National Deviled Egg Day - November 2

I have to day I feel rather betrayed today...Betrayed by the national media and local news sources as well.  You see...today is National Deviled Egg Day!  That's right...the day the United States set aside to honor (and enjoy!) one of the best recipes EVER CREATED, the Deviled  Egg.  Not only was there no fanfare whatever on any of the major networks, but deviled eggs were not featured at the cafeteria inside my place of employment.  In fact, deviled eggs were available AT ALL!!

Granted, the nation (or parts of it, anyway) were still all excited that the Houston Astros won the World Series last night, but still...I mean we need to keep the proper perspective of a mere baseball game...after all, it was only a game.  But...not featuring deviled eggs today!  Really!!  What a faux pas!! By the way, shouldn't the "deviled" in deviled eggs actually be spelled DEVILLED?  The rule in proper English would be to double the last consonant then add "ed."  Shouldn't the word "deviled" rhyme with the word "reviled"?   But I digress...

I would like to take just a few minutes to honor the Deviled (or Devilled) Egg, and to lick my chops while wishing I had at least a dozen deviled eggs waiting for me in my refrigerator.  It seems that spiced-up, boiled eggs were served at least as far back as the early Roman Empire.  Richer dining patrons were served spiced egg yolk replaced into the boiled egg, although a more expensive version included small birds called fig-peckers in the egg yolk mixture.  I...er...would have to pass on that particular variation.  (ummm...BARFFF!!)

The spiced-egg spread from the Roman Empire across western Europe, finding its way to England and France by the 1300's.  To the spiced-egg yolk people began to add paprika and mustard, and many different kinds of herbs.  By the end of the Dark Ages, the deviled egg was beginning to take its modern form, the delicacy with which many of us are familiar in this very day.  But where did the term "deviled egg" first appear?

It is believed that the first use of the term "deviled eggs" was in British cook books published around the year of 1786.  "Deviling" became a verb that meant to add spices and other herbs and flavors to foods to make these dishes more exciting.  Hence the term "deviled eggs," which referred to mixing boiled egg yolk with various spices, herbs, and mustard, and replacing this mixture into boiled eggs. Thus one of the most popular food items and picnic essentials of all time was created for our culinary pleasure.  By the way, prior to the turn of the 19th Century, some faithful Christians refused to use the term "deviled" eggs, much preferring more innocuous titles such as "stuffed eggs," "dressed eggs," or even "salad eggs," especially if the eggs were served at religious functions!

So I missed National Deviled Egg Day this year.  No matter.  I have worked up such an appetite for deviled eggs while writing this brief post that I will definitely purchase a dozen eggs tomorrow and try my hand at making some of those tasty little morsels this weekend.

Remember, it is ONLY 364 days until National Deviled Egg Day!

Until then...stay deviled, my friends!

End of Watch: William (Bill) Tilghman - City Marshal, Cromwell, Oklahoma - November 1, 1924

One of my favorite of the Lawmen of the "Old West" was a man named William Tilghman.  Known to his contemporaries as either Bill Tilghman, or "Uncle Billy," William Tilghman was considered to be one of the most honest and most effective lawmen of the Old West-era.  The truth is that Bill Tilghman could have gone either way as a young man.  Bill left his home state of Iowa when he was only sixteen, and "went west."  Actually, he didn't go very far west.  In the area of Dodge City, Kansas, Bill joined up with some other young men who made their living by stealing horses from local Indians.  The "Law" did not get too upset with people who stole horses from the Indians, but the Indians themselves were wild with anger.  Young Tilghman was nearly killed on several occasions, and eventually gave up the life of the outlaw - it was too risky.

In a more respectable turn, Bill opened a saloon in Dodge City (I wonder where the money came from?) and also served as a deputy city marshal.  He was accused on a couple of occasions of rustling, once of robbing a train, but there was not enough evidence of these evils, and no charges were ever formally filed.  As the years went by, Tilghman's reputation as an honest lawman grew.  He served as a deputy sheriff in Ford County, Kansas for several years, and eventually joined the US Marshal Service.  Some of Tilghman's contemporaries were the Earp Brothers and William Henry (Billy the Kid) McCarty.

