Bill Collier

Vote Republican Or Watch America Die

Bill Collier September 7, 2022

I urge everyone to vote Republican even though I fully know thay they won’t save us and merely voting won’t save us from the wokatarians and their unhinged authoritarianism and corpostate corruption.

Building community together based on the goals of restoring family, faith, and marriage to their sacredness and purity as God intended, in our own lives and in a kinship of trust with fellow travelers, will ultimately turn this around.

And if it doesn’t turn this around for the whole country (because most refuse to return to truth), at least for those who embrace this it will shield them and their loved ones from the hellish storm the anticulture will result in. Eventually, for all these vile sins and crimes against God’s laws and Creation, a recompense will come to this land. We know not when, but it WILL happen because this country’s rulers and many of its people do not walk upright before God.

So why vote Republican?

First and foremost, because the Republican Platform favors policies and an agenda that, at the very least, won’t make things worse. It may give us breathing room and time in which we can urge our fellow countrymen, men and women who love America, to turn back toward our manifest destiny as a land of freedom.

Freedom is a balance of virtue, liberty, and independence.

Civic and moral virtue is based on the sociocultural and ethical orthodoxy of the historic Christian faith embraced from the heart, even by those who are not Christians. This is voluntary and cannot be imposed, but our very system of government is built for and around a people of virtue. Where “freedom” is vice this comes apart, as we can see happening before us. Where virtue is a type of decency, morality, and common sense ethics that become a consensus through freewill participation, the corrupt cannot rise and the righteous rein.

We must embrace liberty which we defines as best expressed in the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, and best represented in practice through the Declaration of Independence. We recognize that this didn’t always apply to every person in this land, but we also know that the arc of America’s manifest destiny bends toward liberty for every single human being on this planet. Liberty is not license to be behave like over-sexed perverted animals defined by primitive cravings best left with our savage ancestors in caves!

In a practical sense, independence is material self-sufficiency at the personal and local level with families, free associations, local communities, and national peoples having their own sociocultural and socioeconomic autonomy and self-determination. With material self-sufficiency, instead of dependency upon massive scale governments and near-monopoly corporations, we can experience independence. When sociocultural and socioeconomic matters are mostly left to private groups, organizations, and communities no ruling class can dictate these things from the center.

Understand that ALL of this is VOLUNTARY. If we think we can or should outlaw those who refuse to walk the path of virtue, liberty, and independence as God has defined it for this country and the nations of people within it, then we do not understand what God desires. God desires obedience from the heart and nothing else counts. Even if we forced others to live as we choose to live, if their hearts are not in it, it doesn’t help them or us.

Why did Jesus say to let the wheat and the tares grow together? We cannot force a tare to be wheat. That takes a miracle from God, not an edict. Likewise, our unrighteous rulers over corporations and the state are trying by edict to turn us all into tares. They too will fail, not only because this is impossible but because God protects and nurtures the wheat!

So what will voting Republican do?

It is simple: when the Democrats have a majority their Platform, whose very ideology is based on doctrines of devils, they always go after the wheat and try to force everyone to run in their wonton and perverted riotousness. As the sacred text says, “they think it strange that you run not with them in the same excess of riot and they speak evil of you.”

Democrats calling us insurrectionists, bigots, racists, near fascists, and the like is an example of morally reprobate tares trying to destroy the wheat if the wheat refuse to become tares. Basically, the Democratic Party has become the chief vehicle for morally corrupted rulers who not only wish to run in excess of riot but who also want to force you to do the same, even though this is actually impossible.

They certainly want to groom and corrupt your children through their demonic hold over education from k-12 through the highest universities!

When Republicans have a majority it’s not all good, and even if they do win this doesn’t guarantee smooth sailing for the cause of freedom. In fact, Republicans have wilted under pressure and let us down. But one thing they haven’t done is deliberately and with malice waged a relentless war on everything this country was founded by God to become: an empire of freedom, a free and pluralistic society, and the cradle of a new civilization founded upon Christian ideals.

The time and place to vote against false Republicans, quislings who collaborate with the Democratic Party’s totalitarian machine, is during the primary.

The Republican Platform represents ideas and values far more in harmony with God’s intended manifest destiny for America (though it’s not nearly perfect) than the vile perverted excess of riot represented by the Democratic Party platform and that Party’s true rulers, a cabal of perverse and corrupt corpostate shot-callers.

As stated, neither voting Republican nor a Republican win will save us. What it will do is simply allow for time and space wherein we can more or less speak and act freely and it will swing the odds more toward us than against us. If you vote Republican and they lose at least your conscience is clean insofar as you supported, as best you could, an attempt to stem the violent, authoritarian tide represented by the Democratic Party machine. Not voting Republican at this time is surrendering the political sphere to abject, cruel, psychopaths who desire to destroy the witness and influence of the historic Christian faith from this land.

