Author: therealtruckmaster

I am the Real Truckmaster: 1. I am a born-again Christian (a sinner saved by the grace of God). 2 I am a retired US Army Transportation Sergeant First Class (E-7), my last position of assignment was as the "Truckmaster" of the US Army Transportation Motor Pool in Yokohama Japan (1989-90). 3. I am an amateur military historian. 4. I am a Thailand Veteran of the Vietnam War. 5. I detest "Politics as Usual". 6. I'm pro-life (Abortion is murder) and there is no justification or excuse for it. 7. I believe that we must place the security and welfare of America First! Clarification of Real Truckmaster Blogs For those who follow my blog posts on RTM blogs let me clarify and clear up some confusion. I write highlighting the inconsistencies and hypocrisy of the far-left's war on anything Trump. There are too many willing to argue without merit and I would be remiss attempting to argue against their ignorance, they have way too much experience. My writings are my personal opinion intended to be educational in nature, a bit humorous, satirical, while being informative providing food for thought, which is sorely lacking today. For those who find my posts offensive, I am truly sorry, you have the right NOT to read them as have many before you. I will not attempt to change your mind politically, but provide the opportunity to show something you may wish to consider, thereby illuminating prejudice and misinformation! - I am the Real Truckmaster!

The Art of Miscommunication

9-4-2020

The Art of Miscommunication

The bible tells us that the heart of man is sinful. Over the course of time we have seen deceit, misrepresentation and miscommunication in many of its forms. There have been greed, jealousy and lust resulting in murder, with jealousy being a powerful motivator.

Sending our children off to public and private school we encourage them to take advantage of the educational process and in many cases they have an opportunity to engage in debate classes that teach, reinforce and strengthen their reasoning ability as they take a particular argument to a logical conclusion.

We have sent our men and women to college and universities to study the customs, traditions and law of the land as stated in the Constitution of the United States. Upon graduation they carry a certificate declaring them attorneys and after passing a state bar exam we refer to them as lawyers, licensed to practice law in their particular state. A necessary and often unseen byproduct of obtaining a law degree is becoming proficient in the usage of the art of miscommunication.

As is often the nature of representing clients and debating in open court a number of legal scholars become local public defenders or state prosecutors. The goal is to insure an adequate defense and to bring about justice under our nation’s legal system.

There has been an undercurrent of radicals in our society which take lying to extreme levels with ideologies that threaten the very nature of our existence as a self-governing nation. In our God-fearing society we call that it evil.

I have a habit of referring to gangster behavior as “Chicago Politics” because of Al Capone and other notorious gangster types of yesteryear. What I’m finding out is that is closer to the truth than even I imagined.

Much of what we see happening today began at a time in the 1960’s when I was overseas in the military and missed out on the “fun” of growing up “rebel”. This was a time when Hillary Rodham was an undergrad student at Wellesley in 1969 and idolized a self-proclaimed radical named Saul Alinsky who referred to himself as an anti-anti-communist. In fact he called himself a “community organizer” and began his organizing in Chicago and California until his death in 1972.

Hillary Rodham wrote her senior thesis, “There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model” singling out Alinsky’s most important contribution to the radical cause, his embrace of political nihilism (a total rejection of politically established laws and institutions). She was offered a job at Alinsky’s new training institute in Chicago, but opted to go to Yale Law School where she met her husband and future president, Bill Clinton. In 2007 the Washington Post reported that as first lady she kept her connections and gave Alinsky’s army support by endorsing the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) the Alinsky group that offered her a job in 1968.

By the time of the 2008 presidential election, then Senator Barack Obama eclipsed then Senator Hillary Clinton to win the election with a campaign “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Over the next 8 years Obama began implementing the teachings of Alinsky into government with the hidden agenda of overwhelming the system and resources to cause the collapse of our economy by system overload.

They say hindsight is 2020 and it’s easy to see how Hillary had positioned herself to become the radical change Alinsky sought to bring about, however she did not have the experience of community organizing, in spite of her book “It takes a Village”. Change was coming, just not how she expected.

Alinsky’s goal had been to mobilize the poor and oppressed as a battering ram to bring down the system and although he was dead, this goal was about to be realized by one of his avid disciples an extraordinary community organizer and teacher of Alinsky principles who worked his way up in the Alinsky organization named Barack Obama. From school reform to hazardous waste cleanup Obama’s solution to every problem on South Side Chicago could be solved by the redistribution of government funds.

