Live life traveling the river from end to end. A winding river and its tributaries are like life. Each tributary holds a different point of view. Here divisions are sown between the wise traveler and the not so wise. The wise visit each tributary to gain knowledge. The not so wise live their lives in the headwaters of a tributary, never experiencing the river of life to its fullest. Don't get stuck in the headwaters, never to return to the river.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Dispelling false historical narratives portrayed by Democrats in an election cycle.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
To live in peace is a false narritive
The Daily Press editors wrote an opinion on Saturday, Nov. 4th, 2023. This opinion concerns an interpretation of peace. Basically, it is calling for a cease-fire in Gaza for the sake of civilians. We are now seeing the Democrat Party's alliance with Hamas and Palestinians who chant death to Israel and America. These Democrats are calling for a cease-fire, an opportunity to allow vicious killers to run and hide with American hostages in tow. Now is not the time to slump your shoulders and look defeated; now is the time to throw your shoulders back, hold your head high, and fight the demons who attacked Israel. Who will, in time, garner an attack on American soil again.
To live in peace is a false narrative.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
A brief history of Israel, Judea and Palestine. Who is the real enemy?
History will not be told, so here you go. The media will not tell the truth. Our politicians will lie to you.
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution), which would divide Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948, when the British mandate was scheduled to end. In May 1946, Truman announced his approval of a recommendation to admit 100,000 displaced persons into Palestine, and in October, he publicly declared his support for creating a Jewish state. This is the end of World War II, and the spoils go to the victors. Remember, six million Jews were slaughtered by Nazi Germany, and at the time, it was thought that the Jewish community needed its own state, providence, country, or whatever you want to call it. What better place than the Jewish people's traditional homeland since the Iron Age?
Throughout 1947, the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine examined the Palestinian question and recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state as it was during the Iron Age. The Iron Age lasted from roughly 1200 to 500 B.C.E. This was to be a great reset from a historical perspective of who was there first. The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate. The League of Nations, you may recall, was the precursor to the United Nations. This provided a mandate following WWI for the British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, both of which had been conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I in 1918. The Lord knows we don't teach this anymore in our schools.
This territory was put under British administration following the fall of the Ottoman Empire. This was an attempt to keep the peace and local warring factions under control who were feared to turn on each other. This area of the world has been under foreign Empire control since 539 BCE. During the Iron Age, two related Israelite kingdoms, Israel and Judah, controlled much of Palestine, while the Philistines occupied its southern coast. The Assyrians conquered the region in the 8th century B.C.E., then the Babylonians in c. 601 BCE, followed by the Persians who conquered the Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE. We have yet to get to the Roman and Greek Empires! I point out that this region has been under control and in constant occupation for a long time. I point to the Iron Age of control, which was initially Israel and Judah, not Palestinians.
The mandate was assigned to Britain by the San Remo conference in April 1920, after France's concession in the 1918 Clemenceau–Lloyd George Agreement of the previously-agreed "international administration" of Palestine under the Sykes–Picot Agreement. Transjordan was added to the mandate after the Arab Kingdom in Damascus was toppled by the French in the Franco-Syrian War. Civil administration began in Palestine and Transjordan in July 1920 and April 1921, respectively, and the mandate was in force from September 29, 1923, to May 15, 1948, and May 25, 1946, respectively.
If Iran and the Palestinians have an issue, take it to the United Nations, which created the great reset with resolution 181. Revenge, war, terrorism, and sore losers are not the way forward and will only result in more human lives lost. The truth is Iran, who chants for the death of Isreal, also chants for the deaths of Americans. Our true enemy is Iran and its proxy war through terrorist organizations like Hamas, not the Palestinians.
Sunday, August 27, 2023
I'm just a white man. I'm just a black man.
I'm just a white man; I'm just a black man.
By Reed Johnson
On a whim, I wrote down some lyrics I was singing to myself on a cross-state bike ride. When I can only hear the engine roar and the wind in your helmet, I tend to just start singing. That night, while settling into another hotel in Roanoke, VA, I wrote to Oliver Anthony (Chris) a song/poem and posted it to his Facebook page. Now, the following is not direct or exactly what I wrote, and the truth is I did not write it down. I wrote to him my thoughts for a song in a matter of minutes. What I put down on paper here will not be exactly the same, but close. It's the catchline that is the most important. Like "Rich man north of Richmond," mine is as follows. I told him he could have the song if it inspired him; it is free to use.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
Oh, why do you take from me my history and bury it in the ground?
