Email gone wild!

Email gone wild!

By T.J. Rockford

  Ok unless you've been living under a rock, In a box, and on a deserted island somewhere around the South Pole you're fully aware of the BIG Clinton Email scandal!

  As much as it may have some merit into security protocol do you think it really needs to go this far? I mean hell's bells! 

  Sure there may have been some rules broken! Do you really think she's the only one to have done this? I guarantee you right now if you go back in the stacks of files and documents you would find a lot more high officials in our government have done this same sloppy practice! And sloppy is all it should be chalked up to being!

  Stop this nonsense and let's get on to some more important business at hand! Give her a fine, scold her, reprimand her, do whatever besides turning this into some major crime scene, because it's not! All this is, is a way to make the general public think the feds are actually doing their job for a change!

  If the government wants to impress us have them dig into Donald Trumps tax records for the last 30 years so the public supporting him will see that he probably hasn't paid any taxes since he was old enough to actually have to pay! 

  I will guarantee the regular average working class family pays more in taxes yearly then he ever has in a single year! And this is how the rich get richer and we get stuck paying their share! Think about that if you're contemplating on supporting him! 

  He's far from being the only rich person that doesn't pay taxes! Taxation was meant for the commoner! Not for the aristocrat like people! I think if you look up the definition of the word aristocrat you would find an image of Trump with his freakish smile!

  The bigger issue here is the amount of money that has been spent on chasing down this horse and pony show of a scandal! If your familiar with the word "Red Herring" Well this would probably fit in here somehow! 

  Anything to dig up dirty laundry and spend millions of dollars, Or bury dirty laundry spend millions, Or buy someone else's dirty laundry for millions and then spend millions more chasing down some smoke and mirror parlor tricks, our government will be willing! Anything to waste some money their willing! 

  Well I'm not willing! And I'm tired of this B.S.! And I want to see some better head lines in the news besides the millions more were spending on this Email crap! News like maybe we've finally stopped ISIS? Or how about we've come up with a solution to curb climate problems? Now there's a few examples I wouldn't mind seeing millions of dollars flying out the window for! Not all this man power and money just going down the shitter' and for what? What the hell is going to end up coming out of this? That's right nothing!

  Nothing but a big fat waste of millions of dollars! Like we don't piss enough away let's try spending millions and see if we can screw over Clinton somehow!

  Don't worry about what's happening with China! And how their hacking into America's highest most vitally secret documents! Like we couldn't be spending all these wasted millions of dollars on maybe ramping up our computer security! Or maybe paying someone smart enough to build an impenetrable firewall system! Heck we didn't even have a security system on our computer's for the last hack they did stealing tons of government employees info! Couldn't afford the 79 bucks for a years worth of BullGuard computer security, But we can afford millions with the big Email scandal! Makes sense if your in the American government!

  Like this country isn't in a enough of a spiral shit spin! We have this lunatic republican feeding the country a bunch of horse shit and everyone's sucking it up without even thinking of the impact of anything he says! 35% to 45% Tariffs to China, Mexico, and Japan! And the crowds go bullshit wild! Until China, Mexico, and Japan snap back and raise the price of everything 110%! If you don't think these countries would do that you're as delusional as Trump!

  Another thing Trump just said he would do right off if he became president is reverse the Canadian keystone oil pipeline deal! For those of you that don't know the Obama administration squashed it from happening! And why you ask? A little thing called the climate is going to hell in a hand basket! Going ahead with that plan would defeat the purpose of what "the whole world" is trying to accomplish and curb global warming!

  

  That is everyone but "Trump!" He had actually said to the press back in 2014 that the government was wasting tons of money on trying to curb climate change and global warming, Trump said it was all a "hoax!" 

  While at the same time his company was petitioning the fine people of Scotland's Government to let them build a gigantic seawall at the location where one of his golf courses is because due to climate change and global warming is happening faster then predicted that sea level rise is going to double what previously was thought! So they want to try protecting the golf course! "Some hoax huh?"

  So just what we need the Canadian oil pipe line! Trump said he would support big global trade in our oil and coal industry! He said with all this energy we're sitting on we can make loads of money! Sure never mind what kind of world we'll leave our children! 

  So enough about Clinton and her phone! Let's get on to more important matters because it's not just kind of important! The future of America and possibly the planet are at stake!

