JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS AHEAD OF THE GAME

I remember the days where I use to bench press 350 lbs. and afterwards I would respond by yelling at the clouds in the sky. 
"Thank you Lord for giving me the strength of Hercules!"

Mysteriously, a voice echoed back from the clouds and said.  "Hey...if you want to kill yourself dumbass...go right ahead."
And I respond by saying.  "Yikes!"

The following morning, I sold all my weights in a yard sale and ordered a treadmill from a Sears and Roebuck catalog.

LATINO FITNESS

Boredom has a way of finding you when you're sitting down and doing absolutely nothing so to avoid this I am completely changing my lifestyle by taking a new hobby. 

I will start with a daily routine workout by using a pair of light weights and after giving it some thought, I decided to begin with a 1.75 liter bottle of Jose Cuervo Tequila Gold and a 1.5 oz shot glass.

Maybe I should make it two 1.5 oz shot glasses...one for me and leave the other one for Boredom when he finds my drunk ass and passed out!

THE RISKS OF SUCCESS

Science and Technology has made wonders in Space Travel, Modern Medicine, Education, Communication, Transportation and even Entertainment, unfortunately, it has equally harmed our Atmosphere, Human Health, Earth's Ecology, World Economics and the main foundation why Children today avoid the amazing awareness of outdoor living.

A Good Reason (Revised)

After many years of wine, women and song, I fell deeply in love for the first time, but she ultimately broke my heart and I remembered looking up into the sky with tears in my eyes asking. “Tell me why Lord...why should I live if I cannot find true love...but God never answered. 
  

As years moved forward, I began to use heavy drugs so much that I placed a gun to my head, but before I pulled the trigger, I looked up in the sky with tears in my eyes begging. “Tell me why Lord...why should I live if I cannot find true peace...but God never answered. 

As years moved forward, I became a lawman and met some of the most darkest monsters ever created in this green earth and as I carried a 6-year old in my arms, who was hurt and repeatedly raped by her own father, I looked up in the sky with tears in my eyes sobbing. “Tell me why Lord...why should I live if I cannot find justice for the true innocence...but God never answered. 
  

As years moved forward, I became ill and as the nurse inserted a needle in my arm, I looked around surrounded by misery, who were in the same medical condition, if not worse, and as they turned on the machine and reclined me in my chair, I looked out the window with tears in my eyes pleading. “Tell me why Lord...why should I live if I cannot find true happiness...but God never answered.
  

That afternoon, the bus brought me home and as they lowered me in my wheelchair, I heard someone from the doorsteps of my apartment say. “See Mia...I told you it was Da-Da!”  A 2-year old jumped on my lap and gave me a tight hug so tense that a feeling of true love, true peace, true innocence and true happiness rushed through my entire body. I laughed out loud and looked up in the sky with tears of joy in my eyes...then mysteriously, I heard a divine voice coming from the clouds in the sky...so slight that it whispered...”that’s why!” 
  

Never Give Up! 

  

GOODBYE OLE FRIEND-ESTEVAN ROCHA JR. 1959-2019

My best friend in the world passed away yesterday on December 12, 2019 at approximately 4:00 p.m.
We been friends for 43 years and yesterday I was able to say good-bye to him for the very last time.

He was half Mexican and half Mono Indian from his Mother's side, which he upheld proudly...and so did I.

Everything in my life, I had experienced with him on my side...and now I really don't have anybody else that I can turn to or trust.

The ones who suffer are not the dead, but the ones who reman alive on this earth to share the remorse and grief of their loss.

Good-bye...bub...until I see you again in heaven.
I'll be missing you everyday...so please come visit me in my dreams once in awhile.

Love your best friend, Cruz.

FIRST FLIGHT

My wife, Oli, had experienced her first flight to Seattle, Washington today, which turned out to be a little scary for her especially since the plane was much smaller than your typical airliner.  This, of course, made it a bumpier ride, but I admire her courage for attending this flight especially after all the negative controversy that been blamed on these airliners supported by the social media.  Negative or not it is still the fastest way to get from one place to another...not unless you own a spaceship!  Congratulations...babe...on your first flight.

