There had always been some kinds of war with the cattle industry throughout history.

During the 1800’s, when the cowboys roam the earth; some ranchers felt that their cattle should be able to roam free. Many were against building fences to keep their cattle in. So instead, they branded them, so they can tell their cattle from somebody else. Plus, people trusted others more back then.

Some cattle ranchers dislike sheep herders. So there was a feud there as well.

My step-dad had an on-going feud with a neighbor who raised goats. He didn’t like it very much that their goats would get on his property. He felt that they were contaminating the pasture land for his cattle. You see, they didn’t believe in building a fence; and they would get onto our land to graze.

Some farmers have their favorite type of cattle to raise. So there can be a little feud there as well.

Holstein was considered milking cattle. My step-dad didn’t much care for them. He said that raising Holstein is a lot more work for one. They are harder keeper. When raising Holstein, you are pretty much tied to the farm.

My step-dad preferred the Black Angus; and we raised them on the farm. They are easy keepers. They are good with their young. You don’t have to really watch them when the time came for them to give birth. Black Angus are good eating as well, because they are built stocky. They are not overly fat.

Holstein are not the best beef cattle; because they don’t put the weight on as well as the Angus. The reason, they are more for milking purpose.

Anyway, the vegans and vegetarians wants to regulate the cattle industry. They wants to tell everyone to go vegan. Don’t they know that will hurt the cattle industry? That will also hurt agriculture economy?

Years ago, Oprah got into trouble with the cattle industry down in Texas for her comment she had made against them. They sued her, and she had to retract.

Some vegans and vegetarians are very strict, for example: Paul McCartney. If any meat or meat by product touch the appliances, utensils, etc.; it has to be replace.

Cory Booker, who is running for President, wants to regulate the cattle industry. He wants to make everyone become a vegan or a vegetarian like him.

Alexandra Cortez wants to banned cow farts. She believes that it is poisoning our o-zone area.

There is a joke on u-tube, in which Cortez was drinking milk and was asked do you know where milk came from? She said, “the milk carton.”

It goes to show what she knows. Milk comes from cattle.

The reason why these vegans and vegetarians are so against eating beef or meat altogether, is because they feels that it’s not healthy for you.

I’m here to tell you. It’s not eating beef that is bad for you; it’s the chemicals that is being used around our cattle. Chemical, like Round Up is poisoned. If you wants healthy cattle, go natural! My step-dad did. He was against using any form of chemicals on his crops from the vegetables garden to growing his hay.

When it came to feeding the cattle, he fed them hay or let them eat grass. It was better for them. He never fed them corn; because corn just makes them fat. You wants them stocky but not overweight.

Last year, I wrote a blog on eat your vegetables. I have been eating more vegetables as I’m on a healthy lifestyle diet.

I don’t think that the government should tells you what to eat or not to eat. They don’t have the right to dictate. This is still a free country.

Sure, I have cut back on eating meat; but I still eat meat once in awhile. I love a good hamburger or a good steak. I don’t want the government to tells me that I shouldn’t eat meat.

I believe that a good eating steak or hamburger must be an Angus.

So Cortez or people like her, when you are drinking milk remember, milk comes from cows not just a milk carton.

It would be nice if we could get what we want all the times. I mean who wouldn’t wants to get what they want when they wants it. I mean there are things that I would love and wish I could get.

I will show why it isn’t such a good idea to always get what you wants. You wouldn’t appreciated it as much. It would be like a new toy you get for Christmas or your birthday. It’s fun to play with at first; but once the newness runs out, you’ll get bored of it.

It will create people of entitlement. Believe me, we have enough of those running around in the world today.

Let me start with the Old Testament, in Judges and 1 and 2 Samuel. The Jews wanted a king to lead them like their neighbor. God didn’t want that for His people. Not because He is a jealous God; but because He knew how they wouldn’t appreciated it.

