

Life
Challenge Yourself to do Something Worthy and Memorable
What do you want to tackle that you know is within your capability?
You might have seen the 2011 movie, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, wherein Tom Cruise as the character Ethan Hunt makes his way up the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, from the outside of the building.
Pulse Pounding
It’s a harrowing couple minutes. We watch him attempt to rise several floors in an effort to foil the bad guys, as part of hoax that they will not be able to detect.
The film was universally admired within Dubai and United Arab Emirates, in general, because of the notoriety it brought to the Burj Khalifa. I visited the building in April of 2016 and can attest to its majesty. From the observation deck, you can faintly see the shores of Iran, 78 miles to the north across the Persian Gulf.
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Unbeknownst to most film-goers, the scene required 23 days and some 400 crew members to ensure the safety of Tom Cruise. He insisted on doing the stunt himself, and as you watch the film, clearly, he had no stand-in. Hence, insurance costs and safety precautions were at a maximum.
Too Cozy
It’s not hard to admire Cruise’s fortitude and resolve. His outside climb up that building, a thrilling and totaling nerve-wracking scene, will be long remembered and perhaps never emulated.
The feat prompted me to contemplate the question, what challenge can we undertake in our own lives that will be rewarding and memorable? Or, is perpetually seeking to dwell in our respective comfort zones too compelling?
What is too true for me is that I fall into a comfortable rut – maybe you’ve experienced the same. Things are going well, my bills are paid, I’m in good health, and the people I care about are doing well.
Complacency Cripples
Lo and behold, complacency sets in. I forget about my long-term goals. Fitness objectives are unmet. The idea of writing new articles or new books that would challenge me seems to fall to the curb side, and on it goes.
Ask yourself, what do you want to tackle that you know is within your capability, but you’ve been putting it off, because being in the comfort zone is, well, comforting?
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Elections
Election Fraud is Massive and On-Going in America
Across the U.S., the magnitude of voter fraud that occurs year after year, election after election, is staggering.
Jay DeLancey is founder and president of the North Carolina Voter Integrity Project, and has much to say about voting in America:
Our system begs for transparency at all points along the election process. Who can vote, who did vote, how did they vote, and what was the tally? Today, unfortunately voter fraud is real and of enormous magnitude, as we saw in 2020 and 2022. Nowhere is this more evident than with absentee ballots.
Who, in any voting precinct, literally visits the homes of voters who filed absentee ballots to ensure that they are out of town? Even among those who have a legitimate quest to vote by absentee ballot, who can assure that their vote is counted properly and tallied accurately?
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The absentee ballot initiative started as a viable effort to increase the ability of qualified citizens to vote, but has now become into a primary tool of manipulation. The more we can see, the fairer the elections are likely to be. The less we can see, the greater the likelihood that fraud will occur. Centralized absentee ballot collection is exactly the opposite of local voting in a precinct where there’s a chance that those with whom you register or vote alongside are your neighbors.
Ensuring the Rights of Qualified Voters
The local voting precinct is better positioned to spot perpetrators of voter fraud. Local poll workers on the scene are better able to assess if you are not the person you claim to be. They will tell you to leave, but by law that’s all they can do.
They can’t retain someone and hold them until authorities arrive, even in the case of blatant voter impersonation. Why? Because in the 1960s, to safeguard the voting capability of those who had been disenfranchised, laws were passed to reduce the incidence of intimidation, accusation, and retention.
Those times have long passed, and now we need ways of ensuring that qualified voters’ civil rights are upheld. Every time an unqualified voter is allowed to cast a vote, it demeans and diminishes the rights of all citizens. As such, voter fraud is the civil rights crisis of our time.
Fraud Occurs Year After Year
If you hear from anyone or from any group that voter fraud does not exist, or that it’s minimal and inconsequential, rest assured most of these proponents believe they are in the right. As long as you vote for their candidate, they’re content to ignore the magnitude, of voter fraud that actually occurs, year after year, election after election, across the U.S. They know they are ‘right,’ so why forsake their ironclad view that voter integrity groups are secretly voter suppression groups?
We’re always asked, how do you know that voter fraud exists? We have case histories, anecdotes, cross tabulated data, eyewitness testimony, and more. Voter fraud is real and rampant. Yet, we will routinely encounter some academic, usually from some law school, saying, “The science is settled on this. Voter fraud is a myth.”
Professors will proclaim from on high declaring that few people ever engage in voter fraud. Such professors are people of influence, they teach students, write papers, give lectures, attend symposiums, and spew authoritative misinformation. Cognizant or not, the damage that they do to society is ongoing and significant.
A Mortal Threat to Democracy
“The science was settled” in the early 1500s, that the sun rotated around the earth. Copernicus and other brave souls risked death to proclaim that earth was not the center of the universe as we knew it, or even our solar system.
We swim against the tide of what was launched in the 1960s but today has morphed into a mortal threat to democracy. The challenge we all face is to guarantee transparency in elections so that everyone can see the results and, more importantly, accept the results when their candidate does not win.
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Life
Creating a Little Heaven on Earth for Yourself
When you carve out few moments for yourself, the world is a different place
What would your life be like if you had the ability to drop back when you wanted or needed to do so? To have time for true rest and relaxation? To have time for quiet reflection?
Despite the pace of change in society, the constant development of new technology, all the paper and information that confronts you on a daily basis, and everything that competes for your time and attention, you have the ever-present opportunity to remain resilient.
Carve It Out
When you carve out even a few moments of breathing space for yourself, the world is a different place; it does not seem so hectic. Often, things work out for the best. You have a sense of control almost independent of your environment.
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The feeling of being in control of your life, while acknowledging that you are only a small part in the overall scheme of things, enhances your experience of the world around and within you, every day.
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