  China was able to hack America's computer system and obtain the prints for our most expensive trillion dollar F-35 joint strike jet fighter and has the government spent millions on finding out who let that happen? No! 

  So once again enough with this witch hunt!

Climate change? Start with an attitude change!

ATTITUDE CHANGE!

T.J. Rockford

  As we're all aware of we are running into some serious climate changes on the way even if we actually start doing something about it now!

 So doing something about it really needs to start wouldn't you say? Yes most governments have jumped on board and agreed that there is an issue and they are all going to start working on lowering certain type's of emissions which is great! 

  In my personal opinion it's way to little and way to late, But what can we do? Stop everything and then what? 

  I live in a town that has had a recycling program at our "transfer station" (Fancy name for dump) for quite a very long time now, so that's all good and great! It makes everyone feel like their doing their share in saving the planet, plus it saves the town a bit of cash which trickles down to us in savings!

  The problem is it's costly to recycle and we're still adding to the pollution issue when going through the recycling process! But it's a lot less then not doing it so it does help to an extent!

  I'm a very concerned person about climate issue's and at time's wish I could do a lot more than I do! though I'm like many and kind of limited to going green because of the cost! Sadly it's not cheap doing the right thing for the world!

  The one thing I'm into is gardening and have been for several years now! I have a good sized road side garden that needless to say is the hardest type to keep maintained and keep thriving due to where I live.

  Here in the state of Maine we get snow in the winter and with the location of my garden it takes a beating from the plow trucks flying by and spraying snow 15 feet through the air!

  So when the roads get sanded down and whatever they mix with the sand nowadays to help melt the snow "which I think is some kind of calcium?" It covers all of my shrubbery and perennials. So come spring time it's an utter mess to get back up to par, But I do faithfully every year!

  I live in a rural area where I have around 15 neighbors up and down the road and all the people have been very grateful for what I have done with the area because all that was there before when I first bought the house was an old stockade fence! 

  So when I started this endeavor I ripped down this pretty good length of fence that was blocking a pretty nice view of the lake I live on! 

  So it really opened the place up and at the same time made it look nice with all the flowers and shrubbery I've added over the years! Which I don't mind doing as I really enjoy the gardening part! 

  

 I've always had a pretty good green thumb which could be contributed to the fact in my youth I enjoyed rockin' the ganj! Which in turn I grew to my particular desire and seemed to have a particular knack at! Which is a whole different story so onward we go!

  The point being every year I buy a ton of annual flowers to fill in all the voids and add some really nice color!

  Plus it's great for the environment! The bee's, bird's, butterflies, Etc, and even us!

  The problem I have always had is when buying all these flowers and what not I end up with a zillion plastic carrying flats and all the plastic pots everything is grown in!

  The problem with these items are they are not recyclable! So into the trash the go! And man alive that irks me six ways of Sunday!

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   For the last week now here in the Vacationland area the weather has finally hit that time of year so we can start planting stuff once again! 

  Which true to form and fashion I always get an early jump to getting stuff going in the ground, which bugs a few of my neighbors because I always beat them to the punch! and at the same time kinda makes them feel like they have to start making their places look nice as well! Which I think a few dread having to do this kind of thing, but they feel they must keep up like a competition!

  So that's another reason why I don't mind doing this kind of thing because I help to enthuse others to help with supplying some much needed environmental friendly life, for other life!

  Now this is where the story takes a turn to my dismay! I have been going to a certain greenery for a few years now and have always enjoyed the huge stock and variety of everything they have which is a lot!

  Well before I had started going to this place I use to got to another much smaller business that was run by this real old very nice gentlemen!

  He had passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 87 which was a great loss! He had started to run this small greenery when he retired from his real world profession and did so right up to the day he passed,  faithfully!

  I had very good relation's with this man because he was much like myself, real and down to earth! 

  He didn't run this place like a business, but more like a hobby which he enjoyed greatly! 

  He was doing what he enjoyed and at the same time made a little extra money and was helping make the world look a little better and be a little healthier!

  I had gotten in the habit of always returning all the flats and plant containers when I had finished getting everything in the ground. Which worked out good for him by saving a few bucks on buying more! and me for not liking to have to throw this stuff in the trash!

  Well since he's gone now and I've started going to this other much larger place I've had to do exactly what I don't like having to do, by throwing these plastic containers out. 