The world saw the possibilities Barack Obama could become even awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize, while he silently moved forward with resolve to consolidate power taking it from the Haves and giving it to the Have-nots while bringing fundamental change to our way of life.

According to Alinsky, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. Organizing a power base without naming the end game would enable Alinsky radicals to destroy the existing society and its economic system. Refusing to commit to principles or identify goals allows the building of a coalition of various elements on the left while the means justify the ends.

In Hillary’s thesis democracy as understood by the American founders is not “the most radical of all political faiths” or, if it is, they regarded it as dangerous enough to put checks and balances in its way to restrain it.

The real art of miscommunication is saying anything, being anyone, doing anything necessary to build a power base, to accumulate power and bring down society and its economic system. An Alinsky radical is not a reformer of the system but is would-be destroyer. The radical is building his own kingdom, which is his kingdom of heaven on earth. Radicals don’t compare America to other societies, but to a kingdom of social justice and freedom where America is seen as hell. There is no goodness that trumps the dream of a heaven on earth. Because America is a real society, managed by real people it will never be equal, liberal or democratic enough for their unhappiness here. Alinsky liberals call themselves at different times Communists, socialists, new leftists, liberals, social justice activists and most consistently progressives.

Radical hubris: “We can create a new world. Through our political power we can make a new race of men and women who will live in harmony and peace and according to the principles of social justice. We can be as gods.”

Don’t forget the first kingdom radicals “won” according to Alinsky – was hell. From Lucifer – the father of lies we get the Art of Miscommunication – on steroids! – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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Americans Being Played Like a Fiddle

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9-3-2020

 

Americans Being Played Like a Fiddle

 

Do you keep asking yourself what in the world is going on with all the mayhem playing out in the media, online and livestreaming chaos, rioting, looting and assaults on law enforcement? Well I have been asking those same questions and today while searching for articles on Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals I stumbled across one that literally shed light on the events of today even though this article was published in 2009. The article is Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution, The Alinsky Model and was written by David Horowitz.

 

I thought it was common knowledge that a Wellesley undergraduate named Hillary Rodham an avid admirer of Saul Alinsky wrote her 92-page senior thesis on Alinsky’s theories in 1969 after personally interviewing him for this project. She compared Alinsky to some well-known names in radical circles, Eugene Debs, Walt Whitman and Martin Luther King and entitled her thesis “There Is Only The Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” Cesar Chavez was trained for 10 years by Alinsky and went on to become the leader of the United Farmworkers Union.

 

It’s interesting to note that Saul Alinsky was born in Chicago 1909 and died in California in 1972. He considered himself a ‘rebel” yet his profession was that of a “community organizer”. He devoted his life organizing a revolution in America to destroy the system. In the 1930s he became socially intimate of the Al Capone mob and was taken under the wing of mobster Frank Nitti. Alinsky’s strategy was one of deception to promote social change. Alinsky’s focus was on changing the system of private property and individual rights.

 

America was taken by surprise by Barack Obama a community organizer in Chicago and a very astute disciple of Saul Alinsky who ran on a campaign of fundamentally transforming the United States of America. Obama summarized his campaign, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Upon taking office Obama began by appointing known a communist (Van Jones) into top White House posts. In eight years Obama has used economic crisis to take over whole industries and attempted to nationalize the health care system. Obama used a single Alinsky principle that of taking power from the Haves and giving it to the Have-nots to conduct a destructive assault on the established order to accumulate power.

 

An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” It is the accumulation of power to make the revolution. According to Alinsky the community organizer has a sole purpose to organize for power. He lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only for one thing, to build a mass power base he calls his army. He never names the end game but simply builds a power base to destroy the existing society and its economic system. He can organize a coalition of elements on the left to use any means to obtain the end. Policies are not important in themselves; they are instrumental – means to expanding the political base.

 

Not to be forgotten is Hillary who married Bill Clinton and later became first lady where she continued giving her support to Alinsky’s army. She lent her name to projects, endorsed Alinsky’s Industrial Areas foundation (IAF), raised money and organized events.

