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Forty years ago I might have been planning another trip to the West about now.
Nobody is going to mistake cut-rate biopic “Reagan” for a great movie. At best, it’s a pretty standard greatest-hits collection of important moments in the former President’s life. At worst, it’s a laughably underfunded production made by people who, for whatever reason, want to sell America on Ronald Reagan in 2024. But the movie is not always at its worst. It’s a subpar movie that I think some critics are mistaking for a terrible movie.
Hi everyone! So glad to be back for more rambling. For the last three weeks we have been adding spark plugs to the defeated nation of Germany after World War One. We have been comparing defeated Germany to a blown engine that is being overhauled by Hitler with his eight part plan that he began immediately after he came to power in 1933. Each spark plug being installed gets his war machine firing up with more and more power. The last three weeks we have already installed three of Hitler’s spark plugs of evil to fundamentally change his country. They have been: Indoctrination of children. Number two plug: take guns away from its citizens, and last week’s number three was to control the narrative of the news media. Rambling friends this week’s number four plug is: establish a hate group. Hitler’s hate group was the Jews. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for his country to blame any problem on. Before the war was over the Hitler regime murdered six million Jews. I have studied and researched for many years the results of Hitler’s poor decision. Let me name just a few examples. Did you know that German physicists in the 1930’s were working on how to make nuclear bombs? One of the greatest scientists at the time was a Jewish woman named Lise Meitner; she discovered the radioactive element protactinium and was the author of the phrase nuclear fission. Lise was Jewish so she had to flee Germany because Hitler wanted her killed. There were many other nuclear scientists who were Jews who eventually escaped to America to work on the Manhattan project which eventually produced the atomic bombs that ended the war when dropped on Japan. Three of the most famous Jewish physicists were Einstein, Szilard and Fermi. These brilliant scientists and others could have developed the atomic bomb for Hitler but his hatred for them simply overwhelmed his evil mind of Satan. In addition to nuclear scientists the best of the best business men, engineers, inventors and skilled workforce were killed. In my opinion Hitler could have ruled the world if he had used his Jewish scientist and be the first to develop the atomic bomb before starting world war two. However: what Hitler meant for evil God almighty in his wisdom was using Hitler to pave the road for Israel to become a nation in 1948. Folks, Israel becoming a nation is in Bible prophecy and just one more reason why the Bible is so dangerous to dictators and tyrants. Now let’s get back to establishing a hate group. Hitler’s first concentration camp (death facility) was Dachau. Tens of thousands of Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, preachers, and anyone else who did not accept Hitler’s ideology were sent there to die. Hitler’s Germany became a nation of snitches and anyone with any information could rise in Hitler’s Germany by turning in a family member or neighbor. Now folks do you think this is happening in our modern world today? Oh my yes! Let’s take China for example. Everyone has a Social Credit Score. Everyone is tracked and listened to and where you go and who you are friends with determines your social score for better jobs and opportunities. A low social score will deny you and your family from school, housing, food and much more. One crime that will get you rounded up and never seen again is having a Bible.The Bible is considered a dangerous book in China and will get you killed. Several years ago I survived a grain bin explosion and my back was broken in 7 places. I truly thought I was going to die. Long story short I woke up in the hospital and for days a long haired hippie type of male nurse took my blood at three o’clock each morning. After 4 days of misery I finally asked him why he was so rough looking? His answer was shocking. He said he had just returned from China disguised as an English teacher. However I was really a smuggler of Bibles to known believers.The government of China is trying to stamp out Christians. Missionaries such as my male nurse who risked their lives are helping to spread the gospel. Looking awful and looking like a hippie made
Hi everyone! We are back again in the saddle of history of how nations go through fundamental changes in the matter of a few short years. Before we get into this week’s rambling I just want to express my sincere gratitude for all the people who mention their support of the weekly rambling. Please do not forget our wonderful paper and editor that permits free speech to be printed! We are very blessed in our community. I truly hope and pray we do not take these privileges for granted and take a moment to send our editor an email for her to continue to work hard each week to give us a paper. O K friends and neighbors let’s get started! You know I love a series of articles. This third week of this rambling series is how to change a nation. Our example and segway used was adding another spark plug to a high performance engine. The more plugs installed and firing the smoother and more powerful it becomes. Just in case you missed the last two weeks we have already covered the Indoctrination of children and gun control by politicians. Please go back and review the previous two if you missed them. Without further ado let's begin. Number three spark plug is to control the narrative of the news media. Oh wow! This plug will touch everyone because in our climate of instant news we are all (myself included ) are indoctrinated daily. I am simply using the eight steps Hitler used to change his Germany; controlling the news media is simply one of them. Alright now enough background. Hitler came to power on January 30, of 1933. However: he had already laid his groundwork down before getting full power. One of his first steps was to appoint a director of propaganda. He appointed Joseph Goebbels to begin the control of film, radio, theater, arts and the press. He shut down all free newspapers and other forms of communication which did not comply with Hitler’s Ideology. Friends, do we have such acts going on in our nation today? Has our federal