9-12-2023

The Wrong Political Focus

Politicians seem to have gotten everything wrong.

Instead of aiming to stop criminals from committing crimes politicians want to stop citizens from defending themselves by taking away their ability for self defence and/or punishing, fining or shutting down small arms manufacturers. While politicians seek the welfare of others, they devalue or ignore their constituents while claiming to stand for constitutional values.

While climbing on board the Open Boarders Train may look good on the outside, it undermines the Constitution and puts public safety in serious jeopardy. It’s been said that a nation without boarders is no nation at all. A nation unable to protect itself is bound to be conquered by any other nation willing to try.

Uniting a nation through Patriotism or National Pride is totally different than Anti-Nationalism. It is not racist to stand up for the National Anthem or the Flag. What is racist is to pay special attention or preference to any race over another.

Standing together is better than fighting each other.

If politicians wanted to stop Donald Trump from running for president again, they should change their political focus and try fixing what is wrong in America.

America First means looking out for the safety and welfare of ALL your constituents and every American citizen – PERIOD.

If immigration laws are problematic – change or replace them legislatively.

If gun violence is problematic (and it is) – support law enforcement to get and keep criminals with guns off the streets. The best way to stop a criminal with a weapon is a citizen with a weapon.

If killing of the innocent is problematic – protect the innocent!

Politicians who put their own political agenda ahead of their sworn duty to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States IS NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA!

Voters do your due diligence – VET YOUR POLITICIAN AGAINST YOUR CORE VALUES!

The bible defines what is good and what is bad according to the Creator God.

The US Constitution is the Rule of Law in our nation and is based upon those biblical principles.

Follow the Constitution to maintain Law and Order and Make America Safe Again by bringing God to the center of your life every day. Without God there is no good.

Without Law and Order there can be only Chaos.

Only God is good! – RTM

9-10-2023

My Political Petpeeve

I don’t understand how lawyers turned politician always look for loopholes in the Constitution to suit their political objectives. Obama made a statement to the effect that unless it is prohibited by the Constitution I can do it (loosely paraphrased) – DACA.

Congress has known that immigration laws are problematic and they have the power to correct or change the affected parts or the law entirely, yet they hem and they haw over what is wrong but fail to make any substantial changes. It is easier to blow smoke about Trump’s wall than it is to remain silent when it comes to Biden’s open border policies. And to think that Obama and Biden came out of that same Congress mentality thinking only they had the answer. Trump had been a political outsider and therefore couldn’t possibly have known anything about domestic or foreign policy.

Recently New Mexico Governor Gresham stated that the Constitution wasn’t absolute as she invoked a medical emergency due to guns and suspended the 2^nd Amendment for 2 counties in her state. It’s clear that her unconstitutional actions will harm, not help in the war on gun violence. Maybe she should find a way to lock up lawbreaking gang members, robbers, murders or those violating actual gun laws?

I’m not a rocket scientist, but it doesn’t take one to see that criminals with guns kill citizens without guns 100% of the time.

Until voters begin actually thinking and repeal bad politicians at the ballot box nothing will ever change – for the better. – RTM

8-28-2023

Though None Be For Him

Life can be lonely especially at the top. After reaching your peak friends start drifting or running away and those new “friends” may not be friends at all.

“It’s a very imperfect world, and you can’t always choose your friends. That’s life. But you can never fail to recognize your enemies.” – President Donald J Trump

I have watched as politicians wanting to get their name on record as they launch allegation after allegation of personal, political or professional wrongdoing against Donald Trump, when running for office, during his administration and even after leaving office in 2021.

Its mind boggling how every word, action or “perceived” infraction continues to set off the anti-Trumpers, Irregardless of political party. Take the House Freedom Caucus, made up of so-called free thinkers in Congress who are fed up with the politics as usual and want to see a change in Congress, when they announce that Trump must tell his MAGA followers to stand down. 

How does that look when it comes to our personal freedoms as guaranteed by the First Amendment?

Plus the GOP urges Republicans to distance themselves from Trump. Why? Is there some sort of magnetism that will rub off on them or their political career? Might I remind the GOP that politics should never become a career where you retire and draw a pension from your elected office?  

It would behoove politicians to listen to their constituents. Hear what we have to say. Stand up for OUR welfare, safety and benefit, not just your own political wellbeing.

