March 5, 1984 Innocence Lost

Forty-Two years ago on March 5, 1984, my mother’s mom, Ella Pauline Mosser-Ryder passed away. Just a couple months shy of my graduation from high school, the one person in my life that I knew never judged me, always loved me unconditionally passed away. She was one week shy of her 77th birthday. Her death was more significant of a loss than losing my Grandpa Powell when I was 13. While I miss Grandpa, the lack of my Grandma Ryder in my life made me realize a few things and those things were painful. I have never been the same.

Grandma always went by her middle name, Pauline, rather than Ella. I never knew why she went by her middle name. As an adult, I often wonder why. I share her middle name as my middle name but as a child, I was always called by both my first and middle name, Mary Pauline by my mom’s family members, especially by those in Grandma’s generation. It was said affectionately and it never bothered me but my older first cousins referred to me as Mary P.P. and I hated being called that name.

Grandma Pauline shared a passion for science, particularly space travel. Grandma was a postmistress of our home town post office and she got to go to a Postmaster convention in Florida and she got to go to Cape Canaveral for a tour and brought me back a book on the history of rocketry and space travel that was sponsored by Gulf oil. She actually got my brother a book as well. I was the only one who read the book and I wore the cover off both books. Every time something new came out about space or space travel, Grandma and I would talk about it together. Every August when my parents went to Church Conference, us kids would stay with Grandma and she would set me up to watch the meteor showers in her back yard.

When we did those yearly visits (coming back to Illinois from Kansas), our friends (the kids I knew before we moved away) would join us at her house and we would bowl on the sidewalk in front of her house with 12 pop cans and a softball. I am not sure who enjoyed it more, Grandma or my friends and I. Then she would call us all up, give us a can of Hawaiian Punch and a Reese’s Peanut butter cup so we could rest and cool off. Ah the simple joys of childhood!

Grandma lived in 2 different houses that I could remember. One was directly across the street from us and then the big house uptown, less than 300 yards from where she worked at the post office. There were times after school, Mom would tell me to walk to the post office after school and I would stay with Grandma until Mom came to get me. I got to run the hand canceller to help Grandma with the mail and she paid me with a hot chocolate in a throwaway plastic cup that sat in a frame with a handle. Yeah, that Solo cup with a holder.

Grandma was an avid reader and she got me hooked on Emily Dickenson and I have a velvet covered book of Dickenson’s work that Grandma owned. “Because I would not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality.”: was the one line from The Chariot that always stuck with me.

Grandma was a beautiful Christian woman who I only once ever heard her say a bad word and that was the word , “damn” when she hit her toe on the side of a doorway in her house and broke her toe. I remember my dad chuckling and taking her arm and helping her to a chair.

The smells from her house I still remember. Grandma’s coffee would slap you awake at the front door, it was that strong and it would certainly take the tarnish off any silverware. She made it on a gas stove in an old aluminum percolator, always putting a bit of salt in with the coffee to take the bitter bite away. But it was her fried porkchops that were amazing. The smell I remember but have never been able to duplicate. I never knew how she got them to smell that way. She covered them in flour but the smell, it was a heavenly smell and so was the taste. I never got to ask her how she cooked them. Was it an iron skillet? Or was it the cooking grease from the can she saved grease in? I will never know.

The day she died, I was taking a shower when my baby brother (he would have been 11 years old at the time) burst in the bathroom and yelled, “Grandma Ryder died!” I was in shock. As soon as I got out of the shower and dressed, I immediately started packing for the 13-hour trip back to Illinois. My heart was broken, she had promised to come to my graduation and bring Uncle Red. I knew that promise would never come true now. Promise broken, innocence gone.

The next shock came when we arrived at her home and the family was fighting over who got what and why people were taking things out of the house before she was even in the ground. The family I once thought was a happy, working together, loving and peaceful fell completely apart. I realized she was the glue that held the family together. Grandma was gone and no one was able to get their emotions under control. Just three months into my 18th year and what I thought was the way a family was supposed to act and be was not anything close. My relationship with my Aunt and two Uncles was never the same. The relationship with my cousins had never been much as the three older were at least 6-years older and the three younger were at least 3 years younger, we were in different age groups and shared nothing in common. I started my young adult life with no Grandma Pauline as a mentor and my Grandma Powell, well, she wasn’t the type I could share things with.

