I understand the Starbuck’s has a new CEO who lives in Newport Beach, CA. Actually, that part is pretty good. Newport Beach is a wonderful place to live. I would like to live there myself. However, Starbuck’s headquarters and the CEO’s office is in Seattle.

I’m not a brilliant mathematician, but that’s a long commute. As near as I can tell, it takes him over 2.5 hours and that doesn’t include the time to and from the air fields. Well, at least he can sleep during the flight time.

I can’t help thinking I could propel my little Nissan Ariya a long time on the energy that plane burns in just one flight.

Well, it’s okay. I really don’t care.

What I want to know, who’s picking up that tab. That fuel is just part of the cost of flying that plane for 2.5 hours. Just one round trip… I don’t even want to think about it. It is a temptation to break the Tenth Commandment.

Forget his exact words, but he used, but he said he would never say something bad about…. He already did when he lied about his service.

When I went into the Marines, thousands were going to Canada to avoid service. When he refused to go to war, he put himself right in that group.

I was in the Marines 9 years. One of those years was in Vietnam. Admittedly, I was not in the jungle or rice patties. But I was, by definition in a war zone and I wore two ribbons because of it. I spent the time in the heat and I carried a rifle and live ammunition locked and loaded. I worked and lived in areas that had real bunkers and I spent a lot of time in them. I was on a guard post with rifle and grenades and I got wet in the rain and I walked in mud up past my ankles. I got eaten by mosquitoes and this man refused combat duty after spending 24 years supposedly at the ready to fight. Others went. He didn’t, even though, as a sergeant major, he would not have likely had much of a threat. With his rank, he would not have suffered the discomfort of his troops. Being in artillery, he would have been far removed from direct danger.

Walz has made all the military look bad. He let down the national guard. …and he disgraced his unit, especially considering his rank. If he were a private or even a corporal, that would be bad enough. However, he was holding the highest enlisted rank in the national guard.

More than that, he disgraced himself, which I hope will follow him for the rest of his life. Indeed, it should have disqualified him for any job in the military, let alone, to be in a position where he might command the military.

My wife had bad vision problems from her youth. When I met her, she had 20/1000 vision. At that time, contact lenses were very expensive, but we did agree to get her a set. Not only could she see better with them but it also seemed to stabilize her sight.

I will never regret paying for them. There are dozens of advantages to contacts beside appearance. I noticed one of the big ones is that she did not nearly spend as much time looking for the other glasses that she had a habit of misplacing. The fact was that without her glasses, she was legally blind. She had to bring things within 6 inches of her eyes to see it clearly.

Years later, I took her to have her eyes examined and while she was being examined, my younger son asked if he could have glasses. I started to say that he didn’t need glasses, but then paused. I, in essence, borrowed the eyechart. I had him stand at the line and had him read the letters on the chart. He had a hard time and got most of the letters wrong.

Wow. Did I ever get a lesson. I was under the assumption he could see fine. I mean he was in the second grade and was getting good grades. Could have knocked me over. It is only by chance I found out he was having big problems.

Tonight, I saw a story on the news about children entering school with eye problems, encouraging parents to have their sight checked. It is one of those times I really do suggest that the government get involved. By 4, certainly by 5, all children should have their eyes checked. It is for a variety of reasons, but certainly for reading. I would guess it helps in playing baseball too. I am sure it would have been much better if my son had glasses at least two years earlier.

Perhaps it could go further than that. Maybe pediatricians could perform a cursory check by age three. I know. They aren’t eye doctors. Still, how long does it take to check a three year old for basic vision. No since all the other kids get the head start in development.

Moreover, I have known children who were deaf or partially deaf and didn’t know it until second grade. They had learned to read lips on their own. Maybe one of the best things we can do for our youth is to check their eyes and ears before going to school. Considering we spend maybe ten thousand dollars a year educating them, surely we can spend 5 or 6 minutes on each to make sure they can see and hear.

At the very least, we can make sure all the stupid people like me can make sure to check our own kids. I mean, once my son could not read the eye chart, I knew he had problems. He saw an optometrist within minutes. A few days later, he had two pairs of glasses. He also had a repentant dad.

The answer is an absolute yes.

Now for the question. Will there be a second debate. Kamala will insist on a second debate after how badly she does in the first. I really see no reason for anything else.

Well, actually there is one. Kamala just might do so badly that her handlers might lock her back in the basement on not let her out.

Id you vote democrat, you’ll get the same thing. It’s the same puppeteers. It’s the same destructive ideas. It will still be the same failing economy and the same wars. It will be the same open border and it will still be the drugs coming across and killing our youth in mass. It will all be exactly the way the dems want it.

On the other hand, instead of male president, a female. Instead of a female VP, a male. However, just as before; they will both be liars and cowards.

Anyone that is going to vote for the dems must realize, there won’t be much hope and change there.

