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I have a ROKU device that I either purchased for $40 or $80, I cannot remember exactly how much, although, I do remember my first ROKU purchase was $39.99 at WalMart.

I have my WIFI connection through AT&T along with my cell phone package since this is where we found the best deal.  My WIFI has yet to go out on us, but we do experience connection problems maybe once a week.

WE HAVE NO CABLE HOOKUPS OR FEES, but we do subscribe to HULU, Prime, and Netflix.

For the most part, I watch HULU for the sole purpose of watching FOX News.  Maybe once or twice or even three times a week, I might try to find a movie that is worth watching more than 10 minutes.  Most of the time, it is nothing new that is to say between 2018 and 2024.  But, since we are approaching 2025, then my new movies will range between 2020 and 2025.

So...

what do I do for entertainment?

I maintain two blogs daily and write and make comments on the social media X.

I've written about 10-12, 100,000+ word novels and have one in progress that is already at 100,000 words but I have about 50 more pages estimated to write.  

I am taking a break...  not because I have lost interest in completing the novel, but I just need to do something else.

I also write poetry each day that I post on my REFLECTIONS blog.

Opinion Articles are also written each day (sometimes 2-3) that I post on my DAILY JOURNAL blog.

Now that the weather is changing and there needs to be less and less time spent outside maintaining the lawn and landscape, I will find myself spending more time inside and probably more time writing.

I was walking for about an hour each day outside, but something always seems to happen that keeps me from maintaining that schedule anymore.

Either there is some sort of illness issue like more fatigue than normal that pops up from time to time, or some physical ailment like a bruised or damaged tendon just below the knee.

For five days, I have been limping around or walking with a cane because my left leg not long has to strength to support my walking weight and sends out a pain alert whenever that activity is attempted.

I will have an ultrasound on Monday and see the orthopedic surgeon the following Thursday for his recommendations.  It has severely limited my activities both inside and outside.

BUY AMERICAN

 

As I have mentioned numerous times before, I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican; I am both liberal and conservative and somewhat socialistic.  But...  and with that said, I am totally against BUYING AMERICAN.

I am, however, for buying the CHEAPEST PRODUCT WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY.

Unfortunately, American made products do not always fit into either of those criteria.

Since the mid 1980s when I was an organizational development consultant, I would teach business and industry how to reduce the variation in the manufacturing process to produce a high-quality product at a cheap cost.

I was paid to teach their employees this concept and once the training was over, the management team would not let their employees used what they had learned.

Sounds unbelievable but I was paid either $100/hour and $2,500/day plus expenses to do this.  I made a rather lot of money in the process.

Knowing this, I will very seldom buy American made products unless they meet my already mentioned criteria.

Second, because the American labor force keeps demanding higher wages and more benefits, American products are now some of the most expensive products in the marketplace.

Not knowing your purchasing habits, let me say that I refuse to throw my money away simply because it is American made.  I spend my money wisely and with frugality.

I stopped buying American cars in the 1980s and started buying Japanese cars because of the quality, the longevity, and the high resale value towards my next Japanese car.

Sadly, I have to buy American made homes and whether the homes that I have purchased are new or old, I find that I am constantly pouring money into refurbishing because the original structure was not built with quality and long-lasting durability in mind.

If foreign countries can make the products, I need cheaper and with higher quality then those are the products that I am buying.  The current inflation problem that we have had in the USA for the last four years, has just encouraged me to buy less and less American made products.

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Downside of Passing Age 70

 

One morning, I wake up, get out of bed, and when I try to stand up my left leg gives out.  I hobble to the bathroom for my traditional morning pee, then out to the kitchen to give the cats their morning treat.

For two days, I am able to walk around but with a slight limp but on the third day, my knee is so weak that the only way I can walk is with a cane or some kind of counter support.

A visit to the clinic reveals that there is nothing wrong with my knee and that the pain is coming from just below the knee but there is nothing swollen around that area.  By the process of elimination, it must be a tendon below the knee that is either bruised or torn.