If you love God and hate evil, and if you want this country to return to the path of pursuing God’s manifest destiny, then voting Republican swings the odds more for us than against us and may give us the time and space we need to truly win over our fellow Americans to the cause of truth, justice, and the American way.

Whoever votes for Democrats in light of their actions, agenda, and Platform is hammering a nail into America’s coffin and voting against God’s will and plan for this land. The alt-gendered anticulture lunacy and totalitarianism of that Party is like a fire from hell being stoked to destroy our country once and for all. It is that stark and the hour is late. If you are a Christian and do this, you are essentially voting to begin the persecution of the Church within this land!

Another Democratic Party win may not result in the final destruction of America as a freedom empire, but it MAY do so and at the least it will make a return to our true God-given manifest destiny less likely. If Democrats have their way, our country will be ruled by corrupt leaders whose god is in their loins and whose ideology is based on doctrines of devils.

The Democratic Party are the modern Midianites seeking to suppress the the voice and presence of the Elect and their influence from every institution in this country. They desire to elevate the abominable and perverse and to decimate the righteous and the good.

Voting Republican is saying no to this, even though we realize that a return to the morals and precepts of righteousness in our own private lives, associations, organizations, and communities is the only way we will turn this around.

God has given you the power to vote. This is an historic opportunity not available in the first century to Christians who were citizens of the Roman Empire. We are the government and to withhold your hand from using that power, even though it is not enough and it isn’t even a guarantee, is folly.

Note: this is a conviction and not a doctrine! I am not suggesting you aren’t a Christian unless you do this! I am saying I feeel strongly it is a moral duty at this late hour to vote Republican as a holding measure so we can take a path that will either protect us from the deluge or possibly prevent it.

If we fail to show up and vote Republican, we are, in my opinion, voting for the rein of wicked people whose Party is ruled by the powers of darkness and whose aims are a godless tyranny aimed at the physical oppression of the Elect.

You may say this is hyperbole, but consider everything that Party represents: rainbow alt-gendered facism, grooming kids, killing the unborn, suppression of free speech, disarming the people, foreign wars, socialism, and the list goes on! If this isn’t vile darkness, then you may not understand what vile darkness is or you are already a convert to its doctrines.

This election may secure another win for Democrats and yet it may not result in their final triumph, making it the last semi-free election before the deluge comes. It may be we get a another chance. But every time Democrats win a majority, we risk the final death of everything this country was meant to become and has yet to truly fulfill.

Vote Republican and give our constitutional union of free and sovereign peoples and republics a chance at turning around and getting on the right path toward destiny and freedom.

Businesses Must Always Seek Their Ideal Clients

Bill Collier September 6, 2022

In business we must periodically seek the ideal client by assessing all projects for what brings the best returns versus the most investment of time, money, and resource allocation as well as the payment speed and the amount of stresss or aggravation.

We must try to move more and more toward the things that pay up front and/or on time and that are most profitable and least aggravating and stressful. But for all that, we must seek the ideal client until most or all projects are being done with these ideal clients.

When a certain class of clients or types of business tend to be the most unfruitful and burdensome, and also not very profitable, then is the time to begin a shift away from them, even if the profit margin is better.

A profitable project may not necessarily be the greatest profit margin but, rather, the biggest volume and least stress and aggravation. So, a $100,000 project with only $15,000 profit over a 30 day period but which costs include paying staff and/or contractors to do almost all the work is more profitable than a $45,000 project with $15,000 profit over 6 months that requires you to do more than, say, 30% of the work and which is more stressful and aggravating.

I have found that lower end clients do not understand marketing near as much as higher end clients, which often means the lower end client wants more direct attributable results than can be calculated and cannot see an uptick in overall business or donors or whatever as being fed by your efforts. This is especially true when that client uses diverse channels and means.

I should add, in my own experience the failure to set expectations can be mine, but that’s not always the case as some clients hear what they want to hear and discard what they don’t want to hear.

As an example, an ad campaign to get online sign-ups will necessarily impact other channels, such as emails or phone calls and even foot traffic. The sophisticated client knows this, but the less sophisticated does not equate anything to your credit outside of a trackable outcome, not understanding how various forms of marketing leverage each other.

As an example, the web form your digital marketing may have led to being filled out was likely assisted by a TV or radio ad. In this case, the client’s customers may prefer anonymous online forms to a phone call where they will feel pressured. The reverse can be true also: the client’s customers may prefer a personal touch and don’t want to submit information in a web form, so they may see digital ads urging them to fill out an online form but still call the client instead.

