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America, Life

The Silent Voices

Anthony Dixon

 

 

 

 

The Silent Voices

The issue here becomes, at any given time, how are we translating and using language, not to make people more comfortable, quote unquote, right? Because that’s always a strain, and, historically, the concern in these debates is often, ‘Oh, are we just trying to make white people comfortable rather than speaking truth to power?’ That’s the framework we tend to think about these things,” Obama said. “The issue to me is not making them comfortable, it is, can we be precise with our language enough that people who might be persuaded around that particular issue to make a particular change that gets a particular result that we want, what’s the best way for us to describe that?”

That Conversation Circumferenced Defunding Police Departments. My Wife has always maintained that Obama is an Eloquent Speaker, well naturally if I went to an Ivy League College I would be a Wordsmith. The closest I have been is One Semester at York College, a Community College, studying Computer Programming. Regardless I know how I feel about any given Situation or Conditions. More so I know how to Express myself, maybe not as Eloquently, nontheless I get my Point across. My Mother called be a Budinski, someone who always interject thei’r Thoughts into other People’s conversation. Throughout History wording and Phrasing have caused devastating consequences. It’s all about who said what and how the Listener perceives it that causes adversity.

With that said, the Subject of Defunding Police Departments is a poorly put ill-conceived phrase. Bringing them to Task and holding them Accountable is more Logical than Defunding. Anyone who read my  Blog on Domestic Violence knows how I feel about the Necessity. In the Heat of Passion when the Subject surfaced. I thought, if that meant what it sounds like, I would have to go out and buy a Gun. Now you guys know how I feel about too many Guns out there. Nevertheless if Law Enforcement was Handcuffed I would have no choice but to Arm myself. Obama’s reply on the subject was Misconstrued by his wording. As Mr Nixon would always say ” Make no Mistake” I am for Law and Order. I work in a Justice System, I Converse with Judges, Lawyers and Cops. I have a good Rapport with all and have some Deputies I consider Friends. I even have some who visits my Website. How could I walk among these People fostering the Notion of putting them out of work. Two of my Favorites who works in the same Building that I work are Neighbors, they always ask me, how is your Wife, that’s a good Relationship.

As in anything in Life you have good and bad. Thirty Five years ago while working as an Independent Courier, I had an important Delivery in a Building that housed a Police Department. It was a critical Delivery. The parking in the Area was nonexistent. I decided to park Illegally and pay the Ticket. An undercover Cop told me to move the Car, I tried to explain the Emergency, after refusing to move the Car He Handcuffed me, took me upstairs, poked me hard in the Navel, he didn’t Arrest me, yet I was in a Cell. That was a violation of my Constitutional Rights. I was not Arrested, yet I was in a Cell. After copying my personal information he handed my Wallet to me and warned me that this didn’t happen. If you open your Mouth, we know where you live. The Desk Sergeant and all the other Officers In the immediate area was In Complicity. In my Mind it didn’t really happened and I wasn’t in America, I must have fell asleep and Dreamed it all transpired in Russia. However this was all too real of Cops Circumventing the Law when dealing with Black People all over this Country. And my White Neighbors maintain their Silence, which Amounts to Complicity. It’s Occurrences like that which created the Warcry of Defunding Law Enforcement. With all my bad Experiences with bad Cops I know that every Cop isn’t a Criminal like the Rolling Stones said, way back in the Seventies. My Mother always called me Big Ears ( Evesdropper), I once overheard Three Judges discussing Heinous Criminals, their Consensus, they are Godless People. America is not a Lawless Land and it’s People are not all Godless. There are many among us who walks in Grace. Its just that we need to Dig Ourselves( Check – as in Checks and Balance) mostly we need to get over Ourselves, you’re not all that as you think. Let me be perfectly clear this is not a Banana Republic, Jurisprudence is the Norm.  In The words of Sheriff Buford T Justice. What we have here is a failure to Communicate, some won’t speak up and some won’t listen. Barack would be Proud of this Blog, too bad he is not one of my Followers.

P.S. You can’t take away inalienable Rights.