Tonight...I get to see television...With No Novelas!  I love my wife dearly, But No Novelas Tonight!  I miss my wife dearly, But No Novelas Tonight!  I dearly want my wife to come back soon, But No Novelas Tonight!

DAMM...NOW THE STUPID TV WON'T WORK!!!

El Primo De Tex-Mex-Roberto Pulido (Seguire Mi Camino)

SEEN BETTER DAYS

My micro-economy teacher instructed our class to create a solution to solved the destruction of pines trees and help off-set the on-going deterioration of our world's economy, for instance, the invention of the bidet that uses water instead of toilet paper.

"Already have a solution."  I said out loud.

"Really!"  replied the micro-economy teacher.  "What do you call this solution?"

"The Crustration Blow-Matic Effect."  I replied.

"Will this solution stop the destruction of pine trees?"  asked the micro-economy teacher.

"Absolutely"  I replied.

"Will this solution help with the world's economy?"  asked the micro-economy teacher.

"Absolutely"  I replied.

"Will this solution be cost effective?"  asked the micro-economy teacher.

"Absolutely"  I replied.

"Fantastic!"  said the micro-economy teacher.  "How does this solution function?"

"It's simple actually...after using the toilet just stick your ass out the window and let it air dry."
I replied.  "But if that don't work I do have another alternative."

"What is that?"  snapped the angry micro-economy teacher.

"The grass of your front lawn."  I replied.

(Now I have to take the damm class again next  semester!)

WHAT IS THE STATE OF PLAY HERE?

What is really going on?  First of all, we have these packages of supposedly bomb materials being delivered to democratic officials and celebrities known to be political adversaries of President Trump, and apparently the arrested Florida suspect (declared as a fanatical "Trump" supporter) is allegedly responsible for sending these items although more of these packages are still being delivered to other places after his apprehension, which includes the Channel 24 TV station in Fresno.  

What's interesting to me this occurred, almost at the same time, when people from central America are migrating into the United States where approximately 5,200 U.S. soldiers and specialized detention facilities with barbed wire fences are waiting for their arrival.

There are dozens of street rumors floating around behind the real reason of these sudden migrations besides the fear of gang retaliation or the agony of food starvation, which actually been happening there for several decades, but another story arises that there are certain unknown individuals actually contributing financial funds to some immigrants to pursue this spur of the moment caravan!  True or not..what is the real motivation behind that?  

Now let's think for a minute about this concept, let's just say, for the right price, a deranged individual from the caravan is instructed to fire a gunshot in the air when they confront the armed troopers at the border line where some soldiers don't have much combat experience and are feeling extremely anxious...what do you think will happen next?  Are women and children in harms way?  Is this a master plan from who knows who to place our country in racial turmoil because can you imagine how us (Latinos) in the U.S. will react if this does happens!  Now I'm no Trump supporter, but I definitely believe there are other peaceful methods to demonstrate any political dislikes than to endanger peoples lives...let's just hope it doesn't happened here!

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UNIQUE FEATURES OF A LOVING FATHER

Benjamin Franco Corrales

UNIQUE FEATURES OF A LOVING FATHER

IS ONE

                                

WHO 

Enlightens with joy

Upon hearing your very first cry

Regardless to him if you were born a girl or a boy

WHO 

Worries when you are sick

Concerns when you are sad

Cries when you are in pain

Angers when you are bad

WHO 

Amuses when you laugh

Acts proud when you are strong

Shows compassion when you are weak

Rewards when you are right

Forgives when you are wrong

WHO 

Teaches you his skills and knowledge

Warns you of his past mistakes

Provides you with solutions to your problems

Supports you of any life decisions you make

WHO 

Hopes all your dreams and goals

Sympathizes all your woes and tears

Blesses all your accomplishments 

Resents all your foes and fears

WHO 

Will be by your side as you

cradle your newborn in your arms

advising you how to become the

best parent you possibly can be

WHO 

You will face and say,

“I promise Papa...I promise that

I will make this child’s life

to be as lucky and wonderful

as you made it for me!”