 

Obama at age 23 became an adept practitioner of Alinsky’s methods. In 1986 Obama was hired by the Alinsky team to organize residents on the South Side of Chicago, “while learning and applying Alinsky’s philosophy of street-level democracy.” The proposed solution to every problem in the South Side was a distribution of government funds. Obama went on to teach workshops on the Alinsky method until he went into politics in 1996. Remember Acorn – the voter registration drive? Obama later became Acorn’s attorney participating in a case to force Illinois to implement the federal Motor Voter Law.

 

Saul Alinsky had praised Lucifer as the first rebel who effectively rebelled against the establishment and won his own kingdom and compared America to heaven on earth – the kingdom of social justice and freedom. And compared to this heaven even America is hell. Alinsky was willing to destroy the values, structures and institutions that sustain the society in which we live.

 

Radicals camouflage their agendas by calling themselves at different times Communists, socialists, new leftists, liberals, social justice activists and most consistently progressives. The “Progressive Party” was created by the Communist Party and led by then Vice President Henry Wallace and was the chosen vehicle to lead followers out of the Democratic Party. Progressives rejoined the Democrats in 1972 with the formation of a hundred-plus member Progressive Caucus and the ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency became its most important political force.

 

Conservatives are conservative and radicals are dangerous because conservatives pay attention to the consequences of actions, including their own and radicals don’t.

 

This was a very interesting article that pretty much takes us through the 8 year presidency of Barack Obama and set up the attempted take down of the presidency of Donald Trump beginning in earnest in 2016 and continues today. Simply put the radicals we see in action today do not play by any rules but are determined to destroy society as we know it. They say what they want (true or untrue) in order to sway and weaponized followers to do their dirty work.

 

America did not see this coming but God did and is not surprised by the chaos happening on the streets of our nation. The pandemic is simply one more method to create fear and overcome resistance to the goal of the radical left – the overthrow of the United States government. Cries for defunding the police, abolishing the police and all other kinds of radical ideas do not matter. It is the ultimate and total collapse of our society as we know it. But rest assured it won’t end there, because enough is never enough. When Charlie Daniels recorded “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” he could have been talking about today in America.

 

People scoff when I write that Donald Trump is the instrument chosen by God for such a time as this to stop evil and become a sword to the spirit of political correctness facing America today. They think that we’ll just pick up our arms and go to war because that’s what Americans have always done. I say not so quick “little buckaroo”.

 

2020 is the last roundup, the OK corral if you will. It is time to call evil what it is evil. The upcoming presidential election is only 60 days away. One side wants you to think they are winning, the other side knows what’s really happening politically. Your life matters. Your vote matters. Your faith in God matters. When you have one side playing by their own rules and nothing matters except winning, it is time to use our most dangerous weapon imaginable – the Power of Prayer. We must humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways and ask God to heal our land, lest we perish. Our hope is not on man, government or any earthly being. Our hope is on Jesus Christ alone. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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The Saga of Salongate

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9-3-2020

 

The Saga of Salongate

 

Did you hear the one about the democrat who goes into a salon in San Francisco? Oh wait that was yesterday’s news wasn’t it? Well as Paul Harvey would say “here’s the rest of the story”. Actually here is more to the developing story as Speaker Pelosi attempts to divert the blame for her actions to the small business owner of a San Francisco beauty salon.

 

Yesterday we heard that madam speaker just had to get her hair washed and blow dried. Her assistant called a local stylist to make an appointment. At the appointed time Pelosi entered the salon and the stylist, who happens to be an independent contractor (licensed stylist renting booth space at the salon), performed the necessary services. Unbeknownst to Pelosi the salon had security camera footage of her walking about the salon without the required face covering.

 

The salon owner leaked the footage to the media and called Pelosi’s trip to the salon a slap in the face of salon owners and stylist in San Francisco who have been closed for several months due to restrictions and at best were allowed 1 customer at a time in salons with multiple stylists.

 

An indignant Pelosi became angry accusing the salon owner of setting her up, when in fact it would seem that the speaker was victim of a self-inflicted setup. Small business owners throughout the city have had to close businesses due to unreasonable COVID-19 restrictions. Many closures are for good as attested by the boarded up businesses near this particular San Francisco salon.

 

In something straight out of a “Payton Place” movie once Pelosi’s nephew (California Governor Newsome) found out about this incident he issued a modified order allowing salons to reopen at 25% capacity. Problem solved right – wrong.

