getting into the “trades”

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While on my Buckeye Back Roads Tour, I stopped at the Apollo Career Center Campus today. Last week I’d interviewed a man who had graduated from a local high school, but his senior year was spent at Apollo, getting a certificate in welding. He now has his own welding shop in Cincinnati, specializes in working on classic cars, and teaches welding classes himself at a nearby career center like this. For high school youth who aren’t inclined to go to college, but rather to get into the “trades,” these kinds of career centers are excellent, and a really good use of a student’s time their junior/senior years of high school. Our position paper on education talks more in-depth about this paradigm…

“blood money” from China

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During the VP Presidential Candidate Debate last night, the subject of China came up. China is replete with forced abortions, and it jails, tortures and kills those who they deem political of religious “dissidents”. To trade with China, which, bottom line, helps keep them economically buoyant, is nothing short of accepting: “blood money.” For a short talk (1 min. 30 sec.) I gave on this, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0lLIBZsAAs&feature=emb_logo

‘Time for Turbines’

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My Buckeye Back Road Tour took me to Van Wert, Ohio today. Van Wert, and the surrounding area, is known for, among other things, having the most wind turbines in the state of Ohio. There are some 300 of them (some of which you can see in the background here). In our travels, I have extensively researched alternative forms of energy. And, to be good environmental stewards (Just ask Pope Francis.), our country needs to shift to way more of this alternative energy, while at the same time cutting back, exponentially, on our energy use in general. Austerity measures? Yeah. That is, if we want to save the planet for our children. For more on our campaign’s take on energy, see…

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic… and signs

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photo by Joe …of Joe’s sign

Things are coming to a head in this country. Political polarization is off the charts. Riots continue in our streets. We stand at the verge of a financial collapse. Catastrophic global warming looms like a scary doomsday scenario. We’ve killed 65 million babies now. There is a war on the traditional family… While policies coming out of D.C., in turn, are like: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic! At this point, frankly, we need a leader who can steer us away from the iceberg — before it’s too late. Hint: That would be me. For 30 years, I’ve researched a series of models God has been quietly preparing around the country to, when the time is right, effect a major realignment in our country. This research is thread throughout my position papers. They are projects that work. And they are projects that should be plugged into every community across the country — before it’s too late. And I would use the presidency as a vehicle to point people to these projects. Note: And as these projects need to happen quick, many more “Joe” yard signs need to go up just as quick. I mean, people are already starting to vote.

Military message

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Harrod, Ohio Military Park …photo of Joe by Joe

I traveled 15 miles south to Harrod, Ohio (pop. 399) tonight. While passing on campaign cards, I approached a man walking toward the town carry out. He had an Ohio State University scarlet and gray mask on. I gave him a “Joe card,” bypassed my platform, and went directly to telling him: “I’m an Ohio State fan, too. So remember that on Nov. 3!” I could tell he was smiling behind the mask. Note: I also stopped at Harrod’s “Military Park.” They have a tank there, a huge anchor from a destroyer, a Howlitzer, and a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter, referred to as the “work horse” of the Vietnam War. For my position paper on the military, based on years of research, see…

standing in front of the, ULTIMATE, Supreme Court Justice

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While pundits and politicians (on both sides of the aisle) are, today, praising the now late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s “scholarship” and, for instance her keen sense of “jurisprudence;” does anyone, frankly, think God is praising her as she stands in front of his Judgement seat today? RUTH BADER GINSBURG HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BIGGEST PLAYERS IN AN ONGOING GENOCIDE IN THIS COUNTRY THAT HAS CLAIMED SOME 65 MILLION LIVES THROUGH ABORTION, AND COUNTING! Unless she repented on her death bed, there is a good possibility Ms. Bader-Ginsburg is looking at a life sentence in Hell, meted out by the, ultimate, Supreme Court Justice. Note: President Lincoln once famously said: “The Ten Commandments aren’t suggestions or multiple choice.” Read: Thou shalt not kill, is: Thou shalt not kill. Period. Oh, and for those of you backing politicians and policies allowing for abortion, you’ll be standing in the same afterlife spot as Ms. Bader-Ginsburg at some point sooner than later. I sure wouldn’t bet my eternity on abortion.

volunteering, with an exponent of 25

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ONU Religious Life students …photo by Joe

I spent some time covering a special event this morning. Students from Ohio Northern University’s “Religious Life Organization” coordinated a Food Drive to help the local Food Pantry. One of the coordinators told me that the students heard the Food Pantry’s resources were thin because of the increased demand with the pandemic affecting some people financially. So why not help? And they did. Note: As president, I would try to inspire this type of local volunteering/giving, with an exponent of 25, at least. And our family practices what we preach with this. You have to wonder: Would Trump or Biden’s family do what we’ve done (click on link)? Probably not. Yet it is an essential key to really turning this country around.

“Sons of the American Revolution”

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In the last week, I’ve written newspaper articles about: the fiscal outlook of a typical village in the midst of a pandemic; about a high school student involved with an Ohio “Ambassador’s Program” designed to teach young people about the dynamics of state government; about a village bicycle path dedication; and for good measure, about a visit by “The Sons of the American Revolution.” There’s, actually, an American Revolution soldier buried in one of the Bluffton cemeteries. In doing some research, I found that only 230,000 soldiers fought with the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. So, as one could imagine, after all this time, et. Al, there’d be few readable soldier grave stones anymore. And as these have faded, so, too, has many of their stories. But, in my belief, they are gravestones, and stories, that need to be preserved. One of the speakers said that it is noted Americans “… are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.” And soldiers, like these American Revolution soldiers, fought, at great sacrifice, to preserve those rights. Note: For my take on all military veterans, and the military in general, see…

Black Knights and Black Nights

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On the way to my kid’s soccer game near Toledo the other night, I stopped in Van Buren, Ohio (pop. 461). There’s a small post office there that had fall schedules for the local high school team. I, strategically, laid a Joe campaign card on top of the schedule with, as you can see: “Go Black Knights.” Okay, okay… so my kid’s team plays them as well, and I’ll probably not be hollering — “Go Black Knights!” — the night of the game, but… Whose going to know, right? Oops. Note: The wildfires continue almost unabated in 12 states out west now, the 2nd hurricane in two weeks is churning in the Gulf of Mexico, civil unrest in our cities is almost off the charts now… It is, indeed, a “Black Night” for our country. And there could well be a reason all this is happening. And, yeah, climate change might be one. But more to a systemic, spiritual point, sin is also off-the-charts in this country at this time, and it wouldn’t take an Old Testament prophet to see that. Just an “average Jonah” from the Midwest — just getting out of an “Uber whale” who is announcing that maybe God is trying to wake us up.

Cairo campaigning

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On a Buckeye Backroads Tour down Old Rte. 30 recently, I stopped at this restaurant in Cairo, Ohio. As you can see, the “joe mobile” is festooned with Browns stuff, Ohio State stuff… Well, when in Rome. And I thought it was a pretty great bumper sticker campaign slogan — that is, until Biden got the nomination. Best laid plans. Anyway, I passed on a campaign card to a local just walking into the restaurant. We ended up talking sports and politics. About politics, he said: “There’s no way I’m voting for a Democrat.” Me either. A party that is for wholesale slaughter of babies in their mothers’ wombs, no matter what rhetoric you attach to it, is pure evil. That simple. Note: If I had a dollar for every stumping conversation I’ve had, in and out of restaurants over the past 20 years, well “Joe knows” Warren Buffet and I would be buddies.