My life has never been the same since Grandma died. That relationship was one that I have and always will cherish and the only regret I have is not finding out how she cooked those darn pork chops so I could make them, smell them and smile and perhaps imagine she is in the kitchen with me, eating them and the fried potatoes and gravy she always made. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Grandma.

Commentary on Public Education.

This commentary is guaranteed to upset many. It is brutal and yes it targets some ideologies. The reader agrees to read at their own peril.

John D Rockefeller once said; “I don’t want a nation of thinkers; I want a nation of workers.” He of course was referring to the public education system. His aim was to educate people just enough to read and follow instructions but not educated enough for them to think for themselves. So, standardized education came to be, and the United States has suffered ever since. Public schools are the indoctrination institutions of the leftists who think and believe socialism and communism are the best forms of government. They are of course the best way to control and subdue people, but a Republic allows the people to excel, if they choose. Public schools discourage students to seek beyond everyday thought or dream.

Today we see schools indoctrinating rather than teaching. It started slowly with sex education, pushing to teach birth control methods, encouraging promiscuity rather than abstaining. Saying abortion prevents an unwanted child, giving it no value. Then they move their lessons to things that should only be talked about in private. Sexual deviancy is now openly taught as normal behavior, ignoring biology altogether!

Yes, our adolescents are targeted and encouraged to explore same-sex relations and encouraging that normal confusion of a child growing into an adult, as a means to encourage them that they are the opposite of the biology from which they were born. They are confusing and brainwashing a child who should only have to mentally work through feelings themselves. Skipping a natural process in growth leaves a vacuum that should be filled. For better analogy, consider this; taking a weanling racehorse of 7 months, out its pasture straight to the racetrack, failure is guaranteed. Schools are creating failures, students who can’t think for themselves who have no creativity or logic and only seek to satisfy themselves sexually. Schools are producing nothing more than animals, not productive citizens.

Proof of this is in the fact that we now have students who believe they need to use litter boxes instead of a toilet. This only encourages the mental deviant and forces others to accept abnormal behavior regardless of whether it is sanitary or not. It’s no wonder we have so many students committing suicide and on psychotic drugs. Public schools are a danger to our children’s mental and physical development! Sadly, not every family can choose to homeschool or send their children to a private school, and some of those private schools are just as bad if not worse than the public schools.

In some parts of the world, education is thought of as a luxury, and families do everything they can to get their child educated. Here in the United States, we are ruining our children with anti-social, anti-science ideologies that do more harm than good. Perhaps, we shouldn’t require public school attendance at all but leave education up to the parents, we would probably get a better result. Only those capable of understanding instructions will have jobs, and the rest will starve to death. It sounds harsh but when we have schools pushing agendas such as they are, that students are nothing more than animals, then we fall under the Law of Nature. Yep, John D Rockefeller got what he wanted, a population so stupid they can’t use their creativity or have a logical thought for themselves, because they have been so corrupted by ideologies that are anti-human that our children are reverting back to Primeval desires of sexual gratification as the only thing that matters. We’re already seeing the kill or be killed mentality in cities so why keep public schools?

Yes, I despise public school because I would have been a much better scholar in a setting where my natural curiosity would have driven my desire to learn much better than being in a standardized box. I was often told that I wasn’t smart enough to take certain classes or smart enough to be in a vocation that I chose. Being told that, I believed it, and I didn’t reach my full potential. After I got out of school, I found out that I wasn’t stupid, in fact I was much smarter than the average individual! I actually taught myself college algebra when I was told that I wasn’t smart enough to do math. I think we need to change the education system greatly and to start, we need to stop the perverted sex education at age 5, and we need to stop convincing the children that their parents don’t have their best interest at heart. Our children deserve much better, our country deserves much better! As I see it now, we are no better then the perverted extremists who have no value in a woman and force them to be covered up. Congratulations, the influx of radicals and leftist ideologies have brought us to this point. We are going to have to fight back if we want our children to think for themselves and to not be so mentally deviated by the education system.

47 Year War

Before we get into this, I need to make a note. When I refer to islam, and muslims, I am referring to the radicalized jihadists, not the Muslims who are humans first and care for people. I do question their believing that islam is a true religion as it is a political ideology masked as a religion.