 

I am not into the hair business (I’ve lost most of mine many years ago) however unless I’m sorely mistaken each state has a licensing board for salons and barbers. Each person must undergo massive amounts of training then take a series of exams to qualify for a license to practice hair stuff? Prior to COVID-19 some stylists could be licensed for mobile work, allowing them to go into homes to service home-bound customers. Brick and mortar Salons must also be licensed according to state board requirements. Many salons rent booth space to qualified stylists who are not employees but independent contractors that work on their own schedule and bring in their own clientele. These booth renters pay a set amount whether they work only one day or seven days per week.

 

Now it seems that the stylist who worked on Pelosi’s hair sought the advice of an attorney in order to issue a formal statement in his behalf that stated the salon owner made the stylists work to pay their booth rent even though the salon should not have been open due to COVID-19 restrictions. The statement made by his attorney was leaked to the press by a Pelosi family member in an attempt to shift the blame away from Speaker Pelosi.

 

The stylist’s statement indicated wrongdoing by the salon owner as he just wants to get back to his regular routine of doing hair stuff. He forgot one important thing in seeking that legal counsel, that as a booth renter he is now entitled to pack the tools of his trade and search for a new location to ply his trade, as he may no longer be welcome in the salon where he worked. This commotion shines a giant spotlight on salons in the San Francisco bay area and across the state of California and certainly there will be repercussions for small businesses that are forced to close leaving families to find other means to earn a living and survive.

 

American’s are hurting during this pandemic and Speaker Pelosi is one person who has chosen to stand in the way of opening up America and getting hard working Americans back to a normal life. Madam Speaker has one single goal and that of hurting President Trump’s chances of re-election. Her actions are in fact uniting Republicans and Democrats behind President Trump and will insure his bid in a landslide election. Thank you Madam Speaker – you are one of the reasons that Trump will win in 60 days. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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Pelosi Apology Owed

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9-2-2020

 

Pelosi Apology Owed

 

Have you heard the one about the democrat who walks into a San Francisco hair salon? This is the kind of story that could only happen in a Hollywood movie right? Wrong, it happened just this week as businesses have been closed down due to COVID-19.

 

An assistant for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi contacted a hairdresser who booth rents at a hair salon in San Francisco and made an afternoon appointment for the classic shampoo and blow dry. It was odd as almost all the nearby businesses had been boarded up due to heavy COVID-19 restrictions.

 

It’s unclear how this particular independent contractor had been contacted, yet the Pelosi assistant said they complied with all the rules as laid out by the establishment. That being the case why was madam speaker prancing around without wearing the required mask? Why was she even there in the first place?

 

The salon owner said her coming to the salon that had been closed for several months was a slap in the face to stylists throughout the city and nationwide as they continue to be shut down BECAUSE Speaker Pelosi refuses to negotiate with House Republicans to allow the nation to open up the economy.

 

So now Speaker Pelosi is demanding an apology from the salon owner for leaking her pictures to the press. Now where did I hear about leaking before? Oh yes I remember, it was continually during the past 4 years as leaking Trump stuff was considered fair game by House and Senate Democrats.

 

I’m surprised that the stylist didn’t unload on the speaker for not exercising her power in the House to broker a compromise with House Republicans and get the second stimulus check bill over to the President for his signature and money into the hands of the people who truly need a hand to pay bills, buy food and just to survive?

 

Now that the shoe is truly on the other foot, it is my personal opinion that an apology is owed to Americans from Speaker Pelosi and every politician at national, state and city level for putting our citizens and legal residents through the COVID-19 nightmare of the past 3+ months. Their failure to recognize what they have done to the average American families will set themselves up for chasing their registered voters over to the Trump camp, and many House and Senate congressional members will pay dearly in 60+ short days.

 

I have a feeling this will not pass anytime soon so Madam Speaker it seems that “what is good for the goose is also good for the ganderess”, would you like Ketchup to go with that egg-mask massage? – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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No Dog in the Fight

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9-2-2020

 

No Dog in the Fight

 

We used to have an expression for people having nothing personally connected to an item, a job, or a particular cause or movement. We called it several things, no skin in the game, not invested, or no dog in the fight.

 

When we are born we literally have the skin on our bodies in the game of life. Death strips away our ability to contribute to the overall welfare of mankind so we must do our part until death overtakes us. Doing our part is called being responsible for our actions, setting an example others can follow and holding ourselves and others accountable. There is only one person who will answer for what you do, day or how you act and that person is YOU.

