Tag: society

Childhood Dreams !


       Childhood Dreams, we all have them don’t we, I want to be like Dad, I want to be like mom, I want to rule the World, I want to be King or President, I want to be a Doctor, A Lawyer, a Chemist or something else.  We all have dream as children that are unfulfilled as we reach adulthood , sadly that is how life goes isn’t it? 

         I dreamed of walking on the moon, dissecting creatures to find out what made them live, comic book characters and stories of glory. I ran the woods as a kid, studying creatures small and large and exploring nature and finding myself happiest alone in those woods. I was dragged back to civilians and real life by parents who hated my disappearing that way, yet it wa sthe only place I felt safe, how about you? Did you dream of happiness, a family that was together and caring, a family of support and love and not find one? I know thats what happened to me, so I went out and as I grew older I adopted surrogate families and parents and people who cared. It was to me a natural reaction to a world filled with anger, pain, fighting, feuding and more, so I did it. What would you do I ask you?

        I grew up hoping to be a comic book hero and to save the world. I wanted to be the Flash, then the Green Lantern, one for speed to avoid trouble and reach it to stop it, and the other to will my way through life with a ring on my finger that could defend and protect me and save the world.  Later my fantasies would turn to being Captain America or Thor, or even a Member of The Fantastic Four, but none of that would happen of course, but comic books saved me, gave me morals to think on, and desires and dreams a child should have, good ones.

       My childhood was spent running the woods, reading comics and books and trying to stay away from a family that destroyed itself in violence and screaming and more, sad isn’t it? But, stop and think folks, more and more children are doing this these days in America, running from home to home looking for acceptance and caring and love, why? Because we are too busy making money and dreaming of where to spend it and to stay up with the Jones next door. I wish to God my childhood had been different, my older brother sad he wished we were rich growing up the last time I talked to him, me, I didn’t care about money we had enough and a home and clothes and food. What we didn’t have was a caring, compassionate family, and an environment of peace. We had violence, yelling, screaming, beatings, swearing and drinking and physical and mental pains. Why, well I think my step-father said it best as I was growing up once, as he said ” Some People are just not made to have children or to raise them”, He was talking about mom, but should have looked in the mirror too. Sad isn’t it how children get born to people who have no idea how to raise or care for them and who basically abuse them and ruin their addition to society by it all.

        So when we all look back at criminals, the mentally ill, the abused and dangerous, we forget to review their childhoods and their inner pains, problems and diseases they may have suffered through.  We should look closer and see if they are mentally ill, or really a societal menace or not, it would help to solve some things in life and the world.

        I will close this today, with a statement for all to think about, in the world and among the children are many who suffer endless abuse, sufferings, beatings and verbal abuse from parents who never wanted them or cared to have them. My greatest Question is this, Do the poor children in these situation, with Attention Deficit Disorder, Hyper-Activity, and more deserve what they get? No, so someone should do something or at least as a country and world we should be more aware of these things and try to help. If we can’t, then we are failing not only the children and their dreams, by the world as a human society!

 

 

Monday/Music/Reading/Beliefs


       Monday I welcome you and good morning to all who read this, a new day has begun as well as a new work week for most!  I hope all have a great day rushing too and fro and making some bucks as they do.  

For me Monday just bring a new day and an attempt to write this blog, and tell what I believe in. I believe in peace, I believe in caring, love, hope and the Great American Way of life!  I believe in hope, persistence, never giving up and more!  I am not saying it will all be there for you in your life, but it is worth striving for big time in America.  hard work for many brings peace through money, social interactions, love and finding a place in the world, it’s worth it folks!

I grew up with country music, some rock and roll and trying different music. Music bring peace to to the soul and you can close your eyes while listening and float away on the notes and voices and be in a make believe world of pleasure for a while.  You can hear someone else’s stories in the lyrics and understand what they are trying to say, many songs do that now. Music is a love many of us have in life I am sure.

