The staggering level of ignorance in our world

I run across it on tv. I run across it online.
The staggering level of ignorance in our world.

And it's more than sad. It's tragic.
Because we live in a day and an age when people should instead, be at their smartest.

Now me, I'm of the baby boom generation, and grew up in a world before computers. I know that for some of you, that's hard to grasp. But yes, we lived and worked and got along just fine before computers and cell phones and the internet.

Don't get me wrong. I love the computers and the internet. Cell phones ...... eah, I've never cared for phones anyhow. When I graduated business college, they were just beginning to teach desktop computers. Connecting to another computer was done via the phone lines then, and there was no internet. That, good people, was the mid 1980s.

When I was in grade school to high school, and you had to write a report, it meant a trek to the library and digging through their set of encyclopedias. You had to make notes in writing on paper.

But today, if a kid has to do a report for school, all they have to do is pull up a browser and start searching for info. Knowledge is so readily available to EVERYONE!

Fake news? It's easily verified what is true and what is not. All you have to do is pull up a browser and do some searching and some reading.

So what? Do people not know how to read anymore?

And don't use lack of a computer as an excuse. People can browse the internet with their phone now. Computers are available to use at pretty much every public library in the United States.

You have no excuse for being ignorant!
You have no excuse for being uneducated!

Not in this day and age.
There are far too many opportunities to learn.

When my mother was young, she walked to a one room school house. People of her generation put a premium on being educated. They would put out the effort to get to a school. They would gladly put in the effort to learn. Because education was a precious and important thing.

But we've lost that today.

People don't put a premium on learning and education. It isn't important to some people anymore. They have no problem with coming off as stupid in front of others.

But they should.

It should bother them. They should have a thirst for learning.
A thirst for knowing the truth,
for learning about things,
for learning about others.

It would also help if honor and respect and manners and etiquette were also still major factors in our society today.

We live in a very technologically advanced age. 
But people are more ill-mannered, rude, and ignorant than ever before.
They have no respect for others, or their opinions.
And double standards abound. 

Yes folks, it's a very sad age that we live in, because many people in this world are morally bankrupt, educationally ignorant, cruel people.

If the younger generations want to make this world a better place, then they have to strive to become better people.

Why we have an immigration ban

Pay attention folks! Watch the following video:

FOX NEWS ALERT: French soldiers stop terror attack, open fire on machete-wielding suspect at Louvre pic.twitter.com/3sbgyM1WmK

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) February 3, 2017

This is why we have an immigration ban. That's why people are inconvenienced about coming into this country.

All over Europe, they've indiscriminately let these refugees in, and they've suffered the consequences. Sweden has become the rape capital of the world. Gatherings of people anywhere are subject to radical islamic terrorists attacking the gathering. You can't go anywhere in complete safety or peace of mind.

And Australia is mad because we won't take those refugees off their hands. So what's wrong with those people, that Australia won't keep them? Won't welcome them into their own country?

Has common sense totally left people?

The middle east is a hotbed of violence and terrorism and war, and it's of their own making. Those people over there have been fighting for hundreds of years; that's a historical fact.

And so our president wants to be careful about letting people from that area into our nation. And you get mad, and protest? Are you nuts? You get mad because some people are inconvenienced. Safety beats inconvenience!

 AND THIS IS NOT A MUSLIM BAN! Despite what the liberal left biased media would have you believe. They don't mention about all the other muslim countries that aren't included in this ban.

Come on people, use that brain of yours for more than a hatrack.

My thoughts on the Jan. 21st women's march

Yes, I know this is old news by now, but this is a new blog; so I'll be doing a good bit of this. And now, on to my thoughts, which I shared other places:

My opinions on ‘The Woman’s March’ that took place the day after inauguration.

 — To begin with, one of the organizers has ties to terrorists in the middle east, is related to the bastards, and is a bigot and hates jews, and thinks sharia law is a good thing. And in case you haven’t heard, sharia law treats women like slaves.

