Coexist

-By Jim Culp

This past week was a time for some Kansas City citizens to show their true colors, the

colors of Black and White. This coincidentally comes long at a time when leaders call for the citizens of every city to coexist and learn to accepted each other instead of pushing their beliefs and ideals on to other persons.

On an evening that we will remember for a long time, two women dressed up and went out to a bar in Lenexa (a part of the Kansas City metropolitan area) that they had frequented many times, and even knew some of the management and other patrons.

This is a place that sells your average bar foods, and has beers on tap, as well as well drinks for average prices. There is an area where people can dance and have fun.

At some point in the night, some very ignorant and angry patrons entered the bar, and began making comments on the two women I am talking about, commenting on their sexual preferences and their weight, and giving them a general hard time.

This led to an accusation that one of them "bumped" one of the other party, and this led to an altercation that was brief and controlled.

But the management of this establishment decided that since no one else had complained, and that (in their opinion) there was no real issue, that the group of assailants would be allowed to return to the bar, where they would quickly and decisively devise a plan to attack and humiliate the two women.

Both women were assaulted, manhandled by a coward of a "man", and kicked out of the bar because they were defending themselves. The manager and bouncer were both criminally negligent in this act, and are both liable for damages and the concession of a hate crime. Yes, it is a hate crime to attack a person in any way for their beliefs, sexual orientation, or your ignorant perception of who or what they are.

Combine this with police that are as ignorant as the hate-mongers, and unwilling to help people who are assaulted because they themselves lack the ability to see past their noses, and you have the ingredients for hate to sow its seed in our society.

These women are both strong people, and they will move past this debacle, but they now know in their hearts that there is a sickness in our local society, and that is the sickness of Hate.

"VOTE"

By Jim Culp

One day I went into a non-big-name burger shop in one of the towns that I lived in here in NW Kansas. It had been opened by a retired military guy, and I wanted to give him my business; as well as a matter of convenience, his shop was less than a mile from my house.

I walked in, and he immediately told me that he was out of everything except jalapeno burger, and hot polish sausages; as his delivery truck had failed him and the lunch rush had nailed him. {didn't know I was a poet, did ya?}

"Shit," I said. "I don't like either one of those bro. I'll catch you another day."

He smiled and said "ok then, thank you sir."

I was off to McDonalds, or Sonic, or three other burger places; I know them all well, and know exactly what I will get when I order there.

What I just described was a person (me, in this case) making a decision not to

go with what I don't like or trust on my stomach, and moving on to another avenue.

This lesson can be applied this coming November when you have the choice to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

The fact is you don't. You can write in any name you want. Millions will vote for Hillary because she is a Democrat that believes in the values of our Republic.. Millions will vote for Donald because they think he is a Conservative Republican. Neither are either. But people will do it anyway.

This very concept of voting for Peter because he is the lesser evil than Paul, is what has weakened our nation to the point of being on the verge of civil war or states declaring independence from the union. You vote in Darth Vader because you don't want Emperor Palpatine. For those of you that don't fancy Star Wars; you vote in Mussolini instead of Hitler. Both of them suck, and will lead us to further decline, but you do it anyway, because you think it helps us.

This November, vote for someone you have researched that does a good job at his/position, or like me, write in "NO CONFIDENCE" as a sign that you don't trust a single person that currently serves in our government.

July 9th, 2016

"Opinions"

By Jim Culp

It has been a long week for the media, the Dallas Police, and the families that

lost loved ones in several events in separate places.

I typically post opinions and fact sheets on Facebook, as well as my blog*, and get feedback from many readers; some in agreement, some not. I welcome intelligent debate and constructive criticism, they are what make me stop and think about another point of view or a better way to look at things.

I thought that in this time of struggle for our country, and unsurely of where we will find ourselves as a nation next January, I'd post my views, at least in brief, so that I can invite conversation (or debate) for the sake of possibly expanding my  mind or developing my path to wisdom. Feel free to comment on my blog, on this post thread, or at my email jcgrey2012@gmail.com.

1.         The subject of burning the flag of the United States of America came up again. Yes, it is your Constitutional Right to burn "the flag". However, I do recommend that before you burn the flag, consider the issue you are burning it for, and then think about what that flag stands for. You'll more than likely find that your reason is going to be better handled by another means; and one that wont make peaceful people want to kick your ass.

