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After high school, where do the men go? These young men, the future muscle and manpower of our country? Where are the men? 

I know there is a culture war raging right now in our high schools and universities, and men are in women’s sports, and a man managed to be named “Woman of the Year” by USA Today, and all the while the adults in the room stand by silently aside while the manhood of the young adult men in our country is crucified.
But where are these men going to be in 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now when our nation needs them to be the muscle, the manpower, the husbands of wives, the strength of the family, the CEO’s of all that is important and good? 

We’ve not taught our young boys to protect women, respect women, be good to women because they are their future wives and future mothers of this nation. 

We have not taught them how to have relationships, solve problems using words instead of physical violence, and taught them how to manage their emotions. 

We’ve allowed them to play violent video games for years during their developmental years, and then wondered why they cannot have a simple “hi, how are you?” entry level conversation with another human being, why they choose aggression and violence to deal with their problems, and why they cannot reason their way through life for the benefit of themselves and others. 

 We have got to stop mocking, deriding, and putting down men who want to be men, and we have got to stop affirming men who act like, dress like, and who try and be women! That is not possible. A cow cannot be a duck, and a horse cannot be an eagle. We all have limitations. 

How to we turn the tide, and how do we roll back the clock to get back to Men being men and women being women? 

There are thousands of solutions and all of them are good. 

Affirm your sons to be men, and act like men, and when they are boys and curious about girl things, explain to them what those things are and how the world is supposed to work, but teach them and affirm in them that they are boys, no matter how they feel in childhood, or the confused, difficult, trying years of being a teenager and young adult. 

If you are a woman, please respect the men you know, regardless of their mistakes and past. We as women want to be loved regardless of our performance and mistakes, please show the men you know the respect they crave despite how they may sometimes act and regardless of their past mistakes. This is how we want to be treated as women. Let’s do the same for the men in our lives. 

Of course if you're being abused by a man I am not talking to you, but I'm talking to the women who have good men in their lives, men who work hard, love them, are not lazy, and who want what's best for themselves and their families, and have purpose and drive to make this country better.

Responsible men earn a living with their own skills and their own hands, and do not accept government money in the form of unemployment and government “stimulus” checks, which is just training for Socialism while rewarding laziness. 

Statistically, no wars were won, no nation founded, no nations built, and no countries sustained and maintained, and no family succeeded for generations, without good men. 

Sorry women, yes, we have also played a vital role and worked just as hard, but the foundation and bedrock of any good nation is it’s masculine men, despite what you may have thought after watching the “Wonder Woman” movie. 

Statistically it is a fact that men have been the foundation of any success, society, nation, or movement. If we are wise women, we will realize this and support the good and manly men amongst us. 

It’s time to honor the men and their life-affirming masculinity, before we completely lose our families, our communities, and our nation. 

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This outcry and policy decisions made by our government to protect the Climate, to what ends?

What is all this hysteria over the climate? 

Our own governor here in our state says Climate change is his TOP priority? Really? Why? 

Climate change in his priority ranking is number one and this is absolutely ridiculous. What about jobs, inflation, the high price of gasoline, roads and bridges that are falling apart, traffic congestion, high cost of housing, and all the other more pressing matters that face citizens here in our state?

Buy an electric car - which costs on average $56,000. This is not the best solution to "save the planet", and is powered by a very big lithium battery that is not recyclable.

According to recent polling, the Democrats greatest concern was climate change, followed by election laws and inflation. 

The Republicans greatest concern was inflation, followed by immigration and crime. At the bottom of concerns for the Republicans was climate change. 

Why is the Democrats #1 concern at the absolute bottom of the list for Republicans? 

What is this worry, this obsession, this rabid fixation with the climate for the left, for the far left democrats?

After my 16 years in Olympia with my husband while he was serving in the WA State Legislature, I figured out, which is very obvious now, that to the Democrats the climate is a religion. To the Republicans it's just sunshine, rain, weather, snow pack in the mountains that will benefit us in the summers,  and agricultural production on croplands, among other topics when it comes to the climate. 

For those of you who remember back in the 1970s it was all about global cooling, which was supposed to be the beginning of the ICE AGE  we were all gonna freeze to death, the earth was going to freeze over in about 20 years, and we were all panicking because the earth wouldn't produce the food we needed because of global cooling.

ONLY 14.6% of the world's land area has been modified by humans, according to research. Human impact on the Earth's surface can take a number of different forms, including cities and towns, to natural systems modification.