 — Ashley Judd got up and made a vile ‘nasty woman speech’ that was totally disgusting.

 — Madonna got up and said she’d like to …. well, I don’t even want to repeat it, but I bet you’ve heard. She claims it was taken out of context. She was an idiot to have said it in the first place and deserves everything she’s getting.

 — That rich old bastard Soros, sponsored 51 of the groups involved in the march, and he hates Trump.

 — Some women participating in it should have their mother cards taken back, as I ran across pictures of young girls holding signs with vile crap on it that the kids couldn’t have really understood.

 — A right to life group was turned away as a sponsor, so right to life people were not welcome.

 

 — Lastly, they couldn’t even clean up after themselves and left their signs in the streets for someone else to clean up.

It wasn’t about women or their issues or problems they face or the problems that women in other countries face either. 

It was a hate Trump fest. 

And a lot of the people there were men. 

And a lot were probably paid agitators too.

So no, I didn’t think much of their march.

The real women's march took place on January 27th, the right to life march.

Reflections on the inauguration

If you missed the pre-inauguration concert, then you missed something truly special. My favorite part was at the close of the concert. I found it all to be very inspiring.

Hubby and I watched it all, from the pre-inauguration concert, all the way to the balls on Friday night. I thought it was wonderful, and found it very inspiring, and encouraging and invigorating. It restored my belief in my government again, that things can get better. 

Here's what I posted yesterday, during the inauguration ceremonies. I think I posted this right after President Trump's inaugural address:

I will repeat here what I say above:
Those who are against him, who have tried every dirty trick in the book against him, who attack those who are for him, .......
what they do hurts them more than it does us who it is directed against.
Their negativity and hatefulness and anger hurts them more than anything else.
It darkens their soul.
It dims their light.
It diminishes their greatness.
I pity them. But most, I pity those they attack.
It is truly sad.

As for me, I am still inspired, ......
And I renew my conviction to go forth, holding firmly to God's hand, and seek the greatness that I know He has placed within me.

I'd like to share a bit of scripture with you:

Psalm 73:28 

King James Version (KJV)

28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.

Before the inauguration, I was feeling very down, very discouraged. But now I feel enlightened and emboldened to go forth and strive for the goal that I set for myself at the end of 2016, and that is just this:

At the end of 2016, I don't think I had my specific list in order, but there it is above. I'm going to take the inspiration that I gathered from the inauguration and pour it into my writing. As I took in the events of that day, that place where my words come from, reached out and pulled in moment after moment, to use as fuel for the goal that I have set for this year. 

I hope that you too took something positive away from yesterday. If you did not, then I pity you.

The short and long of it for Monday, Jan. 9

This started out as a facebook post, and it's still there:


And so, I decided to expand upon it here in a blog post; so, let's begin.

-- Democrats need to grow up and get over it already because YOU LOST!

I mean really, have you witnessed such a huge bunch of crybabies as the democrats are being? They are all doing stuff, just to be hateful to Trump, from the potus on down. Stuff that hurts our country, our allies. I mean, really! When you start hurting our nation and our allies with your bitchy, hateful behavior, it's time to suck it up and act like an adult and get over it already. Those nitwits in Washington are supposed to be working for our nation's best interests - not the damn democratic party's best interests. Right now, the New York white house is beating out the Washington white house for being presidential. The 20th can't come soon enough.

--- The far left liberals who want an anything goes society needs to suck it up and deal with it because being conservative isn't a dirty word anymore.

For 8 years, they've made it a dirty word to be conservative, and I'm tired of it. There's nothing wrong with being conservative. We're not bigots! We're not deplorable, despite what a certain has-been politician seemed to think. Conservative, hard-working people have built this nation .... made it great .... they've been the backbone of this nation for it's entire life. Those pitiful, boozy, crybaby college kids better toughen up if they want to be the backbone of this nation. Traditional values are a good thing, and have nothing to do with bigotry or stupidity!

