THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW THINGS GOING AROUND IN MY MIND THE PAST FEW MONTHS THAT I FEEL I WILL GIVE WORDS TO IN THIS POST. AT LEAST A FEW OF THEM.
1. I will start with a current one. A news article this morning said that a retired marine saved two young people who were caught in a strong current, but he drowned in the process. That is sad, in and of itself, but the sad part is that one of the teenagers had walked across a dam in the San Antonio, Texas area, illegally and she and her companion were caught up in the rushing water at the dam. The Marine that jumped in to save them did so, but then couldn't survive the fast water and was swept under and drown. What he did was heroic, but the focus should be on the illegal act of the teenager. Will she be charged? The article didn't say, but she should be.
2. Several months, in the pacific northwest, a group of teenagers were on a bridge, illegally. It was apparently a common practice for teens to gather on this bridge and jump into the river some 60 feet below. It was illegal to do so but they did it any way. One young girl was out on the ledge and then got scared and did not want to jump, so one of her friends pushed her off, resulting in serious injury. The girl who did the pushing has been charged and convicted. Why was nothing said or done to the girl that was pushed. She was there illegally. As were the rest of the group. All should have been charged with criminal trespass, at the least.
3. There are other incidents like this that I will not mention or this post would go on and on and on. So I will leave this idea here and hope that any one who reads my mutterings will think of this when you see news articles on something happening and realize what they did was illegal to start with.
4. Well, you know I can't end a blog with out some type of political view. I didn't watch the Democratic Presidential debate last night and I won't watch part two tonight. However, NBC has been profiling one candidate each evening in the evening news broadcast and giving them a chance to say what their big idea would be if they were elected. Each one of them has some big idea that would not benefit most of the people and each one would cost millions or billions and when ask how to pay for their idea they all said they would raise taxes. Of Course. Well, except one. A candidate from Hawaii. Her name is Tulsi Gabbard. I don't know how things will play out over the next many months, but if I were to be in a position to vote for a democrat, she would be my choice. Her big idea was peace with foreign country's and to pay for the things she wants to do she had ideas that did not entail a large tax increase on the populace. She has served in the military and has been deployed twice and is currently in the reserves. She is a representative to congress from Hawaii.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Thursday, June 20, 2019
AFTER MUCH THOUGHT
I HAVE GIVEN THIS POST A LOT OF THOUGHT. THE REASONING FOR THAT IS TWO FOLD. ONE, TO BE ABLE TO WORD IT IN A MANNER TO BE UNDERSTOOD, AND TWO, FOR ANY WHO MAY ACTUALLY READ THIS TO THINK ABOUT IT A BIT. SO HERE GOES.
First, I will repeat my opinion of President Trump. I did not vote for him initially. I think he is a proud, egotistical person. I don't think he has a high moral standard. I do think he has higher morals than a lot of those in politics these days, but that is not the focus of this post. The Democratic Party, and some in the Republican Party, stated the morning after Trump was elected that they would do whatever they could to bring him down. And they have spent the last two years doing just that. Some of the things they have done. They have spent two years and millions of tax payer dollars trying to tie him to a Russia obstruction of justice scheme. Although in that two years, they found something, it was apparently not enough to bring charges. Although the Democratic party is trying to do so any way, in spite of Pelosi saying no. Not at this time, any way. They said that who ever he nominated for the supreme court they would not sustain them. They tried not to the first time and went all out the second time. Even though Kavanaugh may be squeaky clean ( and I didn't say he was) he will have a cloud over his head for the rest of his term in the supreme court.
They tried many things to bring down Trump. They even came up with a law suit filed by a porn star from several years before Trump even ran for office, much less after he was elected, like Clinton. While I have an idea myself about Trump's affiliation with the porn star, that is what she is, she sells her self to men for money. If she sold her self to Trump and he paid the price, that sure doesn't make him an uplifting person, but please people, lets not elevate her to something that she is not.
The Press. I have the utmost respect for the first amendment. I had a lot of respect for Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley. I actually met Huntley and Brinkley one time, back in the 60's. I watch NBC news. I have tried to watch other channels but found them all lacking. Including NBC. However, the first words out of Savanna's mouth the morning after the election was Donald Trump won the election. What did we do wrong. HMMM that seemed to me to place her opinion. And that is fine. She is a human and she is entitled to an opinion. However, she and many others have spent the last two years trashing President Trump for whatever he may have done. And I will admit he has given them plenty of fodder.