"My Pops"

Cruz Molina Balderas

                                                                                  

GOLDEN STATE KILLER

The capture of the Golden Gate Killer was a long and tedious criminal investigation that took over forty years to solve thanks not to the high technology of our own justice system but through a ancestry data bank website that traces a family’s genealogy, which is now becoming a great concern for our American citizens, and if not it should be, according to former chief attorney for the forensics division of the Maryland Public Defender’s office. 

It’s funny how it wasn’t that much of a concern before the killer was capture, but it would not surprise me if the evidence obtained to capture the killer becomes somehow inadmissible due to a person’s privacy rights, which took the law officials no more than a subpoena to get the information from the ancestry website.  It is unfortunate that our sophisticated criminal system of the world’s most powerful nation does not have such data bank for DNA analysis. 

NEWSFLASH

Local Update-The Dangers of Vaping:

On this last Easter, I went to visit my Mom at her residence for this year’s family BBQ and I ran into my nephew, Peter, who just arrived from North Carolina with his finance where he plans on marrying her in our gracious state...congratulations...mijo!  I noticed every so often Peter would stepped outside and returned with this strange looking smoke pipe in his hand and he told me he was trying to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes so he switch to vaping also known as E-cigarettes- which is vapor created from a heating coil that contains the following ingredients: Propylene Glycol (PG), Vegetable Glycerin (VG), Flavoring and Nicotine.

According to my nephew, his new hobby of vaping was a safer alternative to regular smoking, which is a very popular trend followed by millions of highschool students, so of course, I was  compelled to conduct some research on this topic because according to the medical experts of St. Johns Hopkins University, teens, who had not smoked tobacco cigarettes before and now starting vaping will most likely turn to tobacco cigarettes.  Also included in this research is evidence that vaping or smoking E-cigarettes is possibly linked to lung and bladder cancer due to the high levels of lead, chromium, manganese, nickel and nicotine.

World Update-Sanctions, Tariffs and Trade Wars...Oh My!

Trump is going ballistic with these new sanctions and tariffs, which basically means to penalize by way of discipline (sanctions) and to impose a charge on imports and exports (tariffs).  First a sanction with North Korea, which they don’t import much anyway besides, coal and fabric and then with China, who leads half of the world in aluminum and steel and now he’s playing this back and forth game with Russia.  Look...I know we are one of the most wealthiest nations in the world in relation to Gross Domestic Products (GDP) where we can afford to call our shots, but let’s not push it!  Because I would hate to have to take advantage of our North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and beg our neighborhood countries of Mexico for their homemade tortillas or for Canadian fur hats and coats so chingow Trumpudo if it ain’t broken don’t fix it!

Oh...by the way!  Stormy Daniels called me earlier and told me that they’re going ahead and push her lawsuit in court and she asked if I could serve you with some document...I think she called it a subpoena...uh no..a subpanias...no..no..that’s not it...a sub-penis...yeah that’s it...she told me to serve you with a sub-penis so alistate cabron!    Maybe I'll play that oldie song by the Classics IV,  “Oh Stormy...bring back that sunny day” while I’m applying that court order!

REAL ESTATE INQUIRIES: The Corner Lot

I was called the other day to sell a house for a elderly lady, who held a corner lot in a nice part of Visalia, which gave me a problem conducting a comparable within a five mile radius because their were no other homes sold within the last decade except for a larger two story house around the block that was for sale for approximately $159 per sq. ft.  So I called my friend, Steve Justice from Reedley, who is a local appraiser as well as a real estate agent and I asked how much of a difference it will be per square foot since my client’s residence sat on a corner lot thinking that the value per square foot would be a little higher, but I was very surprised by his answer.  

“Well it depends!” he said.

“How’s that?” I asked.

“On the client.” he replied,

And I said, “Huh?”

He went on to explain how living on a corner lot can be both an disadvantage as well as an advantage because a corner lot receives most of the trash thrown by passing motorists and walking pedestrians (especially by students during their lunch hour) plus receives all the traffic from both sides, which tampers with a person’s privacy and possibly their peace of mind.  If the corner lot has a swimming pool “guess how many times the owner will have to clean their pools compared to their neighbors because someone decided to throw something inside of it due to the double exposure!” said Steve.  So even though a corner lot usually are larger than the common lot does not mean it is actually more valuable.  

