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Common Sense

Anthony Dixon

 

 

Common Sense

Playing Partisan Politics during a Crisis is largely lacking of Common Sense, while watching Rome Burn. Playing Partisan Politics at any given Time is Playing the People who put you in Office.

Funeral Homes are turning away Business. Hospitals are being asked to store our Loved ones until the Funeral Homes can take new Customers. C.D.C. Prohibits Gathering at Gravesites, you can’t even get to see them off. Many Crematoriums have broken down from the overwhelming capacity that they have been working at. Front Lines workers are Dying, other than Dying they are stretched to thei’r limits with Stress and Grief. I recently watched a News Program where a Nurse who contracted the Virus” was now in Dire Straits. She needed the use of portable Oxygen so she could take care of the Nine members of her Family who were also infected, including her Two years old Child. A Fund me Charity was setup for her.

The U.S. Titanic’s Bow is submerged, there aren’t enough Life Jackets and there is no more room in any of the Dinghies that once were Hospitals. The first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed on January 20, 2020, and reported to CDC on January 22, 2020. In March the Red Flag was Hoisted, while Partisan Politics waved the Red Cap. On it were the Words Make America Great again. Our Illustrious Leader told us that Covid19 was a Hoax. For Ten Months he Indoctrinated the Nation not to wear Masks. ” People wearing them are Stupid”. For Ten Months he Fiddled while Rome Burned. ” We are turning the Corner ” The Vaccine is just around the Corner. The Administration has been Lame Duck for Ten Months, while he Touted a Crooked Election Ten Months before the first Mail-in Ballot reached the Crooked Pooling Stations. I was no more than fifteen In the year Nineteen Sixty Nine, America was in Turmoil with Civil Unrest from constant Day to Day Protesting about Civil Rights and the Vietnamese War.

It was that long ago that I lost Faith in Governments and Politicians. During that time Russia was Ratcheting up its Brutality on Dissidents. I thought to myself that Communism was a Brutal form of Government. But how different was a Democracy that sent the National Guard to beat down Innocent Black People Asking for Equality, many were Killed, as they were in Russia. That was just to Illustrate how Inept Governments can be. Wheather dealing with discontent among  its Citizens or a Pandemic of Tumultuous Proportions. Nero must  be their Mentor ( Ineffectual and Procrastinating) Fifty years of paying Taxes leaves me feeling that I was Taken. Now I understand why Hillbillies don’t like to pay Taxes. When I worked for Solomon Brothers I met a young Man who Graduated College Phi beta Kappa. This Guy was Educated enough to learn Rocket Science, the Tragedy, he was as Stupid as Oliver Hardy, or for that matter Mo, Larry and Curly. He possessed not one Gram of Mother Witt( Common Sense)- ( Figurative Mind) -(Intuitivity)-(Rationality) in a Nutshell he had no Reasoning Power. Now can you imagine being Governed by a Congress, a Senate a House of Rep and a President all Phi Beta Kappas. All not knowing that Dead People don’t pay Taxes.

Common Sense Quotes

Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy

Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. (Common sense). Dignity.

Roy T. Bennett,

The Light in the Heart

Tags: character, class, (common-sense), dignity, happiness, health, inner-peace, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, life, life-quotes, love, manners, money, morals, patience, respect, time, trust

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Because you can’t argue with all the fools in the world. It’s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they’re not paying attention.

Christopher Paolini

Tags: common-sense, humor, smart

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Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

George Carlin

Tags: (common-sense), equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping (common sense), and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom

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(Common sense) is not so common.

Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

Tags: apothegm, common-sense

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(Common sense) in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains, Vol. 1

Tags: common-sense, wisdom

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I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

J.K. Rowling

Tags: (common-sense), hermione-granger, knowledge, logic, reason, skepticism

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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and let others move forward with it.

Ray Bradbury

Tags: buddhism, (common-sense), life, zen

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Things do not change; we change.

henry david thoreau, Walden

Tags: (common-sense), inspirational, philosophy

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, (common sense).

