Here I Go making Waves Again, Get Beach Slapped!

                                                                                                written by Lisa Morgan 

 

Here I go making Waves again! What happens when "Outsiders" are elected to political office? They become "Insiders" right? Just saying I'm not sure if there is such a thing as "Outsider" when it comes to the Government & political offices. Does anyone in America truly believe that politicians whether they are career politicians, billionaires or first term senators give a damn about the average Joe or Jill? Well if you do then you are very naive & just what politicians look for in voters, because you are easily manipulated & malleable.
Granted there maybe some who start out with good intentions to some extent but truly by the time the election cycle is over & they have won; then they are already politicians versed in the game of deceit & playing ball with the big boys. It's the nature of the beast, a political system that we call the government, which seeks to gain more & more control over our everyday lives, while brain dead Bernie Sanders zombies want the government to take the wheel & steer us all straight to the poor house; just as long as they get their Free Stuff!
It's nothing more than double speak from any political candidate when they make campaign promises. They have no idea if they can actually do what they say they will do, but it sounds mighty good to voters, especially the ones that are struggling everyday & too exhausted when they come in from work to listen to the news much less research the issues or the candidates. It's much easier to scroll through a stream of social media memes, listen to a few mainstream media news shows & believe every word their candidate says as the gospel. Newsflash: they all lie! Somewhere between what the politicians aka political candidates say & their past actions lies the truth, but it's anybody's guess exactly where the truth lies because no one in their camps is going to open Pandora's box. Well except for maybe Bill Clinton, that is his specialty after all isn't it?
What I'm saying is buyer beware! Do not go blindly behind any man or woman, for every human is fallible. Look at the weaknesses as well as the strengths of the candidates & ask yourself if these are qualities you admire in a person? If someone shows you who they really are, then pay attention, even if you are drunk on the Cool-Aid factor. Obama supporters should have awakened from their Cool-Aid factor about now realizing that he is not cool nor was the aid he was offering Free! Nothing in life is Free & if a political candidate aka politician says something is Free it's code for " more taxes to taxpayers".
Remember there are no "Outsiders" in politics because they all are playing the game to win it, which makes candidates aka politicians, "Insiders" & the rest of the nation is made up of bystanders who do all of the actual hard work, picking up the tab for their expenditures, therefore "We the People" should demand more of the political candidates aka politicians & we should do less lock stepping with them. This is my opinion & I'm sure I'm making waves again! Get Beach Slapped!

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Lisa Morgan
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My Bucket List became a Bouquet List

My Bucket List became a Bouquet List

written by Lisa Morgan                                                                                         3/25/2016
                          
Life happens to us when we aren't paying attention. Sometimes if we take a moment to reflect on our lives then we find the most amazing things were taking place; things that we had wished for at times but never expected to happen. Dreams can become reality. It's what you do when the dream becomes reality that truly matters the most.

Everyone it seems is making bucket lists these days. You know that good old to do list of things we want to experience before we kick the proverbial bucket falling into the final resting place.  It made perfectly good sense to me sit down in front of my laptop, peck away at the keys to produce a simple bucket list. What I found was it's not as easy as you might think. My premise was that if you had only one day left to live, but you could do anything or go anywhere to do that anything; what would it be? I was stumped. I thought I would reflect on the fifteen years of my life, in order to get some perspective on the things I had wanted to accomplish but never quite got around to doing, in the South we call that "roundtuit" or get around to it. I sat down with a paper & pen at my kitchen bar to pen what I've accomplished over the last fifteen years. God bring you what you need in the season that you need it to come to you, even if you had forgotten what you needed.