Elections have consequences.

I have watched as politicians get on all sides of political issues except the right side that is aligned to what God’s Word says about it.

If killing is wrong, so must abortion be wrong.

If lying and stealing is wrong, so must slander and making false or misleading statements and accusations.

If the love of money is the root of all evil, how is your bank account since taking elected office?

I don’t care about your political party affiliation or party politics. If you are truly concerned for the welfare and public safety of Americans, why is immigration being used as a political weapon to gain votes, money or power?

There is one thing that I know Donald Trump throws no punches. He does not waffle on hot button political topics; he tells it like it is and brings hope for a better America.

As a politician, if you’re not for him, you are against him and might I remind you that elections have consequences. – RTM

8-25-2023

Misunderstood Patriots

It’s time to speak up. I’ve been a diehard Republican all my adult life and disillusioned by the GOP almost as long. How can anyone call themselves patriotic and of a political party that doesn’t take care of its citizens or guests at the same time? How does a government of the people, by the people not be for the people as our Constitution states?

Everyone knowns abortion, immigration and foreign policy are hot button topics. Congress has the power to changes them when it comes to common sense and morality, so why have they not?

Politicians of every political party make promises, yet nothing seems to change in what has been referred to as the swamp. There is an old saying that politics makes strange bedfellows.

When business tycoon Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency it was a breath of fresh air, not tainted by the politics of the Washington establishment. I was drawn to the direct honesty of his campaign speeches and promises – America First; Build the Wall; and The Best is yet to come. It was refreshing to hear someone publicly stand by the Constitution; for the flag and honor God, not government.

Initially we who swore an oath to defend the Constitution during military service began to consider ourselves as Constitutionalists. Over time we were lumped in with the MAGA crowd who support Donald Trump.

Democratic members of congress and the Obama administration had already labeled us who were white Americans, Veterans and Christians as enemies of the state. That labeling continued when Trump became president, and then we were being called the militant right.

When all the disobedience and civil unrest began following the inauguration of President Trump the actions of the militant and far left culminating in the events of January 6^th 2021 were blamed on Trump and his MAGA followers.

I stand by my assessment that the insurrection and attempted coup by the progressive democratic leftists to make Trump ineffective and remove him from office has gone into overtime to insure that he never returns to the office of the president.

We are not violent, militant or subversive.

Our aim is as it was before Trump –

“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

Politicians have assumed that members of the military have sworn an allegiance to Donald Trump. I find it insulting and hypocritical that Republican “Party “House Freedom Caucus” spokesperson in congress has now called for Trump to tell his supporters to “stand down” – from what? Do not those same members of congress take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution? Or is it simply an oath to “do as I please in congress and the Constitution is to be damned”? The hypocrisy of American politics is so evident in what is happening in our nation today.

The nation was formed on godly biblical principles as a place where we are free to worship God, not ourselves, and/or natural or manmade objects. We must put God at the center of our lives, ask for HIS forgiveness of our disobedience (sin) and ask for HIS guidance, if this nation is to survive. – RTM

8-20-2023

A Very Different World View

Have you ever stopped to think that everything you think you know about the world might not be correct at all?

After all there was a time when everyone thought the world was flat.

A great many European men and women traveled the world over making huge discoveries of other lands and the people who occupy them. Most of what we’ve been told has been handed down in documents, scrolls or history books.

We’ve been taught from the time we were born that things are the way they are because that’s the way it’s always been, right?

Wrong!

I’d hate to be the one to say we’ve been had or the history books have been wrong all along.

If world history is like beauty – in the eyes of the beholder, what if it’s just wrong?

I came across this online map of the African Continent dated 1260 A.H. and it took a closer examination to see what was obviously different. That got me to thinking, what if we’re on the wrong side of right? I altered a world map and the world as we know it is depicted as being upside down (take a closer look at both maps).

Now that you’ve seen is it really possible that scholars and map makers were wrong?

You be the judge. – RTM

8-20-2023

Wrapped Up Tighter Than A Mummy

Just a glance at the MSM news headlines and almost to a “T” they all see Trump wrapped up in legal red tape that will insure he is the most unelectable candidate for the 2024 Presidential Election. Their assessment is that because of his multiple and growing legal indictments his followers are fleeing like rats from the Titanic. Even though key congressional GOP establishment figures have clammed up, fearing they will lose their own political base, MSM is spelling gloom and doom.

