Global Warming is So Real, Science Skeptics and Deniers

    To claims that the world is not warming is being ignorant in spite of the facts. We are heating up the planet, no question.

    Back in elementary school we learned some science, displayed some projects in the gymnasium, and we were getting more savvy and aware one display at a time. In 6th grade, daily specialized classes of science, old Mr. Stewart (Stooey Manooey!) taught us about principles of our world and the the universe. In seventh grade... Maybe I did not do science? In 8th grade it was Mr. Hudson. We learned about the planets, the moon, more about the world we lived in. Facts.

    What was seventh grade? Hateful cooking with Mrs. Graebe. Maybe I had Huddy Bud that year, too?

    Freshman year, anthropology. Not as hard a science, but still quite scientific. Built on empiricism, all the same.

    Sophomore year was biology. The sweet old teacher was a Bible believer, but a good science teacher all the same. Riggelman and an student teacher came in for a bit, too.

    Junior year: physics. Oh, the formulas.

    Senior year. Chemistry. I could not pass the tests, and most of the homework. But I learned some things. I read magazine articles about science, too. Not to mention science fiction.

    College, I passed my requisites.

    All said, science is a thing.

    We cannot deny that ice is melting everywhere and temperatures are rising.

    RIP to the victtims in Nepal and Tibet. 

    Ice is melting...

 Goodbye, Dolly! Eighty Years Old. Eternal and Forever. Grateful for Grace

    Yes, she was America. Our country, our humqity. I hope that she had children and those had theirs. Continue her beautiful spark.

    She was talented and smart, and luckily lived to be 80.

    A person of faith and grace.

    She created wonderful art and music. 

    We are better because of her.

    We thank God for Dolly Parton. She was among the best, by all counts.

    She lived quite a bit longer than Whitnety Houston, which was the person that she helped propel farther with her anthem.

    Amen.

Maybe I Am  Fixated with Elon Musk - Maybe He is the Problem, and I Would Like to Fix Things

    Elon is an easy but obvious target. He is very famous, the world's richest person. He has power and influence. Me, I am a much smaller fish. No one has followed this blog in 12 plus years in its existence. It has not earned money. Thankfully, it was not wiped and deleted (and won't be?) as my Foxsports blogs were that I wrote from end of 2005 into the summer of 2009. They killed them, without fair warning.

    Many of the things I wrote were not impactful, anyway. Only a few things, I think.

    I resent them taking away my writings, but I failed to back them up. I will take some of the blame. They offered me this service for the price of a free registration, and paying to be a denizen of the Internet.

    Okay.

    We fight for freedom, we live and die for it, and we are free to opine as I do here in this forum.

    Grateful for these blessings and privileges. Elon has done and is doing his part to better humanity and help others. He has. Unfortunately, he more recently has been part of sweeping cut of jobs and programs (2025) that was untempered, ill-conceived, rushed, and destructive. It led to many deaths. And uneeded suffering and death. How many did so? Remains to be seen. Any who might deny this might as well be part of those that we have not reached the moon.

    Believe what you want. Believe the facts that you know.

    It is important not to let innocent or desperate people suffer and die.

    Elon? Not sure. I do not think I could trust him to do the right thing. He clearly has done a lot of amazing things and been innovative and far-seeing, but he has disqualified himself as much of a paragon of our race. A very big fish. But harmful to quite a few.

    I hope the most and best for his children. And wives or ex-wives. I hope that they have more compassion and foresight than him when it comes to life and death.

    We, the good guys, save lives, we do not let them perish and die. No more suffering, Elon.

    Would you recognize these errors and apologize? Heavy juju.

    I have worked in fields that save and take lives. I have to account for those actions and efforts.

    Elon is at another level.

    I am worth maybe .01 percent of what he is worth? Monetarily. Maybe much less? .0001? Perhaps that is closer to our estimated worth in holdings and money. We are close to the same age.

    I am content with my actions, my intentions. I look to do things to help others.

    I wanted to be a State Department diplomat to help wage or assert peace. Not meant to be.

    War and strife are what they are. Others have attempted and failed, lived exemplary lives, tried their hardest to help represent the United States to negotiate truces and agreements to reduce hostility and violence.

    We only succeed so much. Conflict continues, the cycles persist.

    Meanwhile, I guess Elon is helping humanity in his ways. May he do so without killing anyone else.

 There are Worse People than Elon Musk

    I feel bad for Jim Jung Un because he has inherited a position where the millions of captive people surrounding him are beholden to following his every whim, and the father and grandfather were absolute despotic and deranged monsters. Or, is he just as mixed up like them? I do not think he is as cold blooded and blood thirsty. I hope.

    I feel bad for him. He is in a tough spot. He was not elected, he did not campaign for this spot and circumstance. He was born into it, like so many monarchs.

    Kings. You got guys like Prince Harry. Tried to be normal, I think. Was heroic in Afghanistan, which I give him credit for. In Afghanistan you got well over thirty million people trying to make it, but heroin is the king in some places, and a vicious form of Islam is prominent almost everywhere.

    No school or education for girls. Meanwhile, I write a letter to the local principal to the kids who choose not to rise to say or recite the pledge of allegiance to our country, because many or most of them are ignorant, apathetic, or lazy coddled children who do not get it. I hope that they will.

    I am not perfect. I can be ignorant, apathetic, and lazy. But I will honor our flag. Because we are great, despite some of our own choweder-headed leaders. Those that cut medicine and aid willy nilly an let the sick die. Not what Jesus would do, this I know.

