Just A Thought

 It sounds quite bizarre that the Rio Grande Valley of Texas will have a city called Starbase.  It’s like Star Trek The Next Generation RGV.  It does suck though that the local people living around Boca Chica Beach might lose their beach.  https://l.smartnews.com/p-kMIevby/xZiuSf

 The United States is useless (and worse) at this time, but why is the rest of the world not doing anything to help the 2 million people in Gaza?  Why can’t the other countries do anything without the United States?  The United States can’t be the leader right now.  We don’t have the right leadership at this time. 😞

 My very sweet and petite bonus kitty.   I never knew that I was such a cat person until a few years back because until then, I had never had a cat. 🐱 

 When I was younger, I always believed that I could count on being able to live at least as long as my grandmothers who lived to be 92 and 93 years old.  When I moved to Texas in 2009, I was 42 and I believed that I should have at least another 50 years left to live and that I had more life left to live than I had thus far lived.  Imagine that this was my calculation and belief just under 16 years ago!  It is amazing how quickly numbers and ideas can shift.  I now believe that living to the age of at least 90 is just a best case scenario and nothing that is guaranteed or can be counted on.  And now my best case scenario time left has flipped to being significantly less than what I have already lived.  It’s amazing what 16 years can do with numbers. 😲 On top of that, I have completely grasped the reality that life timelines come with no guarantees for anyone.  Some people are blessed with many years to live, and others have shorter timelines, and ...

 Yuck.  I never liked these. 🤢 I have always been a sweet tooth but I always thought that these were just overly sweet straight up sugary nastiness! 😝 I’m going through my phone screenshots to clean them out.  I take a lot of screenshots (often to see things better) that I don’t need to keep.  I also take a lot of screenshots because I think they contain information that I want to save but in reality, in the 21st-century, we are bombarded by information all the time and it is really not likely that I am going to go digging through buried screenshots to remember and look for more information.  There is this thing called the internet. 

 I’m so brilliant! 🤪 I just thought of a new name for fast food.  It should be called “keep me fat” food.  My DD Is having her masters degree defense today and I am hanging out nearby and waiting.  I got the Dunkin’ Donuts six dollar meal deal and a doughnut also!  I might top it off with a little piece of candy when I get home.  One of these years, I will get around to eating better at least while I am at home.  I love my junk food a bit too much. 😱 Why oh why can’t healthy food be as satisfying???  Badly conditioned taste buds I guess.  I do, though, think that candy can be healthy. 🍬 

 There is something that I really like about independent news media beside the fact that they are committed to honest reporting.  I love that they aren’t required and don’t feel obligated to follow any dress code.  They can dress up with more formality if they wish to and so choose, or they can opt to wear a nice sweatshirt or T-shirt if they prefer.  I love their informality and freedom to dress in whatever style of clothing they prefer.  They obviously need to dress in an adequately modest manner, but beyond that the clothing they choose is up to them.  I love that. 👍 😄 I think that people who are attempting to do good and just being who they are is perfect.  It is who people are and the morals that they believe in that truly matters! 💕

 Cheers to the amazing American people who support and represent the real United States of America. 🎉🥰 🇺🇸  https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/nx-s1-5369483/anti-trump-protests-50501-tesla-takedown

 I believe that Easter is a perfect time to reflect on and seek to be filled with a sense of peace and appreciation for all that we have.  Even when we feel that we already know and appreciate how blessed we, it is time to feel this on a deeper level.  It is a time to remember those who are lacking in even the most basic comforts and sense of safety and security.  It is a perfect time to seek to feel and appreciate the best morals and values that can create a healthy planet with peace, equity, inclusion and harmony among all human beings.  It is a perfect time to seek, and to appreciate, being on the right path.  

I was just writing yesterday about how I believe that Americans need to stay positive and be happy and continue to stand for all that is good and right and just.   At the same time, what is wrong in our country at this time is terribly wrong and I wish that it all was not true.  I know unfortunately that it is. 😢   https://youtu.be/g05eo2z0QDU?feature=shared If Trump supporters don’t pay attention and still don’t grasp and understand the wrong that is taking place, this completely explains how Trump came to be elected for a second term.  Evidently now is not the time to be watching the news in the hopes that something is being done about Trump.  Wouldn’t it be amazing though to wake up one day to a headline that Trump has been arrested and is being held in jail as he deserves to be and should be! I wish they would stop just inquiring about everything and actually freaking do something about these things.  How obvious does it have to be that Donald Trump is...