Thomas A. Edison

Tags: (common-sense), enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison

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The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

Shannon L. Alder

Tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, (common-sense), confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love

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Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of (common sense). Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, )

Tags: afraid, bravery, common-sense, fear, idiots, scared

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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

Tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers

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Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Henry Ford

Tags: (common-sense), inspirational

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Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Stuart Chase, Language in Thought and Action

Tags: (common-sense), misattributed-to-Einstein

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The Reason I dug all of this up is to Impress on the Ensuing Generation the great Importance of Enlightenment. Education is only a Tool to become Enlightened. One of my High School Teachers told me that I should never stop Learning. I chose not to go to College so I could join the Workforce, to keep my Mother from working Three Jobs to support me, while I sit in Dorms Smoking Weed and Drinking Booze while being Stupified and earning a Degree in Mindlessness. Fifty years out of High School and I never stopped learning for one Day. Some Days when I want to Perplex myself I read Shakespeare, some Days when I want to Overhaul the Suspension on my Overpriced Car, I read Chilton Books on Automotive Repairs. When I decided to start Blogging I began to read Books on Blogging.

When I wrote my first Blog, Three Hundred Words, I decided that each Blog would be better than the last. One should never waste thei’r Brainpower Settling for Mediocrity. Governments are Insulting your Intelligence. This Blog is Dedicated to Fifteen year olds, I was only Fifteen when I lost Confidence. You who are coming up don’t be like your Parents, Stretch your Minds, be the Lightforce of your Generation, don’t be a Sheep, be the Shepherd.A shepherd uses his experience, his know how, his guile and his devotion to successfully guide his flock. … We, as leaders, are responsible for guiding each of our team members, and our responsibility includes tending to their learning, growth and success, and to their wellbeing. Two Original Quotes by me, ” If you have Lived long enough to grow Old yet you have nothing to pass on to the next Generation in the form of Learning and Teaching, You have not Truly Lived, only Existed. The Reason why you can’t Teach an Old Dog to do New Tricks, it’s because they were too stupid When they were young to learn those same Tricks. Please go out there and be a Trailblazer, Governments all over the World are calling for your Uncommon, Common Sense. This is your World, I am only trying to live in it until the Lord calls me Home. Parting Words, Political Cronies aren’t Representatives of the People, only thei’r own selfish Gains. Am I the only One Eyed Monster who is King of my Own Mind?

Once again

Here are the Lyrics from my Favorite Song by my Favorite Group.

By Through The Roots

Where are we going

Look where we’ve been

Ignoring the signs

Blinding our eyes

Where will it end

We can live in the light

Or hide in the darknes

We continue to fight

Though we didn’t start this

And it’s killing me

See this world that we share

Painted by artists

Placing strokes without care

Think it’ll be easy to find some peace in a world but we’re are all just fighting each other

But a perfect pitch has a perfect plan and it’s not just a crushing of color

Can you hear my voice as I’m crying out

This is the movement, so move with me now, now

I believe that if we come together

We can get higher, higher, higher

I believe that if we stand together

We will rise higher, higher, higher

I believe that life is a canvas its all part of something bigger

Constantly changing with the times an ever evolving figure

What will it take to walk hand in hand change with the times and understand

Make harmony what’s unity

Erase the meaning of a foreign land

Now it’s a world with no borders

Demanding a new world order

Imagine that we never had to read another story of a life cut short by a murder

It should be easy to find some peace in a world since we all share this place with each other

Its up to us to spread the love around

We’ve got to support one another

Can you hear my voice as I’m crying out

This is the movement, so move with me now, now

I believe that if we come together

We can get higher, higher, higher

I believe that if we stand together

We will rise higher, higher, higher

I believe that if we come together

We can get higher, higher, higher

I believe that if we stand together

We can rise higher, higher, higher

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Dwight Duncan / Troy Barrington Mclean / R. Mcleod / Carl Mcleod / Dwight Marvin Duncan / Carlton Oliver Mcleod / Raymond Mcleod / Raymond Vincent Mcleod

Life

Tweet

Anthony Dixon

 

 

 