 I grew up reading too, books, magazines, and yes comic books and graphic novels. I read sci fi, westerns,  mysteries and spy novels, but I also read history folks, american history big time. Washington, Lincoln, Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Nixon, Clinton, Kennedy and more all, men who gave for their country and made it better in their own ways. Americans should read more, and learn the morals, ethics, beliefs, and basics of why we as a nation are different then any other!  read about our Revolution, our Civil War, our Depression, our advances in Medicine and science and more. Read how we struggled to survive at first than expanded across the lands we live in and killed off other cultures to do so. The American Indian Nations suffered for the white man coming here, and so did the African Americans who are here now, brought here as slaves. But in the end, we gave all freedom and choices and equality as we went along. Yes I am not saying there is no discrimination or prejudice  because there sure as hell is, but it is now getting less each day. Color, race, issues, are getting fewer as we as Americans realize, if you kill us we all grieves, we all cry, we all bleed red, and we all fight for the country we live in! In the end the color of your skin, your nationality, should mean not a damn thing in america, being American should mean everything, period. I served 16 years in the US Military folks,, I served with all nationalities, all colors, all races and all different religious beliefs, it makes no difference for in the end we all believe in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave! 

When you sit at your breakfast table each morning and eat breakfast, have the same eggs and bacon or cereal as everyone else who lives here and rush out your door to work, stop and think, where else in the world, do people of all colors, races, nationalities, all fight for the same values, the same freedoms and have them. The US Military is made up of freedom loving americans of all colors, and americans all, say thanks to them for the freedoms you have! And when they march in your town parades, say thank you by respecting them and honoring what they did, no matter who they are!

My Stories folks can still be found on Amazon’s Kindle e-Books, Kobo Books and Wattpad.com. I hope some will enjoy them!

 As to my cancer fight it will continue of course. I have to be at the hospital on the 23rd of August for testing, cardio- pre op  work up for preps for my operation on September 3rd.  Blood Testing of course, and Anesthesia Prescreen. Than when the 3rd does come, it will be a robotic assisted right middle lobectomy, removing my middle lobe of right lung. From there I don’t know if it will be chemo and radiation or just chemo, but whatever it is I will fight! God Bless all who read this.  Later folks!

 

 

 

Zimmerman Innocent/ Blog Writing/ Love Stories


       Zimmerman found not guilty and let loose.  A Fight did ensue in this case as to who threw the first blow or who approached who first. In the end there is no witness who can say how the confrontation started and what happened except the man who survived it. I feel for the Martins for they lost their 17 year old son in this case, and will never have him back, but, on the other hand the State of Florida never proved their case and overcharged Zimmerman too. Sadly American Justice did do right in this case, and the Jury of six women went over all charges to get there. The third thing wrong with this case that I saw, was it was televised for the world to see from the get go, and it wasn’t needed to be. Three African American Males, killed a Caucasian  girl  while this case went on, yet not a peep of it is in the newspapers, on HLN, CNN or any other station, why? Because crime happens daily and it just doesn’t get shown in that way. Sad isn’t it, that, one case was shown and the other will be solved and tried in a court of law too, but not shown to the public.

       Next subject today,  each day I write blogs, very few really read what I do write I know that, but my blogs are not written to gather readers, but to relived my own PTSD, stress, tension and to show me I can cope with what I live with each day. It’s a way for me to express what I feel and what I see, without hurting anyone. One person told me recently, I was a drooling old man who just writes shit, well, he found he was wrong when I approached people he worked for and proved it wrong. What I am ladies and gentlemen, is a retired, navy Veteran who lives off a Disability check for service connected disabilities of six herniated disc in my spine, Ptsd, Arthritis and Sleep Apnea. Sadly, my injuries occurred defending my country and serving in the Military of the Land that I love. So when you mouth off out there at people you don’t know, because of the way they speak, sleep, walk, talk, or anything else, including their skin color, race, etc, remember one thing we are all human, and should all be respected. If you don’t understand ask is what i say!

On that count i shall stop my rant, I will leave you with some love stories for  all to enjoy: I hope the women can see the feelings in them and enjoy them, they tell of early loves of me as a young man: 

“Angie’s Folly” —-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPMGIAC
“My Maria”——-http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CS3BTOS
“The House on Phoenix Avenue”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D910XBS

 Please enjoy, and have a safe and healthy Sunday/ Fun Day!

