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The end of the road? My last blog

How cool is that to be able to post on my blog from the afterlife! I guess I spent too many years in that cabin in the woods and learned to ignore pain and discomfort because apparently the pain I have been experiencing over the last few days was a serious indication that I was in real trouble. Then again with the coronavirus pandemic in full swing one just does not call up and go and see his…

Two plus two…. equals sex, racism and bigotry

….far far away during a different time in my life I was sitting in an elementary school classroom and all of the sudden pain shot across my knuckles like it was hit with a hammer, however this was the result of no hammer but a ruler and a diminutive 5 foot teacher. I was not the sensible ‘not get into trouble’ guy that I am today, in fact back in the late 50’s I was a bit of a troublemaker and…

You never know…. when chickens will fall from the sky

  …if you take a cup of coffee and pour in cream you loose the rich fullness of its flavor, which is akin to what I see happening to our nation, so maybe I’ll write about something else that I can ‘grump’ about ;-( A friend of mine from Alaska remarked in his last email to me that, “You sound particularly positive and energetic”. Now that is hardly normal for this old curmudgeon who normally…

Light at the end of the road…. ?

I have two granddaughter’s, a grandson and two children and I think it is wrong to condemn them to a life of poverty for the overspending this nations leaders are currently doing and planing to do in Washington. Yes poverty is the best I can hope for them because at the other end of the spectrum of life in the future is homelessness, if the new ‘two’ spending bills are passed. Think I am wrong…

A message to my friends…. redux

It appears that my ‘message’ may have been misunderstood by some to mean I had decided to stop writing, when what I wanted you to understand was my long absence from the blog. I must thank my daughter for the proverbial ‘foot in my…’ I mean the gentle nudge to quit moaning and get back to writing. Though easier said than done when each day brings new (or old) physical challenge’s I am indeed…

A message to my friends….

On November 23, 2009 I sent my first blog posting over the amateur radio airwaves, now 11 years 966 postings, with 915 followers and over 106,000 hits later I think I have reached the end of the road. Yes I know I have been long absent from my blog of late but I have a good reason…..depression and I can trace the trigger’s for this dark state to two things, my physical health and watching my…

We have not forgotten…. but our leaders have!

Never forget that for the second time in history on September 11, 2001 the United States was attacked by cowards   Photography by Gulnara Samoilova – https://www.gulnara.com/ 2749 civilians 343 fire fighters 23 policemen were murdered that day   Photography by Gulnara Samoilova – https://www.gulnara.com/ We vowed to ‘never forget’ instead 20 years later we gave the terrorists that sheltered the…

Texas death panels…. ‘aka’ critical care guidelines

…when the Obama administration was pushing to pass the ‘socialized medicine’ bill we heard much talk about the death panels every hospital would have and it looks like at least here in Texas, we are about to see them in action. Because of the delta variant of the COVID virus and millions not getting vaccinated our hospitals are operating at full or over capacity. In some areas of Texas hospitals…

“We have no capability to rescue Americans”…. but I still won’t take questions from the media and i’m going back on vacation!

Benghazi redux ….”the demands of the office appear to be too much for the 78-year-old president. Vacation time would seem to be what’s called for. But there’s a problem: By the time the president is rested and refreshed, the world will have been turned upside down”. *Come on folks even if you voted for him be truthful and think back to when he is making a speech, (aka reading of the…

The emperor has no cloths, or better still…. who is leading our nation?

More than a decade ago I wrote an article bemoaning the lack of respect that American travelers in foreign nations sometimes encounter. I compared it to the time when the Roman empire ruled the known world and any citizen of Rome would merely announce that he was a citizen of Rome and no one would dare do him harm. For many decades after the first world war citizens of the United States were also…

Is the Texas voter bill equal to the Jim Crow laws…. nope just equal to what Biden’s state of Delaware has for voting regulations.

….has anyone against it actually read the complete bill, I think not, because they would see that it is almost equal to and in some parts better than the voter laws in the Presidents home state. Don’t believe me click here and read it for yourself. Yes it does tighten up the requirements for voter ID, but only those who want to flood the elections with illegal or even dead voters would complain…

Is the President treating people differently based on ethnicity…. or is it just that his COVID policy for the US is discriminatory?

….in the preamble to the constitution of the United States, it states “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”, which many of those in congress seem to have a problem with, as witnessed by the non-enforcement of laws and regulations in reference to allowing people into the U.S. during the pandemic.  The President has once again extended the closed border with…

….I am sure I ‘woke’ up in some parallel universe somewhere where one can no longer enjoy just watching sports for the excitement of seeing your favorite team or player go that extra mile, no now we have to endure personal and political demonstrations by a number of disenchanted athletes. Also gone are the days of continuous sports reports and replays of their amazing feats during a competition…

Who is truly running our nation…. President Biden or his staff?

….world leaders and ambassadors are saying (in public) to reporters that President Biden is a positive step forward compared to President Trump, in private its a different matter. For a while now the leaders of NATO and G7 have been questioning the ability of President Biden to lead the free world and the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday only confirmed their…

Is Texas part of an alternate reality…. or an example of what is in store for America?

  ….just a few short months ago Texas was thrust into a life ending emergency when cold weather and lack of fuel shut down some electric generating stations. This emergency caused the death of 111 Texans and $200 billion in damage from water pipes bursting because they were frozen from lack of electric heat. Now here in June the evening news is once again reporting the shut down of four power…

When it’s 95+ in Texas… I think back to cooler times

Yes when the temperature is 95 degrees and the heat index is 104 or higher I look back fondly to the 20 years I lived in Alaska and spent hours walking through the many ice sculptural’s at the Fairbanks International ice carving competition. In the future I will try and put together additional video of the carver’s creating some of these interesting works. So if it warm when you are take a…

Black and white, conservative and liberal…. all are proud to be American

As I was falling to sleep I heard the talk show host’s comment positively on a major sports event. It seems that no players took a knee or raised their fist but respected the crowd when they brought the house down signing the national anthem. You know it makes one feel good to once again see people proud to be American