Tilghman was one of the first White men to arrive in Oklahoma when that territory was opened for Anglo settlement in 1889.  In 1891 Tilghman became a deputy US Marshal for the Oklahoma territory. As the 19th Century faded into the past, Tilghman continued his legendary career as a peace officer into the new century.  His resume included several years as a sheriff's deputy, and later, Sheriff of Lincoln County, Oklahoma.  Perhaps his most famous capture was the arrest of Bill Doolin, the leader of a criminal gang that had terrorized parts of several states for years.  Doolin escaped from jail a year later, but was killed by a posse led by one of Tilghman's colleagues, Heck Thomas. 

Bill Tilghman retired from active duty after serving for several years as the police chief of Oklahoma City.  He had taken that job in 1910.  During the year 1908, and for several years following, Tilghman directed four films, the most famous being "The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws."  Retirement was not to Bill's liking; however, and by August, 1924, Tilghman was once again a peace officer, this time the marshal of Cromwell, Oklahoma, an oil boom town. 

Cromwell was a boisterous little town, and when the roughnecks were not out on their rigs, they spent their hard-earned pay at several "speakeasies" scattered throughout the city.  Prohibition was going strong at this time, but so was the thirst of the hardworking oilmen, and the money lust of moonshiners and alcohol smugglers.  Marshal Tilghman, the honest lawman, refused to turn a blind eye to the illegal alcohol, as his predecessors had done. 

As he arrested smugglers and bar owners, Tilghman aroused the ire of a crooked "revenuer" named Wiley Lynn, a federal prohibition agent.  Lynn had met with Tilghman several times and "encouraged" the lawman to look the other way as alcohol was brought into Cromwell and distributed among the various illegal bars.  Tilghman not only refused to cooperate with Lynn, but continued to vigorously pursue and arrest those involved in bootlegging in and around Cromwell.

Finally Wiley Lynn had all he could stand.  He was losing money because he could no longer "protect" the alcohol crowd.  On the night of November 1, 1924 - three months to the day since Tilghman had taken over as City Marshal - Wiley Lynn confronted Tilghman.  The prohibition agent had been drinking and was intoxicated.  He railed at Tilghman, then produced a hidden pistol.  Wiley shot Bill Tilghman twice, killing him where he stood.  Lynn Wiley had murdered one of the last of the great lawmen from the Old West.  Wiley was later acquitted, presumably due to his intoxication, but was himself gunned down in 1932.

I am proud to honor Marshal Bill Tilghman, one of the greatest Lawmen of the Old West.  Thank you for your service, Marshal, and may you rest in peace.

End of Watch: Officer Floyd East, Jr. - Texas Tech Police - Oct 9, 2017

Texas Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr., was shot and killed by a suspect he was questioning inside the Texas Tech Police Department.  Officer East had been a Texas University system security officer for several years, serving at the University of Texas - El Paso for the past several years.  Only this year, in May, Mr. East was commissioned and sworn in as a police officer for Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

On Monday night, Officer East and other police officers went to the killer's apartment to check on his welfare after receiving a call about him from his family.  Officers entered the killer's apartment.  He was not at home, but officers found drug paraphernalia in plain view.  At some point the killer arrived and was taken into custody.  He was transported back to the Texas Tech Police Department.  Officer East was shot a short time later, just after 9:00 PM.  The killer then fled the scene of the shooting but was caught by police a few minutes later near Tech's football stadium.  Officer East died where he was shot inside the police building.

Officer East was 48 years old when he was killed, but had worked as a security officer for several years.  And he had just graduated the required Texas police academy in May.  His police career was cut tragically short by a young man who was clearly dangerous and who clearly had a high stake in escaping custody.  I have no idea what happened and cannot second guess Officer East.  I can only wonder how a search of the arrested person did not reveal the large caliber pistol concealed on  his person.  Was the killer searched at all?  A common "rookie" mistake is either not searching a prisoner, or not searching the prisoner ADEQUATELY.  