There are many examples.

I use marketing because it’s what I do.

You have to consider who your ideal client is: the most overall profit (even if a lower profit margin), the least stress and aggravation, and you as an owner/principal having to do the least heavy lifting because your team is quite able to proficiently do the work.

Even if you only profited $7,500 over six months from a $45,000 contract but your team did the work and the client understands what you are delivering, thus making it so it’s not stressful and aggravating, you will still profit by signing up lots of such clients.

As a rule of thumb: a smaller project ought to have a higher profit margin but a larger project with a lower profit margin ought to produce more profit in dollars than a smaller project.

A highly aggravting client with extremely high profit in overall dollars, especially if also a high profit margin, would be held longer than an easy-going client with a low total profitability and profit margin.

It needs to be noted that higher profit margins mean you have cushion in case of a problem, you can pay your team more and attract higher quality, and you can both invest in your core infrastructure and in business growth.

No business is perfectly “there” and the drive to obtain such steady profitability through an ideal clientele can be offset by a cash flow need that means you must accept less profitable and more stressful projects that demand more of you just to keep the lights on. This is the reality of business but it shouldn’t stop you from seeking the ideal business client for most to all of our projects.

Every 90 days your team should evaluate your project list and describe each as ideal to less than ideal and be able to state both the profit margin and profit in total dollars for each. The least ideal overall should eventually be let go as more ideal clients can be obtained.

The Strategic Goal Of Charles Scwab’s Democratic Party

Bill Collier September 4, 2022

The Strategic Goal of the Democratic Party

The strategic goal of the Democratic Party in America today is to atomize society such that it can be divided and ruled from the top and fulfill the agenda of the World Economic Forum, which says “you will own nothing and like it” and which is stakeholder socialism or “the global corpostate (GC).

While some GC quislings may remain in the GOP, the global corpostate has made its home in and put all its money down on the Democratic Party.

While many conspiracy theories are untenable, the idea there is a sort of truce between to the ruling clans and houses in this divided and organic global corpostate enterprise is tenable. Like never before these clans and houses, some of whose members and orders of battle we may never know, have set aside their conflicts to wage remorseless war on their common foes, which may include everyone from Russia to Republicans in the US.

These shot-callers are certainly against the common person. You can have rainbows shooting out of your ears and carry all the cancel culture wokist virtue signals and yet still you are their foe, or at least their target.

The aim is to divide you from everyone: no community, no extended family, no immediate family, not even a sacred lifetime bond meant to emulate the relationship of Christ to the church. They want to end gender to atomize every human being and deny that there is any order to anything, let alone divine or natural, that cannot be made to bow before their desires.

Even the alt-gendered, when they emerge, and numbers are skyrocketing because of the ceaseless propaganda, will be no more favored than anyone else. When the birth rate falls the GC shot-callers need more people, the alt-gendered will join the Christians who were removed before.

Or at least that’s the plan.

It is a doomed plan because it only represents the inevitable process of civilizational collapse and the emergence of the new which come in the same certain patterns as the planets revolve around the sun.

These GC clowns are in way over their head and their fantastical desires for monopoly power and to own everything and everyone come from a late stages hubris akin to collective dementia.

Thus, the strategic aims of the Democratic Party’s true masters, the GC shot-callers, are fed by cash and utopian promises and the pure carnal lust for total control that has poisoned the Democrats since the 1860’s and that only just takes new forms to make new excuses and justifications.

Everyone who bets on or supports any Democratic Party candidate or incumbent in any election is really voting for that madman Charles Schwab and his World Economic Forum. They are voting to ultimately own nothing and like it or face severe consequences.

Racism and America Never Matched

Bill Collier September 4, 2022

A post from September 3, 2016

TLDR: We must guard our own hearts against hatred just because the left use certain nationalities, groups, and persuasions to champion the authoritarian aims and as a foil to divide us.

THE ALT-RIGHT AND THE END OF AMERICA

A brief speech on our possible future by William Collier (to be read as a speech and not like a normal article.)

Ladies and gentlemen, the hour is late if you want to save the American political union. I feel that, as I have seen so much of what is happening now way back in 1982, I must warn you and I must show you that, if we who value a color-blind society rooted in Christian virtue are to escape and preserve ourselves from the crisis to come, we must consider what I saw as the path of refuge back then- the deliberate embracing of a new nationality defined by Christian ideals and a covenant bond without reference to race or even statehood.

But if you wish to save this Union you must also consider the same path, a new intentional ethnicity as it were, as a defender of the true meaning of America and the ideals upon which she was founded but which we have yet to achieve.

