INFORMATION? BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!

Why are there so many apps pushing articles and stories to our smart phones and tablets?

Why does an already in your face billionaire such as Rupert Murdoch continue his quest to own more news media?

Why do other billionaires and their brothers keep spending money behind the scenes to get their partisan messages out and political puppets in?

Why do birds suddenly appear? Wait, sorry, that's not part of this rant!

And why do all newspapers offer digital versions of their publications?

It’s all about the dissemination of information.

Sadly this proliferation of information also DIS-informs.

Getting your message out has become so important it has surpassed nearly every other need a leader or megalomaniac has. It is the way he or she stays in the public eye and the way they amass fortunes for their war chests to be used on their re-election campaigns.

And this tactic is also used to hide things that are not to be known by the general public.

This simple fact is controlling the media has become the highest priority of the wealthy and powerful.

We have all seen articles informing us that not one of the perpetrators of the economic bust of 2008 or any other era has been sent to jail or brought to justice at all.  But you will probably not see that article again or a follow up unless you spend time ‘Googling.’

Did you ever see a television ad or get a 'cold' call from an investment broker you didn't know telling you about a fantastic stock opportunity guaranteed to make you wealthy?

Did you ever wonder why he or she was calling you instead of just buying the damn thing and retiring to Tahiti?

Why do so many people seem to believe that the Earth is flat or that climate change is God’s will and there is nothing man can do about it?

And with all the information being pushed onto and into us we find it hard to process everything.

Information overload is real and it is why we flock to social media sites such as Twitter for concise if not absurd brevity.

Don’t believe it? Try to tell a story using only 140 characters without abbreviations, emoticons, substitutions and links. 

IMHO U’ll C its hard 2 do, lmao! 

No one has the time to read an entire paper or its digital version therefore much of what’s happening in the World goes unknown to or unseen by the masses.

Most read a headline and assume the rest based on their preconceived bias.

We are a nation of under informed, uneducated serfs.

Remember that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it!

Sadly even our history books have been taken over and school children are being fed partisan lies.

Many States use text books for their schools edited and published by a Texas concern. (Click the link and learn!)

These books have taken many facts out and replaced them with clear sounding false statements and subliminal messages aimed at furthering their biased agenda.

Sad how many idiots believe this crap!

Did you know that man coexisted with the dinosaurs?  This must be true since the Earth is only 6,000 years old!

Social media sites are safe havens from the storms of stories of corruption and violence.

They are places where we can show our outrage and demand something be done.

Then we click on the viral video of those cute puppies and calm down.

Just look at the anger over the multitude of mass shootings over the last few years and note how much has been done by our leaders to stop the proliferation of gun violence.

Social media is a place to vent our frustrations at the lack of leadership to stem the tide of an ever widening wealth gap.

But they are akin to the ‘time out’ room we are sent to as children when the parents have had enough!  And the parents are the wealthy and powerful who control the message.

‘Run along middle class, mommy and daddy have lots to talk about. Maybe we’ll go for some ice cream later. Won’t that be nice?’

The one time information should not necessarily be made known is during military exercises or of course war.

But when it comes to government any group not in power accuses those in power of hiding things from the public.

For example ever since Democrat Obama was elected President the not so loyal anymore Republican Party has been calling for more transparency.

Why do you think Obama is
weak on a Muslim?
Because I think he basically is one!

From birth certificate to troop movements they demand to know what he and his administration are doing about the war on terror and how come he was born in Kenya as a Muslim. And lest you think Americans know the truth watch this short video of current Trump supporters talking about the Hawaiian born President of the United States.

This is basically a tactic that should be called what it is, an absurd lie.

This should replace
the elephant as the
GOP / T-Potty symbol!

One thing the public must realize is if the government tells us all it is doing or planning then the odds are the enemy will know as well!

Do you think Mr. Obama should have told the Americans his troops were about to raid Osama Bin Laden’s compound beforehand?

The Republicans know this but they must fool the public into voting for them next time so they can do the same thing!

Information is power.

He (or she?) who controls the information has the power.

We must understand what information is important to be known and what should not be.

And when the information is made known from where did it emanate?

Can it be trusted?

There will always be sheep following blindly or being shepherded by a lead dog to move in a certain direction.

But until the people of our nation realize they are being led around by their noses they will never see beyond them.

