And still being a productive member of society. Today is my 70th birthday, and I don't feel a day over 69! Today was a day much like any other. Wake up at 5:10AM, dress, eat breakfast (after feeding the owner), leave for work and arrive at 6:00 on the dot. Do my normal job, fend …
Continue reading And life flows on, within you and without you…On turning 70
China.Is.A.Communist.Country. I do not voluntarily deal with those who live in Communist, totalitarian, countries. I refuse to buy a product of a Chinese company. I won't buy a Volvo car (Volvo is owned by Chinese company Geely). I would not buy a Chinese-branded phone (Xiaomi or Oppo). I currently have a long-term-care insurance policy from …
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Sometimes it seems like the residents of Seattle are completely detached from reality. While those of us in the real world are hard at work at our jobs, Seattleites are rallying in the streets, protesting Chase Bank's "Alleged Fossil-Fuel Investments". Please enlighten me. Why, pray tell, would anyone give a rat's ass whether a bank …
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That will seem like elementary school, compared to the new tie-up between two financial-data providers. Be afraid, be VERY afraid. You voluntarily sign up for a Facebook account, and you make a conscious decision to use Google products, like internet search, Gmail, and YouTube. You can decline to use Facebook, and there are alternate search …
Continue reading Are you worried about how Facebook and Google use data they collect about you?
Time for the real one. Bring it on.
...but I find myself in sympathy with a particular group of Muslims, whose culture is facing extinction. Over the last year, I have been reading in the Wall Street Journal about how China is closely observing all its people, placing cameras equipped with cutting-edge facial-recognition software, wherever the people are. China is building a ubiquitous …
Last week's wimpy resolution against "hate" brought this excellent response from a Jewish friend. I 100% agree. Do you? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Members of Congress, You should be embarrassed by your lack of courage regarding the anti-Semitism resolution that has been proposed, and apologize to Jews everywhere. How could you even think of changing the resolution …
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the midst of a rather interesting scandal. It involves a Cabinet member who was demoted, and charged that it was because she resisted political pressure from the Prime Minister's office in a criminal case involving a big Quebec company. That Cabinet member just happens to be female, and …
She thinks she should be allowed back into the US, after having left her family to join the Islamic Terrorist group known as ISIS. She went to Syria, married three separate terrorists, had a child with one of them, and now says she "regrets" what she did. She should be allowed back into the US. …
Continue reading What should happen to Hoda Muthana, ISIS Bride
People seem to be getting all worked up and outraged at this poster that was displayed at a West Virginia Republican booth. They have the right idea, in my opinion. As I recall at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, members of the rather-large "Somali community" in Seattle were seen rejoicing at the …