God eventually gave in to the Jews whining and begging, and gave into their whims and wishes , to give them a king. For those who read the Bible, knows what happened afterward. King Saul turned out to be a bad selfless king, and then they got King David, and the list goes on…

Some children can manipulate their parents by having a temper tantrum just to get what they want. Parents will gives in because they don’t want to see their children unhappy. They wants to shut them up.

I remembered when I was a teenager and my nephew was having a fit because his father wouldn’t take him along with him. He threw himself down on the sidewalk in Hawley. It took my mother, his grandmother to get up and calm down. The tactic she used was buying him some ice cream inside the drugstore.

I also remembered when my mother told me that we will get a part time job at 13 years old. The job was picking berries at Granrude fruit farm. It wasn’t that we had to get out and work. It was to teach us the value of hard work and the value of money. By earning our own money, we could help buy our school clothes and anything else that we may want. So you see I have been working pretty much since I was 13 years old. I come to appreciate the lesson from that. At that time I didn’t, and really didn’t appreciate the idea of getting a JOB.

If the kids of Sam Walton was made to work their way up at Wal-Mart; maybe they would take better care of their employees.

Some of these young Leftist like Cortez for example, if they had to get out and work at an early age, maybe they wouldn’t be the way they are today. They wants to offer everybody free money. Because they don’t understand the value of money and hard work.

If I had kids, I wouldn’t buy them cell phone. I would make them work for it once they become old enough to do so. They would appreciate it more.

When a child is given everything they want just by having a temper tantrum, the thing that they learn is that they can get anything they want if they just cry and make a scene.

Life is not that way. Sometimes you just got to work for what you want.

I know work is a dirty word to some people.

I have more respect to parents who laid down the law before entering the store and tells their children that they will not get what they want; even if they have a temper tantrum. I lose respect to parents who gives in to their children temper tantrum.

Sometimes that happens just to teach us a lesson. Like when God will gives in to our temper tantrum to teach us. It can be use as a learning tool. See, I warn you about why you really don’t need that. It can teach us to have patient. It can teach us to have compassion and not to get too big for our britches. It can teach us to be more appreciative when we finally do get what we want.

Through the years of working for a living, when the time came that I came into an inheritance, I appreciated it even more. I made sound wise decisions for my future. I invested part of my inheritance.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t buy our kids gifts. I’m just saying parents must not give in to their temper tantrum.

Even some older kids feels that they are entitled to more because they are the oldest. It had been like that through the ages, even in the Bible.

Some only child will feels that they entitled to things.

I was an only child until I was 6 years old. Whenever I wanted something, all I did was point to it and my grandmother would give it to me. My mother was upset at her because she did that.

So as a child, I never got everything that I wanted. Am I jealous of the other kids who did. Maybe a little! It did helped me appreciate the things I got when I was able to get it myself down the road. It taught me the value of hard work and the value of money. I came to appreciate my inheritance. I even bought myself a nice bed out of it.

I would love to have that free money that these Leftist is offering, and who wouldn’t. What will that teach us? It will teach us nothing.

This is a good question that is probably on a lot people minds.

I may be jumping around; but I hope to give you some good examples to help you decide.

First, let me start with, earlier this year, Governor Doug Burgum sign a bill allowing business to open earlier on Sunday; thus overturning the Blue Law.

Now North Dakota was the last state in the union have businesses to be open on Sunday. At first, they had to wait until noon to open up. Now either August or September, businesses can open up earlier on Sunday.

As I wrote in my blog, “Never on a Sunday,” I wrote the pros and cons about Sunday opening.

From a business point of view, I can understand the reason for being open on a Sunday. It helped a lot of businesses in Fargo; once they were able to be open on Sunday. It did hurt Moorhead though, because they didn’t prepare for it.

On the downside of it, it hurts family time. It allowed businesses to hire more part time help. By having only part time help, business owner didn’t have to pay out benefits. They can earn more of a profit.

Is that moving forward or greed?

I believe in a Capitalist society. I believe in making money the old fashion way, by working for it. That’s the American dream!