 

 

Zimmerman’s Trial/ Second LIfe/ Danger in Internet Chats


       Today July 12th, 2013, George Zimmerman‘s trial will hit the six female jurors for a decision. But before it does, I would like to make my comments on the situation and the case in general and in some specifics.

While in bad neighborhoods across America and the world , people formed watch groups to prevent crime in their areas, not all walk around with guns in their belts. But that said, Zimmerman had a license to carry a firearm for the purpose of protection so no biggie there. Secondly, there is no law preventing anyone from watching anyone else from a safe distance and reporting what they see or are worried about.  This is America and freedom is a right earned.  That  said, lets look at the actual case and someone prove to me, how you know George Zimmerman started the fiasco that killed Trayvon Martin? Now let me state it clearly, no one knows whether Zimmerman approached Martin or vice versa, which makes a sad case of no proof for the prosecution.  Trayvon’s injuries show he was on top of Zimmerman, his knees and arms are scraped. In the meantime, Zimmerman’s head was bounced off the pavement at least six times. his nose was broken, and the Doctors all said the same, Zimmerman did not get a hit in on Martin. But the facts are what will determine the result of the case in a court. Six women will get the case to decide on whether Martin attack Zimmerman or the other way around and did Zimmerman do right or wrong when that pistol went off? Before the decision is heard or even put to the jury in this case, I would like to state an important factor here, there is no racial factor here it seems, because Zimmerman is hispanic and Martin African American. But imagine if you would if this was a white man who shot a black boy! Would a racial war start in America if the man was not convicted. probably.  It does go to prove that racial profiling, discrimination and prejudice have no place in America and should be put aside for we are all human, all alive and we all bleed, hurt and die. Interesting point is it not?

        Next Rant so to say, yesterday I was on the internet in Second Life minding my own and mentioning that I blog daily and that I completed my blog for the day. Sadly, I was told I am a drooling, old coot who blogs daily and nothing else and it led to me defending myself and then reporting it to the clubs owner. Sadly, the person said it, doesn’t know of my 16 years in the military, my serving in three different branches or my injuries from doing so, like PTSD, Sleep Apnea  and six bad discs in my spine, three in my lower back and three in my neck. Nor did they understand the power of the written and spoken word it seems. But that has all passed now it was yesterday and settled, today is a new world and day. But before you judge anyone you do not know, be careful, you may be attacking someone who saved your ass in time of peace and war.

         I live my life today asa Disabled Veteran who can’t do too much in real life and in Second Life I refuse to get into relationships with the opposite sex, for the mind is a thing no one should mess with, and you don’t know if they can handle the emotional commitment or abuse you may give out. I don’t recommend going into Second Life or any other chat program and making relationships with people you have no idea who they may be period. Sadly, it can get them destroyed mentally  emotionally or even physically if it goes beyond the Internet, so be careful folks.

 

Rants on Child Abuse/ and Books to Support and Teach


       I have a passion in life few of my family members know of, I hate anyone who does child abuse, and that includes all kinds of it. I hate physically abusive parents, I hate mentally abusive parents and I hate emotionally abusive parents too. I lived through all of it as a child myself and had to overcome it all as a man as I matured and aged. It is no fun to have PTSD as a child due to it all and have to deal with it when no one knows you really are! I also hate sexual abusers and padophiles of all kinds no matter who they be. The sad part is the world is filled with these monsters and we should eradicate them all or lock them up. They ruin children and people of the future, and make more of themselves, because the victims become abusers, because they don’t know better. Sadly it is a cycle that is sad in life and societies. Laws need to be put in place to halt this disease and problem in American and other societies. The innocents don’t know the difference and follow suit due to the parents who did it to them, they don’t understand what they do, for it is all they know.

Next rant, Wars, I hate wars, I hate hearing Americans are dying for countries who hate us even if we are trying to help them. Say hello to countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, all Muslims, we don’t believe in their ways so they hate us. Sadly, What they don’t know and will never understand is freedom for all. Now I am not knocking all Muslims, my step-father was a Muslim and he raised me ok, even if he was verbally and emotionally and physically abusive. He taught us not to lie, not to steal, be respectful to all and to work hard so those traits I give to him. Yet his anger fits and hurting of others including the children he raised was far wrong. 