I'm a dreamer with realist tendencies or vice versa & even so I consider myself to be a down to earth person. What I found was quite astonishing to me. My bucket list of things I had wanted to achieve twenty years ago had actually happened to me, not necessarily that I felt like I made them happen. Does that make any sense? I had at various time vocalized or day dreamed about wanting to attain certain goals, but with the direction that my life was going at the time, I might as well have been hoping to walk on the moon or dance with Brad Pitt. Although the dance with Brad Pitt option will remain open as long as I'm breathing. 
I digress once again so back to the handwritten list I was penning while sitting at the bar in my kitchen one morning. I sipped on my second large mug of java clicking my pen on the counter top. I started to put down on paper my achievements minuscule or grande. This is what I wrote:

Create Paintings or Artwork
 Sell at least one painting or piece of artwork (I'm an Artist)
 Get on a Plane (Conquered a fear)
Write TV show concepts & have them looked at by Hollywood Execs
Go to Hollywood Oscar parties (realize that I'm Not the starstruck type)
Buy a Mercedes ( realize the new wears off the label after a few weeks but still cool )
Produce & Direct a documentary film   (I'm a Producer & Director)
Write a Screenplay & have it filmed (I'm a Screenwriter)
Write a book
Have an admired comic laugh at my writing (David Brenner)
Write, Act, Produce & Direct a sizzle reel for a TV show (I'm an Actress)
Act in film play productions in Georgia (Not Oscar worthy just fun)
Find True Forgiveness
Pay cash for a house (good timing both in buying, selling & buying again)
Realize that you have a best friend, a true friend
Have my book Published (I'm an Author)
Sell at least one copy of my book (Yay!)
Write a Blog
Go to a Rolling Stones concert
Realize my soulmate is not perfect but neither am I
Appreciate my life

When I had finished this list of accomplishments, it dawned on me that this was an awesome bucket list, that I never could have imagined accomplishing twenty years ago. I decided to rename "My Bucket List" with a more deserving name & I christened it "My Bouquet List". The list had become a much more aromatic, colorful list therefore more deserving of a title befitting a fragrant stroll in a garden of life. No matter what I achieve from here until they lay me under the earth to push up daisies, I will consider my life to have been far more colorful than I could have written for myself. You see all the BS I have dealt with has cultivated a fertile ground for a lovely garden from which to pick a bouquet of flowers. Reality checks come when you least expect them but are most needed. God had given me a Bouquet List, while I was looking for a Bucket List. All things are possible with God.

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan
Author of the Get Beach Slapped book, a satirical reality check on life.
www.getbeachslapped.com

Don't walk, Honey it's time to Dance!

written by Lisa Morgan                                                                                 3/21/2016

You spend the first year of your life trying to yearning to walk. You spend the following six months of your life learning to walk & the next six months learning to run. What no one told you was that you'd spend the next eighteen years of your life walking or running to somewhere, anywhere but where your parents wanted you to be at the time. You spend the following twenty years running in every direction attempting to meet all of the goals that you'd set for yourself in your youth; only to find out there was never enough time to get all of it done, but there's always tomorrow or the next ten years right? It's frightening how fast the next ten years go by considering how slow the first twenty went, which somehow doesn't seem at all fair or right. Now that you've turned fifty, the big five oh my gosh, what happened to my youth & when did those start sagging?

Welcome to the world of the late bloomers, who thought there would always be time until there never seemed to be enough time. When you finally decide what makes you happy, not necessarily what you do for a living but what makes your heart skip a beat or makes your soul dance, you find out the clock is running faster than an Olympiad sprinter. Nonetheless you have found your passion. Now how do you combine that with making a living? Don't you just love a challenge? Challenges are what we as humans deal with everyday, so think of this as one of the best challenges because the reward is getting paid to do what you love! Remember no one lies on their death bed wishing they had spent more time at the office or washing more clothes & cleaning the baseboards more than when their Mom was visiting.

You have had plenty of experience walking & running by age fifty, that now don't walk cause honey it's time to dance. Parlay that passion of yours into a paycheck. You have a good twenty years left in the workforce so why not spend  those years with a glide in your stride, because let's face it after seventy it will become more difficult to walk much less glide. What are you waiting for? You saw how incredibly fast those last ten years went by! You were looking good one day & the next your hair was filled with these two inch long grey hairs that defied gravity, while your other body parts fell victim to gravity; not to mention the wrinkles appearing overnight accompanied by those annoying aches & pains. You better get off your ever growing backside while you still can & dance to the beat of your inner music. Whatever it is that makes your heart sing & your soul wanna dance, that's what will motivate you to get up every morning & to succeed.