Another example is downtown Fargo. I have to admit; since they are finally fixing up downtown, it looks nice. It’s just too expensive for the average Joe to live and shop downtown. It seems that they are turning Fargo into a bigger Metropolitan.

I’m not a big fan of that.

Fargo had the small town atmosphere that I miss. Crimes is up downtown. The way Fargo is becoming; it makes me miss the old farm that I grew up on. Where everything was peaceful. I would like to retire some place reclusive. I take the country over big metropolitan city. You can have Chicago!

Is that moving forward or greed?

Prosperity is just around the corner. Since Trump took office, things been looking up for America. The stock market been doing very good. There is more job prospects. It goes so that it takes a businessman to be President; because they know what is best.

Since Trump took office, even my investment been doing good. I have a better paying job with benefits. My future looks bright. I’m actually looking forward to retirement. The reason: I feel that I will be able to retire when I become 65. I have to admit, I didn’t always felt that way. I felt that I could end up working until I died.

Am I moving forward or am I greedy person?

I just want my share of the pie.

How about you? Do you want your share of the pie? Are you willing to move forward to get it? Does that make us greedy?

We must not look back but to learn from our history. Keep both hands on the wheel and keep moving forward. It’s time that we leave the past behind. We all have a past that we may not be proud of.

Are you sitting on your duff and doing nothing or are you going to get off your lazy ass and make something of yourself; by moving forward? You got to have the get-up and go to be able to move forward. Sometimes, you got to make up your mind and just do it.

If I didn’t start the ball rolling over a year ago, I probably would had still been in sinking ship at Kmart. I surprise everyone there when I actually quit.

When I heard that there is a possibility of making money with my blog, and also being able to share my opinion and thoughts; believe me I took the bull by the horn. It may a slow start right now; but you got to start somewhere.

I have been told that I do have the umption to be a go-getter. Sometimes, we just need a little push.

I remembered in my Senior year in high school. I made up my mind to get more involved with school activity; even though my mother worked night and my step-dad was very old-fashioned and strict.

So it goes to show that I’m a go-getter; if I want something bad enough.

So you tell me, is it moving forward or greed?

As you probably had heard, Ross Perot had passed away this past week. He was 89 years old.

He was old when he ran for President back in 1992. It could had been because I was young and to the young people anyone older than them are old.

Ross Perot was a businessman like Donald Trump. He was just ahead of his time.

The news media was very harsh on him. They made him look like he was crazy as a fox.

No one took him seriously. Yet, some of the stuff he had said actually came true.

Think about it: how many young people takes the elderly seriously? They think that they are off their rocker.

Anyway, when Ross Perot ran for President in 1992; he was thorn in the first George Bush’s side. Because of him running for President, the Conservative votes of the Republican party was divided. That was why Bill Clinton was elected President. He was the lesser of 3 evils.

I was a young Republican at the time and wasn’t about to divide the party. So I voted for the first George Bush. I voted for him in 1988, since he was Vice-President under Ronald Reagan, the greatest Republican President; and the reason why I became a Republican in the first place.

I voted for the first George Bush in 1992 because I felt that he had proven himself as President. I also was still a new Republican.

I never wanted his sons, George W. or Jeb Bush.

You think that the media was hard on Pres. Trump? Well they were just as hard on Ross Perot. He never stood a chance against the media. He also ran as an Independent. At that time, the country wasn’t ready for a third party candidate.

The older I had became, the more I started hating the Establishment in Washington. I believe that I’m not alone too. I mean, how else could you explain, Donald Trump.

He isn’t your everyday career politician. He was a businessman first. He stood up to the mainstream and social media. He called them fake news. Some may think that he doesn’t respect reporters. You can’t respect reporters if they don’t respect anybody. I like Trump because he tells it like it is.

He just happens to came at the right time. When the American people had enough with our government. Whereas Ross Perot was just a little ahead of his time.

