GLOBAL PEACE, LOVE, AND UNITY

GLOBAL PEACE, LOVE, AND UNITY

(Ignoring the system of foolery & negativism)

Written by: Colin Bruce Munro Wood – 12/14/2016 – 11:09AM ET

I'm guilty! Guilty as guilty can be!!

I have, over my past 16 years of life, allowed myself to be mislead, misguided, misinformed, taunted, terrorized, lied to, and fallen victim to the agenda of power and money, in news and politics.

I think on the last 5 millennium of human history as we know it, based on biblical, news, written, and word of mouth accounts. Unfortunately, much of this history on Earth is filled with war, war mongers, vicious leaders, taking of land, countries, death, starvation, and so much more.

But why?

My belief, and history, truly show that much of this negativity through out man's existence has been brought on by the need for power, money, and often, the belief that one is better than the other.

I challenge you to argue that assessment!

A friend mentioned that he'd like me to write about how the USA can be a leader in bringing people, and the basically, the world together, by ignoring misleading media, and the political system. I add, that both of those systems are a hex upon many other countries besides ours.

Along with my friend Dan, I see America as the one country who can end the rhetoric, and be the leader in bringing the world together in unity, peace, and harmony.

Over the years, I, as well as many other Americans, have fed my brain with news, news, and more news. I'm talking sometimes, up to 10 hours a day of news, whether it was on my television, my phone, or my radio. When I spent 7 years on the road selling insurance, I listened to hours and hours of Republican driven talk radio.

See, from the age of knowledge, maybe 16 years old, I decided I was a democrat. I remained a democrat until 9/11/01. After a couple years of becoming a Fox News addict, and Bill O'Reilly addict, that morning in NYC, was my final straw as a democrat. I decided, from that day on, that I would be a Republican, who believed in destroying terrorism wherever it existed, protecting America no matter what it took, and supported Capitalism for the first time in my existence. This continued for 15 more years, until last fall of 2015, when Trump began a serious run towards the Presidency. At this point, I decided to take my head out of my %@&*&%, and make my own decisions, instead of allowing a news network to guide all my thoughts.

Over the past year, I have taken to Flipboard as a source of news, and both Fox and CNN. Flipboard offers a ton of news articles from several sources, with several opinions on several topics. I do not allow any of these to form my opinion any longer, but instead I look more for what these sources are trying to prove and what their angles are, and why. Then, I take the facts, not the opinions, and form my own opinions. Simple right? Well, for most Americans, not so much.

Many Americans, more than any other nation in the world, are led by news sources, and their beliefs are taken from what they see or hear in the news. Many refuse to look at multiple sources, and will choose just one source. No matter your choice, chances are, most of what you read about is negative. War, bad leaders, treason, murder, terrorism. Yes it all exists.

What the news refuses to offer is the good in the world. I am learning that there actually is more good in the world than bad, and more good people than ugly. It's all about the choices you make, the people you associate with, and what you decide to breathe out to others emotionally, personally, compassionately, and honestly.

Along with the competitive news system, that unfortunately does attract followers to negative news, we have an extremely corrupt political system, that needs a major overhaul. Money runs our country, and takes it out of the hands of the rest of people in America, who are not wealthy, which is most of us.

The political system is so deeply entrenched in illegalities over decades of manipulation, that it hardly recognizes how crooked it really is.

When was the last time, we saw such an incredibly odd presidential run, and outcome? Who knows, it may not be over, if electorates change their votes...Anything seems possible nowadays.

To get to what my friend Dan hopes to see in America, is a country that rises above the negativity of news, and the false information it chucks out to the public every day. A country filled with people who can, and want to change the political system to once again represent the people, as it was originally meant to do. A country filled with people who love, understand, except, and choose to begin in their own circles, communities, friendships, by setting an example of goodness, kindness, open mindedness, acceptance, and what really should be considered, humanness.

I've spoken of this before, but why is it so hard for so many of us on Earth, a tiny little dot in the Universe, to understand that we are all the same, and all on the same little dot. We started off wrong in our History, with wars, and killing, and hate. Now, I am not ignorant to realize that man kind of had to start with these selfish way to survive and evolve over time. Evolve is the KEY word, however! We are evolving, growing, aging, learning, improving technologically, improving medically. We lag though, in the growth of how we treat others, and in what we still accept as okay, or normal in society.

How can we be so advantageous in so many ways throughout history, especially the past 100 years, but still lag in the treatment and understanding of each other, other religions, other nationalities, or other sexual personalities.

Despite what news stations want us to feel, fear and believe, and despite a political system that has been failing us, we can still look around ourselves, and realize that our Country is still ticking, growing, improving in many ways. Terrorism is not destroying our country as it is others. Our economy is improving. People are helping others. Businesses are profiting. Jobs are being found. Love is abound.

I challenge you to turn off that news station, close that news paper, and ignore that FB fake news report, if you are unable to weed through the coercion that entails it all. Start choosing to love everyone, accept everyone, and be the change you want to see in America.

Together, as a nation, we can change how the news works, and how our political system is currently attacking the lower and middle classes. We, the people, can be one, as a nation of melding nationalities and personalities, and be the leader in the world for global peace, love and unity!

Article from Sean Hutchinson on the absence of reality.

• Sean Hutchinson
• Space Science
• June 3, 2015

Get ready to have your mind blown. According to an experiment led by two physicists in Australia, reality doesn’t exist. Turn on, tune in, and drop out man, because the world as you know it is all kinds of weird, at least on a quantum level.

Andrew Truscott and Roman Khakimov of The Australian National University used atoms to put a John Wheeler delayed-choice thought experiment to practical use. The Wheeler thought experiments ask, in theory, at what point does an object decide to act like one thing or another.