P.P.S. The World will not be destroyed by those who do wrong, but by those who watched and do nothing – Albert Einstein

America, Life, Motivation

Kingman

Anthony Dixon

 

 

 

 

Kingman

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

A similar (yet much earlier, dating to the 4th or 5th century CE) turn of phrase, and Erasmus’ possible inspiration, appears in the Genesis Rabbah as “בשוק סמייא צווחין לעווירא סגי נהור”, meaning “In the street of the blind, the one-eyed man is called the Guiding Light”.

Are we getting smarter, or just more dependent? “I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” Albert Einstein

I think I’ve said enough

I think I’ve said too much

Everybody hurt.          Sometimes!!!!!

We walk not only by Sight but also by Faith

Not because that I wander means that I am lost

America, Life, Parenting And Relationships

Kids Absorbs Your Values

Anthony Dixon

 In Light of Current Events I Thought it necessary to reblog this Post to remind you that you can’t teach Values.  Kids absorbs Values from watching the way you Live your Life. I remember being Seven years old and Grownups were having the most Grown-up Discussions. I would position myself within Earshot and not leave until the Conversation was over. I remember being Thirteen hanging around Future Rock Stars practicing thei’r Music and smoking Weed all Night long. When the Sessions were over, I picked up their Roaches and got Baked. No wonder that when I got to be Fourteen I Thought that I was a Man. At Four years old my little Nephew said to me ” Uncle Creg you are F*****g kidding me aren’t you”. I rest my Case. The Message you send Today, Cultivates Tomorrow’s Generation. I don’t write about Hearsay, I write about been there done that.

 

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Kids Absorbs Your Values

America, Life

The Apprentice

Anthony Dixon

 

 

 

The Apprentice

I never liked Reality TV Shows, the reason is that they should be called Surrealist TV. Hollywood have always gone out of thei’r way to presume that  Viewers are Stupid. The Apprentice was one of those Shows that over Exaggerated Reality from everyday living. In a Corporate Structure sitting in the Board Room, you don’t Fire everyone who disagree with you. I once read that a C.E.O. is only as good as the People around him. A Top Notch C.E.O. doesn’t specialize in all Faucets of Business, he Hires those that do and take thei’r Advice. Many have Soared to great Heights using the Idea’s of those under them. Having the Pigheadednes that you are the Boss and the only Opinions that mattered were your’s is a Recipe for Failure. Just look at the Covid19 Pandemic.These Days Pigheadednes is the Norm in Government, there are no Meeting of the Minds.

After Fifty Three years of watching Politicians operate, where Partisan Politics is always the Business of the Day and serving the People who pays their Exorbitant Salaries is not. I am now washing my Hands of this Dirty Business called Politics. This should be my last Blog on the Subject, but not writing about thei’r Ineptness, amounts to Acceptance. It takes one Lawyer to introduce a Law, and Hundreds to Ratify it and a Thousand to Interpret it, it’s an Exercise in Futility. Worst of all far too many of them are Lawbreakers themselves. For instance,  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a new statement Tuesday that he is prepared to fight allegations against him by former top aides into whether he abused his office to help a high-end campaign donor.

Paxton is accused of improperly helping Austin investor Nate Paul, who alleged that the FBI and other federal officials violated his Constitutional rights during a raid on his property last year.

I have always Thought that Most of them on Capitol Hill are Phi beta Idiots and Deceptive People. There are no Greater Fools than Those who Believe that Everyone else is a Fool, that they are the only Smart Ones in the Room. Divisive Politicians have been around since McCarthy. McCarthy isn’t the only Liar in the Room, he told the American People that Many of thei’r Neighbors were  Communist and Socialists, just like stop the steal. A Vicious Campaign of Disinformation was unleashed, they believed him. The Outcomes were Catastrophic, he accused fellow Lawmakers of being un- Patriotic they were Disgraced and lost thei’r Jobs. It was an Attack on Democracy. 2020 Sixty Eight years later Deja vu. Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974. He Vehemently denied that he was a Crook. Look at the Disgrace he brought on the Office. Take a closer look at The Apprentice.

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Shortly after the Supreme Court ruling on Friday, Allen West, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, all but called for states to secede.

“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution,” West wrote.