Don't wait till the scoreboard has three seconds left to say "Oh no!", because those three seconds do not go in slow motion. I was with my Dad the last ten days of his life, as were my siblings & my Mom. My Dad fell into a coma & remained in that state until he died except for a brief moment when he woke up asking my Mom where he was. She quickly told him he was in the hospital & had been for about a week due to a series of mini strokes he had suffered along with a more intense stroke. My Dad looked over to see me standing next to him, which meant one thing, that I had driven a four hour drive to be with him at the hospital  & that could not be good. My Dad's last words were "Oh Shit!" Nothing like going out with a memorable two words wouldn't you say?

I knew immediately what he meant. No I'm not ready, there's so much more I want to do & to say, but the time on the scoreboard was running out. No more time outs left in the game. My Dad & I had a heated exchange about six months before he died, which was my fault & we never made up. This was also my "Oh Shit!" moment. As it turns out this would be a life changing moment for me in more ways than I could imagine at the time. I would never be the same, aside from the obvious that within a few days my Dad would be deceased.

I starting closing doors & opening new ones. I had no idea what I was doing but I knew I had to start moving to the beat of my inner music. I started writing again after a very long hiatus. I wrote a few screenplays, wrote a reality check satirical book. I actually had one of my favorite comedians David Brenner tell me that he thought I was funny & continue to write, which I did. The more I listened to my inner music, the more the song led me away from the limelight but to the sunlight. What I mean is that I do not desire fame or fortune but peace of mind, for me that is living simple. I never thought I would want to be surrounded by nature far away from neighbors or a big city but that is what I desire. Serenity, solitude & peace are things that are priceless to me, although I do realize I'll have to keep writing to pay for that serenity but it's the serenity that forges my desire to write which helps me find solitude. Funny how that works isn't it?

I'm going to spend my next twenty years dancing, maybe slow dancing, as I'm not moving like I used to ten years ago, but I'm dancing just the same. I want my soul to shine with such joy that all those mystic types think I have an aura, when in fact it's soul shine. I'm striving each day to be right with God in heaven. I know I'm doing better each day at that job but I'm no where near as good as I should be. I'll keep on working on myself because as it turns out I'm quite flawed. Aren't we all? I will keep on listening to my inner music humming a tune as I dance to my own beat. I want for my last words to be, "Now that was a dance."

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

Author of the reality check satirical book "Get Beach Slapped"
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Spin Doctors establishing what the word "Establishment" means to the voters?

written by Lisa Morgan                           3/9/2016

                Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton & Melania Trump at the Trump's wedding
(Were Republicans such as Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal invited? Maybe they were not established enough in the circles of the millionaires & billionaires club to be acceptable or maybe they simply did not know Donald Trump or his bride Melania. )

I find it quite interesting when people use the term "establishment". What has that term become to mean in the last year or two years? Does it means those in Washington in Congress, in the Senate or those as acting Governors of states? Does it mean those working for the current administration or both? Well if it does then all of those angry at the "establishment", as it is called, should remember that many Republicans, some Independents have been working tirelessly to fight the Democratic administration that is in place namely Barack Obama. These who have been fighting for Americans doing their jobs have met opposition, therefore you can not or should not lump all the Republicans, Independents into the same bowl with the so called "establishment". What you may be angry at is those with money & power misusing their power for gain while they try to convince you that they are just like you. What you may be angry at is Obama's failed policies & those who have protected him such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, along with other crony Democrats. We can also throw in John Boehner & Mitch McConnell who neither one did enough if anything to stop Obama. It would appear John Boehner wanted to bide his time as Speaker of the House to get a nice cushy paycheck for life, this was the major accomplishment of his time as Speaker of the House from where I sit. I definitely would love to hear what he did to stop Obama in his reign of tyranny against the United States of America. 

