Sunday, November 13, 2016

Trump Victory Rainbow or Lightning?



Trump Victory a Rainbow or Bolt of Lightning? 

Riots and mayhem – in some places – euphoria and hope in others. Most everyone knows the ol’ adage derived from the Serenity Prayer: Change the things you can, accept that which you cannot change, and know the difference between them.

I would add to that: Change the things you can, responsibly

Some people, when faced with a situation they cannot change, lash out in irrational fear and frustration. We’re an emotional specie – I get that – but beyond your first knee-jerk reaction, should come the decision of how to change the circumstance, or work with it, responsibly.

Mature and intelligent people apply their emotions to doing what they can to create what they perceive as a better result.

I have never understood the mindset of rioters and violentprotestors. In the heat of your anger, you destroy the property, hopes, and dreams (in your damages) of innocent people, and even yourself. Where is the logic and intelligence in that? And for what cause? Truly – is it justified?

If you allow the situation to play out for a reasonable length of time and it still does nothing to assuage your frustration, THEN, gather your cronies and take your opinions to a higher level –
LEGALLY. Why ruin your life and that of others who did nothing to you, for the sake of emotion?

In the situation of a Trump presidency – if you voted against him – you gave it a valiant effort. Why protest until you KNOW he’ll be an undesirable president? 

Donald Trump worked even harder than Hillary to achieve the highest American honor. He had many more detractors, yet ignored the insults and never wavered in his desire to become president. Would you have had that much stamina and faith? (And there were obviously slightly more #ClosetVoters for him, than against.)

Bottom line: Can you CHANGE the current situation – with violence? Absolutely not.

Cheers to the power of Rainbows,

Celebrating the Rainbow for what it was meant to be ... and other liberating causes.



Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Six-Point Star Debacle



Subtitle: Stop the World – I Want to Get Off! 

OKAY! This stupid Trump/Hillary-Star-of-David-media-hype-off-topic-garbage needs to stop.

 “Donald Trump supporters say the firestorm over a tweet that featured the Star of David next to raining money and Hillary Clinton was driven by the media’s political correctness.” [Bold / red font is my doing.]

We truly live in a sad era. I have never been ashamed of being human until now. The six-point star has been a much-utilized marketing form since I can remember – and I’m old …

Has anyone, just for fun – besides me – searched Wikipedia for “six-point star” references? There is no specific Wiki definition, but take a gander at ALL the NON-neo-Nazi and NON-Judaism allusions … even our law enforcement agencies utilize the shape:

The page "Six-point star" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.
  • Paris lace
    ground is used in other lace styles as well. It has many other names: six-point star - from the shape fond chant - it formed the ground of 19th century Chantilly
  • Antwerp lace
    lace is a bobbin lace distinguished by stylized flower pot motifs on a six-point star ground. It originated in Antwerp, where in the 17th century an estimated
  • La Raza Nation
    Mexican flag). Their symbols include the Mexican flag, cross, and a six-point star. Although La Raza is affiliated with Folk Nation, La Raza has been 
  • Folk Nation
    Horns, 6-Dice, Number 6, Devil's Tail, Six Point Star (Star of David), Upside Down 5 and Crown, Broken Five Point Star, and a Pitch Fork. Folk Nation group
  • Ted Sexton
    currently Executive Vice President at Unit Solutions, the founder of Six Point Star Solutions and a faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department at
  • Bobbin lace ground
    wire, French, six-point star, star, star-pointed ground, hairpin stitch, fond chant. The ground has hexagons and triangles, making a star-shaped mesh.
  • Babanin
    blue field based on two cross swords, spikes up, over it there's a six-point star, and below there's a golden crescent, with its horns facing upwards
  • Hexagram (redirect from Hexagram (6-pointed star))
    guild. In German this is called "Bierstern" (beer star) or "Brauerstern" (brewer's star). A six-point star is used as an identifying mark of the Folk Nation
  • Star of David
    millennium before the first documentation of the term in reference to a six-point star). That term is probably based on Genesis 15:1, where God promises to
  • Stockton, California
    Stockton police officers were required to wear blue uniforms and a six-point star badge. In October 1889 a new uniform was decided upon by the chief.
  • Epiphany (holiday)
    Epiphany dessert was the jam tart, but made into a six-point star for the occasion to symbolize the Star of Bethlehem, and thus called Epiphany tart. The
  • San Francisco Patrol Special Police
    patch is embroidered in silver thread. Officers wear a silver-toned six-point star with the words “San Francisco Patrol Special Police." Patrol Special
  • Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram
    this posture is that it is based on the six point star. Nataraja's head forms the topmost point of the star, while His spreading hair and right hand
  • Religion in the Peć region
    Patriarch of Peć”; this six point star has a diameter of 16 cm and is composed of two intertwined triangles. More precisely, the six-point stare is located inside
  • 52nd Infantry Regiment (United States)

