Which is the bigger crime; using illegal drugs or selling illegal drugs? Which is the bigger crime; an illegal alien worker or an illegal alien employer? Should it be illegal to sell a $400 chainsaw for $2000 after a hurricane? Should it be illegal to offer credit to ignorant people …
I don’t blame anyone for wanting to come to America even with our problems of crime, poverty, mental health, health care etc. You can name worse places I’m sure. Whether we see immigrants crossing our borders as a problem or not, the government Republicans, Democrats and most of our press …
I scan the news everyday and it can be disconcerting. War, violence, shaky stock markets, job losses, political fights, lawsuits, virus scares, disease, new studies that refute the old ones, disaster predictions, you name it! My favorite team or person might win, jobs added, promising cures, somebody does something good …
I often hear “sayings” that on the surface are popular and make sense. “We don’t need to be the worlds police” is very popular and I’ve heard many Republicans and Democrats repeat it. I don’t want Americans killed in war or anybody else. Reality that I sense tells me that …
Each day is a mixture of happiness, sadness, frustration, laughter, anger, starting out tired, gaining energy and ending tired or sometimes exhausted. It’s not always in this order and sometimes missing some or adding other emotions. I’m happy to be alive and well, sad about the loss of friends, family …
I never really thought life was that hard. People do suffer greatly in this world and I’ve been very lucky. I am sorry for people who have difficult lives whether they caused it themselves or because of someone else or some other factor. I’ve heard “you make your own luck” …
Hope is a driving force behind every sort of life, though some may argue hope is only a behavior. I believe a single blade of grass sprouting through a crack in the middle of a busy highway “hopes”. Maybe it doesn’t know that it hopes; yet life strives to live …