Today I am thankful for a spark of insight that I received from reading a local news story.
We have a paper here in town that...
well....
let's just say....
the entire publication brown noses the local government.
I always figured that they had to
push every tax hike.....
rally behind every measure introduced....
and love those in power.....
because those are the only people who actually advertise in the darn paper.
Most of the ads are from the local government. During election season, most of the ads are from candidates.
I even tried to advertise in the paper but found they were too expensive for the small amount of exposure I would get.
There is a better free paper in the area.
*****
I try to take the liberal bull in stride. It's business.
I understand....you don't want to alienate someone helping to pay the bills.
*****
Today, I read a story by one of the most creative reporters.
He likes to wear a mask....
I think of that as his shadow side.
His shadow side is actually fairly funny.
So....
I respect him even though I agree with about 5% of what he says.
That's okay.
At least he has the strength to share an opinion.
I figured he had to have opinions that appeal to those in power because....well....they seem to buy most of the advertising.
Today his story was anti-NRA.
He is spouting off the same rhetoric as David Hogg.
Hogg is a kid. He has time to grow up.
This guy....
well....
he should have enough life experience to know better by now.
*****
I always thought that kiddos tended to be liberal because of the progressive propaganda in public schools and colleges.
I was once more fiscally liberal.
I've always been socially liberal.
Younger people tend to trust the adults around them. They trust teachers. They trust the government.
They haven't been messed around by the government.....yet.
I think I started to distrust the government when my sister was forcibly raped in foster care and it took several angry phone calls and letters to the Governor to get her removed from her abuser. The foster mom thought that she'd get more money if she had pregnant foster girls in her home. She forced the boys to have sex with the girls.
I was seventeen.
My sister was just fourteen years old.
I had an early lesson in the evils of government.
The hits just kept a' coming.
I could write numerous paragraphs on getting beat up by the Denver cops because I didn't have drugs - hint: if a young girl is carrying the Book of Mormon, she's probably clean.
I was seventeen and this was before I got the letter and proof from my sister about her experience in foster care.
Or having the Denver Department of Social Services award custody of my sister to a pimp. On that story, though, there was one hero cop who actually listened to me and helped her get clean. It took nearly twenty years but someone eventually listened.
There were several other cops who the pimp used to try to get me arrested. That was funny. My sister would call me claiming he kidnapped her. I'd call the police. The Denver police would say I was making a false report. One day, an officer threatened to arrest me. He called for back-up and one of the arriving officers met me briefly a few months earlier. He needed to use a phone to make a personal call. I let him use mine. I guess good deeds can pay off.
I could talk about the illegal fines from the local government.
Perhaps I should bore you of the times the local police department violated my fourth amendment rights because I irritated an assistant city attorney. It's not their fault. The fault lies with the idiot who gave the order. They entered my home on two occasions under false pretenses. Who says my town isn't corrupt? Yeah.....if they became politically active, they'd see how much the corruption reveals itself.
Or my latest adventure of having Colorado state lawyers sue me to get my ex excused from child support because he claims to be in an alcoholic rehabilitation program (even though he swears up and down that he didn't drink). That's the perfect lie to get out of child support, isn't it? If one claims not to drink, they're obviously in denial and it is just further proof that they're sick. If I say he didn't drink, then I'm said to share in his delusion.
Oh man....those lawyers are smart cookies. I pray (in my own special way) that CO-PEP is defunded. Colorado allows judges to impute income to people who voluntarily impoverish themselves. Apparently, CO-PEP doesn't believe that. My ex claims CO-PEP has more authority than the judge.
Whatever......if he wants to ruin his career and reputation to spite me, I can't stop him. It's less work to have three jobs than it is to try to get the truth out of a diagnosed covert narcissist.
Seriously......
I've had many issues of being messed up by rogue bureaucrats. That is probably why I love fighting tax hikes.
I am no one.
If government officials have enough money to mess with someone like me, they have too much money.
That money needs to go back into the hands of the people.
*****
It dawned on me that younger people, for the most part, haven't had the experience of learning distrust at the hands of the government.
Their souls are brand spanking new.
They probably haven't had a cop break into their home......
or a local tax auditor lie to get her hands on their money.....
or had to clean up the blood dripping down their baby sister's leg from an assault while in foster care.
They probably haven't had a lying cop ticket them.....
or been thrown to the ground by a cop rolling them for weed (p.s. this Mormon girl was very allergic to all things cannabis and hemp....they weren't going to get lucky with me).
Nor did they see their gay friend being beat up by a cop. This happened in 1987. I will carry that anger with me until the day I die.
Life is unfair.
Little foster girl Siegfried knew that.
Most kids don't.
They trust the government too much.
They don't understand that the government is made up of fallible people.
Some government officials and civil servants mean well....
Others fill their pockets any which way they can (which will probably be my next blog post if I can find the time).
And so.....
being a believer in poetic justice, I wish this reporter (only if he's not playing a role) to run into the most cowardly and despicable public servant and be slightly annoyed by him or her.
I don't want him facing an asinine fine like I did.
I don't want him to deal with scary guns pointed at him in the middle of the night by freaks with badges like my kids did.