 

Do you know why dogs run in packs? Because it’s easier to follow the leader and dogs don’t make individual choices as to where to go, what or why they do things. Dogs can be man’s best friend or fierce enemy. Once they smell and taste the blood of their prey nothing else matters.

 

So why do people run in packs? Are they just mindless globs of jelly? Do they not see the folly in their efforts? Can they not realize the futileness of their misguided efforts? The answer may be simpler than you might think. Power drives the pack or mob. Power over another person can be intoxicating. Fear is a drug all by itself. Fear renders people helpless. Peer pressure controls what individuals feel, think or do as nothing can go against the pack or its leader.

 

Add politics into the mix and it can become super deadly fast. Now it becomes a matter of financing to maintain control over the mob. Someone must set the agenda, provide necessary resources and have the right political connections so that channeled resources continue forward as planned. The one financing and planning organized political and civil unrest don’t even have to get involved or dirty their hands so long as the money continues to grease the wheels. They can launder their finances through various channels in order to give themselves plausible deniability. Floating rumors and conspiracy theories can often throw investigators off the scent of the real power brokers and make people look foolish in the eyes of the public until someone slips up and lets the cat out of the bag.

 

The foolish thing about criminals is they think they are smarter than anyone else, including the police. They often feel they are “higher” than everyone else. They often tend to flaunt their skills and fling their bling at the wrong time, place or at the wrong people and sooner or later they when they get caught they will almost always blame someone else or their environmental upbringing as the reason they do what they do and the reason they got caught.

 

*NOTE = No animals have been hurt, dogs were not fighting and cats were not contained in any kind of bags in the telling of this story. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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Getting Caught Up In the Politic of Politics

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9-1-2020

 

Getting Caught Up In the Politic of Politics

 

Many of you have been reading my Real Truckmaster blogs and know my political preferences. It is nothing new to voice my opinion and call it like I see it. I haven’t always been politically active, but have a deep sense of patriotism when it comes to honoring the flag and the constitution.

 

Politics as we see it today hasn’t always been that way. Democrats haven’t acted the way they do now. Republicans haven’t done things the way they do now either. In fact we have more diverse views of politics being expressed by factions inside congress that are a reflection of the divisiveness in our society.

 

There have been times in our nation’s history where America reluctantly took up arms to combat and defeat fascism, Marxism and Communism rising up to threaten various parts of the world abroad. We call them World Wars where one side is determined to take by force and rule over a tribe, ethnicity, country or an entire continent, with the goal of worldwide domination.

 

In our country very few remember Senator McCarthy of years gone by who read on the floor of Congress the names of suspected card carrying Communists members in Congress. It created a huge scandal and it was thought that under every rock was a Communist. Fast forward in today’s world people proudly proclaim themselves to be fascists, Marxists and Communists and tout those ideologies as something to be sought after in America. Our long term Cold War with the former soviets and today’s technological war with the Chinese seem so non-threatening until the emergence of the China Virus which affects us even now.

 

I’m from Idaho, also part of the Pacific Northwest where we have active groups rising up in the Pacific Northwest in places like Portland and Seattle spreading across the nation like wildfires left unchecked. I saw a FB mem recently that said “only you can prevent Communism”.

 

So what does our future hold, we’ll just have to wait and see? I know the hardheadedness of people who want to do their own thing and be left alone, it’s in their DNA much like our pioneer ancestry and we’re fiercely patriotic which my family calls bringing out the Wilson.

 

I may be just getting old but I have no tolerance for stupid. When I see disrespectful people I just want to lay hands on them and straighten them out. Some might call me old school or maybe it’s my military training but I really don’t have time for nonsense. We used to have our own board of education, which naturally grew on grandma’s willow tree out back. She’d even let you (make you) go pick your own switch.

 

America is at a political crossroad. The choice could be no clearer than a candidate who blames America for being America or the one who looks forward to the greatness of an American future. We can no longer blame others for what we allow ourselves to settle for in politics. We must look past ourselves to envision what we can achieve individually and as a nation. Do we shoot for the moon, the stars and beyond or settle for just shooting the bull? – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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What BLM Activation Really Does

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8-31-2020

 

What BLM Activation Really Does

 

We see daily on television and social media the plastering of Black Lives Matter like wallpaper saturating everything it touches, including people. Recently while celebrating with family and friends I had an opportunity to see the blatant fakeness of the importance of sports.

