Books I recommend buying or thinking about buying and why.

On the House, a Washington Memoir



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Yes I do recommend this book, why, cause it's making the 'media conservatives' all wet in their pants.

And whenever they squirm, that means a lot of truth is being or about to be told.

I actually voted for Trump, I've never been a establishment GOP type or Republican type.

I voted for Trump cause he was just the opposite, sorry more on 'the left' couldn't see that, like Trump said they, those on the left, all "loved me before I ran for office'...so what happened?

Well that's for another post and book.

But ye, I just ordered this book, the first book I've probably bought in over a decade.

Next!

Cult of Glory



This book, this true account of history, is probably one of the most violent depictions of history I've ever read in my life.
It's based on real life accounts, journals, diaries, of the early days of what's now known as Texas and the United States.

It's a very ugly, brutal, yet real life rememberence of what occurred back then, in the early to mid 1800's in what is now Texas and America between mainly the European settlers, Mexicans and of course the native Americans.

It's hard for me to really excuse either side or sides when it's like they were all in competition to see who could brutalize the other side more.

Sure the Indians lands were being invaded from all sides, but some of the ways, things they did to their European captives rivaled anything done in the middle ages...all sides are guilty, as far as I'm concerned, in violating human decency.

But the thing is, back then, none of the 'sides' really saw the other side as 'human' and is what allowed such barbaric behavior towards one another.

I mean to smash another captives 'muffins' brains into a tree because it's crying to much, and then go home to your own muffin hours later, not sure how any human could justify that, yet it was done by all sides routinely back then.

And many walking around today are direct descendents of the people that lived back then.

Where does 'god' fit into all of this?...I really don't know now, cause I'm sure the people back then were worshiping the same god and Jesus they claim to be worshipping now.

Owned slaves on one hand, scalping Indians on the other hand, and showing up to church by 9 am that Sunday.

Life is just odd, and the more you know, learn about history, the more you wish you were dumb and stupid, cause real life history is pretty ugly, the founding of this country here, America, was built on the foundation of a lot of spilled blood, don't care how blonde or beautiful you think you are, you blonde and beautiful feet walk on blood...all of our feet do.

More reviews of this book and how it's effecting me to follow as time allows.

This is one of the most informative books I've every read as an adult, and one of the few actually.

But here's the thing, the Mob was so entrenched in all of American life and commerce that it's impossible to tell the Mobs story without including all the people and leaders and agencies and ect, that they effected, including Presidents, elections, the F.B.I., the music industry, Hollywood, Unions and more.

And not sure how any educated 'conservative' can pretend that the Justice Department only begin spying on U.S. candidates and citizens during the Obama years, when after reading this book that's obviously not true.

What is true is back then social media, and the regular media weren't as 'big' and so things were able to stay a secret for decades.

Hoover, the FBI director, had files on all sorts of citizens, activists, and even on the Kennedy's, both of them, and that's what gave him leverage.
Hoovers FBI would make Obamas FBI seem docile.

Older 'White' conservative types only think the Justice Department was fair and not dirty, cause none of what the FBI did effected their interests at the time.

White supremacy was pretty monolithic back then, if white one had privilege over other non whites, is a better way of putting it.

But now the 'white community' isn't so monolithic and it's fractured up along political lines, sexual orientation lines and more.

All that aside, this is a wonderful book to read, I never was a fan of Bill O'Reilly, but one thing for sure the man knows how to write a good book....not only that but he's mellowed over the years, I guess age and wealth does that to people.

Cult of Glory, should actually be called 'Cult of Blood and Guts'



Not sure if I even want to finish this book, cause already know the ending and outcome, in the end the wild settlers won, and many Indians were slaughtered, that's basically it, and for a hundred or more years, those who slaughtered the Indians seen and portrayed as Hero's in Hollywood and cinema.

It was bloody back then, but wow, reading this book really brings it up close, and the racial anamosity the settlers felt towards all people of color, and the Mexicans just makes you want to vomit.

