Thoughts Day by Day

It makes no sense.  Most liberals consider themselves "pro choice" which translates as pro abortion.  They feel it is acceptable to take the life of an unborn human, who has committed no crimes and who does not yet have a voice to protect his/her own interests, simply because it inconveniences the unborn human's mother.  Most conservatives are "pro death penalty".  They feel it is acceptable for a jury to sentence someone to a death and to execute said person, without any commitment to rehabilitation.  That is a "pro choice" also.  Sad.  Neither are pro-life.  A truly pro-life person would be opposed to both the death penalty and opposed to abortion.  We are not as civilized as we think we are.

When I leave this house there are several things I will miss.  I was reminded of one of those things early this morning.  Over many years I have heard the occasional loud, rapid drumming peck of a woodpecker who attacks the wood utility pole on my rooftop.  It only comes early in the morning.  A very small bird. Actually I have no knowledge as to whether it has been the same woodpecker all these years.  We've never spoken.  And it is not there every day. But when I do hear a woodpecker it is always in the same spot pecking away.  Always facing east.  Having grown up in the era of the cartoon 'Woody Woodpecker' I was surprised how small a bird a real woodpecker is.  I was expecting they were as large as an owl.  That is not the case. The bird has never done any major damage as far as I can see.  Just small holes pecked into that same wood utility pole.  There is a lot of wildlife out here in Suffolk County.  More th...

I haven't blogged in a long while.  It is time I started again because I am about to enter a new phase in my life.  The house has a buyer.  It only took 1 week to sell.  The offer is better than I could have imagined.  But they want me out of the house by June 1st (50 days) so I have lots of decisions to make and must make them fast. The first decision has been made.  But I have been pondering that one for many months now.  Will my destination be Florida, Texas or Pennsylvania?  I have been going back and forth on this one every week.  I loved what I saw in Texas.  There is more family close by in Pennsylvania.  But the idea of Florida living has always appealed to me.  So after trying to be logical and systematic, listing the pros and cons for a move to each, I decided it will be Florida.  The decision is made.  I don't have any family living in Florida.  But a favorite cousin is seriously contemplating a move...

Senator Marco Rubio issued the following  sane  statement regarding the Executive Order banning selective immigrants.  As for myself, I am still sitting on the fence on this issue.  Am I required to take a stand one way or the other?  The mainstream media can no longer be trusted to tell the truth, and they would have us believe that the nation has not been this divided since the Civil War.  It is an exaggeration.  I want the nation to be safe and we cannot deny that there are simply one too many radical Islamic terrorists planning to hurt Americans.  I do agree with Trump that national security has been too lax.  But I am also suspicious as to why residents of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were not included in the ban; And also disappointed that children were not exempted from it.  It was made clear that this ban was not against any particular religion.  Muslims from other nations can still come to America.  Immigrants from the...

Of course this wall will be named after President Donald Trump.  There is no question about it.  But there is still the question as to who will pay for its construction.  The Mexican President insists Mexico will not pay for it.  Trump’s latest proposal was a 10% import duty tax on Mexican goods.  But who really pays a duty tax?  That would be us, the importers of those goods.  No doubt about it, WE will end up paying for the wall.  So is there a more equitable way for the U.S. taxpayers to fund the building of the Great Trump Wall?  Here is a tongue-in-cheek idea: Turn it into a major tourist attraction. Walls are big tourist attractions.   Think of The Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall near the English-Scottish border, Jerusalem’s Western Wall, and the remains of the Berlin Wall.   And there are many more; the Incan Sacsayhuaman Wall in Peru, the Trojan Walls in Turkey, the Wall of Babylon in Iraq,  walled cities lik...

RESOLVING THE QUESTION OF VOTER FRAUD There may be a problem with voter fraud in America but it is difficult to prove.   Is there a significant number of people who vote twice (in two different voting districts) or who cast votes for still-registered voters who have either moved away or died?   We will never know until we establish a national voter registration database and also require voters to present positive ID when they vote.  After the recent Presidential election candidate Jill Stein requested a vote recount in the State of Michigan.  Candidate Hillary Clinton's people joined this endeavor.  But when it was discovered that there was extensive voter fraud in the city of Detroit and that the more accurate count favored candidate Trump, the recount was called off.  So the extent of voter fraud will never be known. When one moves from one voting district to another the new voting district officials do NOT always ask where one was previously regis...