 

At first I thought my eyes had deceived me, but upon closer examination I realized that two baseball teams were competing in a playoff game where it really didn’t matter. The stadium was filled with cutouts of real people filling the stadium. This was something I’d expect at a Biden basement political rally to convince people that the stadium was packed with energetic supporters.

 

As I the station switched to a major basketball game with playbacks of previous games with all the distinct team jerseys of different colored it was all erased when the scene focused back on the game being played with basically everyone wearing black lives matter shirts. Even had Black Lives Matter painted beside the playing field and I wondered what happened.

 

I have no problem with black lives matter because all lives matter to God who created every single one, including those in the womb. The real problem isn’t with black lives not mattering it’s that when no life is treated with value it ceases to matter.

 

We have grown accustomed to living our instant shake-n-bake lives where we want what we want and we want it now – instant gratification.

 

I can even understand someone wanting to get their point across that Black Lives Matter. The message is simple, yet the method of delivery and the manner in which it is taken to extremes in its delivery is counterproductive. Plainly it is bully tactics to the extreme. Probably the same bullying tactics used in urban housing areas to keep folks in line by making them stay in line “I ain’t no snitch”.

 

It then becomes a game where everyone is not only expected to play, but required to participate. Everyone knows that lives matter, but now they are being pressured and forced to think and say that only black lives matter. One of the founders of BLM in one of American city went so far as to say that before any life matters, black lives have to matter FIRST!

 

How stupid and absurd is that? It insinuates that if black lives don’t matter, no life matters. It may be true for some people who pull out a gun and kill someone for no apparent reason at all. It most certainly true for abortion clinics that routinely kill the baby in the womb because women are told it is the woman’s right to choose. God created that baby and entrusted it to the mother to nourish and protect until adulthood. But really what lives are most affected statistically by abortion – black lives. In urban areas of large cities the lack of love, nurturing and parenting skills turn young people into natural born killers because they have not been taught to cherish life, not even their own.

 

There is no legislation or mandate that will force black lives to matter. It is a choice to treat everyone with dignity and respect. It is a matter of character to make every life matter. Painting it on the street, across the sky in huge letters, making banners and signs, even t-shirts worn by those sympathetic to the cause of black lives still leads back to a choice by each individual.

 

One of the Ten Commandments from God says don’t kill. There are state and federal laws declaring it unlawful to murder. So why do we tolerate the taking of human life? Every senseless killing could be prevented if every person thought they were important and treated others more highly than they treat themselves.

 

Romans 12: 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18 If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

 

We are told in Romans 12:18 to live at peace with everyone when we have the power to do so (paraphrased). So what is stopping us? Pride, thinking we are all that and a box of chips? Thinking we’re not valuable, so neither is anyone else?

 

Do you want to stop racism? – Stop talking about it. Start doing something to unify everyone. Help your family, neighbor, and even strangers without expecting anything in return. Being a servant to others is the most important job you can do. Place EVERYONE before yourself. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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Everybody Wants a Civil War – Until

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8-30-2020

 

Everybody Wants a Civil War – Until

 

We see it on social media, in news reports and political press releases as aggressors are victimized and victims are demonized when violence is confronted. Remember when then President Obama brought the police officer and the “victim” to the White House for a beer together,  was it to make amends or to lord over LEOs that the president stands on the side of the offender?

 

When did politics and law enforcement come together – when we were told that someone mailed suspicious packages to various Democratic legislators and high profile movie stars, then within a relatively short period of time an arrest was made with a white van, remember? The story was leaked to the press and even though picture released were of two different white vans, case closed – bad guy arrested and the story forgotten in the annals’ of history.

 

Every arrest or apprehension of a bad guy by LEOs was turned into a racial thing. Should it result in the death of the bad guy (offender) it soon became a bad cop thing? What started out as raise your hands and turn around became hands up don’t shoot, remember?

 

What about the ambush and murder of LEOs called to a potential crime, only to be turned into a crime scene? Officers sitting in their vehicles, shot by unknown suspects and nobody was arrested. When officers responding to a radio call were met with violence ending up in their murder, where was the media outrage?

 

Sanctuary City Violence in places like Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington where LEOs were told to stand down and only observe, turned quiet streets into chaos and terror for business owners and residents alike. Elected officials sided with criminals and domestic terrorists and demanded federal law enforcement not enter their cities.

