IT SEEMS THE OLDER I GET THE MORE BOTHERED I AM BY THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING BY THE WAY SIDE. HOW MANY THINGS ARE THERE? LET ME COUNT SOME OF THEM.
1. Irrigation. I was raised in a small Mormon community in a high mountain valley in New Mexico. The people that settled in that valley in the 1880's went a few miles west and constructed a dam across a river that flowed through the valley. They donated money to pay for the dam and those donations amounted to water shares for irrigation. The valley was ditched so that every one in the valley had access to irrigation water. When I was growing up in the 40's and 50's, every one raised a garden and there were many acres of hay and grain and corn raised in the valley. Now, I return to visit and the people that live there have moved away and then returned and live on a retirement pension or the government dole. They drive to a nearby town and buy what they want or need. There seems to be no incentive to plant a garden, much less a field and grow any thing to eat. And it bothers me.
2. On a note from the above post, people now days don't seem to want to work. The old ones retire and just want to travel or porch sit or something. But work. Nope, been there done that. The young ones seem to want to play video games or "hang out" or something. So this leaves the ones on the middle to do all the working. Have to wonder if this would change if the State and Federal governments would take away to dole from those who don't really need or deserve it.
3.My wife and I were raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We are used to going to Church each Sunday. We also know that in the area where we now reside, there are many Christian Churches. We also know that in years past, these churches had large congregations. Businesses were closed on Sunday. Yes, I know that not every one went to Church, but most people did. Now, as we go to our church on Sunday, we see businesses open and apparently thriving, people working in their yards or heading to the lake or the mountains to recreate,and the cars at the various churches have diminished to the point of almost non existence in some cases. And that lack of church attendance bothers me.
4. Back to the posts 1 & 2. School supplies. Every year there are drives to get supplies for kids to return to school. News reports say that it costs hundreds of dollars to out a child for school. This includes paper and pencils, or whatever the equivalent for those are these days, clothes and shoes. Uh! question. Did they toss all the paper and pencils left over from last year? And they out grew all their clothing just as school is starting? Seems to me that a lot of hype over this is unnecessary. Also have to ask, where do all the school tax dollars go. Apparently not to school supplies or teacher salaries either. Time for the tax paying parents to be checking into this. And the news talking heads are always reporting on various programs to assist those in need and "it's free". UH. No it is not free. It is tax payer funded. And the fact that they won't report it that way bothers me.
5. We had a recycling program in this area. Now the powers that be have decided that it is too expensive to recycle so the program has been cancelled. The recycling bins are discontinued and now all trash goes into the land fill. I know that other places and other countries recycle. I know that we can also, if the local politicians would just get off their duff and make it work. But they won't and refuse to do so in spite of the outcry from the populace. And that bothers me.
6. And the last post for the edition. The second round of the Democratic debates begin tonight. I won't be available to watch, and probably wouldn't watch even if I was. Joe Biden seems to be the front runner at this time, I REALLY don't want Elizabeth Warren or Kamela Harris. If I was a Democrat and had a chance to vote in their Primary election, I would cast a vote for Tulsi Gabbard. But even though she will be in the line up for the debate, the news talking heads hardly ever even mention her name. And that bothers me.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
I HAD SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN MIND
I HAD A DIFFERENT THEME IN MIND FOR TODAY'S POST, BUT DUE TO THE CURRENT NEWS EVENTS, I CHOSE THIS ONE INSTEAD.
In less than 24 hours as of this writing, Robert Mueller will testify before congress. What he will say or testify to I have no idea. This post is about my viewpoint on this and a couple of other items that are related but may seem disjointed.
So lets start with this. Michael Bloomberg poured millions into Hillary Clintons presidential campaign and when Trump won he was livid and he vowed to get rid of Trump. He also hates guns, or at least he hates for common people to own guns.
The Democrats, or the Democratic Party, also hated Trump winning and vowed to take him down and has spent the past two plus years trying to do just that. Many of the current crop of Presidential candidates also have expressed their dislike of guns. Or the common person having them. More on that in a bit, but for now this.