  With this nursery being larger they have a very big following, and every time I go there it's very busy and I haven't really had a chance to pin one person down and ask about these container items, until just the other day and it really didn't go to smoothly!

  For some reason I envision the type of people that would own and operate a place such as this as being something like me and the older gentlemen I use to deal with!

Down to earth and environmentally aware, or at least environmentally conscience! I mean heck your dealing with the one of the two main ingredient's that makes this world survive!

  So anyway I got my big chance to ask! I actually had been there the day before so I happened to have a small stack of some containers, So on my return trip I had them in hand and brought them in with me.

  I had went around and picked up all the stuff I had planned on buying and proceeded to the check out and once there I asked this younger guy running the register if by chance they took back their small flower containers? which as I said I had them with me in hand, He just looked at me like I had two heads! like there was something wrong with me!

  He had no idea what to say so he blats out across the store to this other women that happened to be the owners wife and she came over and grabs them like it's this big hassle, and very rudely say's NO we usually don't! and just walks away with them!

  I'm like kinda dumbfounded trying to collect some sort of thought to what just happened? when this elderly lady standing beside me in line say's gee'z I thought that was very good of you!

  The only thing I could come up with to say in this very disturbed state of mind I was in was,Yeah reduce, reuse, recycle isn't that the slogan the world has been telling us all? 

 Thankfully she said yes your right we should! Which I'm pretty sure she was saying because of the bewildered look in my being!

  So as I was leaving in my shocked state of confusion a few things were zipping through my mind as to why?

  Why wouldn't they want these things back? It would save some cash on buying new, Plus your a business selling things that are essential for the planet wouldn't you think these type people are some kind of environmentally friendly people?

  I'm assuming the answer is no their not! No they don't care about the cash nor the environment! 

  When I was leaving I was thinking are they just a bunch of capitalist mongers!

  But heck their not really even that because if they were they would want the containers back! I mean really I had already paid for them in the purchase of the flowers the first time around so it's not like I was getting a discount!

  What's with the attitude I got when trying to do what I would thought a nice gesture! or at the very least a good appreciative deed? 

  Wasn't really expecting a "thanks for your garbage pal beat it!" There was nothing wrong with the container's, they were as is when I bought them! 

  So I guess I've learned a lesson! First not all people running a garden nursery are environmentally friendly, Or for that matter friendly at all!

  Number two people really need to start changing their attitudes towards the climate issue because it's not a matter of if it's going to happen? cause I hate to break it to everyone, it's already started!

  And until people get this sunk into their heads, it's about to get really shitty! And get the I wish I "HAD" done something about it when I had the chance stupid mentality out of their heads and get with the program now! 

  The ATTITUDE CHANGE needs to start now! There's already a water shortage in places around this world that's seriously on their way to  a catastrophic level for people! And then we have people that don't know these fact's because it's not affecting them yet! Or the other few that thinks their being lied to, but that's because their idiot's

  With every action people do there's an equal and opposite reaction! and so far it's all been bad! We really need to change this attitude that if we just don't think about it, it isn't happening!

  I really have a hard time believing there isn't more people out there as nervous as me about what's happening right now! I just don't get it? 

  I sure hope my message may find a few and those few actually take heed to what is truly going on because in a very short time things could be going in a direction they are nowhere near ready for, even though there's been plenty of warning!

  Attitude is the key to changing! So it's up to each and every person on this planet to take action! Though I know this will never happen because people have this attitude that someone else will take care of all these problems!

  Some think their governments will fix everything and make it all fine and better again!

  they've been these type people that have been so reliant on the system because it's always taken care of them that it's like their brainwashed into a false existence!

   No body is coming to the rescue to save us! This isn't going to happen! I think the one thing that governments around the world should start doing to make people more aware of how serious this is, and that it's not some whacked out conspiracy theory! is to run a new slogan stating something like "ATTITUDE CHANGE BEFORE CLIMATE CHANGE!"

  Even though I'm fully aware everything we start doing now is probably to little to late hopefully in this slogan it will bring people too actually take an involvement into trying to do something, which with any luck will help! 

  

  With this final note as I was stating about the water shortage, I urge you to follow my blog as I will be discussing the locations in eminent peril right now!

  I will also be talking of locations that are in the high risk factor for their water sheds disappearing completely if things are not addressed immediately! 

