Naomi Albrecht
& Juaniece Madden

As part of Naomi Albrecht’s 95th birthday celebration Saturday, April 21, at Cathy’s Restaurant, Juaniece Madden presented a plaque recognizing Albrecht’s contributions to the Calhoun County Humane Society. The two women first met in Port O’Connor in 1947 when they dated the men who would become their husbands, Lewis Madden and Clarence Albrecht. Today both women remain active in the Humane Society and are major contributors to the new shelter.

“The Way I See It” is an attempt by the columnist to enlighten readers on a subject as he views it, and does not necessarily reflect the views of this publication.

Understanding the Parkland Massacre

Some of the “News” is finally admitting publicly that Nikolas Cruz had been ‘enrolled’ in the Obama/Holder program of “Reducing Arrests of Minority Students” by simply not arresting them even for violent offenses. Broward County Sheriff Officers would respond to the many reports and complaints, but take no real action or even proper reports; any ‘action’ would be done by ‘School Counselors’, rather than any prosecution, court action, or real disciplinary action/punishment. Their goal was to have no “Criminal Record” attached to this “budding psychopath” until he murdered 17 students and injured a similar number in a horrible school shooting., if Law Enforcement and the School Board had followed established law and procedures, as well as a bit of ‘Common Sense’, instead of a “Lib/Progressive” Politically Correct “PROMISE Program”, it was a A TOTALLY PREVENTABLE catastrophe!

After months of the Lib/Prog Propaganda Machine constantly blaming guns for the Parkland Massacre, the real reasons are failure of the police and school system to enforce practical discipline, total failure of record keeping and reporting, exacerbated by cowardice and very poor procedure of failing to engage an “Active Shooter”, and Lib/Prog Dem/Soc lies & cover-ups that continue to this day. Most of the Media still refuses to tell the truth.

Cruz had some 40 “Contacts with Local Police” in the years previous, plus numerous reports that he was threatening violence, was armed and considered dangerous, and he was reported to the FBI as claiming on social media to be a “professional school shooter”. But he could pass a NICS Background Check to buy guns, because none of this was properly REPORTED! The gun was not at fault, neither are the existing laws, or NICS Check; the fault is the local police willfully and intentionally REFUSED to report Cruz’s dangerous history, because they were getting a Govt Grant from the Obama Administration to NOT REPORT Crimes by Minority Students to “reduce arrests of Minority Students”. Another level of horrible incompetence was Nikolas Cruz is obviously “white”, his ‘minority status’ is only from his “Hispanic surname”, from his ADOPTIVE parents?

More proof the Liberal Progressivism & their “Political Correctness” is a mental disease, and if left untreated by conservative common sense and an adherence to Constitutional Law, can be fatal.

The other big Take-away from this is the absolute dedication of the “Lamestream Media” to the Lib/Prog Agenda, in this case the Anti-gun Agenda. As Thomas Jefferson widely explained, the real reason and necessity for the Second Amendment will not become truly apparent until someone tries to take it away. The Anti-gun demonstrations quickly morphed from “Banning AR-15s, and raising the age to 21”, to “Banning all ‘Semi-autos’ (pistols, shotguns, and even .22s)”, to “Repeal the Second Amendment!”

And experience shows that in areas of long-term Democrat Party control, with the most draconian restrictive gun laws, there is high crime and minority murders with very little enforcement against the gangs responsible. Look at Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans, and others.

The real basis of “Progressivism” is “Fabian Socialism”, the ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ that seeks to install Marxist totalitarianism through the perversion of “Democracy”, rather than Marxist-Leninist ‘Class Struggle and Revolution’. While only a small percentage of “Democrats” will admit to believing in armed Revolution, polls show about 40% of registered Democrats now identify as “Socialists”. The percentage is much higher among young people, especially on college campuses. The only “good news” is few have any idea of what “socialism” really means – some even claim it means they are “social” or follow “social media”. Most are ‘good-hearted’ fools that do not understand, “Socialism is a transitional phase to totalitarian Marxism” for most of their “leaders”, as defined by Karl Marx. Free Education = Govt controlled indoctrination is being demonstrated now. Govt Guaranteed Jobs is sugar coating “Labor Battalions” and a “Civilian Draft” to provide the labor for any “Govt Mandated” projects by the unemployed. “College” is showing a key path, Students are saddled with unpayable loans for “degrees” in propaganda nonsense with no ‘marketable value’. The only practical way to get out from under the crushing debt is by “Govt Forgiveness for Govt Service”. Many of the Programs dear to the Lib/Progs are based on indoctrination to their “Group-Think”, not to any success for the individual. This is not an accident.

The Parkland Massacre is another “Crisis not to be wasted”: Create chaos and fear, propagandize the Sheeple, and they will “demand” the “Desired Solution”. “The Solution” that is necessary to establish and maintain any form of Marxist totalitarianism: Disarming the Citizenry. Destroy our “Liberty Teeth”, our “Doomsday Amendment”, the Last Resort of a Free People, our Second Amendment that ultimately defends all the rest.

These cases are now being pointed out by “Free Thinking” Black leaders like Kanye West, Stacey Dash, and Candace Owens, who are comparing “results to promises” by the Democrats for over 80 years compared to the real opportunities offered by Trump’s MAGA program. People dependent on the self-destructive Welfare State who want to stay in it are “voluntary slaves” to the Lib/Progs, regardless of race. The “Democrat Plantation” is real, and enslaves many more than just poor Blacks. About 40% of big colleges have no Republican professors, and furthermore do not tolerate any Republican, Constitutional, or Conservative speakers, much less Capitalist or Christian teaching.

