It's interesting to me how people support a Leader they do not respect. I've lost count of how many people I've heard or heard quoted, "I don't agree with him or her but....", "I don't like their policies; their behavior; their attitude... BUT...
Seriously
I mean SERIOUSLY????
In my life I have come to the realization that adding my support to someone whom I do not respect, only lays the foundation of a dysfunctional relationship and weakens my integrity and the respect others have for me.
What got me thinking about this? I was listening to a comment made by our President. I have decided I do not respect him.
It then got me to pondering; WHY I do not respect him. Is it my personal values? The reaction of those people who interact with him? Is it the results of his policies? Is it the people who follow him and their actions? All of these, I decided had some impact on my decision.
Ultimately, I decided I cannot respect someone of such unkindness to others. Such lack of compassion, and need, to better the conditions of their fellow men and women. I cannot respect someone who fails to realize it is the BEHAVIOR of a person, not their culture, color, religion, or origin that determines how valued they are among their fellow men and women. I cannot respect someone who FAILS to RESPECT all the people they were elected to serve. I cannot respect someone who FAILS to SERVE all the people they were elected to serve.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
The Right to.......get over yourself.
The "right to bear arms" does not guarantee anyone the freedom to bear ANY "arms" they wish... or any number they wish.
The "right to free speech" does not guarantee you an audience for your "speech" or the right to censor anyone who has an opposing view.
Just because YOU want it, doesn't mean you get it YOUR way.
We are not living in a Burger King commercial. YOU do not always get it YOUR way.
Get over yourself.
and I just had to add this comment...
And to those well meaning people who want to "arm" teachers? You want to place a weapon that can KILL into the hands of a person, SURROUNDED on a DAILY basis, by YOUNG people whose emotions and behavior are often times dramatic, exaggerated and on occasion, violent. Let ONE upset enraged young person, surrounded by an audience of friends, see a gun,......and guess what they are going for, and an "I'm sorry" isn't going to fix this. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING? SERIOUSLY.............. are any of you parents??? Where's YOUR responsibility?
The "right to free speech" does not guarantee you an audience for your "speech" or the right to censor anyone who has an opposing view.
Just because YOU want it, doesn't mean you get it YOUR way.
We are not living in a Burger King commercial. YOU do not always get it YOUR way.
Get over yourself.
and I just had to add this comment...
And to those well meaning people who want to "arm" teachers? You want to place a weapon that can KILL into the hands of a person, SURROUNDED on a DAILY basis, by YOUNG people whose emotions and behavior are often times dramatic, exaggerated and on occasion, violent. Let ONE upset enraged young person, surrounded by an audience of friends, see a gun,......and guess what they are going for, and an "I'm sorry" isn't going to fix this. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING? SERIOUSLY.............. are any of you parents??? Where's YOUR responsibility?
Monday, May 29, 2017
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Freedom From Fear
People come together to form a nation ,with a government put simply, to aid them in the right to be free from fear. People form a nation and a government because we acknowledge that right.
So what do we fear?
The inability to preserve our life or the lives of those in our care.
The inability to protect our life or the lives of those in our care.
The inability to provide for oneself.
The inability to provide for those in our care.
The inability to protect our property.
The inability of all people to be treated as equal.
So we form and support a nation and a government:
To protect our life and the lives of those in our care.
To preserve our life and the lives of those in our care.
To provide for oneself.
To provide for those in our care.
To protect and preserve our property.
That all people be treated equally.
We pool our money in support of our government to protect these rights.
Over the generations greed and special interests have whittled away our support for these rights within our government, and it has become an agency promoting those very things we fear.
.
Think on this....
Our governments embroils us in the business of other nations and we the people have and will face injury and death as this continues.
Our government fails to support basic health care and fails to regulate the costs health care agencies charge we the people which will continue to lead to illness and/or death.
Our government allows foreign interest and local business to regulate our basic pay and health care which undermines our ability to provide for our self and promotes poverty and illness among we the people.
Our government allows special interests/business to pollute our land, our water, our air, preventing we the people the right to protect our property and/or preserve our life.
Our government promotes fear of our individual differences rather than acknowledge our similarities and we the people have become afraid of, and for, each other.
Our government has failed on these basics rights. The rights this government was founded to promote, protect and serve.