  So please adjust your attitude and follow along as I discuss the greatest things affecting the planet, and it's inhabitants here and now, in the next up and coming blog!

Until then stay strong in your convictions and hopefully they will rub off on the person next to you!

  One more quick note, If any type nursery were actually environmentally friendly and were trying to do a part in the battle of plastics they would be using environmentally friendly bio products such as below!

  There are several types on the market though due to cost a lot of nurseries don't use these type things for fear people won't want to pay the extra cost! Which is actually not to extreme!

  The sad fact to the matter is the actual cost we will all be paying shortly will be way greater then a few bucks!

  Attitude starts now! If you may encounter the same situation as myself try making a suggestion to your local favorite place you shop about changing to one of the many type products on the market today! Even a true capitalist will probably entertain the idea of switching because it's hard to make money when there's no world left to make money off of! All the best, and Good luck!

T.J.Rockford

  

A WILDFIRE AROUND THE WORLD!

A WILDFIRE AROUND THE WORLD!

T.J. Rockford

If you haven't been privy to the news lately, well you've been missing out on all sort's of craziness! One big story is from the image above, which is a wildfire in the Fort McMurray area of Alberta, Canada. 

  A truly sad and horrifying event for humans and creatures alike!

  It seems as every direction I turn there is some important human interest article that should be known to everyone!

  I say human interest because all humans on this planet should take note to all the flurry of activity afloat right now!

  Whether it's the gigantically huge fire ablaze in Canada, Or the Trump presidential escapade. There are so many stories underfoot it's almost a bit overwhelming!

  We have new news from North Korea due to their first congressional meeting in over 30 years!

The workers party had finally held the meeting to usher the new era with their fearless leader Kim Jung Un.

  The workers party intention is to showcase the countries stability and unification under this 32 year old's leadership. With their rise into the nuclear capabilities age it has giving them the feeling of security, Or more like a weapon to threaten with in my opinion!

  In Kim Jung Un's speech he had stated, the North would not use their nuclear weapons for any first strike scenario! 

  Kim had stated the nuclear program is to be used for defensive purpose only a deterrent for his sovereign nation! 

  In his speech he say's they are willing to resume talks with the world! Sure, in order to jump start their failing finances, as I see it anyway! 

  In my eye's he's full of it! End of story! I feel bad for the people within the country but, why should it be our job to stop this tyrant? Why can't his own countrymen rise up, such as Kim Jung Un's great grandfather did when he seized power for the workers party union! 

   Well I suppose that's why he keeps all of his people starving, So they are to weak to fight! It truly amazes me that the whole country hasn't fled like a tidal wave into South Korea! 

  That was a small example of the world event's. Another interesting tid-bit was the news of Chinese police officers patrolling the streets of Rome and Milan Italy. Supposedly it's to help make the Chinese tourist visiting their feel more safe!

  Well I can't even begin to express how many ways of wrong this is! So there's no point in asking Italy in which way their alliance's stand! 

  Why not have police officers from every nation in the world patrolling the streets? After all I'm fairly certain there is more tourist from every other nation in the world visiting there then there is Chinese people! 
  If people haven't been paying attention over in main land China they have been tearing down all the cross's on all the church's steeples! They have been arresting the christian pastor's that don't comply and in a few case's people have been murdered! Just what the Chinese Government is worried about, Their citizens visiting the pope! Sure! The act that China is doing to their small population of Christians is disgusting, but why should we care? Apparently the U.S. is in favor of doing the same thing, but to the Muslim population! So much conflict all over religion and beliefs! The sad fact is it's all bull! and all these beliefs are for nothing! because there is no one of these religions that matter except in the minds of those that choose to believe! It is only an internal comfort because there is not a one of these religions that have a true supreme being! Everyone dying for nonsense! 
  Imagine a world of humans putting their faith into each other instead of some invisible being! Imagine what this planet could possibly achieve if we all could just get along!

  

 Seems like not so long ago in Italy's shameful past they put their alliance with the wrong people then as well! "Nazi Germany" for those that may not have known! Which I wouldn't doubt nowadays with American school systems being the worst in the world! 

  

  Like I had stated there is a lot happening within the world that we should all take notice of! The one big thing is our alias and, where allegiances lie!

  With China willing to loan tons of cash! and all the promises of a prosperous relationship why wouldn't other countries jump ship from the U.S.?

