Isn’t this the damned truth!
Who has Testicles?
Victoria
In Indiana Congressional District 5, we have one tough woman, Victoria Spartz. Spartz in an immigrant to the United States in 2000 from Ukraine. She is a full US citizen, a business woman, and a very strong conservative in the Republican Caucus. We are extremely lucky to have her as our Representative. She is currently with the few who are trying to change the House of Representatives back to a routine that would require voting on separate funding bills rather than on one big bill to fund the entire US government. That is the way it used to be…. it put people on the record and allowed for close examination of what is being funded. Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House has turned traitor and liar. He must go. Spartz is with those who believe new Congressional leadership is required. She is one of the few strong now.
Unstoppable!
He is coming for all traitors of the United States of America Constitution. This includes ole Joe Biden and his fellow travelers, the corrupt judges and DAs in courts, the top of the alphabet agencies of government, the RINOs, and many more. The political bloodbath will begin on inauguration day 2025.
The people have had enough.
Just Thinking!
[Thoughts from the Internet. Author unknown.]
Why is it when archaeologists find human remains, they always determine that they are either male or female and none of the other hundreds of genders?
Why is it that so may are more outraged that Brittney Griner was stuck in Russia than they were about Americans being stranded in Afghanistan?
How is it that the government can’t control gasoline prices… but the weather is something they can fix?
We’re churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work. — Mike Rowe
If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank goodness nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery. — Bill Maher
Why were we told to lower our AC usage on hot days to prevent overwhelming the electric grid while simultaneously being told to trade in our gas cars for electric vehicles?
Why is canceling student debt a good idea? Does it make sense to reward people who do not honor their financial commitment by taxing the people who do?
Does it make sense to cut off oil from an ally and buy it from an enemy who calls for your death?
Are we living in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended?
Is this a great description of America: Andy has left town and Barney is in charge?
Why is talking sexually in the workplace considered sexual harassment to adults… but talking about sexuality to children K-3 at school considered education?
Who else had a “Ministry of Truth” ….Hitler … Goebbels …Stalin
Eliminating the production of 500,000 American barrels of oil a day to buy 500,000 barrels a day from Russia is simply …. Well … Stupid.
I saw a movie where only the police and military had guns; it was called Schindler’s List.
If your electric car runs out of power on the Interstate, do you walk to a charging station to get a bucket of electricity?
Why are we running out of money for Social Security and Medicare and not for welfare, illegals, and free college?
I just got a full tank of gas for $22. Granted it was for my lawn mower, but I’m trying to stay positive.
There is a coin shortage. American is officially out of common sense.
If an 18 year old isn’t mature enough to own a firearm, then maybe five year olds aren’t mature enough to change their gender.
Sign in Texas: DON’T VOTE FOR WHAT YOU FLED!
Nobody called it “Toxic Masculinity” when we were saving the world.
Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free. Just like socialism.
The most powerful governments on earth can’t stop a virus from spreading… but they say they can change the earth’s temperature if you pay more taxes.
Want to stop drunk drivers from killing sober drivers? Ban sober drivers from driving. That’s how gun control and COVID lockdowns work.
If you don’t want to stand for the national anthem, perhaps you should give your legs to a veteran who lost his. That way a real man can stand in your place.
If socialism is so good and capitalism is so bad… then why aren’t the caravans heading to Venezuela?
History is not there for us to like or dislike. It is there for us to learn from. And if it offends you, even better… because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not anyone’s to erase… it belongs to all of us.
This explains why the United States is not the country that I grew up in!
The Climate Pandemic [Open Letter]
7-17-2023
Senator Mike Braun
Senator Todd Young
Representative Victoria Spartz
To all:
I am in the midst of reading a book all of you must read. It is “The Climate Pandemic” by Dennis Meredith, a long time and very reputable science writer. He details where we are and how we got there as humans who populate our planet home, Earth. The content is highly referenced.
The message of the book is devastating. The conclusion is that we, human beings, may have already passed the point of no return regarding the climate and the viability of the natural life support systems that have made living possible for our species. He notes that on Earth, species have come and gone over the millennia. Earth will survive, but the human species may not.
I hope you or a key person on your staff will take the time to consider the message in “The Climate Change”. I believe it will change your perspective on future decisions and actions.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Kent H Blacklidge Ph.D.
Deaf Kokomo City Council
Seems we have a City Council in Kokomo that is deaf. They just approved a tax payer subsidized housing development for 3109 W Sycamore St in Kokomo over the objections of large numbers of remonstrators who have shown up at more than one meeting to voice opinions. But did the Council listen? Nope. They voted to charge on to establish more and more subsidized housing in our community in areas where folks simply to not want it…..or maybe do not want more and more tax payer subsidized housing in any of Kokomo; period.
