The year is 1842, and children learn from a moral story called “The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little”: It’s a story about Chicken Little who believes that the world is coming to an end because an Acorn fell on his head; the sky is falling. This moral lesson teaches children the imprudence of jumping hastily to conclusions based on incomplete information.

There is another moral story that predates Chicken Little by a few years, being written by Aesop who lived between 650 and 620 BCE. ‘The boy who cried wolf,’ teaches a story about the consequences of being untruthful, even in jest. The moral here is: “Once a liar, always a liar.” The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf story intends that no one believes a repeated liar, even when he is finally telling the truth.

And… for the bible readers in the audience, that entire book is full of tales, fables, allegories, legends, lessons, and teachings. The best way to teach someone is to provide the information in a way they can understand, and that appeals to them in a relatable way – a story. Perhaps you’re familiar with Hans Cristian Andersen (1805 – 1875), and his 156-fairy tales… Continue reading →

“The quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it’s difficult or unpleasant.”

Uncle Charles

Another word that comes to mind is tenacity:

* the quality or fact of being very determined; determination.

* the quality or fact of continuing to exist; persistence.

I’m going to pose an unpleasant question to consider: Do we, as citizens of this republic, have the determination to do what’s necessary, to right and repair our foundering ship of state, or will we skirt these weighty and formidable tasks essential to overhaul our constitutional republic when they require our involvement or approval, just like we’ve abandoned every difficult task since 1960.

Will we make sacrifices if they are necessary?

Does anyone remember the rationing of scarce items during WWI and WWII? If not, please refer to the omniscient inter-web for more information. Americans were firmly behind these efforts. Will these requisite repairs to America require our sacrifices? I’m sure they will, but having a savvy businessman running the country, I doubt we’ll face rationing, but I think the needs will be more about the personal commitment to the changes. Continue reading →

February 28, 2017 – We are a fractured country. We live in fragmented communities. We don’t know our neighbors and we don’t even know ourselves. We lap up bullshit served up by a media with an agenda of disunity. They speak and the sheople follow lemming like right over the cliff.

Would you like an example? Read the divisive crap on this social site (Facebook) alone. There are now two sides to everything further dividing us in to camps. Some love Mr. Trump and some actually hate him because of the vitriol spewing from the fountain of lies in the media. Continue reading →

“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” ~ William Shenstone

No. it’s not another beauty-pageant for the “Information Princess” or the White House Communication Director, or the heir for Cringe Jean-Pierre’s job.

This articles’ title gives the impression that there is a contest like Miss America.

It’s an intentional misdirection; a play on words. It’s called a homophone, which is not the same as homophobe, and is not a gay telephone. Welcome to the world of Mis, Dis, and Mal information, where the message depends on how words are used, and how you are coached to interpret them.

We’re in the 47th contest for the leadership of our republic, where words and their interpretation are crucial. The goal of the speaker, the seller, is to sway your opinion toward their partisan political party’s candidate. Continue reading →

A Reprise

Or…

Once more, with feeling…

I’ve used this title a couple of times in the past, that’s the reason for the subtitle ‘reprise.’

It means, I want to revisit this topic again. The sub-subtitle comes from my hours and hours in rehearsals, both musical and theatrical, when the director comments…

“That was OK, but this time, with feeling…” Continue reading →

Words Are The Real Threat!

“Words are seeds that do more than blow around.
They land in our hearts and not the ground.
Be careful what you plant and careful what you say.
You might have to eat what you planted one day.” ~ Anon

There is an existential threat in Merka. It’s not a person, it’s more insidious and dangerous. It’s a simple four-letter descriptor called ‘word’ – a unit of language used to express ideas and information.

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” ~ George Orwell

It’s curious that I’m in sync with the political Right. The Corporate Media Complex (CMC) – the Left – is feeding their viewers some disquieting propaganda. Continue reading →

And most certainly, Mo’ expensiver…

This piece is about the Medical Industrial Complex, and more. It’s about realizing that you are funding the business from which you deserve returns, but that is designed to make you its perennial benefactor. That means that you began paying for it when you paid your first tax, you pay to access the system you already fund, and will continue to support it until well after you die…

That’s how it’s designed.

It’s called taxation without representation. Continue reading →

Niccolò Machiavelli, Patron Saint of Justification ~ Especially America’s Government

I frequently refer to Machiavelli’s famous quote as the ultimate justification and excuse for many of the decisions made by our government. I have no tangible proof for my assertion, what I do have is anecdotal and circumstantial at best, yet correlating the evidence with Machiavelli’s statement requires little imagination, and only an elementary understanding, and comprehension of the vicious circle of administrative actions.

To quote Kackling Kamala – “… See it with your own eyes…”

Yes, this is a mantra used by every government on this planet needing to condone or defend their decisions or plans. Continue reading →

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.“ ~ Leo Tolstoy

It’s more than inconvenient… it’s a reprehensible truth.

As seen from an aerial view a U.S. Border Patrol agent supervises as immigrants walk into the United States after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico on September 30, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. John Moore/Getty Images

Estimates say that there are over 20 million invaders – illegal immigrants in America.

