YELLOWDOG GRANNY WE WILL MISS YOU

 

Jackiesue Denny (YelloowDog Granny) a great liberal warrior has been carried to Valhalla by Valkyries.  We will fucking miss her.  

I can not pay tribute any better than Debra.   Please see her blog;

SHE WHO SEEKS

Fuck!

the OL'Buzzard

COMMANDER AND CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES

 

 

I predict that, within the next four years, Donald Trump will design himself a military uniform.   He will award himself numerous ribbons and medals and have double the number of stars (and bigger stars) than the highest-ranking General. 

He will also probably declare himself more than just President Trump: Remember Doctor Generalissimo Presidente Idi Amin? 

How about:

Grand Leader Supreme General and President by Divine Proclamation Donald Trump

 

The man is a classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. 

Delusional Disorder is a mental health condition characterized by persistent false beliefs (delusions) that are not based on reality.  These delusions can be of various themes such as delusions of grandeur.  

And I can spot an asshole quicker than a proctologist.

the Ol’Buzzard

TRUMP PARDONS JANUARY SIX RIOTERS

 

the Ol'Buzzard

DYSLEXIA AND SPELLING.

 

   

I have been dyslexic all my life.   This complicated my learning to read.  The word was might change to saw in my brain, and letters in longer words might switch places.   I was a whiz in math and science, but anything related to reading was painful.

 

At some time during my military career, I taught myself to read.  I do not read individual words.   I read the meanings of groups of words or whole lines.    I am able to devour novels, technical manuals, or research material at a rapid rate with high recall.   This ability made college a breeze; however, my wife, who attended college with me, had to go over my papers and correct my spelling.  This was during the eighties before computers.

 

Occasionally, my wife and I read to each other, but I tend to insert words or leave out words in sentences, and that annoys her. 

 

Even now, when I copy a list of numbers, I am careful that numbers don’t switch. 

 

I understand that misspellings drive the Spelling Police crazy, but some of us are doing the best we can.

 

Famous people with Dyslexia:

Whoopi Goldberg

Richard Branson

Steven Spielberg

Orlando Bloom

Albert Einstein

Muhammad Ali

Pablo Picasso

Cher 

Thank goodness for spell checkers.

The Ol’ Bzzuard

HANDBOOK FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS UNDER TRUMP

 

A voice crying in the wilderness.

Casandra warning

1984

by George Orwell (Eric Blair)

 

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

 

“The enemy of the moment always represents absolute evil.”

 

“If all others accepted the lie which the party imposed – If all the records showed the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became true.   Who controls the past, ran the party slogan, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

 

“Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version.  A great deal of the time you were suppose to make them up out of your head.”

 

 3 SOCIAL CLASSES

“The aim of the high is to remain where they are.  The aim of the middle is to change places with the high.  The aim of the low, where they have an aim – for it is an abiding characteristic of the low that they are too much crushed by the drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything out their daily lives.."

Oligarchy: a small group of people who govern a nation.

 

‘…the deportation of whole populations – not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.”

 

“In the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.” 

 

“Double think: (reality control) ie thou shall not kill but glorification of war heroes.”

 

“Ministrys: (reversals of facts)

Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war.

Ministry of Truth with lies.

Ministry of Love with torture.

Ministry of Plenty with starvation.”

 

INGSOC (the Party)

“The essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.   To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any facts that has become inconvenient…”

 

“The proles are only intermittently conscious of the war.  When it is necessary they can prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods of time that war is happening.  It is in the ranks of the party, and above all the inner party, that true war enthusiasm is found.”

 

“We know that no one ever seized power with the intention of relinquishing it.   Power is not a means; it is an end.”

 

MY COMMENT

1984 is a primer on controlling a population. 

INGSOC (the party) successfully manipulates the mind of the proles (the people) to the point that a person thinks the opposite of what is true: that 2+2= 5

 

INGSOC: Republican Party 2024

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BREAKING NEWS: MSNBC COVERAGE OF DONALD TRUMP'S INAUGURATION WEEK END

 

Trade Connecticut for Italy?   Sounds alright to me.

the OL'Buzzard 

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TRUMP’S INAUGURATION IS TOMORROW – WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

 

 

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

 

I will not watch it on TV tomorrow, and I will not talk about it. 

 

Thirty-six percent of eligible voters did not bother to vote, and a majority of the remaining sixty-four percent overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump.

 

It is what it is.  

 

Our best hope is that it will be a train wreck, and Dems will come together and take over in four years.

 

This time the public will actually see the Emperor without clothes.

 

 

 And it will not be pretty.

 

 the Ol'Buzzard

 

 

 

 

DEBRA AND THE OLD FAT MAN

 

The link below shows the blog as I see it with the Google sign-in. 

Any ideas?

THE OLD FAT MAN 

the Ol'Buzzard

THE OLD FAT MAN ABOUT SIGN IN

 

I am able to comment on every other blog I am signed into except yours.

this is at the bottom of your blog , 

To leave a comment, click the button below to sign in with Google.

and a blue box that says SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE

I am continuing to read your blog but won't be able to comment until I figure this out.

the Ol'Buzzard

THE OLD FAT MAN ADDVENTURES - UNABLE TO COMMENT?

 

One of the blogs I follow is Old Fat Man Adventures.   Lately, I am unable to leave a comment. 

At the bottom of his blog, there is a blue box that says: Sign In With Google.    I click the box and it reloads the post, but the blue box is still there -  it is a loop –  I repeat the process again and the blue box is still there. 

Any Idea’s

the Ol’Buzzard

SOCIAL SECURITY FAIRNESS ACT

 

 

The Social Security Fairness Act just signed by President Biden reverses a law passed in 1983 during the Republican Regan Presidency that reduced Social Security benefits for anyone receiving a state pension.