  I'm fairly certain everyone around the world has been watching the craziness going on within the U.S.! Why wouldn't they be looking for safety? Trump saying the things he has is putting everyone out there in crisis mode! I'm certain it will get a whole lot uglier very soon, but what then?

  It appears to me that the out of control wildfire in Canada, isn't the only wildfire that is out of control!  

  

 I see a world in confusion! Especially with the U.S. being in a state of uncertainty with the presidential candidacy in swing.

  I see other nations being very nervous of the prospect of Trump getting in the white house. Heck I'm scared to death of the thought! 

  

 I see Trump for what he's worth! and it ain't nothing near the billions he thinks he's worth! How other's can't see this truly baffles me? Sure he say's stuff, but who doesn't? I say stuff just like him all the time! Maybe I should be in the white house! 

  

 I'm sure I would do a better job then him! Because I actually understand what's going on around this world! and why things are the way they are! and need to be! Open your eye's America! Trump is fleecing you! He's using you to make himself MONEY! He has no idea on what he's doing! He's so freaking stupid he can only keep repeating all the stupid things he has said over, and over, and over! 

  

 They had to get someone smarter then Trump thinks he is, and he's trying to teach him a little of what's going on in this world, and why things are the way they are!

  So that really scare's me! The fact that he doesn't know some pretty obvious stuff, but my real big question is, if Trump begin's saying some smart and intellectual things that are actually relevant, and possible, what we should do is vote for the guy that is tutoring Trump! Because I know Trump won't ever say anything intelligent without someone having schooled him! And I bet the world and us would be a lot safer with this tutor in the long run!

  No, I'm not saying Hilary will make anything better either! The two least liked candidates in history! She has several areas I disagree with, besides the known facts. She is for gun control, which is a no, no in my book!

  I'd be all for control of the dummies that intend to use them for wrong doings! There's a good slogan! 

  I know we are limited and I'm uncertain myself as what direction to take? I do know this country needs to be more united, because divided we fall!

  

Maybe I do stand a chance to run for the presidency after all! I can talk like Trump as well, but I'll tell you, I would get this whole mess into order in quick fashion!

We would have the best of everything for our military, I promise you that! 

  I would never coward out of a situation because Russia said too! I would actually tune Russia up a notch so they caught my drift!

  

  As for China, I would draw a line and say DO NOT CROSS! The one thing I can, and will guarantee is, war is inevitable with China! 

  History has showed us this time and time again! Every time a nation, or civilization, has done what China is doing it has led to war! The only thing is when? 

  The longer they dig in it will be like another World War! Remember your history when Japan took over loads of Island and militarized them! Look how that went! 

  Here you have the only nation in the world that has been bombed by nuclear weapons Japan, and Trump want's them to arm themselves with that same thing that had scarred them so badly!      Because it was so destructive they are still heeling from it! All because they witnessed first hand they don't want any! Hence why we provide them with an umbrella! 

 But no, no it's not for free! Don't even think that! Heck Japan pays the U.S. 2 billion dollars a year for the U.S. troops in their country!

  I would keep things on track with Japan, and the same with South Korea! These are both key areas! It gives us strength in Asia! The base in Japan is a prime spot for a deterrent positioning aspect. Which Trump obviously doesn't realize! Pretty hard to protect Americas investments and commerce when we won't have a presence on one whole side of the planet!
  Just look at all of military strengthening with China right now! They understand what the value of a forward positioning is by what America has done in these areas! 
  Heck the Philippines gave the U.S. the boot out of their country 25 years ago in order to break free of our western hold on them! 

  

 Now they have giving back 5 base's to us! We are presently filling them back up because the Philippines are leary of China, even more so, then the U.S. apparently! 

And this is another strategic area, Just as is the Indian Ocean, and our presence in Africa is imperative! 
 Heck China is in the process of building a naval base right down the road from the U.S. in Africa!

  

 With the Suez canal being right up the African coast, and the amount of commerce that gets shipped through there, This is the prime reason we are their, for protecting our investments! which it's the whole world that ends up being affected in the long run!

   With the U.S. being there it has helped tremendously! Especially with breaking up the piracy that happens along this corridor! But now China is claiming the same thing, that they are protecting their investments! Which the whole of Africa is an investment of theirs right now! 