Another common mistake for new officers is, out of compassion, to release a dangerous person (i.e. a person possibly under the influence of drugs and who KNEW he was probably going to go to prison) from handcuffs because the person says the cuffs are hurting him.  An act of kindness is often repaid (in the criminal world) by an assault, or by taking the compassionate officer's life.  This tragedy is compounded by the fact that more experienced officers who observed the unhandcuffed prisoner did not intervene and explain to this new officer the dangers of leaving a felon suspect unsecured.
These mistakes were tragic, but did not justify the killer in taking this officer's life.  While the situation could have and should have been handled differently, ultimately only ONE person was responsible for this officer's murder, and that person is the one person who should pay the most severe penalty available for murderers.

Officer Floyd East, Jr., fulfilled his dream of being a police officer and serving his fellow men at Texas Tech.  His career was tragically short, but nonetheless his sacrifice and courage are deserving of honor.  Rest in Peace, Officer East.

My prayers, and those of thousands of other Texans as well as people across the nation go out to Officer East's wife, his two daughters, his family, and his fellow officers.  As far as I could determine, Officer East was the first Texas Tech Officer to die in the line of duty.  I may be wrong on that count, and please correct me if you know different.

The Thin Blue Line in Heaven is one man stronger tonight.

May God keep and protect the officers who strive to protect this nation, and

May God Bless America!

A Call To ACTION For All Pro Football Owners and Advertiser - AND FANS

The disgraceful conduct of the ENTIRE Steelers Football Team (save ONE player) is over the line and is UNCONSCIONABLE.

(Before I write another line I would like to HONOR Alejandra Villanueva - the LONE STEELER FOOTBALL PLAYER WHO CHOSE TO HONOR THE AMERICAN FLAG AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.  May GOD bless you, sir.  MOST AMERICANS also thank you for your courage both today and for serving in the military as well.  You are a hero and a TRUE AMERICAN!!)

Now, about the remainder of the Stealers (oops!) and any other NFL players who choose to dishonor (or CONTINUE TO) dishonor the American Flag and the National Anthem, whether "taking the knee" or some other form of disrespect to the colors, I find it disgraceful and outrageous that they are using a national sports platform to dishonor this nation, ALL OF ITS CITIZENS, and ALL SOLDIERS AND OTHER WHO HAVE DIED FOR THIS NATION.  Yet these (GROSSLY) over-paid spoiled brats, I mean, athletes, have the gall to ACCEPT money from the very people, the very institutions, that are responsible for whatever "wrongs" these idiots are protesting.  Does this sound GROSSLY OVER-HYPOCRITICAL to anyone?!!  If YOU - MR. Wronged Professional Athlete - feel so badly "wronged," how can you accept this "filthy lucre" from the very people and institutions who are "WRONGING" you? 

Actually the bigger and much more important question goes to owners and advertisers: Why are YOU - OWNERS - continuing to allow these people to play in the NFL?  Even BIGGER - why are "SPONSORS" still sponsoring these teams?  Why are advertisers still buying "spots" for game-time commercials?  Owners, you have the power to demand that players NOT protest DURING football games.  Why are you silent on this issue, other than Jerry Jones?  Just as a bunch of office workers would be fired for stopping work to "protest" political issues that are not related to their jobs, football players should be fired for political activities during football games.  Owners, your SILENCE right now is SPEAKING VOLUMES!  Advertisers, any of you who were willing could stop all of this by merely threatening to pull the plug on all future commercials and sponsorships.  Like the Owners, your failure to act in this matter is ECHOING LOUDLY ACROSS AMERICA!

And MOST OF ALL, if you, AMERICAN NFL FOOTBALL FAN, are even remotely outraged as you claim to be, WHY ARE YOU STILL AT THE GAME??  Why was there not a mass exodus immediately after the National Anthem was played?  Why is the game still on your TV, if you are watching at home?  You say that you paid for your ticket days, weeks, or months ago and, since you are here, you don't want to waste your ticket even if you ARE outraged at these players' conduct?  I say the HONOR of this great nation is well worth the few dollars you would lose by leaving the football game.  You say you ALWAYS watch Sunday and Thursday NFL?  I say that NFL players have never forced their views on the national audience in this way before.  Do you want the NFL to be a political forum?  I thought you wanted to watch football.  If NFL sponsors and advertisers knew that people were no longer attending or viewing football games, this politicization of football (of ANY sport, for that matter) would stop immediately.  Loss of revenue would certainly trump the players' "right" to protest in such a disgraceful way on national television.

