The Plan

Here it is.

After taking everything into consideration that’s been going on in 2020, and prior, there’s only one solution.

We the People need to start getting involved with our town and local governments.

We the People need to attend town council meetings so we can learn about the representatives we’re voting into power.  We need to not only start informing ourselves about things like the budget, plans for local economic and business growth, and the education systems, but we need to have a say, voice our opinions, and be heard.

If we are not present to hold our local officials accountable, than we have no one to blame but ourselves when things aren’t right, or going the way we think they should be.

I’m serious.  Let’s get motivated about this.  Let’s take on a little responsibility.  This, afterall is our government, by us, and for us.

Thank you PEXELS.COM and pixabay.com for the Photo.

More Than a Point

Located in the Western United States, there’s a quadripoint.  It’s the dot, the point, and the exact location where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.

I’ve never been there, but the Four Corners Monument is located on the Colorado Plateau west of Highway 160.  This intriguing location also serves as a boundary between two American Indian tribal governments, the Navajo Nation, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation.

I don’t have a bucket list of places I would like to visit, but I think the Four Corner Monument is definitely worth seeing, and just think, after visiting you’ll actually be able to tell people you were in places at once.  If you’ve ever been there, write in, and tell us your story.

Photo: By Rich Torres – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17300760

“The Iceman”

Movie Review

Subconsciously, I must be on a Ray Liotta binge as of late because Iceman is the second movie of his that I saw in the month or so, but to tell you the truth, it’s really easy to forget that Liotta is even in the movie because it focuses so much on the Ice Man, Richard Kuklinski.

I didn’t even know The Iceman existed until seeing it on Youtube last month, but believe me, that takes nothing away from this movie. It came out in 2012, and Michael Shannon does an amazing job at capturing the audience, and taking us on this wild ride through the life and times of a real killer.

Richard Kuklinski was a hitman for hire, and killing was not only how he supported his family, but it actually became a way of life. Between the mid to late 60’s, and I think it was 1985 or 1986, Kuklinski is said to have killed between 100 and 250 people.

Ray Liotta plays a powerful a “mobster” in this film known in real life as Roy Demeo, who initially has a problem with the Iceman while Kuklinski was working in a pornogrhapy lab in Manhattan. After the incident, however, DeMeo is somewhat intrigued and interested in Kuklinski, and ends up putting him on his payroll as a hitman.

There really isn’t a dull moment in this movie, and honestly, I’m surprised that I was actually able to find such a quality copy available for free on Youtube, but I did, and I watched the entire movie, and I’d watch it again. It was that good.

What I find so interesting, is how the Iceman was able to consistently kill so many people over such a long period of time without getting caught. You want to talk about a journey through the mind of a madman, this guy could hack a person into pieces, and then go home and have dinner with his family. I couldn’t believe how he was able to keep his life of crime a secret for long. He did though.

Richard Kuklinski was in prison for 17 years, where he ended up dying at the age of 70 in 2005. I highly recommend this movie, and I garuntee you, before it’s over, in some weird way, you’ll be captured, and become sympathetic towards this monster.

We gave the Iceman Starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, James Franco, Ray Liotta, and Chris Evans “5 Takes.”

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Hey Frank, what is it that you believe in?

I believe in equality.  I believe in the Bill of Rights as guide to protecting us against an “overreaching government,” and I believe this country could be “magical” if everyone was on the same page.

Every time we get close to making some real progress in this country, “the establishment,” “the globalist,” or whoever or whatever you want to call them, brings us backwards.

How do we beat this?

We beat this by not participating in the narrative.  We beat this by being ourselves.  We beat this by being open and honest with ourselves.  We beat this by striving for equality.  We beat this by remembering there are a lot of other people in this country who aren’t white or black, and we’re all Americans.

We beat this by not allowing slanted media sources to pull at our heartstrings.  We beat this by staying neutral, understanding all viewpoints, and then making better decisions for ourselves.

We beat this by respecting other people’s opinions.  We beat this by not forcing change, but by accepting things for what they are.  I always say, we have to accept things for what they are, and not what we would like them to be.  Once we can do that, we can educate ourselves, become more informed, and then make the proper decisions for how we want to live, and who we want to surround ourselves with.

You can’t change people, people have to be willing to change themselves.  We are who we are.

We beat this by not going along with something if we don’t believe in it.  If you do that you’re hurting yourself.  You’re stopping yourself from growing.

We beat this by overcoming fear and doing what’s right.  The Black Lives Matter movement is not new.  I think it came out around 2018 or 2019.  People think Black Lives Matter was created for George Floyd, but it wasn’t.  It was way before.  Educate yourself.