In 1992, the American people wasn’t ready for the change we are going through now. I mean, first of all, President Reagan offered the similar change when he was President. Reagan wasn’t part of the Establishment either. He had faced opposition from both parties and the news media as well. Even the first George Bush was nothing like Reagan. Reagan gave us a taste; but we weren’t ready for it.

There was probably others before Perot who fought against the Establishment. Just like there was others after Perot.

The tea party was formed under George W. Bush, to shape up the Republicans.

Herman Cain, the CEO from Dominos ran for President in 2012. The media was tough on him as well.

When Donald Trump came along, we were ready for a change. He may had been harsh; but we needed someone like him to stand up against the critics.

You may think that I’m harsh. I don’t apologized for that either.

Change is not ever easy. The baby boomers and older; even some of us Generation X, are not as easily into change. We have to give credit the Millennials. Instead of being harsh on them and calling them unstable. We should thanks them for showing us that change isn’t as hard as we thought possible.

I apologized for not being able to write another blog. The last one that I had written was back on Memorial Day weekend. That blog was titled, “Dying Alone.”

It wasn’t because I was busy or had writer block. Believe me, I was never short on ideas for a blog.

The reason, I wasn’t able to write another blog was because of technical trouble on the part of WordPress.

You can thanks WordPress for me not being able to write another blog for over a month. It took them this long to fix the problem. All the while they was giving me the run around.

So if you want to be freed to let them know how upset my loyal readers are at them.

If you think that they should reimburse me for not being able to post another blog, let them know that as well.

Believe me, when I couldn’t post another blog, I thought that maybe I had offended the wrong group of people. I thought maybe those people had shut me down because they were offended to what I had to say.

Like in the book, “1984”, the lead character was censored by big brother. I mean, there is more and more censorship now days than ever before. Those who are conservatives are being censored by the mainstream fake news media and other social media as well.

There’s a blog I had written at another site that may had gotten lost in the internet space. That blog was called, “At War with the Cattle Industry.” It was in favor of eating steak and hamburgers and writing against those vegans out there. I may rewrite that blog in the future.

I’m keeping this one short but I felt that I should apologize for you not being able to read any new blogs from me.

I will be writing another blog tonight after I post this one. That blog will be on Ross Perot. So you see, I’m not short on ideas. Thanks for waiting patiently for my blog site to get back up and running. I miss writing another blog like you probably miss reading them.

First, let me begin with Happy Memorial Day!

Not only is this the start of the summer; it’s also a time we remembered those who fought and died for our freedom. We also remembered our loved ones who had passed away.

Now let’s get to the real reason for this blog.

This past winter, there were 2 different cars found at 2 different parking lot. One was at Hornbacher’s and the other was at Cash Wise. The cars were buried in a snowbank. Inside the cars were 2 different people found dead inside. They had been dead for a long time too.

I have one question though. How can people not noticed these cars in the parking lot? Wouldn’t people become suspicious and want to check it out?

I mean, when I worked at Kmart and went out to get shopping carts; if I happened to noticed a stranded car in the parking lot for more than two to three days, I would report it to the manager or the customers service desk. That’s the proper things to do.

Why didn’t the employees at Cash Wise and Hornbacher’s do the same?

It seems like more and more people are happening being found dead alone. Either in their cars, their home, or wherever.

I remembered walking downtown Broadway and walking past a woman sitting dead on the bench. The cop was there and called ahead to have the body removed. There was even another guy there, and like an idiot, he somehow must thought that she was sleeping and was checking to see if she was breathing. I knew that she was dead when I was walking by. You can easily tell if a person is dead or not.

I mean, it creeps a person out seeing a dead person like that. Just like this blog might creeps some of you out.

I think the reason why more people are being found dead alone are for 2 reasons.

For one, no one wants to go into a nursing home; anymore than they wants to go into the hospital.

Some of the elderly in the nursing homes are put there by their kids and abandoned. Either because the adults kids don’t want to be bother with their elderly parents or cannot take care of them, themselves.

Another reason why people doesn’t want to go into a nursing home: is because of the high cost.

