Tuesday, November 12, 2024

ALIENS DO EXIST, AND THEY ARE WALKING AMONG YOU!

 






 

 

HOW DO I KNOW?

BECAUSE I - AM ONE.


The planet I came from exists in a time warp, in another space-time continuum, with a world population of just over two billion people.  





Our citizens adjusted to the end of a massive world war.  The economy was returning, but prices for necessities were still high.  A quart of milk costs twenty-five cents, a loaf of bread is fifteen cents, and gas is almost a quarter a gallon. 




Men controlled our world – white men.




As directed by the Bible, men were the head of the family and women were mothers and housewives.  Men smoke and drink alcohol for relaxation.   Male life expectancy was nearly sixty years.  Unlike your world men didn't wear shorts and sneakers, men wore long pants and leather shoes; feet tend to sweat in leather shoes leaving men with stinky feet.  There were numerous products available for foot odor. 



We were advancing in technology.  We had long been able to use a telephone with the aid of a telephone operator.  In some cities, phones were automated and could be dialed for direct connection.   Of course, we could mail letters for the price of a three-cent stamp, and our recipient will receive the letter in five or six days.   An airmail stamp will cut the delivery time to three days.




Transportation for us was train, bus, or automobile.  Automobiles require constant tune-ups and were difficult to start in the winter.  Flat tires and blowouts were common, but everyone who drove was proficient in changing a tire.




Our world had no television and family entertainment was centered around radios.  We could listened to news, mysteries, comedies, and even children’s programs. 





Air conditioning didn't exist.   We had fans to cool us, and in summertime we slept with our windows open.  At night, in the summer, we sat on our front porch and spoke to our neighbors as they strolled by.




Technology was advancing.  We had commercial air for those who could afford it, and our planes could fly over one hundred miles per hour and to almost ten thousand feet without oxygen. 




The military was experimenting with rockets and there was talk of sending man to the moon.  It concerned me that a military project developed an atomic bomb that killed two hundred and fifty thousand civilians 




That was the world of my childhood.  Now I find myself in your world.  I have been transported through a wormhole. through time and space. It seems to have happened very fast. 




Over eight billion people populate your world, and the number increases exponentially. 





  The technology of this new world is mind-blowing, and I struggle to keep up, 



 Otherwise, this world is as fucked-up as the one I inhabited.

 Instead of overt racial animosity, there is political animosity;




 the natural environment is much worse, your air is bad, your water is polluted, and few unspoiled wilderness areas still exist;



 

hunger, war, and poverty are tolerated by your government and citizens; 





there is a massive financial gap between the haves and have-nots;





 the availability of guns has turned your country into a war zone, where even children are not safe in schools;





 extreme fundamentalist religious cults still influence public discourse; ignorance still abides.





The human beings of my world seeded your world.   Though quantum leaps in technology would have you perceived as an advanced civilization in my world, your humanity has not changed.  You still share 98 percent of your DNA with lower primates, which inserts its dominance.




Yes. I am an alien from another world.  Everyone who looks at me can tell that I am an alien, and identify others just like me.





By the way, flying saucers don’t exist.

the Ol’Buzzard

 


Monday, November 11, 2024

CELEBRATING VETERANS DAY

 




 






 

58,000 of my band of brothers died in Vietnam and hundreds of thousands were wounded – for nothing. 

 

 The government lied about the need to support a fledgling democracy in the south of Vietnam.  The real reason we were there was to establish a military base, capable of delivering a nuclear weapon, on the southern border of China.

  

The government eventually knew the war was unwinnable, but kept sending troops into the mangling jaws of the war machine.

 

Finally, we retreated, accomplishing nothing, except a staggering death toll and the lives of Vietnam Veterans forever scared. 

 

Fuck war!

Fuck the politicians that got us into it.

But celebrate those who served.





the Ol'Buzzard



 

 


YELLOW HEADLIGHTS

 



I have a twelve-year-old Toyota RAV-4. I have maintained it in excellent condition, the odometer shows only seventy-six thousand original miles.  Over the past couple of years, the only problem I have had is the yellowing of the headlights, making night driving difficult, especially in rain or snow.


I checked YOUTUBE for information on headlight restoration.  The kit I settled on was Griots Ceramic Headlight Restoration.  It was my choice because it did not require an electric drill to sand the lens.    All sanding was done by hand.