Will Owners and Advertisers step up and demand that football players cease to dishonor this great nation?  Will football fans be able to overcome their game day addiction and boycott the NFL?  We will have to wait for at least one more football game to see what happens.  As for me, the NFL is OFF my TV and radio for the foreseeable future.  If you are truly outraged, if your love for this nation overshadows your desire to watch football, I urge you to stop watching these games...AND I urge you to let the team owners and your favorite sponsors know exactly how you feel, that you are no longer watching football, and that you will no longer purchase ANY products you have seen advertised during previous football games.  I think it will not take long to get the message out.

What Must They Be Thinking?! or The Howling Minority

I have to pause to consider what the rest of the world might be thinking about the United States today. I can't help but believe that many people, even MILLIONS of people, around the world must be thinking that we here in the United States must really have a STRANGE set of priorities of late.

Here is what is happening both in the United States and abroad, at the hands of either American military action, or American corporate action.  The American military has been fighting non-stop at least since 1990 with no end in sight.  Even now, President Trump is gearing up to send even more troops to Afghanistan.  Americans are fighting in Iraq, Libya, and Syria overtly.  Drones and clandestine operations are taking place in many other places around the world.  And this is only ONE issue.

American corporations are polluting and exploiting resources both here and abroad.  Further, American corporations are paying nearly slave wages in various countries around the world.  Big defense contractors are doing their part to keep the United States in a permanent state of war.  No matter how many innocent people are killed, no matter how much "collateral" damage is done, the defense suppliers lobby for contracts and keep the arms coming.  Their colleagues in government and the military also do their part to keep war supplies "in demand."

Relations between the United States, China, and the Koreas are at all time levels of high tension. North Korea has now or will soon develop the capacity to lob their new atomic weapons to the very front steps of the United States, but if the United States did the smart thing and pre-emptively struck the North Korean nuclear facilities, China would step in to protect the North Koreans.  The chances of less than nuclear devastation, should the United States and China go to war, are practically zero.

Yet, with all of these things going on at home and abroad, what is it that Americans are focusing on?  Apparently it is suddenly an extreme necessity to remove statues of Confederate heroes, force the renaming of schools, institutions, and businesses, and to disown any ties to the 'hateful and racist" America of the past.  By the past, I mean two or three years ago.  Coincidentally this strange need so many Americans feel to distance themselves from "the old America" seems to have arisen about the time that Black Lives Matter appeared on the national stage, but that is another blog.

The world looks on as Americans and the American mainstream media are hysterically screaming for statues to be pulled down, buildings to be renamed, and even books to be burned.  Ignoring any real relevant issues, this very small but very loud minority, with the media's most eager assistance, has succeeded in robbing so many responsible people of all sense of rationality.  Not only that, but this small group of people, with media support, has managed to cause otherwise sensible people to suddenly feel guilty about statues, heroes, even of their very national heritage.

Mayors of towns, so eager to please this small, vocal minority, and yet to avoid angering the majority of their constituents, have secretly spirited away monuments of Confederate heroes out of city parks and college campuses literally under the cover of darkness.  How ludicrous! "Leaders" including mayors, councilmen, county commissioners, and state and national politicians are going out of their way to pander to the "protesters" and the media.  I hope that their constituents will remember each and every one of these cowardly politicians at the next election.

While the United States Constitution protects us from government censor, the loud minority, their numbers and power being inflated by the news media, are limiting Americans' freedom of speech and assembly so much more effectively than any totalitarian government has ever been able to do. Literally, if anyone so much as DARES to publicly state that a statue in a park is not necessarily offensive to the majority of people, that person is immediately branded a neo-Nazi racist. And anyone who might support such a person is terrified to do so, fearing the same branding at the hands of loudmouths and the media.