Our nursing home and health cares is expensive. Not everyone will just die. Some will needs round the clock care until they die.

Years ago, people had big family in hoping that their kids will take care of them in their old age. Sometimes, three generations will live in one home. This didn’t just happened in this country. It’s also happened in other countries as well.

Of course, some of these elderly didn’t have kids or their kids aren’t close by. Some of the adult kids don’t or can’t deal with their aging parents.

I know that my step-dad wanted to go back home to the farm to die; but us kids felt that it was better that he stayed in the VA. At least he would get the care he needed until his time on earth was up.

I had this friend from church who was found dead in his home. He was in his 70’s and toward the end he never really answered his phone. He was a bachelor. He wanted to be buried but since his body was decomposing, he had to be cremated.

It also reminded me back when I was a teenager on the farm. There was an elderly gentleman who lived up the hill from our farm. He had his mailbox next to ours. Anyway, one winter, he was found dead in his home frozen. He may had a heart attack or fallen; so he wasn’t able to get the heat he needed.

Those who were found dead are in a better place. They have no more pain. Still, it makes a person sick to their stomach and filled with grief.

I wish I would had thought of it before this friend of mine(Wes) was found dead. When I couldn’t get a hold of him, I should had called the police and had them do a welfare check on him. His hearing wasn’t very good, and toward the end he wasn’t much in answering his cell phone and made excuses for not hearing it.

If you know anyone who lives alone and you happened not see them around for a long time or whatever other reasons; check up on them. Even if you have to do a welfare check on them. I don’t think that the police would mine doing that for you.

Living in an apartment is easier to check in on someone than in a house; because, a person will easily noticed something wrong.

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As I said in last week blog, a mother will always make sacrifices for her children. Good parents will always wants what’s best for their kids. They will make sacrifices for them. My question is how much is too much though?

For example: my folks would rather make sure us kids had plenty than treat themselves to a fancy dinner out. There are parents who would go out for a nice fancy meal; while their kids sit at home eating scraps.

If you have heard the news as of lately, you would had heard about how some of the 1% group were caught bribing college administration to get their kids into a good college. Now is that too much to do; so that your kids can have a better life? I’d say it is. Not everybody can afford to bribe college administration.

Two of these 1% people are celebrity. First of all Felicity Huffman, one of the star of Desperate Housewife and married to William H. Macy. When I heard that she was one of the person charged with bribing college administration, I was surprised. She is one of the Leftist Hollywood darling. Her husband, William H. Macy wasn’t charge though. She did the right thing and pledge guilty though.

Another Actress was Lori Loughlin, that was also charge. She was known as the darling of Lifetime movies. She was also in Full House and she started on daytime soap, “The Edge of Night.”

This is just a little background of 2 of those charged.

Lori Loughlin even said for her reason was that she wants her kids to have a better shot than she had. What parents doesn’t want the best for their kids? There is nothing wrong with wanting the best for your kids. But her and her husband took it too far.

As I said in last week blog, my mother wanted me to be a lawyer. Yet she wouldn’t and couldn’t do what these 1% people had done. I mean, my family wasn’t rich.

I had my first job when I was 13 years old, picking berries at Granrude fruit farm. We didn’t really had to work but it taught us the value of money and hard work. When I was 14 and in the 8th grade, I gave up my study hall to work in the school cafeteria. I have been working pretty much ever since.

Some of the members of the Country Club get their kids a job at the Country Club because they are members. That is not right! They should have to struggle to get a job like anyone else.

As I mentioned in the blog about Ed Shultz, it had been known but not proven, that he may had paid off the coach at Fargo South for his son, David could get a lead position on a football team.

If parents give their children anything they wants, what do they learn?

Like the saying goes, “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”

By giving your children what they want, you create what we have today; and that kids who are part of the entitlement group. They come to expect things because of who they are and who their parents are.

Now if teenagers started work early in their teens; they learn to appreciate things more. They learn the value of hard work and money. They will learn that money doesn’t grow on trees.

