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The older I get, the more I attempt to find a positive spin on anything that occurs.  I do this because it is easier for me to try and understand the motives of another if I can see things a little as they see them.  It helps me to reconcile myself with the fact that as the Bible tells us we should always respect another person’s truth.  It does not say we have to agree with it or even like it but it does ask us to respect it and in so doing we can now expect that they will respect our truth. Listening to the latest in the Donald Trump Saga, many are talking about a rift in the party and those anti-Trump people may have a valid shot at winning and blocking him out while others are saying the exact opposite.  I don’t truly know which is right or wrong and neither is it my place to say either way.  I have never been given the power or authority to tell anyone whether they are right or wrong, I can only control and diagnosis my actions and advise myself. ...

To say that the Republican Debate conducted by CNBC was painful to watch is an understatement.   I had hoped to hear something different and find a reason to be positive about the upcoming 2012 election but was greatly disappointed.   I cared not about the accusations of sexual harassment involving Herman Cain but I was glad to hear him being asked about character.   I cringed when Rick Perry spoke about the agencies he would close and so many other things. It was nice to hear Jon Huntsman respond to the questions asked of him and even though I may not agree with much of what he said, it was the only highlights that I can point to.   I wonder when the “real” Republicans are going to stand up and declare that the 23% does not speak for them and instead of trying to take this country back to the 1800s, take the party back from the Tea Party first.   We need a different set of voices to help us make the best decision for this nation’s benefit as a whole but wh...

Many mainstream pundits and talking heads of the GOP were quick to blame the outing of Herman Cain sexual harassment incident on Democrats and some even called it another “lynching” as was mentioned in the Clarence Thomas Hearings.   Now that it appears the incident may have been leaked by those within his own party, those who first claimed this is suspiciously quiet. What may be getting lost in this entire endeavor is that Mr. Cain’s team may have leaked this themselves and playing the media for their own gain.   Consider this, blame the Perry campaign and raise millions of dollars by gathering a larger part of the Republican elective,   This ensure that Perry will not be the one to contend with Mitt Romney for the Republican nominee for President.   The more people who side with Cain, the less Perry will garner and eventually may be forced to withdraw.   Why else would you implicate anyone without providing proof?    Now Rick Perry is attempting...

As this election season begins to heat up, I never really placed much thought in the ideas of those who seemed so far removed from the economic issues of this nation when it comes to anything especially foreign affairs but with the recent deluge of comments coming from these individuals, it has raised a question or two. It should be expected that the crop of those seeking the Republican Presidential Nomination would have a few thoughts about foreign affairs what caught me completely off guard was the article by Matt Spetalnick of Reuters titled Top Republican assails Obama "reset" with Russia.   In it he reports that “House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, in a rare speech on foreign policy, warned that Russia's response to Obama's much-vaunted outreach was "nothing short of an attempt to restore Soviet-style power and influence."   Pushing for a tougher line, Boehner pressed Obama not to agree to Russia's long-sought accession to the Worl...

Mitt Romney has a well-earned reputation as a “flip-flopper” and one of the lessons learned from those currently in Congress and our former presidents is this nation cannot afford another politician who does not have a consistent position on the issues facing this nation.   There is plenty of documented and recorded proof of how Mr. Romney will tailor his position to meet the requirements of his audience and while that is a good thing when you are trying to sell a product, it should not be accepted when you are asking for the votes to place you in the White House. Now, truth be told, Mr. Romney is not the first and probably will not be the last person to demonstrate this behavior but he should be the reason why the public begins to demand better.   Some say that Mr. Cain will be given a pass for his misstatements and they use the excuse of him not being as “polished” as the others candidates.   My only question then is if that is truly the case, how could Mr. Cain be...

Forgive me for being so conspiratorial but when I first heard of how depilating Michelle Bachman’s migraine headaches could be, I could feel her pain because I too suffer from them but when I heard that they would sometimes take her out of play for a number of days, something else occurred to me. It became ever so clear that maybe this has been the opportunity that the Bachman Camp has been looking for to get themselves out of the race for President.   She may have started this journey to obtain “Sarah Palin” status or to elevate her personal status and things were going pretty well until the questions about her stance and her husband clinic became the questions may wanted to ask.   Maybe she finally figured out that she was going to have to take this debt ceiling thing serious and the information that she had been given that it really didn’t matter was wrong. Either way, it would not surprise me that soon the Bachman Camp will soon begin packing up their tents and ending th...

You have got to consider it kinda strange that a governor preaching succession since the election of our current president would now seek the help of the entity that he said Texas hated more than anything else.   Could these wildfires be a sign to those of Texas to return to the age of inclusion? According to Sarah Wheaton , New York Times,   Texas Wildfires Rage on With No End in Sight “ Firefighters in Texas on Tuesday continued to battle raging wildfires that were consuming more than a million acres and showing few signs of abating.   “The bull’s-eye is on West Texas and the Panhandle,” said April Saginor, a spokeswoman for the Texas Forest Service, referring to the area where conditions were considered “critical to extremely critical” — as they had been for days.   On Monday, firefighters responded to 10 new fires, in addition to battling 20 existing uncontained blazes — “actually kind of a light day,” Ms. Saginor said.   Texas’ worst drought in nearly hal...