These invaders are the hordes of people that entered our country without proper documentation by circumventing the legal immigration process. The number cited above is an estimate since there was no possible way to catalogue or inventory the huge number of people the Obama-Biden-Harris (OBH) regime allowed – invited to crash our boarders. Continue reading →

“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.” ~ George Orwell

Several of us suffered the ignominy and revulsion of the political rallies these past few weeks. I was particularly dumbfounded by the free-flowing falsehoods from the Nationalist American Socialist Party (NASP). You may know them as the Democrat Party, but there is nothing democratic about this new political blight on our republic. They have transformed this political party into agents for Karl Marx and everything he envisioned in his communist manifesto and treatises on social re-engineering.

I’ve long maintained that the NASP intends to pervert our republic to communism. Continue reading →

We don’t know, what we don’t know… That’s how it is…

I know that’s obvious and redundant, be patient as I attempt to explain that statement.

How do you know that you don’t know something?

Isn’t that the idea of hiding information? Continue reading →

We’re standing at the Gates of Hell.

            The Mouth of Hell by Gustave Dore

“I have the right to do anything,” you say – but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”- but I will not be mastered by anything.” ~ I Corinthians 6:12

Practical translation: “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should…” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

We live in a time and place where anything and everything is possible; even allowable, but is it right, should we do it?

That’s the question we regularly fail to ask. Is it right?
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Here are some interesting points to think about prior to the November election, especially to my friends on the fence, like moderate Democrats, Libertarians and Independents and the never Trump Republicans and those thinking of “walking away” from the Democratic party.

Women are upset at Trump’s naughty words – they also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.

Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women’s rights only matter if those women are liberal. Continue reading →

Mother, mother
Everybody thinks we’re wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us?

On July 13, 2024, there was an attempted assassination of Presidential Candidate Donald J Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. The details are unimportant. The attempted assassination is, as are the events and rhetoric leading to it. The shooter killed one, and injured two others, but failed to assassinate the past president and candidate for the 2025 seat. The would-be assassin was silenced by the Secret Service – ‘Merka‘s SS. Continue reading →

On the road trip that’s been my life, I’ve encountered more junctions, turn-offs, and exits than I care to count. I’ve taken a lot of domestic off-ramps, and a few foreign detours, as well. I should also mention there were many stops signs and road closed barricades on this odyssey. But I’m still driving, and for me, the best roads are the ones less traveled… Continue reading →

July 2, 2024 – I’m not interested in your habitat or domicile, whether you own or rent or even free-load – I’m most interested in where your head is… what do you believe?

What you believe is where you live.

So… Where do you live?

How did you learn what you believe?

Where do you get the information that feeds those convictions?

Is the information you consume positive, negative, or hopefully factual – unbiased, not anecdotal, circumstantial or based on rumors, innuendos and lies.

Do you trust your sources to provide unvarnished – true and honest data – or is what you consume interpreted to fit a political narrative; most commonly – disinformation, malinformation, and misinformation.

Are you looking for affirmation and validation for your views, or do you want to learn more? Continue reading →

What we know is all based on lies, rumors, and media-fueled hysteria.

My lead-line is an intentional generalization. I want you to think about what it says, then consider why it seems hyperbolic – an exaggerated claim.

Of course, there are things we know to be true – it’s proven 2+2=4, right is the opposite of left, up is the opposite of down, gravity is how we define the attractive force that keeps us from disintegrating and floating away.

We accept that the √ of -1 is unsolvable and calculating Pi results in an infinitely repeating decimal.

Still, there are many things about which I remain skeptical… dubious… I know the answers personally, but I want you to consider your personal perspective. Is it what you truly believe, accept or conclude; or are your concepts and ideas programmed responses from the Corporate Media Complex (CMC) programming?

Why do you believe what you believe – where did that belief originate? Continue reading →

Dickens is ANGRY!

In early 2015, the Nationalist American Socialist Party (NASP) and the Make America Great Again party (MAGA) began stoking the fires of descent for the coming election cycles. This was not the first salvo or engagement; nor will it be their final offensive. This began a very long time ago in this republic.

This is the status quo – nothing new.

‘Merka has been on this self-destructive track from the very beginning of this commonwealth when we decided to begin the “Great Experiment” as George Washington called it. Our choice, ‘The Constitutional Republic,’ was our administrative management selection. It’s a double-edged sword, cutting both ways. It works well in consideration of moral and ethical goals, but it’s an equally effective tool of destruction when ethics and morals are ignored. Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting idiomatic argot to begin this commentary, but that’s what I do; isn’t it…

This metaphoric title is powered by a particularly vivid contrast: “the inviting sensory appeal of a festive beverage juxtaposed with the revolting suggestion of feculent contagion.”

Or…

“Someone or something that spoils, ruins, or needlessly complicates a situation or circumstance; a disagreeable nuisance or source of irritation.” Continue reading →

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” ~ George Orwell

It means “the rapid decline of a state or its downfall, especially leading to its inevitable utter failure or destruction.”

The title is a metaphor. Picture water going down the drain in a toilet. It forms an eddy, the water swirling in a circular fashion as the bowl empties, until only a small amount remains, slowly circling the drain until it finally disappears.

Listen closely…

Do you hear that sound?

The one that sounds like a flushing toilet.

It should sound familiar…

It’s the sound of our constitutional republic going down the drain…

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