I am sorry to burst everyone’s bubble who have said Trump has brought us into a new war but in al reality, we have been in a war with Iran for 47 years. We have taken many attacks on Americans around the world. The number of Americans killed, not counting the 2,996 that died on 9/11, is 990 bringing the total of dead Americans killed by Iran and their proxies up to 3,986 American souls! If that isn’t proof enough for you, then can go to the following link at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies web page and read the article Iranian and Iranian-Backed Attacks Against Amercians (1997-Present). https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/06/19/iranian-and-iranian-backed-attacks-against-americans-1979-present/

We have been in a war that has seen 8 Presidents and all but Regan and Trump have appeased them. Now we have Donald Trump, a true leader, at the helm and he has had enough. He knows and I think any of us who have any common sense and knows a bit of the Koran and the thinking of the radical muslims (lower case for a reason of disrespect) and their hatred of American and Israel, that the Ayatollah sought nothing less than to develop a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and to infiltrate American soil and kill as many as possible and convert the remaining Libtards and Patriots or kill them if they don’t convert to islam (again lower case for disrespect).

We can choose to ignore FACTS of this ongoing war or we can surely admit that it has been an underlying war for all these years. We have been targets of terroristic attacks.

Here are some interesting facts that have led up to this past weekend that tells me that President Trump has done the correct thing by helping Israel and we HAVE to accept that we HELPED Israel, we didn’t LEAD Israel.

  1. In September of 1683 on September 11th, the muslims suffered a defeat in Austria. There is no coincidence that the Twin Towers were attacked on 9/11. It was muslim retribution.
  2. muslims have a different calendar than the Jewish People and our Gregorian calendar. It is the muslim year 1447 and we are in the Nineth month. It is Ramadan and although the plan to attack Iran was originally planned for Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026, intel sent to Israel said that all the top 40 leaders would be meeting in one place on February 28, 2026. So the plans got moved to Saturday, which happens to be the Nineth Month and 11th day of Ramadan! That is Divine Intervention!
  3. Iran was and still is for the most part a Secular state, with many Jewish Iranians and Christian Iranians. Iran has the lowest mosque attendance that most islamic states. People were forced to convert or die. The Iranian People reject islam, and did what they had to do to survive. They are now outwardly rejecting islam.
  4. The Iranian People ASKED for help. Israel and Trump gave that help and are just tying things up enough for the PEOPLE to take over and build a nation that is free from islamic tyranny.
  5. Neighboring Arab States are not happy that Iran attacked them indiscriminately after Israel hit them. So they are now backing the US and Israel in the work at hand.
  6. We in the United States should be prepared for sleeper cells on our soil. They have been in our country for decades. In Oregon, I was aware of a sleeper cell camp but not sure of its exact location and those who had an idea where it was were too chicken sh*t to call it out for fear of being killed. Enough is enough!
  7. There are too many radicalized muslims in our country! islam is NOT a true religion but a political ideology. No true religion forces people to convert or die.
  8. If you live in the United States and hate it, then get the hell out! We don’t need your hatred, your ilk. People like Ilhan Omar who lied to get naturalized should be deported. FYI, if you are muslim, the koran says you can like to the infidel (those who are not muslim). We don’t like liars.

So, don’t be mad at Trump or Israel working together to help the Iranian People. They asked for help and it was given. So, just as in the days of Queen Esther of Persia, the threat to the Jewish People both Iranian Jews and Israeli Jews aka Haman, has been eliminated so, the Jewish People and the People who support Israel and its right to exist can once again celebrate this new Purim! Happy Purim!

Our Amazing Founding Fathers

It is amazing to me that our Founding Fathers were so intelligent and brave for what they did in leading our country through its birth. What is really amazing to me is that the average age of these great men was 44 years! The oldest signer of course was our wonderful Benjamin Franklin but few even know that there were 2 men who were in their 20’s! Edward Rutledge from South Carolina and Thomas Lynch Jr. also from South Carolina.

So, let’s look at the statistics of age: 4 signers of the Declaration of Independence were 30 or younger. 21 were 40 or younger and 43 were 50 or younger. There were 6 Founding Fathers who were 60 or older with Grandpa Ben being the oldest. These men weren’t all old! They were men with skin in the game, most had children with 11 men having more than 10 children! Carter Braxton had 18 and had gone through 2 wives. Now I am not saying all the children were still alive or born by the time the Declaration was signed, but these men were looking to the future and the future of their children when they wrote their name on that document.