When Black Lives Matter first came out, White Lives Matter quickly followed, and then somebody woke up and created All Lives Matter.  All Lives Matter stood strong until the George Floyd incident.

This is where we regressed.

Out of fear, perhaps, I don’t know I’m guessing fear, we “threw the baby out with the bath water” and everyone stood with Black Lives Matter.  Real people understand this.

It’s possible for two people of different ethnic backgrounds to hate and despise each other without it having anything to do with racism.

All Lives Matter!  Equality!  Truth!

We can all stand up and say the George Floyd incident was a display of racism, and as true as it may be, people will always debate that.

You cannot debate, however, the fact that George Floyd’s treatment was “Cruel and Unusual,” which falls under the 8th Amendment.  The government violated the constitution not the people.  We should be raising the American Flag in the face of those who violated it to remind them what they’re in service to uphold and protect, not burning it.

AND IF YOU SAY THAT IS NOT TRUE THEN YOU’RE A GLOBALIST WHO REALIZED:

Police brutality or police violence, is legally defined as a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a civilian. This includes, but is not limited to, physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, and death.

Can’t all people be victims of police brutality and excessive force?

 

 

 

“Control”

Movie Review

Ray Liotta fans, if you haven’t seen the 2004 thriller, Control, it’s a must see.  Liotta plays a crazy sociopath, who ends up in the care of a doctor (WIlliam Defoe) who at first appears only concerned with the progression of his career and the promotion of an SSRI medication that’s supposed to completely change his patient’s interior, but by the end, they’re on the same team and both are trying to stay alive.

What really caught my attention is the scene when the doctor says, “back in the day they used to preform frontal lobotomies on people by slicing a portion of their brains off, but today, they do it in a more civilized manner, biochemically.”

With all the talk about SSRI’s today, I thought that was really interesting.

A must see.  I give it “five takes.”

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E-Scripts

Approximately one year ago, I was leaving the Doctor’s office when I noticed I was leaving without my prescription.

I turned around and said, “Hey, where’s my prescriptions?”

The doctor said, “We’re using e-scripts now.”

I’m not going to lie, I was a little upset because in a way I’m a little old fashioned.  I still like going to the mailbox, I prefer going to the bank, I like reading the newspaper, and I like having my prescription in my hand because I want to have the freedom to take it anywhere at anytime, but I never imagined the issues that did occur months down the road.

Two things happened that confirmed my initial reaction:

  1. The cost of my prescription was almost 3 x’s more expensive at the pharmacy I requested the electronic prescription be sent to than the pharmacy I was going to.  When I told the pharmacist I wanted to go to a different pharmacy because of the cost they said I couldn’t because the e-script wasn’t transferable.
  2. If the doctor forgets to email your prescription, you have to wait until they remember.

Both of those things happened to me, and initially, I had to argue some sense back into the pharmacist, but the first problem did get settled.  They did allow another pharmacy to call and transfer the e-script, but you could imagine my initial reaction.

It felt like checkmate, I was under total control.

That’s how it appeared, and that’s how it felt at first.  The second problem also happened, and it was just a real inconvenience.  You keep saying to yourself if only I had the prescription in my hand this wouldn’t be an issue, but now I have to wait.

If you go to a doctor’s office, and you spend good money to see the doctor and he or she gives you a prescription, there should be a smooth process in place for you to leave and get your medicine that’s easy and free of stress.

EXAMPLE: You leave the doctor’s office and go to the pharmacy to pick up your medicine, but the drug store says we don’t have any prescriptions under your name,  nothing came in.  You call the office you left two hours ago to find out what’s going on, and you discover everyone’s out to lunch, and before they left, they forgot to email your e-script.  Now, you have to wait until they’re  good and ready.

I was at my pharmacy recently, and I asked my beautiful pharmacist, “Are we ever going to go back to paper prescriptions?”  She said she didn’t know.

What was wrong with paper prescriptions?

Table Seven Nooz Update 6/4/2020

Hello!  🖐  How’s everyone doing today?  I woke up today at almost 3 a.m. with some stuff on my mind, and I figured, why not blog about it.  Check it out, and write in.  Let me know what’s up.

This morning I Tweeted, ” Okay so we’re going to attack Drew Brees now for stating his opinion about flag burning and kneeling. YOU’RE STILL NOT GETTING IT! (They’re calling him lost, and saying he’s not ready.) LMAO. The minute you say something against the narrative, you’re demonized.”

“I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country,” Brees said in an interview with Daniel Roberts. “Let me just tell what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States.”

-Drew Brees

It’s amazing how many people would agree with this quote until they see the picture of the man who said it.

A major problem in this country is that we as a people receive backlash and pushback for stating our opinions.  I talk about this all the time.  Every person in this country has the right to talk about and share their personal opinions.

