and ginger roots daily. I would even used garlic once in awhile.

To help prevent kidney stones, I have been taking a teaspoon of organic apple cider vinegar in a glass of cold water.

That is also helpful in diluting the poison from the vaccine that I was forced to get. You can also use fresh squeeze lemon in a glass of water and no sugar.

I remembered when I was young and was having earaches, my mother would blow smoke into my ears.

These are just some of natural herbal remedies for healing purpose. I could go on with more but there’s much more to talk about.

With all these natural herbal remedies out there, the pharmaceutical and medical profession would want to shut it down because they are afraid that it would affect their lively hood. Much like the religious leaders in this country during the 1600’s accusing people of practicing witchcraft; when all they were doing was using herbal remedies for healing purposes.

This past week I heard on the news that there is a high mistrust of the medical field because of this virus. There are people who won’t get the vaccine because of this mistrust.

If you ask me, this mistrust goes further than that. When I wrote my blog on a healthy diet, there was someone who had worked for the state health department who commented on that blog. He didn’t much care for it and even threatened by saying, “You better be a doctor!” Anyway that guy was soon fired by Governor Burgum.

Some say that since I worked in the hospital, I should trust science. Well, there are doctors and nurses who don’t trust science because of this virus. Science got us into this mess; so how can we trust science?

If you asked me, who knows this virus was created to eliminate Dr. Mom and natural healing remedies. It was a way for the medical profession to make more money by having people second guess themselves, and rush in to get tested for the virus just for precaution. I mean, about a month ago, I was battling a sinus. Normally, I wouldn’t think nothing of it. I would just get what I need to deal with my sinus infection; but because of this virus, I was second-guessing myself. Because of the fear that they put into this virus to scare us to seek medical help.

This virus is all about control. The medical profession, the government, and mainstream news media wants to control us anyway possible. They wants us to spend money on doctors instead of relying on natural healing remedies and herbs. They wants to feed us full of poisons. No wonder healthcare is expensive!

If you are very much interested in reading up on more natural healing remedies and what you may have in your kitchen that can be use for healing purposes; check out the book, “The Green Pharmacy.”

Instead of pumping yourself full of poisons, why don’t you look for natural healing remedies.

All kingdoms had their moment in the sun. They were great at one time; but soon eventually had fallen. From the Romans empire to Greek they were once powerful kingdom. Greece was very powerful under Alexander the Great.

Before the Revolution War and the Tea Party, the King of England at that time was afraid of losing his people to the new land they discovered. His pride had gotten in the way! So he came up with a plan to tax the export of tea and such from England to the New World at that time. Thus, the Colonists were extremely upset about it and stormed the British boats and threw overboard all the tea into the Boston Harbor. It was the start of the Revolution War. The King of England still wanted control of the people, and they wanted to be freed from the tyrant power of the King of England. We all know what happened, bringing about the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776.

Pride is a natural result of power and left unchecked, pride will cause you to do regretful things.

With pride, leaders will do all they can to remain in power or in control. They want to be able to keep what they have; and will stop at nothing to do just that.

If anyone tries to interfere, they will fight tooth and nails to remain in power.

Putin wanted the Ukraine back under Russia control. Before Putin was the President of Russia, Ukraine was able to become their own nation governing themselves. And Putin wanted Ukraine back!

Putin doesn’t want Ukraine to join NATO. He even threatened Sweden and Finland, “You’re next if you join NATO!”

Now Sweden is neutral country. Throughout history, they would remain neutral to stay out of any possible wars.

Now Putin is a power-hungry dictator. He is consumed by pride. He controlled the news media in Russia. The people in Russia doesn’t want this war with Ukraine. Only Putin does; because he wants Ukraine to be back under the control of Russia.

Putin is very much like Xi Jinping, who is the leader of China. They are both powerful dictator; who must be destroyed. Xi Jinping is in cahoots with Putin. He is watching very carefully the invasion of Ukraine; because he very much want to do the same with Taiwan. He wants Taiwan back as bad as Putin wants Ukraine back. Xi Jinping is very much watching very carefully before he makes his move on Taiwan.

They both are guilty of genocide in their own country. They needs to be taken out much like Saddam Hussein was.

If you look back to World War 2, Adolf Hitler was a horrible dictator; much like Putin and Jinping. He also committed genocide. Hitler was after total control over in Europe. He hated the Jews and went out to exterminated them from the face of the earth. Yet, at the same time, he was so afraid for his life that he hid to prevent being found and killed. Hitler even ended up killing himself just before he would had been caught.

You can say that Putin is a lot like Hitler in that department. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, he went into hiding for fear of his life.

Putin saw the opportunity to attack Ukraine because he was watching United States under the leadership of Biden. He saw how weak Biden is. He saw how Biden was handling in the United States and of course was laughing at him.

Putin would had never invaded Ukraine if Trump was President out of fear and respect. Whereas, there was definitely no respect or fear of Biden.

If you noticed, Putin waited until after the winter Olympics in Beijing, China. The reason for it was because Xi Jinping asked Putin to hold off until the Olympics were over. This goes to show that both China and Russia are in cahoots with each other.

Putin isn’t too happy that he’s not able to take over Ukraine as easily as he was hoping for. Which is a good thing for Ukraine.

Since Putin isn’t too happy, he is becoming very crazy and unstable. There is nothing worse than seeing someone unstable still in power. You never know what they could do next to get what they want. They are very desperate; and Putin is now very desperate. He needs to be taken out once and for all.

Pride can be a person or country downfall. They will eventually lose. Back with Alexander the Great, his pride was his downfall for the Greek empire. Pride was the downfall for the King of England during the Revolution War. Pride was the downfall of Hitler in his conquering Europe. So Pride will eventually be the downfall of Putin as well.

Even Saul’s pride was his downfall and he was eventually killed by David in the Bible.

So the point, I’m getting at, don’t let pride get the best of you! Don’t be overtaken by pride; it will just be your own downfall in the end. If you have to, eat a little humble pie.

Believe me, I know what pride can do. When I was working at Concordia College, I became very prideful. I believe that cost me the job there.

No matter how big you may be, you can still be cut down a little! Just like a parent may say to their teenage children, “No matter how big you may be, you are not too big to be bend over my knees and spank!”

This is bad news for Putin but good news for Ukraine and the rest of the world against him. So as long as Ukraine is holding their own, Taiwan is safe from being invaded by China.