In 1982 if I told you that throughout parts of America a doctrine of white identity as the basis of citizenship would once again lead to the rise of a confederacy, you would have said I was nuts. And people did. But what I saw as a fictional scenario that sets up the end of America, the rise of racialism and racism, is fast becoming a real life scenario. With the rise of the alt-right movement we are seeing the potential demise of the American political union, but it’s NOT the fault of the alt-right.

The alt-right movement agrees on one point- that white identity deserves the same political organization as all the other racially defined groups. They believe that races are inherently different and unequal. They believe that the white identity, especially Anglo-Saxon identity, is more associated with America than any other racial identity.

When the left says America was a racist nation which favored white people, the alt-right says “so what, so do Arab nations and so does the Jewish state favor their race and religion.” Indeed, it is argued, the argument that Israel must be preserved as a distinctly Jewish state has been accepted by many and, so the logic runs, why wouldn’t the natural progeny of the Founders of the American state want to preserve the Anglo-Saxon and Christian identity and nature of their state?

America was and should remain an idea. But it should be a distinct idea. And to be an American one ought to demonstrate adherence to that idea. This naturally includes the core beliefs and values which made America what it was, as outlined, perhaps, by Alexis D’Tocquiville. To become American ought to be a conversion of ideology and values which must be confirmed in a covenant bond with other Americans.

But, the alt-right correctly conclude, being an American means nothing at all. There is neither an identity based on common ancestry nor conscious conversion to a faith or ideology which define America. And so the left have made America mean nothing and a nation based on nothing disappears. Their hypocrisy on the matter of identity politics has destroyed all of their moral high ground.

In 1982 I saw a future in which America continued to betray its faith and ideals, thus opening the door to dissolution and the rise of alternative forms of self identity. The alt-right is a manifestation of that.

It would be intellectually cheap to say they are racists. To say this would be to say that groups and movements based on the perceived shared interests of blacks or Jews or Hispanics were racist. The idea that white people could decide they had interests common only among themselves is completely defensible compared to other racially defined groups who make the same claims. Identity politics is the norm with all save white groups in America and with most peoples and nations around the world. It is the left which has argued over and over for identity politics based on race, albeit only selectively and for their political advantage. But you cannot argue identity politics for one group and not other groups.

In 1982 I saw a future new nation not based on race, but ideals and values. It is intentionally established as America and many other nations and states come apart and Western Civilization itself starts to become unravelled.

I saw a new and intentionally created national people among whom membership was recognized after being confirmed to be in covenant with that nation as a nation of people whose God is the Lord. Among this national people and their communities, people consciously chose their new non-racial ethnicity over all other natural identities and considered all their fellow nationals their peers, without distinction by ancestry or skin color. The ideals and covenant bound them, but to accept these ideals and follow them was a prerequisite to attaining standing by merit.

In my fictional story from 1982, identity politics takes root and America’s largest ethnic group, the white ethnicity, enters the fray and asserts its own collective rights and and interests. This sets the stage for the recreation of a race-based state that takes over parts of the old south.

Racism, the belief that race is real and your race is superior, follows racialism, which is merely the belief that races exist and have their own self-interest. The efforts by the left to use racialism (identity politics) for coalition building have come to a point in the real world where the premises of racialism, which say black or Hispanic or Jewish people have their own self-interest separate from the white race (which is demonized), are now being embraced by whites who say they also have their own self-interest as a racial community which is separate from those races.

Tired of being the bogeyman and tired of every culture being celebrated while theirs is demeaned, for many whites, racial consciousness grows and and more whites begin to embrace racialism in their own race’s self-interest, which leads eventually to racism.

The premise that ideals and culture, values and a way of life, which transcend bloodlines and race, because there is ONLY one human race, is defeated because the very notion that any nation or state would afford standing on the basis of actual adherence to its ideals is denied. Through identity politics among only “minorities” and efforts to redefine America in a way that betrays the values of, for instance, the Bill of Rights, the white person in America is left with only a racial identity as a vehicle for defending a way of life they rightly know is threatened.

It is a dangerous road. But, sociologically speaking, it makes sense.

I reject it.

I reject race. I reject the idea of race. But as a white person, at least that’s how the left defines me, I am keenly aware of the pull to cling to my “group” and protect its existence and honor. Even I, who have always rejected race and who envision a new nation defined by its faith and values and not by bloodlines, have sensed a growing awareness of a white identity. It is not a happy feeling. Not that I bear shame for my ancestry, I am proud of my ancestry, but because I believe that racialism and racism are dangerous to human Civilization and contrary to God’s laws.

The idea that we can be defined by anything but our merit or that we would associate on the basis other than shared values and standards makes us savage beasts. The left have cooked this brew and we will all be forced to eat it.