2.         There were racially motivated shootings all around this week. One by a black guy that was mad at white cops and white people in general, and the others by cops who still think that they have the right to subdue the citizenry to their will, not the reading of the law, which they are sworn to uphold and protect.

3.         The Democratic front runner got embarrassed by the guy that she thought was going to vindicate her, and then had to tell more lies in an attempt to correct the lies she told previously. Please see opinion Number 7.

4.         The Republican front runner talked more shit, and gained more promises to vote, because he is a billionaire that can pay people to do anything he wants.

There is no one, and I mean no one, on this Earth, that cannot be bought for a price. People will say that is not true, but it's because they've never been offered the right amount of money.

5.         The Black Lives Matter was really busy after the shootings. I opened their website and read the mission statement that says, ""This is the Official #BlackLivesMatter Organization founded by Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. #BlackLivesMatter is an online forum intended to build connections between Black people and our allies to fight anti-Black racism, to spark dialogue among Black people, and to facilitate the types of connections necessary to encourage social action and engagement."

I find it disturbing that the word "Black" appears SIX times in this statement, and the words "love", "peace", or "unity" never appear once. I think that speaks volumes.

6.         I think that it is time that the citizens of the United States of America (no, not that farce of a government that sits in D.C.) hold a national conference of citizens that form a Coalition for Reform of Government. This would be a peaceful organization, not a revolutionary pipe dream, and certainly not some political movement to elect people to office that should be in old folk's homes.

7.         Part of government reform is a proposal of amendments to the US Constitution that any person in government; be that city, state, or federal, be convicted of perjury or misconduct, be barred from government "service" for their lifetime. If that perjury resulted in deaths of American citizens or allies, that person stands trial for murder. Secondly, a government that feels that it is ok to pay governments 30-40% of their earnings, while overwhelming majorities of "citizens" pay nothing at all, is abolished and never allowed to return. 

8.         Lastly, a few comments. Air Force One is a VC-25A jetliner (a modified Boeing 747, militarily modified) that uses thousands of gallons of fuel per week, and carried the President and his family to places they go in an official capacity.

It's military crew, fuel, meals, and paperclips are paid for by the citizens of the United States from their income taxes. It is absurd that this aircraft, along with hundreds of other illegal actions funded by taxpayers, be used for political campaigning. It is time, my fellow patriots, for us to build a coalition of thinkers and caretakers. Armed with a mission to repair our nation, and remove political "leaders" that shouldn't be there. It is time for us to open new ways of thinking, and to stand as a group, then a nation, and take our country back.

(*: "A Vision of Tomorrow". It can be found and followed at jimculp.blogspot.com )

July 4th, 2016

By Jim Culp

Well, it is finally July of this year we call 2016. Today, citizens and recent immigrants of the United States of America will celebrate with grilled foods of all types, sodas and fireworks for the kids, and large amounts of fermented and distilled beverages.

It is also a time when our government is more and more like a great shadow of  fear and doubt, hanging over our heads like a dark cloud. One would think that a tax paying citizen of the USA nowadays would have little to worry about.

Our population currently stands at 323,900,521; with a new immigrant entering the country at a rate of every 29 seconds. There is a new birth about every 8 seconds, and a death about every 13 seconds, so this all evens out at a fair rate. What statistics don't show, or struggle to quantify, is the rate of undocumented immigrants (sometimes called "illegal aliens") entering our country at astounding rates, and merging into our society without paying taxes, obtaining permits or licenses, or sharing the load of society.

But let's travel back 241 years. In those days, thirteen colonies had merged themselves into a unified group called the United Colonies; thirteen states called Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations. These were British colonies, all located on the Eastern Coast of North America, and to the West were territories called the Indian Reserve, a massive area of land that reached from the southern tip of East Florida to the 49th Parallel north of the Great Lakes. The West border was called the Proclamation Line of 1763, and made the statement that the Thirteen Colonies were separate from what Spain or other countries would make claim to.

Their capital was London, England, where a young monarch named King George the III sat on the throne, and demanded high taxes from the colonies.