Don't believe me?

GOOD, YOU'RE LEARNING!

The truth is out there!

Seek it out!

The more you know the less you will be fooled.

Inform yourselves, no one else will!

We Disagree - Agreed? Now Move On!

If we cannot agree that we will all disagree on at least as many issues as we agree upon then may we agree that we are all fooling ourselves?

Agreed?

We will never have only one national opinion on any one issue.

For example, I commute to and from work on public transportation every day.

I sit (hopefully) on generally late, somewhat dirty and unfortunately unreliable Long Island Railroad trains upon which I catch a few extra and heartily needed minutes of restless sleep.

But I have worked with people who insist on sitting in traffic driving to and from work every day.

Aside from the fact that hopefully those people do not catch 40 winks while on the road they are creating and breathing in pollution while adding to our nation’s dependence upon and usage thereof foreign oil. (I am assuming they do not use electric vehicles as the ones of whom I speak do not.)

But I am smart enough to know that I can not change their ways when it comes to this particular behavior so I will not try.

I also realize that their choice, as dumb and expensive as it is does not affect my life, at least not in a day to day way and not in the near future.

I do not believe the issue between driving to work vs. commuting should be a campaign issue and luckily it is not.

But different personal choices have become campaign issues. These choices are more invasive than open heart surgery in that they affect our lives every day and will continue to do so for the rest of our lives!

I am speaking about religion and its pervasive effect on our entire political system.

Recently a deluded self-serving so-called pastor named Jeffress, not surprisingly from Texas claimed that Willard Mitt Romney is not a Christian since he is a Mormon and Mormonism is a cult.

Hey pastor, so is Christianity!

So is Judaism!

And by definition so is every religion that ever was, is, or will be practiced on this Earth!

When a “man of God” claims that another “man of God” is a member of a cult he is truly invoking the kettle/pot analogy and making himself out to be a small minded inconsequential moron. (That’s moron, without the second M.)

Clearly there is no way to dissuade someone from their belief as long as that person is at peace and comfortable with it, nor should we try as long as it does not affect others.
However when belief in that cult becomes part and parcel of their ideas on how to rule over others we must be wary of electing them to any position of power.

Think of Ayatollahs or Mullahs.
It's really not a complex issue but when someone gets a God complex they become dangerous. (Unless of course they do so while actually walking on water and then, uh well sorry about that and by the way when may I expect that pony we spoke of?)

Naturally the whole separating religion from government idea is not solely mine nor is it new. It was the general thought of General George Washington of First President of these United States fame!

In several statements made by that prominent figure and founding father of our founding days Mr. Washington decried the use of religion as a process that stagnated progress.

When people who are allowed to speak to a crowd or on television spout ideologies as though they were the key foundation for electing a President their statements should come with loud disclaimers or be stopped by a 5 second delay and relegated to Fox Non-News channels only.

For years we have been languishing with a stagnant economy continued by a do-nothing Republican led agenda whose only stated job is to remove President Obama from their sight!

Rather than addressing issues such as:

High unemployment;

Wealthy people who pay little or no tax;

Corporations that sit on obscene amounts of cash refusing to invest in the country that made them wealthy;

The same corporations trading American jobs to workers overseas;
The ruination of our once great infrastructure and;

The calculated murder of the middle class that used to be the envy of the entire world

The Republican majority in the House continues to call anything brought forth by the President as, “Dead on arrival!”

Instead of looking for ways out of our terrible mess, brought on by a Republican President and his cronies they are content to change the subject and allow debates over who has the better religion and who follows the teachings of that Jewish guy from the year one!
Truth is if we look at the actions rather than the words most Republicans choose to ignore the phrase WWJD.

So listen closely and you may hear the sound of our founding fathers spinning mightily in their graves!

Americans may not be able to agree on much these days but one thing is clear and without dispute; Republicans have not done one thing to create jobs since they took over the majority in the House of Representatives by claiming they had a jobs plan and that it would be Job Number One for them.

We must remove that man
before he helps the little
people and makes my master
pay another penny in taxes.

The only job plan they have pursued was the one laid forth by that large jowled Senator from Kentucky, Mitchell McConnell who only wants to get rid of Obama. And toward that end he would not mind seeing America go down the toilet.

And no matter what side of any argument you find yourself on that last statement is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but!