The Founding Fathers came from many walks of life, with some having several vocations; 2 were ministers, many were lawyers, merchants and owned plantations. There were land owners, a farmer, 4 physicians and 3 scientists. Yes, they were all educated men and most were formally educated except John Morton from Pennsylvania. He was home schooled so to speak by his step father and what he learned from him gave him the wisdom needed to represent Pennsylvania.

When one looks at the statistics and starts reading about these men, it is amazing to think about how they all had such passion for freedom! Their defiance of King George III and his armies when looked at from a common sense view must have seemed suicidal and it could have been, had the PEOPLE not stood up with them against the tyranny of the King.

These great men, set up a country, a REPUBLIC, for the people and by the people, giving them freedom to worship, own land and to be whatever a person dreamed of being. These men served our country and then retired to their homes. Not one of them decided to continue to serve longer than needed, they all had lives, and once those lives and livelihoods were protected, they could live life as they chose. Yes, a few were called into service, to serve as Presidents, or other offices but they all went HOME!

Fast forward to present day politics and we have career politicians who “serve” decades. I don’t believe for one minute that there aren’t people better than Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters or Chucky Schumer and Mitch McConnell. They MIGHT have been good when they started but 12 years in DC is long enough, not 40-50 years and yes our oldest serving politician is Chuck Grassley with OVER FIFTY YEARS IN DC!

Career politicians are just as bad as King George III or those in England’s House of Lords or Parliament, back when our country was born! We need to shift back to SERVE AND GO HOME, not “Go to DC and make millions!”

Another thing we need to look at as well; the age of those serving. Sadly, there are very few young people who are capable of tying their own shoes much less be a leader. But we only have ourselves to blame and the Department of Education! Our youth in public education are not learning, they are being ‘brainwashed’ to be followers and not leaders, workers not thinkers. What would our Founding Fathers have to say about this travesty? Education in their time was a treasure and a path to success and dreams to fulfill. Then again, there were several Founding fathers who had informal educations (Home schooled) and then look at Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, he was self taught. Our colleges and Universities aren’t teaching they are brainwashing nowadays and that is why we have so many perverted deviants, antifa followers and Karen’s. Which leads me back to how simply amazing our Founding Fathers were!

Paid Protestors

Antifa was where I first found out that protesters were being paid to riot. Then I saw the ads looking for actors to protest. I thought it strange and then I thought again, this evil comes from people like George Soros who want to push their agendas and cause chaos. So, many of the protestors are being paid to protest in Minneapolis so they have lots of people show up to make the news media validate the numbers of people upset about ICE arresting illegal immigrants. The thing is, who in their right mind would protest that a criminal was being arrested? Not too many people I know. Most people with any common sense at all wants criminals off the streets to protect their children.

It doesn’t make sense that so many people are upset about career criminals that are also illegal aliens being arrested. It doesn’t add up until Nick Shirley exposes all the fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. THEN you have paid protesters filling up the streets. OH, okay, so people are upset that ICE is arresting fraudsters and criminal illegal aliens. They want them left alone. So they are okay with the government just throwing our hard earned money away? They are okay with suitcases full of money being carried on planes and shipped to Somalia? If that is okay, then how do I get some of that money? Then I remember 4 things, I am a US citizen, I am not from Somalia and I am not a criminal or muslim. Yes, muslims (purposely lower case ‘m’) because islam is a political ideology masked as a religion.

Governor Tampon Tim Walz got caught laundering money and this guy was a Vice Presidential candidate? The Democrat Socialist/Communists don’t give a flying flute and throw money away. It is time to stop this.

I propose that ANYONE who is found to be a paid protester is guilty of treason and insurrection because they are obstructing immigration laws. Arrest them and make sure they spend a long time in jail and then maybe deport them to Somalia where Ilhan Omar’s family was the ones destroying Somalia in the first place. Yes, check ou9t her family history, it is one straight tree because they marry brothers and sisters as well as first cousins.

Just a warning to paid protesters, when you get paid, better buy some life insurance and get your affairs in order because if you use a car to run over ICE agents or take a gun to a protest, you are writing your own death warrant, or maybe even committing suicide, which in that case life insurance wouldn’t pay out anyway.