The Colonists adopted a policy of "no taxation without representation", and declared themselves independent of Great Britain in 1775. On July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the War for Independence, a struggle that would last for eight bloody years, in which many men would lose their lives for the cause of freedom to be independent. Over 6,000 colonists would lose their lives in this conflict, and thousands of her allies from France and the Netherlands would be lost. Many thousands on both sides would die from diseases, starvation, and cold weather injuries.

I related that all to you so that I could make a point that needed re-stating in these times of mistrust and government greed.

The War for Independence was fought because a government couldn't be trusted to provide valid and proper representation for colonies that it would so heavily levy taxes of ridiculous proportions. It wanted to tax people unreasonably, and use that wealth to it's own greedy means and for other purposes than what the people would gladly pay taxes for; you know, like better schools, a protective militia, and an overall quality of life that we called the "pursuit of happiness"..

In this year we call 2016, we pay federal taxes to a government in a city called Washington, in a area called the District of Columbia, where 435 Representatives and 100 Senators gather in big stone buildings and decide how we live and what freedoms we have on a fairly regular basis. Taxes are levied every year to pay for things that they simply don't, and hundreds of corrupt politicians and lobbyists shift money behind the scenes that would put the thugs in GoodFellas to shame.

They send billions of dollars to other countries, and promise billions more; while our highways and national parks fall into decay. Millions of undocumented immigrants enter our nation every year, and our government responds by allowing them to draw benefits from the government that they never paid into or contributed to in any way. Millions of people who do not work are paid benefits every month, and spend their lives doing so, because they can.

Churches take in millions of dollars per year as non taxable entities, yet do absolutely nothing for the poor, or the sick, or the dying....you know, like their founders commanded them to do. They just get rich, and richer, and talk about how God has blessed them.  

It is sufficient to say that our society has degraded to the point that we are in need of new government, and new leaders. People rant and rave daily about the gross negligence of our governments, both State and Federal, but actually do very little about it except to go to a voting booth each November and cast a vote for yet another corrupt bureaucrat that will do the same things as his predecessors, not what the electorate wanted him to do.

The time has come for revolution. No, that notion does not make me a terrorist, it simply reveals me as what I have always been; a patriot.

History "Re-Visited"

-By Jim Culp

As we approach Memorial Day this year, I am once again on memory lane, and will speak of the fallen this coming Monday. But I also revisit my studies of our own history, the last 240 years, the amount of time our young nation has prospered on this North American continent.

One anniversary of a historic event passed just two days ago.

Buried in the embarrassing pages of history, under the woes of the American Indian, the anniversary of the signing of the Indian Removal Act was just two days ago.

It was 1830, and the War between the States had not happened yet, but the sorrow and bloodshed of that great tragedy simply overshadowed what had been happening to the American Indian for years.

Andrew Jackson was President of the United States, and the nation was growing, and growing fast. Bankers were promising big change, and plantation owners were expanding, opening greater trade deals and larger bank accounts near and abroad.

 The North American Indian was promised equitable land near places where he was removed, and told that his new land was to be his forever. It sounded good, but after all, he was owed this, because the white man had taken land that was his in the first place. The Indians had lived highly civilized and often peaceful lives, in organized cities, in these southern states, for over 1300 years.

Men that respected the Indian and his culture fought against this outrage, including Congressman Day Crockett.

The Five Civilized Tribes....the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Muscogee (Creek), the Chickasaw, and the Seminole...were the tribes so described because of their willingness to accept European customs, at least some of them, and willingly be assimilated into the White Man's culture, and his strange religion that told of an angry God that wiped out enemies and offered unconditional love.

Other Indian tribes, less noted in history, would include the Wyandot, the Kickapoo, the Potowatomi, the Shawnee, and the Lenape.

Thousands of persons of all of these would be lost on events such as the Trail of Tears, a 2,200 mile "relocation" of the Cherokee, where between 4,000 and 6,000 people lost their lives due to freezing temperatures, starvation, and dysentery.

What some history pages do not tell you is that "Americans" participated in the ethnic cleansing of an entire culture of people, across 60 tribes, over a period of a hundred years, practically erasing those cultures from the face of our planet.

I've told you that story to make something clear. Sometimes an idea, religion, or concept seems right popular to a vast majority of people. Sometimes they are good ones; but sometimes they are huge mistakes that can never be reconciled.

