Just A Thought

Forget trading cards.  How about a series of Donald Trump plush toys for $9.99?  Something affordable to the average American family.  I wonder which version might be the most popular?  Maybe Trump enthusiasts might want to collect them all.  I think I have talent for being a bit looney.  If anyone were to ask me where my crazy musings come from, my answer would be that I honestly don’t know myself. Ha.  I should have known that this idea wouldn’t be novel and that crazy stuff would already be available on Amazon. Talking Trump Doll - STUNNING plush Trump doll speaks 20 phrases in his own voice. Trump toy is the PERFECT Donald Trump gift for birthdays or Christmas. Limited Edition collectible Trump memorabilia. https://a.co/d/dSuO5Sr Pozbrd Trump Plush Doll, Donald Trump Plush Toys Presses My Finger to Hear Me Talk and Blow Up My Hair-10.5 Inch Trump Merchandise https://a.co/d/d0xA5F3

(Link to the story about Arnold Schwarzenegger that I had seen is unfortunately no longer available.) Thank you Arnold S. 👍 It is nice at this time in our country’s political history to hear of a republican for whom good morals and values still matter.  I need to ask my father to look for his picture with Arnold back in his bodybuilder days.  I mean Arnold‘s bodybuilder days, not my father’s. 😂  My father designed physical conditioning equipment that was sold to gyms and bodybuilders. Speaking of my father makes me think of Melania Trump, who is married to a man who is old enough to be her father.  I have to wonder if Melania really knew what she was getting herself into?  Back when she first met and became involved with him, did she understand what type of person and man he really was?  Did she process how he treated others and what that said about him?  I once saw a video where she gave her husband a kiss during a public appearance.  She then ...

 My opinion.  I am all for America being a melting pot that is inclusive of people of all backgrounds and ethnicities.  My idea of an American is a human being who wants to take pride in being a citizen of an American that is accepting and inclusive of human beings of all ethnicities and native origins.  This is what I personally believe that a strong American should be and represent. 

America is a garbage can collecting the garbage people of the world.  I never could have predicted that in my lifetime I would ever hear a former president or presidential candidate call our country a garbage can that collects garbage people, but this is where we are at.  So much for the Statue of Liberty and being a beacon of hope for the tired, the poor, the oppressed and mistreated. 🥲  There really should be no more evidence necessary as to how unfit this man is to be our country’s president once again.  I do feel like an annoying broken record expressing my dismay over and over again, but this is because this man evidently does still stand a chance of becoming our countries, next elected president.  How is this possible? https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-says-the-u-s-is-like-a-garbage-can-for-the-world-222656581816

 Biden to formally apologize for Indian boarding school system https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-apologize-indian-boarding-school-system-rcna147679 This is extremely overdue and so deserved.  What an amazing thing for President Biden to do and accomplish to finish out his presidency!  This is really a huge thing for the history of America.  It is truly an act of what America should stand for and be. 

https://youtu.be/j0os0qZ1_O4?feature=shared “Send them back.  Send them back.”  This is what Trump’s supporters began chanting at a rally after he spoke out against the legal Haitian migrants in Springfield Ohio, claiming that they have destroyed the city and need to be removed.  Trump was not only okay with his own words but was also okay with the response of the crowd.   Despite his or anyone else’s beliefs about our country’s immigration problems and issues that need to be fixed, this does not make it okay to speak out in a hateful and dehumanizing way about other human beings.  If he believes there are serious immigration problems, he should speak about the procedures and practices in regard to immigration that he feels need correction and change.  He should not address any issues or problems by speaking against and dehumanizing a group of human beings.  No people deserve to be vilified for just existing and doing what they have been legally permit...

 Evidently I am counting down the days to the most bizarre American presidential election ever.  Everything at this time deviates from everything we have ever known.  It really seems that the whole known structure, predictability, certainty and security of our country and its government is just gone.  Who ever could have predicted in decades gone by that our country’s future would come to all of this.  So much has changed that normal can’t keep up with it.  It is like normal doesn’t exist anymore and our country is completely divided as to what is true and what is false.   It is a time of unprecedented changes in our country and world, and how it will all affect and change our future is unknown.  The outcome of the election won’t by any means be the end to our recent era of craziness and chaos,  but it will at least remove one very large element of uncertainty that looms over us.  Although if my Trump is elected again, a world of uncerta...

Healed Attitudes.  This is my wish for myself.  If I ever have attitudes about anything that need to be changed or healed, I wish to see the light.

Dear Women,   Please vote for the candidate(s) who supports the belief that there should never be laws that give anyone else the legal right to take a woman’s control over her own body away from her.  If you are a woman, you need for this to never happen or be allowed to continue happening.  Every step in a wrong direction paves the way for a further step in the wrong direction to be taken.  There should never be laws that in any way remove a woman’s right to be in control of her own body.

 Today is 3 weeks until Election Day!  It will be really nice when this pre 2024 presidential election period is behind us!  At least the voting part anyway.  I pray that our country can then return to its normal imperfect politics and be done with all the over the top chaotic insanity.  Some part of me insists that Vice President Harris will win the election, but if recent years and months have taught us anything, it is that unbelievably crazy shit can happen.  We already have a convicted felon, who eroded faith in our countries democracy and incited a riot on our nations capital, as a presidential nominee in our upcoming presidential election, so what reason is there to believe that the craziness has to stop there?