    We all think and act and write for many reasons. I have mine. I do not necessarilly even recognize them all until sometimes I talk, or write, or just think: we can do so much better!

    

    We need to, we should.

    We should be concerned about finances and costs and opportunities to get ahead and enjoy the high life. But we should also look out for those on our left and right.

    We have different ways to approach this, sure.

    My altruism in high minded goals and aspiration are another person's walk with a sick old man, caring for the garden, cooking meals. Things that I have not done much of, nor care to.

    I can talk a big game. But my actions can be wanting, lacking, lagging.

    I can pray for peace in the world and want to choke out the guy next to me on the grass the night before.

    Conflicted are we. Especially me, perhaps.

    But we struggle on.

    My son survives a scary dog that can destroy and maim by the grace of God. He, my older son, strives for peace. The other too, and will do so closer to the equator. Only 3.5 degrees north.

    Girls are by the mountains, or here with her friends.

    My friends are further away, distant and alone, perhaps.

    My significant other cares, but I am not always that convinced. Probably to do with my own insecurities. Think nothing of it. Oh, I will.

    We can all be lonely, that is for sure.

    Each line with a disparate charge. Meaning. Depth of reasoning.

    There might be a million people worse than Elon Musk, some who purposely hurt and kill and let others die on the vine.

    Name them. Give me a few. Some are locked up, wasting away. Most of them made their poor choices.

    Elon? Father of a dozen or so? He must live with his decisions.

    Is he lonely as a leader at the top? Sure.

    Great guy, way to go.

    Am I jealous? No. Just aware. Eyes wide open,  I hope.

PS: Some people cannot serve much abroad because of their past. Who they have worked for. Perhaps I have been preserved (by God, fate) for such things. Hard to tell.

    Learning languages and cultures may amount to something.

    

 Chess, Go, Poker, Investing

    All these games. I have mostly down the Persian one. Meaning, I play it, but I am not that good at it. Not the east Asian one, though. I have played a few rounds of poker, but it bothers me, and bores me. But at the end of the day, I am not good at it. Poker, card games. Maybe of the dozen or more card games that I have learned to play or toyed with playing, I have had a few good instincts, but really, the card games do bore me.

    Basketball makes more sense. Playing and watching. Games of chance, calculated risks, trying to win by competition. Physical and psychological elements. Team sports, which can happen in some games of cards.

    Money is big. We put some scratch in, we win, we lose. Making money helps us have credit, gets us better food, or company, entertainment, and travel.

    Travel drives a lot of people.

    My buddy is 73 now, finally retired. He is okay financially, but he does not have all the finances to do all things. No one does.

    Elon Musk does, and he ends up killing thousands upon thousands of innocent sickly people, mostly of African origins with dark skin. His white South African background makes it more ironic that eliminates more dark skinned people from the gene pool.

    But Elon may not think that he is racist. Just a genius. Like so many awful killers in our human history, starting with Cain. he knows how to innovate and bring success to many realms.

    Our U.S. president had faith in his process, and the DOGE, standing for Department of Government Efficiency.

    Like money, like oil, as all energy, as all food and goods and commerce.

    Adam Smith's dismal science reigns upon us and shapes and forms us, dictating a few or many of our freedoms.

    I will go to India some day. Or China. Or some other places like Australia or Antarctica.

    Or none of those.

    I have played much poker, or Go, but I do play a few games.

    I have invested some,

    Yep.

    Blog it.

 Physically Angry Responses

    Last night I had a little of my ire or dander up. Part of me for a couple or more minutes wanted to throttle a guy, because he was saying a few things that I was about to throttle him for. I was physically reacting to him. More mentally.

    It can and has happened in cars. Sometimes in military moments of stress or frustration.

    But overall, the event was great.

    However, that interruption had to happen.

    Nothing happened.

    Cooler heads prevailed.

    I will fight for life and death. Those are the rules.

 A Month in South Carolina  - Have I Done It?

    I was counting up U.S. states that I have not lived in but that I have spent a month or more in. I put South Carolina in there. But, upon further review, I may be short of 30 full days, let alone nights.

    The first time was 5-6 days in 1998. Traveled with my friends from college. We stayed about two nights on Edisto Island, then the last three on a military base near the city of Charleston. Not quite a week, but a solid start. My first time there.

    Although, it was possible that I spent part of a day there back around 1982 when I visited a retirement community with my dad. Old friends of his, or perhaps some distant family, like a great aunt?

    Next came vacations that we as a family would spend between between 2009 and perhaps 2023? In those years we would go down the East Coast, alighting on some touristy beaches, stating at hotel or two. That was mixed with North Carolina, and a little Georgia, going into Florida. We took trips down to Florida, and inevitably would pass through South Carolina. The last time we went to Stone Mountain in Georgia, then came north into South Carolina and had dinner at a restaurant with my niece who works down there.

    I spent about 8, maybe 10 days at a military base there in 2018. I was supposed to be there three weeks, which would have gotten me the month, easy, but things did not work out.

    So, I think I am at 15 days without the vacactions with my wife and kids. Did I do another 15 days in the state? Maybe not. I spent some nights in a few hotels, including a memorable time for a cruise out of Charleston, and a stay in Myrtle Beach, but it does not add up to abother two weeks...

    So maybe South Carolian is only 3 weeks...