 My next blog will be a continuation of this one. It will cover the plight of the American Bison.

"Of Passing On"

2016 is a young year. It's just now the middle of the Season that we pagans call

Beltane, a season where the ancients believe that the God and Goddess were united for
a time of bringing in new life to the year.
2016 for allot of us has brought death, several of them very recently, of people young and old, famous and common, some close, and some very far away.
"Death" is defined in dictionaries as "the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism." ¹
That description of the noun we so commonly use today is a crude, modern definition of a process that everyone goes through at some point in their existence on this plane, and some like my father, my nephew, my brother, and two of my Army brothers; way too soon for our preference.
Other families witness/experience this event much too early in their lives, or in the passing person's life. Like the detective that was shot trying to stop a crime yesterday in Kansas City, or the five year old girl in Detroit that accidentally shot herself eleven hours ago, or the thousands of innocent people in Syria that have died and will die because of a senseless war kept alive in the name of God.
But that, dear friends, is only the beginning. Death of the physical body is the crude part of the eternal process of the path of the soul, spirit, chakra, of whatever term you choose to call the life essence of a human being.
Death as an entity is signified in ancient beliefs as a ghastly figure wearing a tattered cloak and carrying a scythe, and that being was charged with carrying the soul or the spirit to where it was headed; some eternal place. Several ancient beliefs personalized this character as the boatman, and two coins were place (on each) on the eye lids of thedead, so that the boatman received his pay for the task of ferrying the dead across the "river."
The spirit of a human being is the energy that makes up their life essence; it is neither good or evil, it is pure energy. The body and mind of that person chooses or is made to choose how that energy is directed. When a person "dies" or "passes" physically, that energy instantly leaves this plane and goes to the Source, a great pool of energy, at an unknown place. That place may be in space, on another plane, in an other dimension, or simply out of our sight. When a new human is created inside it's mother, a "soul" or "spirit" leaves the Source and takes up residence in that body for it's natural life. The Source is inhabited by trillions of spirits, because it is the energy pool for hundreds of worlds in thousands of galaxies across the mega-verse, the greater expansion of our universe. That's my belief. Death is a gate-way, not an end, although we are typically saddened when someone passes, because their time with us on this plane is ended.
Modern religions describe various ways that they soul passes from this plane to the next. Some are pleasant, some are awkward and downright scary as Hell, if you pardon the pun.
Whatever you believe, however you feel, take care not to judge the dead. There is way too much of that going around today. The people that were here yesterday and "gone" tomorrow are just passing on. They will live again.

-Jim Culp, 2016

  { ¹ Dictionary.com }

 

Accounting and Accountability

 

-By Jim Culp

 

I read today that the FBI has enough evidence to indict Hillary Clinton for the emails sent from a private server in her home while she was Secretary of State.

That's good news.

We all know that Hillary is one shady ass bitch, and should have been hanging from the gallows a long, long time ago, along with a lot of other toadies that got away with, well, yes, murder. I hope they indict her, and if there is a deity that really cares about his/her people here in the good ole US of A, he/she will at least make sure that Hillary isn't made President; that'll be disaster for the country and even more strain on an already crippled and crumbling economy.

But let's not stop there.

My research is also getting some nasty figures on the Iraq war.

The final debt of that conflict, which to this day keeps adding up, is near the six trillion mark. Sure, you're going to hear Republicans saying that the Central Bank of Iraq took care of that and that everything was a wash after the wells started working again.

Uh-huh. And I am named Jack and have a beanstalk in my backward that reaches heaven.

The truth is, from 2003 to 2009, the USA couldn't account for six billion dollars, and still hasn't accounted for all of it. The news you see at six o'clock doesn't tell you that for the first 2-3 years of the invasion/occupation, we did everything in cash. I know, I was there. Let's account for all of that, Republicans.

And as for accountability of leaders, let's start with Halliburton, and then let's revisit 9-11.

Both are chock full of holes, and the Bush Administration has a cast of characters that we can hang right up there next to Hillary when it's all said and done.

All of it, ladies and gents, is based upon lies.

Let's make Washington accountable for what had happened in the last three decades, and let's make "leaders" accountable for their sins.