They Sent in the Clowns, Now Send in the Water Cannons

So the far-left has mobilized into rapid response teams in Minneapolis, to prevent criminal illegal aliens from being arrested and they are sending them in armed now as we saw on Saturday the 24th, when they shot an ICU nurse who was stupid enough to pull a gun on the ICE agents. What did they expect? Roses? No, they far-left knows their brain dead followers are stupid enough to get themselves killed to further the left’s agenda. The left even tried to say that ICE is arresting 5-year old children but the left news media got shot down big time on that one (which I thought was funny.).

So, what to do with these mobilized forces who are throwing a fit over taxpayer funds being found in fraud schemes? What do we do with these stupid people showing up where they are endangering the ICE agents and themselves? I say and many others say, bring in the big guns aka water cannons. Yep as cold as it is, hose the insurrectionists down. Let them freeze, slip and fall down. Then arrest them and put them in busses with no heat and haul their butts to prison. Every one of them deserve at least 5 years in prison and $100,000.00 fines at minimum. If they are found with any type of weapon, pepper spray or taser they should get 10 years in prison at least as being ‘armed’ with a weapon shows intent to harm and they are obstructing justice as well.

As far as all the left wing judges trying to stop the Administration should be removed from office and also charged with obstructing justice. Like many Americans, I am tired of all the pussy-footing around. They (the left)sent in the clowns, it is time to send in the water cannons!

Ilhan Omar MUST BE Deported NOW!

I’ve had enough of this Somalian woman! If she hates the United States as much as implies there is absolutely NO REASON for her to be in Congress or the United States of America! Her recent speech is enough to prove she is Anti-USA! If that is not enough, let me go on.

If I understand her heritage, her family were some of the controlling families in Somalia, the ones doing all the killings, torture and making that country the cesspool it is currently. Then she comes to this country and MARRIES HER BROTHER! It also appears that she married another man without divorcing one and she is on her THIRD husband, this time she is with an American born citizen and how is it that his company and his assets are suddenly in the MILLIONS? How did she go from nothing to Millions in so short a time?

Let me explain that last question simply, she is a fraud. She is part of the fraud that Nick Shirley uncovered in Minneapolis and she is fighting very hard to hide the TRUTH. Come on, all those so called day care owners looked very inbred to me and they don’t dress or appear educated enough to even read and if I am not mistaken, about 70% of adult Somali’s living in Minneapolis cannot read and about that many again or more are on some type of welfare (TAXPAYER DOLLARS). They got caught and the ALL need to go back to Somalia if they cannot prove they pay taxes, are educated and are working FULL TIME with a job that keeps them off the government teat.

Ihan Omar is a disgrace, she is a manipulator and fraud. She must go NOW!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ilhan-omar-refers-u-s-god-states-during-impassioned-remarks-about-ice

The Minneapolis Feces Show

There is all kinds of evidence that the Somali community in Minnesota has been sucking the taxpayers dry. Now I am going to get hit for throwing them all into on bucket but there MIGHT be and I mean a very slight MIGHT be some Somalis who aren’t on the government teat. People have KNOWN for years that Somalis were transporting cash out of the country in suit cases and getting away with it. The videos exposing the so called day cares blew things up in the open (And really? Those supposed day care owners looked like they were all in-bred to the 10th degree.). Now that the cat is out of the bag, the DemocRATS are trying to shoot down evidence and flat out lie. Ilhan Omar is gonna get caught yet!

I know many families across the nation who are true American citizens who could benefit from SNAP and Social Security benefits but these Somali communities are stealing from taxpaying citizens and Social Security is said to run out soon. Hell I am 60 years old and will have to wait until I am 70 to draw any benefits because of this drain on the SS system. Who do we blame? EVERY Administration who allowed ILLEGAL ALIENS and supposed refugees to come into our country and then gave them free money! I am tired of this sh*t show! It is time to pay the piper and we need to start with Ilhan Omar and go down from there. We do not need brother and sister marriages or first cousin marriages driving down the IQs of the country any further, it is bad enough as it is with all our kids being brainwashed in school and told they are not the same sex as their biological markers, not to mention all the trained agitators who get paid to do stupid stuff.

