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It's insane to have three wars going on across the ocean in other places where we have to pay foreign countries money to move the supplies the military needs to fight a losing proposition without raising taxes on the people who profit from these wars. No political entity since the beginning of civilization has ever had a war without raising taxes. Some countries have wars for the sole purpose of raising taxes. We're selling the food we need for ourselves in order to buy cheap trinkets to impress our neighbors.
The politicos are destroying the value of our treasury notes so that there will be no safe place to deposit our savings. We have to put our savings in financial accounts where they can be stolen by the billionaires. Obviously, it's time to break out the guillotines and take back the power of the people, but I don't think there is a chance in hell that's gonna happen.
At least we don't have to worry about a drought for a while here. The middle of the country, and especially Texas do have to be concerned. Texas has always been Texas even when it was called something else. They've been having debilitating droughts there since I was a little boy. During the Great Depression they called this area the Dust Bowl. People move there and try to make it into the Garden of Eden, but it can't be done except temporarily.
There are twice as many people on Earth today as there were in 1960. People are getting fatter than ever, and it takes more food to feed fat people than it did back when most of the world was starving. If I live to get as old as my father did, 88 years old, sixteen years from now, I probably won't weigh a hundred pounds because there will be nothing to eat.
My children and grandchildren will all starve to death if they're not killed in some idiotic holocaust. Life is beginning to make very little sense. There doesn't seem to be much of a future. If a person manages to acquire the American/world dream, then they will be setting themselves up ultimately to be victims of the great masses of have-nots. Why bother?
I've been trying to get my kefir grains to grow into bigger matrixes by changing the milk more often. It's not working out too good. They do still seem healthy, and the way I'm doing it is producing enough kefir for one person, me, and yet I got no insurance in case something happens to the matrix I use twice a day now. Presently, I'm making about a cup twice a day and drinking it pretty soon after I strain the kefir grains out of the fresh kefir by making strawberry smoothies. They're very tasty.
Every time I get on my bathroom scales these days I seem to be gaining weight. I might swear that I'm eating less, but I still get fatter. I feel fatter. I look fatter. The only-est thing I can definitely say right now is that I'm not constipated. If nothing else, the kefir is keeping me regular. That's a big deal to me, but I hate putting on weight to stay that way.
A week or so ago I bought an alarm clock solely in order to wake me up for my surgery appointment this coming Friday. My appointment is for 7 o'clock in the morning. It takes me about an hour to get to the VA Hospital from here, so that means I have to leave here at least by 6 a.m. just to get there in time.
The problem is that the alarm on the new clock doesn't make enough noise to wake me up. I've been setting the alarm for six in the morning to test it out. This morning I woke up at 0620, and the alarm had not gone off. I'm going to buy another alarm clock with a louder alarm, but I might have to stay up all night just to make sure I get to the operating room on time.
It just occurred to me that I could always buy a more expensive alarm clock, and then use it for the one time on Friday, and then take it back for a refund on Saturday. That's sort of cheating I suppose, but the new clock should have worked. Wal-Mart is still making money off me to send to China. No blame. The United States had a good run while it lasted, and my life happened during the very best of those times.
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