I certainly don't want anyone to break into his home (government official or not).
I just want him to see that the government is not exactly or entirely trustworthy.
I wouldn't trust them to be the only entity allowed firearms legally.
If we do that, we are asking for trouble.
******
I'm exhausted.
I may not be making sense.
As horrible as my life may sound, I've heard stories far worse than my own.
My drama faded away when I kicked a narcissistic jerk to the curb.
Still......
the lessons are there.
Not every public servant is an honest one.
Most are.
I have had the most bizarre luck to run into some of the nastiest ones.
Such is the life of a witchy bitch.
Maybe I just see what I see because my step-father was Cherokee.
I mean....since I was five years old, I understood why one doesn't take a blanket from a government official.
It can only lead to a trail of tears.
Don't even get me started on the gun confiscation that doomed Native Americans.
*****
Kids do not know any better than to push to eradicate rights they've never had the pleasure of experiencing.
They've not had enough life experience to see the various shades of gray that comprise our government.
That is why political parties use children to push agendas.
Kids are naïve.
*****
That said...
both major political parties stink.
To me, they don't really make a lot of sense.
If Republicans embrace freedom, why not allow people to be free in their own bedrooms? If it's consensual, it's not a big deal.
If Democrats embrace the poor, why do they put into place so many taxes and rules that keep people poor?
*****
Yeah.....I've just discovered something politically disturbing about my own profession. If I share it, it'll probably kill what is left of my career.
I've turned down media interview requests because they want me to go public about what I know.
I can't be the only one to see what is going on. I'll probably post about it soon in the hopes someone else will verify the information and run with it.
I'm too busy to play politics right now.
The government forced me to be one of those single moms working multiple jobs because their ex doesn't pay child support. Thanks Colorado taxpayers!!! You didn't know that you paid for that, did ya? With any luck, you won't be paying for the state to coddle deadbeat dads much longer.
I'm toying with the idea of telling my story to the head of the pro-life group out here. I mean....women have abortions out of fear. Some of that fear is financial. If the government is suing women so that they drop child support because of loop holes, that could lead some women to....well.....make a decision they may not otherwise make.
Studies show that abortions decline with child support enforcement: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22532964.
I wouldn't be so frustrated but I'm on the hook for school fees and to pay for those things that the Democrats keep passing. It would be nice if their dad would help just a bit. He doesn't think he has to help because the State of Colorado says he doesn't need to help. Good goin'.
Remember.......
The government is not reasonable.
It uses force to bully people into living their lives the way beaurocrats want them to live.
Good ideas don't require force.
Love ya,
S.
We have a paper here in town that...
well....
let's just say....
the entire publication brown noses the local government.
I always figured that they had to
push every tax hike.....
rally behind every measure introduced....
and love those in power.....
because those are the only people who actually advertise in the darn paper.
Most of the ads are from the local government. During election season, most of the ads are from candidates.
I even tried to advertise in the paper but found they were too expensive for the small amount of exposure I would get.
There is a better free paper in the area.
*****
I try to take the liberal bull in stride. It's business.
I understand....you don't want to alienate someone helping to pay the bills.
*****
Today, I read a story by one of the most creative reporters.
He likes to wear a mask....
I think of that as his shadow side.
His shadow side is actually fairly funny.
So....
I respect him even though I agree with about 5% of what he says.
That's okay.
At least he has the strength to share an opinion.
I figured he had to have opinions that appeal to those in power because....well....they seem to buy most of the advertising.
Today his story was anti-NRA.
He is spouting off the same rhetoric as David Hogg.
Hogg is a kid. He has time to grow up.
This guy....
well....
he should have enough life experience to know better by now.
*****
I always thought that kiddos tended to be liberal because of the progressive propaganda in public schools and colleges.
I was once more fiscally liberal.
I've always been socially liberal.
Younger people tend to trust the adults around them. They trust teachers. They trust the government.
They haven't been messed around by the government.....yet.
I think I started to distrust the government when my sister was forcibly raped in foster care and it took several angry phone calls and letters to the Governor to get her removed from her abuser. The foster mom thought that she'd get more money if she had pregnant foster girls in her home. She forced the boys to have sex with the girls.
I was seventeen.
My sister was just fourteen years old.
I had an early lesson in the evils of government.
The hits just kept a' coming.
I could write numerous paragraphs on getting beat up by the Denver cops because I didn't have drugs - hint: if a young girl is carrying the Book of Mormon, she's probably clean.
I was seventeen and this was before I got the letter and proof from my sister about her experience in foster care.
Or having the Denver Department of Social Services award custody of my sister to a pimp. On that story, though, there was one hero cop who actually listened to me and helped her get clean. It took nearly twenty years but someone eventually listened.
There were several other cops who the pimp used to try to get me arrested. That was funny. My sister would call me claiming he kidnapped her. I'd call the police. The Denver police would say I was making a false report. One day, an officer threatened to arrest me. He called for back-up and one of the arriving officers met me briefly a few months earlier. He needed to use a phone to make a personal call. I let him use mine. I guess good deeds can pay off.
I could talk about the illegal fines from the local government.