And this book has inserts from peoples personal journals and or accounts from that era, where you had Ministers using the 'N' word when referring to former or current slaves, Ministers, people of the cloth were just as racist as everyone else and often preached racism from their pulpit in language I cannot repeat here.

That was America back then, and those ideas and racial themes didn't just suddenly die off on magical night, but instead were handed down from generation to generation, and ingrained into institutions, I mean back then you didn't have to be a member of the Klan to be racist, everyone was racist.
People back then were already practicing critical race theory in reverse, against people of color.

But ye, I appreciate this Author writing this book, but I don't see much positive info coming from it other than how utterly ugly and bloody early American history was.

I'm like on page 130 or so, chapter 8 of this book, and boy does this book give real life historical portrait of what life was like back then, not just to be a ranger, but in society in general, and it was a ugly brutal time, even from accounts of journals that are inserted into this book.

Slavery

I'm reading a part of book where the Rangers did play a role in wanting to and helping to recapture many slaves who would slip into Mexico, where slavery was outlawed.

And well, here's a few lines from the book so you can see how men thought back then.

'Like many of his fellow Rangers, including Callahan, Ford belonged to a secret group known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. The Knights entertained visions of infiltrating or invading Mexico, where they would set up an independent slaveholding nation with its capital in Havana, Cuba. It would, the leader of the Knights predicted, 'vie in grandeur with the old Raman Empire".

Plans for this domain, however, still reposed in the hallucinatory stage. In the meantime, slaves belonging to Texans had to be sseized and returned.

Fast forward...

He began assembling his men for an expedition to the border and beyond, Ford forsaw DIVINE hand in such action. "Heaven", he wrote, 'would bless this enterprise with success."

And I'll stop there, but this was taking place around 1855 or so, but what stood out to me about Fords journal was how men back then, white males back then, saw their actions as being guided by 'god', and they considered their victories over others to be proof that god was on their side.

And mind you, if slavery was such a good and wonderful thing, as many ignorant types like to say it was, than why so many escaped slaves?, and back then could only imagine how brutal it was trying to escape with poor shoes, if any at all, no bug spray, no cool water, nothing but rags on the body, if that, in a strange land, where both the 'white man', and even some Indians hostile towards you, but slaves would rather risk that than be a slave, and that's really telling, for one can only imagine the conditions back then out in the fields.

But it just annoys me how now some try to 'white wash' history and make it seem as if all was good all the time for everyone in America, including black folks 'who are lucky not to be in Africa' (What a stupid mindset, for a bet given Africa in 1955, and to be free or given spending life as a slave, I'm sure 90% would of chosen to live free in Africa, at least in parts that also weren't colonized by European powers)

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This is a good book, it's not left or right, it's just honest to how things were back then and will open your eyes to much, and just how deeply racist, if that's even the right word, cause to be racist, even back then one would have to consider you a human, and not sure if most whites back then even considered slaves worthy of that title.

Also, now I know who 'Texas Walker Ranger' was named after, you know, that TV show with Chuck Norris, had this book been released back then, not sure if that would of stood.

100 Statements of Truth life squeezed out of me



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This is also a good book worth reading, full of real life wisdom, not so much a 'read', but rather a book of modern day proverbs squeezed out of the Authors soul by day to day living and observation.

Each quote in this ebook is dated, like a journal, or diary, and starts from the beginning working it's way forward.

One doesn't have to go back to biblical times to find, discover, wisdom in today's world.

It's a good read, and in ebook form, check it out.

How to survive in 'Da Hood', as an Outsider



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How to survive in Da Hood as an Outsider is a real life account of one person who had to do just that.

I real life mini biography of what it's like for an outsider, meaning someone not raised in or around those with a hood mentality, to survive in such a place.

It's full of observations, notes, and more, but it's mainly filled with honesty.

It's a great read for those who appreciate honesty, self-reflection and directness.

It's not a politically correct book, it's an honest one, for without being honest, nothing can be fixed.