If parents keep on giving their kids everything, how will they cope when their parents are gone?

Another example is Sam Walton and Wal-Mart. Sam Walton took better care of the employees because he started Wal-Mart from the grounds up. Now his kids on the other hands, was given everything; so they don’t treat the employees as well as Sam Walton did. I believe that they should had started at the bottom of the company, to learn how the company is run and to learn the meaning of hard work as well.

Since I had worked ever since I was 13 years old, I had learn the value of money and of hard work. Hard work doesn’t hurt anyone! So when my folks died, and I received an inheritance, I appreciated it much more. It’s not that I became rich because of it. I learned the value of money and so I learned that I needed to put some away as investment for my retirement. I was able to make wise decision because of what I was taught; and given everything I wanted.

Believe me, I would love to been given more than what I was growing up; but what would that had done?

The courts should throw the book at those who bribed the college administration. They didn’t teach their children anything, but how to know that they can get anything they want without even breaking a sweat.

Happy Mother’s Day!!

I wish a happy mother’s day to all those mothers who worked hard out in the workforce and in raising the family.

A mother’s job is never-ending. They are constantly working. They can bring home the bacon and fry it too.

Sure, there are mother’s out there, who doesn’t work outside the home; but they are still hard working in raising their family. They deserve all of our respects.

My mother worked very hard all of her life, up to the point of her stroke. This pictures was one of their last pictures of them together.

I want to say this though, Vice-President Dan Quale made a very big mistake; when he went after single mothers and especially the show Murphey’s Brown.

Single mothers have the hardest job ever. They have to be a mother and a father to their kids. They have to worked outside the home and still raised their children as well.

It takes a very special mother to do just that.

For the first 5 years of my life, my mother was a single mother trying her darnedest to raise me by herself. Sure, she had a little help from my grandmother. My mother never took handouts from the welfare system. There was times that she worked 2 jobs to raised me.

She was dating my real father and was about to marry him when she caught him with another woman. They broke up when I was around 2 years old; and I never seen him again. Believe me, I had a chance to see him before he died. (That was a whole different blog though.)

I was her pride and joy; because the doctors told her that she wouldn’t have any kids. Then I came along, as a miracle baby.

My mother worked up the point to practically giving birth to me. I was born 2 weeks early too. Within a short time, she went back to work to make sure that I was well fed, had clothes to wear, and a roof over my head.

She had made a lot of sacrifices in her life. Not just for me; but for all of her family. She wanted to be a nurse; but had to drop out of high school to help take care of her younger sister, JoAnne. It was after her father was killed by a train in Casselton; while walking across the railroad crossing.

While she was dating my step-dad, he only mentioned bringing 2 of his kids to live with us. One was of age and the other was almost of age so they didn’t really count. Anyway, she told him, either all of the kids or none at all.

Believe me, she loved all of her kids and grandkids as much as she loved me. She sacrificed so much for us all.

Family was very important to her. Whenever the family would get together for Christmas or other get together, she was busy cooking a big meal. She would gets up early to do so. She did it with not much help too.

That is why a mother’s job is never ending and very tiresome. She wanted the very best for all of her kids. I mean, she wanted me to be a lawyer for some reason; which she never told me.

My folks were married for 40 years and believe me they didn’t had too. She could had easily had taken him to the cleaners and got the farm and all of the kids. He would then had to pay child support.

Back to my real father, she never demanded that he paid her child support; so she could raised me. The only thing he paid was the hospital where I was born.

Single mothers have it tougher than married mothers. Yet, married mothers is also very tiresome as well.

Working mothers worked even harder; because they have 2 jobs if not more. They worked outside of the home and they worked even harder in raising their family as well. They cook and clean. They are the chief bottle washer.

I’m not saying that stay-at-home moms have it easy, by no means. Mothers never have it easy. Their jobs is very much important.

We learned a lot from our mothers. This is why Mother’s day was formed as a national holiday. So that we can honor all of our mothers out there. Mother’s Day is a National working women holidays.