I guess they never got the memo that indictments are like flees to a dog. They are irritating and treated properly will lend light on the political opponents of Trump, rather than on Trump himself.

What I gather from all of this is the democratic left is running scared and pulling out all stops. Prosecutors and judges have made it known that in their eyes Trump is guilty and all that is left is finding a rope and a tree, even though there hasn’t been any convictions.

I seem to remember the KKK started out using the same tactics and we all thought that was something of the past. Didn’t President Biden sign a proclamation or official presidential document authorizing a statue to a young black teen who was brutally murdered in Chicago sometime back?

It seems that a political lynching is acceptable so long as the lynchee goes by the name of Trump.

Wouldn’t it be nice (humor me now) if the democratic president put the kibosh on all this political horseplay and pardon Trump of any and all suspected political wrongdoing? But wait there can be no crime without a conviction and therefore no presidential pardon without a crime. Who am I kidding, I know the president is a lawyer turned politician (like many of his congressional peers) and even he must know that.

The democratic political creed seems to be “applies to thee, but not to me”! – RTM

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8-19-2023

The Flood Gates Have Opened

Have you ever seen a movie where rats are pouring out of a sea going vessel? Or maybe it was the undergrown sewers of London, New York City or any other big city? Once they begin, other rats appear seemingly from out of nowhere.

The only similarity is the rats competing for headlines since the flood gates opened and the green light was given to prosecute a former president – Donald J. Trump. By rats I mean lawyers, prosecutors and even judges wanting their names listed as the one who convicted Trump.

Well let me tell you he’s not convicted yet.

It makes you wonder why George W. Bush wasn’t prosecuted over WMD; Bill Clinton over Zippergate; Hillary Clinton over Benghazi? Every one of these demanded “heads will roll” yet none did, why – it was unprecedented to prosecute a president, former president or former first lady, but the rules are different because it’s Trump, right?

What makes it different – “allegations” of misconduct or wrongdoings, guilty until proven innocent in the court of public opinion, in the meantime let’s take it to “Court TV” and televise it so the entire nation, if not the world, is entertained and it takes the public eye off of what is really happening in America – Interference of the 2024 Election campaign season in which Trump is being forced out of due to a multitude of court appearances up and down the eastern seaboard.

Do I see a resemblance to the 4 years Trump was in office? What about the 2 years since he left office? High profile talking heads have already convicted Trump based on unsubstantiated and unproven Democratic Party initiated conjecture. The rest is only noise makers, keeping everyone occupied while the 2024 Presidential Election is being “finessed” even as we speak in order to give the edge to the political favorites in Trump’s absence from the campaign field. Do they not know that Trump doesn’t even have to campaign or expend campaign funds because of all the publicity that keeps his name and his picture in the news?

In 2017 – As Trump said to the FRC crowd: “It’s a very imperfect world, and you can’t always choose your friends. That’s life. But you can never fail to recognize your enemies.”

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump was even locked up, he would win the election and after being inaugurated he would fully pardon himself, making that would be another historical first. – RTM

8-18-2023

Freedom to Choose

When God created mankind Adam had a mind to freely choose doing right or wrong. When Moses came down from the mountain it was with tablets of stone to guide the people in what God said to do or not do. Over time man created many religions with rules of what constituted acceptable conduct in the eyes of religion, but God had declared that in his eyes wrong doing was sin and the penalty for sin was the spilling of blood leading to death. Religion declared that sin could be overcome by contrite penitence and a very specific set of rituals.

Penitence and Rituals cannot save you.

God sent his son Jesus born of a virgin and raised as a God fearing man without sin. Jesus was a living human sacrifice who lay down his life to pay the penalty for the sins of the world so that all who believed in him would be saved from death and given the free gift from God which is eternal life.

Jesus declared that he is the life, the truth and the only way to the Father.

Only Jesus can save you.

In this world that we live in we are told that the governments of man can meet your every need. They cannot. We look to politicians and political leaders for the answer, but politics IS the problem.

Men cry “Peace, Peace” but there can be no peace. Without God there will be no peace – ever.

