February 18, 2024

WHERE OH WHERE, DID MY LITTLE DOGGIE GO?

They say time flies when you are having fun, (who is they?). But I say, time files whether you are having fun or not. I am not speaking about watching the clock until time to hit the button on the machine to clock out from that deary job. I am speaking about the days and months of our life.
But we need to clarify that a little bit. I know the times have changed, (my daughter reminds me of that each time I bring up how it was in the days the dinasours roamed the earth and I had to walk around the tar pits to arrive at the front door of the one room school house), but when you are waiting for that birthday to arrive which allows you to drive legally on the streets your parents tax dollars paid to pave, time drags.
Then your 21st birthday took forever to arrive so you could actually legally buy that bottle of beer or Tequilla. There are probably a few more examples of time dragging in your life, e.g., the school year seemed to never end and summer vacation was always over before you knew it, but overall, time starts marching at a pretty fast pace once the milestones, including college if one attends the higher learning halls of indoctrination, are reached.
Pretty soon, you are looking at the pitiful amount of savings you managed to hide under the mattress and wondering why you wasted that money on all that stuff which is rusted and moldy out in the back yard and going to cost you some of that savings to have hauled away so they stop giving you tickets for nuturing a dangerous condition and being a public nuisance causing that odor the neighbors keep calling the hazmat team out to your house to remove the hazardous waste you have accumulated over the years.
All the above came about because I looked back at the dates when I last spent time with the keyboard and a page with something on it concerning the Grist and there were a few starts of a morning exercises in November and December, with the last being December 11, 2023. And that means it has been more than 2 months that I have been fighting with the Lord and making my excuses about why I haven’t been keeping up with my daily musings on life in general, discussions about how dumb the Democrats are to blindly goosestep along and claim Joe Biden is doing a great job, has not lost a step, and should be allowed to continue wrecking our country for four more years, sprinkled in with challenges and directions from the Word.
Look at all the things that have happened on the last two months. And then think about all the things that haven’t happened. I wonder if your list is anywhere near my list? I wonder whose list about the things that haven’t happened is closer to the reality of even possibly happening during that two months or even in our lifetime, e.g., I didn’t hit the jackpot from a lotto ticket, (maybe because I didn’t buy one is the reason it didn’t happen!). I am not going down the rabbit hole this morning of listing all the thimgs we desire but make impossible to happen because of our actions and choices as that rabbit hole is the proverbial hole that will wind up in China when we start digging.
But I will admit I have wasted some time, not only in this past two months but also during these past few years, in getting some things done. I cleaned up my room last week on Monday as it was a holiday and I was home. Ali doesn’t think I cleaned it up to her satisfaction but it takes time to throw away all my “good stuff” I have stacked up pecariously around the room hoping the earthquake is a mild one and I can keep everything from landing in the middle of the floor. But I now have about eight square feet to work in instead of two square feet, where I can now move my chair without bumping into something and hoping it doesn’t break or the papers are so out of order I have to spend an hour getting them back in the right order.
I even moved the old tube tv out of the room. We pushed it up to the street and left it on the curb, where it is still sitting today. Not only does it weigh more than a truckload of flat screen tv’s. it takes up more room than at least 10 flat screens, (well, maybe not 10 but more than 2). There was a recliner someone placed beside the tv and it was gone the next morning. Why didn’t they take the tv? Now you see why I have more room as the empty space in the cabinet where the tv was allowed me to move many boxes that were taking up the space by the tv. I took the more than 300 books off the bookshelves because I was going to sell them and the person never came to look at them. And I haven’t taken the time to takes pictures of the books and put them on some selling platform and move them so they sat in the way of life in my room, taking up precious space, of which there is hardly enough for me to turn around. But I have made some space available to turn on more than a dime so who knows when I will take those pictures? There are some priorities in life!
So what have I been doing since December 11, 2023, that would keep me from doing what the Lord wants me to do and put my own personal desires up against the Lord’s directions? I learned when I was in at least grade school how to come up with what I considered was a reasonable esxuse for either not doing something or not have done domething I was supposed to do. But alas, it is the Lord I am dealing with so why did the hole deeper. Admit I am a sinner, chief about Payul who thought he was the chief sinner, ask for forgiveness, obtain the peace the passes understanding and get in the proper lane, picking up speed as I enter so no one runs into me, and start me days off right again. Hallelelujah! I hear that song, “Back on the Road again”, playing louder and liuder. You are going to hear my praises louder and louder. Ok. Starting to get carried away here.
The sermon this morning had some points which almost seemed like Vanessa was reading my mail. One of the big points was not letting the circumstances stop my wonder and awe at what God is doing. I know, some think He is not doing anything, but I and a few others in the “in crowd”, know that is not true. Wait for it, Wait for it. OK. It might not be today but it is coming and a lot of people who have been keeping their eyes on the circumstances rather than the Lord are going to be in for a rather large surprise. I will admit, I would not do things the way He is doing them, but then that is why He is God and I am not. That tv show, “Father Knows Best” was actually a spin off from, “God Knows Best!”!.
I do believe I have rambled enough for a first day back on the job. Probably too much for some but just as I have to acknowledge a demented old man is running our country, you have to acknowledge the Rambling Man is back at it.
See you tomorrow.