What does the world think of this great nation right now, a nation where such a loud few has been able to overcome the calmness and rationality of the vast majority of Americans?  What does the world think of this once proud nation that now appears to be unable to look back at its own history without whimpering and without denying what took place, but what is now a hundred years behind us?  I think they are wondering "What in the HELL has happened to America?"  What are the Americans DOING to themselves?"

The hysteria displayed in the news from across this great nation has now filtered its way into my city, and true to form, many Midlanders are suddenly either ashamed of the past or afraid to stand up for the institutions of this city for fear of being branded racist.  I am sick of it!!  Many of the people screaming about racism have no idea what that really means!  Are they forced into "ghettos" because of their race, as happened in the Third Reich?  Are they made to enter stores and restaurants through the back door?  Are they denied entrance to any public facility because of their skin color?  Have they ever been attacked by the "Klan?"  Have they ever even been denied a job because of their race?  For most people the answer is no.  The truth is that many of the "protesters" that sparked all of this hysteria were PAID ACTORS who had no interest whatever in Black Lives Matter, some injustice at the hands of the police, or some other fill-in-the-blank "protest."  Their numbers and actions were multiplied and magnified by the media.

In Midland today it was announced that someone has started a petition on-line to garner support to force the local school district to change the name of one of its high schools.  Worse, according to the petition, NOT SUPPORTING this name-change means that one is a racist who supported slavery and all the other evils of the Confederacy.  I suspect that by tomorrow morning the local media, "affiliates" of the big three news channels, will be calling for the name of that particular school to be changed, possibly putting pressure on school board members to do something "now!"  If the sponsor of this petition, and anyone who supports him, is truly a believer in democracy, and not himself a racist or bigot, he or she would use democratic processes first, instead of resorting to"fear pressure" to accomplish his or her ends.  Instead of a rather anonymous "on-line petition" why not approach the school board at an open school board meeting, present an actual paper petition with verifiable names of supporters, and call for an open vote on the matter.  Do the people of Midland truly want to change the name of that particular high school?  If they do, then they will sign the petition, the school board will put it a vote, and if the vote for the name change carries, the people will have spoken and it will be indeed time for the name change.  This should hold true for all of these situations across our nation.

Today we are witnessing a different kind of censorship, a different kind of thought control, a different kind of "fear pressure."  In some ways this new kind of speech censorship and thought control is more fearful than any sort of control our government could clamp down onto us.  When free people are compelled to act or think a certain way by other people and the media, when anyone who disagrees with whatever the "trending" thoughts and feelings may be are labeled racists, bigots, Un-American, or any other derogatory label, and have that label flashed across the nation and the world as "news," as true fact, freedom is just as dead as if Hitler and his henchmen were in charge and the Third Reich had never been blasted off the face of the earth.

It doesn't, in effect, matter whom the Totalitarians are, when the masses are afraid to think differently and to speak freely, censorship is just as complete, just as strong.  The United States is headed in this direction.  Do not be afraid to have a point of view and to stick with that point of view, even if others do not agree with it.  It is so ironic and tragic that men and women fought and died for America over the years to ensure that no foreign power or rogue terrorist group could ever deprive us of our freedom, but today a loud and minuscule minority of Americans (more than likely bought and paid for by a behind the scenes megalomaniac) and a near-mindless and unthinking "news" media is working to shape our thoughts and beliefs, to force us to COMPLY with whatever the "new think" is. And, my friends, the NEW THINK is that we must either go along with the destruction of our history or be called racists and neo-Nazis.  I choose not to go along with this NEW THINK.  If someone is so stupid and ignorant as to consider me a racist and neo-Nazi, that is up to that ignorant person.  

I can't help but hear that thought over and over: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it

We must remember the past - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and by remembering, we are then positioned NEVER to make those mistakes again.  Conversely, when we tear down the past, alter the truth in our text books, and deny all those things - the good AND the bad - we, as Santayana told us, are DOOMED to repeat the mistakes over and over.