 Why did the turtle cross the road? Because it wanted to get to the Shell station on the other side.

 Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he was playing Frogger. 

 Who sang “Daydream Believer”?  Was it the Monkeys or Anne Murray?   Answer: Both The song was first released by “The Monkeys” in October 1967 and then re-released by Anne Murray in 1979.  https://music.apple.com/us/album/daydream-believer/4512505?i=4512412 https://music.apple.com/us/album/daydream-believer/714768229?i=714768384

 Why did the Gingerbread Man bring sunscreen to the beach?  Because he was afraid that the sun’s radiation might bake him.  

 Somehow, I have transitioned from being a dog owner to becoming a cat lady.  I have three myself, and also a grand cat in my house.  I would like to give my full endorsement to cat ladyism.  I guess this is also a political statement.  Well, hopefully no one will ask me what the statement is because I am not sure myself?  Maybe it is about JD Vance.  Maybe it is just that he and Mr. Trump were made for each other and there is nothing wrong with being a cat lady, childless or not. 

 Why don’t we ever see hippopotamuses hiding in trees? Because they are very good at it.  What do you call a hippopotamus in a sauna? A hippohotamus.

 It doesn’t quite work as it is depicted in this video.  As we move back in time, we find that we have ancestors that occupy more than one position in our family tree.  This is because we have ancestors who share common ancestors.  Our number of ancestors does not just continue to double with each previous generation.  The numbers would become too astronomically high.  We do, of course, have lots of ancestors.  There is just not a doubling of ancestors with each generation as we move backwards.  https://www.instagram.com/p/DAHFMW7SFi7/?igsh=cXIxZG01aTRzc3R6

 Once upon a time, the Republican party was just a political party and not a serious threat to Americans.  As things currently stand, those days are gone.  The Republican party is now a threat to the American people and women in particular.   I have known for quite some time now that for me, voting for any Republican candidates was no longer a thought, or concern or possibility.  Not in light of what the Republican party has become.  The overturning of Roe v Wade was a huge step in a wrong direction that not only is terrible in and of itself, but it paves the way for further steps to be taken in harmful and threatening directions.  Women are not protected and cared for by having state or national laws that deny them the right to be in control of their own bodies.  The pendulum needs to tip back in the direction of equality between men and women and the upholding of the personal bodily rights of women.

 How is it that I never knew before tonight that there are some very small wild cats that exist in the world? The smallest, the rusty-spotted cat, has an adult weight of just around 3lbs.  How could I have not had this information my whole life? The rusty-spotted cat. I also had never before heard of the jaguarundi that can be found living near the Rio Grande River.  The jaguarundi. This really goes to show that our knowledge of the world, or anything for that matter, may be far less complete than we believe it to be.  Just because we personally have never had knowledge of things doesn’t mean that the world doesn’t hold truths and information, beyond our own perceptions and world views, that would really surprise us.  What we have been taught and have learned in our lives is most definitely not the only reality or truth that the world holds.  I think I would have guessed that bobcats were the smallest wild cats.

 I think I should make it a goal to watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” this up coming Christmas seasons.  I must admit though that I have always found it to be a bit strange that a long Christmas movie has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas until the very end.  I love the idea of supernatural magic and angels though.  We should all have the experience of viewing our lives from the perspective of a guardian angel.

 People face their own personal challenges in life that others know nothing about.  This is why we all need to stop and remember that we can’t judge others on how they conduct their own lives based on our own personal understanding and experiences.  People are all different and experience things in different ways.  One person strengths might be another person‘s weaknesses and vice versa.  Things that hold great challenge to some may be a piece of cake or at least much easier for others and vice versa.  On top of that, people have their own private experiences that they may not care to share with others.  We don’t know what others go through or are going through.  The important thing is to try to keep our hearts open to having empathy and understanding for others or to at least have tolerance and patience for others.  Kindness can go a long way.  This applies also to our judgment of ourselves and our own mistakes (real or imagined) and im...

This is interesting.  I never knew anything about Armadillos in Texas.  I’m a pretty clueless Texan.  Below is a video that I saw recently on Instagram.  The owner of this account, zackdfilms, posts all sorts of crazy videos.  I don’t know if this story is true but it’s a good story.  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAgqXAhsG2F/?igsh=MWxidzNua3ZmZnFhbA==  

 Do wax museums still exist?  I remember the one in Lake George New York.  This image to me looks like a wax figure of our 45th president. 

You know you are living in a very crazy time and during a presidential election like no other, when some people build a 43 foot tall naked marionette of a former president and current presidential candidate.  Even with all this crazy stuff though, we the American people are fortunate to be living in the country that we do.  We have a gun violence problem but we are not living on the home front of a war torn region of the world.  This statement is not meant to minimize the significance of gun violence to all those personally affected by it.  It is just an appreciation for not going through things that others in the world are.  This is why the future of our country and what becomes of it is so important.

 This hurricane is a reminder of how much devastation nature and severe weather can actually cause.  I can’t believe that it did such widespread catastrophic damage and to so many people.  It makes a person stop and realize how fortunate they are to never have had an experience of losing everything or worse yet losing or having family members go missing.