Truscott and Khakimov’s team used what is assumed to be extremely expensive and complex scientific equipment to trap a single helium atom and then drop it through a pair of laser beams that formed a scattered grating pattern. 

Another set of lasers was then added at random intervals to recombine the beams, which, on a quantum level, made it seem like the single atom had traveled two different paths along the beams. When the second set of lasers was taken away, the atom seemed as if it only chose to go on one beam.

Are you still with us? Does your head hurt? Quantum physics is known to do that.

According to Truscott, “If one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths, then one has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom's past. The atoms did not travel from A to B. It was only when they were measured at the end of the journey that their wave-like or particle-like behavior was brought into existence.”

Instead of the common sense argument that the atom either went down one path or the other regardless of where it ended up, the quantum physics explanation says otherwise. 

Whether you observed the atom going down one path or two only depends on how it was measured at the end of its micro-sized and kind of improbable journey, which in a sense means reality itself doesn’t exist unless you’re observing it.

If it makes you feel any better, this particular experiment is only feasible at the quantum level, and would be nearly impossible to apply to everyday life. But it also shows that fabric of space/time is absolutely nuts and hardly makes any sense. But don’t worry, reality doesn’t exist anyway.    

A TRULY "MAGNIFICENT 7" BY COLIN B M WOOD

A TRULY “MAGINIFECENT 7”

Written by: Colin B M Wood – 11/27/1969 – Hihgnoon ET

I really was hesitant to bring my 9 year old to a PG-13 film. Especially, the type of film that recently has garnered various huge awards at the Globes and Oscars. The likes of most westerns these days include lots of gory violence, swearing, sex and what have you...Just turn to many television shows and you can find this stuff now, especially with the onslaught of Netflix and Hulu films for mature audiences.

Again, did I really want to bring my youngest to his first western yet?

Well, I took a chance, and boy did it pay off!

I prefaced our viewing of the film with some western history for my son, and what he might see in the film, and how different life was in the 1800's out west. He looked at me, and said it sounded boring. I laughed, and said, “sure, that's what I thought before I saw The Outlaw Josey Wales on HBO around 9 years old myself. From that moment on, I realized that if I had a previous life, it was in the West for sure! Ever since I was 9, I have been obsessed with the western. I don't mean the long, drawn out boring ones that would plague our television set on Saturday afternoons in the 1970's, but the kind that the best actors made. The John Waynes, the Clint Eastwoods, the Ronald Reagans, Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas, and so many more.

So many of these older western actors also starred in other style movies, but nothing as diverse as the cast of the newest installment of Magnificent 7 have portrayed in their amazing careers. Especially, our star of this re-imagining by the incredibly talented director Antoine Fuqua who has brought us other intricately directed films such as Training Day and Olympus Has Fallen, just to mention a couple. If anyone knows how to take an amazing cast, and grill up a diverse cast, with a great script, and create the most tantalizing shoot out in movie history, it is Mr. Fuqua. Led by his intense direction, from the beginning of the film to the end, one might find themselves actually on the edge of their seats, awaiting the big shootout scene. Antoine Fuqua and the gang do not disappoint, for what seems like a 20 minutes long shootout, that has you hooting and hollering for the good guys!

An amazingly crafted group of talent led by Denzel Washington in Yul Brenner's original role of Chisolm, and the always humorous, yet deep Christ Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Martin Sensmeir as the 7 heroes, stir up completely different characterizations that have you chuckling, dropping your jaw, and wildly entertained for 2 full hours, that did not seem long enough when it was over.

The acting was superb, the lines were perfectly laid out, and the scenery was stupendous. Along with an amazing musical score which was not easily designed, first led by the amazing, and late James Horner, Simon Franglen finished up with a heart pounding and tantalizing score, which had to include the original theme composed by the late Elmer Bernstein.

To say that this was the perfect family western to take your son to for the first time, is an understatement. If you can rent it soon for your kids, do so. It is filled with fun, adventure, no sex, no swearing, plenty of historical content and references, and sends you all on a superb ride of your life, when the big shoot out hits the screen. I've been watching westerns for over 40 years, and never saw a shoot out like this one. Director Fuqua deserves a tip of the hat, and maybe even an award for this adaptation of a time-keeper.

My son left the movie with a huge smile, wide eyes, and lots of questions about the 1800's, and boy was his blood boiling from the excitement of a good old western shoot out!

AN ELECTORAL WIN by colin b m wood

AN ELECTORAL WIN

Written by: Colin B M Wood 11/23/2016 – 11:08AM ET

Election night left me in a tizzy, and a downtrodden mood the past couple weeks. I, like 2 million more Hillary backers than Trump nationwide, are still trying to wake up from a long night at the bar, with the feeling of trace alcohol still flowing through our veins, leaving us in a trance like state ever since.

What happened? Our lady had it locked up. We would finally be the Masters of the Universe, with a woman leading the way, who carried a new global view of the world. She would lead us into a new realm of possibilities, and a new relationship with nations worldwide. Possibly less racism, healing, less judgment, more love, more understanding, more compromise.

BUT........as we all know........that was Trumped out by midnight November 7^th, 2016 by a movement across most of America, which we can not ignore, or kick to the side.