The founders of this great nation made a tremendous and absolutely amazing (though obviously IMPERFECT) attempt to break the cycle of repressive authoritarianism and totalitarianism that had been REPEATED over and over throughout the history of civilization.  The Union was flawed, and a great war was fought to correct those flaws.  But now, a little over a hundred years after that war, we seem to have forgotten that freedom of thought, even if some of us disagreed with others, was the only way to keep the nation strong.  In the past two decades schools, universities, and even corporations have spent MILLIONS of dollars to promote, protect, and emphasize our nation's diversity.  Now, in just two short years Americans have become cowed into accepting ideas and ideals that the vast majority do not agree with, but to DISAGREE with this NEW THINK is be branded racists, Nazi, or even WHITE SUPREMACIST.

Forgive me, I thought disagreement, dialogue, diversity, compromise, and unity were the American way.  No, I BELIEVE this to be the case.  I challenge you to stand your ground on your beliefs, even if they are beliefs I might disagree with.  There are worse things than government control, and one of those is control of the vast majority by a howling, rabid minority mob.

May God Bless America

SIX FLAGS OUTRAGE

I am truly outraged with Six Flags Over Texas in the management's resoundingly ignorant and so obviously wooing the PC crowd decision to remove FIVE of the six flags. The whole, entire THEME of that particular THEME PARK was celebrating the heritage that six nations contributed to the State of Texas. In a nutshell SIX FLAGS management said that the Texas Flag (along with the other four) was in effect a symbol of racism and hatred, and that said management was now ASHAMED to fly the BONNY FLAG OF TEXAS.

I call on all Texans who ARE NOT ASHAMED OF THE TEXAS FLAG to show your disappointment and OUTRAGE with Six Flags (cowardly and pandering) management's incredible, beyond IGNORANT decision and statement. How?

Simple.

In Texas there are well over TWENTY MILLION adults, and many of these adults have children (also numbering in the millions) who are all POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS of the Six Flags Theme Park. Now, if these OVER 20,000,000 adults and their millions of children DID NOT go to Six Flags for the remainder of this year and all of next year, this cowardly and VERY UNGRATEFUL no longer a Theme Park would be forced to shut its gates.

Therefore, I again call on ALL TRUE TEXANS to immediately and permanently stop all attendance and support of Six Flags. Do not darken the entrance to that place ever again.

Six Flags thinks that our heritage is one of racism and hatred. Fine. But the descendants of that terrible heritage literally MADE the fortunes of this company.

Six Flags hates Texas, or at least what they believe the Texas Flag stands for. That is their right. Let us help them unladen themselves from ANY TIE to this state by putting their miserable organization out of business. If Six Flags management thinks our heritage is so terrible, they certainly cannot want our hateful, racist money.

I have personally had my fill of all the hysteria. So, please join me in helping Six Flags GET OUT OF TEXAS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Further, I CALL ON SIX FLAGS MANAGEMENT NOT ONLY TO LOWER ALL THOSE HATEFUL FLAGS, BUT TO PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS. I CALL ON YOU TO CLOSE YOUR PARK AND GET OUT OF TEXAS NOW. DON'T WAIT FOR THE UPCOMING BANKRUPTCY OF YOUR PARK, AND PLEASE DO NOT LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR #$$ ON YOUR WAY OUT OF OUR GREAT LONE STAR STATE.

THE NATION IS IN GREAT TURMOIL - Just Ask Jason Kessler And His Paid "Protesters"

The nation is in TURMOIL!!  Maybe or maybe not...but the Media and certain people want us to believe so.  These people, with the full, knowing, intentional support of the media are trying to paint a picture of nationwide turmoil, a picture of a nation ripping itself apart, indeed...a picture of a nation on the brink of another civil war!

We must be on the brink of civil war! At a Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia "facist, racist" White Supremacists were confronted by "anti-facist" protesters.  There were some clashes, and some arrests, but very few injuries.  Then a "racist" ran his car into a car full of protesters and into protesters who were blocking the street.  Tragically a person died and many others were severely injured.  Meanwhile, statues of Civil War heroes were torn down. We MUST BE at the brink of war!

But...