“Depends on the personal preference of your client and the mindset of the appraiser that sets the value of that particular lot besides the other involved factors.” said Steve

Just food for thought!

For what purpose is the wall at the Mexican border really going to be good for?  Oh!...I know!...to write graffiti on it, for instance, on the left side of the wall the Republicans will write “Donald Trump is not fulfilling his primary duties that he promised us during his campaign for the Presidency.” Then the Democrats will write on the right side of the wall, “Donald Trump does not see nor agree on our views in Democracy.”  While the Mexicans will write on their side of the wall, “Pinche Trumpo...me pela!”

Trump is now requesting for the Military (Pentagon) to help pay for the infamous "Wall" at the Mexican border, which has already cost Congress approximately $1.6 billion dollars.  In retaliation, after the Wall is completely finished, the Military are planning to use one of their own tanks and blow the whole damm thing down! 

A POOR MAN’S JOURNEY

There once in the kingdom of many, ruled a King, who was so poor due to his land being dry producing very little crop that he eventually grew scorned with greed and stole the Sun, Moon and Stars leaving the people of his kingdom with twenty years of doom and despair obscuring any chances of freedom and future happiness. 

One day a pauper, wearing an old dirty robe and a hood shadowing his face, entered the King’s castle making a request for the Sun as it will allow the people in the kingdom to prevail and work again.

“What is in it for me?” asked the greedy King.

“As a gift from the people,” replied the pauper, “They will give you a portion of their harvest!”

After giving his request some thought, the greedy King reluctantly agreed and reached inside his chest of treasures and released the Sun ridding the people’s fears of doom from his kingdom.

The pauper then made a second request for the Moon as it will allow the people in the kingdom to have their rest at night.

“What is in it for me?” asked the greedy King. 

“As a gift from the people,” replied the pauper, “They will give you one whole hour of worship before they retire!”

After giving his request some thought, the greedy King reluctantly agreed and reached inside his chest of treasures and released the Moon ridding the people’s fears of despair from his kingdom.

The pauper then made a third request for the Stars, but upon seeing that his treasure chest would soon to be bare, the greedy King became angry.  

“For what absurd purpose do the people need the Stars?” he shouted.

“So they can dream!” replied the pauper.

“What is in it for me?” asked the greedy King.

There was a sudden moment of silence.

“Nothing!” firmly replied the pauper, “Absolutely.....nothing!”

The greedy King was astonished by the pauper’s answer, but he still gave his request some thought...very much so that a smile slowly emerged on the King’s face as he hastily reached inside his chest of treasures and released the Stars rescinding the dreams of the people in his kingdom back to the skies.

The pauper turned around and about to leave the castle when the King called him back.

“Please tell me!” begged the insightful King, “If I have nothing left....why do I feel so worthy and content with myself?”

The pauper returned back and unfolded the hood that covered his face revealing a long flock of hair and a beard with gentle eyes as dark as the night, but yet mysteriously magical and just as equally mesmerizing.

”As A Gift From Me!” he softly replied.

moral of the story;

Let’s Learn From Other People’s Ignorance

WELL...THAT WAS A SHORT CAREER...R.I.P AUSTIN BOMBER...YOU'RE GONNA NEED IT!

The self-driving cars still have a few kinks to work out before releasing it into our society again, but it'll happen  sooner or later.

Trump is thinking on tacking the death penaly on certain drug trafficking offenses specifically dealing with opiates...hmm...interesting...maybe!

related topics: (Trump pushes death penalty for some drug dealers - CNNPolitics )

(Self-driving vehicle strikes and kills pedestrian in Arizona - ABC News)

WHO CAN WE TRUST!

Man is there anybody out there we can really trust?  How do we know if the Russians never left the Cold War, which supposedly ended in 1989 and secretly supporting the North Koreans and the Al-Queda financially and How do we know if the Israelis are not behind these Muslim extremist lone wolf attacks to enforce our country's $38-billion pledge to their country and How do we know Uber employees did not sabotage the company's self-driving vehicles to have more frequent car accidents in fear of losing their jobs.  That's it... I'm moving to Finland!