I took my lawn chair out and spent about fifteen minutes restoring each headlight.  I am in my eighties and found this kit simple and easy – anyone can do it with no special tools required.


I don’t advertise for any company, but my experience with this product was good, and the outcome was excellent.    

 




I failed to take a ‘before picture’, but this is the result.  


This is the YOUTUBE site I accessed that led me to choose this product.      




Keep it between the ditches

the Ol'Buzzard

Saturday, November 9, 2024

REALITY CHECK

 



I have not felt like posting for the last three months because the election consumed everyone’s waking moment.   I did feel confident that Trump would be defeated soundly and that Republicans were living in a bubble.  It turned out that my wife and I lived in the bubble.


There is a lot of discussion as to what went wrong.   Democratic pundits are speculating that the economy was the issue that should have been the main focus of the Harris campaign, but I feel it is more basic than that.  When Democrats were looking at voting populations, they always contrasted the support of college voters and non-college voters, by doing this, they alienated non-college voters.  It was an elitist comparison.


I am mid-eighties and can’t afford negativity consuming my last years.   At this point, I don’t give a fuck.   This becomes a problem for younger people. 




 

Posting is my outlet for writing.  I will continue to post on random subjects that appeal to me.     

Mellow out, and keep it between the ditches

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 



Friday, November 8, 2024

Thursday, September 19, 2024

ARE THE STARS ALIGNED FOR MELANIA TO DIVORCE TRUMP?

 


THE OL'BUZZARD'S CONSPIRACY THEORY


Two months before the Presidential election Melania Trump releases a social media post about her nude photo shoot.   Why now, and why bring up her nudity at a critical time before an election?


In eight years, we have never seen Melania show affection toward Donald. We know they sleep in separate bedrooms.


I am sure that Trump had Melania sign a prenuptial agreement before marriage.   This means that if she were to divorce Trump, she would have no claim to his wealth.


Trump has a miserable disposition.  He is narcissistic, paranoid, selfish, and prone to temper fits.  And what woman would want to go down on that fat bastard?


The stars are aligned.  This would be the perfect time for Melania to take Donald to the cleaners.

  

I am sure Donald would agree to a large settlement, in the millions, if she agreed to withhold the announcement of divorce proceedings until after the election. 

 

Melania is used to living a life of luxury.  The millions she might take from Donald would not maintain the rarified lifestyle she is used to for very long.

 

But, by indicating her willingness to pose nude she could have tabloids bidding in the hundreds of millions for an exclusive photo shoot of the first lady of the ex-President or future President Donald Trump.





the Ol'Buzzard

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

TOO MANY LETTERS

 





 

Spelling is overrated. 

 

Young people today write in social media speak.  My wife researched an 1832 house and found the original owner signed his name at least four different ways.

 

We write to relay or transfer information or thoughts, or to tell a narrative.    Spelling can be a nitpicky way of stifling creativity.

 

To begin with, we should shorten our alphabet.  Why 26 letters?   The number 25 is a lot easier to deal with.   Kids could memorize it in groups of 5, and 25 is an integer of 100 – not a prime number but an easier concept to deal with. 

 

So to begin with, I suggest we rid ourselves of the letter C.   In almost every case K can replace C resulting in the same sound:  Kat, kake, kar, kot, kap, krap, kokonut…   In very few cases where K will not fit (Cynthia or ceramics), an S will substitute just as well: Synthia, seramics…

 

English is a difficult language to learn and we have made it so with too many letters in our basic alphabet. 

 

Thank the gods for spell checkers.

the Ol’Buzzard


Tuesday, September 17, 2024

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CULT ATTRACTION FOR DONALD TRUMP

 





The Republican Party is the party of the rich and powerful, though they maintain their base of working white men with the distraction of God, guns, gays, and racism.   The Republican aim of ‘Small Government’ is to eliminate all social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Obama Care, and government assistance programs, to lower taxes for the wealthy and deregulate any restrictions that hamper big business.

 

 Regan said it out loud: Trickle Down Economics.   Make the rich richer and the rest of us can survive from the crumbs of their tables.



The Republican Party did not foresee the takeover of the MAGA movement. 