In a few days, I will have an ultrasound perform so see if that can reveal anything to prevent me from having to go through an MRI.  I have been placing cold packs on that area several times a day for 20-30 minutes and that seems to be helping.

I have a regular appointment scheduled with an Orthopedic doctor in a couple of weeks, and I will ask him to look at it then as well.  But again, if it is torn or bruised, there is nothing I can do short of surgery other than cold packs, elevation, and rest.

It could take several weeks for my knee area to get back to normal.

I am already dealing with two torn and retracted tendons in both shoulders and now my knee.  Torn or bruised, my knee will continue to give me problems once it has started.

The only part that really bothers me is the fact that I may not be able to weed eat the outside yard as I was doing, unless I can find some way to incorporate these injuries into that process.

Somewhat Political

 

Proven With Electromagnetic Waves

Scientists at the University of Southampton have experimentally proven the Zel’dovich effect by amplifying electromagnetic waves using a spinning metal cylinder, confirming a theoretical prediction from the 1970s and opening new avenues in technology and quantum physics. Credit: SciTechDaily.com

University of Southampton researchers have confirmed the Zel’dovich effect, where twisted waves are amplified by a rotating object. This finding, previously only demonstrated with sound waves, now applies to electromagnetic waves, with promising implications for quantum physics and energy-efficient technologies.


Physicists at the University of Southampton have successfully tested and confirmed a 50-year-old theory for the first time using electromagnetic waves.

Their experiments demonstrated that the energy of waves can be amplified by bouncing ‘twisted waves’—waves with angular momentum—off a rotating object under specific conditions.


This is known as the ‘Zel’dovich effect’, named after Soviet physicist Yakov Zel’dovich who developed a theory based on this idea in the 1970s. Until now, it was believed to be unobservable with electromagnetic fields.     READ MORE...

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Live Aid 1985)

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)

 Either you believe or don't believe.  There is not an in-between or maybe on this issue.

The first known UFO encounter in America was recorded in 1639 by pious Puritan and prolific journal-keeper John Winthrop. He is a foundational figure in the national pantheon and leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as it settled Boston.

UFO sightings got more pronounced in the 1940s and especially after the Roswell incident in 1947 where it was alleged that the US military discovered a UFO that had crashed.

Recently, the government finally admitted that there were, in fact, UFOs, and pretty much the issue has died down since then.  However, that is not to say that UFO sightings have stopped, because they haven't, it is just that the general public is no longer concerned since the government admitted they were real and being investigated.

I remember several so-called EXPERTS saying the UFO sightings were a HOAX...  and, it is somewhat humorous that those experts have been proven incorrect.  SO MUCH FOR EXPERTS.

SO...

where do these UFOs come from?

Are they from inside our Milky Way Galaxy or from outside of it?

Hard to say actually and any comments were made at all, they would be sheer speculation.

What we have let slipped by our focus is the fact that these UFOs are being flown by EXTRATERRESTRIALS...  and not by human beings...  and that they might not even look like us since their lives are being spent inside the vacuum of space and not on some planet, like earth with gravity.

Now that we know there are extraterrestrials, we must also make the assumption that these extraterrestrials are SMARTER THAN US...  because of all their advanced technologies...

We must seem like children to them.

We have no idea how old they are.

We have no idea if they have a life span.

We have no idea if they are dangerous.

ALL WE KNOW IS THAT THEY ARE OUT THERE...  and probably watching and studying us.

The Nuclear Option

 

Many of us have the FALSE BELIEF that our world will not attempt to use the nuclear option to settle our territorial disputes and disagreements.

While many of us also believe that ISLAMIC TERRORISTS are so obsessed with completely destroying ISRAEL that they are blinded to the fact that using nuclear weapons on the JEWS will also destroy them and their quest for after life VIRGINS.