Stereotyping all those who are working to defend the Constitution, defend the American Citizens is not right. Just because some keep screaming establishment, it's like screaming "the man" back in the early 60's, which was nothing more than a way to get the masses riled up in a frenzy. Be smarter than the talking heads. Do not fall into the pitfall, that the PC types would have you fall into, because of you fall for that ploy then they begin to brainwash you. It's so easy for the liberal left to convince people that anything spoken enough is truth; when nothing could be farther from the truth. They cling to repeating an insult, repeating a lie as fact with no proof over & over until it sticks makes falsehoods truths. It is a fact that many can be fooled by the tactic used by many cult leaders, politicians, salesmen, heads of state, con artists by simply repeated a phrase or a word in a paragraph, many can be swayed to accepting this word or phrase, especially if the person giving the speech keeps reiterating repeatedly how they are telling the truth. Subtle brainwashing the masses to believing lies to be truth is nothing more than propaganda. We as American citizens should be more intelligent than those would would seek to make wrong right & right wrong. Calling someone a liar with no proof is nothing more than slander just as Hillary Clinton saying a planned act of terror in Benghazi, which led to the death of 4 Americans, was the fault of a little viewed video. As one GOP candidate like Donald Trump calls Ted Cruz liar, check to see what the facts are about the one accused of being a liar & the one calling names. Somewhere in between will lie the real truth. For the record the FBI does not have 150 agents assigned to the Hillary Clinton email scandal unless there is something to her deception & outright lies. It's the same thing as saying you are a conservative when you actually are a liberal. A person's character can be judged by those they surround themselves with or their friends.

                                         Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg & Bill Clinton 
(Two Billionaires & a hundred Millionaire all of whom want you to believe they are just like you the average working Joe or Jill, when they are all three the best Spin Doctors in America.)

Spin doctors became infamous with the Bill Clinton presidency especially while the Monica Lewinsky affair was looming over the White House. Spin  doctors now are an accepted part of the media culture, which sometimes smells so atrocious that one would think it would need a thorough cleaning with bleach. Yes they also know how to whitewash over the facts, to wring them out replacing a fact into their web of lies, whereby to them with some fact in place, now it is all truthful. Not hardly! If it smells of BS it probably is, but what is the meaning of "is" the Clintons would ask you?!

Establishment to me is the people who have lived off of the American citizens, taxpayers backs at our expense while they have done nothing but weigh us down with more debt, which we as taxpayers are obliged to pay. The establishment are those in political office to avoid work, line their pockets with kickbacks, bribes, insider info that leads to them becoming multi millionaires while making $125,000-$250,000 in salaries per year. Somehow Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid have both become millionaires while in political office. Something definitely smells of a dirty diaper in the hamper there. Spin doctors twist the facts in their PC way to distort truth, talking in circles till most peoples heads are spinning, thus the name. I do not believe everyone holding a political office is bad or is lazy, nor do I think all of them have turned a deaf ear to the public outcry against Barack Obama, his corrupt administration or his corrupt misuse of power. There are good people working to save this country that they love, but for the others who have loved corruption, power, greed more than they have fought it, well yes they are the establishment, for they have firmly established that this is the way it will be as they attempt to force their ideology down our throats. These same "establishment cronies" have also given us the bill after slinging lies, wasting Our money/taxpayer dollars as they deem fit. They never once cared what we thought or wanted to hear what we were saying. Nancy Pelosi famously said of Obamacare, "You have to Pass the Bill to see what's in it." WTH kind of sense does that make? After the 2012 election was over some months later Harry Reid was asked in an interview about his "obvious repeated lies" while speaking on the Senate floor & to the media concerning former Governor Mitt Romney's not filing his taxes. Harry Reid glibly chided, "Well he didn't win did he?' As if Harry Reid's lies were all justified? Apparently this is how Harry Reid lives his life with no remorse for his lies and smirking over having gotten away with fooling the American people once again.

Don't allow the spin doctors, the politicians whether they are new to the game or old hat at the game to deceive you with parlor tricks a psychic would use while preying on a grieving spouse.  What "We the People" have is the power of our vote, especially in this election cycle of 2016, where so much is at stake for American citizens & our freedoms. We should use it wisely to protect us from tyranny, fascism, socialism, wasteful spending, egregious trampling on the Constitution & laws. "We the People" have rights that illegals, visitors to our country do not have, as "We the People" are the citizens, the taxpayers. Be wise, be informed, be an active participant in the elections as a citizen because many of your ancestors, many of the nations forefathers died defending our rights. Don't let their sacrifices be in vain. God Bless America! 

