My suggestion is that one learns from other people’s experience. It generally hurts less and for sure it is less expensive.
Oddly though, those dems don’t seem to want learn from anyone’s experience. They seem to think the only place to learn is in college, even if what they learn is really dumb.
There was an election. There was a winner. Old Joe did a lot of damage. Much of it is permanent. It cannot be reversed. People have died as a result of decisions that Old Joe made.
Among the minor things, many lives were ruined when they were forced from military for not taking a vaccine, which is still unproved. I called it minor but that is improper. That is to say it is not minor to them. Their lives and the lives of their families will be changed forever.
To be sure, some compensation might be given them, but the change is irreversible.
Then there are those that were imprisoned without a trial for years. Some have yet to be charged. It can and has been said they were guilty of this or that. The truth is, it was for what they thought even more than what they did. You see they were guilty of liking Trump.
I am sure, day 1, Trump will start reversing things he can. He will drive the price of oil down. He will cause peace in the Middle East. He will Cause China to back off as they did before while he was in office. Many things he will fix.
However, there are some disasters caused by Old Joe that is not reversable. The disasters he has caused, the lives he has cost, the dangers he has caused this country, the damage he has caused to the justice system… It is why I call him Old Joe. He has long passed any chance he has of me calling him president, ever. If I were to see him face to face, I’d still call him old Joe and I’d tell him why. I would tell him in a way that even he’d understand it.
Recently, I have been spending time at the hospital. They have signs posted in various places, which ask more-or-less those there to act like reasonable humans beings. The sign ask that we not hit each other, verbally abuse each other or damage hospital property.
I guess there are about 12 or so “please do nots.” I read each one with wonderment. I mean, why is that sign there? I know it seems to be a stupid question. Yet there was a reason for it. That reason is simple. Americans seem to have lost our moral fiber. In the 60’s I would have never seen a sign like that. There would have been no need for one.
Yet, quickly, we realize that each of those do nots is there because someone did them. There were assaults, in the hospital. There was inappropriate touching and language. The hospital had to put the sign up, if for no other reason than to keep from being sued.
Indeed, even with the signs, my guess is, there are those who must be escorted off the premises. They do have security guards there who can… or they can call the police.
I ask the question, have we degraded to such animals. I’m afraid I must answer myself with a solid yes.
A little over a year ago, when I bought my EV, I was led to believe I could charge my car at the dealership or the Tesla chargers across the street. Almost immediately they started remodeling the dealership and have not gotten a working charger since. The Tesla power cables are too short, which leaves me with just my 110volt at home.
Normally, this is just a small problem but problems have arisen and I need the fast charger for a while. Needless-to-say, I am disappointed. My guess is that there are others who have the same complaint.
For three years, my wife was required to carry insurance by law by Obama Care for just under $1000 a month. One of those years, Humana was the carrier. They collected just shy of 12 thousand from us and did not pay one part of one claim and dropped us.
One of those years it was with Ambetter, which was not accepted but by a few doctors in the area. However, it was the only choice available. Again we paid them close to 12 grand and we had not one part of one claim. Again, after one year, they dropped us.
Now, I notice they are doing a whole lot of advertising. I guess. Why not after all they collected from us and those like us? I mean, they likely really built up their stash on us and other folks like us.
I noticed too that Humana is sending me emails, ads. Do you think I am paying them any attention? Nope! I don’t even read them. As soon as I see them, they disappear. Don’t need them. Won’t ever need them or Ambetter again.
In a few days, I will be 77 and I have learned a thing or two about how to achieve happiness.
a) First, it is a scientific fact that it is impossible to bring happiness to others without bringing twice the happiness to yourself. Incidentally, I have also verified this by personal experience. So, whenever you get a chance, bring happiness to others and you will bring happiness to yourself.
b) Secondly, risk bringing a smile or even a laugh to others. In the modern civilization, this has become risky in that people might think you strange. Nonetheless, when you make someone else smile, or even laugh, you will find it difficult to avoid doing the same. Caution: bear in mind that some people will resist being happy at any cost and might actually scowl.
c) Be grateful and be quick to show your appreciation.
d) Be quick with compliments. This one can get you in trouble in this modern world. Some people might take this one the wrong way. I have had this happen to me many times. I have found the indirect approach far safer. Complement them on a vehicle. For me, that has always worked.
e) Finally, and most important. There is no way a person can truly be happy unless he is right with God. It is really where it all starts. Accept Jesus as your Lord and savior and the above becomes more natural. The happiness becomes greater and more permanent. It is the way it works because it is the way He designed us.