No one should ever be threatened, attacked, demonized, red flagged, blacklisted, or outcasted for sharing their opinions.  You cannot argue with someone for giving an opinion.  I don’t understand why people aren’t accepting that.

This is why we are are ill as a nation.  Good therapy encourages you to talk about what you’re feeling, and what’s on your mind, but the minute we do, we get attacked, demonized, and labeled.

Yesterday, I wrote a story titled Sports in America because I wanted to:

  • Bring attention to the fact that we live in a very diverse country.  There will always be racist people in this country.  Racism, bigotry, and prejudice will always be present in a nation that’s as diverse as America, but you cannot solve racial issues by forcing people to accept one another.  

That’s why sports are important.  Good teams, and successful teams are able to put their differences aside.  When they do, there’s a real magical feeling, and ultimately, they win.  Trust me.

My brother and I always laughed and joked about the town we grew up in because we said it was a microcosm of the world.  It was very diverse culturally.  If you walked into our high school cafeteria at lunch you would see white kids sitting with white kids, black kids sitting with black kids, Asians sitting with Asians, Jewish people sitting with Jewish people, and of course there were lunch tables made up of people who played sports together.

This was never done on purpose.  People just naturally gravitated into groups they felt comfortable in.  For the most part, there weren’t any issues either.  Everyone really got along, but when it came time to eat, people ate with the people they felt comfortable with.

One day, the Vice Principal said he had an issue with this, and he wanted to break these tables up and force students to take random seats at lunch, but he never did.  There was never a problem, but he almost created one.

There’s nothing wrong with people sitting and eating with who they’re comfortable with, eventually they’ll come out of their comfort zones, but if you try to force it prematurely, you’re going to do more harm than good.

Random Thoughts/Opinions About Covid-19 and George Floyd

  • I encourage you to use some common sense here.
  • We never shut the country down for an illness before.
  • When you’re sick, you stay home until you’re better.  Right?
  • Many people were curious about the closure of the economy.  All government centers closed and people went home.
  • Almost three months later, riots break out, and conveniently, no one was working.
  • Why didn’t the people who were filming the police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck try to push the cop off?  They just kept saying, “You’re killing him, you’re killing him, you’re killing him, you’re killing him, you’re killing him, oooooooh he’s dead.”
  • If the Coronavirus is legit, we should be able to test for it.  If you’re sick then you stay home until you’re better.  People who exercise for thirty minutes a day live longer than people who sit around doing nothing.  Life extension is increased by 30%. (I hear that on Coast to Coast.)
  • The beach is extremely beneficial and it promotes good health and skin care.  Salt water and sunshine are essential.
  • Excessive force and police brutality are real issues in this country, and we should always call it out and bring attention to it.
  • I don’t think the military should ever be turned on the people.  If people are peacefully protesting, marching, and walking, why are they in a standoff with an armed militia?
  • There are many reasons why people protest, but one main reason is to show the government they are not in charge.  The people are.  The people put you in power.  It’s a government created by the people, for the people.
  • When the government no longer works for the people, the people can abolish and start anew.
  • If I was ever arrested and killed, I would hope someone would avenge my death, but right now, a lot of  people are just taking advantage.

Solutions

  1. Excessive police force and brutality should not be tolerated, ever.  It doesn’t matter what color you are.  Victims have to bring attention to it and call it out.
  2. Let’s try to recognize narratives.  This is important because it’s because of the narratives that people get attacked for speaking their minds and sharing their opinions.  Individual Americans are being outcasted and demonized when they speak against the popular narratives.   
  3. We all should keep a copy of the Bill of Rights on hand.
  4. Listen to people.  Give people a chance to speak.  Stop trying to silence people when you don’t agree with them.
  5. Let’s keep sports strong, pure, and free from people who are trying to distort the meaning of teamwork and undermining the value of perseverance, hard work, and winning.
  6. If “we the people” are upset, than the system isn’t working.  What’s the problem?  What can we fix, what can we change?
  7. Let’s go back to paper prescriptions because e-scripts are causing unnecessary inconveniences.  Little things like that.  Think.
  8. We can’t fix everything at once.  We have to start with smaller issues, and get some small victories under our belts.
  9. People don’t want to be controlled, or forced to do anything.  We like to make decisions for ourselves.

 

Okay everyone.  Pay attention, stay alert, and educate yourselves.  Feel free to write in.  Have a joyful and blessed day.

Sports in America

We must see things for what they are, and not for what we would like them to be. There will always be an element, or a group of people that seek to ruin a good thing. Sports in America are good, and they’re necessary because of what they represent and the qualities they instill.

