The Dirt, Pre-dug ("Interruption Of Service" Posts Nutshelled and Replaced)

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Hey Kids.  Yeah, it's me again.  Hey, look.  A lot of you probably remember the "Interruption of Service" posts I put up a while ago, detailing every second of my sordid torrid life, from inception till 5 mins. ago?  Well, as you might imagine it sort of just had to come down.  It was just too much for people!  For one, as trained Sheeple, you're just not ready for that much truth out of any one human being, and I can get that.  For two, who wants to read 11 posts about my crappy life...it's just not fair to you!!  S'ok, though, because this is gonna be SO much better...as well as so much more condensed!

As the lot of you already know (if not, or if you new 'round these har pahts, please see "A Solemn Moment - The Death of the Dishonest Politician", "Day #23 - War", and "Political Views and How They Just Suck"), I plan to run for the office of The President in 2020, regardless of the cat calls about how nuts I am; or how there's just no way I'm gonna win.  Make no mistake, I will run, and I will win, with the majority of America at my back, regardless of race, color, creed, origin, sex or religion...you hear me?

You also already know, that I have plans to have everything out there for everyone to see before it comes to anyone trying to dig anything up on me from my past, at least those things that matter.  Whereas I used to have it all out there as it was, no one was ready for that kind of honesty and that kind of detail.  So instead of those, well, you have THIS POST.  This one though, is gonna go a little bit more on an unusual path.

I'm going to answer questions that might come up, and with it, all reference needed.  The difference will be a "Why" (when needed), and a "How it's going to help qualify my leadership ability" line as well.

So, whaddya say we get started, hmm??

Born - 1960, Age 53
How does this qualify me to lead (heretofore referred to as HDTQMTL)?  I've watched us mess up over 5 decades of our existence as a nation, and experienced a lot of the fallout firsthand.  What else could a country ask for?

Ages 0-8:  Born into a family of 4 (One mother, father, and brother), parents divorced at the age of 4, moved from the jungles of L.A. to Ida Grove Iowa, then Cherokee, IA.  Was in both private and public schools during this time, and the private ones still had corporal punishment for students, and had religion as their base.  Father disappeared out of my life at 7.
HDTQMTL?  Urban experience, divorce and broken family experience (therefore am aware of why it's important for us to bring back and restore whole families quickly), knows our broken school systems.

Ages 8-15:  Attended both public and private Christian schools, have been through 3 foster care families, was involved in agriculture for 3 years, and the Christian religion for 4, from the perspective of a minister's child.
HDTQMTL?  The agricultural experience, for sure, and this helped shape me morally as well as diversely.

Ages 16-21:  Dropped outta school and took on two jobs and my own apartment.  At 18, I got in trouble and joined the Army to get away.  I got to see over 20 countries and experience their cultures.  I tried 2 drugs during this time, pot (which I immediately gave up after I dropped out of school), and acid (sure, I tried drugs...I was a child of the 70's, and kind of a messed up kid, so of course I tried 'em, but nothing stuck for a very long time)
HDTQMTL?  The military service, of course...and the experience with more advanced European cultures.  As to the pot, my best friend's brother was the biggest pot dealer in our school, and we must have smoked every brand breed and strain of every pot there was.  By the time I got outta high school, I was so tired of it I never smoked it again.  As for the acid, I was a turtle in high school, I couldn't talk to anybody, especially girls.  Every trip I took I was the person I wanted to be, and I took pieces of that with me every time I came out of it...and now, I'm ME!!  Mr. Social!  A good thing for America, I'd have to say.

22-30:  Went  to jail twice...for one day each, and both for misdemeanors, one for possession (the acid thing, long story), and once for prostitution (in this state, if you're the prostitute and you come on to a John who's a cop, you're guilty of solicitation.  If you're the john, and you come on to a female cop, it's prostitution...go figure).  That was a long-time prank gone bad, another long story.  Had a child with a woman who wanted nothing more to do with me, and she fooled me into signing away the rights to Nicholas, who would be my eldest, as well as the one to provide me with a first grandchild.  Would learn about major scam artists and my affinity to business all in the same two years, as well as get offered, then subsequently denied a position with  Drake University, spoiling me for going to college for a very long period of time to come.
HDTQMTL?  Qualifies me as a NOT PERFECT person...a real human being.  A man of the people, from the war trenches, just like the rest of us, as well as primed me for being "The Un-Politician".  Brought out my people skills on a much higher level.

31-42:  Married for the first time to a maniacal woman who wouldn't let me be.  After I proved to her that marrying me wouldn't work any better than the relationship, she raped me for son #2, just to pay me back for spoiling her dreams of me being the perfect man for her to spend the remainder of her days with.  Moved around a lot during this period, including the deep south, where I spent time going through my first hurricane, and learned a lot of new skills as well as improved the ones I had.  Wanted to marry for real during this time, and found out that the woman I wanted wasn't the kind to settle down.  I had sons #2 and #3 during this time as well, but never got to spend any time with any of them.
HDTQMTL?  Got to know a lot about family, friends and life in other areas of our country.  Business relationships were made and improved, and I began to learn that life and all involved wasn't all peaches and cream like I had formerly thought it was.

43-50:  Went to jail 2 more times during this period, once for shoplifting and once for non-payment of child support for child #2.  I began fighting the system and fought for my life more than once.  I married for time #2 to my current wife.  We had a son, but she wasn't ready for kids at the time, and she chose to put him up for adoption.
HDTQMTL?  It really doesn't...however this period of time did a lot to shape me for what I am now.

51-53:  You know the story.  It's the one I've been explaining in great deal for the last 6 months.  Attended law school in the para-legal program...not to become a paralegal, however, but to run for office.
HDTQMTL?  All you really need do is read.  I'm done with all those negative forces in my life, the friends circle has narrowed itself down to a very select few, and my wont to continue being an American was in serious jeopardy.  Law school was never to play ball and learn a new trade in order to make money, it was only about fixing the way the law is, and so I wouldn't make the same mistakes that all former (and championed) politically corrupt Presidents have made in the past.  It was to understand how many holes our law has of late, as well as how to make it more accessible to us, the people.

And there ya have it.  What more could a people ask for?  No BS, no lies, cards on the table, heart on my sleeve, the stars and stripes at my back, and America in my sights, with truth in my hand as a two handed sword, ready to slice open and dissect our corrupt and oppressive government, expose it for what it is, as well as hand it back to where it belongs.  In your hands, America.  Let's take it back from those who would steal from us our rights, our freedoms and add the hammer and the scythe to our flags design, tattered and torn with every lie told, every secret kept, and every senseless war fought.  :D