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).

For those of you who aren’t familiar with English History and social and political science, Luddite’s lived in a community of the same name. They fought against the mechanization of the weaving industry that produced cloth for England’s clothing industry. They lost and now it is hard to find the town on a map. Not only did mechanization end their weaving jobs, the work moved overseas.

Very little weaving is done in the U.K. now because the machine that consolidated so many jobs into one were exported to where that one job was cheaper. With it went the clothing industry that had employed tens of thousands more.

Why is that important today? I remember President Clinton saying we will lose some manufacturing jobs with NAFTA but we will become a service and technology country. To make it more appetizing to the masses, who were about to lose their jobs, he said the products we buy will become cheaper. He was right. Canadian jobs that had just moved to the U.S. continued into Mexico along with American jobs, just as Ross Perot predicted with his famous sucking sound.

As for the new service and tech industry, when was the last time you bought an electronic device made in the U.S. Look at the car you bought. It may have been driven off the ship or assembled here with parts made in Mexico or another country.

Now we come to 2015 and the Trans-Pacific Trade Pact with Australia, Japan, and all those cheap little Asian counties that are causing China, yes China, to lose jobs. When China can’t compete, how will the millions of people who have exportable jobs compete? But the junk we buy will be cheaper. However, we can’t afford it with our unemployment and welfare checks.

I used to say lots of jobs can’t be lost to another country, but now exporting jobs has to compete with losses to robotics. Facetiously, I always said a garbage man and truck driving jobs will always be safe. In the past year I have seen those jobs will be replaced by robots. Soon robots will build other robots leaving humans lots of spare time for recreation.

Now you should be thinking about an iconic movie called The Terminator.