    After the armistice, the six-point Red Star was adopted as the division insignia on 19 November 1918. This six-point Red Star became a part of the 52d
  • First East Turkestan Republic
    by the introducing of a new flag of Xinjiang Province, that had six-point yellow star on red background and was in official use from 1934 to 1944 years
  • List of cities with defensive walls
    fortified since Roman period. Karlovac city walls, built in 1579 as a six-point star with bastions. Motovun Nin, Croatia Novigrad Grožnjan Omišalj Oprtalj

FYI, I JUST pulled this form from the Microsoft Word “Shapes” section (under “Insert”) and modified it with “no fill” and red outline. This shape has been used for decades in advertising with no one giving it a second thought as to what – as a symbol – it can mean. But for those of us who are not Jewish or affiliated with neo-Nazis, it is nothing other than a promotional tool to garner attention.

For media idiots to call the six-point star politically incorrect, exacerbates the misuse and abuse of the phrase. We should give it welfare aid and free counseling. Get over it, world.

I swear, social media and those who use and abuse it, is what will one day force me off-grid. And just like a “grand opening” ribbon cutting, I will celebrate the cord-cutting.

Since WHEN is the media politically correct???? It’s time to stop the madness. Stop nitpicking the trivial and focus on the REAL aspect of politicians and politics – POLICIES.

Beyond the ridiculous hype over a common advertising ploy, is the state of our presidential campaign.

We, the average citizen, can’t possibly “know” the presidential candidates. Voting in any large election is like pinning the tail on the donkey – unfortunately blindfolded; or trying to remember all the good and bad qualities of the elephant in the room, that make him or her qualified to lead us.

No matter who is elected, we won’t get the “perfect” president. He or she is still human – and with that distinction comes all the misconceptions, mistakes, errant choices, and sometimes bad behavior that we ALL display at one time or another. The best we can do is choose the person whose policies most closely align with our POV – and hope that person wins.

The social media bickering, the snooty sniping, and the bad-idea backstabbing is what we tell our teenagers to stop doing, and “grow up.” Huh. Some role models they have to emulate.

In the Trump-referenced context, referring to the six-point star as ONLY the neo-Nazi Star of David is like calling the beautiful, and from-the-beginning-of time Rainbow, SOLELY the Gay Pride icon. B.S.!! (And you all know what that means.)

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Refreshing the Rainbow



Taking Back Our Rainbow

THIS is what is wrong with our societys obsession with every detail of our lives dictated by fear of being “politically incorrect”:

"I had no social or political statements in mind. I did not take into consideration that nooses are a racially charged symbol, for that I am sorry." Whether this person meant to offend anyone is for her and her ALONE to know.

Nooses by nature have always have been controversial, but when coupled with the RAINBOW in this example, they are suddenly a racial slur, “… given that the nooses were in the colors of the movement's rainbow flag.”

HOWEVER, when a racial, societal, or political faction “STEALS” a heretofore benign and often revered symbol as THEIR icon, ALONE, they are stealing EVERYONE ELSE’S right to it.

Tell me, good people – isn’t time we TAKE BACK OUR RAINBOW?! Rainbows were once a bright symbol of hope, peace, and renewed promise.

Now, the colorful arc is forcibly aligned with the gay community – and the rest of us apparently have no right to use the beautiful rainbow – that dates back in culture to the flood story of Noah! * – as a source of comfort and courage.

I love RAINBOWS,** not because of WHAT I am, but because of WHO I am! An upbeat, half-glass-full kinda person who just happens to be a straight, white, fun-loving hippie, tired of blending in with the SILENT majority! :-)

And before I start getting hate mail from activists in the LGBT community, I’m not anti-gay or really anti-much-of-anything. I simply don’t want to be labeled gay when I’m not, for displaying a beautiful Rainbow, or accused of using a gay symbol “irreverently” – without thought that it could mean anything else. (“Gay” btw, also used to mean happy, carefree …)

THE RAINBOW BELONGS TO EVERYONE.

Let's take it back to where it belongs ... everywhere.



 * “ … where it is a sign of God's covenant to never destroy all life on earth with a global flood again. (Rainbow in the book of Genesis.)”

 ** Judy Garland sang the ultimate Rainbow song in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Wiki reports: “In the 1960s, a reporter asked how she felt about having a large gay following. She replied, ‘I couldn't care less. I sing to people.’[129]