We have the vote, we need to use it. We the people are the method of our own change. Bring our government back to we the people.
So what do we fear?
The inability to preserve our life or the lives of those in our care.
The inability to protect our life or the lives of those in our care.
The inability to provide for oneself.
The inability to provide for those in our care.
The inability to protect our property.
The inability of all people to be treated as equal.
So we form and support a nation and a government:
To protect our life and the lives of those in our care.
To preserve our life and the lives of those in our care.
To provide for oneself.
To provide for those in our care.
To protect and preserve our property.
That all people be treated equally.
We pool our money in support of our government to protect these rights.
Over the generations greed and special interests have whittled away our support for these rights within our government, and it has become an agency promoting those very things we fear.
.
Think on this....
Our governments embroils us in the business of other nations and we the people have and will face injury and death as this continues.
Our government fails to support basic health care and fails to regulate the costs health care agencies charge we the people which will continue to lead to illness and/or death.
Our government allows foreign interest and local business to regulate our basic pay and health care which undermines our ability to provide for our self and promotes poverty and illness among we the people.
Our government allows special interests/business to pollute our land, our water, our air, preventing we the people the right to protect our property and/or preserve our life.
Our government promotes fear of our individual differences rather than acknowledge our similarities and we the people have become afraid of, and for, each other.
Our government has failed on these basics rights. The rights this government was founded to promote, protect and serve.
We have the vote, we need to use it. We the people are the method of our own change. Bring our government back to we the people.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Lives Matter
I watched a video today. It caught my attention as I have been concerned over media hype on the "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations. As I watched, read and followed media reporting, what this one woman said had meaning to me. Why? Because she said what many of my friends, family, and co-workers all say.....How can anyone, defend criminal behavior? How can anyone respond to it with criminal behavior and believe that is somehow acceptable?
The people who display criminal behavior are frightening and dangerous. Criminals are people who threaten each and every one of us: whether it is our lives, our property or the lives and property of others; they threaten our security. They act with criminal intent and cause intimidation, fear, suppression or violence. I don't think there is a person out there who has not felt or knew when they were being victimized by the unkind, unreasonable or unlawful actions of another.
Martin Luther King's message about the "content of the mind" rather than the "color of the skin" is what I believe in. Why is a person's skin color the issue here, not the actions of that person's mind?
I feel and believe it is an attempt to divert attention away from the choices that person made that put them in harm's way, and to remove the responsibility away from that person... when harm came.
I view this attempt at an excuse for bad behavior the same way I view bad behavior excused because of religion, culture, environment, family, circumstances etc,etc. . Not happening, nope!
I am held accountable for my actions...and you are held accountable for yours.
The people who display criminal behavior are frightening and dangerous. Criminals are people who threaten each and every one of us: whether it is our lives, our property or the lives and property of others; they threaten our security. They act with criminal intent and cause intimidation, fear, suppression or violence. I don't think there is a person out there who has not felt or knew when they were being victimized by the unkind, unreasonable or unlawful actions of another.
Martin Luther King's message about the "content of the mind" rather than the "color of the skin" is what I believe in. Why is a person's skin color the issue here, not the actions of that person's mind?
I feel and believe it is an attempt to divert attention away from the choices that person made that put them in harm's way, and to remove the responsibility away from that person... when harm came.
I view this attempt at an excuse for bad behavior the same way I view bad behavior excused because of religion, culture, environment, family, circumstances etc,etc. . Not happening, nope!
I am held accountable for my actions...and you are held accountable for yours.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Perfume - the essence of memory
I caught a scent the other day
and I was swept away.
Into the childhood memory
Of of fresh turned earth, and
new mown hay.
I caught a scent the other day, and
turned my face to the sun.
And smiled to think
a Memory
is just a scent away.
and I was swept away.
Into the childhood memory
Of of fresh turned earth, and
new mown hay.
I caught a scent the other day, and
turned my face to the sun.
And smiled to think
a Memory
is just a scent away.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Ponderable
We need to remind our youth....
That when you adopt an idealology of violence to "change the world".
You fail to realize you are the inheritors of that world.
That when you adopt an idealology of violence to "change the world".
You fail to realize you are the inheritors of that world.
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