“A rising tide lifts all boats.”, but you have to caulk the leaks, and pump out the ones already awash. The message from Kanye has raised poll popularity for Trump and MAGA from 11% to 22% among Black males last week.

And the Lib/Progs hate that. They need at least 85% of the Black Vote to have any chance of winning elections. Unless they can get another Minority Voting Block enslaved. That is why the Dems, and the UniParty RINOs, desperately want citizenship for Illegal Aliens, and loose Voter Qualification laws in the mean time. Their “Big Mommy Govt”, vote buying, and control of The Swamp depends on it. The Trumpers are getting fired up to drain The Swamp and run off the Swampcritters, including the Lobbyists that keep buying votes for special interests and keeping the biggest, most poisonous, and most Anti-American of the Swampcritters in power.

And while they encourage and finance abortion of American babies in the name of “Population Control”, they encourage flooding the country with poor uneducated people already heavily indoctrinated in Socialism as Criminal Invaders and “Refugees”. That also, is not by accident.

As Summer Vacation months approach, RV’s are arriving along the coast. A few tips for a smooth set-up / start-up of your RV. If you have not already done this: it is time to check filters on AC’s, water intakes, vent hoods, and generators. Clean and replace as needed. Check your refrigerator, water heater compartments and cook stove vents for mud dauber nests, wasps, etc. Note: those pesky critters will also get in your upper A/C unit fan and create issues!

Level the unit before attaching the main power cord, extending slides and starting appliances.

Turn on main breaker inside. Extend the slides. Open roof vents, turn fans to exhaust mode. Bring in personal items, food etc. Once everything is inside, close doors, windows, and vents, start the AC, and allow the compressor to cycle. Set A/C Temp NO LOWER THAN 75o. Set fan on manual mode HIGH. This keeps air flowing across the compressor and prevents freeze up. It keeps your interior temperature uniform, reducing “hot spots” or temperature up swings when the compressor cycles off. Result, you are comfortable at a higher temp, your RV has less humidity, and importantly, your A/C does not have to work as hard, therefore performs better overall.

If your RV refrigerator has been off and is warm inside, turn it on, set the temperature to mid range point, NOT at coldest point. Keep it mid range, the unit will not function at coldest setting for long periods of time. Let it cool for 4-6 hours before placing food items in it. RV refrigerator coolant can overheat, and shut down unit if temp is on coldest setting, or warm food is placed in it during the cool down process. If you had it operating on LP during transport, switch to electric after RV is set up. Check that it does switch over!

Turn on the water heater switch and listen for burner to ignite. Your A/C and refrigerator will Reward You with better performance if you use LP mode on water heater!!

If you hooked up LP tanks at site, or recently filled them, you may need to light a stove burner to purge air from the LP lines. Watch the burner until it has an even, blue flame. Turn it off and light water heater. Remember, the water heater control is set to prevent LP flow after 3 attempts to light. Should this happen, give it a 3 to5 minute rest before attempting to relight. Now, all set up to enjoy your RV.

Time for a beverage in the lawn chair! Greeting your summer neighbors! A walk along the shore! Getting the boat launched! Heading to your fave fishing spot! Or, maybe just a cruise on the water to say ‘HI” to your Coastal Summer Home!!

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Choices.

Everyone makes them every day, and they all have varying consequences depending on the variables of the choices to be made. They permeate our lives from the mundane to the most extreme of decisions, from a healthy salad for lunch or that tasty beef sandwich with everything and extra mayo.

The hard part is that some of the worst choices a person ever makes might not seem like a bad proposition at the time. How many hearts were broken at the hands of the best person the other party has ever known, how many times has a ‘treat’ every now and then turned into a habit?

In the worst case scenarios, small choices seemed so trivial at the time. No one wants to be addicted to tobacco or ever run south of the law but these things, of course, do occur when making other, seemingly smaller choices like trying to impress your friends in high school or getting into the bad habit of doing a rolling stop at stop signs.

Forward-thinking eliminates most of the danger that lies in the examples given above, but not all to be sure. The man or woman who found out their ‘soul-mate’ was a wolf in sheep’s clothing probably only saw happiness ahead, not dark clouds and cold rain filled days.

Various kinds of mental blindness might be the suspect in these cases, besides, no one is perfect after all, especially when it comes to major shifts, not always for the better, in our life’s progression.

So what’s the point you say? Why has this been literally the first half of this months column?

Well, I was thinking, always a dangerous occurrence, trust me on that one.

Lately, in the past half year, I have made some really horrible choices, and they kinda follow you around like a ghost, bad choices like those. More recently, something that should be a simple thing, a small occurrence, minuscule in its importance, occurred and it has gotten into the conga line behind the ghosts, merrily dancing along in a circle.

As it mirrors the starting point of the former horrible choices in some ways, the small, unimportant thing should not bother me as much, but it does…and you know what?

It really does not matter.

Starving kids matter, preventing wars matter, getting more of the countries youth involved in political causes they believe in matter, curing diseases matter…the list could be endless, as long as it is right and kind.

All of the choices laid out in print above are just the way of life and its currents. You have some control, as you can direct your boat in one direction or another, become an expert at commanding your boat, but no matter how seaworthy the craft and how skilled the captain there will always be waves.

As said, we can choose which way to steer, but we can never quite always equate for the waters themselves….and that’s all right.