 

The seeds of MAGA started when the mega-rich Koch brothers organized and financed the Tea Party, bussing large groups of easily manipulated people into D.C. to disrupt and prevent the election of the first black president. 




 

Unbeknownst to the Koch brothers, the inmates would take over the asylum.

 

Trump is a phenomenon that came along at the perfect time to cement a movement. 



P. T. Barnum said you don’t have to be smart to be a con man.   You just need to be smarter than the rubes you are conning.

 

 

MAGA

1.    White supremacist

2.    Q-Anon

3.    Militia insurrectionist

4.    Science deniers

5.    Christian Fundamentalist

6.    Fox News devotees

7.    People feeling undervalued

8.    People easily manipulated

9.    And people who don’t like the Democrat Party.

 

Many of my neighbors are MAGA and the best people you could know.   They would be the first to show up if I had an emergency at home.    In most cases, we have different opinions about politics, but basically, we are alike.   However, I am puzzled that some have drunk the cool aid, to the point they seem to have a mindless, almost cult following of Donald Trump.



I do not understand what they see or don't see when they listen to Trump.

 

It is beyond me how any x-military could support Donald Trump. He denigrated John McCain and belittled POWs saying “I like people who weren’t captured.”




 

Trump has called military dead suckers and losers according to General Kelly, and he refused to attend the Marine cemetery at Bella Woods because it was raining and his hair would get wet (according to his aides.)   He told his Chief-of-Staff never to have a wounded veteran at any of his speeches because it didn’t make him look good.   This from a man who dodged the draft for Vietnam.






 

I also don’t understand how any working man can identify with Trump.   He is the son of a billionaire who was given every advantage possible. He was a playboy who had unlimited money.   He went to private schools.  He was given the equivalent of six hundred million dollars (in today’s money) when he graduated from college and he quickly parlayed that into five bankruptcies.   He has accumulated billions of dollars in property and debt and lived in a gilded luxury apartment in Trump Tower where he pooped in a gold toilet. Trump talks about the price of goods at the supermarket, but it would be a safe bet that Trump has never entered a supermarket in his entire life.




 

It puzzles me how any regular person would look back on Trump’s four years of Presidency as anything but a disaster.  Remember the refrigerator trucks parked outside the hospitals because the morgues could not handle the number of dead?   The only thing memorable that Trump accomplished was a three trillion-dollar tax cut for the mega-wealthy, and he ran up the national budget by eight trillion, higher than any president in history.




 

Women for Trump?   When you are famous you can grab them by the pussy.   I alone was able to get rid of Roe vs Wade.




It would bother me to be identified with a group that included white supremacists, and the militia insurrectionists of January 6.   I would feel uncomfortable around religious fundamentalists claiming Trump is anointed by God to bring about a new world order.   Then there are some outright nut cases in the MAGA cult, like the few hundred people who hung around Dallas Texas for two weeks waiting for JFK to come back to life and run as Trump’s Vice President; not to mention that Trump advised the NIH to look into the possibility of drinking bleach and shooting up with disinfectant as a cure for Covid-19.  Now it’s Haitians are eating your cats.

 

I am exhausted with Trump.  I like my neighbors, but the name Trump is a poison pill to relationships and I dare not mention his name.  Yet we have more in common, just trying to live our lives and get by in an economy that has never served the middle class since Regan introduced the trickle-down economy. 

the Ol'Buzzard

 

 

 

 

 


Sunday, September 15, 2024

TRUMP FATIGUE?

 



 





Friday my wife and I took a ride about fifty miles north to the Rangeley Lakes region.   Route 4 carries you through mostly rural countryside. 

 

In 2020 we rode the same route and there were Trump-Pence signs in front of many homes and no Biden-Harris signs.

 

Yesterday there were no Trump signs – zero - and two Harris-Walz signs. 

 

I don’t know if this means that rural people, his steady supporters, have finally tired of the Trump Circus, or perhaps the Republican Party didn’t supply signs to this area of rural Maine. 

 

But the Trump show has been exhausting and maybe people have finally moved on. 


the Ol'Buzzard

 


Monday, August 19, 2024

 


Yellowdog Granny posted this a while ago, but it says everything about the Democrats and Republicans.






    TIM WALZ


Tim Walz was born in a small rural Nebraska town. Walz graduated from public high school at age seventeen and immediately enlisted in the Army National Guard.   He worked up through the enlisted ranks retiring after 24 years of service.   