I realize, and hope that many Trump supporters will read this. I am going to try and keep an open mind as I write, and research for this article the origins of the Electoral College voting system, the reason why it is still active, and where do we go from here as a nation, and why. This will be an Independent and fair assessment of our voting system in America, regardless of my party affiliations over the past 20 years, or my opinion on this election. It is clear from my previous writings, and I can tell anyone new, that I feared a Trump presidency for our country and the world, and still do. I am trying to keep an open mind, in hopes that much of Trump's rhetoric during the election was just that, and that he actually has a brain, and will see the reality and seriousness of his position, and consider all American's equal in his choices. With that, I continue this article now with a neutral approach, and it will not be about Hillary or Trump, or why I think one should have outdone the other.

As we all know, Trump won the Electoral College, and the election for President of the United States. We, at this point, also know now, that Clinton leads Trump in the popular vote by 2 million votes.

What? Why is Trump our President then? You may ask yourself. I have a couple thousand friends on Facebook and maybe 2500 between my two Twitter accounts. I, by no means, am an overly popular person on social media at this point in my social media (career?). However, I have seen numerous objections to America's election process from all Democrats, no Republicans, and numerous European and British friends across the pond, the past two weeks.

Before getting into the original history of the Electoral College, I ask all of you this.....”Where have all your complaints about our elections process in America been over the past 241 years?” Yes, there has been conversation before in America about this process, just as recently as the 2000 election between George W. Bush, and Al Gore. That year, was the fourth occurrence of the President-elect having less popular votes than the loser, and the first since, the 1880's.

It is always fun and sometimes hysterical to watch the pundits on news channels argue about this topic. They always remain shallow in their interpretations, and short-changed on their historical knowledge and understanding of the process. I can only hope, that as you take this journey through time with me in this article, that you come out with a complete and full understanding of why or why not we should continue the Electoral College, it's origins and it's purpose. Let me preface the rest of this article with the fact that you can probably just go to Wikipedia and get your own quick fact sheet on the Electoral College, but I hope to make this explanation easier to understand.

So, let's get started. It's 1787 and we are looking down on the Constitutional Convention. They are discussing the current use of the Virginia Plan to elect the President of the United States. They are debating over why a popular vote alone wouldn't be fair. The argument circles around the concept that the whole of the south are looked at as a majority on it's own, and would dominate a nationwide popular vote, with the same ethical concerns among all of them. In other words, the argument being that because the south was entirely slave oriented, they would always be in control of the Presidential vote as one entity every election. The state's individually would not matter, because everyone down south wanted slavery, and based upon a population representative, they would always outnumber the rest of the country in their election of a President who sees things their way only. The rest of the country would have no say. Therefore, they finally agreed upon a “college of electors” as it was originally called, until the early 1900's, when we would change it to the “Electoral College”.

With numerous Federalist Papers, men such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton laid out the concepts of the Electoral College. They felt that by having electors that represent each senator and House Representative, whom were not associated with Congress, would allow for a more fair election process. Eventually, years later, it was agreed that the popular vote in each district would choose the electors vote for President, then eventually the Vice President, as he was later added to the same ticket, so to avoid separate party representation on one ticket, as was the interference with the Hamilton election. The number of electors in each state would dependent on the number of senators and Representatives, which is a reflection of the population in each district. So, basically, you could have 5 million people in one district vote for let's say Hillary, but have 1.5 million vote for Trump in another district, and 2 million more vote for him in another district. Trump is going to win the state, although he didn't win the state popular vote, because he received more electoral votes, thus representing the whole state. If Hillary were to win the state based on one district having more people in it, due to a large city, then it would just be those large cities voting for our President each election, representing only their big city struggles, and not what is happening across the rest of the state. This is the largest reason for the Electoral College.

So, if we only elected our President on a popular vote, all the big cities that have more people in them, would be electing our President all the time, only reflecting their big city areas, and as we all know, all big cities are blue! They will always be blue, and therefore, we would never have a Republican President again in our history, and the rest of the Country, which is about 90% red this year, would go unrepresented. Our forefathers were so amazingly educated, beyond what many of us can even apprehend nowadays, and were so wise, that they were able to foresee this being a problem one day in our Nation's history. But, it wasn't only on intuition, but upon their electoral experiences throughout the early 1800's electing processes, which allowed them to refine and retool the Electoral College concept.

Take a look at this past elections map by country or district, and you will find what I am talking about. Almost the entire country is red, except for the big city areas in each state. There is about 90% red, and 10% blue. I know some of you liberal, leftist leaning readers are saying yeah well, we should win every time because there is more of us! Well, I ask you these questions.

Would it be fair to the other 90% of the country that they never matter in an election?

Would it be America, if only a democrat were forever in charge, with no checks and balances in the electoral process?

More importantly, for those of you with a connection to slavery.....Would you have wanted the south to dominate every election of a President throughout history?

Probably not!!!

If, history had unfolded without the representative Electoral College, we might be living in a very different country right now, possibly with enslavement still materializing before our very eyes!

So, regardless of my party affiliation, I am no racist, nor do I appreciate any of our Slavery history, except for the fact that an amazing culture was brought to America, before we were even a Country, and from the beginning has given a more powerful, beautiful, and at times, awe-inspiring addition to our melding pot, called America!

I am upset that Clinton didn't win, although, I am not crazy, I realize she wasn't a great choice to lead our country either, but I look at a person's complete persona, and Trump scared me and still does. Not in a childish way, but of an OMG, he might destroy the world way. However, in the long run, based on history, and for our future's hopes, I can say that I am thrilled that we have the Electoral College.

If you want your woman or man to win, the Electoral process forces you to get out of your own comfort zones, your own districts, and get out into those areas, you feel need to be influenced, and bring your message to everyone! If your democrat, go into those red areas, and spread your love. If you are Republican, go into the big cities, and explain your views. This is how changes can still be made in America, and it definitely starts with the people, and with a fair process that gives all of America a chance to decide who will lead them.

