The Emanuel Nine represents a truly amazing grace, and in my opinion deserving of the Medal Of Honor. I am humbled by the truth, justice, compassion, hope and faith of the nine. Of all the news last year, it was the the faith of the Emanuel Nine that I found to be the most moving.

After years of strife emphasized by the media culminated in the ultimate act of cowardice and hate by a truly lost soul. Unfortunately this will be back in the news soon. I hope that the Christian faith of the Nine is not forgotten in the news. For it is the ultimate part of the story. For us, our faith should rule. The media, and it’s associates would like to scrub faith from our lives.

I am no expert on faith, however it is needed in life. Personally, I believe that simple work provides focus and faith. I am talking avocation or vocation, something that is missing from the lives of the troubled.

The Emanuel Nine was the last big news event before the election, now it may be back in the news after the election. Somehow I hope faith becomes part of the media story.

Aye, I am beginning to understand.

Yesterday President Barack Obama awarded 21 Medal Of Freedom Awards. The local news media highlighted three of the recipients. Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Springsteen. The cream of the privileged elite. What these people have to do with freedom I have no idea. Ellen, highlighted by the media is nothing more than a very well paid host to a daily hour long commercial. At best these people indoctrinate compliant masses into commercialism. Unbelievable these people are awarded the Medal Of Freedom.

Of course I have my own list. How about the inventor of PokeMon Go. This little app managed to get millions of people outside. How about Elon Musk, delivering us from our addiction to oil, and giving us self driving cars. Or even Matt Drudge, giving us an alternative media to counterbalance the mainstream. Then there are a couple of personal favorites, the inventor of earbuds, giving us the ability to take our music with us. Finally Wikipedia, something that gives us the ability to look up more reliable facts. I am sure there are many other unsung heroes that have benefited our lives.

So I look up who some of the other recipients are. Actually there are some pretty good people. A couple of programmers and a mathematician, would top my list. Bill and Melinda Gates made the list along with an artist and an architect. Finally an educator and an advocate finish off my list of the deserving. The rest are mass media entertainment.

I am beginning to understand. The media doesn’t care about the actual heroes. They promote their own heroes in self aggrandizement. The media will favour those who enable their dreams of aggrandizing their own. They are doing well, more than half of the recipients were fluff.

I am an American Indian Muslim, and I do not get much respect.

My father was born into the Sioux Nation. His father, my Grandfather was a missionary. He built a small machine shop and was teaching the Indians how manufacturing would make their lives better. Wonder where I get my interest in manufacturing from? However most people, including myself, consider me to be a detestable Pilgrim. If my father was born into the Sioux Nation, I must be at least half American Indian.

The oldest book in my home is the Koran. It belonged to my Great Great Grandfather. If the oldest book in my home, and by a good margin, is the Koran, I must be Muslim. I have never been in a Mosque, however I have been in many churches. So most people think I am a despicable Christian. Maybe I should visit a Mosque. I used to have a bible, but somehow it moved on to a better place. So I have recently replaced it.

So I really should play up that I am an American Indian Muslim. Then I should be able to get to the front of the affirmative action line. At least that was my plan, until two weeks ago. Now I can just be happy being me.

My part in this election is over. Confident that I have done the right thing it’s time for me to put my feet up and enjoy the show. Then I see a tweet on the news, Donald Trump and family had snuck out for a steak dinner at Keene’s  Steakhouse. There was a photo too. The photo shows a number of airplanes hanging from the ceiling. As I like to hang out at Keene Airport this looks like a cool place to me.

So I decided to look up Keene’s Steakhouse. It doesn’t exist!  Somewhat disappointed that there was no steakhouse wIth the Keene name, I wondered where the Trump family did go. There is a Keen’s Steakhouse in New York. So I googled that, and it looks similar, but no planes hanging from the ceiling. Maybe Trump and company never snuck out and he has his own steakhouse in Trump Tower. Mr Trump certainly likes his planes, I would not be surprised if he likes trucks and tractors too. It would be way cool if he called his own steakhouse Keene’s. That is within driving distance for me.

Why would he do that? Well one of his first big political rallies was in Keene. Maybe it was where Trump and family decided to go Big League in politics. Or maybe there is some other unknown reason. After some further googling I discovered that the Trump clan had visited the steakhouse at the 21 Club. There are planes hanging from the ceiling at the 21 Club. Could be some confused person didn’t really know where they were, or how to spell. The reality is most likely the latter. However the idea of a mysterious Keene’s Steakhouse that celebrates the Trump clan’s pursuit of politics and pays homage to manufactured items hanging from the ceiling and is more appealing to me.

I want it to be a thing.

Congratulations to President Elect Donald J Trump and his family on his new job. He now works for all of us. He arrives unencumbered by partisanship or debit. In his path, the greatest challenge of his life. A challenge ten thousand times greater than his greatest building.