Secession is treason, and all who uphold it by menace or force, or by giving aid in any degree, or in any manner, are traitors, and legally subject to Capital Punishment

The Apprentice brought this Country as close to Sedition as any one Person have ever done. His Tweets have Poisoned Democracy. He has drawn a Mason Dixon line straight through Democracy and the U.S. Any chance of America being united is shot. Might as well just call it The States of America, the United is Deleted. His Following Mirrors Jim Jones, on a Suicide mission to kill Democracy. I have always mentained that if it smells like Fish then so it is. All I would like to know is, why does Politics always draw Deceptive People to the calling of Public Office. Why aren’t they all selling Term Life Insurance and used Cars. I have always believed that Internet Scammers and Hackers would all become Rich if they channeled their Energy into Legitimate Endeavors. Fifty Frivolous Lawsuits amounts to a major Scam, they tried to Pimp the Courts

Old Values are long gone, that one will be rewarded by the sweat of one’s Brows. Believing in those old Values I started working early in Life. I have always Thought that Ninety Days was too much Time to learn your Job. The U.S. Department of Labor stipulates that you can’t Fire a new Employee unless you have given them Ninety Days to learn the new Job. The Apprentice did not learn his Job in Ninety Days, he should have been Fired long ago.

The Apprentice was given Four Years to learn his Job, to the end he Regressed to the Point of Noncompliance, he stopped working. He spent the rest of Time playing Golf and presenting over Fifty Frivolous Lawsuits, they were all Debunked by the various Courts, including the Supreme Court that he Engineered and Crafted. Why would he want another Four years, he learned Nothing about Governing during the first Four. Three Hundred Thousand People Died under his watch.  At the end of Four years he was still an Apprentice, unwilling to learn the Job and unwilling to do the Job of protecting his Employer’s Liability, Health and Welfare. People are Befuddled by his Phantom Wealth. But in September 2020, the New York Times noted that “he is personally responsible for loans and other debts totaling $421 million, with most of it coming due within four years” and no obvious way to repay them.

Trump has a total of over $1 billion in debts, borrowed to finance his assets, reported Forbes in October 2020. Around $640 million or more was owed to various banks (Deutsche Bank, Professional Bank, Amboy Bank, and Investors Savings Bank) and trust organizations (Ladder Capital, Chevy Chase Trust Holdings, and the Bryn Mawr Trust Company). Around $450 million was owed to unknown creditors, due to loans related to his properties of 1290 Avenue of the Americas and 555 California Street. In addition, Trump owes over $50 million to Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC, a company he owns, which would indicate that this company is worth over $50 million; however Trump has not disclosed any value for this company on his financial disclosure report. Overall, Trump’s assets still outvalue his debts, reported Forbes.

Alleged tax-fraud schemes

Donald Trump was also involved in a number of allegedly fraudulent tax schemes. When Fred Trump sold shares in Trump Palace condos to his son well below their purchase price, masking what could be considered a hidden donation, and benefiting from a tax write-off. A lawyer for Trump denied the allegations, calling them “100 percent false, and highly defamatory”. A spokesman for the New York State tax department said the agency was “vigorously pursuing all appropriate areas of investigation”. New York City officials also indicated they are examining the matter of Trump’s alleged fraudulence.

Donald Trump received at least $413 million (2018 prices) from his father’s business empire, the New York Times reported in 2018.

Bloomberg Billionaires Index listed Trump’s net worth as $2.48 billion on May 31, 2018, and Wealth-X listed it as at least $3.8 billion on July 16, 2018. In its 2019 billionaires ranking, Forbes estimated Trump’s net worth at $3.1 billion (715th in the world, 259th in the U.S.) as of 5 March 2019. How much of that is Actual Valuation of Properties Owned and how much is Debt. Regardless, why is someone who has nothing to Offer Politics and his Employers (The People) try so hard to hold onto a Job that he made a mess of his Apprenticeship.  Obama left the Country in good Fiscal conditions. He claimed credit for everything including freeing Slaves. If I can Research all this Information, why are his Followers so Befuddled by his Awesomeness. The Answer, Like Mindedness. A Legend in my own Mind, a Hero in the Floodlights. They say that Politics make strange Bedfellows. They are wrong Politics make People Stupid.

P.S. The Europeans are worried about a Coup. Lets not forget that he still commands the Military.

America, Life, Motivation

Stand Tall America

Anthony Dixon

 

 

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

 

 

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

 

 

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