End of 2025

So, with that, this will be my last post in this format. When will the new format be ready? I have a launch date for the new website and this post for about the middle of February, however as I learn new things, it could be a little later. All I ask is you continue to check this site out for updates and new thoughts. And with that I will see you on the flip side.

G.

 

 

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A New Year – 2025

There is nothing permanent except change. — Heraclitus

The Christmas lights are down and the tree put away for another year. Christmas 2024 is over and 2025 is on its way. It will be here before we know it. And with age, it comes even faster.

My last post I discussed changing the way my blog looked and felt. While change is necessary it may not be in this case. I like my current blog and the way it looks. Simple and clean. So I had to ask myself, why do I want to change it? The answer is I don’t. I like the format, so that can stay the same. However the content needs a constant update to keep up with the times. That is the area where I am failing.

A New Year begins, and California burns

As we begin 2025 LA is suffering a massive political disaster. Fires are burning out of control and homes are lost. It is hell on earth for some, many people. Yet actions have consequences. Those actions: The people of LA voted for this disaster. They believe democrats would protect them… They discovered the hard way, democrats, political democrats don’t protect anyone except themselves.

I know I sound cruel, and I feel for those that lost everything. No one should ever suffer the loss of a home. Yet it was voters who put the morons in power. It was voters who believed that safety could be found in democrat policies. It was the voters who chose DEI over merit. And it was those same voters who lost their homes.

Reality is reality. Fantasy is fantasy. The voters believed the fantasy and ignored the reality. Those actions had, and are having, serious consequences. The issue is, it is continuing.

When the politicians give the governor 25 million dollars to fight President Trump and they ignore the suffering of LA, that becomes a problem. When the major of LA gave away a lot of firefighting equipment to Ukraine, slashed the firefighting budget, and drained the water, that becomes a problem. And when the people were told that fire danger exist and politicians were doing nothing to confront the problem, that became a problem. So instead of confronting the problems, the people, the voters, chose fantasy.

So what is next?

Knowing the liberals of this state, the state of California, nothing. It becomes business as usual. The main stream media will cover for the politicians, and blame others for the failures. Those politicians who caused this problem, they will be rewarded for their incompetence, their failures, and their stupidity. The blame will be placed at the feet of the innocent.

Is There Hope?

I honestly don’t know. Liberalism has found deep roots in this state, formerly known as the great state of California. Those of us who want to leave, but find they can’t, are stuck between a rock and hard place. We have to do the best we can. What surprises me, we are holding our own. We do our best to live our life on our terms, not the politician. And while our successes are small, they do move us forward. So I have come to believe that LA may become an awakening for many, a rude and horrible awakening, but an awakening none-the-less.

It takes a disaster, a disaster which affects the individual before that awakening occurs. And Los Angeles, is a disaster.

A Time to Help

As time passes the full impact of what has, and is, happening will be felt. Yet LA is not the only part of the country which is suffering, the victims of Helene are also feeling the blunt of political malfeasance.

In a few days a new administration will take office (this writing as of 12 January 2025). Things political will change. How is yet to be determined, but I believe the coming change will be positive for people and disastrous for liberals.

Because LA and Helene have affected so many lives, in a very negative way, the people will have to change. Hopefully those changes will hold politicians accountable for their policies, and their desire to destroy the United States.

G.

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End of the Year Review – 2024

December 28, 2024

It is the end of 2024 and I have been amiss about this blog, my Quick Blog, and my website. So many things have happened, and are happening that I forget I am running out of lifetime. I have been so busy learning and applying new things that I forgot how to use WordPress. In fact I forgot the name of the software.

But I am moving ahead now, and life, our life is changing. It has been a hard four years but with the election I think life is about to get a lot better. I know it is. However it will take time, several months before we see changes in our lives. But changes are coming.

I will do better with this blog, my Quick Blog, and the website. Yet change is difficult, sometimes very difficult. And scary. But change is necessary, and critical in order to live our best life. So a change is coming to this blog, and the website. Formatting changes to start, content changes to grow.