Tweet

Today I was reading where Republicans in Government are Discombobulated and in Discord and Disarray, because they are afraid of getting a poison Tweet from the Tweeter. Einstein said that he was afraid that Technology would create a Generation of Idiots. The sad reality, it has come to past. Tweets have surpassed meaningful Conversations. Six years ago I joined several Social Networks. My Reasoning was that Social Media is a Powerful Communication Medium. Matter of Fact it was very instrumental of me starting Blogging. I quickly learned that most of the People Posting on Social Media, were by absolute Idiots and totally Selfie driven People, looking for Ten Seconds of Fame. Many of these Posting were totally Offensive and dehumanizing. When they opened their Mouths thei’r lack of Intelligence personified. I quickly learned that Illiteracy was an Epidemic, to further spread thei’r Illiteracy they developed a new Language.

If you’ve been observing social media conversations, you might have come across a ton of lingo or acronyms that take you a while to figure out. Social media acronyms like Lol, TFW, TBH and LMK get thrown around very casually in comments, captions and conversations between people. Acronyms are ok but why should you perplex your Readers. Some go further by Abbreviating misspelled words, a Friend of mine paraphrased this type of Communication as ” Bad Chatting” which in its self is what I have been trying to highlight about Social Media. With that being said, why would any Intelligent Lifeforms allow themselves to become Inundated with Pigeon Psychology.

Pigeon Language is a Primitive form of Communication. That is what a lot of Social Media Postings and Tweets amounts to. A wise Man once Enlightened me by telling me,  that if you are walking down the Street and someone is following you calling you all kind of Vile names. The only time that you are whatever he is calling you, is when you stop and look back and Acknowledge him and asked him ” Are you talking to me” . I take it one step further, when he gets close to you and taps you on the Shoulder, it’s time to defend yourself. With all of that being said, if you consider yourself to be an Intelligent Person, why would you Read Idiot Tweets, better yet giving them Creditability by believing and re-tweeting them.

A Generation of Idiots, how could Einstein be so Enlightened to have Foreseen this Generation before There were any Internet. The answer is simple, some of us possess an Intuitive, Inquisitive and Rational Mind, without one Education is only Programming. Which makes it all the more easier to spread Propaganda and half Baked Truths and Grandiose. grandiosity refers to an unrealistic sense of superiority, characterized by a sustained view of one’s self as better than other people, which is expressed by disdainfully viewing them as inferior; and refers to a sense of personal uniqueness, the belief that few other people have anything in common with oneself, and that one can only be understood by a few, very special people. The personality trait of grandiosity is principally associated with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), but also is a feature in the occurrence and expression of antisocial personality disorder.

I am sorry my Friend but Sixty Eight years of living on this Earth have Educated me far beyond Four years of sitting in a Classroom listening to a Professor indoctrinating me with his own personal Ideologies of how Governments should be run. I have had enough Teachers, from Marie Antoinette and Louis, Nero,  Ferdinand Marcos and Fidel Castro to learn what happens to People who allows themselves to be Duped. Spirituality comes from God, Religion is Manmade, so are Governments, both are Susceptible of Corruption. Tweeting is no way to run an Administration. I have always believed that People who sent Texts instead of Verbal Communication were Ingenuine and Masks their true Feelings. Tweeting and Texting is for Email Marketing and Internet Scammers. The People who Entertain them allows themselves to be Taken. When it comes to contracting the Virus, I am antisocial. When it comes to Malicious Tweets, I am antisocial. This Blog is Dedicated to My English Literature Teacher who Prodded me for Two years to tell her ” What is the Author not saying” thank you, I can read the Tweets. Finally Life is Bigger than you or I and no matter what you do, I wouldn’t want to be like you.

America, Health, Life, Motivation

Cowboy Mentality

Anthony Dixon

 

 

 

 

Cowboy Country

That was the answer that a South Dakota Resident gave, when asked why are People in South Dakota so up against wearing Mask. He further explained, that’s how Cowboy Mentality works, whatever you tell them to do, they are going to do the opposite. That’s not Cowboy Mentality, that’s a Dumb Kid attitude. I ought to know that attitude very well. From eight years old to fourteen years old I lived that. My Mother was a Single Mom, I had that Bitch Attitude that no Woman is going to Rule me. Whatever she told me to do, I did the opposite regardless of Consequence. One simple request she made, that I choose not to comply, cost me several Ass-whipping. She said that she was the one working and there should be no reason for her to make it home before I did.