government ever been guilty of censoring what news we hear through different means? Oh my! Yes! Yes! Yes! This subject I could write many weeks on this one alone. Let’s just name a few examples. The border crisis. Did you know there are three different ways but only one is usually mentioned. One is by tens of thousands being airlifted. Two a sanctioned suggested area and three all of the rest of border crossings along the southern part of the United States. They are being given apps, free phones, debit cards with money, and many free benefits to go where they choose. Let's take Hollywood, have you noticed our movies and tv promote the new woke agenda. I heard a high up politician a few days ago, ‘everyone needs to be woke and more woke’. Now let’s bring up a controversial subject matter of our recent covid crisis. Personally, I had covid twice.There was a lot of misinformation from our government during that time period. Mainly how they prevented freedom of speech on both sides to help people choose what they felt was best for them. I personally knew of doctors who were threatened with their jobs and even doctors in the military who lost their jobs because they did now go along with the propaganda from our government. Our doctor told us when it came out if your family has a history of blood clots not to take the jab. I personally know one family of 8 kids. Three took the jab and the other 5 five did not. One died from a massive heart attack a few weeks later and another one had a massive heart attack who survived and the third one with no known side effects to date. Now rambling readers you would think there would be journalists that would show on our public tv stations these problems and side effects from the jab. No! Too much money is involved from stations and other media outlets to have any negative advertising. Certain companies poured millions of dollars into the stations and in order to receive the money —--no negative publicity. Now folks, please do not take me wrong. I am all for anyone and everyone taking the jabs. My problem is how we were censored from hearing both sides. There
Newspaper reporters don’t typically get much respect as writers.
Hi friends and neighbors of Marshfield Mail Land and beyond. Another tragic stain is on America’s political world. A former president was wounded in an assassination attempt. This makes the fourth time in my life in which a president or candidate has been shot. Wow! What turns human beings into committing such acts of evil? Also: it always amazes me when a horrible shooting happens that the next day the solution is for more gun control. Well folks I have carefully checked into this theory. Cities such as New York, Baltimore, Chicago, St Louis, Houston, Los Angeles and other big cities with the strictest gun control have the worst gun violence. Let’s go back in time to the fifties and sixties. Pickup trucks commonly had gun racks in which good old country boys had access to their weapons at all times. Also: when kids got in trouble in school another whippin when they got home. The ten commandments were on the walls at schools and many teachers had other Bible references in the classroom. ( I had teachers that did.) Thou Shalt Not Kill! Thou Shalt Not Steal! Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Mother! We were also reminded of the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you! My oh my!!! What terrible ideas for the schools to teach and promote today!!! We have two states ( Louisiania and Oklahoma) that have the audacity of requiring their public schools to begin posting the ten commandments and teaching references to the Bible. Why in this climate of everything being racist and bigoted today we can’t let morals be taught to our children! O K friends of the Marshfield Mail Land I am being facetious!! Did you know that these states are already facing legal challenges to prevent posting of the ten commandments? Now rambling readers: let’s give our state of Missouri a pat on the back. Our conservation department promotes fathers and grandfathers to take their six year old and older children to the woods and give them a high powered deer rifle to teach them gun safety and good hunting morals. The program has been tremendously successful with a stellar safety record for the children. Our hunting kids are growing up respecting firearms and they know what a gun is to be used for. Friends: my gun safety lesson back in 1959 was when my dad told me it was time for me to learn about firearms. He said, son it's time you learned where your food comes from. He handed me the gun and I shot the family cow and we butchered it. I will never forget it. I will admit I did cry but the lesson was well taught. In addition: he instructed me how to handle all firearms and always check and recheck a gun and never point it at anyone! Now let’s go to our inner cities controlled by politicians that do not want to promote; morals, principles or gun safety classes to be implemented. They encourage the breakup of families by government welfare programs that take fathers out of homes. No wonder young boys join the gangs to have a family and the gang leader is sometimes their father figure. The decline of America began big time in 1981 when the ten commandments were deemed illegal in all schools. Now this message is for parents and grandparents. How and why can kids be influenced to be turned into killers? I think I have at least one suggestion of why. The date was 1983 and I talked to an Army Beret at a recruiter station at the Missouri state fair. I asked him how does the army turn innocent young men into soldiers to go out and kill? He answered immediately, video games. (I was such a stick in the mud I did not know what a video game was) Let’s fast forward thirty three years. The date is now 2013 and one of my grandsons is pecking on a keyboard and watching a screen. I asked him what he was doing. He replied, “playing video games grandpa”. I said to myself, this is my chance. I watched and what I saw was terrible. A robber comes into a liquor store demanding money. The clerk gets shot and blood is seen gushing out of his head. Soon a police chase takes place and the robber ends up also shooting the policeman in a gun fight and he speeds
I have often written of my third great-grandfather, Capt. Peter Daly, an Irish-born soldier in the British army during the American Revolution who settled in Canada after the war. I’ve known Captain Daly’s story since childhood, as it was told me in letters from elderly aunts in Ontario, and long been proud of his loyalty to his homeland.