  

 More then ever we need to stay as a presence in these locations! Even if it means costing money! if we leave any of these locations it will give China, that extra step on the ladder, in which if we don't protect, we will be paying China! Right along with the rest of every other country!

  These are all the things that I would be working on if I were the President! Our biggest asset is our Alias! Especially for trading! and this is something I would tweak for sure! Especially China!

  I wonder if all these Trump supporters know of his clothing line he has? I wonder if they know China makes his labeled products? 

  Here he has rambled on about tariffs with China, Which he is just been saying, because he knows everyone want's to hear it! 

 he also knows that if he truly was as patriotic, as he is trying to sound, that he could of had his clothing label made right here in America, and still turned a profit! 

  But I guess he truly doesn't care about America that much! Can't make it any more obvious then he has, but his supporters keep on supporting! 

  

Personally I would never have China make anything for me! Because YES I am that patriotic! And everything I have ever bought that was made there ends up breaking! 

 I could see us leaving Japan in the lurch if Trump wins! Hell we've done it to everyone else we've promised to help! Look how great all those places we helped are doing now! Places like Iraq, Afghanistan, I'll stop there because this could get long! 
  
 Hell the U.S. put Saddam Hussein in power in the first place! The same thing happened in Iran, the U.S. had to get involved in their business way back over 60 years ago, which ended up turning on us, with a vengeance, around 1979!
 The CIA getting into affairs trying to manipulate the way things are, and whose in power, so it will benefit us better! This is a direct reason why Iranians dislike the American Government so much! Heck I'm on board with them!
 I can't say I like my Government to much either right now! Or have now for several years! I keep hoping for a miracle! 
  
 Do Americans really wonder why other nations dislike us so much? All thanks to our CIA! Where they get Intelligence out of the "I" is beyond me?
  These are all areas I would seriously revamp! Why? Because these type organizations have gone out of control! and someone needs to tweak them up to speed!

  Lot's of our secretive organizations seem to operate like there is no boundaries, and think they have this freedom to do whatever they please! They start things in which it all goes out of control! 
  
 Our country was founded on principles and ideas! This seem's to have been forgotten! Or just taken for granted and thrown out the window! Our Government seems to do as it wants, and not what we they people want! 
These people are supposed to be working for us, not just their collecting a pay check doing as they please! 
  No more agenda's that are not the people's agenda! Tune em up, and tear it down! IT'S TIME TO RESTRUCTURE!

  There's my endorsement speech!  Can't be any worse then the rest of em! I would start a wildfire of change in D.C. the like's of which would go down in the history books!

                                                                                                                                                                So yes there is more then one wildfire out of control in this world! But like I had stated early, it seems there is really so much happening in the world right now that it truly is a bit overwhelming for those that stay on top of these events!

  Although the wildfire in Canada right now should be one of grave concern to all! The reason why, is because for those paying attention to the climate issues this was foreseeable event that would start to take place!

  Weather change would, and will be, a big factor with the changing of our climate! My fears are this is just the beginning! I feel for everyone involved! 

  I can not even begin to imagine the horror that all these people have, and will have to endure for awhile to come!

  I think of all the wildlife that has been affected by this as well! All these animals that cannot escape from the grasp of this monster, it has made this event for them truly horrific as well! 

 To think that humanity had a hand to play in this is very unsettling with me,! As it should be for anyone with even one I oda of conscience!

  Our hearts go out to all involved! As do our thoughts and prayers!

The Rockford File's 2.Oooh!

America needs to step up!

America needs to have a world presence!

T. J Rockford

America is at a boiling point internally which is a factor that needs to be addressed but, At what cost?

 Most Americans feel betrayed by our Government, as I have discussed on numerous occasions throughout my own written article's! 

 I feel the same way as well, But I get it, and I know I need to look beyond! Not just at the small view, but the bigger picture as well.

  We Americans reeling from internal issue's get so consumed by our own griefs that we tend to fall into this attitude of, "screw the rest of the world what about me attitude?"

  This is what usually comes back to haunt us somehow in the long run. We really need to look at the bigger picture and try to see past our pain and grief before we make it so much more worse!

 I realize it's hard to do when we have been stuck in this high anxiety type state of never knowing what's going to blind side us next?

 We need to get our feet planted firmly, take a step back, and take a really big breath, and stop to take a really good look at what is happening in the world right now!

 We can't be looking at a candidate that has very little knowledge of foreign affairs, Especially if one were to look at what is happening within the world as we speak!