I am not sure how I am going to do these changes as I must relearn many things. It won’t take long but it does require a commitment to enable those changes.

I am not a fan of the block format WordPress now uses. I never learned how it really worked, so I must learn. I learn by resisting but I am finding the resistance tiring and non-productive. Not a very good place to be. But I put myself there, I dug that hole, so now I have to get myself out of it.

So what prompted this change of heart? You could say retirement. Everyone is retiring but me. And I’m old enough to retire, in fact I am past retirement age. I am still working full time, at a job I really like, yet I know no company will ever hire me because of my age. (I’m a few years over 70, several years over 70 in fact.) So my next, and last, occupation will be working completely for myself, during my retirement years. Which is still several years away. Still it is coming and I need to be ready for it.

I am not one to not work. I need to work. I don’t need hard labor, but I do need mind-stretching work. Filling my website and my blogs will help. I also write screenplays and turn them into eBooks. I need, and I am, concentrating on that line of labor. I do find it relaxing and mind stimulating. I shall see how it goes.

For now I want to get this post up and begin working on improvements to the layout. I am currently using the 2010 WordPress theme, which I really like. Yet it is outdated and like me, it needs change. A lot of change. The kind of change necessary to be productive. Something I feel I am currently not.

So with that, I am logging off here, and in the next few weeks will debut a new blog theme, but similar content. After all, holding politicians accountable was the reason I started this blog (and website). It still holds.

Ideas and reconsideration are critical if I want this thing to grow. So I am closing out 2024 with a commitment to grow in 2025. While my life is not bad, I do want to make it much better in the coming year.

G.

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More Changes are Coming

I have written a couple of articles about changes, including my last post. This is an important topic as it effects every man, woman, and child. We all have changes in our life, everyday we encounter some type of change, there is no escaping it.

My goal for this year is to write one post a week. I’m not doing very well with that goal at this point, but I do have reasons for not posting. Bottom line I have no reasons for not posting except being lazy. That said there were some challenges I had to overcome.

For starters I was having a lot of problems with WordPress. My blog was doing funny things, looking funny, and I didn’t like it. So I began a troubleshooting affair and discovered a lot, and I learned a lot about me.

My favorite theme is 2010. Don’t ask me why I just like the 2010 theme. Always have, always will. The theme fills my needs, it’s not complicated, and easy to use. At least for me.

I don’t need some fancy theme, and I paid for some, to fill the needs of this blog. But I do need it to work, hence I spent the last month fixing that problem.

Persistence does pay off.

Life Changes

I was thinking about the changes in my life today and how I will encounter some painful changes in the not too distance future. Specifically my dad is in his mid nineties and his health indicates he will not be with us much longer. But I could be surprised, he is tough and rugged in both mind and spirit, even if his body indicates otherwise.

[Since I began this blog a few months ago issues have happened. My Dad passed away in February this year. That is how long I have been away from this blog.]

I lost my mom about three years ago when she was in her late eighties. That was a change I didn’t care for at all. I fear the next personal change I suffer is when we lose my dad. I’m hoping we don’t for awhile. But one never knows what Divine Providence has in store for us.

[Why am I not changing this post? Good question. By all accounts I should delete this draft and start a new one, but I’m not. I’m not.]

There are many changes I have to deal with, but there are others just as bad if not more so. I’m referring to the changes happening within our country. I can’t fight the change happening to my parents, or the final outcome, but I can fight the change that is being foisted upon us by traitors, those who lust only for power and control.

Political Betrayal

I ask the question, but have no answer; why would someone born in this country want to destroy this country? Why change it from a prosperous nation to a dirt poor one? Unless they themselves will not suffer from this change. It’s the only conclusion I can come up with, the one that makes sense. Add the fact these people believe they are better than us, which they are not.

The Elites

We hear about the elites all the time, the Bill Gates, the Obama’s, the Clinton’s, just to name a few who believe their money will protect them. So far they are correct in the assumption. People like these will be protected by the main stream media, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, you know the normal players engaged in the destruction of the United States. Yet reality tells us this protection can only go so far. We call it history and the elites have yet to grasp the concept.