It was just a week ago that the people spoke. They spoke with a voice that surprised most everyone. The people spoke with a voice that makes history. Together the people spoke with a voice of strength. It was with a vote, that a voice was given to revolution.

So far all the principles have said the right thing. Donald and Hillary were gracious. Barack has been accommodating. Both parties are in the process of realigning their priorities. This is in my view a good thing. The media, while slightly stunned, has doubled down on its rhetoric. Challenges do lay ahead.

Compared to some of the historic times of the past, we have it good. With effort we can make life great. For this I pray.

So what’s next for the Democrat party? It was built around the Clintons, and their policies. I have no idea where they may go. I wonder if the new party will be slavishly pro union. Personally I don’t think pro union will work. At this point it’s the same as  pro government. My view is under the Clintons, the DNC was simply a front for the great super union. The only real agenda was the lie of climate change, which they used to bludgeon anyone who disagreed. Personally I am glad it failed.

George Soros is still around funding chaos. He believes in opportunity through chaos. I certainly hope the new Democratic party does not embrace him, or his money.

Wednesday morning all the deplorable Trumpkins gave each other a high five, then went back to work. That’s what they do. Wednesday afternoon Hillary’s basket of deplorables (to turn a phrase) went protesting, with some even rioting. That’s what they do. Wednesday evening the privileged elite resumed stringing together random negative words into long rambling and incoherent sentences. That’s what they do. So really, what’s changed?

Well, half the population is absolutely incredulous. They had been promised a glorious coronation of the first female president in America. Instead they get that ridiculed lout Trump. How could that possibly be? The Trumpkins know the answer.

Could the media have been lying to America? False polls, false stories, false agenda. What was media bias turned out to be absolute media collusion. Most of America probably doesn’t agree with with that view, yet. Remember this. The media lied.

I am the first to say Donald Trump is not perfect. However, ninety five percent of the negative stories about Donald Trump are false. How do I get that number? Ninety five percent of media contributions to politicians are to Democrats. They have the motivation to shape public opinion to their own selfish goals. This time they pushed to far to advance their own agenda.

I think the result will be fewer people will truly trust the media. People will be influenced, but will they really trust the media. Even Democrats will realise, the media lies.

Update: It is really a mistake to have a title of “Yahoo” in a piece about how the media lies. It really is sad that the media lies to us. The Yahoo was my unintended exuberance about proving in my mind that what the media says about me are lies. All in all, this is a very sad story.

Close your eyes and visualize beautiful island blossoms, for you will never believe this true story.

Unlike most people, I was truly excited to vote in this election. Really, for the first time in my life I was excited to vote. Previously it had always been a civic duty. After voting, I stood at the polls for a couple of hours talking with people. It was very apparent that other people were very excited to vote. My town had something like an eighty five percent turnout. I had a nice chat with a Hillary lady, and gave a Trump sign to another lady who was thrilled to hold it. Previously to that moment she had kept her politics to herself and her father. I mostly listened, but I did share a few of my campaign experiences.

During this campaign I was quietly determined to show my support for Donald Trump. I am not comfortable knocking on doors or making campaign calls. So I figured I could put up some campaign signs. During the primary I had disappointing results putting up signs, but I learned that it was OK to put them on State Roads. So I put out a dozen Trump signs along State roads where there were other campaign signs. In a matter of days they all disappeared. I was heartbroken. The other signs were there, but the Trump signs were gone. They even disappeared from the end of my driveway. I thought there might be a local nut.

I talked with other Trump supporters and they all had the same problem. Trump signs had a half life that could be measured in a few days. There was a shortage of Trump signs in the county. To help with the cause I drove across the state with my Truck to get a load of twenty four by eight campaign signs for the county. Local volunteers started to put up the big signs with the thought that big signs would not disappear. Wrong. A call was made to the police, and the next day the was a front page photo made the local paper showing a small Hillary sign that was run over by a car. There were a few large Hillary signs in town, and none were vandalised. Trump supporters have respect.

Demoralized I had given up on signs, I would only drive my Trump Truck, defensively. Why plant signs when they would only be ripped up by the roots. New Hampshire was a battleground state. Then during the last week, Claremont was listed as a battleground city. The superpacs converged. Superpacs of all affiliations. Signs were sprouting up everywhere. Little barren traffic islands that had just a few signs now had hundreds.

Great big beautiful Trump signs started springing up alongside the state roads. Financed by small donations from around the country these beautiful signs had the half life of a few hours. The few Hillary signs in town suddenly become decorated with with big pink signs proclaiming “Her Lies Matter”.  This was war.