I mean, do we really want NYC and Los Angeles deciding who our President will be every 4 years?

Sorry New York and L. A., I miss you, but I don't miss living in you!

VIVE LA AMERICA!!!

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This Life Is No “Love Boat”

A reflection on living with depression/anxiety

Written by: Colin Bruce Munro Wood – 10/10/2016 – 6:11PM ET

It might have been 1980ish. I can't remember exactly. What I do remember, is spending just about every weekend with Dad, after the parents divorced. Mom had us during the week, and Mom got weekends off. Kind of why I don't have a whole lot of memories of my oh so supportive matriarch. Once the beatings stopped around age 8 or 9, just a while before their last fight, and before mom kicked dad out of 28-1 in Ely Park, Dad actually became a much more bearable person. Although, through all the craziness of my first 9 years of life, he was still always there to take us somewhere fun, do fun things with us (except sports), and watch lots of television, with popcorn that he had made is special way. Boy was it savory, my taste buds remember to this day.

Back to 1980.

Every weekend, my younger brother and I would stay with Dad in his very humble one room apartment. No kitchen, no personal bathroom. Just a room with a bed, a single burner plug in, small fridge, and a TV!! Every Friday and Saturday it was TV night in the Wood “Room” Household! Did my brother and I feel a little odd in a single room with Dad? Sure we did. But, it was a chance to see the dad we still both so cherished and honored, because he was the parent who chose to spend time with us!! So, there we were watching the Friday lineup, of Incredible Hulk, I think maybe Dukes of Hazzard and something else. Hard to remember. But, Saturday night was the night all three of us waited for. The most emotional shows on the “boob tube” (as dad would call it), every Saturday, because, well.....we were a family filled with emotions (passed along through year of genetics), would be on....Starting with Hee Haw, then the Love Boat, and Fantasy Island. Not surprising, I had a big young boy crush on Julie from Love Boat. I couldn't wait to see her smile every Saturday night.

So, why am I bringing all this up?

I'm going to focus on the ever predictive story of every Love Boat episode. You see, unlike life, TV shows, would get 60 minutes to send you on a mini roller-coaster that would represent a small moment in life. 20 minutes to suck us into the romance of the stories then 40 minutes to rip our heart out, 10 minutes to pull their crap together, and 5 minutes to say goodbye. Give and take a few commercials along the way. So many things misguided me about life in this show, that it's not worth going into. Maybe that could be a separate story, but not now. My point in this article is to talk about the roller-coaster of the life of a human being with depression and anxiety. A life where these terms were never brought up or mentioned, and so a human being, and other human beings grew up not knowing what was wrong with them, what was different about them, and why they were so much more emotional than other humans. You see, the Love Boat, offered glimpsed into our everyday realities, and packaged it into a 60 minute show that always had the happy ending. Of course, you realize this is where I mention that that is not life. That is not life at all!

“Depression is a mood disorder which prevents individuals from leading a normal life, at work socially or within their family. Seligman (1973) referred to depression as the ‘common cold’ of psychiatry because of its frequency of diagnosis. It is usually quite easy to see when someone is depressed.” (http://www.simplypsychology.org/depression.html)

The Behaviorist believes it is our upbringing and our conditioning to that environment. Freud and his phsychodynamic theory point out 6 steps to depression, and you operant conditioners, believe feel that positive things have been removed from ones life. While, these are all fine and dandy, and proven, and in my opinion pretty basic to observe, none of them were quite adept or knowledgeable of the activities within the brain structure which determine depression and anxiety, yet.

Yes, there are some like me who have suffered abuse, and fall into the descriptions laid out by these famous scientists. But, what they were ignorant at the time to, was the intricate workings of our super manipulative brains chemistry. Hence, partially explaining the reason that those with great childhoods can still suffer.

What is it all?

I wake up yesterday, I am energized, I want to plan going out later that day when every one I know of FB is going out. I get my errands done, I even take a nap, and the time comes, and something “freezes” me. I don't have any money, my clothes aren't nice enough, I look terrible, I'm fat, I'm boring, no one likes me, I ruin the party, I'm worthless....what's on TV tonight? My saving grace for the past 47 years. Somewhere where I get to see laughter, a joyous ending, something that takes my mind off my negative attributions. I don't know how to talk around others. I'm afraid I will seem too snooty, too smart, too sensitive, too angry, all over the place. I'm afraid they will see my craziness, the insanity that is me, if I let it out by accident. I worry about money, food, existence, why I'm here, why anyone is here, is there more out there in space, can humans learn to LOVE? Why do my instincts tell me one things, and society says another? Why do we hurt, kill, cheat and steal? Why do I think about these things all the time?

Then comes the next day.

I can't get up, I want to sleep all day, I hate myself, I hate the world, I'm sad and I can't figure out why. I cry, I bawl, I think about my past life, and wonder why. Later that night, I want to go out, and so I do, and I fail! Miserably! No new friends, no deep talks, nothing.

The next day comes.

I jump out of bed and start cleaning like a mad man. I sit back after a couple hours of severe back pain, and shoulder and joint pain form cleaning, but for some reason, today I am just joyous as can be, and I DONT KNOW WHY?? Am I crazy? How can I be? I've accomplished too much in my life when I put my mind to it. Oh wait, wow, it's 2016! I will check this out online.

Guess what everyone....we aren't alone. There are millions like us. There are stories and studies explaining our chemical imbalances and how they specifically address our problems and hysteria, or depressions and sadness. There are people to talk to. There ARE FRIENDS WHO CARE, and they don't even know you personally.

