The child

I have never told this story to anyone other than my wife. I was about sixteen, and had always been fascinated with mechanical things.  I had the opportunity to work at what we used to call a gas station, and enjoyed the opportunity to make some money.  I worked for several guys who, to say the least, had loose morals.  There always seemed to be women from the neighborhood who were willing to indulge their desires.  There were many sexual episodes that occurred while I worked there that I choose not to write about.  To say the least, I was very naive about sexual matters.

My job was to occasionally open the station in the morning.  My chores included putting window cleaning supplies on the gas pump islands and take readings off the pumps.  One day I was performing the task and looked down at a small object that at first looked like a dead animal that had no hair.  Although I had only a limited knowledge of the events of pregnancy, I could clearly see it was what is clinically described as a fetus.  The child was about two to three inches in length, clearly curled up, and definitely dead.  To this day I remember with shock reeling back at the site.  I had no idea what to do.  In retrospect, as a Catholic boy, I probably should have done something, perhaps a burial of sorts, or tell my folks about this.  I am left with some regrets as I remember in detail the event.  I chose to do nothing!  It has left a lasting impression on me!

I am a person who believes life is precious, and I wonder who this child could have been.  Having come form two people who probably had very loose morals, would this have been another person with dubious character?  Would this child in a home like mine developed into a person of great talent?  Is this an example of why Planned Parenthood is needed so these abortions performed in a closed gas stations lot would never occur again?  Is this a good case of why contraceptives should be readily available to all to avoid the million plus abortions performed every year?

As a man, I think I should have one half a vote as opposed to a woman’s full vote as we deal with the abortion issue.  Abortion is supposed to be available, but done infrequently according to many of our “catholic” politician such as Nancy Pelosi and so many in Congress.

I know this, I am haunted by the memory of the child’s huddled appearance laying on the side of the concrete of a gasoline island on a cool morning.   -- Enough

Democrats - Detroit

It is interesting how the cities controlled by Democrats seem to have the worst of the worst in terms of crime, corruption, financial trouble, murders, etc.  Detroit, the once model of a great city in the U.S. is now in shambles.  I don't know that a Republican mayor would have done better, but many of us on this side of the isle think Detroit should have given an opposition person the chance.

Democrat - Maxine Waters

I know many in Congress would like to make our nation into another liberal communist empire, but Maxine seems to let it slip out.  Are we to believe this is an honest mistake, or is this a Freudian slip?  I wish I could be more open minded about this, but....   -- Enough

Democrat - Representative Hank Johnson

I think we have an example of why Congress is held in such disrespect.  I apologize for the disrespectful way this is presented, but the point is valid.  This is one of the people deciding our future and the laws we will live by.  -- Enough

Journalism

Naively, I thought newspaper and media people were reporting facts.  Sadly, I have learned that these people have agendas, and most have a liberal twist that becomes apparent as you either read between the lines, or sometime on the lines of their text.  I ran twice for the Minnesota legislature and Mary Lou, my deceased wife of forty years, was grateful that I lost.  During the campaign I saw many articles about me written by a local columnist, and often wondered what meeting she, the reporter, had attended.  The mission of so many is to use their skills in writing to try to affect changes rather than to deal with the facts.  I wish I had the time and opportunity to audit classes in a journalism school.  I know that the journalism schools are teaching how to affect change and reporting is to be slanted to aid in affecting that change.  -- Enough

Honor

I was impressed when my son, a military officer, had my wife and I over to a party with many of his peers.  The young people were, by appearance, demeanor, and the words they spoke great representatives of what we would want in our young people.  I felt great knowing these young people were going to be serving our country and maintaining the tradition of honor-able service to our greatest of all, country.  By contrast, I am disgusted with so many who run for public office with career and self interest motives rather than service to our country.  At this point in history, we need people of honor in government service, and I do mean service, rather than self aggrandizement.  Our founding fathers put their lives and fortunes on the line to give us our nation, and I can only hope more people like I saw on that night with our young military people would find their way to our political scene.  -- Enough

Facts don't mean squat!

I was watching Jay Leno when the President appeared on the show and it created some thoughts about our Presidency.  Here is a President who has failed to revive the economy, spent more time on vacations than any of his predecessors, has been evasive when confronted with questions about even the simplest failures of his administration, and speaks in platitudes.  Campaigning seems to be his only success along with a bill that has 2 out of 3 citizens in the U.S. outraged.  He crisscrosses the country using his "bully pulpit"for fund raising and generating huge bills as he flies continually meeting with only those who naively view him as something of a mesiah.

I now know we have a form of  monarchy developing comparable to the queen in England. Each of these monarchs show up, they say nice things, take credit for successes, give motivational speeches, but do nothing to affect a changes.  The Presidency has been the position of leadership with men who were held accountable for our economy, our nation's safety, and accepted that the "buck stopped" at the President's desk.  We now hear from his administration that he "leads from behind", and we now understand what this means.  Our economy he says is recovering, but it is the most anemic recovery in history, with unemployment at historic levels, and a black population, if they really look at their status, must realize that their poverty has increased by over one million people, and their black children's job outlook has never been worse.

Jay Leno, the Hollywood wealthy, and a legion of "low information voters" continue to look the other way as we watch significant concerns neglected.   -- Enough