The Native Iowan

It was a grey n moist Thursday morn here. Woke to a dense, foggy dawning. The maremma guard dogs are quieted by fog.

Pretty busy day… Mr. M turned 16 so we had to rush into the local Transport office for him to get his licence. It’s a big thing, turning 16. Who can recall their 16th bday?

After feeding the dogs and managing my chores, I took M and Zai into Palmwoods, did what I had to do, and rode a bike back. I beat the rain.

I am now sittting in the old farm house. I got it to myself for the next few days. Me and the 4 dogs and 27 head of cattle.

It’s nice.

With my daily tasks sorted, back at the farm by myself, for an unknown reason I decided to tune in and see what the various news channels were selling today. It didnt last long… I must admit my tolerance for the bile and bullshit purveyed as “NEWZ” is low, very low.

Any sense of respect – respect of others, and respect for one’s self- is long evaporated. Folks of all walks and predilections say, do, sell, buy what suits them one day, and flip flop and change when beneficial. When the audience applauds. No one has any honour, trust is an old fashioned thing, being truthful is just about illegal.

The elected leadership of a people tells us a lot about The People. We have seen dismal days before. I despaired when rayGun was elected, then GB#1. I thought Clinton a say-anything southern politician from day-1. He lied so convincingly. Very polished. They called him”slick Willie”. GB#2… WMDs… The Obama era, where a systemically racist culture elects a non-white with an non-anglo name into the highest office of The Land… then The Donald, and now Uncle Joe…. All democraticall elected into office by the same electorate.

Thats a WTF sorta situation…

A combination of “cancelling” and “cultural dogma” has led us to a land where you are only racist if you are white, what once was historically true has been revised. Rewritten. Facts don’t mean much at all, any more.

A divergent opinion, to that of the hoard, is a scary thing. It makes folks run, hide. They dont know how to handle a logical straight forward discussion. Facts are not facts anymore. Facts have to be vetted and approved or they are cancelled out, removed, rewritten. Or they will hurt some one’s feeling. If you disagree you are racist.

Places like Baltimore are failing, have failed because of the systemically racist system that suppresses the residents therein. Suppresses all, of all colours, races and creeds.

At the same time the racist system spends more in Baltimore, per student, than almost anywhere else in The Land. Average federal spending per student per annum is 14,000.00. Baltimore students are worth 17,000.00 per. It costs more to fail, I guess.

Another WTF situation?

The racist systems spends 25% more on the suppressed???

Don’t make sense, do it?

Chicago had in excess of 50 shootings this past week. Newz does not faithfully report, or confirm number of deaths. Some folks scream that its the guns, ban the gunzzz… some claim its the police, defund the police and all will be well…

Detroit has seen 5 children gunned downed in the past week. On top of the normal adult shootings.

Guns? Police? Tell me what the problem is. Gotta know the problem in order to gain a solution.

No one will speak of the social fibres that have eroded and leave us a society that has no respect, honour, trust, fidelity… No one can mention the fatherless homes that are the norm, and the lost and lonely – and violent – progeny produced.

And in Baltimore we pay 17k a student for this result.

So much foolishness. So much waste.

But I do ramble.

Let me speak of positive things like beautiful skies…

A good herd of cattle…

Puppies….

Calves…

Smiles around

More later