OK, I have ranted enough on those subjects for all to see, I will now give ya links to two stories I did and am Selling on Amazon’s Kindle E-books; they concern abuse that occurred in my family and why it happened, welcome to them and I hope it helps mothers and fathers out there not to treat their children the same, they don’t deserve the pain folks! Link #1—-“Confrontations With Mom”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DC3BQK0

“Abraham- A Man of Contradictions”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CWNZ3Y6

I hope these stories will save some children pain and suffering at home. they deserve better than this!

 

 

Differences in Society, that need changing back!


       As I age I notice many differences in America that were not here before. The years have passed since I can remember a friendly America, where we all helped one another. What happened to those days? Does anyone remember when a child got hurt, a neighbor would help, or when someone got a flat tire on the road people would stop and help you? 

        How about when children of all colors and races ran together and played together in the backyard of a project or town or home and no one tried to kill each other? When color didn’t matter or nationality didn’t matter because you were too young to know the difference and no one shoved the idea of differences into your head?

      Each Day, I see it on the news, the whites attack the blacks, the blacks attack the white and Hispanics  and the Hispanics attack both whites and blacks and retaliation comes into play in big shootouts or murders. Why? What happened to the society of America, where it was all for one and one for all? It still exists once we all grow up and join the military as adults, but then disappears once we get discharged. Why? We all live on the same  on the continent and in the same damn country, yet we allow outside influences to change what we are, and to cause division among Americans! Stop it Please and wake up, a child is a child whether white, black, Hispanic  oriental or any other nationality or color. Who cares, a child needs to live to make  the world better and to continue mankind.  We basically are so ignorant at time we forget no matter what nationality, color, ethic background, we all bleed red! Anger needs to be removed from American Society so we can live in peace and ensure safety for all.

       We also need to get to a point where we remember to care for our Disabled,  our Veterans, our elders too. If they are elderly they earned respect don’t forget it, if they served their country don’t forget them or let them suffer and if they are disabled no matter whom they need help and respect also. This country owes so much to the people who came before you, that you tend to forget, they set the basis for what is next, and they thought of you first not themselves.

         In closing, as i look back in time i think of my youthful days, in the 1960s, when it was indeed a we society, not the me society it is today. There was respect for each other back then, there was an atmosphere of trust among neighbors and friends and people mingled and talked to one another and communication saved this country. We need to find that society once more.

 

 

Dreams for America and Humankind


Dreams we all have for we are humans first and in America we are Americans second. We dream of the freedoms, people like Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter and Regan and Clinton and Obama dream of. Dreams of a United States, filled with jobs, equality, hope, caring and sharing, and as Martin Luther King Jr. said where all men are indeed created equal no matter what color, race or nationality. Where people help one another and where we are not a me generation anymore but a we, generation fighting for the rights, the needs, and the peace of all Americans and human beings!

The dreams many of Americans have dreamt are of a peace-loving nation where all are treated equally, where all can work, live in faith and choice of religion, and have their fair share we all should have!. This nation was not built on a platform of have and have-nots, it was built on a platform of We, The People!

Dreams of each and every American, no matter what race, nationality, religion, color or anything else, all have the rights given to us by our ancestors. And no they weren’t always right in all they did and built, but they proceeded to create the greatest Republic in the history of the world. Where else can a man or woman, or child have the same opportunities as each other, have the same rights as each other and live in one melting pot, in peace and survive and prosper as we have as Americans?

As The Republican and Democratic Conventions are both coming to an end, we the people have a responsibility to choose the right man for the Presidency again. We also must choose his back up in a Vice President too. Team sports is how our country is run, if one goes down his back-up must be just as good. We need strength, we need understanding, we need honesty, we need truth, we need caring and most of all, we need leadership that can stand tall and defend us, and make America move ahead, not backwards or down a slope to oblivion.

Dreams my fellow Americans are not just for day-dreamers, they are for leaders, they are for people who care, they are for all to share!. We dream because we are human and we dream because we were built with hope, determination and skills to survive. We dream for the generations that will follow us and need our protection and knowledge and skills to survive and much more. We must give our next generations of Americans the protection, the skills, the education, the determination and the abilities to survive and prosper in a changing world that will try to knock America down and destroy us all. America shall and will survive, it will prosper, it will still have it’s melting pot of people and different ideas, it will crawl out of any monetary or financial hole we have been tossed into. We always have for the past 200 and some odd years, haven’t we?