So humans have not meaningfully impacted over 83% of the earths surface, this is the land only, not including all the water surface, 

And about 70% of the earth is covered in water, either salt water oceans or fresh water lakes, so how can these climate alarmists even think that the human population can warm or cool the earth by what we do, or what type of a car we drive? 

So to sum up the climate issue, it is just a fear mongering tactic used by the left to get us to become subject to their Marxist and Communistic ways, give up our freedom of mobility to own the kind of transportation we need, whether it be car, truck, motorcycle, or other, and to cripple our freedom of movement to be able to travel and live how we want. 

It's time to trust the God who made us, and  made our planet, and the sun, moon, stars, and solar systems, and that He knows what He is doing and He will sustain the planet.

Yes we should be good stewards of what we’ve been given, but remember the climate hysteria is their religion . 

Again, as I’ve said in previous podcasts the Bible sums it up so well. Romans 1 says that they worship the created rather than the Creator, and this is to their shame. 

So while we supposed to be all worried about the climate and how we can save it…..haha….

Be sure and get out into nature and enjoy it and drink in the beauty, landscape, and absolute splendor of this big beautiful earth that God created. 

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So many high school graduates, just like our own kids when they were that age, in their last two years of high school start to wonder “what am I gonna do with my life?”

With pressure from their parents and the culture around them, and many high schools, they are forced to take the SAT test and try and get into a four-year university. 

But many of these teenagers don't realize is for more than half of them, approx. 55 % of them, this will result in a debt that they will take 20 years to repay in the form of student loans.

It's time to steer our sons, & even daughters, but for the sake of this podcast I’m going to talk about our sons, towards trade school as a viable option after high school. 

1. Trade school offers financial security.  

Graduates of trade schools earn an average of $55,000 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

2. Trade schools generally take 1-2 years to complete, allowing young adults to enter the workforce more quickly. 

3. Cost:  On average, a trade school education that takes 2 years to complete costs about $33,000. Now these figures are estimates, and it depends upon where in the country the trade school is located. 

On average, a 4-year degree at a public university costs about $84,000. 

So a better option may be to send your son to a trade school where he can get practical skills to earn him a living by the time he is 20 or 21 years old. 

Why so many in academia discredit trade schools: Why have they not been a viable, popular alternative for so many teenage men in our state and nation? Why is there a “less than” attitude about trade schools? 

Why trade schools are not widely discussed or promoted in public high schools: 

If more students attend trade schools instead of 4-year universities, where the average student spends 5 years, this cuts into the number of students paying into the universities' system to fund the professors salaries and pensions. It’s all about the money, and the billions of dollars that flow into the universities. These are coveted dollars that the universities won't receive if a portion of young men decide to go to a trade school. 

4. Avoiding debt: 

Trade school is a fabulous way to avoid long-term debt. 

Among the class of 2020, 55% of bachelor’s degree recipients took out student loans, graduating with an average of $28,400 in debt.

 And 14% of parents with students in the class of 2019 — the latest data available — took out an average of $37,200 in loans.

The ball and chain of decades-long debt that these young adults can avoid by getting a marketable, in-demand skill upon graduation from a trade school is huge, instead of getting a degree in some obscure subject, having no marketable skills, for jobs that don’t exist, and having a mountain of debt with no earning power to pay it back. 

Secondary education should be about getting a marketable skill that has earning power upon graduation, not some 4 year “go find yourself” escape from reality where the college kid has a lot of fun, but spend a lot of time spinning their wheels doing nothing productive or beneficial to themselves as adults. 

The average student borrower takes 20 years to pay off student-loan debt!
“...the borrower is slave to the lender.” Prov. 22:7

So there are many reasons to encourage your sons to enter the trades. 

And, if these young men want to return to a university in the future for further education, they will be smarter and more mature to take on a 4-year degree or master’s degree, and have a whole lot more understanding about working, the tax system, paying rent, and living  life when they do. 

https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/

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Trying to look for some good in the disastrous lockdowns and the closing of thousands of businesses imposed by our governor, here are some benefits that have come out of the mess:
1. Gov. Inslee and the Democrats that control the House and the Senate here in the state of WA have been exposed for who they really are. They are hard leftists, trying to get us to be a socialist state as fast as they can. All rationale and reasoning are gone. 

Gov. Jay Inslee, before our governments horrid response to covid with lockdowns and school closures, had an approval rating of 47% and a “never heard of them”  rating at 22%. 
Now, the best data I could find shows Inslee's approval rating is at 40%. 
Inslee has been governor for 9 years and has never had a positive approval rating. But we all know that! 

