Rubric

Rubric is a word seldom used, so very important, particularly, for those of us (obsessive-compulsive) about always showing the best version of ourselves, an authoritative and correct way of doing things. Why should just the Mafia be rubric in their activities?

This writer has learned in a long and eventful life, that you either are or you are not. I am a rubric victim, exacting, compulsive, routine in everything. Some men can fall into a vat of manure and come up smelling like a rose. For the rest of us, life is hard work, disciplined. From childhood, I gave the best version of myself, mentally and spiritually. There was no time for foolishness. More than once, I overheard some “ne'er-do-well” say, “who does he think he is?” I so remember Mr. Marriner, big wheel in the church, had everyone fooled, after I had spoken at a meeting, used those exact words. He thought a deacon was free from adultery, bootlegging, sport's addiction. His wife and children knew his hypocrisy, even if others excused it.

On his radio program, Michael Savage interviewed Donald Trump about his most recent book, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again. Trump, one of America’s most influential and powerful men has written many books well worth“digesting”, he knows what he is talking about, money, real estate, politics. He is a prime example of what ONE man can do with ONE life.

I owned a Co-op apartment in Manhattan, a few blocks from the Trump Tower on 56^th Street. His tower is a New York City landmark. One day I had a friend walk me into this building, brass and glass, and describe the interior to me. He told me about the limousines pulling up to the doors leading to the elevators and the Trump penthouse. In his books, in interviews, he makes no secret of his ambitious, egotistical, disciplined life... the humble beginnings of his family, immigrants, the hard work of his father. Trump's income tax reports are in the book, he is not secretive about anything, net worth over $7 billion, low debt. Like other financial giants of this nation, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Mellon, he had a plan and knew how to work his plan. He has little patience with insolence and laziness. One does not get to the top by thinking small, laying around, complaining.

They gave great honor to their fathers. It should be noted that 85% of all prisoners come from fatherless homes, that America spends $100 billion per year to compensate for these fatherless homes.

Even in a corrupt system one can still succeed... just don't confuse success with celebrity. In this world of political-correctness where charisma and popularity will get a hip hop, rapper, or howling politician to the top. At a time when government grants largess, lying and stealing is more important to the scientist and academic than objective research, it is good to know that there is still room for diligence, honesty.

Books later, books written by real investigative reporters, Americans learned how they have been manipulated about many things... Japanese intrigue and entanglements in the skies of this country involving WWII, what really happened at Roswell,NM, Pearl Harbor, Waco, TX, Murrah building, the real truth about “911”. At a time when the world feeds from photography, when children carry cell phones which take photographs in their pocket. Who will ask the questions, why are there no photographs of the imposter in the White House... as a child, marriage ceremony, college? Why is there no photograph of a plane or aircraft parts at the Pentagon? Why is there no photograph of a dead Timothy McVeigh? Even the witnesses do not believe he was executed. Surely with deaths such as Bin Laden, where so much skepticism is involved, around the world, every cynical attitude must be nailed down with photographs.

Wikileaks has disclosed irrational diplomacy. We know that the game is fixed on Wall Street. We play “footsie” with dictators (Emperor Hirohito, the world's richest man, Stalin, Bin Laden) BUT, Why the criminality of global warming, Travel Security Administration (TSA), open borders?

Elderly citizens have little expense until their final illness. Elderly people need little food, have enough clothes and furniture. The house and car are usually paid for. Those over age 85 are the most rapid growing segment of the population. Why should young people, those “slammed” by every expense of getting started, be hammered and nailed, by the RUBRICS of excessive regulation and taxation?