As you dream, I dream and we all dream of a country and world of peace, prosperity, love and hope, and health, we should also look around and one day look down, at the ground we walk upon. Below each of us embedded in the earth and busy as each of us are, are the ants below us crawling, scurrying, and working to build their own world and homes like we are above them. In the end we are just the next level up from these insects, we scurry building homes, feeding one another, storing for future events and trying to steer clear of problems and trouble too. Like the ants below our feet, we step on every day and who have their own purpose on this planet, just like any other living creature, including us,, we fight to survive, to build and to take care of our own. It’s the drive to stay alive and have more that makes us human and who we are as people. Each of us, love our families, our siblings, and our country!. Let all make the dream of equality, jobs, a working economy, healthcare, and benefits for all, our priority, not for us, not for our personal gain folks, but for the future generations of Americans, our children, our grandchildren and so this Republic will remain the Greatest in the history of the world and all time! The dream will survive, it will remain, it will enable and it will come true!

America, How do We Stop It?


      Across America everyday, more and more violence and strange acts get committed and people act stranger and stranger. Why is this can I ask?

       I believe fully Americans have lost sight of what really counts in their lives and what they need most. They fumble about, allowing their children to do as they please, addicted to drugs, alcohol and video games and yes even computers.  Why is that, well the morals and ethics of our forefathers and grandparents have faded from American Society. The churches have less people, the decisions made are made more loosely and the lack of discipline is fully apparent in the generation currently running the youth of America.

         When I was a kid in the 1950’s and 60’s, parents smacked ya if you spoke back, were disrespectful, and they did things like take away your favorite toys or, grounded you. Today parents are too lax and easy going. Discipline is totally lacking in America’s Society. Now I remind you I am not saying abuse your child, or destroy them, nor am I saying mentally torture a child no, I am saying for all things done wrong there must be a consequence and a result for all done right. Reinforce the good and discourage the bad. one must or society in America will become a rabid bunch of dogs, barking at one another and fighting till it destroys the country.

       Yes I believe the American Dream is still alive I just think too many Americans are letting it slip away because of a lack of morals, ethics and discipline within themselves, taught by their parents who gave them all they could and let them run wild. We have become a society in America who doesn’t teach our children what it is like to earn what they want, but we give them everything and spoil them, and ultimately it makes for a person of loose morals and ethics and beliefs who thinks they can do whatever the hell they really want at anytime and not pay for it if they did wrong. Sadly, proof of this walks across America each day, in the modern era. Children blinded and brain washed by Television, computers, and video games. They have no idea what a real book is, if it is not on a tv, computer or tablet or cell phone screen. Look around you, Americans at Doctor’s Offices, Hospitals, Hair Dressers, stores, movies and more, wherever you go some screen is running, keeping someone’s attention in check. Whatever happened to reading a book, writing a story or poetry,playing outside,playing board games with family members, all of the things that kept families intact for centuries in the world?

      American Society has gone from the we society to the me society in too many ways. It is no longer we the people united can do this, or that, or we fight together, or hurt together  or improve together. It is now the me society, I got mine and you don’t, go “f “yourself and get your own!. The days of helping a neighbors child or them, is gone, Americans look at one another with too much suspicion and anger and worry. Why because we allowed the American Society to get out of control, it needs to be reined in again and given some discipline and moral and ethics rules and character once more. Who will do this I don’t know, but, I do see America’s Great Republic and Society finally beginning to crumble much like the predecessors of Rome, The Incas. and The Aztecs. Will it happen, is it time that America’s reign as the world leader is coming to an end? It needs to be examined closely by the brains and geniuses in the world but as a simple middle class American I see it happening slowly all around me. The only question should be for American’s how do we stop it?

 

America’s Dream, is it Real Anymore?


Is the dream that brought out forefathers here in AMerica still alive today? Or is it really a fading glory and civilization like many others before us?