Because the opposition party wanted to take down Trump, they have spent two years and millions of tax payers dollars trying to do just that with Robert Muller and his Russia investigation. He has finished said investigation and he has released his report. Congress, in the form of Jerry Nadler, has decided that his report is not sufficient and so they have ordered him to testify before congress. What he will say other that what is in his report that they have seen, I don't know, but I doubt that it will be what they want to hear. Was there any conversation between Trump or his associates and Putin? Maybe so. Did the Russians influence the election? Maybe, but definitely not on my part. And here is why.
In a December interview with Dan Rather, President Bill Clinton said that one of the reasons Al Gore lost the Presidential election was his stance on gun control. Again in 2004 Bill Clinton stated that Gore's extreme gun control position "hurt him badly" in Tennessee and other States. In 2013 Clinton warned Democrats on gun control stating "Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them....A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things." Ignoring the sage advise of her husband, Hillary Clinton campaigned on a raft of gun control policies and expressed her opposition to the U.S. Supreme Courts opinion in the District of Columbia v. Heller which held that the second amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Hillary lost and that is a large reason why, along with several others that would deprive the people of basic constitutional rights. Russia had nothing to do with it. Plain and Simple.
Now, to wrap this up. There are some 20 plus Democrat candidates running for President. Of the top ten in the polls, they are running on gun control policies. The policy they espouse varies, but they all want to take the guns away from the common people. These top ten are Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Robert (Beto) O'Rourke, Cory Booker, Bill de Blasio, Amy Klobuchar, and Andrew Yang. All ten of these individuals have expressed a variety of policy's they would enforce on gun control if elected. The other 13 or so that are running have expressed similar policy's. To repeat what Bill Clinton said, these people live in a different world than the bulk of the american people. And I said "And they think they are above the law and that we the people will just agree with what ever they say and go along with it.
Nope, we won't. We the people will have our say and you can just take it.
Two more quick observations. My wife and I have a lot of family that belong to the Democrat party. Past and Present. The current leadership of this party is NOT what it was in our parents day and on back from there.
And, while I admit and always have, President Trump is not a very moral man, he has improved the economy for this country and has done many other good things that you rarely ever see reported on the national news. If the members of Congress would work with him and spend OUR dollars on things for the people instead of spending OUR dollars on trying to impeach Trump, this country would be in a much better position.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
In less than 24 hours as of this writing, Robert Mueller will testify before congress. What he will say or testify to I have no idea. This post is about my viewpoint on this and a couple of other items that are related but may seem disjointed.
So lets start with this. Michael Bloomberg poured millions into Hillary Clintons presidential campaign and when Trump won he was livid and he vowed to get rid of Trump. He also hates guns, or at least he hates for common people to own guns.
The Democrats, or the Democratic Party, also hated Trump winning and vowed to take him down and has spent the past two plus years trying to do just that. Many of the current crop of Presidential candidates also have expressed their dislike of guns. Or the common person having them. More on that in a bit, but for now this.
Because the opposition party wanted to take down Trump, they have spent two years and millions of tax payers dollars trying to do just that with Robert Muller and his Russia investigation. He has finished said investigation and he has released his report. Congress, in the form of Jerry Nadler, has decided that his report is not sufficient and so they have ordered him to testify before congress. What he will say other that what is in his report that they have seen, I don't know, but I doubt that it will be what they want to hear. Was there any conversation between Trump or his associates and Putin? Maybe so. Did the Russians influence the election? Maybe, but definitely not on my part. And here is why.
In a December interview with Dan Rather, President Bill Clinton said that one of the reasons Al Gore lost the Presidential election was his stance on gun control. Again in 2004 Bill Clinton stated that Gore's extreme gun control position "hurt him badly" in Tennessee and other States. In 2013 Clinton warned Democrats on gun control stating "Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them....A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things." Ignoring the sage advise of her husband, Hillary Clinton campaigned on a raft of gun control policies and expressed her opposition to the U.S. Supreme Courts opinion in the District of Columbia v. Heller which held that the second amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Hillary lost and that is a large reason why, along with several others that would deprive the people of basic constitutional rights. Russia had nothing to do with it. Plain and Simple.
