Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Walls

Let's talk walls.
Walls can be a good thing. They keep the weather outside, They protect us from people who want to harm us, outside. 
Some times wall are even meant to keep invading armies from entering one country to another.
Walls have lots of uses.
Some are harmful 
Causing divisions between one country.  Some may not remember but there was great joy and celebration when the Berlin wall (pictured above) was finally torn down and both sides of Germany were reunited, ending decades of ill will against each other.
Now some people are talking about a wall between the USA and Mexico. 
I personally feel this is a bad thing. It's not going to keep any terrorist out.
Why don't we also build a wall between Canada
Oh I know..... No one is afraid that some friendly Canadian is going to invade our country. 

As to why I feel a wall between USA and Mexico is bad is.... We are a Free nation. 
If a wall is built as some would suggest that will be closing us off, we may as well build a wall to the north also.

Build a wall and infringe on the freedom of the USA and we can no longer be considered free.




Friday, June 3, 2016

We the cranky old farts salute you

Ya know I was just thinking of something.
While growing up we all had a car that we tricked out the stereo so we could play our music as loud as we could, and laughed at cranky old people who yelled at us to turn it down. We were the free ones, the peaceful ones, the violent ones.
I think I now understand why.

As we grow older we're less able to stand loud noises: some of us even have PTSD and can not handle any loud noise. Things get on our nerves more easily, things piss  us off more.

We are now the old people that yell "TURN THAT CRAP DOWN"

We want to live what's left of our lives in peace, but we have the next generation that are the loud music players, the partiers, the obnoxious laughers.

We've gotten older and more sensitive to everything around us

....... and one of these times, one of us is going to go out to the loud car in the intersection and PULL THAT GOD DAMN RADIO OUT OF THAT CAR.