As of January 2024, the following countries have nuclear weapons:

1. United States 
2. Russia
3. China
4. United Kingdom
5. France
6. India
7. Pakistan
8. Israel
9. North Korea.

The United States and Russia have the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons, with each country possessing over 5,500 weapons. Together, the two countries have nearly 90% of the world's nuclear weapons.  SOURCE:  Arms Control Association

We all know, especially Israel that IRAN is very close to having nuclear weapons and when that happens, their first target will likely be ISRAEL...

We would be stupid not to believe that Russia, India, and China are working with IRAN to achieve that goal.

SO HERE ARE THE QUESTION:

How many nuclear bombs will it take to destroy the world?

And do you think that the number of nuclear bombs held by the USA and RUSSIA is enough to accomplish that goal?

Once we have come to terms with those realities, coupled with the facts of what is already going on in Ukraine and in Israel and Lebanon, one can easily see that the world is damn close to becoming sucked into ANOTHER WORLD WAR.   And when that happens, if that happens, there is a very good possibility that some type of nuclear weapon will be used to gain a military advantage.

For the US President just to say DON'T DO THIS...  is not enough to stop this from happening.

Makes You Think, Doesn't It?

Kamala's PLAN

 

Revenge

 

Angel

 

Racist

 

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SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

What About, What IFs?

I have said it many times before that opinions are like butt holes, everybody has got one, but that does not make opinions any less valid.

Many people understand but do not fully accept that the consequences of their actions are always as bad as people claim they might be.   Whether or not this is true, does not prevent me from voicing my concerns about a couple of WHAT IF SCENARIOS.

What If, Trump loses the election in November?

I believe that the USA will experience FOUR YEARS of unrecognizable hardships.

• Inflation will continue
• Illegal immigration will continue
• Crime and violence will continue
• Worker strikes will continue
• Taxes will increase on Americans
• US economy will continue to weaken
• Russia will intensify its war in Ukraine
• China will invade Taiwan
• Iran will declare war on Israel

Why do I believe this?

Kamala Harris will simply follow the policies of the Biden administration as dictator to her by Obama and the Democratic Party.

Also:

• Trump will be sent to prison where he will remain while his lawyers appeal
• NYC will seize his assets for failure to pay restitution
• The Trump Real Estate Empire will file bankruptcy
• Trump supporters will retaliate

Also:

• Terrorists already inside USA will commit activities
• Criminals already inside USA will escalate their activities
• Illegal immigrants will begin to substantially draw down medical and other resources
• Americans and Illegals will begin to fight each other

Of course, I am painting what might be a WORST-CASE SCENARIO...  and, while that MIGHT be true...

What if it is not?

What if it is partially true?

DID YOU KNOW...

that the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserves that the US uses for emergencies and WAR, has been reduced in half by the BIDEN ADMINISTRATION...  so, now that the US is no longer the leader in producing oil, we must buy oil from other countries.

What if these countries won't sell to us?

What if these countries gouge their prices to us?

CHINA OWNS ONE THIRD OF OUR NATIONAL DEBT...  

Do you think they will loan us money?

AND WE HAVE NOT EVEN BEGUN TO DISCUSS THE WHAT IFs of continue to move towards GRENN ENERGY.

Somewhat Political

 

Bosses FIRING Gen Z Grads

After complaining for the better part of two years that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with, bosses are no longer all talk, no action: Now they’re rapidly firing young workers who aren’t up to scratch just months after hiring them.

According to a new report, six in 10 employers say they have already sacked some of the Gen Z workers they hired fresh out of college earlier this year.

Intelligent.com, a platform dedicated to helping young professionals navigate the future of work, surveyed nearly 1,000 U.S. leaders. It found that the class of 2024’s shortcomings will impact future grad

After experiencing a raft of problems with young new hires, one in six bosses say they’re hesitant to hire college grads again.  Meanwhile, one in seven bosses have admitted that they may avoid hiring them altogether next year.

Three-quarters of the companies surveyed said some or all of their recent graduate hires were unsatisfactory in some way.         READ MORE...