 Whatever is happening around the world is going to impact America, "and American's," in some very profound ways at times!

 This has always been a factor, And everybody that knows anything about foreign affairs would understand and accept this!

America has always played a role in world event's, And we still need to at a certain degree.

 This isn't even something that should be negotiable! We need to intervene when the bully is being a tough guy on the play ground, Especially when it's a huge nation against a small few that truly need the back up! 
   

 So many people in America feel this shouldn't be though! They feel that these other countries should fend for themselves!

 Like I always end up saying, it's usually the uneducated that look at these views as such. They just don't understand the impact it has on America, "Or can have" I should say!

 When we let things slide by and it goes way to far, To the point it's extremely hard to see any happy ending that's when everyone say's we should of done something!

  Our interference with dealing with ISIS has been sub-par to say the least! We should have used more of everything then was offered!

 Yes, even if that meant boot's on the ground! Why? Because we had them where we wanted and could of handled ISIS in some some quick decisive blows! But now it's dragged out, ISIS ended up gaining tons of ground and dug in like a tick on a dog. Russia has aided the Syrian forces and has committed to honor the Syrian forces with Russian backup!

 What that means is Syria will still be a mess in the long run with the same Government in place that we should of dealt with back when the Government used chemical weapons against the rebels several years ago that also killed over a thousand civilians! But Obama didn't follow through with a code about dealing with anyone that uses chemical weapons! The code is to PUNISH whoever uses chemical weapons!

 Of course the United States didn't get very much in the way of support from our allies, so that didn't help, which leads to another issue with me about the UK. and their unwillingness to have jumped on board with agreeing to punishing Syria and president Al-Assad.
 As far as I'm concerned I think the UK. should leave the EU  like they want and then we should make them walk the hard line! No breaks on the pricing for trading! If they break from the EU they will be losing out on what we offer with the EU and what they offer us! 
 We wouldn't need much from the UK so bon voyage! 

 We have squandered way to much time in the middle east when we should have been working into Asia affairs and in a serious way! We have neglected things, Made a mess of other things, now we look weak and are overly unprotected, and undermanned! 
 To little to late and now we need to do some serious foot work! This is a delicate situation that needs to be addressed and by someone that has a clue of foreign affairs!

  This rant could go on and on! Of course these are all points that lead to why American's feel as they do! Or at least one of the many parts to the reasoning! America needs to do some serious foot work, But who is right for the job? 

  I had read two very good article's in today's online news, I agreed very much with both and I think most sensible people would, If not should! 

 The funny thing is, in most of my own article's, I have already stated these same facts! I mean almost word for word in a few paragraphs. 

 So either this is a very widely viewed known fact. 'Which I think!" Or it was just a lucky type of mutually agreed hiccup?

 Nonetheless under this administration we here in America have suffered and unfortunately it has spilled throughout the world!

 Anyways I am adding the statements Senator John McCain made at the weekly GOP address, The story is credited to Evelyn Rupert reporting from 'The Hill'

McCain delivers his own foreign policy speech

Evelyn Rupert,

 The Hill

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered his own wide-ranging foreign policy speech as he took the floor for the weekly GOP address.
McCain bashed President Obama's foreign policy, that under his administration "we've been on a holiday from American leadership."
He said Obama has "no strategy to successfully reverse the tide of slaughter and mayhem in a world that Director of National Intelligence General James Clapper says has not faced more crises and more refugees than we confront today," and criticized his approach to ISIS and the civil war in Syria.
"We know the so-call 'cease fire' in Syria does ultimately collapse, we know what happens next: more barrel bombs and slaughter of the innocent by the murderous regime of Bashar Assad ... and ultimately a stronger ISIL that will benefit from the chaos left behind."
McCain touched on Russia and said Vladimir Putin is learning that "diplomacy can be manipulated to serve his strategic ambitions."
"Indeed, two years after Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea, President Obama has shamefully refused to provide Ukrainian forces with the lethal assistance they need to defend themselves."
He argued that the administration has failed to defend our interests against China's actions as a "petty bully."
"President Obama has failed to take timely action to defend our interests and our allies fearing China might be less likely to cooperate on priorities he thought were more important, like climate change and the reckless Iran nuclear deal," he said. "And as a result, China's increasingly assertive behavior continues."
McCain called Obama's reaction to ISIS "reactive, slow and insufficient."
"We have achieved some tactical and operational success against ISIL thanks to the excellence of our military leadership and our troops on the ground," he said. "But at a strategic level, we always seem to be a step behind, a day late, and a dollar short."

