If our elected officials really want to do something bi-partisan, then make it a crime to create or pass along a conspiracy causing a crime. It would be like a law inciting a riot or yelling fire in a theater. Both laws limit free speech.

Examples of what would be criminal would be the story that a Pizzeria in Washington D.C. is a base for a child sex ring. Besides the death threats and harassment of the owner and his employees, a gullible idiot drove six hours with an assault weapon to stop it. He surrendered after the police assured him nothing was true. Another was the Sarah Palin tweeting that people should target twenty Congress people. A nutcase followed her directive and shot representative Gabrielle Giffords wounding and killing others.

Some of Donald Trump’s speeches and tweets have caused the ethnic slurring signs and actions. Some people think they are the reason for the sudden increase of white on brown and black assaults and killings.

Responsible media should never allow such stories to be aired or printed since it continues the incitement. The electronic media like FaceBook and Twitter isn’t catching and erasing the lies and half truths as fast as they do in Europe. Trump’s new security advisor or his son (sharing was on Dad’s device) shared the pizza shop story. A quick fact check would have revealed the truth.

Have Americans gotten so gullible or stupid they will believe any hare-brained story? How long will we allow Putin’s dirty tricks people to tell us what to think? How long before the Chinese follow his lead?

I just finished mowing my front lawn on December 3. Each year I have been mowing later in the fall. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow. Maybe that will stop the grass from growing until spring. Yesterday I saw landscapers out mowing their client’s grass.

Leaves fall because of lessening sunlight and grass stops growing when the temperature drops. In the 1980s, I finished mowing before many leaves had fallen. A decade later I mowed leaves and grass. Now all the leaves are down, most raked up, and I am hopefully finished mowing for 2016.

For those who haven’t guessed, it’s called Global Warming. Oh yes, the Rockefeller Foundation just filed suit against Exxon for hiding the truth about their contributing to the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming.

The purpose of this blog is to give a view that many people have said needs to be given a wider distribution than the newspapers commentary pages.  doing so means I have succumbed to the ego side of my battle between ego and humility.

Doing a little blog means that my wife, Susie, has taken on another job.  I am a G-One guy with a flip phone that is used for one purpose – talking to people.  Susie does my e-mail when it’s required. Giving people the opportunity to not only see my opinions ut to comment on them allows for a greater discourse than the Joliet Herald’s call-in section.

Is it an over-inflated ego when the people from both the right and left agree with my views?  I have never been accused of “Going along, to get along.”  My opinions have been considered as liberal, conservative, progressive, libertarian,m and crazy at time, but compatible at other times.

I am a news junkie.  I form my opinions from what I read (Chicago Tribune, Joliet-Herald, Time Magazine, and a myriad of scientific and ecology cnetered magazines) and see on televison (local and national news, PBS interviews, and foreign news shows).