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It Is all About the Message

What bothers me is the fact the NFL and the Players are forgetting their biggest fans, the impressionable kids that idolize them and wear their jerseys. Most kids do not know why they are kneeling.

NFL and Players and all other sports and entertainment professionals, donate money to start up or enlarge a PAL program. Donate your time to bond with the local PD. Ride along with a unit and let the community see YOU with the local PD, especially in those areas who have a strained relationship. But celebrate those officers and communities that do work well together. Lock arms with the team’s local PD, show what true TEAM WORK should look like!

For the communities put money into businesses that need help or open business that will get a depressed community working again! Be the face of change not anger. Teach our youth and young adult men not to be in the streets, be respectful and stay out of harm’s way!

Want to send a message – then denounce ALL gun violence!! When an innocent child, adult or cop gets shot no one wins. And there is way too much of that going on daily! Some the press doesn’t even truly cover.

It is a little hypocritical to convey there is such a race issue when athletes and entertainers of today especially for people of color command millions of dollars. It wasn’t that long ago when the color barrier was broken in MLB. Haven’t we come far!

The US is faced with so many threats around the world, NOW is the time to display unity not division. Show the WORLD we are ONE. Yes we have our issues but we are proud citizens of the United States of American. Salute our Flag – Stand with Pride to be here and have the opportunity to become what you want. That is the message our kids need today!

Why haven’t all the people who have publicly wished to do harm to Trump been arrested? Who among them  is above the law?

Everyone needs to read the US Constitution again! ” abridging the freedom of speech… Interfering with the right to peaceably assemble…”  With that said every group has a “right” to demonstrate to show their view point.

Whether or not you like the group or agree with the message they have the Right! Any group can be offensive to Someone! The very title of a group can be offensive. White Supremacist…check – Black Lives Matter… check get the point? Attempting to exclude or separate others can offend!

Now with that said, NO ONE has the right to come armed for offense or defensive actions! Which is what seems to have occurred in Va! But some people wanted to show they were upset that a statue was going to be removed.  Others had a different mission.

Which is my next point. The Confederacy  and Slavery is a part of American history! Embarrassing as it may be, but it is “OUR” history just the same! To knock down buildings, burn flags, change names of buildings and schools is only erasing history in an attempt to forget and ignore where we came from! Our children and visitors need to know who these people were and what they stood for right or wrong! Our Founding Fathers were slave holders so will we stop using a dollar bill because Washington’s face is on it, or Andrew Jackson on the twenty dollar bill?

And berating our President on not calling out a specific group? REALLY! I couldn’t tell who was who in Va. From what I saw they all looked alike. But  He denounced ALL forms of racial hatred in his original message! He was talking to all of US! Be honest we all have felt some sort of dislike or prejudice towards a group or individual.

Get over yourselves, the US has much greater issues facing us than to keep pushing nonsense to the forefront.

Please can we get this done! And more important control the COST of health care. We need regulation. Call it procedure gouging!  I have said it before control the initial cost and insurance pricing will follow!

How quick we are to condem but slow to understand. Remember Kerry Kennedy? Back in 2012 she had the accident and said she mistakenly took a sleep aide! She had the same reactions swaying, disorientated and no alcohol found in her system. WELL fast forward to Tiger.  We all know of his physical issues and his surgeries. He stated he may have mixed medications and he reacted to it. Which can result in a type of drug induced sleep walking or in his case sleep driving! He may have experienced Complex Partial Seizure or Automatism. His brain in that state made Tiger do what he routinely did “DRIVE”. Unlike Kerry , Tiger did not have an accident nor did he injure anyone or himself. He was found on the side of the road sleeping.  Kerry was acquitted. Why put him THRU this?  Don’t make Tiger a villain, if anything use this as a lesson on using caution with all prescription drugs! Hang in there Tiger and thank you NIKE! Way to stand with Tiger!