February 19, 2024

Because Stone Cold Austin Said So

As far as I know, Monday has always followed Sunday, since the days of the week received names. Maybe you remembered but I had to look up who gave us names for the days and it was the Romans. I could have guessed but then, how would I know if I was right? It is really amazing how many times we state something as the truth when we have no idea if it is right or not.
That is probably one of my biggest complaints about journalism today as they do not check out what they are stating is the truth or not. And one of my other biggest complaints is the low information listener to their dribble nods and goes out and repeats the falsehood that was just presented as the truth, e.g., Sieknas was struck with a fire extinguisher and died, or an unarmed group tried to take over the government.
Another really HUGE complaint is how we keep making rules for the many to placate the few. I have a few more but that is enough for most of the minature brain individuals to handle. Not that any of them read my musings but the word will get around and I am sure some woke activist will be knocking on my door or worse, pouring their soup or powder on it.
I have uet to see anyone spend themselves out of debt. If it is impossible on the smaller scale, why would someone thing It could work when the numbers get into the biliions? Common sense says it is harder to get out of a billion dollar debt than it is to get out of a thousand dollar debt.
When I was in the service, I would borrow money because the pay was nowhere near what it is today, even with the extra money for jump pay added on. Special Prosecutors Leticia James, Alvin Bragg, Nathan Wade and Jack Smith should go after all those guys lending money because it was $5.00 for $10.00 and $10.00 for $20.00. If those rates were not usuary, there is no such thing as a usuary rate.
So, it finally got where my whole check was gone as I paid the guys waiting outside the payline. I don’t remember the pay but it was less than $200 a month, (the time frame is the middle 1960’s). I did get free room and board so I guess that made up some of my salary. And the sad part was I still owed money after I paid what I could from that month’s pay.
My elevator does go all the way to the top so I stayed in for a couple of months and away from the glorious night life available for a few dollars, did guard duty for a few dollars, kp for a few dollars and spent some miserable time in the barracks when not earning extra money. I eventually got out of debt and saved up a small bankroll and started my own lending business. Come to think of it, I guess I don’t want those super lawyers to go after those predatory lenders as I was one of them for a little while.
The point is that you have to cut spending to get out of debt, not keeo spending and going further in drbt. And yet, our government thinks we can keep giving away free money and the deficit will go down rather than up. I guess making the middle income earners pay their fair share is a partial solution. All those is favor of a 90% tax rate, raise your hand. I see everyone has their hand up!
I am going to start working my way through the book of Ecclesiastes. Somehow, the word “vanity” sticks out to me as a word to check out. Not that I believe I know anyone the word applies to as I start reading chaper one, but it does seem like there is a vanity attached to many things that are going on in the world today. I may come up with some prime examples as I dwell on the Words from Scripture, we’ll see.
As I try and figure out a way to end today, I realize the beauty of being the one who decides the beginning and ending of each day’s rant, is yours truly. So, there is no right and wrong, it is just the way it comes out from the computer onto the paper. But it does make me take stock of the awesome job God does in setting out the beginning and ending and everything inbetween. Praise the Lord!