 

Governors activated National Guard military police units in the District of Columbia WITHOUT WEAPONS. What were they supposed to do – dance? Yes that’s what they did because standing around looking like defanged kitty cats made a mockery of our military. Local establishments contaminated food and drink being sold to these soldiers, intent on making them sick or even die from broken glass in pizzas or cleaning solution in drinks – was anybody arrested or charged? No – it was just a mistake!

 

The offender in Minneapolis was a convicted criminal attempting to commit a crime of using counterfeit currency. Upon being arrested he appeared to be murdered by a bad cop who placed his knee on the neck of the offender for an excessive amount of time. The reaction was one of anger and fear that this bad cop would get away with murder, so he was fired and then charged. Turns out the man died of a drug overdose, confirmed by autopsy. By then the damage had already been done.

 

BLM and Antifa groups began expanding their campaign of terror and chaos across the nation in the name of George Floyd who became an instant “hero”, idolized by politicians and the media as his funeral was live streamed and law enforcement was publicly demonized once again. Elected officials began holding hands with terrorists while citizens were hung out to dry. Crime flourished and criminals became emboldened to the point that widespread looting, burning of property, injury and even death of innocent bystanders, business owners and residents became common place in America.

 

Local elected officials gave LEOs orders to stand down when rioting mobs began roaming the streets and citizens in places like St. Louis, Missouri where an armed husband and wife faced down a BLM mob trespassing on private property in a gated community. The couple was charged and the mob remains free.

 

In Kenosha, Wisconsin an armed 17 year old boy was attacked by 3 felons (1 armed) while protecting a business that had been previously burned. Fearing for his life, he ended up shooting his 3 attackers, killing 2 and was arrested for murder. The BLM mob remains free to continue their reign of terror again because elected officials allowed it to happen. The attackers were treated as heroes while the victim acting in self-defense was arrested and charged with murder.

 

In cities across the nation citizens are standing up to the unprecedented mob violence when elected officials threaten to reduce funding for LEOs and/or give stand down orders not to enforce certain laws or protect life and property.

 

Recent violence in the District of Columbia landing at the White House have drawn fire from President Trump for the mayor to stop the violence before federal LEOs will be brought in.

 

Leftist radicals, domestic terrorists, fascists, Antifa and Black Lives Matter are fighting a civil war with street rules from the playbook of Saul Alinsky who says to use their own rules against them as they will be unable to violate their own rules (loosely paraphrased).

 

All the civil unrest is a coordinated and organized attack on the government of the United States aimed directly at President Trump in an effort to remove him from office or make his administration ineffective. That leads me once again to believe that one person has organized a community of anarchists intent on causing the government to fail. I say follow the money and it will lead straight back to the source, which may be closer to the White House than you might think. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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What does it mean to be an American?

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8-20-2020

 

What does it mean to be an American?

 

Yeah I know you probably think it’s a ridiculous question but hey what have you got to lose, right? Unless you have lived in another country, ate with other people, slept and breathed the same air or have found yourself adhering to the same laws, customs and traditions you have no idea how fortunate you are to be living in the United States of America and calling yourself an American.

 

Don’t believe all the hype of the media or the political left, right or center either because they are biased and intent to make you believe the truth is a lie and lies are in fact truth.

 

I have traveled many roads in Southeast Asia where happy people did not have the creature comforts we enjoy. Cooking over a coal fire and sharing the contents with family, friends and guests brings everyone together smiling, laughing and enjoying the company of each other. The sights and smells of the town market is something I cherish and children playing with a frog always bring a warm smile.

 

I’ve walked the streets of Panama, fished and swam in the Panama Canal, watched the graceful stingrays in the Atlantic Ocean swimming above me. I’ve been mugged in broad daylight; rescued after midnight while stranded in a boat in the middle of the Panama Canal; always felt the warmth of friendship who really cared.

 

I’ve traveled from Bremerhaven to Bad Tolz and broke down on the autobahn; picked grapes with family and shared lunch with German friends. I’ve broken the cardinal rule of ordering from a German language menu by price and ending up with a meal I abhorred and could not eat.

 

I’ve driven the crowded roads in and around Tokyo; watched a bluegrass festival in the forests of Japan; spent the weekend exploring the source of the sulfur pits that smelled like rotten eggs; smelled the cherry blossoms and rode the bullet train; ate meals with many a friend and walked through the snow in Hokkaido eating ice cream.