Who I do not have respect for is mothers who is living on welfare and having babies after babies just to get more money from the Government. Some of those kids may have different fathers. They are taking advantage of the system. They should get out and get a job if they wants to keep their kids. Believe me, my mother worked 2 jobs to keep me.

These mothers living on welfare and having kids from different fathers just to get more assistance, should be made to get a job. They should have their tubes tied and their kids taken away from them if they refused to get a job.

Otherwise, I have a lot respect for mothers and honor them for all of their hard works and sacrifices they make for their children. Not just my mother; but all mothers want the best for their children. They will do whatever it takes to make sure that their children have a better life. They sacrifice a lot for their family.

I believe that my mother is watching over me. I believe that she was watching over me when I was in a car accident coming down from Mt. Rainier. I love and still at times miss her to this day.

Stay tune for next week when I will write about when parents possibly go too far like the latest scandal involving higher education and parents bribing the college administrations.

Are you a believer? Are you the kind of person who will believe anything?

This will be more a light-heartedness blog about those who does believe in almost anything. I will share some examples to state my case.

You may say, “I believe all that. You surely don’t think you are telling us anything new!” I don’t hope to tell you very much that is new; I only hope to set the table for you, arranging the dishes a little better and a little more attractively so that you will be tempted to partake.

Back when Columbus discovered America, there were people who believed that the earth was flat. There are some to this day that still believe that.

Some may believe if you tell them that the moon is made out of cheese.

Earlier this year, during our cold winter, the mayor of Fargo shut down the city because of the possible storm that was coming. He made a statement to why he did that when he found out that he made a bad judgement call. He said, “You have to believe the weatherman.” Oh come on now; even with all their fancy equipment, they still can’t get the weather correct. It’s still a fifty/fifty chance that the weather could go either way.

There are those who believe in Global Warming. I don’t though; even though I do agree that we are slowly destroying our planet.

Alexandria Octavia Cortez believed that cow’s fart should be banned because it’s destroying the earth o-zone. She believed that the earth will be destroyed in about 12 years because of it.

Back in the year 2000, there were people who believed that there would be a huge outage because of it being a zero year. Nothing happen! We are still here!

There are some people who choose to believe in the fake mainstream news. They believed that they are telling the truth. In reality, they only report what they want to report on. If it’s not relevant, to the story, they won’t report. They won’t report the truth about any of these Democrats or Liberals; because they are themselves.

Some people will believe anything someone may tell them; no matter what it may be. They believe that they holds the truth. And they don’t want to hear the real truth. As Jason Aldean sang, “Don’t tell them the truth to why I’m not there. Tell them that I had gone crazy instead.”

Some people who goes to church would rather believe the preachers; rather than read the Bible for themselves. They believe that since they are called by God to preached the message; it’s must be true. They must be filled with the Holy Spirit and in the Words of God. If they aren’t, what they are saying may not be true.

This is why it’s important to be well read, not just in the Bible but have your facts straight.

If you know your Bible, you will know without a doubt if the preacher is preaching the Words of God truthfully.

The Catholic Church would rather feed you the Word and hope that you will believe it. They don’t want you to read the Bible. So when the pastors asked you to read the Bible as he preached his message I will do it. That way you will know if he is preaching it truthfully.

It is rather important to check the facts before you actually believe what you hear. My blogs is my opinion; so don’t just believe everything you read or hear. Check the facts for yourself. That way you will know if they are really truthful or just blowing “hot air.”

The devil wants us believe in anything. That is how he gets us in his web of lies. He is the father of all lies.

Even some of these politicians will even lie to us just to get our votes. Bill and Hillary Clinton are both famous liars. Even Obama lied to us when he promised change. He was only telling the American people what we wanted to hear.

Those who lies are not really lying, they are just telling us what we want to hear.