"If history has taught us anything, it is that while America cannot solve all the world's problems, none of its problems will be solved without American leadership. We can-and must-return to the principle of 'peace through strength' for the sake of our men and women who are serving and the security of our nation," McCain concluded!


Here is the other article in which I found to be "head on!" Story is credited to Earl Wilson from the New York Times!

IF NOT TRUMP, THEN WHO?

Earl Wilson NYT

Donald Trump now looks set to be the Republican presidential nominee. So for those of us appalled by this prospect — what are we supposed to do?
Well, not what the leaders of the Republican Party are doing. They’re going down meekly and hoping for a quiet convention. They seem blithely unaware that this is a Joe McCarthy moment. People will be judged by where they stood at this time. Those who walked with Trump will be tainted forever after for the degradation of standards and the general election slaughter.
The better course for all of us — Republican, Democrat and independent — is to step back and take the long view, and to begin building for that. This election — not only the Trump phenomenon but the rise of Bernie Sanders, also — has reminded us how much pain there is in this country. According to a Pew Research poll, 75 percent of Trump voters say that life has gotten worse for people like them over the last half century.
This declinism intertwines with other horrible social statistics. The suicide rate has surged to a 30-year high — a sure sign of rampant social isolation. A record number of Americans believe the American dream is out of reach. And for millennials, social trust is  at historic lows.
Trump’s success grew out of that pain, but he is not the right response to it. The job for the rest of us is to figure out the right response.
That means first it’s necessary to go out into the pain. I was surprised by Trump’s success because I’ve slipped into a bad pattern, spending large chunks of my life in the bourgeois strata — in professional circles with people with similar status and demographics to my own. It takes an act of will to rip yourself out of that and go where you feel least comfortable. But this column is going to try to do that over the next months and years. We all have some responsibility to do one activity that leaps across the chasms of segmentation that afflict this country.
We’ll probably need a new national story. Up until now, America’s story has been some version of the rags-to-riches story, the lone individual who rises from the bottom through pluck and work. But that story isn’t working for people anymore, especially for people who think the system is rigged.

I don’t know what the new national story will be, but maybe it will be less individualistic and more redemptive. Maybe it will be a story about communities that heal those who suffer from addiction, broken homes, trauma, prison and loss, a story of those who triumph over the isolation, social instability and dislocation so common today.

 We’ll probably need a new definition of masculinity, too. There are many groups in society who have lost an empire but not yet found a role. Men are the largest of those groups. The traditional masculine ideal isn’t working anymore. It leads to high dropout rates, high incarceration rates, low labor force participation rates. This is an economy that rewards emotional connection and verbal expressiveness. Everywhere you see men imprisoned by the old reticent, stoical ideal.
We’ll also need to rebuild the sense that we’re all in this together. The author R.R. Reno has argued that what we’re really facing these days is a “crisis of solidarity.” Many people, as the writers David and Amber Lapp note, feel pervasively betrayed: by for-profit job-training outfits that left them awash in debt, by spouses and stepparents, by people who collect federal benefits but don’t work. They’ve stopped even expecting loyalty from their employers. The big flashing lights say: NO TRUST. That leads to an everyone-out-for-himself mentality and Trump’s politics of suspicion. We’ll need a communitarianism.
Maybe the task is to build a ladder of hope. People across America have been falling through the cracks. Their children are adrift. Trump, to his credit, made them visible. We can start at the personal level just by hearing them talk.
Then at the community level we can listen to those already helping. James Fallows had a story in The Atlantic recently noting that while we’re dysfunctional at the national level you see local renaissances dotted across the country. Fallows went around asking, “Who makes this town go?” and found local patriots creating radical schools, arts festivals, public-private partnerships that give, say, high school dropouts computer skills.
Then solidarity can be rekindled nationally. Over the course of American history, national projects like the railroad legislation, the W.P.A. and the NASA project have bound this diverse nation. Of course, such projects can happen again — maybe though a national service program, or something else.
Trump will have his gruesome moment. The time is best spent elsewhere, meeting the neighbors who have become strangers, and listening to what they have to say.
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