Incidentally, Ol Kamala is even following suit on campaign methods, from the basement. All that gobbledy-goop you heard from Old Joe will be promised by Kamala. However, it will be different. It will be accompanied by that horrible cackle any time she has no answer to a question.

It is now official. I just got home from the doctor and he said I am good for 3 months, maybe a little longer.

All right. I’m trying to be funny again and not being very good at it. However, it does have a point. When I was in my pre-teen years, I had the mistaken attitude that I would live to a thousand, or at least 900. During my teen years, I started getting realistic. Now my 77th birthday is right around the corner. I really have a hard time getting over it. It seems just yesterday I was getting off the bus at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at San Diego. They shaved my head as much as the could with regular clippers.

First time I had a chance to look in a mirror, I wished I hadn’t. Thing is, the sun never hit the top of my head and my scalp looked ghost white. Matter of fact, a person can tell how long a recruit has been there by how white their head is, if nothing else. It’s a real shock to a person’s psyche.

At fifty, I had my first heart attack. That is another thing that will change a person’s outlook on life. Things are different now. instead of expecting to live to 100, I am suspicious I won’t make it through the week. I never expected to make it to 70; yet here I am. No one is more surprised than me.

The fact is, none of us is promised another day. It does make me wonder. I know where I am going. I just don’t know what I leave behind when I take my last breath. I am for sure concerned about my wife. It’s my job to spoil her and I wouldn’t be able to do that anymore.

I won’t leave in debt. At least I can say that much. What I owe is less than what I have.

I would like to say I will get everything straitened our before the Lord takes me. However, if I live 4 times the three months I joked about above, it won’t be enough time. So here I am, so stupid that I haven’t straitened things out although I have had more than enough time.

As before, I have said many times, I am a procrastinator. Do you suppose I will be able to keep procrastinating my time of death? I suppose we all do that to some degree. We go to the gym and drink the healthy smoothies. Maybe that will prolong our lives, maybe not. We just have no way of knowing.

Many of us meet death by surprise. Some have accidents. Some meet death by violence. Oddly, some actually die trying to be careful. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of our youth were lost to the so-called vaccine.

The thing is, if a person knew they were going to die tomorrow a person might be quick to seek salvation. It is the logical thing to do. On the other hand, there are those who would party hardy. In some cases in spite of knowing their fate. In some cases, not believing their fate.

Regardless, like it or not, we will all have to face it. As they say, nothing is for sure but death and taxes. The truth, some folks can avoid the taxes by living off the land. Not one of us is going to avoid death. Best to face it and prepare for it. That procrastination thing is only going to work so long.

Old Joe, Kamala and friends seem to be quaking in their shoes. They seem afraid of Trump getting into office. Would they be in so much fear if any other republican were to win.

At first, I thought it was simply that they were afraid that their efforts to rule the world would be slowed. However, lately, I think it is more than that. The communists are patient. They know how to wait four years. They have even made gains while weak republicans were in office.

Trump however, somehow is different. Maybe it would be worth our trying to figure the difference.

There is one big reason. Trump is not really a part of the system. All the other republicans are part of the system. Since Reagan, all the others were part of the club. They had friends in DC and many of those in DC were friends with them. I’m not suggesting that Trump is not friendly. It just is that Trump is not subject to their bribes. Being a multi-billionaire, he has no need of the money of those who would like to control the government via the dollar. Indeed, while others get rich in politics Trump lost money while in office.

So, when Trump made up his mind as to what is right, he made up his mind on what was right and did it. The dems don’t like that. Actually, a lot of republicans don’t like that. Those who would like to use their millions to control the government, don’t like that. Certainly, the communists don’t like it. And… sometimes, if you look really close, you can tell a good man by those who hate and fear him.

You see, there are some things the republicans and democrats agree on, which the general public do not. Most of the leadership of the dems like an open border. Most of the leadership of republicans like open borders. Trump closed the borders. He had no friends on dem leadership. He had maybe fewer friends in the republican leadership. Those in the country club society love a good supply of cheap labor.

I use the border problem as an example, but there are many other things as well. Let’s face it, after many Republican presidents, the US Embassy was not moved to Jerusalem. Trump did it amid complaints from the left and the right. Indeed, there was almost as much anger from the republican leadership than from the dems. Many people gave many reasons. The truth be known, they didn’t want it to happen.

It is far more than that. There were those of the dems with their hands held out for bribes but the republicans were just as guilty. It just is, mostly they sought their lucre and ill-gotten gains from different sources. The one group went in the one direction the other from the other direction. It seemed they both had much the same result.

Then, suddenly, those who used their money as power to get that which the wanted from Uncle Sam were stuck. Those from both sides had no one to bribe. And those who wanted the so-called comprehensive border bill… they had no one to go to… other than their senators. Most of them found out in a hurry, that’s no fun.