       America was created on the principles of freedom for religion, freedom for enterprise and freedom for all. Is it still that way in America, well yes to a point and no to another point of it all. America still shows a promise for those who will work and make ends meet and contribute to its ways and style and actions. But for those who can not find jobs, possibilities, and promise in America, you must be persistent and reliable to get anywhere. The other thing that is killing the American Dream is somehow, somewhere along the way we seem to have crested as a society and country and as a Republic. It seems we crested in the 1960s and 1970s, and began the downfall of America from the ranks of great nations at the beginning of the 1980s and have not been able to turn it around yet. Will we,, well I am beginning to think, like the Aztecs, Peruvians, Incas and Romans we peaked after a little over 200 years in existence, funny as that may sound the glory that was America in the old days is now gone, it has faded like a hue off a light cover and become bland and not interesting anymore. The American Indians had their run, the Aztecs and Incas and Peruvians theirs too and one thing history has shown proof of is the rise and fall of nations, governments and people, period. Are we next to fall and disappear into history, as so many other governments and societies before us? I believe the answer is more likely yes, than no. So as we go on in history and time passes American’s need to remember the greater days and return to some of the things that made those days and times so great once more.

Time to Make Decisions is Here!


     Welcome to a world filled with more pain and suffering then ever before, just not all of it is  war!

        Yes across the globe we call Earth and home, people are suffering from wars, but more are suffering from slavery, forced prostitution,homelessness and illness than ever before, in recent history. Sad isn’t it when people as a species creates cures, money and homes, yet people still suffer, or we already know things are not right and we don’t work to right them?

       I love this world and the country I live in America, but then I look across it today and see the same sufferings and pain  world-wide happening here in greater numbers than ever before in my 56-year-old life. People without jobs begging for pennies and breaks, asking to work for food, homeless people sleeping in card board boxes on the streets and the ill and injured not cared for because they can’t afford health care. Sad isn’t it folks, but if you think America is sad in these ways, the rest of the world suffers far worse. They don’t have the good samaritans we do, or the capabilities we do, do they?

         I tire of seeing pain, my mind wanders back in time and i wonder what happened to the America I grew up in. The one where a stock market soared and people made money, and parents had jobs to feed and home and clothe the children they had. What happened to those days?  What went wrong for the countrys economy and it’s job markets and  Congress and Government?  Back in the 1960s when I was a child a neighbor would come out and help a child hurt or in pain, or help find one lost. Now they all ignore the pain and suffering of others and run the other way, why? Is America heartless and uncaring, are we scared of helping one another, is our social networks in person being changed so badly we don’t talk to neighbors anymore? What the hell happened to the America of the 50s, 60s and 70s even?

        Well looking back I can tell you some changes occurred through media markets and on television and radio. Even the foul language barrier of television history has dropped, so vulgarity is now on television for all to see and hear. Americans are we extremest? Do we go from no, no, no, to yes, yes, yes that easy? Why? Standards need resetting in American culture, american entertainment and in  american lives!. Across this country people run from one another due to skin color,race, beliefs and more why? Is this not America the land of the free and home of the brave anymore? Do we not still have freedom of speech, freedom of action and reaction and equality? If not we need all of it to stay a great nation and the best country on the planet.  We can not rest on past laurels or past accomplishments either, we must forge together as a perfect union and country to maintain and survive in the world. A Divided country, divided over race, religion, ethics, morals or status will destroy our country and way of life, we need to be united and on the same path. Anything less will be useless, worthless and ineffective, to us as a country, as a nation and as human beings!

       The time is coming soon and fast, when Americans must make critical choices in which way our country should go next. Elections come by once more in November 2012, and decisions that will affect out culture, our country, our lives and health care and more are due to be made, lets not make the wrong ones folks! Vote to become energy efficient and less oil needy, vote to save the Postal Service, Vote for Extended Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare and Veteran’s Benefits. Vote to have Trade Agreements changed so we export more than we import once more!. Vote to Create jobs in the country we love and put all who want to work back to work. Lets force the politicians in Washington, DC. to work together, or get them out of office for good. Teach them to be bi-partisan or send them home. You can’t have a President and Commander-in-Chief of one party and majority of another party in Congress and not get blockades and stalemates and more. So what ever we do, women and gentlemen, we need to unite a President with a Congress of his own party and get this country off its ass again and moving forward! The time for the right decisions is now, not later!