I struggle to process the INSANITY that is happening worldwide.
I want to give you thought provoking words but I refuse to publish what I feel requires more research, deeper evaluation. You deserve better than what the media feeds you. Wouldn’t you rather have real, whole food instead of the chemicals that are made to taste real?
Is integrity dead? Seriously.
Conditioning is extremely hard to break. Truth alone cannot break the hardened lie repeated a thousand times.
The law should be one standard for all. All men are created equal, though some fight harder for power.
Tax the Rich?
In the US:
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2023-update/
The average income tax rate in 2020 was 13.6 percent. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 25.99 percent average rate, more than eight times higher than the 3.1 percent average rate paid by the bottom half of taxpayers.
Who’s paying their fair share?
Stop letting people manipulate how you feel. Very few people EVER tell the truth, much less the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. “So help me God.” -It don’t mean much if you don’t believe.
Observably, many believe that perjury has no consequences they will face.
The law of man is flawed because it is made by man, enforced by man, and adjudicated by man.
If you do not condemn Hamas, you agree with and support rape, murder, mutilation, the taking of hostages, and using human shields, so your own people die and your cowardice lives on.
Hamas IS the government. Any aid to Gaza is aid to Hamas. Without a provisional government in place to delegate aid, it will default to those with the power to control it. Paying aid to both Israel AND Gaza is a waste of money from the tax payer’s view so what do the powers drafting legislation get from this?
What’s blowing your mind these days?
Drew founded Mental Grenade Jan 2020. He is a follower of Jesus Christ, a medically retired Marine, EOD Tech, writer, mountain biker, photographer, facilitator, and fly-fisherman. He seeks to bridge the civilian – military divide and bring hope through honest communication about difficult issues.
Mimi M. Routh
October 27, 2023 18:41Yes, Drew, lots of research, and then when we get our answer, who can we tell? Who cares? Will it change what Congress does? My mind goes back to an early exchange with a Vietnam veteran (Army medic) whose third wife I became. Richard Wayne Routh grew up with Fundamentalist Bible study and good hard-working folks. He told me his folks taught him: “The Jews are God’s chosen people don’t eff with the Jews!” Yes. And yes, but! I’ve been to Israel. It looks like my home state of California. California is 163,696 square miles; Israel is 10,175 square miles. Does anybody know where the Biblical Promised Land was? I don’t. When you visit, the guide tells long stories about the struggles. Well, look into what happened just after WWII when the big boys were dividing up the spoils. One story is that the Palestinians were told to pack up and get out! A Brit named Baldwin had something to do with this. It looks to me like the Jews stole that patch of land! And I don’t dare say that many places. But I’ve seen Dachau in person; I stared at horrendous pictures in Life magazine; I read the books. I lived in Germany and worked beside new Nazis in this country. Not “neo-Nazis” but German-Americans who still carry the nastiness Germans displayed nearly a century ago. They are described in my book about 30 years in San Francisco. For now, I’m backing off and trying to shower, do laundry and pay rent. So I don’t get in trubble. And then how to stay content and walk my walk. I got a new stove this week! Time for cookies, muffins, gingerbread! A favorite Christian Science hymn by Mary Baker Eddy says: “The arrows that wound the dove dart not from those that watch and love.”
Leonard Philip Ganz
October 27, 2023 01:02Good to remind readers what happened in Gaza and the West Bank after 9-11. The cheering was deafening.