 

For friends it is not goodbye – it is See You Later Again!

 

Of all the places I’ve lived and visited over the years the most welcome sights is that of the Flag of the United States waving over military installations and US Embassies, our piece of Americana that you cannot imagine until you have gone so far from home in a strange and foreign land.

 

What being an American means to me:

  • Enjoying freedom that isn’t free.
  • Putting others before myself
  • Treating everyone as I want to be treated.
  • Not lording myself over anyone else, but seeing everyone as equals.
  • Working to raise my family free from government interference.
  • Helping my community and neighbors because I can.
  • Doing my part to help others live the American dream.
  • Living MY American Dream for a better future for our nation.
  • Defending the weak and defenseless.
  • Standing up to the bullies, and there are many.
  • Lending a helping hand to lift another up, not just giving a handout
  • Although at times a handout is better than simply ignoring other human beings
  • Calling evil for what it is
  • Rewarding good behavior
  • Holding myself and others accountable

 

America has been called a melting pot where other peoples, ideas and cultures merge together to develop our own customs and traditions while maintaining our cultural roots. People do not come to America to be hyphenated, but to be accepted as equal, with the same opportunity for employment, advancement and the blessings and riches available for those willing to work hard and achieve their own American Dream. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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Searching for American Made

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8-26-2020

 

Searching for American Made

 

Many years ago I bought a brand new Ford pickup. Drove it off the dealer’s lot and kept it for about 11 years before selling it. One day while looking at the data plate inside the driver side door frame it said assembled in Canada.

 

Recently while shopping with my wife in a supermarket chain store I remembered I needed a padlock. As I walked through the store I decided that I wanted an American made padlock. I found myself near the back of the store and on the wall were a variety of padlocks in various makes and sizes. So I found one that was the right size and looked at the packaging – Made in China. WRONG! I can do better than that so I kept looking. Another one looked really good – Made in Mexico. Still another made in Canada. So I thought to myself and probably said it out loud – why can’t I find padlock made in the USA? I ended up getting one that was assembled in China from American made parts. Geeze……you got to be kidding me. Doesn’t anybody in the USA make padlocks anymore?

 

That got me to thinking about how hard it is to really find something made in the USA. I mean something that I want or need right now. If I want a US flag, there are many choices and the ones with the flag saying Made in the U.S.A. are pretty good ones too.

 

Reality sets in when you need an item then go online. You search for a particular item and it comes up rather quickly. The price is right and it’s a bit cheaper than in a local store and shipping is free. WOW! I recently took a chance on a doorbell camera. The item was described as a second generation model and free shipping. The item came in a couple of days and when I opened it, it wasn’t even the item described in the ad. Right away I contacted the seller and complained they had advertised item “A” but sent item “B” (a completely different item). I asked for return authorization. They said I couldn’t return it as their warehouse was in China.

 

So I searched again and found the name brand item I was looking for and as a reconditioned item the price was right and I ordered it. I had it in a day or two and the box was the right brand and I was happy that finally I had the item I wanted. I opened the box and yes it was the name brand I had ordered. Just for kicks I looked at the back of the item and it said made in China.

 

There was a time when workers signed their name to their work as a sign of quality. I haven’t seen that much anymore. The old adage that “it’s good enough for government work” seems to infer there are no standards. Do they even do that anymore? There is one name that stands for quality workmanship and it’s very pronounced so it cannot be missed. Unknowingly people falsely assume it is a sign of flaunting the name. In a way maybe it is but in reality the name TRUMP signifies extreme quality in construction.

 

There is a computer company that manufactures mobile devices and people are amazed that it took quite a long time for it to be rated as a fortune 500 company then in just a few short years it became ten times more valuable. It’s not that hard to understand after realizing that they moved their assembly line to China where it costs less to produce their product and Americans will gladly pay for their new technological inventions.

 

I challenge you to shop around no matter what you are about to purchase. Check the brand, look at the device and examine the country of origin to see if it really is a really good deal or was it even made in America? There have been various trade agreements whereby poultry and livestock were slaughtered in the US, shipped to China or other overseas locations to be processed and then shipped back to US consumers. That has to stop. American made products should be available throughout America before they are replaced by foreign made products. I have travelled extensively overseas and I often find myself looking for made in USA labels on brand name items. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

 

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