While We.....

I think we are living in the twilight zone. I fully expect that some morning I am going to wake up and there is going to be Rod Serling, smoking a cigarette, standing in his suit, with the music playing in the back ground, informing me that I have just entered a new dimension of sight and sound known as the twilight zone.

While we have been focused on the Confederate Battle Flag as somehow being responsible for the death of 9 black church members, 7 blacks were killed by other blacks in Chicago, not to mention the 47 others wounded, over the 4^th of July weekend. Barely a word about that, but that flag has to go.

While we have been focused on the ramifications of the SCOTUS decision to legalize gay marriage, The bakers in Oregon have been fined 135K for standing on their religious convictions by not providing a cake for a lesbian wedding, While the two woman sited pain and suffering as the reason for such damage amounts, ISIS has being throwing gay men off of roofs and killing them for being gay and other countries are simply hanging them. Not sure that a cake should be the focus of concern...

While we were enjoying our BBQ's and fire works the Russians were flying bombers within firing distance off the coasts of Alaska and California, even as Vladimir Putin was calling President Obama and wishing him a good and happy Independence Day.

While the Army has announced it's going to be cutting it's forces back to pre WW2 levels, the Chinese

are building a massive military that already dwarfs ours in size( military personnel ,we still have better tech for now) and they are building islands out in the Pacific as advanced bases.

While everyone and their mother has a cow about the things that Donald Trump said, they are ignoring the truth of what he said. The border is dangerous and it is largely the fault of the Mexican government as well as our own. Where is the lie in that? And while the point is argued by those easily offended, a woman is killed by a man who had been deported 5 times and was only on the street because the city he was in refused to hold him.

While we are speaking of truth vs lies. Hillary Clinton. Enough said. At least you can trust Bernie Sanders to tell the truth. Yet everyone is fawning over the liar and ridiculing the one who tells the truth. When you can trust the socialist one to speak the truth, you have a big problem.

While the government wants to be bigger than ever and have us trust them as knowing whats best. Even as more and more people trust the Fed with their info,they prove just how incompetent they are by not being able build a system that protects 22 million of us from having our info and clearances stolen by a foreign government.

While we are anticipating new operating systems, new cell phones and other electronic gadgets, the world starves and is in poverty. We could end all poverty today but we don't because it doesn't pay.

While the world condemns Israel for defending it's self against terrorists, terrorists are attacking those very same nations that are condemning Israel and calling for jihad against them.

While a nation such as Iceland arrests bankers and crooked politicians for nearly destroying their economy, we keep electing the politicians who are in bed with the bankers that are destroying ours..

While all the above is going on our nation becomes dumber. I watched several on the street interviews, where people were asked simple questions regarding our history,especially as it pertains to Independence Day, and 99 percent of them couldn't even tell the questioners what it was we were celebrating. The only person who knew was an Italian tourist. We can waste time teaching our children about sexual orientation but we can't teach them basic history?

While our nation becomes dumber we are also becoming less patriotic. Polls show that many of the “millennial” generation are not proud to be American and honestly who can blame them. What “history” is taught makes us all look like we are evil and our current President and administration re enforces that perception by putting everything in the concept of race and gender or political positions, dividing us along every kind of line possible, and if you don't tow the line or speak the correct PC words then obviously you are a bigot and a homophobe or quite possibly both.

There is more that could be written. But because most of us have short attention spans I won't bother, but I hope you can see what I mean. It seems like we are living in the Twilight zone or possibly the Matrix...that would be a subject for another day.

Cue the music....