The left has been exposed, who they are and what they stand for. 

They are for lockdowns, closing private businesses, calling nurses and first responders heroes to garner their votes, but throwing them under the bus and firing them when they don’t want their bodies to be injected with an experimental substance that has not stood the test of time or scientific rigor.

They are for closing the schools and masking all of us, and our children the longest,

And here at the state level the state budget is expected to have $10 billion in excess revenue, but no plans in sight to cut taxes on us citizens, or to give us our money back in the form of a tax refund. 

2. The mass exodus away from the public school system. Hooray!

The WA Policy center here in WA state documents this very well. At washingtonpolicy.org, they state that there was a major increase in homeschooling in 2021. IT DOUBLED, while private school enrollment in our state also exploded.  Parents have seen public education up close, and they are not happy. 

Approx. 40,000 families have left the public school system since schools were shut down. 

3. .Moms came home. 

Moms came home, by choice or due to desperation, and looked over the shoulders of their children while the kids were forced into “remote learning”, and the homeschooling revolution exploded. Critical Race Theory is another name for racism, and Black Lives Matter doesn't have much to do with black lives, but about pushing Marxism. 

And, many parents are now actively attending school board meetings, and many leftists and socialists on these school boards are being deeply questioned, and even booted off the school boards in the Nov. 2020 elections. Hooray again!

As a percentage, parents are now much more deeply involved in their children’s education. This is nothing but a huge positive for kids, and for our nation. 

4. The explosion of alternative news sources. 

Voices on Telegram, Rumble, Twitter, and Gettr have expanded exponentially, along with podcasts, YouTube channels, websites, and thousands of churches now broadcasting their services on line. 

This is absolutely wonderful for America. Good bye mainstream media. 

5. The rise of the citizen. 

People are talking about the U. S. Constitution, freedom, what the heart of America is and stands for, what freedom is,  and now citizens are deeply moved and awake to defend it. 
The next generation is fueled to defend and uphold their rights and freedom, as shown by the explosive growth of groups such as Turning Point USA, and the Young America's Foundation, and popular speakers such as Charlie Kirk & Candace Owens. CPAC had a huge convention in Florida, broadcasting to the world. Yay, America!

Please email me with your questions and comments: [email protected]

https://stacker.com/stories/3244/most-and-least-popular-governors-america

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Would term limits for those elected to office solve the problem of senators and representatives staying way too long? 
Some cry that we need to "vote the bums out", but this can prove to be very difficult. 
Here I discuss this tangled issue, and point out that this solution may only solve half the problem. 
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Mainstream media is dying, it’s history, some of my personal news journey, and the World Wide Web....tune in to hear the story.

CNN is crashing, big tech platforms are trying to cancel popular voices, the mainstream media is trying to sensor anything that is not leftist, and is freedom of speech being threatened in America? 

In this podcast I cover a sweeping history of the leftist news in our country, and some of my personal news journey of perceptions in this podcast. 

When I was a girl in the 60’s and 70’s, my parents had the TV on regularly every night for the 6 o' clock news with Walter Cronkite. 

He was the font of all knowledge and we sat dutifully in front of our TV set every night watching this man spout the daily news and what at that time we thought was the facts and truth of the day.

No one question what he said, and we ran on the assumption that what he was telling others with based on fact and truth. Communication was slow, compared to today and unless we read it in the newspaper that we could buy each day in the new stands, or was delivered by the paper boy by being flung into our driveways, or watch it on TV each night at 6 PM, we really didn't know what was going on in the world. There was no way to find out what was going on in the mid-morning or midday or afternoon, we had to wait until the 5 o'clock local news and the 6 PM national news to hear from Walter Cronkite,  David Brinkley and others what we were going to know about the nation in the world. ABC, NBC, and CBS were our 3 main TV choices.

Then in 2007 the iPhone really exploded on the scene. This was the first year of the iPhone really becoming huge, accessible to every person and now the iPhone was so much more than a phone.

In the mid to late 2000s, 2011, 2012, there was a huge explosion of bloggers, news and opinion websites, and alternative news sources that you could read and subscribe to. 

At that time, many of us began to realize that the mainstream media of the 60s and 70s and 80s was really the leftist machine that pumped into America an ideological anti- Constitutional viewpoint, driving us to the left, driving us away from the Constitution, and driving us toward Socialism and communism. 

