If there is one thing I learned about people is that they love to complain, especially when they have nothing to complain about. I guess I first started becoming aware to it when I read about the Hebrews complaining about the manna.

As I read, I thought, such foolishness. All the food you want. All you need do is pick it up and eat it. You don’t even have to cook it. Then of course the Hebrews complained. They were getting bored with it. They wanted more of a variety in their diet. Besides, they wanted meat, don’t you see.

My thought was that I would have never been so foolish. However, time has given me wisdom. Looking back on my life, I realize I am a first class complainer too. I really do complain. I am never as grateful as I ought to be. God has given me much that I know of and very much I am not aware of.

I guess the marines taught me a lot about being thankless. No. I’m not speaking of the organization. I’m talking about the jar heads themselves. It seems there wasn’t a day that went by that I heard complaining in the ranks. I have even heard that it means morale is good. If no one is muttering, it means that the morale is low. I cannot confirm or deny that. None the less, if it is true that I was always in outfits with good morale and lots of complaining.

I am sure you are wondering just why I bring this up. As I was flipping through the channels, some woman (I am sure an expert on something, I know not what) was complaining it is not easy to buy a house.

I had to stay on the channel for a while. I couldn’t believe my ears.

I am always open to comments. However, especially in this case. Does anyone know any reason why homes should be easy to buy. Maybe I have this all wrong. Perhaps I am supposed to just sit somewhere and someone will come along and give me a nice 3 bedroom home. Is that the way it’s suppose to work?

I mean, I always thought it was something we were suppose to work for. No one handed my house to me. I guess I did it wrong. Well, let’s face it, maybe the illegal aliens have it right. Maybe I should go down into Mexico and swim across the Rio Grande and turn myself over to a border agent. Maybe that would be the right and correct way to do it. I paid nearly $30,000 for Obama care. The illegal aliens step across the border and they don’t pay a cent for hospitalization or insurance. They get five star room and board and free free transportation.

I guess I did it all wrong. I paid for food and shelter for all four of us and I paid for college for two. By the time it was done, I had a whopper of a set of credit card bills to pay.

But then, in truth, I did have it easy. I didn’t have to clear a forested area and build a log cabin. I just went into debt. We didn’t have to build our own house made from mud and straw. All I did was put my signature on a sheet of paper.

Then, of course, there are those who do acquire real estate easily. They show those commercials on TV all day and night. The crooks get a quick deed and take your house right out from under you. Apparently, the only way to stop it is to catch them in the act. I guess it can happen to anyone. Someone just almost got away with stealing the Graceland mansion. Just where are the law makers to stop that sort of thing? Really!

Some woman almost got away with it. She just almost got a really big and famous house the easy way.

Please send me the comments, hundreds, thousands of them to tell me where I went wrong.

Well look at me. I am complaining aren’t I? Complaining about complaining.

When HAMAS kills all the hostages and civilians, then what are they going to use for bargaining? The just who are they going to hide behind. I suppose each other.

Kamala still ain’t done nothing but talk. Wait a minute. That’s a double negative. Oh, well. You know what I mean.

The problem with unions is that the leaders are not thinking of the union members. They are thinking of the union members. Trump brought the union members at least twice as many jobs as the unions did. He brought back steel, aluminum and autos. He would not have been able to if the unions didn’t first drive those jobs out of the country. Remember the rust belts. Remember the ghost town called Detroit. Remember the disappearing coal mines. Remember the oil pipe line Obama refused to have built.

Or is it all so quickly forgotten. Or is it just preferred to be ignored.

It would seem that everyone and his cousin is demanding peace. I say it is Idealistic. They say it takes two to tangle. However, it only takes one to wage war. Moreover, if one side puts their weapons aside, it won’t take long for the other side to win.

And so it is, Hamas is crying for a cease fire. It is because they are losing badly. What the Palestinians don’t say is that, the instant they put their weapons down, they will start making ready for the next surprise attack, in which they will kill, maim and rape as soon as the are again ready.

The idealistic people think they have the option of stopping the war. What they are really doing is encouraging the Palestinians of Gaza. If they had kept their mouths shut and stood aside, the war would be over and we’d have gotten many of the hostages back. However, they send in food, medicine and hope to the HAMAS. That is not the way to win a war. When you try to fight that way, it cost more lives for both sides. The way to bring it to an end is to have a quick and decisive win. No one wins a war like this. They just go on and on and people keep dying. However, it is the type of war the power hungry win. They would like to go in there and wrestle power from the current prime minister, no matter who he or she might be. It is their method. It is how they work. It is how they succeed.

My Nissan EV loves the nice weather. I dove back home after eating dinner today and my car reported 5.3 miles/KwHour. It is good when it reports over 3. It’s cool when It’s not so hot. That is to say, I don’t have to charge my car as frequently.

Well, I also maintained a speed of less than 40. I was on side streets. Still, it does make me think about ways of decreasing the cost of keeping my cabin cool with the air conditioner. Then, maybe I would start seeing 5s instead of 3s when I finish a trip.

Maybe I could use those little air conditioners they advertise on TV, or maybe three or four of them.

Well, I might be off a year or so. Nonetheless, for countless weeks, we heard defund the police. Slowly, those voices have been fading, but not countered. Tonight, I heard on Fox TV News that there was an decrease in crime on Beal Street this weekend. Oddly, many of those that they interviewed said it was due to the increase in police.

That is what I call hard headed. That is what I call stupidity. However, finally, those folks in Memphis just might have started figuring things out. You increase policing, you put the bad guys in prison and you stop letting the criminals out without bail, you just might see a decrease in crime.

Could have told them that a long time ago.

Well, actually, I did. However, no one was listing to me.

1. Alcohol. While it is legal, it has caused more grief in this world than all the tobacco. Yet, today, alcohol is heavily advertised while no one can advertise tobacco. I could never live with myself if I tried to encourage anyone to drink what amounts to a slow acting poison. Some will say we tried prohibition and it didn’t work. That is true. However, do we need to go from one extreme to the other? Do we need to really have to allow people to make it look glamours. We can’t stop the use of it but we can stop the advertising of it, especially on TV where children are watching.
2. Gambling. There was a time that gambling was virtually outlawed. Now, governments, corporations and even some churches encourage it. Do we really want to encourage people to gamble when there we already far too many people who have real gambling problems. Moreover, when the states and corporation openly advertise a thing, it gives that thing an an element of legitimacy. Is that really a good thing.
3. Medicines or drugs. We have no reason to advertise even the legal drugs. If we have a real need for a prescribed drug, then the doctors can prescribe them without advertising them. We do not need to advertise drugs to those who do not need them.

When alcoholism is the number one drug problem in this country, why is it that we want to advertise it? When families are disintegrated by the parents losing the paycheck at the casino, do we need the glitter displayed in front of the habitual gambler every day. It does make me wonder how anyone can make their living ruining the lives of others. I have heard all the so-called reasons for it and, to me, they just don’t wash. I mean if I were to advertise any drug and it caused the loss of one person’s life, how could I live with it? How can anyone live with it?

My wife likes it warm. On the way out the other day, we walked by the 8000 BTU A/C and she felt the warm exhaust outside hitting her. She stood next to it and said how nice and warm it is. At first, I tried to ignore it. Then a thought occurred to me.

The problem with my thought is that the control panel is on the inside. If I turned the thing around so it exhausted inside, it would provide a lot of heat indoors, but I would have to go outside every time I wanted to change a setting.

Well, as I said, it is a thought. Maybe if they built A/Cs with separate control panels.