Now, to wrap this up. There are some 20 plus Democrat candidates running for President. Of the top ten in the polls, they are running on gun control policies. The policy they espouse varies, but they all want to take the guns away from the common people. These top ten are Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Robert (Beto) O'Rourke, Cory Booker, Bill de Blasio, Amy Klobuchar, and Andrew Yang. All ten of these individuals have expressed a variety of policy's they would enforce on gun control if elected. The other 13 or so that are running have expressed similar policy's. To repeat what Bill Clinton said, these people live in a different world than the bulk of the american people. And I said "And they think they are above the law and that we the people will just agree with what ever they say and go along with it.
Nope, we won't. We the people will have our say and you can just take it.
Two more quick observations. My wife and I have a lot of family that belong to the Democrat party. Past and Present. The current leadership of this party is NOT what it was in our parents day and on back from there.
And, while I admit and always have, President Trump is not a very moral man, he has improved the economy for this country and has done many other good things that you rarely ever see reported on the national news. If the members of Congress would work with him and spend OUR dollars on things for the people instead of spending OUR dollars on trying to impeach Trump, this country would be in a much better position.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
Saturday, July 6, 2019
THINGS FROM THE NEWS, KINDA
I SAID KINDA CAUSE SOME OF THESE THINGS I KNOW FROM PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE. SO HERE GOES.
1. Ice Cream Licker. Yep, you read that correctly. The Albuquerque TV news channels are reporting that a young woman was caught by security camera opening the ice cream freezers at a local grocery store, removing the lid of ice cream gallons and licking the ice cream and then returning the lid to the carton and then returning the carton to the freezer, ready for some unsuspecting shopper to come along and purchase the ice cream. Guess I will be sure not to purchase any thing that is not sealed tightly. Very tightly.
2. Student Debt. It seems that there is a cadre of college student graduates that are having a problem with student debt. The problem? they have to pay it back, and they are protesting. Why? Cause they don't want to pay it back. So, when they get the notices or contracts of payment they just shred them and ignore it. Have to wonder when the other shoe will drop. The Police officer shoe to be exact as they come to arrest the students that are ignoring their lawfully contracted debt to pay for their education. Guess they should have enrolled in law school.
3. This is partly news and partly personnel knowledge. The Border Crisis. Yes, we have one. And we have had one for a while. Even past Presidents have acknowledged that, including Clinton, Bush and Obama. Actually President Obama and his administration authorised the building of 700 miles of border wall. The situation at the border got so bad that President Trump and our State Governor at the time called out the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol control some of those crossing the border illegally. When our current governor took office in January, she went to the border and ( while standing in a check point with a section of Obama's wall) said there is not a problem with people crossing illegally. Well, no there wasn't there. So she said we don't have a border problem. President Trump manufactured that problem. So she sent the National Guard home. After she did that, the problem escalated to the point that the Border Patrol closed the 5 border check points in the State and sent those officers to assist those n the border. Now, several months later, those check points are still closed. And there are stories of the cartels making hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes, since there has been an influx of drugs crossing into the area, according to those who are in the know. I am taking that much information from someone else, since I have no actual knowledge of it. However, even the talking heads on the news have acknowledged that we have a problem with people coming into the country illegally. And now two of our southern cities are sharing the brunt of this and are having to find funds to take care of the people that are coming in. And our governor, who thwarted President Trumps efforts to take care of this, ow has the audacity to sue him, (Trump, and the federal governor for not taking care of the problem. I have seen and knew people that didn't like past governors, but I have never seen a governor gain the dislike of the population of the State like this one has. But that is a post for another time. Meanwhile, back at the border. A group of congressional people, all Democrats, made a stop at a border detention center in Texas. There has been a lot of controversy over their visit and just what they claimed they saw and what the border patrol people said they saw and what they did. Two ministers from a church ( I forgot the name of the church) went there after that report to see what they could do to alleviate the situation. They said that the conditions that were reported by the congresswoman from New York was false. This was not The Trump Administration saying it was false, but two ministers that are concerned for those here illegally and the children that said what she said was false. One more item to chew on. These "cages" are actually jail cells build by a past administration as a holding cell for those caught thring to enter the country "ILLEGALLY". This amounted to a few hundred a year. These detention centers were not and are not designed to hold hundreds and hundreds of people coming in every day. Especially not families with young children. And the country does not have enough federal judges to accommodate this amount of people, so they are given a short hearing and a court date some years out and told to return for that hearing when they will then be heard on their plea for asylum. They are then put on a bus or a plane and sent to a sponsor that is supposed to watch for them until the aforementioned court date. The true picture is that the people are here. Courts are inundated with them. Border Patrol needs, and has ask for, funds and more people. We don't need law suits. We need congress to forget photo ops and the TV talking heads to report the facts and congress to work with the administration to actually fix the problem. It can be taken care of in a humane manner for all concerned, if they will Mean while, the small cities and towns and churches and people of the southern border will take care of the people as best they can. They are doing it and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
1. Ice Cream Licker. Yep, you read that correctly. The Albuquerque TV news channels are reporting that a young woman was caught by security camera opening the ice cream freezers at a local grocery store, removing the lid of ice cream gallons and licking the ice cream and then returning the lid to the carton and then returning the carton to the freezer, ready for some unsuspecting shopper to come along and purchase the ice cream. Guess I will be sure not to purchase any thing that is not sealed tightly. Very tightly.