 

Waltz went to state college with the help of the GI Bill.   He graduated with a teaching degree and became a high school teacher and coach.   He married a teacher. 

  

After retirement from the military Walz was elected six times to Congress.   



Walz is one of the most popular governors in Minnesota's history.

 

Walz's accomplishments as governor have been wide-ranging and focused on the middle class.

 

Walz passed a 2.3-billion-dollar budget that expanded the pre-k education program and provided breakfast and lunch for all school children, and he passed a child tax credit for people in poverty.

 

Walz led and expanded Minnesota’s reproductive right to choose law. 

 

He passed laws protecting children from gender-affirming care and banned ‘conversion therapy.’

 

He ended book banning based on ideology.

 

Walz expanded worker's rights, establishing paid leave and paid sick days.  He banned non-competitive work contracts against workers, including at Amazon warehouses, construction sites, hospitals, nursing homes, and public schools.

 

Walz signed the biggest infrastructure law in Minnesota’s history.

 

Walz's budget contained free college for students with a household income of less than $80,000, and he cut taxes with every budget.

 

Walz signed into law a voting rights bill.

 

Walz passed laws lowering the cost of prescription drugs, including insulin, and attached an emergency assistance rider.  He banned medical debt from affecting credit scores, and the automatic transfer of medical debt to parents and spoused. 

 

He signed a bipartisan bill to make Minnesota energy independent by 2040.

 

He signed a billion-dollar bill to expand affordable housing.

 

Walz legalized marijuana for adults and canceled convictions for non-violent cannabis convictions. 

 

Walz is a man of the people, and he likes pigs.


AND WHAT ABOUT THIS CREEP?





J. D. Vance:

A Yale graduate who made millions in Silicon Valley.   He is anti-abortion, opposed to same-sex marriages, against support for Ukraine, and obsessed with women's reproduction, believing that women’s whole purpose in life is to have children and raise children.  


These are our choices for VP.   And remember that is one step away from the Presidency.

the OL'Buzzard







 

 












Saturday, August 10, 2024

CHILDLESS CAT LADIES

 




Cat Ladies Vote




My wife and I were at a restaurant earlier this week and at one table there was a screaming infant and a couple of young misbehaving children.   

Our bill came to $74.00 

I wish restaurants had Childless Cat Ladies and Childless Cat Couples seating.

We could sit around and share pictures and stories about our cats in a nice quiet adult atmosphere while waiting for our food.




The lion queen


the Ol'Buzzard



Thursday, August 8, 2024

OLD WEIRD DONALD

 



 



The man stays up all night posting weird screeds on Truth Social.

On Tuesday he posted that Joe Biden was going to crash the Democratic National Convention and attempt to seize back power. 

“What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, The WORST president in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin Chuck Schumer, and others on the the Lunatic left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE.


His cure for COVID-19 was drinking bleach and injecting disinfectant.   

    


He paints himself orange.





He constantly tells himself and others that he is a genius.





He is 78 years old and believes himself irresistible to women.





In Trump Tower, he pooped in a gold toilet – How weird is that?




the Ol’Buzzard


Thursday, August 1, 2024

WHY WE ARE STUCK WITH OLD WEIRD DONALD

 








 

All of the chaotic drama we are experiencing with the Donald Trump Show falls directly at the feet of Merrick Garland. 

 

President Obama picked Garland as his choice for the Supreme Court because he was bland and uncontroversial, thus Obama figured that he would be less objectional to the Republican Senate's confirmation.   


Mitch McConnell blocked that appointment by refusing to bring Garland up for a vote.   

 

President Biden is one of the best Presidents of my lifetime.   The only major mistake he made was the appointment of Garland as Attorney General.  I feel Biden made the appointment with respect for Obama and as a show of defiance to the Senate Republicans.

 

Had any other Attorney General been appointed, I feel that Trump would have been indicted for treason on January 7th.  Merrick Garland procrastinated two and a half years before appointing a Special Prosecutor to investigate Trump, guaranteeing us four more years of the Donald Trump show.

 

I don’t think Kamala will make that mistake.   When she is President I expect her to appoint a kick-ass prosecutor as Attorney General then perhaps Old Weird Donald will get his comuppins.


 the Ol'Buzzard