Today marks a milestone in my child’s life.  She has now completed half of her educational years.

Today my baby graduates from the sixth grade and grammar school.  It’s been a long, tedious and at times heart-wrenching journey for not only my daughter, but us, her parents.  Especially this year.  We started out the school year doing virtual school at home.  Although it may be good for some, it was not for us.  Fortunately we chose to go back to the brick and mortar school before we got too far in.  It was the right decision.

My thanks go out to the principal, teachers and staff at EBES.  Without you we would never had made it through these past seven years.  This school is the gem of our regional school district.  Although my daughter will encounter many other schools in the rest of her educational tenure, EBES will always remain as the best.

Thanks for all you go through to help educate our children.

In the wake of SHITHOLE’S recent remarks about Canada, their trade policies and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in general, Canadians have taken to boycotting all things American, from shopping at Walmart to travelling to the States for vacation.

Speaking from an American’s point of view, I don’t blame them at all.  Although more difficult for me, since I live in America, I’ve decided to protest America in my own way.  Not only for the reasons stated above, but also for what is happening to the immigrant families that reach our border and then are torn apart.  Until America is restored to the country I once knew, I’m done advertising it.

By “advertising” I’m mainly talking about the Americana T-shirts I own.  And I own a lot of them.  Every year I purchase a new “Made In USA” T-shirt.  I have about twenty of these shirts.  Some have embroidered fireworks on them, one says “America The Beautiful” on it.  I really love these shirts and I practically live in them all summer.  I’ve always been proud to wear them.  Not this summer.  And not any time after that either until things change for the better of humankind in America.

Unlike Canadians, I’m not going to be able to give up everything American.  When shopping locally, that’s all we have.  Choices are limited.  Luckily when I shop at America’s SuperStore Walmart I can purchase plenty of things made in China and  Korea!  Unfortunately, they do not sell Canadian chocolate.  Which is way better than any American chocolate I’ve ever had.

Don’t get me wrong.  I still love America.  But promoting it right now would be like FDR promoting America after signing Executive Order 9066.  Considering the lives of human beings in both instances, it’s just wrong.  No matter what country you’re from.

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Before you get all gushy over the fact that two narcissistic assholes got together for the first time at a hotel in Singapore, try to remember the reality of the situation:

1. One asshole has been under investigation since the infancy of his “presidency”.
2. The other is a dictator who, if investigated, would have the investigators killed.

Other than being narcissistic assholes, SHITHOLE and Kim really have so much in common.  Both have appearances that are little to be desired.  Both are inhumane.  Both could care less about the citizens of their countries.  Both were looking forward to all the attention they would get with their meeting.

Aside from their similarities, there are differences between the two assholes.  One lives in a country where he is supposed to work for the people who (allegedly) hired him.  Unfortunately, he’s doing a shitty job and will be fired.  The other one lives in a country where he dictates to the people what they can/cannot do and that is the way of the law.  One’s main interest is in buddying up to asshole dictators with a Diet Coke and Big Mac in tow and seeing where the next hotel or condo can be built.  The other one’s main interest is pretending to like the first asshole and launching nuclear missiles.  One is trying to keep himself from being executed by the Russians who are blackmailing him.  The other is trying to find the next person to blackmail and execute.

He may have just found that victim in Singapore on Tuesday.

They talk of “world peace” with SHITHOLE, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un meeting at a “summit” in Singapore.

It’s going to take a hell of a lot more than a meeting between two egomaniacs and an eccentric retired basketball player to create “world peace”.

To have real “world peace” you need for every single human being in the world to accept one another.  Until there is no more racism in the world, you will never have “world peace”.  Until there is no sexism in the world, you will never have “world peace”.  Until there is no discrimination against anyone who is LGBTQ, disabled, of a different religion than yours or for any other reason, you will never have “world peace”.

To have real “world peace” you need for there to never be another war, another starving person, another homeless person, another child ripped from their mother’s arms.  You need for leaders of the world to start listening to the people they represent.  You need them to start caring for the people they represent.  Until then there will not be “world peace”.

If there ever really was “world peace” people wouldn’t know what to do with themselves.

As individuals we need to find peace within ourselves because unfortunately, there will never be “world peace”.