I only gave you a slight glimpse into my days of depression and anxiety, and there is much more. My health problems, the loads of doctor appointments, the loads of appointments I miss. Sleep deprivation, and the danger of dying any given night.

But, I want to tell you all who suffer. It's not you, it's not just your past and your upbringing, and people can't just tell you to get over it! It's an imbalance. It's chemical issues with your Serotonin, and Dopamine levels that fluctuate at what are supposed to be the right times to help us through trouble. But they don't. They drop us cold, and leave us alone in an empty room of a brain to tear ourselves apart. These chemicals can be ruined by childhood experiences, seeing and feeling things some of us should have never dealt with as children.

I for one, have forgiven my past, myself, and my mistakes in my heart, but my mind, and my chemical imbalances don't let go!

I take many meds for my health, and admittedly, am currently dosed up on different mood enhancing legal mess as well.

I supplement with the occasional MJ induction, however, not as much as I'd like to, due to restrictions in NYS.

I'm not going to use this article as a push for what is currently an illegal drug in NYS, but it's benefits far outweigh those of the pills of money-mongering institutions and doctors!

If you experience these type of daily emotions, and this type of roller-coaster life emotionally and mentally, then I beg you to get help. See your doctor, see your counselor, and get the help you fully deserve and need, without being embarrassed about it. The person sitting next to you, or on the other end of your FB texting, is probably dealing with the same thing in this ever progressively crazy world.

One day soon, the trivial “sicknesses”, mental issues, and physical conditions will all be gone, due to genetics, and DNA, and more.

Someday our peace will come, and we will be able to step off our never ending voyage, that has had no end.

WOOD NEWS AGENCY: 9-1-1: YOUR LIVES HAVE CHANGED

WOOD NEWS AGENCY: 9-1-1: YOUR LIVES HAVE CHANGED: 9-1-1: YOUR LIVES HAVE CHANGED Written by: Colin Bruce Munro Wood – 09-11-2016 5:54PM ET 15 years.... 15 years!!!! 15 yea...

9-1-1: YOUR LIVES HAVE CHANGED

9-1-1: YOUR LIVES HAVE CHANGED

Written by: Colin Bruce Munro Wood – 09-11-2016 5:54PM ET

15 years....

15 years!!!!

15 years???

Yes, it's been 15 years since the day our lives changed forever in America.

Yes, it's been 15 years that we have not had any sizable terrorist attack of that nature.

Yes, it's actually been 15 years since it happened. Time flies by like a comet in the sky, and some of us have forgotten the tragedy that affected every soul in the United States that day. It even affected the futures of those born that day, and thereafter.

Forever, now we live in a world of high security. A world where every move we make outside our homes can be watched from above, from the cameras on streets, to your own computer camera.

Admittedly, and I think anyone my age would agree, and anyone born post Vietnam, grew up thinking we were invincible. Sure, we had the nuclear cold war, but it was nothing compared to the scare of the early 60's nuclear threats, or the WW2 u-boat threats off shore, or the Civil, 1812, or Revolutionary wars. Basically, my generation, I think that's Gen X, if I'm correct, have grown up in the safest place in the world. Until 9/11/2001. We never would have imagined planes being able to get so close to our large buildings in NYC, that anything such as what happened was possible. Our military would take them down somehow. The United States would never allow someone to threaten us with planes.

I'm just taking a guess here, but I bet that's what most of my generation and later generations believed.

I used to laugh at the concept of movies such as Red Dawn. Although they were fun to watch, who truly believed, other than conspirators, and crazy people that the Russians could invade our country. Beyond belief in the 1980's to me. I never worried it could happen. I had faith in our defense.

Little did I understand in my youth, how our defense is spread around the globe, and as we learned on 9/11, was not geared to protect our own country really. Most defense plans were to avert outside nemesis. In fact, the FAA's system, did not directly connect with the Department of Defense, in order to easily map the direction to the hijacked planes. Therefore, they were not able to find them quick enough. Also, two jets were sent out without any weapons loaded yet. Due to time restriction.

Basically, we were not ready for what happened that day.

What I find myself inspired to write about is the idiocy, and yes I hate having to define people or anything this way, but the stupidity of those who continue to mock what happened all over the east coast that day, with their inane reasoning that the Bush family took down the towers in New York, and planned the whole day, in order to support an oil war in the middle east.

You people make me want to puke up a lung to be moot. I don't consider myself an extreme rightist or leftist anymore. Those days are gone with my youth. I am a realist now. I live in the middle, and lean where it takes brain and a heart to lean.

I was a Bush fan, and a Rightist Republican for 18 years, after being a Liberal Democrat for 11. I am no re-registered Democrat, and if you look at my previous articles, you will find that I am voting for Clinton. Against my previous feelings and beliefs of her. Which have seesawed throughout her career, with my party support.

My point being, that even if you don't like George Bush, if you have any heart, you can read the emotions on his face throughout his Presidency about terrible things that happened, and hard choices he had to make. The man was real, and his errors and mistakes only made him human, and at no time did he ever act arrogant, or act like he was perfect.

Yes, after the planes, he was powerful, and indignant, and courageous, to stand up against monsters, and demagoguery, and evil in the middle east. He believed in his military, and he led with power and might. I hail George Bush for his strength, and wisdom in military leadership and protection of our country, children, family members, friends, strangers, and fellow Americans.

This is not a fight about shootings. This is about large attacks. Such as is seen on the other side of the world daily.

Some of us Americans can't quite seem to grasp the incredible freedom and peace that we actually still enjoy in this amazing country. Look eastward my children, and grow up and realize that our Presidents have been protecting us, regardless of their political affiliations. Obama kept us safe from major attacks for 8 more years. 15 years folks....15 years.....