If my prophetically inspirational story proves true, as ever more it has (and I am sad to see that), then the only way for many to escape this mess will be to claim and adopt a new intentional ethnicity based not on race or biology or even statehood but, rather, covenant bonds. In America, according to my story, people will adopt this new intentional ethnicity (and so will people around the world), because they reject racialism and racism and yet also because they embrace covenant as the basis of ethnic union and identity, covenant that is rooted in shared faith and values, shared ideals, and and a shared way of life that are explicitly defined. (Again, if my prophetically inspirational story turns out to be more truth than fiction.)

When you remove covenant bonds based on these things as the basis of a nation, then all you are left with is racialism and racism on one hand or ideological dogmatism on the other hand. In trying to destroy America’s covenant values so that they can create a new leftist ideological basis for a new America, the left has had to use identity politics. But, too late, they have destroyed the foundation before they could establish their new ideology, leaving only identity politics to fill the void.

I do not blame the alt-right. Their emergence is inevitable and was only made possible by the cultural arson inflicted on America by the left, and by their insistence that they could encourage identity politics among only their targeted groups while denying that white people even had any right to return the favor in kind.

The America which I saw flying to pieces in my 1982 vision is fast emerging today. The battle is on and yet none of the defenders of our Christian ideals, which alone hold hope for our Union, have come forward to join the fray. The end could very well be what I saw then, and it will not go well for anyone who is not prepared to weather the storm.

UPDATE SEP 3, 2022

The “alt-right” may have seened to fade, though to the left this bogeyman is the caricature of everyone they disagree with. But I feel strongly the backlash to white guilt, wokism, CRT, the alt-gendered anticulture, and the raging authoritarian left will awaken this again, perhaos in a more powerful way.

The issue is not for Freedomists, Bill of Rights Americans, to avoid racism or racialism so we don’t become an easy target for a media lynching. The issue is for us to not do that because it is morally reprehensible and is an abomination to God, every bit as foul as the child grooming garbage being pushed by fake teachers who are really subversive political hacks in the employ (not formal, de facto) of the Democratic Party machine.

Every human being regardless of ancestry, race, gender, creed, religion, citizenship status, and whatever pursuasion owns and ought to respect liberty as we find it in the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights! Every. Singe. One.

We must believe this, insist on this, and defend this and though the leftwing neomarxist corpostaters won’t hesitate to blood libel us, we will press on knowing that bigotry and intolerance are truly anathema to any Freedomist.

The Balanced Approach To Our Deepest Need

Bill Collier September 3, 2022

ON WHOLENESS: Our Deepest Need

By Bill Collier- Innermost wholeness is the deepest need upon which all love and fear are based. For many, inner wholeness is limited to self, some see themselves and their sense of wholeness within a larger sphere, and few have a very large to epic sphere wherein they experience wholeness from within and from among those whom they value as an extension of themselves.

It is good to start with and remain fixed upon personal inner wholeness because as your circle of care grows, you have less and less active control, which, if your inner wholeness is off will make the dissatisfaction and disappointments within outer circles of care more painful than they would otherwise be.

If all you have is this inner wholeness you may have a certain contentment even in hardship, but your impact on the world will be very low which, ironically, can upset your inner wholeness. If you do not have an inner sense of wholeness then as you seek wholeness in the outer circes of care you will both have more frustration and you will need to find ways to control others so they harmonize with what you think brings wholeness to them.

Balance is needed, but understand we can retain our inner wholeness even when it is more difficult to extend to our outer circles of care, but even with that we will experience pain, loss, and sorrow which cannot be avoided.

We can talk about where inner wholeness comes from, including spiritual, mental, and physical needs and the sources of meeting those needs. Likewise for outer circles of care there are similar sources and aspects of wholeness.

If you understand wholeness and that wholeness is deeper even than feelings like pleasure and pain, and can be experienced even in times of pain, then you understand why doing whatever makes you happy (gives you a pleasure sense of “happy”) will not necessarily make you whole, not as God intended.

My Heart Dogs

Bill Collier September 3, 2022

HOW MY ONE TRUE LOVE, DORA, GOT ME NOT ONE BUT TWO HEART DOGS

They say you only get one heart dog. Fortunately, I’ve been blessed with two heart dogs; Shekel Sr and Shekel Jr. When Shekel Sr passed, he was only known as Shekel back then, friends conspired to get me anothet Border Collie, this time a puppy, so I wouldn’t have to be Shekeless…

Shekel Jr took time for me to get close to. I loved him at first site, but not the way I did Shekel Sr. Shekel Sr was, from the instant we got him, just too precious. He had come from 3 owners and lots of abuse and was in many ways a damaged dog.

