#HATE THE FLAVOR OF THE YEAR

it's on old photo with Benny Boo Boo. We miss him.

When I awoke this morning, I had no plan to blog. I wasn't feeling much like doing anything. It's Sunday. A day of rest.

I made the mistake of checking my email. I had a response from a Hispanic gentleman I don't know, who read one of my posts. He was obviously educated as I could tell by his well written statement. What it said, on the other hand was not as nice. He decided I was a communist liberal who has ruined the American educational system by caring about children's feelings and that Trump would clean house of all the people like me.

I responded by asking him what facts had led him to these assumptions since we did not know each other. I was afraid to ask why he felt (feelings are obviously bad) this way. I haven't looked for his reply.

The next thing I saw was a post from a friend for an Israeli site, called "Stand By Me"  which showed a news clip from a campus where a Jewish group was in a self contained room, and a Palestinian group broke through the windows and started a near riot. I read it quickly, but it looked like the head of the Jewish group was arrested. I may be wrong. I was so appalled I couldn't process the material.

I'M WORKING ON SHORT, AND TO THE POINT.

HATE

I will not go into the origin of Hate to keep things simple. They say it's learned and apparently we have been taught this lesson all too well.
okay. I hate spinach. I also hate, Hate.

Folks, have you noticed we are self-destructing? If we do not find a way to stop all this hatred, well, you may not know it, but the planet we live on will never be the same.

MY RIDICULOUS [OR NOT] PREDICTION.

The world's economy will worsen. People will become more angry and hateful. More dictatorships will arise and people will follow because they have no choice and sometimes, the lies we are fed give us false hope.

       

More wars will erupt. Everywhere. More people will die. More people will become even more impoverished. And, sooner or later, someone will ignite a bomb and you can kiss your children's asses good-bye. We want better for our children and grandchildren. That won't happen if we keep hating one another. Hate my opinions. Don't hate me. Hate what someone says. Don't hate the person who says it.

WE MUST FIND OUR COMMON GROUND. WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS REGARDLESS OF OUR BELIEFS, SKIN COLORS, GENDERS OR RELIGIONS. WE NEED TO STOP IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WINS AN ELECTION. IT MATTERS THAT WE LEARN TO WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR GREATER GOOD. OR WE WILL ALL FAIL.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading. I'd put in my That's All Folks, but it would be too spooky with this post.

#9/11/2001 #EDITORIAL A FEW DAYS LATE. I NEEDED TO IGNORE THE DATE

 

 

My friend send me a Budweiser Commercial that was aired only after 9-11. It got me thinking.

 

 

 

It's funny that the 9/11 disaster pulled us all together, and then ripped us apart within, what a year? We couldn't hold it together as one nation. One group of people with a common soul.

 Look at us now. Splintered into a million pieces and divided by a two party war.

 Abraham Lincoln. Stated that "A house divided against itself will not stand."

 

     

 

Well, Binn Laden got his dream. Instead of embracing each other we have become each others enemies. Our young men are still losing their lives, everyone is blaming someone else and I don't know what to do about it.

We have a huge number of people in this country. Of course we will never agree on all the issues that we have to deal with. We have learned over the many years that we have existed.  Even our founding Fathers had differences of opinion.

 

It used to be that at least, during a war, we could pull together, put aside those differences and work as one unit.

 

 

Our boys who are dying and being maimed for this country haven't had the chance to understand which "party" they might want to belong to. Their frontal lobes aren't completely formed until the age of  25, so they really can't make informed decisions.  They are too young.  And here they are, expecting to handle watching their friends blow up.

I'm doing another Digression. Sorry. I cry for every person who is involved in this tragedy.

 

At the same time that we are fighting a "War" overseas, we are also fighting each other. No one will reach across that invisible isle and say, "How can we really make our lives better"? The campaigns and candidates are  all about finding something to scare the voters , US  so they can win and have the power.
 

Politicians are ego maniacs. Most of them don't give a crap about any of us. I don't care who says what. The only thing they want is to win.

 

 

Binn Laden destroyed our economy when he destroyed the Towers. He hit Wall Street with that in mind.  Later, the aftermath made us haters. We hate anyone who doesn't' agree with us.  We hate people who don't worship the same God as we do. We hate people who look different because of their race. We hate people who don't speak English without an accent.
 

 

 

Why? Because we've been told to. By who? Our "leaders".  But are they really OURS?   It's in their interest for us to fight amongst ourselves so we can't see what's in front of our eyes.
 

It doesn't matter who wins any of the elections. You may think you "won" if your candidate does, but will anything actually change?

I doubt it. We lost it all when the Towers came down.

 

 

We had an opportunity to be great.

We messed up. Now, well, I can't see the future, but I have a feeling that it's not going to be pretty and the only thing that can save us is if we can learn to embrace our differences and tolerate them.

This house is divided. We will not be able to stand until we find a way to re-unite.

 

 And, if you recall when Abraham Lincoln made that statement, we had the Civil War.

 Here is hoping that we are not heading in a similar direction.

 

 

            Thanks, as always, for reading.