--- All those who loved political correctness needs to pull up their panties and brace themselves because that animal is out the damn door.

This political correctness is some of the stupidest stuff that this nation has ever done. When you bend over backwards so far in order to avoid offending this one or that one, to the point where you even betray your own beliefs ..... ??? That is the height of stupidity. There's a country music song that applies to this perfectly, and I'll share the video:

 
You've got to stand for something, or you ain't worth a damn; and our nation hasn't been worth a damn for about 8 years now. It's long past time we changed that, and quit kissing people's asses.

--- And NO, you NIMRODS! Being enemies with the Russians isn't a good thing. Being friends and working together is a lot better.

'Oh gee, let's just haul off and make Russia mad at us. Yeah, that's a good thing, isn't it?'
NO DUMBASS! IT'S NOT! Being friends with Russia beats the hell out of having them as an enemy. Maybe a lot of you younger ones don't remember the cold war, but I sure as hell do. Worrying if the nuclear missiles were going to fly one day for real. Geeze! Grow a brain people and use it for something other than filling out your ass! We need to be on friendly terms with Russia. Fortunately for us, Putin has more sense than Obama. This all goes back to the being hateful for hateful's sake I mentioned above. 

--- And the reason social security is struggling so isn't because there hasn't been enough babies born; it's because those damn politicians used social security as their own personal slush fund. If they had of left alone the monies that we paid in, it would be fine.

This last one was spurred by some nimrod who was on Fox and Friends, claiming that people needed to start having more babies, and that would fix social security. Claimed there wasn't enough people working to pay the seniors the benefits they were promised. BULLSHIT! The seniors of today are me and my counterparts, the Baby Boom Generation. Our social security benefits should be paid by the money we paid in when we were working, so there should be plenty of $$$ for our benefits. The reason there isn't is because Washington politicians have raided social security time and time again, never putting anything back, and have done it to the point where it's practically bankrupt! That one really set me off as it was such utter nonsense.

--- Our liberal, lame-butt universities
This is another thing that sets me off. Many of our universities have become, put quite simply, dens of iniquity. Sports players oftentimes choose what school they will play at based solely on how many pretty girls it has and if it is a good party school. The students go there and party and booze it up and who knows what else. They were so upset over the election that they had to be excused from classes and provided with coloring books and other such nonsense. Yet, they weren't too upset to go riot in the streets, disrespecting this nation and it's election process. Oh, and they have to have classes to teach them how to be adults ..... ? Just what the hell are they being taught? Because it sure doesn't sound like it is anything that's worth a damn.

--- And that's the short and long of it, here on Monday, January 9th, 2017.
--jd--

My thoughts on the election

Yes, I'm glad Trump won. I pulled for him to win all the way through.

And no, I didn't want Hillary for a president. She doesn't care about this nation or it's people. She just cares about the office of president and has lusted after it since her hubby, Bill, had the office. When I thought about her as president, I had an awful premonition of doom for our nation if she was elected; and I had a premonition that Trump was our only hope for righting this ship we call America.

On election night, when they declared Trump the winner, I felt a great weight lift off me. I knew the reactions the following day would be interesting, but I didn't know they would devolve into traitorism and a severe lack of patriotism.

People are showing their true colors, and the lack of depth to themselves as a person. Before the election, and in the aftermath of it, I have unfollowed and unfriended several people on facebook. The Clinton supporters are showing their extreme childishness in their reaction to the election results. Their candidate didn't win, so they are throwing a huge tantrum about it.

There have been protests and riots, all of which have went unaddressed by either Clinton or President Obama. And then there's this:

Voters target Electoral College members to switch their Trump ballots, elect Clinton

That is totally traitorous in my opinion. They're lucky I'm not in charge, because I'd kick every one of them out of the country and label them as traitors. They're so childish and so determined to have their way.

