A Pioneer's hopes

MAKE IT MATTER-Yesterday would have been President Ronald Reagan's 107th birthday.Laura Ingraham who worked in the Reagan White House was told by the president,"Make it matter."On her show last night Laura paid tribute to her former boss who stuck with his guns and sticking to his peace thru strength,but remembered him mostly for his sense of humor. President Reagan was an optimistic,uplifting leader-that while he was strong for freedom,he was also a man for peace.It led the Berlin Wall to fall.Reagan also had faith like a mountain and he carried it with him as he journeyed the miles of a noble profession and kept it through the final journey of life. He believed America's best days were ahead even despite the road of darkness of alzheimer's he was preparing to face.In life Ronald Reagan made America matter,he made faith matter and he made freedom more important the best hope to mankind NOT PEOPLE KIND-MANKIND matter. So to learn Laura worked for Ron...

TAKE TO HEART HIS PEACEFUL MESSAGE-"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.Instead of diminishing evil,it multiplies it.Through violence you may murder the liar,but you cannot murder the lie nor establish the truth.Through violence you murder the hater,but you do not murder hate.In fact violence merely increases hate...Darkness cannot drive out darkness;only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate;only love can do that."-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. I KEPT AN ARTICLE written by a Charles from Lincolnshire,Il who wrote back in 2016 of Dr.King's lasting message on hate and violence and I agree more needs to reread it or read it for the first time and keep reading it until it sinks in. To heal a nation and stop the disease of hate is to live with love and compassion,to spread light throughout our cities and country so the darkness can let go of its stubborn grasp on all likes of people an...

MLK JR WOULD SEE MORE WORK IS NEEDED-People like Dick Durbin who to me purposely in my opinion put out claims of racism by Donald Trump our 45th president who allegedly said racism remarks about other nations was an agenda by Durbin and the Democrats to get a DACA deal.Because Trump refused their offer in the Oval Office and because they did not put a wall in the deal,to which the president said no deal could be made without a wall they started crying racist! NOW FRIDAY is the deadline-before a govt shutdown can happen.President Trump said he never used the shithole remark and I intend to believe him and what annoys me is that the party of JFK keeps lying to the American people.Now I was upset too when I first heard those claims because the president has a habit of tweeting the wrong thing from time to time and hope he learns something from this,but what upsets me more is the left keeps playing the race card,even Martin Luther King Jr would see that. BUT IS TRUMP the only o...

BRET THE HITMAN HART was one of my all time favorite WWE Superstars and still is.In the beginning Bret was part of the Federation known then as WWF which was better if you ask me,but the federation was a place legends were made,wrestling and entertainment made Saturday Night's Main Event a big event to me.A place where tag team partners became single endorsements and faces of the WWF.Hart Foundation and the Rockers are examples. But I've watched Bret Hart grow from a tag team partner to a fighting WWF Champion.To me he was the best technical wrestler of all time and when he beat a legend known as the Nature Boy Ric Flair for the WWF title I was the happiest person in the world.Even got to see Bret in person when he came to Rockford.As he walked around the ring greeting fans after his defending the title I was among the many that high fived him. Bret was one of many in family that emerged from what he called the Dungeon where his father Stu Hart was already a legend h...

                                              RESPECT! "Respect is one of life's greatest treasures."-Marilyn Monroe. Respect is one of life's greatest treasures and disrespect is life's worst poisons.For people of all kinds of different cultures who disrespect each other makes life harder-not easier.But when they respect each other a world of hope emerges like spring enters from winter,as the sun emerges from the clouds. Respect even in disagreements goes along ways.It's vital to the relationship of the human family. For all the hate,the violence,terrorism and sexual harassments.Love and respect for one another are the ingredients to steer our ship with hope.Working together in a world of so many problems and diseases-it needs the best of people not ...

A PURPOSE OF A DREAM to me is to reach beyond your grasp.Going out of your comfort zone and stand in a place where controversy emerges and truth is open. A PURPOSE OF A DREAM to me is to imagine a world where hate and wars do not exist and the color of skin or religion does not matter.Only the conduct of our characters does. A PURPOSE OF A DREAM is where we find each other at the same table-crowning our good in brotherhood and making peace and goodwill among men and women a reality.A dream where politics has no hold but only the service of love,hope and peace stirs our movement.With love being the greatest of them. We preach and preach on all of this yet the airwaves are scrambled by hate,division of left and right politics and any dreams fought for,marched for,hoped for are squashed. A PURPOSE OF A DREAM to me especially in a promise land like America is meant to be worked on with hope so everyone is free with liberty and dignity.A dream like this is not far fetched and it ...

"If your tired of arguing with strangers on the internet.Try to talk to one in real life."-President Barack Obama. Disagree with his policies but he's not wrong here.Because too many of us are strangers on the internet-unknowns in public that will shout with voices of opposition instead of knowing each other in person.We act cruel and hateful of one who either supports President Trump or opposes him.But the internet is an arena of ideas,like the public arena and where too often it becomes a field of attacks. President Obama wasn't afraid to write back when I told him I didn't always agree with him and that I salute him for that.People can't be afraid to talk to one another or give ideas to one another.Instead we fight "I'm right and you're wrong!"That to me is not increasing progress,it's decreasing it and it's making it harder for progress. Let's quit attacking Trump and quit attacking each other.We need to talk to one a...