And I didn’t even want him.

Dora, my wife who is now in memory care, insisted we get a dog. Hold on to the thought about memory care, it is part of our story.

Not long before she found this border collie they called “Spark Plug” at the local Humane Society that she located online we were in Israel. Dora liked the money there, called the New Shekel, and decided whatever dog she got, and she wanted a boy dog, we would call him Shekel.

When we returned I told her if she got a dog I was not in any way responsible. I’d be nice to the dog, but he would be her problem all the way around, including feeding and walking. So she finds “Spark Plug” and we go to see him. We had seen another dog before, but he wasn’t the one as someone else snagged him before we could get our landlord’s permission sorted, which you need to adopt a dog when you rent.

I was warned to the dog, but Dora just adored him. They said he was a defeated dog and wouldn’t really interact with people. He was a biting hazard and would take lots of tlc.

Now at the time we didn’t know Dora was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s at only 50 years old (stared in 2015, we are at 2017 in our story). She was 52 in the year 2017. What the doctors had said was she was suffering catastrophic anxiety and generalized anxiety.

Other than some short term memory loss and her anxiety, Dora was cognitively active and alert, she could still cook and stay at home by herself and be just find. She had lots of energy and felt that a dog, especially one that needed a lot of tlc and would be a challenge, would give her something today and help her anxiety.

Or that’s what she told me to practically break my arm convincing me she needed a dog and even though I didn’t want one, it was necessary for her well-being.

Obviously I couldn’t say no.

Spark Plug came to this visiting room and at first looked defeated and wouldn’t interact, but slowly he sauntered over to Dora and suddenly pushed up against her, looked her in the eyes, and was like, “you’re my person, now let’s go home.”

He also pressed against me and I pet him. I tried desperately not to fall in love, but my heart went out to him.

After all the paperwork and etcetera we came to pick up our new dog, who Dora immediately renamed Shekel, per her decision in Israel.

I don’t know what happened or how or why, but when we took that boy, he had my heart lock, stock, and barrel. Before we even got home, he was “my baby” and I knew he was my first and then only ever true doggy love.

He did help Dora…and me. When I got stressed or angry, Shekel would pounce on my and put me in timeout until he sensed I was better and then he would let me move. I have to say, aftdr 4 years of him doing this I rarely get as angry or stresseful as I used to before he came along, so his rehabilitation of me was permanent.

Fast forward to February, 2021, and Dora is in the hospital after what seemed like a psychotic break. The past year prior was hell and we couldn’t get a diagnosis or medication, but Dora’s “anxiety” was almost 24/7, and she wasn’t her normal self. She was not nice to me, either, and yet Shekel would often calm her and shorten her episodes. She was never mean to Shekel.

She ended up in Pittsburgh at UPMC where they ran many tests. I was there staying with Shekel at a dog-friendly hotel. These were such dark times and had been for a year but that boy, my Shekel, softened the pain and was just always there for me.

One day, somehow, Dora called me from the hospital. By then we had for the terrible news of her diagnosis lf Alzheimer’s and that it was fairly advanced with an unusual amount of brain atrophy.

Somehow this was an extremely clear day for Dora.

She tells me how much she loves me. She tells me she understands what’s coming and for me to always tell her story and to be brave and to use this to show people the love of Jesus. Sbe says she has lived a happy life with me and is content and that if Jesus told her she would have to get tbis terrible disease in order for Him to save one soul, she would choose this path so I needed to make this count for her.

Then she says, “I have a confession to make though. I didn’t insist on getting Shekel for me. I didn’t need a dog, though I do love him.” (The hospital says she about Shekel all the time)

She goes on, “Shekel is YOUR dog, Bill, I got him just for you. I knew when I saw him, you needed him and he needed you.”

Now fast forward to August 13, 2021.

Dora is on medication and doesn’t have near the anxiety, but she can no longer have such conversations and she can’t walk Shekel alone. At this time have a caregiver who comes every day for 8 hours and she cooks for Dora, and me, cleans, and also walks the dog with Dora.

Today my boy is sick and I get the terrible news I need to come in and say goodbye.

As this is unfolding a friend instinctively knows that for my wife and me, another Shekel needs to be found and brought to us asap.

He shows me pictures of dogs he found and I then take them and show them to Shekel and ask for his approval that another Shekel comes to us. Shekel actually paws one picture, the rest he ignored, and gives me a “nose kiss”, as if to say, “this one will do, Daddy.”

We are with him until just seconds before the second needle. In light of Dora’s condition, it was felt if Shekel passed in front of her she might have a terrible breakdown. I am still sad I wasn’t there right at the very end, though it had to be this way for Dora. If she was still “there” she certainly would have stayed right to the end. She loved that pup.