Until the people of this world realize that in their sinful state they need a savior and drop to their knees in humble submission to the King of all Kings, the Alpha and the Omega, the name above all names and plead for forgiveness of their sin (past, present and future) and ask Jesus into their hearts as Lord and Savior – there will be no peace.

Where are you in this walk we call life?

Do you know Jesus?

Jesus loves you so much that he suffered and died on the cross at Calvary so you could have eternal life and reside in heaven with him.

You have the right to choose – will you choose Jesus? – RTM

8-15-2023

The First Ever

This is going to be a really short blog (maybe). When politicians get outta line, the threat of a public trial usually causes them to resign and disappear while their legacy lives on.

Presidential Impeachment

Article II, Section 4: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, treason, bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate in 1868.

Think of Richard Nixon who ended his term because of the Watergate scandal at the Democratic National Headquarters under the threat of impeachment. His successor was former Speaker of the House Gerald Ford argued on the floor of the House that “high crimes and misdemeanors” should be defined as “whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers them to be at a moment in history.”

The indiscretions of William Jefferson Clinton in the Oval Office brought Impeachment by the House and acquittal by the Senate in 1999 because his misconduct didn’t threaten the nation and therefore not impeachable.

I guess it was no greater misconduct than that of John Fitzgerald Kennedy or Lyndon Baines Johnson during their tenures in the office as president.

How things changed in 2017 making Donald Trump the first ever elected president to be impeached twice by the House without hesitation and acquitted by the Senate. Trump was then charged with leading an insurrection on January 6^th 2022, and followed by charges of possession of classified documents in his residence in Mar Largo after leaving office, leading to the current public trial in court and in the court of public opinion during the 2023 election campaign cycle to hinder his bid to return to the White House. While his “misconduct” didn’t threaten the nation, it threatened the security of his political rivals. You got to love the democratic flavor of politics. Elections have consequences! – RTM

8-12-2023

Back in the Good Old Days

Don’t you just hate when talking to us old timers that we keep bringing up the good old days? I mean life was slower, simpler and everything was good, except walking up hill (both ways) to and from school in the snow.

It’s hard to believe that when I was a young man after graduating high school I left home without a care in the world, or any idea of where I would go or what I would do. I had a HS buddy who dropped out of school after the junior year and joined the army. He went airborne and volunteered for Vietnam. In the meantime I went to his folk’s dairy farm to stay while working my dead end job at a movie theater.

Then mom came to my rescue, she had a friend who got me a job as an auto parts delivery driver and she got me a room at a boarding house where the bathroom was down the hall.

I had my car, (a 58 Pontiac Chieftain) which I had “borrowed” from my dad and my girl (Linda). Every week we went to the drive in, drove the strip and usually got stopped by the same city cop for being the slowest across the starting line when the light turned green. Yes those were the good old days.

Life was good.

One day a friend of a friend came over and talked me into joining the army with him on the “Buddy Basic” program. I had just turned 18 and didn’t need permission, but mom gave me her blessing anyway. Looking back it was probably obvious to everyone except me that I was a fish floundering aimlessly without any direction or goals.

I did love to drive and the army trained me to be a truck driver. I went from no goals or ambitions to learning to stand on my own two feet, do things I never dreamed I could do and not being dependent upon my family back home. While I was in Southeast Asia (Thailand) my buddy came home from Vietnam a totally changed man. There’s a saying that when you go back home it’s just not the same. After 3 years in the military I found that to be true, not that everything or everyone else had changed, but I was a changed man too.

During my overseas tour I got married, came home with a child on the way. I couldn’t find a job that satisfied my need to care for my family with stability or my desire for adventure. After two years I joined the army once again and this time made a career out of it.

When I look back over my life I see that I made lots of mistakes. However it is learning from those mistakes that helped form me into the man I am today. My family has grown with kids and grandkids grown and great grandkids growing up fast.

I’m not a jack-of-all-trades but I have mastered a few and have been around the block a few times. I have a wealth of skills and information which I’m willing to share with anyone who will listen. If I don’t have answers I know many people who do.

Have you ever gone to a bluegrass festival……in Japan? It’s a hoot and a holler (phonetically speaking mind you). I went to one in style – riding for more than an hour inside a buttoned up motorcycle sidecar in the rain. It was a most memorable experience, to say the least. – RTM