Earlier I wrote the Tribune a letter to say it is time to stop. It is time to stop at least long enough to take inventory of how many total rental units exist within Kokomo city limits. Then how many are subsidized housing units. The final piece of information needed to make a wise decision is how many units are currently occupied and how many are vacant for each full market and subsidized units. This should be reported to the public openly and completely. There should be no movement until then.
I have the uneasy feeling Kokomo has many vacant housing units; both apartment style and houses. I have the uneasy feeling that some of the powers-that-be want to create a magnet of housing to encourage movement into Kokomo from outside of our area. This is particularly true for subsidized housing. There are already rampant rumors that the draw is for folks from far and wide.
Kokomo’s goal should be to have minimal subsidized housing. Yes, there needs to be an adequate availability for Kokomo citizens who really need that type of support. But, the truth is Kokomo should spend its resources on building jobs for citizens so they can afford market rate housing; not subsidized housing. That is where resources should be focused.
All of the citizens of Kokomo need the answers to the questions. All of the citizens of Kokomo need to have a say in the direction our community is taking. Clearly, the City Council thinks otherwise. It seems to have become community dictators rather than community listeners and leaders following the will of the people. What a shame.
We The People
“We The People“….. we are two days from the 247th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yet, we are at a time, if not vigilant and courageous, we will loose what our ancestors declared and of many who gave their lives to gain.
The United States of America is on a the very edge of a cliff that, if gone over, leads to Communism and slavery. Our current US Senate and Executive Branch of our federal government are in the hands of those who want to destroy, not build. Our President, Joe Biden, is as corrupt as one could possibly find. He and his family have sold the country down the river. They have taken millions of dollars in personal wealth unto themselves. They have cozied up to the Communist Chinese Party.
And, since the President has the authority and power over the Executive Branch; the FBI, CIA, State Department, Department of Justice, and more are in the hands of those I believe are traitors to the United States. Biden needs to be jailed with all of his family who have benefitted from Joe and Hunter Biden’s actions.
And there needs to be a political bloodbath to remove all who have supported government corruption and criminal activity. This includes about all at the top of all major federal government agencies.
The only answer is to return the country to “We The People“. It may be a fight, but I believe there are enough of us to win. MAGA.
The Messiness of Life
by Marcia Blacklidge MS
We all want to create a past that benefits us and our fantasies of who we are and the families and family members we came from. But the truth is different than that.
The truth of us and who we are is buried in the messiness of youth, mistakes, ambitions, ego, love, sex and the biggest mess of all: relationships.
No matter how deeply buried that messiness is, truth has a way of niggling it’s way to the surface and confronting us.
We all like stories that elevate us. But to find the fullness of who we are, we must find the courage to process the messiness of that truth that is concealed behind the lovely stories we cling to.
There is an inconvenient truth that none of us can escape. Life is messy. All lives are messy. All lives are filled with it. No one escapes. Most of us will glibly declare no one is perfect. Few of us are willing to do the work that will bring us to a place of freedom from that truth. Most of us hold our mistakes and the mistakes of others against ourselves and against them.
Sadly, that only makes things worse. At best we only have a partial picture of our lives and of the people that surround us
There is one more inconvenient truth. If one believes in an after life, some kind of life review is included in that belief system. That includes having to watch every step of the life we have just completed, and how we reacted to the messiness we were confronted with and how we dealt with our own messes.
The pain that comes from that review will not be rendered from some unforgiving God judging us. It will come from ourselves to ourselves as the fog of all that messiness is lifted. And it will come from the realization of how much power we had but failed to use it in a way that prospers all. The most pain will come as we are reduced to watching the moments of our lives unfold without the power to effect a positive change now removed. Those that have had near death experiences tell us that pain is beyond words,
We will come to see a final inconvenient truth. The only thing that really matters in all that mess is the love we gave to ourselves and others and the forgiveness we always had an opportunity to render. That is the sum total of all that matters.
Starting today, I wish for each one of us to do the work of processing the messiness in our lives. I wish the fog of our lives to lift and we discover the love and forgiveness waiting to grace the world.
I wish for each of us to find the place where truth can free us. I wish for each of us to process the messiness of life with compassion and forgiveness. I wish for all trails messiness, hurt and pain to be diminished.