 

I paid into social security for 25 years, then went to work for the State of Alaska teaching school in the remote Native villages.

  

When I applied for my Social Security pension twenty-five years ago, that pension was reduced by 50% because I was receiving a retirement from the State of Alaska.

 

The Republicans have always been against Social Security and any other federal program they consider discretionary spending (Medicare, Medicaid, public school funding, lunch programs…)

 

Their objection to the new bill is that it will deplete the Social Security fund causing it to run out of money by 2035.

 

  It is all a matter of priority spending as Trump’s three-trillion-dollar tax cut for the mega-wealthy would fund Social Security into the next century.

 

Future Social Security recipients had better hope Democrats are in power in 2035 or Social Security may be a thing of the past. 

 

Trump’s MAGA base doesn’t understand that working people voting for a Republican is like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.

 

Now with the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, I will receive my full Social Security Pension – of course, twenty-five years too late.

 

the Ol’Buzzard

AN OLD MAN IN A TECHNO WORLD

 

The few people who read my blog are probably tired of me constantly bringing up my age.  But this is the world I live in. 

 

My doctors want to text me but it doesn’t work on a landline.   I have a cell phone but I don’t turn it on unless I am away from home.

Besides, I am unsure how to use all the apps or why I really need them. 

Every day my wife and I do the Boston Crossword Puzzle together and often the clues are in text speak, like LOL.  The acronyms don’t even resemble the word or phrase they are replacing.  For someone who still writes in cursive, I feel it is obscene and an affront to language. 

Last year I received an Apple iPad.  Here I am trying to figure out how to use the photo app to take a picture of myself taking a picture of myself in my bathroom mirror.   

 

Thank god for YouTube.   (If you still need to worship a God, then Google AI is probably as salient a choice as any - and according to George Carlin you can always pray to Joe Pesci for divine guidance)

Almost everything I have learned in life I learned from reading manuals. I love manuals where I can underline important instructions and make margin notes.   But things don’t come with manuals any longer.  So, YouTube is my Bible. 

I tolerate new things.   I like old things.  My favorite sweater is a hand-spun wool hand-knitted sweater that is forty-six years old.  My favorite hat is twenty-four years old.   Most of the shirts in my closet are twenty years old, and my boots are twenty-five years old, though the rubber bottoms have been replaced by L.L. Beans once.

But I have to admit not all young things are bad 

I do have a new Carhart winter coat that I like very much.

And I am madly in love with my young wife, who is the sexiest woman I have ever known. 

While teaching in Alaska the school aide always called her Blue Berry Eyes.

On the tundra with a kindergarten class picking berries

An older picture, but she never changes

I have no complaints about my age.  This is the best time of my life – I am just out of step with the rest of the world, which suits me fine.

And aging is definitely better than the alternative.

the Ol’Buzzard 

 

Now maybe he can quit posting about his age

GROWING OLD AIN'T FOR SISSIES

 

When I was in the military it was all about the band of brothers.

Now this is my band of brothers.

the Ol'Buzzard

REMINISCING

 

 

SEEMS I REMEMBER THE PAST BETTER THAN YESTERDAY

 

I remember

Winding my wristwatch in the morning and winding my alarm clock at night.

 

Telephones with an operator and pay phones.

 

Muscle cars, but they were hard to start on cold mornings.

1964 Pontiac 409
409 cubic inch engine
And then there was the Oldsmobile 442
and that is cubic inches

 

Black and white movies: a dime to get in, a dime for popcorn, and a nickel coke.

The birth of Rock and Roll music.

 

Radios with vacuum tubes.

 

Household fans.

 

Water-coolers for cars before air conditioning.

 

Bopping at the high school hop

 

Ice boxes and ice delivery – a penny a pound, and ice picks to chip the ice

 

Nickle soft drinks in cold water boxes

 

Black and white TV with rabbit ears

The Steve Allen Show and The Killer

Changing tires: a necessary skill

Flat tires were a normal occurance.

 

10c comic books.

 

Soda fountains.

Writing in cursive

 

Straight Arrow, was my favorite radio show.

And the list could easily go on…

 

KANEEWAH FURY

the Ol’Buzzard

CASSANDRA WARNING

The weather here is bitter.  We have had less snow this year than last, but have below-normal temperatures.     Temps this week are in the low double and single numbers, and we have a wind advisory for the entire week with winds from 15 to 40, resulting in windchills well below zero.  

 

It is definitely time to stay indoors and read a good mystery.

 

I can’t allow myself to be disturbed by politics this late in my life.  I have quit watching the news since Trump’s election, but unfortunately, I don’t live in a vacuum.

 

 Trump is talking about invading Denmark (one of our NATO allies) and taking Greenland by military force, annexing Canada as our 51^st state by crashing their economy, and taking the Panama Canal by force.

 

 We soon will have a mentally unbalanced man as President of the United States.  If you know history the parallels to Nazi Germany in the forties are chilling.  The only thing lacking is racial eugenics.

 

The scary thing is, just as in Germany, the majority of the population supports this psychotic con man.

 

WARNING WARNING WARNING! 

 

He does not plan to give up the Presidency after his four-year term in office.

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

THE OL'BUZZARD HAS A WINDFALL

 

For twenty years I had GEICO car insurance.  Three years ago, GEICO increased my rates by 10%.  I called their customer service and inquired about the rate increase and they could not give me a reason for the increase.

I switched to Progressive for the same coverage at a lower rate.  Today, totally unexpected, I received an e-mail from Progressive Insurance that they have lowered my rates by $41.00. 

I am just passing this along for anyone uncomfortable with their insurance rates who may be shopping for a different insurance. 

 

the Ol’Buzzard