Speaking of that stupid woman, there are so many FACTS from the day and the incident that prove she was in the wrong and we still have Ilhan Omar and her ilk swearing that the woman was murdered. That poor agent had just about been killed 6 months prior, when he was dragged by a car and injured badly. I don’t blame him for reacting as he did. One video showed how he was bent as if he was pushing himself away from the forward moving vehicle. He followed protocol, plain and simple. FAFO and that is what happened to that stupid woman.

Another video that stupid woman’s wife was claiming it was all her fault and she had gotten out of the vehicle to VIDEO the obstruction of the agents. She is an accessory to her wife’s own death! Why did that stupid woman do what she did? SHE WAS TRAINED to OBSTRUCT, trained to protest!

We also have to look at the stupid woman’s rap sheet and wonder why she was even allowed to have custody of the poor child who is now an orphan. The rap sheet she had, that I saw was domestic violence charges. Perhaps that is why her teen children were living with their father?

Now, in my opinion, this stupid woman is the type of woman who is a selfish demeanor, in other words, she can do no wrong and her sh*t doesn’t stink. She was too stupid to think she would ever get shot and was probably hoping to be come a ‘victim’ of agents pulling her out of her vehicle. That is a case of stupidity suicide or FAFO. I feel for her innocent child as he has probably been told the government agents assassinated his mother. Oh and another point, these type of stupid people really don’t have real love in their heart, it is more about agenda and manipulation type possessiveness masked as love. These are the types of people w ho are trained agitators and you see them all over Minneapolis trying to stop the federal agents from following the law and investigating crimes against the American taxpayer. What a feces show!

2026 A New Year and Time to Reflect

As I sit and put this into my computer, it is 15 minutes until midnight and a New Year will begin. At 8:58AM, I will celebrate my 60th anniversary of being born. Where did the years go? I don’t feel older than 30 in a lot of ways but my body tells me otherwise. As far as lives go, I have had an amazing life so far and done so many things that some people are amazed at what I have done in my life. I cowboyed for 30+ years (I still do a bit of it now.), started a business at 50, seen 31 of the 48 continuous States and seen the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, lived in Illinois, Oregon, North Carolina and Baumholder, Germany. Yes, for a woman who doesn’t have a big income, I have seen much and done a lot more. Yet few places have had as big of an impression as Dachau Prison camp, north of Munich, Germany, Bastogne, Belgium and the Battle Field at Little Big Horn.

At Dachau, we walked the grounds where at least 40,000 died and at least 41,000 more died in sub camps of Dachau. Of course the actual barracks were gone and a mock set up was in place, because of the disease that infested those original buildings. The old showers and new ovens were still there and then the smell was still there. I walked those grounds in 1992 and I could smell death. The flower garden near the new (and Thank God unused) ovens had soil as black as pitch but from those gardens sprung beautiful flowers but their smell was masked by the smell of dead bodies, the smell of cremated ashes of humans who were discriminated against because they were of Jewish blood. There were also homosexuals, Gypsies, Christians and others who also died there as they did in other concentration camps. I will never forget that smell as I will never forget the who, why, and how their deaths were brought about.

When in Germany I also got to visit Bastogne, Belgium to see the American Cemetery and attend Memorial Day Services at the Luxembourg, where General George S. Patton is buried at the top of the cemetery over looking those who died at the Battle of the Bulge. I also saw where battles occurred during WWII and WWI. All those lives killed in concentration camps and the battle fields were killed because one man hated Jews. One anti-Semite set the whole world into turmoil because of his hatred and jealousy of the Jewish people because so many were wealthier than he was as a child. What a waste!

When I walked the battlefield at Little Big Horn, I felt the People and I could see them on the Prairie. Many died and I will say that George Custer got what he had coming to him. He too killed for his hatred of what he believed were an inferior group of people. I am ashamed of what our country did to the Native People of this land. But there again, it was a belief and a thought process that killed in an attempt to wipe out the People of the Land. For as advanced as we humans are in the 21st Century, we have not learned from our past and it appears we are on the verge again of another ideology that is poisonous to touch.

Anti-Semitism is once again rearing its head up but this time in New York City, at the United Nations and anywhere the leftist push their agendas against Israel and it isn’t just one group, it is the woke agenda, illegal aliens, pod casters and even elected officials. I do not want to see another Holocaust! Yet we see Israel attacked again and again and even Christians are being slaughtered around the world. Why? Because of Truth! Those attacking, killing, raping, kidnapping, mutilating are fed with a hatred for other humans. What a waste! All because some people hate! The smell of death is forever a memory in my mind and I don’t like that smell. Yet I fear I will smell that smell again and soon.