The Ole Tribune
Times change and life moves on. I spent over 20 years as part of the Kokomo Tribune family during the time it was one of the most recognized leaders of medium sized daily newspapers in the world. It was awarded recognition as “First In The Nation” penetration of its market for eight of a ten year period and only second in the remaining two years. It kept its position as one of the top medium papers in all of the 20 year period I was there.
The Tribune was owned by my great grandfather, John Arthur Kautz, from 1897 until his death in 1938; the year I was born. It was sold by his owner descendants in 1982 at a time when there were almost 30 part owners. This was at the height of the value of newspapers across the country. Consolidation into newspaper groups had begun a few years earlier. Newspapers were king when it came to keeping the public informed. There was at one time about 1,800 independently owned newspapers across this country. It was a time when newspapers were truly the “Fourth Estate” that kept government honest by keeping the public aware of what was going on inside and outside of government. It was the watchdog.
During the period from about 1960 to 1980, there was a revolution in newspaper technology. The old way from the 1800s to then was production by Mergenthaler Linotype machines and rotary letterpresses to print. The technological change was to photocomposition, use of computers, and offset printing. The Tribune was a leader in developing this technology even to the development of one of the very first computer typesetting systems, the Delco Justifier of which I did all of the programming. Key personnel like Dick Isham, Alan Harnish, Ron Frye, John Hoffman, Richard Pickering, and Dow Richardson and me led the revolution at the newspaper under the overall guidance and encouragement of our Publisher, my father. The entire Tribune family included about 185 employees and over 300 newspaper carriers. All played an important part in Tribune success.
The Publisher and CEO of the Tribune who followed J.A. Kautz , Richard H Blacklidge, became President of the American Newspaper Publisher Association. This position before had always been held by a Publisher of a large metropolitan newspaper; never from a medium sized paper. He went on to become Vice-President of FIEJ: the International Newspaper Association. While he was engaged in those national and international responsibilities, the Tribune family in Kokomo continued to lead in technology and news/editorial/feature content envied by all. The readers of the Tribune trusted the newspaper to tell all and to tell truth; things gone by the wayside in current major media.
As Business Manager, Associate Publisher, and eventually Publisher when my father developed health issues and then retired, I am proud of our two decades of accomplishment. We led the industry that informed and protected the public.
Ironically, in retrospect I believe my father saw the handwriting on the wall. The consolidation of newspapers into newspaper ownership groups, then to major media groups was coming. Technology was coming fast. And many of the original owners of newspapers were dying off. The nation has suffered from the loss of honest, tough, and wise leaders in media; specifically in newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers, said, “Where the press is free and every man (and woman) able to read, all is safe”. He said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Today, we have a captured press whether it be in print or electronic form. We particularly have a national media that lies, distorts, and covers up corruption. We do not have a free and honest press any longer. Whether we will make it now as a Constitutional Republic with a free people remains to be seen.
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Episcopal Church and Pride
[Open letter to Bishop Curry]
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
The Episcopal Church
815 Second Avenue
New York NY 10017
Bishop Curry:
I just don’t get it. I cannot understand all of the hoopla over Pride Month and the celebration of LGBTQ+. It all seems pretty perverted to me.
Among other things, I am a scientist. I hold a doctorate in genetics. I know with certainty there are only two human genders: male and female. The male has an X and Y chromosome and the female has two X chromosomes. That’s it. These combinations of chromosomes are in every cell in the human body. Period. And yes, there are anomalies now and then, but those are considered abnormal.
So, what is LGBTQ+….. Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, and whatever else there may be under “+”.
Let’s deal with “transgender” first. Even the word is an oxymoron. There is no such thing as a transgender person. One cannot switch genders from male to female or the reverse. Biologically, that is impossible. One can do surgeries until the cows come home and administer hormone therapy by the gallon, but none of this changes basic biology: XY and XX.
What about LGBQ+? So, lesbians are women who have romantic attraction to other women. Gays are men who have romantic attraction to other men. Bisexuals are attracted to both and Queer and “+” …… I have no idea what attracts them. In all cases, however, no human reproduction is possible, so it all has to do with romance and sexual pleasuring of one another. Right.
That is all fine in private, but why is there the overwhelming need to make sexual and romantic preferences public. Heterosexual folks don’t feel the same need to parade around and even have a flag to celebrate their preferences.
Now we even have the President of the United States celebrating “Pride” on the Whitehouse lawn with the rainbow flag taking the central place of the Stars and Stripes – in total violation of US flag protocol. And celebrants baring their breasts and shaking their rear ends around publically. Sick.
I have been an Episcopalian for nearly 50 years. I left the local parish some years ago over what I concluded was insensitive racial issues. Now I am leaving the Episcopal Church totally over the conclusion you all have lost your way.