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Sunday, June 21, 2020

20/20 in 2020

Sorry I haven't written much lately. My mother was in a car accident on Christmas Eve and severely broke her right leg to the extent that she had to have an external fixator. I have thus had a lot on my plate. She was taken to Wake Forest Baptist for a month. A superstar doctor was able to save her leg. The Fibula and Tibia were broken along with bones above and below the ankle. She had 14 fractures.

She was in Baptist for a month, then in rehab in Conover for a month, I took a leave of absence from my job and finally I brought her home on February 27th, but a couple of days later she took a turn for the worse and she had to be admitted to the Frye hospital with heart and other issues. I was able to bring her home again on March 9th. It was just a couple days after that when the Coronavirus Pandemic hit full force. We made 5 trips to Wake Forest Medical Center over the subsequent two months before we finally moved her to a hard cast and then a walking boot.

My life has been funky since all of that happened, but I know most people's lives have evolved over the past several months. Below I will place some thoughts that I have jotted down in various places over the past few months that I will relate to you.

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*** Television - The other day my mother was going to tell me about something related to what one of the talking heads on television said about Governor Roy Cooper's mandates about the Coronavirus and the lockdowns. I told her that I didn't care what they said on the TV, because their "news" is irrelevant. It has little to do with reality and more to do with their agenda. Like I told her, they like to manipulate the Dupes that are addicted to the television. There needs to the a Alcoholics Anonymous for TV addicts.  There are 12 step programs for about every addiction and Television can be very bad for those certain people in a vulnerable mental state.

***  Echo Chamber - an environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.

*** Virtue Signalling: (aka - Woke) - To take a conspicuous but essentially useless action ostensibly to support a popular cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else... Advocating a political or philosophical position, and/or taking up a public cause, from a position of vanity, for the primary purpose of demonstrating your conformity with fashionable pop culture values.
***  Facebook - I'm just curious. Is facebook a place for the mentally ill or is it just a reflection of our current society, because there is no doubt in my mind that more than half of the place is Nucking Futz.

*** On Democrats blaming Trump for everythingI know that Democrats like to blame Trump for everything. Actually they like to blame Republicans for everything, but let's look at who runs the Major Metropolitan cities. Basically Democrat-Socialist-Progressives run these cities from top to bottom. They are so large that they control who becomes governor of the State. They have the Mayorship, and control their town councils and appoint the Police Chief. Democrat-Socialist-Progressives control the whole thing from top to bottom, because minorities put them in these positions, but somehow it's Trump's fault. Give me a freakin break. The cancer in our society is the Democrat Party and how corrupt it is and run like a caste system. It's a Gilded Age system where they live fabulously wealthy lives in their compounds and everyone else deals with the messes they make.

*** Social Media Bias - Either Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and other social media forums are allowed to be public commons and open without bias or they should be forced into divestiture. End the high tech monopolies and tyranny...  There are Antitrust rules that come into play over how these companies have been operated. Capitalism isn't at play here. Crapitalism (Crony Capitalism) is at play here and these entities are not above such laws. These are the modern day Robber Barons... Of course it is Democrats that have always protected monopolies and have been against competition. Look at the largest tech companies, that have bought out competition and vertically integrated into behemoths. All Democrats protected by Democrats. That's why you have to laugh when Democrats pretend to be for the little guy. They love the Gilded Age type culture... I am in favor of the Social Media Behemoths being run and regulated as public utility infrastructure like the phone company, power company, and cable companies are run and regulated... Democrat-Socialists seem to be in favor of a public forum that attacks free expression and speech. These Social Media corporation's growth was built upon them operating as a public commons. If they are going to enjoy enormous growth based upon that principle then they can't arbitrarily disappear people and their expression, because they decide to pick one side over the other. We don't tolerate that with other industries and we aren't going to here. It is a violation of Civil Rights. It is the same as arbitrarily denying me the right to eat in your restaurant for (because of) some reason you don't like me.

*** Proverbs 13:9 - The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

*** John 1: 5-9 - 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.