By the time you read this, another Father's Day will have come and gone, and I have no idea how I spent the holiday, because I’m writing this in late May.
Hi friends and neighbors of the Marshfield Mail community. We certainly are so very blessed to have plenty of rain this year. After three years of drought I hope I never complain about mud again. O K everyone are we all ready to continue on with our story about how our Native Americans were treated when they were being rounded up for the forced march known as the Trail of Tears? Before we pick up where we left off last week, let me remind everyone about the last eight weeks. During the administrations of President Jackson and Van Buren they both had a joint goal to rid America of the five civilized tribes of Native Americans. Through years of haggling, bogus peace treaties and local hatred from greedy plantation owners and other white settlers our Indian friends stood little chance against the thousands of federal and state troops searching for their capture. Our weekly focus has been on the Cherokees however the other tribes went through similar experiences of torture and brutality. Now let’s bring everyone up to the watering trough of knowledge and remind everyone where we left off last week. General Winfield Scott commissioned Captain Folers with hundreds of federal troops to take over the Valley Flatt Plantation. The soldiers used the Valley Flat as their base of operations to ride up into nearby Cherokee land and bring Indian captives back to keep them incarcerated until the time was ready to begin their forced march to Oklahoma. The Mr Igley Moley of the Valley Flatt wants the rich farmland and slaves of the Cherokees and the army wants to capture the Indians. Idimer Hader is the Valley Flatt’s head henchman and has used a former captured slave of the Cherokees to lead the soldiers to the Cherokees hiding place inside Buzzard Beak Cave. Last week we left off with the soldiers and Idimer surrounding the cave and setting fires inside and outside to smoke the Indians and slaves out for capture. O K my faithful readers one more step. Mount up your favorite history horse to take us back into the past for this week’s sad story. All mounted? Let’s ride! Close your eyes count to three and —------ we made it! We are now in stealth mode invisible to everyone around us below. Let’s listen and watch–oh, over there by the cave entrance, fire is raging while the Indians and slaves are trapped inside. Idimer Hader, “O K men, them Injuns and slaves will be coming out like rats before you know it.(suddenly a 6 year old Indian child comes running out screaming and crying) Idimer Hader, “let me get him. (Idimer spurs his old mule and ropes the kid and dragging him around while he is screaming and hollering in pain. He stops and from a distance begins talking in Cherokee) We have one of your Di-Ni-Yo-TLI. (means children in Cherokee) Come out or else!” Instantly the child’s father comes running out with a rifle and a barrage of gunfire from the awaiting soldiers opens up and he is killed instantly.) O K rambling readers let’s listen inside the cave to what is going on with our trapped Indians and slaves. Chief Rain Frog, Tender Leaf the school teacher, Ezekiel the slave that used to be with the Cherokees until Idimer captured him and others are frantically running around dipping up water to put out the internal fires. Chief Rain Frog, “Everyone come together we must council! We finally got the fires out. Tall Tree has already been shot and killed by the white men trying to rescue his son.” Swift Horse—raising up his spear, “I say we all go out together and charge the white men and destroy them now!” Tender Leaf, “No! Please listen to me. The White Soldiers have many guns waiting for us. We must think of the future of our children and people. We must have faith that we can endure this present trial and persevere for the future of our people. I say we surrender. Otherwise we all perish.” Little Fox, “I will never surrender to them. I would rather die than surrender and be the white man's slave. What do you think Ezekiel? You’ve been the white man's slave for the last three years and our’s since birth.” Ezekiel, “ My family and people here have no choice. We either will die here today or we
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