Can the Middle East, Germany, Belgium, France, Amsterdam, India, or many other places east of us say the same?

Yes, if you are cynical and insane, you can put together circumstantial facts, and puzzle together a not so fitting, and disturbing picture of the Bush family controlling a demolition of the towers. I personally, if I had the power, would put you all in a loony bin.

President Bush was absolutely devastated the day those towers came down, and our DOD was hit, and the lives of the people on Flight 093 were taken from their loves ones.

Just simply explain one little thing to me. How does a family, with a Sr. Bush who didn't even agree with his son on the war in the Middle East, come together, and hire more than 12 terrorists to take over 4 planes. Oh, and don't forget to explain how these 12 terrorists were Bush family haters, and wanted them dead. How did that relationship connect again?

But, I digress. Today is should only be a day of mourning, remembrance, patriotism, strength, faith, and a show of unity to the world.

We don't need you fools who want to continue to divide our country, and keep us hated by the world.

It is time for unity with the world, and it is time for us all to come together as a country and help rid the world of terrorism.

R.I.P., to the thousands of lives lost that day, bodies not recovered, and peace to the families who suffered! True Patriots stand with you all, and will forever hold your hurtful memories within our own hearts!

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OUT OF THIS WORLD

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Written By: Colin Bruce Munro Wood - 9/6/16 – 11:41AM ET

I think for me, Ellen DeGeneres explained it in the most common sense approach stating, “The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we are not all there is. If so, we are in big trouble”!

I'm sure many of us have thought this exact same thought. I know I have since I was a child, and stared up into space looking for answers to life at a very young age. Maybe this was due to the nature of my life at the time. Suffering beatings at home, and brotherly jealousy, a lack of real love, and being the sensitive, picked on kid in the neighborhood. I used to dream of a place where everyone loved each other, and there was none of the aforementioned. I used to dream of other races on other planets who were more advanced emotionally, and treated each other with love, grace, and with precious intentions.

Approximately 40 years later, I have yet to see my first UFO, or to see any proof of aliens for that matter. I grow jealous daily of the reports of sightings, and the pictures, and the videos that continue to grow more and more numerous. Day by day, in these recent times, we are seeing accounts online of alien UFO's visiting us constantly now.

Could it be that we are reaching into space so far now, that other alien races are taking notice of our progression?

In the past couple years, we have learned more about our Universe, and it's incredible array of differences, and likenesses to our own home, Earth. We have learned that other planets in our Solar System, the Milky Way, have common bonds with Earth. But, hold on. Not only are the other planets bearing resemblance to Earth, but so now are some of those planets moons. Holding oceans, and showing great basins such as our very Grand Canyon, and actually making it look small. We have found oxygen in space, we have found the building blocks of life in space, we have found places to advance mankind's existence.

Among all these great discoveries and advancements in space, we have yet to put solid, handheld evidence of Alien life in the public's view.

Area 51, northwest of Las Vegas in Nevada, is a military base, installed in the 1950's. According to recent documents released by the government, it has finally been classified publicly as a top secret base, where they create new aircraft, and study foreign aircraft. Many fancy, and somewhat un-explainable aircraft of our air force have been created and built there. The U2 and Oxcart programs, the Lockheed A-12, the D-21 Tagboard, the Lockheed Have Blue, and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk are just some of the most known military aircraft to be created there. The U.S. Government continues to deny any alien contact at this military base.

With the onslaught of the Roswell, New Mexico alien ship crash site, and an apparent alien interview (just recently released), alien propagandists have been tackling every alien and UFO report since 1947. “Between 1978 and the early 1990s, UFO researchers such as Stanton T. Friedman, William Moore, Karl T. Pflock, and the team of Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt interviewed several hundred people who claimed to have had a connection with the events at Roswell in 1947.Hundreds of documents were obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, along with other documents such as Majestic 12 that were supposedly leaked by insiders. Their conclusions were at least one alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, alien bodies had been recovered, and a government cover-up of the incident had taken place.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident)

Without spending much time on Roswell, a 69 year old story now, we can still hold to the fact that with the onslaught of smart phone cameras, and the videos from the ISS, and NASA Astronaut statements, as well as, many military and commercial pilots' thoughts on the matter, we have overwhelming, circumstantial evidence proving that something is going on.

Have you watched Ancient Aliens yet? Now, I admit, that some of what I have seen on this program on the History Channel, seems quite a bit far-fetched. At the same time, there is a lot more information, which combines with what we know now, and with our technological advancements, that give strong proof to the idea that we have been visited many times before, since the age of man.

I must be crazy you say?

Well, think about how young our planet and solar system is, compared to the history of our universe, from the beginning of time. We are very young here on Earth, and our Sun is very young. There are millions of galaxies we now know. There are billions of stars and planets we now know. It is not just the Milky Way, as we once believed. These millions and billions of stars and planets date back hundreds of billions of years before Earth even existed. So, in my intelligent, thought based findings and belief, and along with millions more intelligent people, professors, and researchers, it is hard to believe, that no living creature, being, or alien, be they advanced or microscopic, is out there.

Earth is too young, and obviously immature, what with constant waging wars over religion, and money, and only 60 years of space intelligence and technical advancements, we are but infants to the rest of the Universe. Where are infants usually kept when they are misbehaving, or not getting along?

Imagine, another world born millions of years ago, or more recently in the past, and what if these beings or aliens are tiny, but brilliant, and what if these sometimes recorded large, city sized ships are filled with small people, and maybe on their planet, with different ways of thinking, and developing, and with different elements possibly, never created weapons....Imagine, a world, better than the Earth.