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

www.getbeachslapped.com
Author of the satirical reality check book Get Beach Slapped
@thebeachwife on Twitter 

Game Changers in America

written by Lisa Morgan                                                                                    3/3/2016

Do we have a game changer here? The GOP Republicans might pull Romney out of the magician's hat & The Liberal Dems might pull Biden out of the court jester's hat; meanwhile the American citizens are screaming WTH? Exactly why have we been force fed political campaign commercials for over a year if when we are in the homestretch of the election year, the establishment of both parties freaks out as Hillary Clinton is looking at facing jail time or being disqualified & rightly so for her email debacle (She knew exactly what she was doing when she purposely broke the law); Bernie Sanders a self confessed socialist wants to empty all the pockets of the American taxpayers to redistribute the money as the government sees fit; Donald Trump a bombastic no holds barred tycoon promises to fix what Obama has ripped apart; meanwhile Ted Cruz is saying similar promises as Trump but Trump has painted him as a liar; Marco Rubio has become "Heckler of the Year" surpassing Trump in insults. The establishment of both parties does not like that their "intended choice" of candidates either was spit out by the American voters or might not meet the qualifications or various reasons; therefore they now signal foul on the playing field. The Dems & GOP both may change the rules of the game in midstream to justify their goals of having their intended choice become nominee, not the "Will of the People" or the American Citizens who vote.

The fact that the two political parties have decided that "We the People" will be force fed the nominee they want regardless smacks of tyranny. It is "We the People" of American Citizens that decide the outcome, just as "We the People" are protected by the Constitution, a document that as the late Justice Scalia correctly pointed out, the Constitution is Not a living document, meaning it does not change as we change, it is to be set as it was created at the time it was written. Case in point if you play a ball game you have rules that do not change as the game progresses, or you would have chaos & a ball game that had a predetermined outcome based off of the ever changing rules, so should the Constitution be the same & Not a ever changing living document.

How funny would it be if "We the People" got behind a ticket of Trump/Cruz & Hillary/Bernie despite what the two established parties wanted? We are on a roller coaster ride from hell as it is anyways, so why not ride it on out at this point. What choice do we have? We can stand up to the political system that is obviously broken & Demand that government officials who Serve "We the People" & Not the other way around, that they be held accountable for their actions by charging them when they break laws & convicting them, as they should be regardless of party affiliation. Politicians, government employees are Not Above the law & in fact should be held to a higher standard, thus "We the People" should Demand that all those form the Senate, Congress, IRS, DOJ, EPA, Secretary of State, President of the United States & all others be held accountable for their actions & where they spend OUR Taxpayer Dollars!

It's time America spit out the BS we have been force fed for decades & feed on fresh truth for a change. Truth is not always what you want to hear but it will point you in the right direction whereby you are not misled. Maybe it's time America had a reality check. We can not keep giving away Our Tax Dollars to people who Hate us & want us Dead! We can Not keep allowing illegals to enter our borders giving away our jobs & threatening the security of Our Citizens. We need to coalesce around our nominee on either side to ensure that the established powers that be do not destroy this country any further. There is only so much money that your family can give away before your bank account is empty & you are starving, same goes for the Taxpayer Dollars that fund our Country. Wise up America, quit being brainwashed and have your own thoughts with clarity.

Why would you allow a criminal in your neighborhood to keep breaking the laws & stealing? You would demand justice through having them arrested & tried in the court system, well the same goes for government officials from the top down. They are stealing Our Taxpayer Dollars! They have no problem confiscating your bank accounts, your home or land & all possessions while they act as mobsters. They pit us against each other in race wars, class war fare to deflect from what they the politicians are actually doing like magicians do, so that you do not catch their deception. They the governmental system made of politicians & government employees act as court jesters who laugh at us & mock us "We the People". We should throw our hats off & say listen to us or we will all stay home & not work, we will shut down the country as we demand you listen to us. Then we say,"Now that we have your attention things are going to change around here & you the politicians will be the ones hoping for change."
I have just started the "Beach Slapped" party to give the politicians a good slap! I wonder if I can still run for President? Maybe this is a game changer? LOL!

Thank you for taking your time to join me,
Lisa Morgan

www.getbeachslapped.com
Author of the satirical reality check book Get Beach Slapped