2. Student Debt. It seems that there is a cadre of college student graduates that are having a problem with student debt. The problem? they have to pay it back, and they are protesting. Why? Cause they don't want to pay it back. So, when they get the notices or contracts of payment they just shred them and ignore it. Have to wonder when the other shoe will drop. The Police officer shoe to be exact as they come to arrest the students that are ignoring their lawfully contracted debt to pay for their education. Guess they should have enrolled in law school.
3. This is partly news and partly personnel knowledge. The Border Crisis. Yes, we have one. And we have had one for a while. Even past Presidents have acknowledged that, including Clinton, Bush and Obama. Actually President Obama and his administration authorised the building of 700 miles of border wall. The situation at the border got so bad that President Trump and our State Governor at the time called out the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol control some of those crossing the border illegally. When our current governor took office in January, she went to the border and ( while standing in a check point with a section of Obama's wall) said there is not a problem with people crossing illegally. Well, no there wasn't there. So she said we don't have a border problem. President Trump manufactured that problem. So she sent the National Guard home. After she did that, the problem escalated to the point that the Border Patrol closed the 5 border check points in the State and sent those officers to assist those n the border. Now, several months later, those check points are still closed. And there are stories of the cartels making hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes, since there has been an influx of drugs crossing into the area, according to those who are in the know. I am taking that much information from someone else, since I have no actual knowledge of it. However, even the talking heads on the news have acknowledged that we have a problem with people coming into the country illegally. And now two of our southern cities are sharing the brunt of this and are having to find funds to take care of the people that are coming in. And our governor, who thwarted President Trumps efforts to take care of this, ow has the audacity to sue him, (Trump, and the federal governor for not taking care of the problem. I have seen and knew people that didn't like past governors, but I have never seen a governor gain the dislike of the population of the State like this one has. But that is a post for another time. Meanwhile, back at the border. A group of congressional people, all Democrats, made a stop at a border detention center in Texas. There has been a lot of controversy over their visit and just what they claimed they saw and what the border patrol people said they saw and what they did. Two ministers from a church ( I forgot the name of the church) went there after that report to see what they could do to alleviate the situation. They said that the conditions that were reported by the congresswoman from New York was false. This was not The Trump Administration saying it was false, but two ministers that are concerned for those here illegally and the children that said what she said was false. One more item to chew on. These "cages" are actually jail cells build by a past administration as a holding cell for those caught thring to enter the country "ILLEGALLY". This amounted to a few hundred a year. These detention centers were not and are not designed to hold hundreds and hundreds of people coming in every day. Especially not families with young children. And the country does not have enough federal judges to accommodate this amount of people, so they are given a short hearing and a court date some years out and told to return for that hearing when they will then be heard on their plea for asylum. They are then put on a bus or a plane and sent to a sponsor that is supposed to watch for them until the aforementioned court date. The true picture is that the people are here. Courts are inundated with them. Border Patrol needs, and has ask for, funds and more people. We don't need law suits. We need congress to forget photo ops and the TV talking heads to report the facts and congress to work with the administration to actually fix the problem. It can be taken care of in a humane manner for all concerned, if they will Mean while, the small cities and towns and churches and people of the southern border will take care of the people as best they can. They are doing it and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
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