The Affordable Care act was not “AFFORDABLE”! What was unfair?   People getting no choices, stuck with cover options they did not need or want and premiums the size of a mortgage and told if you don’t take it you get penalized! Here we go again with another vote on what we the public have no idea what is in this package!  This “ACT” that no one ( not even Republicans in their own party) can seem to agree on or find a cure for (no pun intended) is still a mess. But this is not the lone issue. The other issue and almost more important is WHY is health care so expensive??? When will Congress put together a commisssion to control costs?  Why can you go to Canada for cheaper prescription or Colombia for a procedure done at a third of the cost?  When the EpiPen cost (without explanation) increased %150 then is when the whole industry should have been placed under a microscope. US consumers are being raped at every turn with NO ONE to fight for us. And that is because we will never be able to out bid the lobbyists and manufacturers for the attention of our so-called representatives.

All these so called  HEALTH CARE “ACTS” that no one can agree on – is NOT what the true issue is. What Congress and the President should be looking at “WHY” health care is so expensive. Someone needs to take a long hard look at why you can go to Canada and get prescription drugs much cheaper than in the US and why you can go to South America to have a procedure done for a third of the cost in the US. Insurance will continue to increase as drugs and hospital procedure costs sky rocket! Perfect example is the EpiPen price hike. That should say it all. Why does an ambulance ride cost $1500 or more.. 2007-2008 the cost per patient US $18142.00 Abroad $6222.00 REALLY?????? (FROM FACE THE FACTS USA). FIX THE PRICING AND INSURANCE WILL GO DOWN!

I have been listening intently to OUR President. Whether you voted for him or not, whether you are a Democrat or Republican HE IS THE PRESIDENT! After his  speeches , how could you NOT believe or feel that HE  Believes in America and why wouldn’t anyone want to join Trump to make America GREAT no KEEP America GREAT! All that he said you can not deny. We were a country started on freedom, built on rights, successful in industry on the backs of hard working Americans. We need to get back to manufacturing our products! We need to give Americans a chance to work and take pride in what they do! So STOP the petty trivial BS, let’s all get onboard and work to giving all Americans a chance to succeed and thrive! Then and only then can we start to assist the rest of the world!

So glad I am not raising kids. Would not know how to explain – breaking the law is now fashionably”OK”.

Would not know how to explain – even after taking an OATH of Office to abide by and uphold the law as a congressman, sheriff, police officer or any other public servant is “OK” to break.

If history teaches us anything great nations (Babylon, Greece, Troy, Egypt, Rome, all of them eventually fell. The decline comes in stages:

Stage 1 – Bondage to Spiritual Faith – Stage 2 – Spiritial Faith to Great Courage – Stage 3 Great Courage to Liberty – Stage 4 Liberty to Abundance – Stage 5 Abundance to Selfishness – Stage 6 Selfishness to Complacency – Stage 7
Complacency to Apathy – Stage 8 Apathy to Moral Decay – Stage 9 Moral Decay to Dependence – Stage 10 Dependence to Bondage.

Other factors are is the futile expectancy to maintain greatness. The Roman Empire exemplifies this! As Rome expanded her Empire it had to create bigger armies which eventually became weakened by the need to spread so thin to cover so much territory. Home was left unattended and fell to lawlessness.
The Decline of the Family – as families go so go a nation. Who is teaching our youth, what are they being taught? When lack of respect for self and others mix with lack of morality, political, economic and social enfluences, people tend to become sheep and follow a large noisy crowd that usually is moving in the wrong direction.

What I am getting at is… take a look at the GREAT USA! Where ARE WE? Name calling – hatred ramping up on all sides, children dying in senseless murders, cities going to ruin, Americans… our people are homeless and going hungry.

Everyone from the POTUS to the grass roots sign holding acitivists STOP for a moment and work together! GET THE BIG PICTURE! Nothing will get done with finger pointing, tweets, real or fake news! Action and positive reinforcement is what works. FIX America – FIX HOME – The World can wait! It has no choice.

I may be black, red, brown yellow or white

All colors seen in the spectrum of light!

Nature gave these same colors to the creatures about,

I don’t see them fighting over what color they are not!

Oh they are just dumb animals, is that what you said?

Well who is the dumb animal when so many humans are dead? Over what color they were, white black/brown yellow or red!

When a gun shot rings out we all run  and scatter.

That is when we should ALL UNITE  – ALL LIVES MATTER