I have the opportunity to talk with and e-mail with a good number of people. I think most people are just like water, they take the path of least resistance.

Most of the people I know spend too much time with their T.V. and not enough time reading. Only 9% of the adult population in the U.S. reads the newspaper.

Most people trust their politicians, and shouldn't.

Most people are too lazy to help their community by volunteering.

Most people don't know their neighbors names if they live more than three doors away from them.

Most people think it is our diversity that makes us strong. They are absolutely wrong. It is the commonality of the diverse that makes us strong.

Some people think they can borrow themselves into prosperity. That concept is totally foolish.

Some people think that by raising taxes we can create a better world for poor people. That concept is flawed, because the more you give to the poor the more dependent people you have.

To create a better world for the poor, the best thing is to force them to become educated in such a manner as to make useful citizens of them.

An applicant who comes to an employer unprepared will not get the job.
So, I say why not prepare people for the real world. Government give away programs that do not educate or train people for the working world are as useless as tits on a bore hog.

And last but not least with each program there a whole bunch of unintended consequences.

I was nine years old on the 6th of June 1944. In Cedar Rapids Iowa where I was born, I sold the Cedar Rapids Gazette on the corner across from the court house. I remember holding the paper up in my left hand and hollering, "Get your paper here; Yanks storm beaches in Normandy" I sold out in twenty minutes. Usually it took about an hour and a half to sell 100 newspapers. May 7th 1945, Germany surrendered. In just this one battle alone, which lasted 3 days, we lost almost 10,000 U.S. Soldiers, Marines and Airmen. If we had not stayed the course after the invasion and brought our troops home we would have handed Germany over to the Russians or back into the hands of the Nazis. There were Nazi sympathizers still killing Americans for 8 years following WWII. If we pull our troops out of Iraq, Iraq will be a dictatorship again in a matter of months. The Iraqi people have had three decades of tyrannical rule and the Suni's, backed by support from Iran and Al Queda are doing their best to put Iraq back in the hands of a dictator. The last thing that the militant arm of the Islamic fundamentalists want is to see a democracy in the middle east. They know that freedom and liberty that succeeds in one area of the middle east will bring more people to want it. If we get out now, then we will have lost 2000 of our finest, bravest and have gained nothing. Every day in Iraq the Iraqi army and police, who are being trained by our troops, are carrying more responsibility and will someday be able to sustain the Democracy. Give liberty a chance. It will all be worth it in the long run.

In the mirror we see the false impression
Of self and not the inner based reflection
For mirrors do not reach into the soul
Where our true self hides for its protection

From the harshness of realities we often face
And from our self abuse when from selection
We error in our judgment and then regret
What others have to say of us by inflection

But, in the mirror of our soul when we see
The real self that brings us to our knowing
Of that steel strong self that seeds the future
That grows the fruits of knowledge we are sowing

Introspection of our own doing that will save us
From defeat by those who may wish to do us harm
And when the threat comes from someone we may love
It fails to make the soul aware, it sets off no alarm

A parent might be a sperm donor
A husband could be one
A boy friend could be one too.

A sperm donor, however is not always a parent.

Being a parent means that you are there for the child
and for the mother when you need to be.

Being a parent means that you always without exception
put the children's interest first and formost in your
daily life.

Being a parent means doing the right thing for your family
no matter what the cost to you personally.

What cause we have to sell our souls for wealth
That fills our lives with pride and more than that

That tells the world we are but waste of health
A coin of realm wont buy the welcome mat

We come and go without a soul you see
But build a place for Him we try to please

But then He knows the road we take is greed
So life to us will have no stress but ease

We sold our souls for wealth and now we loathe
Our selves for what we’ve done and can’t undo

And late in life we give our wealth away
To make amends so God will let us through

The gates of gold and pearl that leads to Him
To join the poor and good who’s faith was strong

Who’s toil and sweat they gave that let us gain
A loss of soul and life we knew was wrong

A sonnet written in Iambic Pentameter