She said School was out at two thirty, that gave me four Hours to be in the House when she pushed the Door. I got a Beating just about every Day for my Cowboy Attitude. The Governor of South Dakota don’t believe in Imposing a Mask Mandate. Even though The State has, if not the greatest amount of Covid19 Deaths in the the World for  a whole Country, then close. Now that’s a Cowgirl’s Attitude, She reminds me of me of yesteryears. No Doubt that she will get her Spanking at the next Election. That Attitude looks more to me like Pigheadednes, than a Rotten Kid with a Chauvinist attitude.

From Day One that I heard about the Cruise Ship Anchored off the Coast of Florida with all those sick People Aboard, I knew that this was big. I also know how Governments operate, a lot was left unsaid in order not to create a Panic. Having worked in Hazmat for many years, without knowing if you could contract the Disease by Inhilation. Three Months before the CDC came out with Guidelines, I was wearing a Mask in the Courthouse where I work. They all thought that I was Hypo Something, they snickered behind my Back and in front of my Face. One of my Coworkers who gave me the Stupid Grin came down with the Virus. I think it took six or seven Test before she was cleared to come back to work. When she was finally Cleared to come back to work, her Job was taken.

She got transferred to a more demanding Job farther away from Home. Who is Snickering now, I haven’t missed one Day of work since March. There have to be at least fifty cases since Her’s, but I know how Government works, “Need to know”, but the fact that I see People come in there with a Tank on their Backs and a long Wand, spraying several times per Week, I know that it’s bad. Why would I listen to Cowboys, Cowboys are Dense People, who Talks with thei’r Gun. A Cowboy could make it to the Top of the World and barely able to Formulate a Sentence, Smile when you say that Partner. I know that as of lately I have taken many hardline Stances, guess what someone has to speak up against the Pied Piper Mentality. My biggest Beef with the Cowboy Mentality is, you could leave your House eight A.m. healthier than your 🐎 Horse, Twelve Noon eating Lunch at your favorite Watering Hole, You are now exposed to the Virus. Within a couple of Hours Incubation, you are now the Carrier and the Spreader. Hello! Put a Mask on your Horse and one on yourself, or ride  out of Town, Partner. I spent an entire Summer in Texas, I know what’s under that Ten Gallon, they also don’t Cotton to no Masks wearing.

Life, Motivation, Parenting And Relationships

My Own Man

Anthony Dixon

 

 

My Own Man

Rendering an Opinion is expressing your own Thoughts. There is a big Difference in Rendering as opposed to Echoing someone else’s. Rendering means that you are an Independent Thinker capable of formulating your own Thoughts and you don’t have Clone Mentality. It’s absolutely uncanny that when your Parents are Teaching and Training you that you don’t Recognize what they were trying to accomplish, until you all Grown up yourself. My Mother have never tried to Clone my Thinking to Her’s, even when I was Hell bent on self-destruction. She allowed me to burn myself out on that Path, until I came full circle with my Thinking.

That Training goes as far back to four years old, when I told her that I was cold she never told me that it was eighty Degree, how can you be cold. When I told her that I wasn’t hungry, she never told me that you haven’t eaten all Day, yes you are hungry and you are going to eat. That type of interaction went on all the way through our Lives. She was molding me into an Independent Thinker, which was oblivious to me. I always thought she was easygoing and soft. Like when I was fourteen and she found my Ounce of Weed. She didn’t go off the Deep End, several Days later she sat me down and Communicated with me. One of the Questions she ask me was, do you want to be a Bum or a Respectable Person that People looks up to.

She continued, the People you are Running with aren’t for you, doing what they are doing smothered your Individuality. I didn’t Raise you to Succumb to Peers Pressure, you are your own Person doing what they do makes you their Puppet. My God that Woman was wiser than Solomon. She had crafted a Passageway to my Mind. Whatever Problem I had throughout Life I could Discuss it with her, even Women trouble. During that Discussion she used a Phrase that stuck with me all my Life, ” Like Minded People” as soon as she uttered those Words, Zombies flashed in my Head. From there on I knew that I was an Independent Thinker.