Dora couldn’t register he was gone. She thought he took a nap and we’d be back for him. She didn’t understand why I was crying.

What do you know, between my friend who found the dog and another who was close enough to the area to get him and drive 3 hours to my house, the very next day Shekel Jr arrived, practically a puppy version of Shekel Sr!

(I’m not sure the Shekel Jr I got is the one in the picture, my friend Jean picked him from 3 choices based on his behavior, which was a good choice. But without Shekel Sr choosing the picture he did we would have gone to a different place, so he did choose Shekel Jr in my mind.)

Dora loved him and somehow to her she was Shekel turned back to being a puppy. She had always said she wished we could have had Shekel as a pup and now, here “he” was, as a pup!

I loved the boy and his presence helped Dora a lot. I’m wondering if somebody in her spirit Dora had pulled the same stunt to once again get me a Shekel.

Chosen by his adopted doggy dad, Shekel was here and he was now my doggy son.

In October of last year, after not being able to find more than one person to help with home care, and as her condition had worsened, my beloved wife had to be taken to memory care full time, though I still hoped it was just temporary.

That’s when my little boy became my second heart dog.

He knew mommy was gone and it was just him and his daddy, so he poured on the affection and he started putting me in timeout, just like Shekel Sr did.

I see Dora at least three days a week. She always asks about her “Shekel”, and to her, he is just reborn as a puppy. She has a stuffed animal version of Shekel Sr, so do I, but to her Shekel Sr and Jr are the same dog. The point being she never had the trauma of losing Shekel Sr thanks to my friends’ fast and efficient actions.

But it was that first lonely night without Dora I knew I had my second heart dog.

I was upstairs and Shekel Jr’s crate where he sleeps (and, yes, he loves his crate) was downstairs. I was obviously quite depressed and heartbroken, at times I still am. Suddenly he starts crying and barking and making a big fuss.

I go downstairs and open his crate and he instantly jumps out and jumps on me to put me in timeout. He nuzzles my face and pushes against me and gives kisses. I’m a blathering mess, releasing my grief but happy to have my boy, and then I suddenly feel for him exactly as I did for his adopted dog daddy.

At that moment I can’t thank Dora enough who even as she knew instinctively what she didn’t tell me back in 2017, that she knew and sensed she couldn’t be with me, like she had been, for much longer and that I just needed a heart dog of my own. Without her doing that, I wouldn’t have had either Shekel Sr or Shekel Jr.

And so thanks to the love of my life and wife of my youth, I have now had two wonderful heart dogs to help me be a better human.

Pictured: Dora with Shekel Sr back in 2017 and my boy Shekel Jr taken in August 2022.

Democracy ONLY For Thee?

Bill Collier September 2, 2022

Democrats Think ONLY Democrats Can Question The Veracity of Election Voting Processes and Vote Counting

I don’t think the 2020 Presidential election vote count, or the way the pandemic was used to “fortify” the election process exclusively to favor Democrats and hamper Republicans, was free and fair and I, as an American, have every right to say that no matter what you Democrats think about it. Period.

Herr Biden, with his Snoke-like backdrop, saying “you can’t love this country only when you win” is hyperbolic and dangerous. It is a lie because questioning how an election was run doesn’t mean you hate your country and he knows that, because he engaged in it over the 2016 election and leading up to it.

The fact this electoral legerdemain is increasingly part of hardball politics and to some extent goes back centuries doesn’t mean I have to just accept it now or ever. We should always be hyper critical of such things. For decades I have proposed election reforms aimed at making such “legal” unethical legerdemain difficult and stamping out the potential for or appearance of fraud, so this isn’t new to me.

I questioned how the 2000 election went down, even though I didn’t like Gore.

Our voting processes and how we count the votes have been sloppy and are getting worse, and I think most of that is on the side of Democrats whose very ideology goes against a concept of having a true north when it comes to morals (e.g. “relativism”). It’s not as fraudulent as North Korea or Russia, but it is open to unethical legerdemain that may be legal but that undermines a republican system of government, and it appears to be getting worse.

The way rules were changed and the way mail-in ballots could never have a secure chain of custody from voter to vote counter did not inspire confidence. Absentee ballots are one thing, but the majority of votes counted for Democrats came from this and we have no secure and independent way to verify that the actual voters who were legally allowed to vote were the ONLY ballots handed in.

If you imagine in your fetid partisan hack brain that me saying this makes me a domestic terrorist or something, than you are the one who hates this country because you deny a fundamental right to dissent. I dissent from the way the election process was run in 2020 and continues to be run.

