Mayor Lormar's Random Madness

Despite my father's often stated claims that I am a liberal or socialist or that I  am just one of those who want to "take this country down" or to put the country on the track of the "gay agenda" I am in fact more conservative than liberal and would definitely classify myself as more Libertarian than anything.   He and his wife are definitely what I would classify as ignorant, gun toting, selfish, MAGA Republicans who worship at the altar of Donald J Trump.  My dad isn't someone who would be on the glass half empty or glass half full sides, he'd be firmly in the glass half stolen camp, demanding who stole half of the contents of his glass.  He sees the worst in everyone, thinks everyone is out to screw him over or put one over on everyone, probably because he would do the same given half  a chance.  He's all about money and self first, and frankly has been a shining example my whole life of how NOT to be.  He believes climate change is a farce, t...

 So many people don't comprehend the brilliance of the United States Constitution in its original form, the current version as amended and the way in which the majority of states assign their presidential electors has clouded the waters of the original ideas.  Plus so many teachers don't teach the actual reasons for the provisions that were made as they themselves don't truly understand the purpose of so many of the things that were included.  In popular society today, it has lead to the promotion of two, let's call the myths.   The framers of the constitution had to deal with two very large issues in order to legitimize the sovereignty of the United States as a whole, by cementing the sovereign rights of the people with the rights of 13 equally sovereign states.  Educators today frequently discount the second part of that problem.  There were two extremely important innovations to ensure that those rights were respected, and unfortunately a change to ...

Back in 2007, an editorial in Forbes Magazine titled " Your Bond, Please " was published.  It was an excellent suggestion for an innovation to modernize the antiquated system for people who want to legally immigrate to the US.  Recently I was asked to research ways for someone's nephew to immigrate to Texas and came across several roadblocks.   Basically the only ways you can legally immigrate to the US are as follows:  You can marry or get engaged to marry a US Citizen. You can be sponsored by a US Citizen who is an immediate family member, whose relationship is defined as follows:  Spouse, Parent, Child, or Sibling of said citizen. Be sponsored for employment by a US Company with a work Visa. Apply for political asylum. Enter the green card lottery. There is a little tiny blurb on the State Department website that talks about a "Family Preference" visa which it says is for distant family members of a citizen and that there are a limited number of those is...