February 20, 2024 [Started on November 5, 2023]

Picking Up Where I Left Off

This morning I am going to give it a whirl in attempting to finish what I started back on November 5, 2024. Why I did not finish is anybody’s guess and at this point, only God could ring the bell when the right answer came up. Part of the reason I am doing this is because I have great thoughts, [at least I think they are great thoughts and when the decider of great thoughts gives me the thumbs up, thumbs up it is], and sometimes I write them down and believe I will make at least a two page disertation from that thought. This is a test to see how I do with what I started back in November. I wish I knew before I start, whether this was one of those great thoughts or God can ring the bell because ir was a stinker of a thought! So, here we go:
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As Michael Buffer says, “IT’S TIME!”
If you claim to be a conservative, it is a pretty safe bet that anything the squad is for, you are on the opposite side. And if you are a conservative and voted for Biden to keep Trump out of the White House, you may not even qualify as a Rhino. If you have spouted the Pelosi chant, “No one is above the law, even the President”, more than once and have not advocated for Hunter to be in jail, along with his father, Omar to be prosecuted for her paying her chief of security hundreds of thousands of dollars of campainge money and then marrying him when it was discovered they were sleeping together, it is ok with you that Blasio’s wife escaped with over $8 million dollars that was in a fund to help the homeless, and it is ok for Peolosi herself, along with Paul, exercising insider trading, and of course covering up the numerous Obama allegations which were never followed up on, then you are worse than a hypoctite and must be infected with TDS, whether you know it or not. The deciding points are whether you are for big government or small government and whether you argue with facts or emotions.
I know those are strong words but Jesus Himself told the group before Him they were of their father the devil and they were religious leaders. [I believe John 8:44 might have been the catylist for that day’s exhortation]
If you want to be for open borders, then come out and say so, rather than talk about the Republicans are racists. If you believe the system is racist, then come out with some statistics that show this is true rather than just saying more minorities are incarcerated than caucasions and because they don’t have the money for bail or an attorney the system is racist, without answering the fact that more miniorities are committing more crime then caucasions. I wonder what the make up is in the women prisons?
[The parts of the story that never makes it to the front page concerns the KKK was started to be the Democrat police force, Margaret Singer, who actually attended KKK rallies, started her abortion program to rid the country of black babies,] —- While this is true, I am not sure where I was going and maybe I didn’t that morning either as it stops with a comma.
I find it rather fascinating that the puppet masters running the White House, (I hope you are not naive enough to believe Biden himself is really in charge), are still pulling the stings and conservatives are still the only ones being harrassed and arrested.
I am willing to bet that very few of you are aware the tapes from January 6 demonstrate the perjury of the government in the trial of the Proud Boys, who received a sentence of over 20 years from the perjured testimony. A real media would have investigated this and made much ado about it. How many of you know the cockamamy story of the rape in two or three places, (she has changed the location more than once), was barred by the Statue of Limitation, the govenor of New York gave a one year waiver for one case and boom, more TDS on display.
I watched part of a debate between Ben Shapiro and Destiny. Ben is no lover of Trump and does not defend Trump yet even he knew this was an outrage over what the New York courts are doing. I would also request you look up the defintion of consumer fraud, which this was not, and see that someone has to “detrimentally rely” on the fraudulent statement. And the penalty has to do with the amount of damages caused by the fraud. There wasn’t anyone who came in to Court and testified they were damaged by anything Trump had done.
I would submit to you, that opening the border has done actual damage to the United States, Free everything for millions of people when you have veterans on the street, kids living in cars and cardboard boxes who are American, it only the tip of the iceberg. I have a daughter living at home rent free and it grates on me because of my beliefs on accountability. Do you believe I am going to move a family into my home and start supporting them as some governors are asking their constituents to do? And by the way, so far I do not believe Biden, Hochul, Adams, or any of those other leaders have moved one person into their home! Almost the same thing as defunding the police and then having the taxpayers foot the bill for secutity, e.g., Corri Bush.
The only answer I do have, is, if no one is above the law, and we actually believe that, then the Courts are going to be pretty busy, starting with the 51 experts who said the laptop was Russian disinformation and those responsible for lying about the border patrol whipping illegal aliens, and prosecuting for having an unsecured server in a home, on which top secret messages were sent.
Unfortunately, I do believe John 8:44 could apply for many at the top

