Not For Everyone

Warning... this blog is not meant for everyone.  Woke folk and TDSers may want to pass. I make no apologies. 

I was writing a pleasant blog about approaching Spring that started with  --  Don't know where they went, but the crows that inhabit my pasture and yard are back. Actually I don't know if they are the same ones.  Doesn't matter.  I like them. Anyway -- this, to me, is a sure sign that Spring approaches, and I am hanging on to that hope tightly.  I have been trying now for a long time to make friends with these birds.  Maybe this is the year. 

Then things took a turn.  The world interrupted -- again.  And so...

I have a confession.  When I woke up that morning, I turned on the TV to see if the new leader of Iran, the son of the former Ayatollah Khomeini, was still alive.  Apparently he was elected by an 88 member group that they call The Assembly of Experts.  I think of them as a murderous hate group of nutcase religious fanatics who like to kill innocent people and tell their followers that they will go the Heaven if they kill all who disagree with them.  (Makes me curious about Sharia Law.)  Am confused about that group of Experts though – thought we or Israel had dropped a bomb on that 88 as well.  How many are there left over?  Hmmm….  Apparently Mojtaba, the newly elected, is injured from something already, but … there he was on TV looking as scary as ever. Now we find out that that was an old picture and there is speculation that he is in a coma somewhere -- perhaps missing a leg.  It's hard to get news out of Iran.  Personally I am not even sure he is alive.  Then just a couple of days ago  and after I started rewriting this blog -- those who were talking as leaders were killed.  Who is crawling out of the rubble now to lead Iran? It is complicated.

So... as for Sharia Law ... a set of rules derived from Islamic teachings that deal with moral and ethical behaviors.... Don't all religions have their rules? I am thinking that the problem lies in the extremes. I have done a bit of reading and I think it is fair to say that there are extremes in other religions' doctrines and histories as well. Unfortunately we apparently have one of these extremes currently in power in Iran. These extremes give this branch of the Muslim religion an ugly and well-founded basis for criticism. The horror lies partly in the brutal methods of punishment for "sins".  There are beatings,  beheadings, the removal of limbs, etc.  Such punishments are alive and well in modern day Iran.  Apparently so are mass shootings of those who would like to oust those currently in power.  The current regime recently shot tens of thousands of innocents. Women are not treated at all well either (huge understatement), but that is another whole issue. Members of the LBGTQ Community don't stand a chance. The beliefs of this sect are beyond my understanding. The thing is that those currently in power in Iran go beyond  their own and seem to want to control anyone in the world who does not agree with them. There is no tolerance for coexistence. I am especially focused on the situation because they have been getting away with torturing and killing innocents, including thousands of Americans, for almost fifty years.  Enough now. We finally have a leader with the courage to take a stand.

Further in thinking about the hateful leadership of Iran --  I simply don't like bullies. I am a "live and let live" kind of person. I, for example, would never dream of trying to force anyone to take an experimental drug by calling it a vaccine. I was raised in a free America where people have Rights -- like the freedoms of speech and of religion. I was raised in an America that respects tolerance for the beliefs of others (unless you are a current day, narrow minded, leftist, elitist Democrat with control issues and a hunger for power and the spotlight or if you are an American who suffers from TDS or anti-Semitism. Then, of course as such, you want to stifle and cancel any opposing views. BTW -- that's not working.) Ah... life in 2026 is complicated on many levels.

I just have to leave it for now and go back to watching the crows ... ever thankful that I live in this country. This Iranian "thing" is a problem that is beyond me. I am hoping for the best for people who live in this horrific situation. I regret that it is totally beyond my control.  Wish I could fix it, but I don't have a magic wand.  Fortunately I live in a country, though, that has an elected leader who can help out. He has long-sighted intelligence, courage... and a powerful team all of whom also have that kind of smarts and guts.  No short-sighted, namby pambies or pearl clutchers in the bunch. Terrorists will not be tolerated on any level, not when they endanger Americans or our allies  - even the ungrateful so-called friends.

In an attempt to eliminate any potential confusion on my point of view ... I am on the side of America and Democracy.  I am totally in support of President Donald J. Trump, his remarkable team and of every soldier and member of any law enforcement agency who work so hard to protect our way of life. That includes DHS. I think that all fraudsters should be punished and have to pay back what they have stolen. I say this just so everyone who reads this is clear on that.  Further -- I am totally bored with the feeble arguments of those who disagree with me and whose only options appear to be to run away and hide, to blame others, or to tear down rather than build up. Spare me. Where were you the entire time the Democrats were giving away our country? Where are you now while those in control of the Democratic party continue to name call,  fear monger, and look you in the eye and lie as they try to cause chaos?  

One last thing... I simply must say that I am totally in support of our troops having the occasional surf and turf. Personally I would prefer a cheese burger, but you get my drift.  If one is concerned about the cost -- he/she should go demand their money back from Democrat Minnesotan or Californian fraudsters.  That would be a good place to start.