I hear there are a large number of women who are so upset about Trump winning that they have a list of things they intend to do. Among them is to give up sex completely and hoard birth control pills. My question, if they give up sex, just what purpose do the birth control pills do?
I would suspect there of other reasons that people use profanity. However I would suspect that the above two reasons sum it up for most part. Indeed, if a person cannot control his tongue, it is probable he cannot control his life either.
On the other hand, there are those that use profanity intentionally. It helps their ego. They think it adds authority to commands or instructions. When calling attention to another persons faults, they think that it helps add emphasis. .The stronger the profanity, the more of them that are strung together, the louder the words, the more emphatic.
Jesus, when he was told that some people were not washing their hands before eating, said that it is not what goes into a man’s mouth that defiles him, but what comes out. With these few words, He tells us that a man defiles himself when he uses profanity, regardless of the reason. By implication the Bible says that when filth pours out of a man’s mouth, then it tells us that what is in his heart is filthy too.
Some lack control. Some do it for their ego. Some use it to profane God’s name. Some do it on purpose and then act as if it was a moment of weakness. To God, it is all worse than not washing our hands.
Because it has it has become so commonplace, people think it’s okay. Fact is, that makes it all the worse.
Ten minutes after the results of the pres. election, Kamala and her band of dems are back at it. In effect, they are saying, Silly voters. Don’t you know better. You are voting for the wrong guy. That Orange man is no good. You should have voted for Kamal, Well, we’ll get him next time…. this while saying for the last three months that Orange man will make sure this is the last election. Tat there will be no more.
The fact is they are figuratively beating there heads against that blue wall, which they say they have and they are expecting a different result. I guess if the succeed, it is persistence. At this point, I get the idea it’s more like insanity.
Figure it this way, their idea was to push open borders and call them closed; call inflation just temporary; permit at least 2 major wars…encouraging the attacks against Israel; encouraging children to have their gender changed, you know, just to show they can; encouraging the defunding of police; and destroying the schools system all over the nation. And oh yes, sending car manufacturing jobs from Detroit to Mexico and China and all over the world.
If they had decided to back off just one of the above. Old Joe might have won, but not Kamala. For her they would have had to back off three of them. However, shoving all those things down the gullets of American voters all at once they just refuse to swallow.
So the question of the dems is this. Do they back off 3 or 4 of their pet projects or do they continue to look like robots that are programed to bump into walls?
My guess is that they don’t let go of even one, no matter how objectionable it might be. The reason is simple. They know if they let go of even one, that segment of the party will object and the party will start fracturing as it did with the Jews and Palestinians. Splinters will fly everywhere and there goes that wonderful powerbase they spent the last 35 years building up.
And so it is that they will try to make us all swallow all at once, while trying to convince us all that it is for our own good.
That, I call lunacy.
In a general since, people have been suggesting the reason the dems lost the presidency as well as so many other races is because they didn’t listen to the voters. Certainly, I must agree with them, but it doesn’t stop there.
To a major degree they didn’t even speak to the voters. Kamala especially refused to say anything that she would do. Then on the other hand, had she said what she planned to do, I suspect it would come out even worse for it.
Also, they came out with instructions. They told the Blacks and the Hispanic that they better vote democrat. They told the union workers to vote democrat. Moreover, they were trying to tell everyone what to think, what to send in messages and such. They said, you better watch what you say or we will come after you.
Maybe Black people were tired of voting democrat and yet being treated as step-children. Maybe the union people were tire of voting democrat and seeing all their high paying jobs find their way into Mexico & China. Maybe they were starting to say among themselves we don’t need that anymore.
On a somewhat related note: Many say that Kamala would have done much better had she had 150 days to run her campaign. Actually, it was quite the opposite. Every day of the campaign Kamala’s numbers went down. Had she had 50 more days, she would have done far worse. It would have given the voters more time to realize just how bad of a president she would make. Where this would be most notable would have been in early in voting. Had people who voted early the first chance the got, they would have had a better look at Kamala. They might have even voted for Trump.
On the other hand, if it was 50 days less, Kamala might have benefited from not being so well known.
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