February 22, 2024

Evolving

I read somewhere that someone was evolving. I do not remember who it was, but the article seemed to imply the person had evolved, but negatively or backwards. I realize not remembering puts me in the category Biden dwells in, but I an not the leader of the greatest country on the planer, I only sporadically have these memory lapses rather than constantly and every few minutes, and I am admitting I forgot, which never happens in Bidenland, all that happens is a bunch of gibberish comes out.
But I can afford to admit it. Can Biden?
Nevertheless, (I also seem to reversing my “er’s” when spelling a word quite often, since I am on a admission kick), I was thinking about that word “evolve” and how it might describe my mornings dealing with the “Grist”. I think back to how it started and even that adventure “evolved”.
When I started, I was writing because of the extended flu season. I refuse to call it a pandemic because it really wasn’t in the sense the so called experts were describing it and the medical field has a so much egg on its face and shame that those in charge that allowed the fraud to be perpetrated should be quartered and hung out to dry. All that is a rabbit hole for another day as this day is for evolving.
While I have not returned to those musings, during that period, I know I started some things and ended some things, and believe I kept the little saying each day all throughtout until that period of writing ended.
When I started again, I believe I tried to pick up where I left off and it did’t work, at least not for me. I would say I had “evolved” in a sense. But isn’t it really that I could say I grew, matured even more, The verse that comes to mind is 1 Corinthians 13:11: “When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.” I think we can “become a man” more than once in our life.
Sounds crazy but what I am saying is we can mature in many ways, actions, and manners. I know I have a more mature understanding of demonstrating my anger today than I did only a few years ago. And that point a few years ago was different than previous times in my life. If we honest, we can all determine if we are growing or evolving in many ways as years are added onto our life. And if we hinest, we look at certain areas and determine we are not moving forward in certain areas of our life.
I look at the room where I write and wonder how I ever can obtain a thought with all the clutter around. That is what started this whole diatribe this morning as I was thinking about how my life resembles the messiness and chaos in this room. And surprisingly, I find myself feeling comfortable in this room and hardly notice the piles of paper and items strewn in an obviously stay where you land filing system.
Not that I don’t try to clean up the room on occasion, I do. But instead of dumpster being filled up, I barely fill up the trash can that is there for daily use. I wonder how many months of normal use it takes to fill it up so I have to empty it? Think I could go one year?
I am not sure God will ever ask me about my room when I hit the pearly gates but maybe that old saying about Cleanliness is next to Godliness might smack me around a little,
My daughtrter says I am a hoarder. But I am nowhere near those people they show on tv. I might be just outside the top 100 but I do try and throw away something once in while to keep myslelf from entering the top 100 list of hoarders. All I have to do is expand my “good stuff” list and I am safe for another short period.
The ommercial on tv that says we are not supposed to become out parents is not a good one as far as I am concerned. If they used examples of not becoming our parent who robs banks and convenience stores, abuses drugs, beats their spous, then ok. But their examples are not good at all. Becoming that parent would not hurt you and if you got along with your parent and loved them, why wouldn’t you want to become them? I did not have a great example to follow but I hope my values will be good enough for my daughters to want to follow.
Obviously we want to have fun, be like a child at certain times, enjoy life. I don’t think Paul is talking about never having fun, playing games, enjoying life. It is about the grown-up life he is speaking about and only a trouble maker would insinuate otherwise.
So, the bottom line is: Are we “evolving” or “regressing? Becoming a man and a woman and setting aside childish things? Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the answer to you. I dare you. In fact I double dog dare you!