Few of us realized this because we relied on the 6 o'clock news from ABC, NBC, and CBS. We didn't realize we were being misled over a series of decades, and fed a load of socialist and communist ideologies because we had nothing else to compare it to. We also learned that Walter Cronkite was a one-worlder and said the smartest president he ever met was Jimmy Carter. 

When the World Wide Web was ushered in in the 2000s, many people didn't like it because along with that came a lot of garbage, trivia, and mind numbing, time wasting stuff to look at,  but what also came with the World Wide Web is the ability to find the truth, and for the average American with a microphone to say the truth.

In the last couple months it’s been in the news that CNN executives have been asked to leave and have disappeared from the landscape of media because of indiscretions in their lives. This is no surprise. For when you spend a lifetime lying to the people, deceiving the people, and coercing the people to try and get them to believe that what they're saying is the truth but is really just a propaganda machine for the socialist left, these sins will eventually find you out. 

And so the mainstream media is dying, because there are thousands of reputable, truth telling people and news groups, both using the written word on the Internet and the spoken word through videos & podcasts on many platforms. 

We have the choice now to tune our ears to the truth, and to focus our eyes on what is right. 

"....in all your getting, get understanding." Proverbs 4:7

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This is my first short episode podcast to comment on the news of the day, in between my regular podcasts. 
Here I discuss why the mandates will mostly be over by the magical date of March 1st. 
Enjoy!

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Is being non partisan possible? What about being independent when it comes to politics and government? What is non- partisan? What does an independent stand for?

Where can we find a list of their beliefs, their platform, their values? It’s hard to determine, but they will be steadfast and resolute in their non-partisanship and in their being an independent.
An article written by Pew Research attempts to answer this question: 

"Political Independents: Who They Are, What They Think".

Most ‘lean’ toward a party; ‘true’ independents tend to avoid politics

So these middle independents , these non-partisan people aren’t really all that neutral in their beliefs and politics, they lean left or right, but they may be avoiding politics because of the personalities on each side…not wanting to identify with Trump on the right or Biden on the left.

It's difficult to have a functioning free country with this middle when we need standards and values and a Constitutional basis for running a country for those who want to govern. 

Election cycles & the “non-partisans”: 

This “middle” has plagued campaign strategists and political consultants for years, and in every election campaign, and I have been intimately involved with 9 of them over 18 years, and I know that most campaign dollars and effort are spent to get the attention of this middle, these “non-partisan” people, the undecideds, those who call themselves independent, those in the middle who’s vote is coveted and decides elections. 

Judges: 

When judges are supposed to be non-partisan, ideally it means that they are asked to put aside their own personal judgements and opinions, and decide a case based solely on the merits and facts of the situation, using the law and the Constitution to do so.

Thanks to covid, and the horrible response of our state & federal government to it, many people now have woken up to the fact that who is governor matters, and how our government is supposed to function matters. It has shoved these people out of the mushy middle, and taken away their ability to avoid these topics and these subjects. 

These dupes in the middle are the ignorant “non partisan” being used by whoever is in power to control the country .  And these dupes, the non-partisans, the independent, the non-committal, have been used by the left and the progressives to unravel and undermine the Constitution, and America, for a century. 

In the book “Dupes. How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century ”,  by New York Times bestselling author Paul Kengor, discusses these dupes and how America’s adversaries around the world have manipulated the progressives, whom he calls dupes, for a century. FBI & Soviet archives document this. 

Today, After Covid:

The squishy middle just got smaller, as more and more people now have a political opinion of who is in office. Many have discovered that being involved is the only way to change it for the better. It matters who holds these positions in our government that the founders so beautifully set up for a free and moral people. We need to make sure that those who hold these offices are for the values of freedom and liberty, and do not use and abuse these powers. 

There is no such thing as living in a non-partisan, non-committal, independently unattached from any moorings or anchors or principles that ground us as individuals, families, or a nation. 

We all need to take a stand for liberty. 

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/03/14/political-independents-who-they-are-what-they-think/
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In this podcast, broad and sweeping generalizations will be made.

Not picking on any one individual, broad & assuming statements will be made to make the point. 

Democrats (D’)s vs. Republicans (R’s) and their ethics  & other differences.

R’s respect the system and let a bill or the process play out.
D’s skirt the system, and use it and game it for their own purposes, and mostly never in the interest of the citizens of our state.
D’s run revenge bills to get rid of R’s, or sometimes even their own party members.
R’s see government as a governmental & political process; D’s see it as a religion and life’s purpose & calling to right the wrongs of most everything.
R’s usually come from the private sector; D’s usually come from the public, government sector.
Does being elected change someone’s character? 