Oh, why can't a man, a black, educated man, find a job oh, where can one be found?
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
Oh, why do you kill in your urban cities for a thrill?
Have you no regard for life?
Oh, why do I live in poverty?
Why do my schools fail me?
Why do leaders turn to apathy and stab my soul with a knife?
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
Oh, black man, Sunday comes along, and where are you?
I sit here in church praying for you?
Oh, white man, Sunday comes along, and where are you?
I sit here in church praying for you.
We are just men living in the rich man's world.
We allow our politicians to live high on the hog.
While we country folk live in a bog
Our lives are but tiny swirls and whirls.
We go round and round, knocking the rural man down.
The urban politicians care nothing for our small town.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
Ross Perot was right.
When he said, they would take in the night.
Our jobs and factories.
Does the rich man know no boundaries?
Unions are no better.
Just dues for the rich few.
A socialist kind of debtor.
Drowning my sorrows in a mug of brew.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
Oliver Anthony is right.
We have to take care of ourselves on the left and the right.
We find our sister and brotherhood in our churches at night.
Together we can have might.
We can rule our lives.
Without greed and apathy.
Without covetness and agony.
Without hate and knives.
Stabbing each other in the back
As we allow the politician man to attack.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
Envy is the world's original sin.
We can no longer let in.
We can no longer allow envy to be used
To separate us, we must be fused.
Together we win; divided, we fall
To the rich politicians who give it their all.
To divide us a black man from a white man.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a black man living in a white man's world.
I'm just a white man living in a black man's world.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
America's core values and creeds are under cancel culture attack
If you ever get to read Joseph Filco, a regular commentary writer with the Williamsburg Gazette. In that case, I challenge you to find his sensible opinion based on years of human experience and education worthy of a chance to read. Joseph's recent opinion was entitled "Culture change takes time" Williamsburg Gazette 8-5-2023. When I read Josph's commentary, I thought about "Environmental change takes time." A subject near and dear to my heart. Using Joseph's advice and analogies for the same progress would be easy. Today, I am exploring why the American divide to progress. Following is my discourse and letter to Joseph for his consideration.
"America's core values and creeds are under cancel culture attack."
If I may call you Joseph, I read your opinion today and couldn't agree more. A fine piece of critical thinking and explanation, at least from one point of view, and that is your own. I expect you will be attacked in the coming weeks, but then, like the Rhinouras, your skin is four inches deep. Welcome to the herd. Ad Hominem would be a good topic for consideration. To write about (an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they maintain. For many today, like our politicians, and the media, personal attacks seem the norm. So would it be any wonder this behavior trickles down to the average citizen hiding behind a social media post?
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Virginia Governor Youngkin, Protecting America.
Dated 7-9-2023: The Daily Press editors go on the offensive against our Virginia governor. The editors seem to have an issue with border security between Mexico and our Nation. The attacks stem from Youngkin's assistance in sending 100 national guardsmen to Texas to assist in securing our border. My discourse follows as to why we need to help and in the same tone as the editors reminding all Americans of our distrust in the current federal administration and its puppets.
As if right on queue, the Daily Press editors attack the Virginia Republican Governor again with hate for American security and conservatives throughout our Nation. In another attack dated 7-9-2023, the opinion page cast a remarkably weak stance on border security. Our Border security should be the responsibility of the Federal Government. A federal government that is led by a senile puppet president Joe Biden. A president so vile he and the first lady do not even acknowledge a grandchild. I have often said, do not judge me by me; judge me by how I raised my children. In essence, how you raise your children reflects your moral values and ethics. The old saying goes, a bad apple does not fall far from the tree. This senile puppet leader, and let's be clear, this leader has no clue who we are fighting in Ukraine, as he called Russia - Iraq in a statement earlier this month. A president who continues to show us how confused he is, "God save the Queen," and has to be led around on a leash to not get lost.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
"The Follower" chapter three. "You first"
Virginia's All In: School funding questions asked and go unanswered.
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