For example: when a woman asked, “does this dress makes me looks fat?” They don’t want the truth. They just want to be admired; even if you have to lie to them. They don’t want to know the truth, if you are cheating on them. They would rather you lie to them instead.

People say they wants the truth but as Jack Nichalson said in a Few Good Men, “You want the truth. You can’t handle the truth.”

This is why people have a tendency to believe in almost anything. They don’t care if it’s the truth or not. They would rather believe in a lie than actually check the fact to see if what they are saying is the truth.

I’m a believer! Yet, I have been duped at times for believing some of the things I have been told. I almost didn’t vote in the 2004 election because I didn’t want George W. Bush again and I surely didn’t want John Kerry either. But when George W. Bush promised a pro-life judge, I voted. He lied to me and to the American people.

I even was duped when I voted for Obama. He promised change for America. He was just saying what I and the rest of America wanted to hear.

I don’t care if you believe me or not. All I care that you check your facts first. Don’t just take my words for it!

Don’t believe everything you hear or read!!!

Who doesn’t wants to be rich? Who doesn’t want to win the Powerball?

It’s the American dream to be rich.

I know that I would love to win the Powerball. Believe me, if I ever did win the Powerball, I would quit working and do what I love to do, like travel for instant. (Of course I will write about it in my blog.)

The lottery is the biggest revenue for the states that have it.

Gambling is a big business. Many casinos are making a killing on all those who are out there trying to strike it rich.

Las Vegas and Atlantic City are 2 of the biggest gambling city in this country.

I have to admit that I would love to go to Las Vegas; but only to say that I been there.

There are many casinos out there as well. Some of them are on Indians reservation.

I remembered years ago when my mother was alive, her and I would go down to Dakota Magic and sometimes Shooting Stars. We would leave early morning after she got done with work.

It seems that was the best time to go too. If a person gets there early, your chances of winning was a little higher. Then usually after 8am, the staff will goes around and it seems tighten the slot machine to make it more difficult to win.

It was fun gambling, but I didn’t have the fever as bad as my mother did. She was addicted to it like her other relatives.

As the hit song from Kenny Rogers, “You got know when to hold them, know when to fold them and know when to run.”

State governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually persuading people to buy lottery tickets.

A generation of young people is growing up believing that gambling is innocent-despite the fact that gambling spawns poverty, family breakdowns, crime, drug and alcohol abuse, joblessness and suicide.

There’s a book by John Steinbeck that is worth reading. That book is “The Pearl.” That book coincide with this topic about getting rich. In the book, the main character found a pearl. That pearl really changed him into the person he was a shame of knowing when he look in the mirror. He wasn’t the same person he was before he found the pearl.

It goes to show all that wealth can actually change a person into someone they may not be use to. I mean it would be nice to be rich and be able to quit working.

There are even churches that would host bingo games as fundraisers. Usually the Catholic and Lutheran churches would do that.

I used to play bingo a lot when I was younger. You may win but you don’t strike it rich. A lot of older people would play bingo for a fun activity.

Even these Publishing Clearing House sweepstakes are suckering people in with the idea of winning big and becoming rich. Sure, somebody got to win, but like the lottery your chances is slim.

The elderly are easily scammed by these sweepstakes. The reason why is because they are on a fix income and wants to somehow increase their incomes.

My step-dad never really gambled like my mother did; but he did get scammed by these sweepstakes.

When a person do win, like the main character in the book, “The Pearl,” it change them. Within a few years, they will blow their winnings.

If a person ever was to win, they would have to find a good financial advisor to keep from losing it all as quick as they had won it. Plus, they will have friends and relatives coming out of the woods begging for some your winning.

If you have the gambling fever real bad and it’s affecting your family, job, etc. there is help out there. The gambler hotline number is free; so you can call it for assistant to beat the addiction. The number is 1-800-522-4700. So if you can’t quit gambling, seek help immediately.

Buying a lottery ticket isn’t a problem if you can handle it. It’s when you are spending money that you can’t afford to spend in hoping to get rich; that’s when it’s becomes a problem.