Now, I am going to mention a few things that Trumps has done and wants to do. He has brought up the economy and down the unemployment. He wants to, and has done some of it, change the environmental regulations. He wants to bring back the businesses that have moved over seas. Where does the fault lie with that? In several past administrations. Starting probably, in the 1970's. The environmental groups bring up a rule they like and the tics pass a law and the next thing you know, businesses shut down and move out of the country. Lets look and good environment regulations and then open the steel mills and the textile mills back up. Bring those company's back to the U.S. The government, under the auspices of saving the environment, wants to get rid of all coal fired power plants and go wind and solar. That is an admirable thought. But it is not sustainable. It takes huge amounts of land to put in solar or wind farms. It takes huge amounts of money to build and support them. And it takes a huge amount of electricity to keep this country running and when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine, the battery backup is not large enough to store the electricity needed to power us. And the environmental groups want to shut down the mining industry. They don't realize that the solar panel and the grid items that go with them and the wind chargers and the grid items that go with them come from items mined from the earth.
So, to wrap this up, I would like to see our Senators and Representatives spend the next two years working with the administration for the good of the country. They have spent the last two years fighting him and accomplished relatively nothing. If they don't like Trump, so be it. If he comes up with a radical idea that is not good for the country, vote against it and say why. If he has a good idea, one that will help the economy and the country, then support it. And if they want someone else to be president in a couple of years, campaign for who they want. BUT, do what ever they do for the good of the country, not the git rid of Trump focus that they have been on for the past two years.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
POSSIBLY PART ONE
First, I will repeat my opinion of President Trump. I did not vote for him initially. I think he is a proud, egotistical person. I don't think he has a high moral standard. I do think he has higher morals than a lot of those in politics these days, but that is not the focus of this post. The Democratic Party, and some in the Republican Party, stated the morning after Trump was elected that they would do whatever they could to bring him down. And they have spent the last two years doing just that. Some of the things they have done. They have spent two years and millions of tax payer dollars trying to tie him to a Russia obstruction of justice scheme. Although in that two years, they found something, it was apparently not enough to bring charges. Although the Democratic party is trying to do so any way, in spite of Pelosi saying no. Not at this time, any way. They said that who ever he nominated for the supreme court they would not sustain them. They tried not to the first time and went all out the second time. Even though Kavanaugh may be squeaky clean ( and I didn't say he was) he will have a cloud over his head for the rest of his term in the supreme court.
They tried many things to bring down Trump. They even came up with a law suit filed by a porn star from several years before Trump even ran for office, much less after he was elected, like Clinton. While I have an idea myself about Trump's affiliation with the porn star, that is what she is, she sells her self to men for money. If she sold her self to Trump and he paid the price, that sure doesn't make him an uplifting person, but please people, lets not elevate her to something that she is not.
The Press. I have the utmost respect for the first amendment. I had a lot of respect for Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley. I actually met Huntley and Brinkley one time, back in the 60's. I watch NBC news. I have tried to watch other channels but found them all lacking. Including NBC. However, the first words out of Savanna's mouth the morning after the election was Donald Trump won the election. What did we do wrong. HMMM that seemed to me to place her opinion. And that is fine. She is a human and she is entitled to an opinion. However, she and many others have spent the last two years trashing President Trump for whatever he may have done. And I will admit he has given them plenty of fodder.
Now, I am going to mention a few things that Trumps has done and wants to do. He has brought up the economy and down the unemployment. He wants to, and has done some of it, change the environmental regulations. He wants to bring back the businesses that have moved over seas. Where does the fault lie with that? In several past administrations. Starting probably, in the 1970's. The environmental groups bring up a rule they like and the tics pass a law and the next thing you know, businesses shut down and move out of the country. Lets look and good environment regulations and then open the steel mills and the textile mills back up. Bring those company's back to the U.S. The government, under the auspices of saving the environment, wants to get rid of all coal fired power plants and go wind and solar. That is an admirable thought. But it is not sustainable. It takes huge amounts of land to put in solar or wind farms. It takes huge amounts of money to build and support them. And it takes a huge amount of electricity to keep this country running and when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine, the battery backup is not large enough to store the electricity needed to power us. And the environmental groups want to shut down the mining industry. They don't realize that the solar panel and the grid items that go with them and the wind chargers and the grid items that go with them come from items mined from the earth.
So, to wrap this up, I would like to see our Senators and Representatives spend the next two years working with the administration for the good of the country. They have spent the last two years fighting him and accomplished relatively nothing. If they don't like Trump, so be it. If he comes up with a radical idea that is not good for the country, vote against it and say why. If he has a good idea, one that will help the economy and the country, then support it. And if they want someone else to be president in a couple of years, campaign for who they want. BUT, do what ever they do for the good of the country, not the git rid of Trump focus that they have been on for the past two years.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
POSSIBLY PART ONE
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