Trump's send USA to hell in a handbasket

James Saling

Economy of the next five years

           The United States economy once once referenced by a former presidential candidate Ross Perot with this analogy. “The economy is like peanut butter . If you feed it to a horse it will look like he is talking.” So what a person ciphers out of that is certainly up for debate and its meaning could vary from one person to the next.  With the new president reality TV star Donald Trump in office the thought of where the economy might be over the next five years even on a local scale .

       While it's not easy to predict things especially like the stock market or what the next “big thing” will be it is however easy to see things do not seem to be going in a positive direction equally for all income brackets.

     Over the next five years it seems like the ones with wealth will grip even tighter to their money and seek to gain even more to continue their cushy easy low worry lifestyle . In the lower income classes however the struggle to keep afloat will be much greater causing more havoc on the economy and even more violence depression drug use and so on which will most likely lead to a breakdown of lower class societies and lead to eventual breakdown of the entire country .

           Will this happen in the next five years ? Well probably not to this extreme but everything has a foundation and it seems the foundation for the imminent fall of this country was payed quite some time ago.  So what's next on the agenda of those who are waiting for this to happen ? Time with tell and someone will pay . If they can afford to that is. 

Poetry

          I have always loved the written artwork of poetry. In most of our lives poetry to some degree has had its affect on us. All out favorite songs are just forms of poetry set to music.  That alone is a major source of inspiration . So I really have hoped that I could someday write something so special that it would be remembered and inspire for generations to come.  

     One of my all time favorites has some religious implications to it . I am not a Christian and actually I am not far from what can be called an Atheist . However the poem I am referencing is called “Footprints" . I began writing poetry at a young age while inspired by this poem that had an unknown artist . This tearful happy message within the poem had me inspired to write poetry and with that in mind this poem was one of the very first I ever wrote and it was called “The Land Above” .

The Land Above

The land above oh how it is so high .

I am a dreamer and my thoughts carry me away.

Just to know what it would be like for I too wish I could fly.

To the highest mountain tops that touch the blue sky.

To be like those birds with wings spread.

Like artists of the air as they float and glide.

Or perhaps like the birds that are able to sing.

With such sweet sounds of love.

How great it must be on that land above.

              So bare with it i mean i wrote this when i was six years old so i know it sounds a little magoosh. As i have gotten older i have to say that i have adopted quite a few favorite writers and poets. None that you might come to expect me to say though. I am proudly not a cliche fan of Hemingway . Nor do i find any interest in being a bandwagoner and say i'm a fan of betty friedan. However i have in fact read Feminine Mystique. I have a good admiration for D.C.Andrews for creativity and originality, I am also a fan of Molly Ivins whom i reference to as “The Written Renegade” . I naturally like the writings of former professional wrestlers i grew up watching such as Ric Flair , Shawn Michaels and New York Times 26 run best seller Mick Foley’s Have a Nice Day. I have never been a real Shakespeare fan and i will end this blog entry with the reason why .

“Because artistic poetry is really easy to fake…….when thy sentences thus no f****** sense make!”

Thanks for viewing my blog and I will post another original i wrote in my glory pre-teen years next time! 

This is going to suck.

I can't speak for everyone but I know I truly genuinely hate when I have a day coming up that is like two or three days away and I know it's going to suck ass.  I can't do anything about it or prevent it but it's coming and it's unavoidable.

My 3 most memorable wrestling matches I ever had

My 3 most memorable wrestling matches I ever had were

 APW GYM WARZ Aug 1998 "Mack Daddy " Jimmy Ripp vs . "Vicious"Vic Grimes (hardcore rules)

 "legends of wrestling" show by earthquake ferris when I wrestled Chris Cassanova in front of my entire family n many friends in attendance getting to see me wrestle for the first time.  2002 I think that was.

And the 3rd being
North American Wrestling
Jimmy Ripp vs. Steve "Wonder" Fain

  ( a match where I showed those who told me I was too old and didn't have it no more that I could still go and in alot of ways I looked better than I ever did )

Is there good horror films anymore ?

What movies can still scare me .