I knew that I would never be one of the Mass, I wouldn’t belong to a Political Party, associated maybe, but not belong, no one Dictates to me. Even in my Work Life , once I learned my job and knew what was expected of me, leave me alone. I also knew that I would never join a Gang or a Cult. Today Party Affiliation resembles Cult to me. For Forty Seven years I have wondered why did I turned down the Offer to work for Organized Crime, making Huge Money atTwenty years old. Mother’s work was done, I was an Independent Thinker. The Neighborhood Drug Dealer who owned many six Stories Thirty Units Buildings, tried to make me like him, Filthy Rich. Today I am Poor and work in a Justice System and not Residing in a Cell.

The Black Muslims of Malcolm X tried to Indoctrinate me, they failed. The Black Panther Party tried to Recruit me they also failed. When you are an Independent Thinker you are Impervious to bad choices and Propaganda. No one can Whip you into a frenzy with Sugarplums and Misinformation. Four Days from my Twenty First Birthday, On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. All that did was to strengthen my Convictions not to be a Follower and let myself get Duped by some Charismatic Talker.

As I have said Over and again I have spent my entire Life Learning from other People’s Mistakes. 1933 the Beleaguered German People filled Stadiums Listening to a Characteristic Speaker. They decided to break away from thei’r Democratic Style Government and Elected the Charismatic Speaker as Chancellor, look at the Chaotic outcomes. I guess that was the Birth of Heard Mentality. It’s always a difficult task to break from the Norm, but it’s the only way to be truthfully Free. My Wife puts it Best ” You came into this World alone and you will leave it alone” I say you’ve got one Life to Live, don’t let someone else live your Life and don’t live someone else’s Life. As you know I don’t like beating my Gums more than necessary to get my Point across whatever you didn’t hear me say , is for you to Figure out. So I am ending it on the lite side. John Smith’s first Day in School was a Tear Jerker. The Teacher introduced herself and began Roll call. When she got to John, she called his name several times, he never answered. All the other kids were accounted for, so she walked over to the only Kid that wasn’t accounted for and asked him, are you John Smith? He answered yes. The Teacher asked him how come he didn’t answer Roll call, he replied that’s not what my Mother call me. The confused Teacher asked him what does she call you, He replied, Dumb Ass. So there you have the Moral for being an Independent Thinker, no one can call you that. Last Word goes to my favorite Thinker. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~ Albert Einstein.

 

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Silence is’nt Always Golden

Anthony Dixon

 

 

Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. Upon achieving power, Hitler smashed the nation’s democratic institutions and transformed Germany into a war state intent on conquering Europe for the benefit of the so-called Aryan race. His invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, triggered the European phase of World War II. During the course of the war, Nazi military forces rounded up and executed 11 million victims they deemed inferior or undesirable—“life unworthy of life”—among them Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Hitler had supreme authority as führer (leader or guide), but could not have risen to power or committed such atrocities on his own. He had the active support of the powerful German officer class and of millions of everyday citizens who voted for the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party and hailed him as a national savior in gigantic stadium rallies.

How were Hitler and the Nazis possible? How did such odious characters take and hold power in a country that was a world pacesetter in literature, art, architecture, and science, a nation that had a democratic government and a free press in the 1920s?

Hitler rose to power through the Nazi Party, an organization he forged after returning as a wounded veteran from the annihilating trench warfare of World War I. He and other patriotic Germans were outraged and humiliated by the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which the Allies compelled the new German government, the Weimar Republic, to accept along with an obligation to pay $33 billion in war reparations. Germany also had to give up its prized overseas colonies and surrender valued parcels of home territory to France and Poland. The German army was radically downsized and the nation forbidden to have submarines or an air force. “We shall squeeze the German lemon until the pips squeak!” explained one British official.

Paying the crushing reparations destabilized the economy, producing ruinous, runaway inflation. By September 1923, four billion German marks had the equal value of one American dollar. Consumers needed a wheelbarrow to carry enough paper money to buy a loaf of bread.