I'm wondering how many of these protestors are Americans, and how many are illegal immigrants who are afraid of getting kicked out of the country? I have no respect for and no use for these people. Our founding fathers are turning over in their graves.

January 20th can't come soon enough for me. I even went so far as to send a message to President Obama, asking him to take some kind of action. But I doubt that he will. He's probably enjoying this.

Meanwhile, this is all destroying our nation and tearing it to shreds.

College students are made of such flimsy stuff that colleges are letting them out of classes because they are so distraught over the election. SAY WHAT!!! If they are made of such pitiful stuff, what will happen when one of the major storms of life blow in? They are falling apart because their candidate didn't win. What will they do when a real crisis appears in their life? They will crumble, that is what.

All I can say is that I am glad that the parents of the Baby Boom generation were made of much sterner stuff. Otherwise, Hitler would have never been defeated.

These pampered children of today don't know what real problems and real trouble is. In all my 55 years of living, I've never witnessed anything as shameful as this election year has been.

I am disappointed in people in general, and am growing to not like people. This 'entitled me' attitude that the younger generations have is getting on my last nerve. And they don't know how to listen! All they know how to do is get angry and argue!

I know one thing about the protestors, that they must not have a job that they are depending on for food on their table and a roof over their head. Because if they did, they wouldn't be able to be out there protesting and causing trouble. Unless someone is paying them to be out there. And some of them are teenagers under the age of 18, so where are their parents?

And I'm so fed up with people who are 'afraid' because of the election results. People today are simply being childish.

It makes me wonder what these baby-dults will do when a real storm enters their life? They will collapse under it, that is what. They are falling apart over an election. Where the rest of us would just take a deep breath and forge on, sad that our candidate lost; they throw a major tantrum and want the election results rewritten to suit them.

Once upon a time, Americans were made of much stouter stuff.

B is for blue

Upon coming over to put up this post, I decided to continue my journey through the alphabet; and no, I'm not posting about the color, but the mood.

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I'm sitting here feeling so damned depressed and discouraged tonight. Some neighborhood vandal has taken a delight in letting the air out of our tires, and it's the only car we have. We don't know who it is, or when they're doing it, even though we're home all the time. A few times, they've even let the air out until the tire is flat.

This has caused great problems for us, as both of us are disabled; and like I said, it's our only car. No, we don't have an air compressor at home. I just recently ordered a little cheap one from Amazon, but it didn't work, so we're having to send it back. Huge disappointment and bummer. And no, we can't keep it in the garage; door doesn't work.

We don't have money to spend on getting the tire checked, buying fix a flat, motion sensor lights, or video surveillance. Yes, I've contacted the local police, but there's not a lot they can do. They made some extra runs by your house, and things were quiet; but I guess they've stopped, and our vandal has started up again.

We have a hard enough time as it is, just making ends meet from month to month. This is just so discouraging; it's a problem we don't need. I have IBS, among other things, and all this stress just makes things worse; till sometimes I don't hardly feel like eating.

Why is someone doing this to us? We're quiet, we mind our own business, we don't bother anyone. Why do they get their jollies out of making our life harder, when it's hard enough already. Now we can't go out and do any grocery shopping until someone helps us get our tires aired up.

I so wish that air compressor had worked; we really needed it to work. The motor ran, but it didn't air anything up. In fact, the tire lost a pound of air. We have to beg for help to get the tires aired up. We need one that is good and really works good, but we can't afford a good one. All we can afford is crap that doesn't work.

Why can't things get easy for us? Why do they always have to be so hard all the time? I'm so bummed out and depressed. We both are disabled and live with chronic pain, and now to have these hassles. Some people have good luck hand over fist. We never do. Once in a while we'll have a tiny bit of good luck, here and there. But we don't get used to it, don't expect it to continue, cause we know it won't.

I'm so tired of the constant ongoing struggle. Don't know what to do, no solution. Sometimes I just want to curl up in a ball and give up. Tonight is one of those times.

-- jd --

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