America is united, and the people of sports teams unite for a cause. Through sports we learn the concept of coming together for a goal, and that goal is winning. A team is made up of humans, people of different colors, religions, and ethnic backgrounds, and sports in this country are set up for children by the time they reach age ten.

Wars, racial issues, prejudices, and civil unrest are nothing new to the people of this country, afterall, we did fight for our freedom, but we should constantly strive to overcome our differences. Some people do, and some don’t. Sports are by no means the answer to all the problems in this country or our communities, but they are necessary because they attempt to teach. They instill the qualities we need to be successful as adult men and women.

Sports, for that reason, should be protected from the ‘element’. Sports should be free from any and all religious and political propaganda. The people who get it, need to prevent the infiltration of the ‘element’ because the element wants to destroy something good. The element wants to destroy the integrity of the game, and ultimately, the game itself.

Did We Just Get Set Up?

Back before the United States was shut down because of Covid-19, I’m talking like January and February of this year 2020, we saw videos of people in China walking around with face masks.

I remember laughing to myself, and asking myself, “What the heck is going on out there?”

Not long after asking myself that, I watched a news story about citizens in China wearing face masks to protect themselves against facial recognition technology.  The people in china were trying to protect themselves, and their privacy from a government trying to imprison them for commiting crimes in the past by using advanced technology.

I said to myself, “Oh, there it is.”

Then, in March, the United States began closing down because of Covid-19, and now Americans were wearing the masks.

Americans wanted to know where the virus came from, and we were told Wuhan, a city in China.

Then I heard, America could have been better prepared to deal with the virus if the people in Wuhan didn’t lie to the world about being sick.

At that point, I started to think about the story about the facial recognition technology, and I said to myself, “They weren’t being spied on, they were sick, and they used the story about facial recognition to deceive the world.

Forget about everything you just read.  Fast forward to now.  People around the country are rioting because of what happened to George Floyd.  In addition, people are also wearing masks because of Covid-19.

You have people rioting for one reason, and wearing a mask for another (which is the deception because sometimes rioters wear masks), but both are joined together so you have rioters wearing masks.

Was there really facial recognition technology in China?  I don’t know, but America might consider it now because….

what do we do if in the future, people are wearing masks because of a viral outbreak, but then decide to steal, destroy, or kill just because their identity is concealed?

IRIS SCANNING 

Welcome to the future, I think we just got played.

NCAA College Football 2020/2021

images (1)  The Covid-19 crisis will subside, and America will return to normalcy.  When that happens, we’ll finally have a moment to go back and revisit some things that happened during an electrically fast period of time.  Amidst the issues happening outside the football world, which sometimes seep into the football world, stuff happens that demands our attention, but because of an order of importance, some things need to be put on the back burner, as they say.

Let’s revisit the NCAA 2020 College Football Playoffs Semi-Final game between the (2)Ohio State Buckeyes, and the (3) Clemson Tigers.  Specifically, let’s return to the second quarter.  It’s 3rd and 5, and there’s just about 5 minutes left in the half.  Ohio State is winning 16-0.  The ball is snapped, the Buckeyes blitz, there’s a hit, and then, there’s an ejection.  Shaun Wade hits and sacks Trevor Lawrence, and then, he gets ejected for targeting.

My issue here is obviously the ejection, but in a growing culture where we demonize players for making clean open field tackles, referees must be careful with the terminology they’re using.

There was a time, not long ago, when the fans used to cheer and applaud good clean hits, and that’s what creates momentum.  I worry, as an ex-NCAA football player, and a fan of the game, that this growing trend of booing and placing guilt on players for making clean hits, is going to eventually change the game, but not for the better.

Terminology?  When you target someone, you’re intentionally going after that person.  Was Shaun Wade really targeting Trevor Lawrence, or did he make a clean hit and tackle off a called blitz?

I’ve been an Ohio State football fan since 1996, and I can tell you that Ohio State is not that kind of program.  I also don’t believe Shaun Wade is that kind of player.

Shaun Wade’s ejection, which came at such a critical point in the game, not only changed the momentum coming from the crowd, but it gave the Tigers a first down, and the extended drive led to a Clemson touchdown.  Going into the locker room at halftime down by 9, is a lot different than going in and being down by 16.

I understand there’s a concern about player safety, but football is contact sport, and it’s a fast physical sport.  The players have to be able to play the game, and referees have to do a better job at deciding the difference between clean aggressive hits that happen throughout the course of the game, and those that are delivered to inflict intentional harm.

If you haven’t played the game than you cannot know how fast the play is on the field.  The plays are called, the ball is snapped, and contact is made.  It’s that fast.  Our concern with player safety still, cannot interfere with the free flow of the game, unless we sacrifice the game itself in the name of safety.

The summer will be here in few weeks, and hopefully football will return.  Hopefully football will return.