As I drove my Trump Truck, I was pleased. I could see, at times three big beautiful Trump signs at once. I could see hundreds of smaller Trump signs at a time. Then there were the thousands of other signs. Suddenly these were different roads, more colorful than the peak of autumn foliage. In the city of Claremont the traffic islands blossomed with color.

Encouraged, the night before the election I placed my remaining signs discreetly on the roads leading to the local polling station. Once again I was going to play my small part. It turned out that my candidate Trump won the national election. I was pleased. Today it was announced that Trump had very narrowly lost the State of New Hampshire. For that I was sad. But then I received an email from the Trump county chair. It turned out that Trump had won the country. A long time blue county had turned red. For that I was happy.

I do not care what you’re political affiliation is. However if there is ever a battleground city in a battleground state nearby, take a drive. It is truly beautiful. Today I went to retrieve the last signs I had put out. They were all gone. Beauty in politics is rare, and fleeting. I wish I had taken pictures.

 

 

Nobody has asked why I really support Donald J Trump. A quick answer would be because he is not a politician. But it is more than that.

I love to mow the lawn, so I have respect for people with a nice lawn. Donald J Trump has sixteen golf courses. In my mind, WOW! With that many lawns, the man has my respect. For that reason alone I decided to support him.

So I understand we all have our reasons for choosing our respective candidates so I did not tell anyone how to vote, or make a judgement on someone’s choice of candidate. I may wonder why someone may choose a candidate though. Most of the time I can understand a person’s choice.

Muslim extremists killed my best friend, he had volunteered after 9/11 and died of brain cancer that was caused by the rubble from the collapse. It was a slow and painful death. He was one of the smartest people I know, and I enjoyed talking politics with him. It’s a continuation of a religious issue that has gone on for more than a millennium. It is deserving of discussion.

I respect people’s involvement with politics. Even if a person supports a political opponent, I have respect. There are many fewer Hillary signs than Trump signs around here. Unlike Trump signs, they remain undisturbed. However my view is a person has a right to their point of view. Systematic violation of those rights does not make for a democracy.

My grandmother was a teacher in a number of one room schoolhouses. When she was a child, her teacher was Robert Frost. His most famous poem was Mending Walls. The final line was, Good walls make for good neighbors. Orderly immigration would be much better than the chaos we now have on the southern border.

I have had the great privilege to shake Donald J Trump’s hand. I have also chatted with Donald J Trump Jr. I didn’t have to pay for that privilege, all I did was carry the Trump sign.

I believe Donald listens to the American People.

60 extra minutes tonight, because we set the clocks back today. So I have really run out of things to say, anything I have to say would be a repeat of something I said before. However I have given myself sixty minutes to write something new.

First, I have really enjoyed myself during this campaign. Seems most people are unhappy about the whole thing, but I am not. I have participated, and I believe that I have made the right choice. Although Trump’s critics claim he, and my support of him, will bring the apocalypse, I disagree. I am happy to have voiced my opinion, even if it’s just writing words in Bubbatrump, and driving around the Trump Truck and putting up signs.

If the Republicans had not chosen Trump, they would have ended up with just another partisan politician. Would that partisan politician won the general election? Would people have believed the lies the the Clintons would have told about that particular politician? Personally I believe that Trump has a stronger pushback against the lies. The lies have become so absurd the the general population does see them as lies.

How much of an effect has Wiki Leaks had? Mainstream media has all but ignored Wiki Leaks. For much of the population they are irrelevant, some sort of Russian interference in our process.

Three days to the election, and the polls will say whatever you like them to say. Mainstream polls have Hillary by a nose, but do you believe mainstream media? I don’t. But at this point I am not going to make a prediction, I have made my predictions. In three days I will say Yipee!

I believe that have not told anyone how to vote. Furthermore, I have not mentioned politics unless someone else has mentioned it first. I treat my participation as a learning experience in how politics works. I view my carrying the Trump sign as a First amendment right. Honestly, I was surprised by how much anger and danger it brought. Absolutely nobody asked me why I was doing it. A very few people asked me about Donald Trump. A very lot of people approved by giving the thumbs up.

The biggest mystery to me is the absolute disparity between the city and the country political beliefs. I may be generalizing, but city folks seem to like Hillary, and country folks like Trump. I can understand rich people liking Hillary, though I don’t think that the reasons are nice. I can fully understand why the media and entertainment industries like Hillary, but I believe that it is absolutely despicable that they lie for her.

We all have our reasons for what we do. I care about my country, and am glad to be here. There may be better places in this world, but I am here. I listen to NPR, watch CNN, and read the WSJ. During this election cycle I have also watched Fox and MSNBC. I even listened to Rush and Howie Carr when I was on vacation. I have checked many internet sites and do refer to the Drudge Report. I usually don’t believe something unless it’s in more than one sector of the media. Or, if I experienced something myself.

Actually I have more to say, but my hour is up. Enjoy your leap hour.