We don’t have to worry about Russia, China, Iran, and other terrorist countries, as the elites. have become our main enemy. Not to say that China and Russia aren’t a threat, they are, but they are less a threat than the enemies we face within.

At some point the elites will fall, and when they do they can’t, and won’t, understand how. But we the “common” people know. For us, it will not be a mystery at all. Personally I will take glee watching them fall, and yes I will have to answer to Divine Providence for my actions. So be it.

The Commons

We are the Commons. The ones who work for a living. The ones who care for our family. The ones who feel powerless with all which is happening today, to our country.

Got news for ya, we are not powerless, not in the long run. We believe in our country and we are waiting to raise our voice in a very loud manner. When will that come? Voting Day.

We believe in the country, after all if we fall where will we go? There is no place left to go, so we will not fall. It’s that simple.

How do I know this? Past history.

Technically we should not be here. We took on the most powerful army in the world in 1776. We should have been crushed, but we weren’t. Why?

One word: Freedom

The people, us, have known nothing but freedom all our lives. Take it away, as the elites want to, and a tiger will be unleashed. The elites will have change alright, just not the kind they are expecting. And that change will happen election day 2024.

And tt can’t come quick enough. We the people will save this country, one way or another. You can make book on it.

G.

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The Only Constant is Change

The Christmas lights are down. The tree is put away. The New Year’s Eve parties are over. The season is at a close. People are going back to work and vacation time is over. Our son has returned to his home, and the empty nest syndrome fills our lives… Again. Time is moving on and with it changes are happening.

Everything changes, there is no exception so deal with it no matter how painful.

On the personal side this holiday season has been rather difficult for us as a family. Early in December my wife fell and broke her leg just below the knee. We are dealing with the situation and will for several months. At our age bones don’t heal as fast so we have to be careful. Talk about a change, our lives changed in a second, the moment she fell off that step ladder.

Our son came home to help take care of his mother but life is life and he had to get back to work. Our daughters live in the area so they are always here, but our son lives in Nevada, ever since California kicked him out with AB5. (California destroyed a lot of lives with AB5 and now with the $20.00 an hour minimum wage the politicians have destroyed even more lives. Another change for the worse which only benefits the unions and politicians.)

Expectations

As 2024 moves ahead we are going to see a lot more changes. Most of them will be on the negative side and will probably make your blood boil. I’m expecting it, so I won’t be surprised when it happens. Cannot say the same for many others who don’t even think about the future or what it will bring. I imagine getting laid off because of $20.00 an hour was not what many expected to happen. This change is a classic example of Cause and Effect, which I will discuss in another post and have discussed previously.

In the meanwhile expect to see a lot of negative political issues. People who want to destroy this country are trying their best to complete their task only to find out the push back is more than they imagined. These people see their evil plans for world domination falling apart and they realize their power, their money, their way of life is about to go the way of the Dodo bird.

They see themselves backed into a corner with no way out. Their only recourse is to lash out, call names, push cancel culture, and threaten companies and organizations with empty rhetoric.

These evil spawn will never disappear, the only thing we can do is manage their deadly way of life and keep them buried under the rocks from whence they came. And we are more than capable of doing it.

We will suffer pain, a lot of it, before this mess is corrected. I take comfort in the fact their days are numbered and the evil change they are inflecting upon the good people of this planet will soon be over. The only question is how long we have to endure the agony.

How do I know this? History tells us, it teaches us, and empowers us. The dictators of the past met their demise and thus the dictators of today will follow suit. The human determination for freedom is overpowering and shall never be extinguished. This the Founding Fathers knew all too well, which is why we have a Constitution which guides our country and our lives.

Associations

While change is normally associated with the bad, change can also be good, and powerful. I have discovered in my 70+ years on this rotating ball of dirt that change is about 85% attitude and 15% physical. How one responds to change is the main issue.

If your attitude (i.e. response) is bad, your experience is bad. If your attitude is positive your experience is positive, for the most part. If your attitude is indifferent then your experience will probably be indifferent. Same ole, same ole, or so you tell yourself.