February 24, 2024

Parrot or Truth Seeker

I am always amazed at how so many people can tell you exactly where they were when a certain event happened. I honestly do not remember where I was when Armstrong walked on the moon and said those favorite words about taking a step for mankind. And Nick Foley was not even Cactus Jack or Dude Love yet, let alone Mankind. Bang, Bang.
I also am not great at specific subjects of trivia questions. I am able to display a wide tange of topics I can answer but when I watch Jeopardy, I seem to be able to answer some of the questions under a topic but hardly ever all of them. And I hardly ever give the answer if the form of a question. I am king of the board games and card games, but trivia, Pictionary, etc., are not in the top of the wheelhouse for me. Maybe because I am not that interested in those games as you are out to conquer the world or take your opponent captive. Obtaining a hotel on Park Place first is much more exciting than answering a question about Einstein before the other two jokers standing there with a buzzer are able to ask their question.
This morning is kind of a cumulation of the thoughts and meanderings this week. While riding the bus, while visiting the rooms of porcelain thrones, even while waiting on a commercial to end, the gerbal turns the wheel upstairs and the thoughts keep bouncing off the walls, trying to emerge into coherent words on paper.
In working on the idea of evolving, I thought of a minuscule movement of evolvement this past few years and it came from watching the debate between Shapiro and Destiny. Destiny hates Trump and has the talking points down, using mostly ones which could be discussed if he was rational about it. Shapiro does not like Trump, so he does not address any of the talking points and goes to logical discussions using his wealth of knowledge and ability to state facts and statistics, while never refuting even one of the claims, etc., the Rhinos who speak out against Trump like Romney, who I held my nose and voted for against Obama. In reality, I was just voting for the Republican Obama running that year.
Anyway, I was not a Trump fan because of what he would say at a rally or all the character assassinations against him. I am a Christian and would sometimes cringe at what came out of his mouth. Not that it was that bad, it was just not how I would talk. But if he did not have that crust on him, he would never had been able to stand up to the fake news.
I came to realize when I did my own investigations, the ones shouting the loudest were the established Rhinos and Democrats because they knew they could not control him and he did not agree with how they were running the country, which, by the way, I was more on Trump’s side than McConnell’s side. And a lot of the character assassinations were not believable and unsubstantiated, e.g., the pee tape.
The question I began asking, which I ask now when I come across a person with TDS, is, what policy of Trump’s do you not like. If you are a climate activist, probably a few come to mind, of which the only one I can think of now, is, “drill, baby, drill”. I do think one policy I didn’t like was the one that allowed the county to be shut down even though he had the huevos to stand up to the false medical profession and not allow the county to be basically destroyed during the period of the extended flu season.
For those who believe Trump will destroy democracy, they do not recognize the removal of someone from the ballot, stopping certain billionaires from speaking and not others, forbidding free speech, (especially speech the woke do not want or said, and demanding self-censorship of anything that offends the alphabet group is not only a threat to democracy but actually removing democracy from the equation. Heaven help you if you in that group as there might not be any hope for you.. I am glad the category, “Christian” does not fall into the alphabet group, even if it would mean freedom to offend those I do not agree with, without any repercussion. And speaking the truth is still the best, even if the hearer does not like it or falls into a deep depression, off a cliff, or seeks a safe space to lick their wounds.
You may think I seemed to have jumped off my point of evolving, but really, if you think about it, I haven’t. Because I kind of started at the point of being a parrot. A parrot, as described by Tyrus, is one who is not a truth seeker but one who simply hears the loud noises and repeats them. I started with Trump the same way. Then I watched him over his four years in office and decided not to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Like the young men in the barber shop said, they had money during the Trump presidency. They don’t have any now, so to speak. They voted for Biden and won’t again because of his policies. But they will vote for Trump because of his policies.
Tyrus described the people as either a truth seeker or a parrot. Forgiving school loans is not really a forgiveness, but a transfer of the debt to those who had nothing to do with incurring the debt and obtained their own loans to buy a truck for work, which is not being forgiven in the deal. Allowing a no cash bail system is only allowing the person to continue on the path of crime with no consequences. Allowing millions of illegal aliens to cross the border and demand to live in my home at no expense, while receiving free medical care and education and food, while I pay for all those items, is ludicrous, stupid, and wrong. And denying what is before your own eyes by saying the man in the White House has more energy than anyone means you are not only blind but stupid.
I read some of the comments after the Morning Schmos made fun of Harold Ford, Jr., and they talked about how the Schmos gave the truth like no other members of the media, I would agree. Their truth is like none other and is only the truth in Schmoland, where Willie, Donny and Barnicle live.
I was way ahead of Tyrus in his way of thinking, I just didn’t lay it out as clear as he did. But I had evolved from simply following the crowd, (being a parrot), to looking at what the results and actions towards the county overall were, (being a truth seeker), when deciding on whether I liked mean tweets and good policies or mean speeches and bad policies. Who out there is a parrot and who is a truth seeker?