Maybe the fact that we are such an young, morbid, immature, ugly, war-mongering, egotistical planet, that we block out the possibility of anyone being different in a better way than us. Smaller or larger. Maybe when they visit and watch from over us, they are afraid of us. Maybe we are giants to them. Maybe we are like an ant farm to them. Who knows?

But then again, if you ask me, I'm only about 85% positive we aren't alone in the Universe, or the Multi-verse, as some scientists have begun to suggest.

Here's an added interesting fact. If you look back through the history of film, and television, whether it be the phasers, or the communicators on star trek. Or the idea of ships flying multiple people through space further than we've ever gone before. We can look upon many old shows and movies, and find many concepts, that were not real back then, that have come to fruition, and now are major aspects of our lives.

Maybe Gene Roddenberry knew something the rest of us didn't. I mean, he was from Texas, and that sure isn't far from Roswell....Know what I mean?

In any case, whether or not you believe, something is surely going on, and it is becoming abundantly clear, that we may have that answer we've been looking for, for what may seem has been forever, but in reality has only been a minuscule amount of time in our Universe's History.

Pyramids, Drawings on walls, early age physical impossibilities, abductions, government cover-ups, pictures, eye witnesses, videos, ex-military, ex-pilots, current pilots, ex-top secret employees, ISS video being cut-off permanently.

I don't know what it all necessarily adds up to, but something seems out of this world, and I for one am not averse to it!

Maine-Endwell Captures Heart of America

This will be my first Android post on my blog.
The Annual Little League Series took place this week in Williamsport, PA at the Howard J. Lamade Stadium in front of 23,211 at the final game on Sunday.  Not too far from a small town, more known for being attached to Endicott, the history of Endicott-Johnson, and IBM, internationally!

In this small town, just like anywhere else in America, several young boys and girls dream of being the next champ, the next World Series Champ that is.

However, when most kids are out behind the house throwing with a friend, parent, or sibling, they are mindset on the Major League World Series with tens of thousands of fans cheering them on.

In Maine-Endwell, a coach, some kids, some parents, and eventually a city, an area, and a nation took on the concept of that same World Series Championship, but somewhere where the pressure and challenge far outweighs the Major Leagues.

In Williamsport, PA, nothing could have made a kid sweat more than seeing their own parents, family, friends, and coaches who only had to drive 2 hours, right in the same stadium, in the same field. Talk about pressure. I could hear Billy Joel swooning out his famous song, as each pitch was thrown, each bat hit a ball, and as each inning rolled into the next. Strike after strike, out after out, amazing timely hitting, and intense, conscientious kids playing some of the greatest Little League baseball this Country has ever seen. Let alone a NYS team going all the way.

The last NYS LL team to make the final was Staten Island. In 1964 they took the World Crown.

Well, Whether these M-E kids took a bus or drove with parents, they came as a TEAM! They played like a TEAM, and they won Like CHAMPIONS! Amazing pitching, despite odd strike zones by umpires, who apparently felt the box paint was the plate, on inside pitches. Huge timely hitting, great fielding, and incredible perseverance pushed these 2016 World Champs from the small parks of Maine-Endwell, NY to the big-time, nationally televised site of the annual Series!

The coaching staff showed calm, perseverance and connections with their players, and parents watched, cheered, or like Mrs. Abbadessa, prayed. Her son was a big star in the final two championships!

So now, forever listed in the annals of baseball lore, which whether these folks realize it or not, will be stored in our national vaults, in the mountains (yes, it actually exists for nuclear reasons), along with a recording of their accomplishments.

A team of kids won it all today, coaches, parents, a city, the east coast, the United States, all of us in need of a time of happiness, peace and self-celebration, can now rest on itself on the shoulders of the boys listed below, for at least a little while, before the madness of the world sets back in for all of us!!!

Congratulations:

Billy Dundon
Jude Abbadessa
Brody Raleigh
Michael Mancini (US World Champ Pitcher)
Jordan Owens
Connor Rush (Winning RBI's in World Championship)
Justin Ryan
Jack Hopko
James Fellows
Jayden Fanara
Ryan Harlost (World Series Pitching Champ and scored final run on pass ball)

Congrats to coaches Joe Hopkp, Joe Mancini and Scot Rush!

Congrats to the Little League WORLD CHAMPS - Maine-Endwell!!

Written by: Colin Bruce Munro Wood
08/28/2016 11:57PM ET

WHY HILLARY MUST REIGN

WHY HILLARY MUST REIGN

Written by: Colin B M Wood – 08/23/2016 – 2:58ET

So, we are all watching the great clown put on a new swath of makeup. For the umpteenth time, Donald J Trump is changing his persona, and trying to mold himself into more votes. At the same time he accuses Hillary Clinton of being a fake person, hiding behind controversy and lies.

Where might be the Donald Trump tax returns you ask? Could there be a reason for him to keep them private? History tells us that he is indeed hiding something.

Do you find yourself a Trump fan? Well, let us take a look at Mr. Trump, and what you support, and ask yourself why.

Warren Buffett, stood with Hillary Clinton at a rally and spoke loudly and clearly about how Trump does business, and how investing in his stocks is bad business. (http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/news/companies/donald-trump-bankruptcy/index.html)

Trump has 5 major bankruptcies since 1991starting with Trump Taj Mahal, followed by Trump Castle Associates in 1992, Trump Hotel and Casino Resorts in 2004, Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009. He sold off many assets for these business bankruptcies, including the Trump Shuttle, and has taken profit at the risk of people's jobs, and banks' money, whom he calls “total killers”. Even recently in 2014, two more Atlantic City casinos with his name filed for bankruptcy. Trump has made millions upon millions off these business failings that have affected other people's lives negatively. When the wealthiest man in the world is telling you not to vote for Trump, it's probably a good idea to listen to him, because he is definitely making the right choices in life. Just look at Warren Buffet's recent movements in the market to protect himself from a possible Trump Presidency.