Perhaps I should bore you of the times the local police department violated my fourth amendment rights because I irritated an assistant city attorney. It's not their fault. The fault lies with the idiot who gave the order. They entered my home on two occasions under false pretenses. Who says my town isn't corrupt? Yeah.....if they became politically active, they'd see how much the corruption reveals itself.
Or my latest adventure of having Colorado state lawyers sue me to get my ex excused from child support because he claims to be in an alcoholic rehabilitation program (even though he swears up and down that he didn't drink). That's the perfect lie to get out of child support, isn't it? If one claims not to drink, they're obviously in denial and it is just further proof that they're sick. If I say he didn't drink, then I'm said to share in his delusion.
Oh man....those lawyers are smart cookies. I pray (in my own special way) that CO-PEP is defunded. Colorado allows judges to impute income to people who voluntarily impoverish themselves. Apparently, CO-PEP doesn't believe that. My ex claims CO-PEP has more authority than the judge.
Whatever......if he wants to ruin his career and reputation to spite me, I can't stop him. It's less work to have three jobs than it is to try to get the truth out of a diagnosed covert narcissist.
Seriously......
I've had many issues of being messed up by rogue bureaucrats. That is probably why I love fighting tax hikes.
I am no one.
If government officials have enough money to mess with someone like me, they have too much money.
That money needs to go back into the hands of the people.
*****
It dawned on me that younger people, for the most part, haven't had the experience of learning distrust at the hands of the government.
Their souls are brand spanking new.
They probably haven't had a cop break into their home......
or a local tax auditor lie to get her hands on their money.....
or had to clean up the blood dripping down their baby sister's leg from an assault while in foster care.
They probably haven't had a lying cop ticket them.....
or been thrown to the ground by a cop rolling them for weed (p.s. this Mormon girl was very allergic to all things cannabis and hemp....they weren't going to get lucky with me).
Nor did they see their gay friend being beat up by a cop. This happened in 1987. I will carry that anger with me until the day I die.
Life is unfair.
Little foster girl Siegfried knew that.
Most kids don't.
They trust the government too much.
They don't understand that the government is made up of fallible people.
Some government officials and civil servants mean well....
Others fill their pockets any which way they can (which will probably be my next blog post if I can find the time).
And so.....
being a believer in poetic justice, I wish this reporter (only if he's not playing a role) to run into the most cowardly and despicable public servant and be slightly annoyed by him or her.
I don't want him facing an asinine fine like I did.
I don't want him to deal with scary guns pointed at him in the middle of the night by freaks with badges like my kids did.
I certainly don't want anyone to break into his home (government official or not).
I just want him to see that the government is not exactly or entirely trustworthy.
I wouldn't trust them to be the only entity allowed firearms legally.
If we do that, we are asking for trouble.
******
I'm exhausted.
I may not be making sense.
As horrible as my life may sound, I've heard stories far worse than my own.
My drama faded away when I kicked a narcissistic jerk to the curb.
Still......
the lessons are there.
Not every public servant is an honest one.
Most are.
I have had the most bizarre luck to run into some of the nastiest ones.
Such is the life of a witchy bitch.
Maybe I just see what I see because my step-father was Cherokee.
I mean....since I was five years old, I understood why one doesn't take a blanket from a government official.
It can only lead to a trail of tears.
Don't even get me started on the gun confiscation that doomed Native Americans.
*****
Kids do not know any better than to push to eradicate rights they've never had the pleasure of experiencing.
They've not had enough life experience to see the various shades of gray that comprise our government.
That is why political parties use children to push agendas.
Kids are naïve.
*****
That said...
both major political parties stink.
To me, they don't really make a lot of sense.
If Republicans embrace freedom, why not allow people to be free in their own bedrooms? If it's consensual, it's not a big deal.
If Democrats embrace the poor, why do they put into place so many taxes and rules that keep people poor?
*****
Yeah.....I've just discovered something politically disturbing about my own profession. If I share it, it'll probably kill what is left of my career.
I've turned down media interview requests because they want me to go public about what I know.
I can't be the only one to see what is going on. I'll probably post about it soon in the hopes someone else will verify the information and run with it.
I'm too busy to play politics right now.
The government forced me to be one of those single moms working multiple jobs because their ex doesn't pay child support. Thanks Colorado taxpayers!!! You didn't know that you paid for that, did ya? With any luck, you won't be paying for the state to coddle deadbeat dads much longer.
I'm toying with the idea of telling my story to the head of the pro-life group out here. I mean....women have abortions out of fear. Some of that fear is financial. If the government is suing women so that they drop child support because of loop holes, that could lead some women to....well.....make a decision they may not otherwise make.
Studies show that abortions decline with child support enforcement: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22532964.
I wouldn't be so frustrated but I'm on the hook for school fees and to pay for those things that the Democrats keep passing. It would be nice if their dad would help just a bit. He doesn't think he has to help because the State of Colorado says he doesn't need to help. Good goin'.
Remember.......
The government is not reasonable.
It uses force to bully people into living their lives the way beaurocrats want them to live.
Good ideas don't require force.
Love ya,
S.