There are always exceptions to everything and change is no different. The bottom line is your attitude, a subject we have discussed before and will discuss again.

In summary, change is coming and you can’t stop it. All you can do is roll with the punches. Those punches may be hard and heavy or weak and ineffective. You really won’t know until it affects you. And affect you it will, in fact you can count on it.

G.

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New and Improved

How many times have we heard these words, New and Improved? Countless times to be sure. I have come to realize that these words are code for: WE HAVE FOUND A NEW AND IMPROVED WAY TO MAKE YOUR LIFE COMPLETELY MISERABLE.

Matters not what the item is, from food to computers to cars, name the item add new and improved to the title and view the results. In 99% of the cases it leaves a lot to be desired.

We got a new and improved intranet website at work and discovered nothing works. The links are broken, you can’t find anything, it’s a disaster. Looks nice but nothing else. Of course there was nothing wrong with the old intranet site, just looked outdated. So bye-bye efficiency and hello disaster. New and Improved.

Another example: I purchased a bottle of salad dressing with the words new and improved on the label, taste like crap. I say bring back the old but the company won’t. Their message is simple:

YOU VILL EAT THE BUGS AND BE HAPPY.

This is part of the new and improved “reset” which means you, the individual, will be living in poverty while the elites live in luxury. After all they are smarter than you because they are rich. Thus they deserve the best life offers and you, you will have nothing.

We, as a country, are on a path to new and improved destruction. Be it AI, speech suppression, media distortion, you name it and the politicians will ensure you get the “new and improved” treatment they think you deserve. While they protect themselves from these policies.

There is only one problem with this way of thinking: This country is a powder keg awaiting a match. And the political element has no clue. The elements that may happen will take the political critters by complete surprise and try as they may to diffuse the situation these critters will not be able to.

I’m not saying this is a guaranteed fact, or that it will happen, but I would not be surprised if it did. I pray it does not but the slime-balls who are currently calling the shots will do anything to remain in power, anything. These cockroaches will destroy anyone, and everyone who gets in their way… or so they think.

To the political cockroaches it is a new and improved way of running the country. In short they created this powder keg, but they are too full of themselves to know it.

I read an article recently and it painted a very dark future for the country. It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but sadly it may not be. The article made a lot of sense but it missed the boat as it was so negative.

What the article failed to mention is the resilience of the American people. We will do what we have to, when we have to, how we have to, to ensure we survive. And those that do not wish to partake, to help save this country, well I predict they will have no country. Which means I could care less for them.

I’m not negative as this country has been through so much, endured great pain, and in short should not even exist. But it does. And it will continue to do so. Yet we, as nation, will have to suffer abounding pain, endure horrible heartbreak, and fight our way back just like our Founding Fathers did initially.

We will get our country back, we will hold the evil accountable, and when we do we will have a New and Improved nation. It’s just a matter of time. And that will become the real definition of New and Improved.

G.

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A Full Year

A full year has passed since I made my last post and WordPress has changed dramatically this last year.

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Cancel Culture and Christmas

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. – Jesus Christ

The cancel culture crowd is once again showing their colors. These people actually believe they have the power to cancel Christmas, a move that has been going on for a very long time. And each time it has failed.

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Change – The Only Constant

Explorer of the old world
Explorer of the old world

There is nothing permanent except change. — Heraclitus

Now is the time for change, a small change, a big change, many changes. Whatever it may be change is the only constant.

To that end you may notice the blog has changed appearance. As much as I liked the old style it has come to my attention that a change is required. That is something I should have learned at the beginning of this year. I had many plans for this blog then, back in January 2022, but they got waylaid when I came down with covid.

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Years End

Government Help

Our government help

Goodbye 2021. You weren’t as bad as 2020 but you still posed problems, problems politicians took advantage of.

As 2022 approaches political fear is the watchword of the day. But… I have a feeling 2022 is going to be full of surprises for the political class. Surprises they are not going to like.

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