Contact us at: whispernthunder1@gmail.comWisdom from Granddad
~ Fox Northstar
Last time around, I posed a question that I
hoped you all would ponder. Well, I got my
answer of the summer…that’s what I get for
teasing karma.
As usual, I made my annual pilgrimage up
North to teach and visit family. Nothing went as hoped, and that has not happened for years! The weather did not cooperate, rainy, wet and damp and never got warm enough for a dip in the lake. I cannot remember the last season that happened! But, as with all things, there was a certain amount of balance. I finally found a guy who could rebuild my van’s carburetor and he found a gas line leak to boot.
But what we have been experiencing here the past couple of years is affecting the folks up North as well, possibly worse than us! Their prices have risen, gas is a record $7US/gallon (exchange rate adjustment) not to mention all their food stuffs have gone up in price even trying to buy “Canadian only.”
They do not blame us but the morons “we” put into office. With their reputation of a “do-nothing” Parliament, even the current Congress down here is making THAT look (and be) more efficient. That’s a pretty sad statement for the moronic voters who helped set it up.
THE TIME IS NIGH FOR US TO RIGHT THAT WRONG! Partly because it reaches well beyond our shore and ruined this nation, both internally and externally across the seven seas. IT IS OUR FAULT! Do not ever forget that, but next month we finally have our first chance to begin to repair and heal…but will we recognize just how important this is, or do we ignore our chance and descend into fascism? IT IS UP TO US ALONE!
Get off your asses and go vote. Do NOT tell me your single vote does not make a difference, and by itself, you would be right. But that was the same attitude that TEN MILLION or more took two years ago. The point is, those who did not bother are as much at fault as the morons who believe the lies they have been told as opposed to DOING the research to ferret out the truth. Or does that NOT matter any more to you?
Our ancestors fought hard to build this country into something we could all be proud of. Yes it took a quarter-millennium to do it. And it came piece meal, true.
Originally, only male land-owners had the right to vote, but it was not long before those who men could read were added. Eighty-odd years later, and an internal four year conflict earned the black men the right to vote. It took close to another six decades for the women to finally scare the men enough to where they too, were extended suffrage. It was a mere four year later that my own, original inhabitant ancestors were recognized as human beings and finally granted American citizenship, except the right to vote (which took another three decades)!
The right to VOTE has been hard won so EXERCISE IT! Many lives were lost and much blood was shed so you could. Do not waste their sacrifice because one vote does not make a difference! Do you think one life lost alone would have made a difference? They KNEW it would not, but in numbers they had learned they could prevail! Have you forgotten that? Or just could not be bothered due to laziness and lack of caring for anything other than your own miserable self?
Honour your ancestors and what they fought for so you could be here and with liberty! If you do not help preserve liberty, you will surely be responsible for its death, and your own slow one.
UNITED WE CAN STAND, BECAUSE DIVIDED WE FELL! I will go and vote, and add my voice as small as it may be. WILL YOU?
Remember, we have but one planet. If we kill it, we have signed our own death warrant! Profit or planet? That is part of the choice.
If we survive this, do your best to walk in balance!