I may think the fear it was all fraud is overwrought, but saying the winner cheated in an election is practically an American pastime and acting as if only when Republicans do it is it somehow akin to domestic terrorism is actually far worse because now you are targeting millions of people and threatening them with a police-state response.

In Pennsylvania it was a mess, mostly due to the Republicans in the PA legislature who had passed actual laws abdicating their oversight to unelected officials who, I believe, proved to be partisan Democrats who put Party before the Commonwealth.

That is my opinion and I can be a free and patriotic American and still have such an opinion: anyone saying otherwise is just nuts or they are themselves in rebellion against These United States of America and our constitutional federal republican system.

I don’t think laws were broken per se, I think unethical legerdemain was used to lean things a few points in favor of Democrats in a way that we could say the 2020 Presidential election was not fair, because it wasn’t an even playing field with absolutely nuetral and objective referees, and because all the pandemic-excused “emergency” deviations from the mornal process 100% favored Democrats in every way.

That’s not fair and if it’s not fair how can it be free?

The Speech That Lost The Election

Bill Collier September 2, 2022

By Bill Collier- Before you blow a gasket on the crunchy magoo invoking his weak tinhorn dictator impression, badly I might add, remember President Biden is a tired and meandering sod, feckless to the core. He always seems to get all bombastic and macho just before he cuts and runs. And, no, his handlers are no better.

Joe Biden may fantasize about being THE GREAT DICTATOR (was that Charlie Chaplain?) but all his sound and fury signifies nothing.

Please don’t be alarmed and don’t over react. Yes, it was a nasty low rent bit of tragicomic lunacy, and yes, I think he really imagines the only valid opinions are his own, and, yes, it can be seen even as an attempt at bullying. But what makes it harmless is that Joe Biden’s ability to make life hard one anyone else doesn’t go beyond his speech.

To be clear: President Biden could order everyone under his command to “round up the MAGA crowd” and as he marched out in front of his “troops” waving some sort of weird rainbow soviet flag, nobody would follow except a few grungy FBI spooks, too pale to stay in the sun too long.

Here’s a clue Joe: just because you won the White House doesn’t mean you get to decide now is the time to outlaw your opponents and demonize half the country. We need to remind you that, again, we are a Republic, which means even if 51% want to outlaw 49%, the rights of all, real rights not that gibberish you invoked, the government, including you, cannot actually do that.

It’s pathetic because even if he means what he says, he is powerless to do it. We should all be laughing now.

No sane person who refuses to get all in a lather over oat milk lattes, like Biden’s inner circle of cancel culturists do, can take this speech seriously. It’s a bad joke he is playing on himself. It MIGHT be dangerous if it wasn’t spoken by this weak President, but it’s just Joe bloviating like an angry blogger who watches too much MSNBC and doesn’t get out much.

Fortunately for you and I, the soul of our country is not the domain of a politician who sounds like he was sniffing glue.

Does he think politics is all about who can meme better or talk bigger? Will he now tell the world that we Republicans “are bad to infinity” or some other schoolyard cackle?

It’s true, and it’s frankly quite immoral, that President Biden is now the divider in chief and his caustic words and rhetoric, almost 100% untruthful and sensationalist, even bordering on the leftist version of Q, is the kind of talk people with pots and pans for hats who weave baskets and dribble uncontrollably would give to their collection of voodoo dolls.

It is not acceptable or civil, it is indecent and unbecoming of any American leader. But it’s also a bad look, it’s poorly delivered, and frankly sounds like the people who made the last Star Wars movie were directing the whole lame show.

Biden chose today to prove something many suspected: his mission in life is to lead and serve the Democratic Party machine, especially the blue and pink haired wokatarians with their long lists of ever more weird pronouns, and the donors who own that Party’s soul, not the American Republic, which he cannot even invoke as he touts the old lie we are a “democracy.”

That’s all bad for him and he will one day answer to the Universe and his Creator for his undertakings and his highly unethical behavior, but as for me, I saw a muttering nutter high on his own sense of self-importance larping as a BIG MAN when in truth he is just a typical politician whose only agenda is limited to his Party’s parochial interests.

Joe, the gig is up. Everyone knows you “ain’t got game.”

I almost wrote “tonight Joe Biden set this country on fire”, but he would have to be one thousand percent more the man he has been acting like for there to be any real weight to this nonsensical juvenile blabbering.

Tonight I saw a guy who probaly sniffs his own feet pretend he was the moral better than everyone else and a nasty old politician who confuses his own Party with the country, as if whatever is “good” for the Democratic Party is somehow by extension good for America. It’s one of the most embarrassing displays of political stupidity in our country’s history.