The long and short of it is explained in this podcast.  One word summary: no. 

Republican Party Platform Summarized:

"The Republican platform seeks to strengthen the free market, lower taxes, and defund any programs it deems to be safety nets, handouts, or government-funded welfare. This approach is predicated upon the idea that a free market leads to higher levels of competition, which improves services for consumers and increases the rate of technological advance. The party also appears to be operating under the belief that concern over climate change is an expression of “extremism,” and that progressive concern over environmental issues is the true threat to our nation, as opposed to the effects of climate change itself."

Democrat Party Platform Summarized: 

“Democrats hate the free market, except when they benefit from it. As an example, when they use the cell phone, drink coffee, wear clothing, eat food, access the internet, watch movies, play internet games, or drive a car, which are in existence because of a free market and a capitalistic economy which allows access to these things, but otherwise they fight against it in all of their policies. 

They want to dump more money into unaccountable government programs which they call safety nets.

Our wonderful nation is worth preserving and the liberties and freedoms that our founding fathers so eloquently laid out in the United States Constitution have given us the most free, most prosperous nation that has ever existed on earth. 
It's worth every minute you invest in getting involved to protect, preserve, and uphold these freedoms. 

As Pres. Theodore Roosevelt said, 

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

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To email your state representative, to watch floor action, or to comment on a bill, visit the WA State legislature at:
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I feel a slow turning of the tide back to freedom liberty and those who are fighting for our constitutional rights. Do you feel it? 

Please email me at [email protected] and give me your thoughts.

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All but about 6 states in our nation have moved on. In the 44 states that have moved forward, people are living with the fact that Covid will be here for awhile, and that viruses have been with us for thousands of years. 

They have weighed the benefits vs. risks, and moved on. 

It’s time for the state of WA to move on also. 

WE are now over 650 days of Inslee’s one man rule of our state, and its time to move on as citizens, and demand the legislature have some oversight when it comes to the governor’s ability to declaring an emergency. 

In Arizona where I recently visited, restaurants are open, with no masks required. The only restaurant staff that are wearing masks is if the restaurant is part of a national chain. The locally owned restaurants are mask free. 

Stores and shops are all mask free. Again, if they are a national chain, the only ones wearing a mask are the employees. 

WA is one of only 6 states requiring masks, and the ONLY state with an outdoor mask mandate! It is only 1 of 6 states to require certain workers to get the mRNA injections. This includes all state agencies, operators of any educational setting, and operators of any healthcare setting. 

How do we move on from here?

*Stop wearing a mask. This is like keeping the flies out of your back yard picnic BBQ with a chain link fence.  Viruses are extremely tiny particles and the weave of a mask is no barrier to a virus. 

*Realize your own health is in your own hands, and the government does not care about your health. If they did, they would come out with messages telling us to eat balanced diets, take supplements and vitamins, exercise, lose excess weight, stop smoking and vaping, and get the sleep you need. 

*Insist that the legislature this January 2022 when they go into session have a top priority of reigning in the governor’s power, and provide oversight to his unchecked power. 

*Don’t be controlled by the fear. I was in King Co this week, and there are still people driving around in their cars by themselves wearing a mask. The fear must be so hard to live with, so sad, and so unnecessary. 

People who make decisions out of fear make poor decisions. Arm yourself with the facts, and don’t let fear into the mix. 

*Allow for each of us to make our own health care choices. We all know the risks, the availablility of the shot; it’s free at grocery stores and drug stores, and we have all made our choices. Its time to move on and talk about something else. 

And I want to give a shout out to those of you who walked away from, or got fired from, careers you loved because you would not take the injection. Good for you. My husband and I walked that same path 25 years ago, when he left a job he loved doing because of circumstances he could not control, and it was heartbreaking and financially crushing at the time, and really stripped us of our confidence while we lived with an unknown future. I was not working at the time and our 3 kids were very young. But God had other plans for us. 16 years later and many twists and turns in our lives, he was WA State House Minority Leader and one of the most powerful people in elected state government. We could never have done that if he would have stayed in that job that he had 16 years earlier. 

God knows the future, and he can be trusted with it.  There are more of us than there are of them, so continue to speak up & speak out. 

It’s time to move forward & with courage and conviction, LIVE!!