I am not looking into 2026 as a year of fear but as a New Beginning, as in previous years. What I hope to find in 2026 is a settling down of hatred towards the Jewish and Christian People around the world and perhaps a settling down of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the push for cartels to sell drugs and for people to stop hating. I know a person who truly hates people and his hatred makes him ugly. I don’t hate people, I may not like some people, and I may have a distain for there beliefs, but I cannot hate them and I am sorry they have no love in their hearts.

AS for me and 2026, I look forward to the 250 anniversary of the United States, my new adventures I am embarking on and the beautiful sunrises and sunsets that only the Kansas Prairie can produce. I am going to focus on loving more, worrying less, chasing dreams and enjoying my blessed life in a country where I have FREEDOM to worship a God who Loves us all so much he gave us His ONLY SON, JESUS to die for our sins and LIBERTY to follow my heart’s desires. May 2026 be your year to Love, Laugh, and Dream also be Prosperous!

“I Forgive Him”

Like many across the country, I have struggled to find words of comfort, words of wisdom and reason behind Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I have wept in private, my heart breaking for this young man’s widow and two babies. I have sat stunned, unable to even pray, knowing fully well that Charlie Kirk knew what he was doing would probably be the death of him, and it was. I was shocked but not surprised, to tell you the truth, because I hear of Christians being killed, yes martyred by the hundreds on the African continent and in other parts of the world. Why? Because they ARE Christians. We’ve seen people killed in Churches in this country but the Truth about those killings aren’t released. Evil is seeking to destroy Christians in any way possible.

Why are so many Christians being killed? Because the demons have possessed so many into believing that what is good is bad and what is evil is good. It is Biblical. Isaiah 5:20 New King James Version says; “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” But even more, we are certainly looking at the end times and the book of Revelation is full of prophecy that speaks of the demoralization of mankind. They cannot stand our Jesus showing through us; they fear the LIGHT, they fear the TRUTH!

Yes, I have struggled and even though I know I should be praying, I haven’t been able because I feel God’s presence in my heart and I know what is coming because He reassures me. I want to rejoice, yet I mourn because I know how urgent things are and how many will not open their hearts to Jesus and it will be too late for them because they don’t know, they don’t know! I mourn for those who persecute Christians and hope their eyes and hearts open before it is too late!

When Erika Kirk stood behind that podium at “Her Charlie’s” memorial service, she had the armor of God on and her tongue was her sword of TRUTH! When she said those golden words; “Our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That young man … I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it’s what Charlie would do.” She set off heaps of ashes on heads of those who celebrated “Her Charlie’s” death! Was I surprised at her forgiving her husbands assassin? Not really, because in my heart I knew that this strong Christian woman is of the highest caliber of Christian. She lives and breathes Jesus Christ, awake and asleep. She has a power given her by the Holy Spirit that few Christians ever are blessed with.

Erika’s Grace bestowed upon the man who took her husband is a tiny example of Christ’s Grace he shows upon all humanity. We do not deserve it, yet it is freely given. Erika, in her wisdom as a Christian knows that had she not forgiven this man, her heart won’t heal and Charlie’s message would not be received as it should be. By giving Her Grace to the assassin, she releases herself from all burdens associated with the pain she is feeling. She has overcome any resentfulness she may feel. She did this not only for herself but for her children and Charlie’s mission. In doing so, she becomes the great lioness in the battle against evil and becomes a leader for Christ.

When we dig into Erika’s Grace further, we will discover that the Leftist who celebrate Charlie’s death and continue to insist that Charlie spoke evil, will not be able to deal with that Grace. Their rhetoric WILL BE EXPOSED as LIES! They will implode upon themselves and LIGHT will once again over power DARK. They have already exposed themselves and it will get worse before it gets better. They have already said they aren’t done with political assassinations and should have started higher. GOD FORBID!

As it is now, John 12:24 says it best, where Jesus is speaking. “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” Jesus Christ’s seed was planted in Charlie’s heart and now, Charlie’s seeds are planted in MILLIONS of followers. Charlie’s life he led is worth copying as I don’t think we can find a better example of a man who let Jesus take COMPLETE CONTROL of his life. Let’s strive to be more Christlike!