It turns out that the organizer of the Unite The Right rally was one Jason Kessler, the SAME Jason Kessler who was an Occupy Wall Street "leader" and an avowed Obama supporter.  WHAT? An Obama supporter and an Occupy Wall Street Organizer?  Yes!  It appears this IS the case.  Even the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has listed Kessler as a White Nationalist who bears watching, noted that Kessler was a "relative newcomer on the White Supremacist scene."

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jason-kessler

The Southern Poverty Law Center, bitter opponents of the Klan, Nazis, and so-on, candidly admit that they have never heard of this man before.

But it would appear that Democratic organizations such as Occupy HAVE INDEED heard of Kessler.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-14/report-%E2%80%98unite-right%E2%80%99-organizer-jason-kessler-was-occupy-movement-obama-supporter-8-m

Now you will notice that neither the Southern Poverty Law Center nor Zerohedge.com have really brought a lot of attention to Mr. Kessler's ideology PRIOR to his appearance in Charlottesville. Neither have any of the mainstream news organizations.  WHY?  Certainly the Southern Poverty Law Center, which on the one hand feigns no prior knowledge, yet on the other hand has compiled quite a file on Kessler, has certainly come across his liberal ties.  At least they should have.  Just look at what all they DO known about Kessler.

The only conclusion one can draw, when informed of Kessler's sudden emergence as a "racists" is that he is actually an impostor, and an agitator.  He clearly loses credibility as a "white supremacist" when his background comes to light. But Kessler's employers, and the NEWS MEDIA, want us to believe that all hell is breaking loose all over the United States, that "spontaneous groups of protesters" are rising up across the nation and removing those "hateful" reminders of the past evils of this nation.

In fact, not only is Kessler a fake "Facist" but the "spontaneous protesters" are in fact paid actors (amateur, inexperienced, but PAID) hired by company called "Crowds On Demand."  That's right...Crowds On Demand! Most of the "protesters" in Charlottesville were ACTORS.  They were paid rather nominally, between $20 and $25 per hour to "protest."  These people may or may not oppose the statues that represent racism and slavery, but actually what they are really doing is earning money for ACTING.  Suddenly these "protests" ring really hollow.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-14/report-%E2%80%98unite-right%E2%80%99-organizer-jason-kessler-was-occupy-movement-obama-supporter-8-m

I had heard that some of the occupy protesters were actually paid actors, but I really did not research the matter, and only half-believed it.  But the same allegations arose with the incident in Charlottesville.  This time I did some checking on my own.  I have listed a couple of sources in this post, and here is one more.  From this one, we can gather Las Vegas is about to sink into TURMOIL!!

http://360daily.net/crowds-on-demand-inc-craigslist-ad-seeks-paid-protesters-for-vegas-protests/

So there are a couple of things to know before we get too upset about the people tearing down monuments or too worried that the nation is on the brink of civil war.  First, someone, Kessler's unknown boss, for instance, and the NEWS MEDIA, WANT US TO BELIEVE THE ENTIRE NATION IS IN TURMOIL AND WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR.

Second, they want us to believe that people of different races in this country cannot get along with each other, to the point that violence is imminent.

The truth is that certain evil persons are desperately bent on creating ARTIFICIAL scenes of protest and violence because on the whole the nation IS NOT IN TOTAL AND COMPLETE TURMOIL and these people want that OH SO BADLY.

The second truth is that most Americans, while acknowledging that everything is not perfect, also have the capacity to interact with each other most of the time in a mostly peaceful and understanding manner.  Further, most Americans are able to work together to resolve their differences.

The final truth is this:  We Americans need to take a BIG STEP BACK from what we see and hear on the "NEWS," and realize that we may be living in tense times, but we ARE NOT about to tear ourselves and our nation apart.  We need to calm down and really try to find out who is actually involved in engineering this turmoil, and what might be their motives.  Remember that Walter Cronkite and Paul Harvey are gone, David Brinkley is gone...and truth in the media is gone.  You should depend on the "NEWS" for little more than the time and date that an event happened.  Beyond that, don't panic, and don't assume you have heard the truth.  Do some research for yourself before you believe what the various talking heads are telling you.  And most of all, continue to care for and respect your fellow man.  That will go a long way in reducing any turmoil there might be.

May God Bless America