A trump presidency would mean higher energy stocks. Buffet has invested more in energy stocks heading into the 4^th quarter with and increase in Berkshire Hathaway of 26.5 million shares, or $395 million. He continues his energy buildup in Phillips 66 spending nearly 1.1 billion, up to 6 billion or a 14.2% stake in the company. He's added to his banking with Wells Fargo with a 9.2% stake, up 2%. With Deere & Co., he has increased shares at 5.7 million for a 7.2% stake. Warren believes a Trump Presidency will trigger an increase in energy prices. This being good for the investor, will be severe for the poor, and needy who can already barely afford energy prices. 

(http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/news/companies/donald-trump-bankruptcy/index.html)

Well known Right Wing Conservative Charles Krauthammer, as you've probably seen in Hillary Clinton's harsh campaign ad against Trump, talks down a Trump Presidency, making it out to be a dangerous choice for America. Saying that he would not want to see the nuclear codes in his hands “at this point”. Hard line Republicans have turned against Trump, and it seems the only support remaining for Trump in National and State polls is his backwoods buddies, who have come out of the wood works to support their Grand Wizard, I mean Presidential candidate.

So, what does Hillary bring to the table? How about something this country of ours has been begging for, for decades. A female President, whom has played the mother and wife. The two toughest positions anyone could ever hold in the Universe, if you ask me.

America has come to a crucial point, in which we need to ask ourselves, what kind of nation do we want to be right now? Do we want to be a beast that shuts out the world, builds walls, and eventually becomes self-dependent and isolated? Maybe, just maybe, it would be better to show the kind of love to the world, that only a mother and a wife can understand. Maybe it's time for someone with sanity, and control, and reserve to continue the respect that Obama showed for the greatest position in the land, the Presidency! Maybe it's time for our Country to be lead by not just a motherly love, but the strength and power, and calm that a woman who has spent her entire life helping others, and raising an amazing daughter among turmoil, and fame can only bring to the White House. A continuance of creating Global Unity across the globe, and helping to bring peace to the world, instead of hatred, racism, and judgment. A Lady and a President who remembers what our Constitution says, and what the Statue of Liberty stands for, and what our Country is so greatly and profoundly built upon.

Diversity!

Yes, Hillary has made mistakes. But I challenge most of you to look into your pasts, and dark closets and tell yourself, you've never made mistakes, or done things you knew might be wrong, or told little white lies for the betterment of the moment. This does not make a person a devious or rotten scoundrel. It makes us each human, and imperfect as we are. But Hillary is not a war monger, she is not a racist, she is not a hater, she is not a wall builder, she is not stupid, and she is not an egotistical megalomaniac such as the great and powerful Oz, Donald J Trump! Whom, with his golden wave of hair, and his schizophrenic personality, I see him as.

Yes, America, is time to stand up and elect the first woman to office. A woman who has worked hard for the people, and earned her way to the top, without kissing anyone's behind. Yes, she is known for being tough, and bossy. Well, if my President isn't tough and bossy, and demand what they know is best for the USA, then I don't want them in the White House to begin with. Right? We don't want a President that the DOD can walk all over, or that owes favors. If anything, in Clinton, we have a woman who is probably owed many and many favors, and that can end up being a benefit to our nation, and in conjunction with our newly elected Congress of Democrats!

I compare Chelsea to the Trump kids. Chelsea waves a banner of selflessness, a smile of pure happiness, and spends her time for others. The Trump clan wears smiles of ego, spend their time on wealth, and come across like rehearsed puppets. Who do you think spent more time with their child/children. Hillary or Donald? Tough question to answer I imagine, but I think I guess.

I urge you, those who still have heart for Trump to look deep inside your souls, and really listen to the lies, the innuendos, the hatred, the downright scary and inane things that have come from the mouth of Donald J Trump, and ask yourself if that's what you really, truly believe in. Do you hate so much? Do you really hate American and your lives so much, that you think America is in a terrible position? That we are no longer the greatest country in the world? Maybe you should ask your self if you'd rather live in another country, and go try it out. I've visited many, many countries around the world, and most states around the country, and I can tell you after living in some of them that the United States is unmeasured in it's freedoms, it's mixed culture, it's opportunities, and it's top of the line medicine, food, and more!

If Trump is President, I guarantee, all of what you have come to know as common life, may cease to exist, as he pushes more terrorism to enter our country by his challenges, and hatred, and as he pushes our world to the brink of WW3. I am not a biblical man anymore, after a lifetime of faith, and 9 years dedicated to the Word. I know my bible. I no longer look at it as the truth, but as a historical manuscript. However, If you are a Bible thumper, or someone of faith, and you need something to steer you away from Donald Trump, then just go back to Revelations and read it slowly, and take in what is saying, and then put Donald Trump into that role of the end of the world, if you believe in such a thing. Creationists are supporting Trump, so I give you Creationists a place to look for even you to have a reason to run as far from this man as you can!!!

I don't think man is coming to an end anytime soon. There are great things ahead for mankind and space, and frontiers beyond our present comprehension, but I do believe a Trump Presidency would bring us to, or past the brink of a major Holy War on and in America that would take on proportions that which our Country hasn't seen since the Civil War!

Vote Clinton in November, and save our Country, and protect our planet!

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