    To explain what scares me when it comes to film or any form of entertainment I would have to say involves the writer to enable me to put myself into mix so to speak. Now I don’t mean in the sense of suspending disbelief so much as I do completely being able to relate to what is going on so much so that I have either experienced a situation similar or it is a realistic fear of something being portrayed having the good chance of being or becoming a reality.
               So in a sense it is the Thriller Genre that is more able to captivate and exploit my inner fears for it is the edge of your seat realistic situations that always have my heart racing. Now examples of that would be things like paranormal activity and the serpent and the rainbow. Thou they mave have a horror label to some I consider them thrillers and also find them to be potentially stories that could easily be thought to have the possibility of becoming reality.
          Now other films like the Exorcist have always left me unable to sleep easy but again this is another story that would not be totally impossible to be a real life incident. Improbable perhaps but not impossible. Society has become so numb to so much gore and violence in the media and t.v. now a days that the horror genre is a highly underappreciated art form that lost its appeal as to what makes a horror film so good.
          The  movie Vertigo is an example I will use. That movie was so horrifying but if you presented it to todays moviegoer they would probably call it boring and why……because they don’t have the desire to see it the way it was meant to be seen and enjoy the suspense that it provides cause most have lost touch with the idea of what a true horror classic film is made up of and why we love to be scared
       So unless a new genre of horror is invented and I don't mean the fake documentary type like "the Blair witch project " or "paranormal activity" but a genre that doesn't relay on shock scenes to make you jump then great horror films of yesteryear will only be a footnote in history and that glory will never be attained again.
          That is kind of scary thought ........OH MY GOD !

Wrote this in the first week of school as a class assignment. Back in August 2016

The Bio of James Saling (Jimmy Ripp)




                  I was born James Elias Saling. I have adopted the name Jim E. Ripp (Jimmy Ripp). I was born during Christmas time of 1973. I grew up in Santa Monica until moving to Oakland when I was 8 years old. I came to ARC at the young age of 42.
          The delay in my pursuing a college degree/experience was due to becoming a father at a young age but also due to my attempts at chasing a dream since I was 5 years old. That dream came true for me on June 18th 1998 when I made my debut in professional wrestling at a small indy wrestling show in Swiss Park of Newark California. I went on the gain an Indy Wrestling following where during one span of two years straight I was one of the most hated wrestling personalities in California and west coast.
         Now if not familiar with wrestling at all then what I was would be equal to being the best at what you do on your level and in consecutive years.
        My peak of my career or I could say my 15 min of fame came when I appeared in the movie Beyond the Mat ( a wrestling documentary movie made by Barry Blaustein). Following that I began to travel all over the US and some parts of Canada and Mexico with a highlight of appearing  at a show called “Legends of Wrestling” where in front of 7500 people including my two kids and my entire family I main evented and stole the show .
          I came to ARC cause I was influenced by my brother who has obtained a AA degree from here and speaks so highly of all the staff of faculty he had courses with and those who also helped him along his way during his time here. I don’t really have a specific major but my career as a pro wrestler being over for the most part I still have high hopes of making it to the WWE someday which is the biggest pro wrestling entertainment company on the planet.
        Thou I am no longer a canidate to be a performer in the ring I now seek the chance to become a storyline writer with that company. Of all my travels and wrestling appearances it was always pointed out to me by my peers and handlers that I always had more of a gift of gab and a knack for creating gimmics and storys for wrestlers to carry out and had a good connection with what kept people coming back and filling the seats.
      So that being said I want to give that like I have everything else I have ever done in my life the best shot I can take and I want to have all the possible tools that can make that dream a reality as well. That is why I am taking this course and many like it. I feel that anything and everything I can learn as it pertains to writing or journalism or anything that can be related to the goal I have so when combined with my 15 years of wrestling experience I figure I have the best chance to see this dream all the way through.
        I do have other fall out plans and hopes as well as other interests too. I am a dance enthusiast. Not ballet or anything artistic but I can dance like those younger club goers and will frequently patron dance night clubs to enjoy showing them up on the dancefloor. I have also in the past few years discovered a love for and high skill of playing poker.
       My current employment is with IHSS as a care provider for disabled and autistic people. That is something I get a lot fulfillment from that I am making a difference to someone and doing some good in this world.
       So no matter where life takes me or what path I end up on I will always take the approach that dive year old boy inside me did when I pursued becoming a pro wrestler. I will never give up trying to improve on the best version of me and most certainly always be happy and proud of the best me I am able to be .
Thank you for reading and enjoy every minute of your life's path. No matter how bumpy the ride may get.

-James"Jimmy Ripp"Saling

Ok dammit I'm shameless

Ok shameless is got to be the single funniest show on television if u haven't seen it then as they say in the beginning of every episode . What the fuck is your problem then ! 

There I said it since I know some of you are thinking it anyway.