  Who is afraid of Donald Trump?  This is the question that I have just found myself wondering about.  Is the rest of the world and are the leaders of other nations as afraid of Donald Trump and his power as American politicians?  Maybe they are or maybe they aren’t.  I think the answer to this question will have a very large bearing on whether or not America continues to be respected (if you can call it that) and not turned against and left to suffer the consequences of the failure of our free democracy and the failure of our alliances with other nations of the world.  I am no expert in these kind of matters, but this is just what I am feeling.  Will America as a strong nation and world leader (if you can call it that) survive at this time due to fear from the world of the power of Donald Trump?  I think this is sadly the place where we are at right now.  We need to pray for the return of the real America as it should be and this can’t happe...

  https://youtu.be/Mx7fcLSR_Ak?feature=shared No, not me.  I don’t ever forget or put it out of my mind.  I think about the people of Gaza and what is happening there every day and I have to check for news.  I wasn’t like this in the past about world events, but I am now and this one is just particularly beyond inhumane.  They have given the civilians of Gaza no safe place at all and no means to meet their basic needs.  They have not even been granted any safety or means of survival in refugee camps.  They are in fact, intentionally targeting them and committing genocide.  Ignoring it would be like ignoring what was going on in Nazi Germany.  

 Freedom of the press.  So many of the best things about America are failing to continue to exist at this time.  This past weekend there were “Hands Off” rallies of protest in every state across the nation and this amazing day of the American people seeking to have their voices heard has been given very little attention and reporting by the mainstream media as though it was just another news story and nothing of much importance or worth any special attention or coverage.  It should have been treated as the enormously important story that it actually was.  How incredibly sad and disappointing. 😔

 Sigh. 😔  It is hard to think about just going about life as normal when things are so messed up.   https://youtu.be/H2XBLwHUNUs?feature=shared But there was good news today!  It is amazing and wonderful to hear about all the “hands off” rallies across America!  Thank you, American people! 👍 ❤️🤍💙 Update: I do feel rather stupid for not having known anything about the “Hands Off” protests that took place across the nation yesterday.  I suppose this is because I have chosen to have a very minimal amount of connection with social media. 

I asked an AI if it could share with me some of its thoughts about itself.  It’s reply was: “ Ah, my thoughts about myself? Well, that's like opening Pandora's box, isn't it?”  (I do not know why this text is so small.  I don’t know the reasoning behind all the quirks of technology.)  I thought of this tonight for some reason and my feeling was: “Eek.  I don’t need any more boxes to open.  I have plenty and I’m good. ☺️”

  I never knew anything about coal sizes or the names for those sizes.  I was surprised to learn that some coal sizes share names with grains, legumes, and nuts.  Who knew?   It’s amazing what a person can learn from doing crossword puzzles. 😂

 I never thought that in my lifetime I would see the United States of America fall into such a dark state as this.  I thought the worst parts of American history were in the past and would remain there.  I am compelled to keep up with the news because I need to know what is taking place in the country that I am a citizen of and live in.  We all have to go about life as usual, but there is a lot of terrible shit taking place. 😔 https://youtu.be/P5PjSg7cpWQ?feature=shared https://youtu.be/C4rVBkJ5p-Q?feature=shared

 I partially watched a 60 Minutes program on YouTube today.  Part of the program included stories about people from other countries being exploited for their labor by large American businesses.  I believe some of the people interviewed said they were being paid around $2 an hour on top of having unrealistic and stressful expectations placed upon them. The companies actually needing the labor outsourced the recruiting and hiring of the people to other businesses.  In one story, the company needing the labor had budgeted for a salary of between $12 to $13 an hour for the laborers hired.  They of course, were paid far less by the company who handled their actual hiring and labor and payment.  Middle man businesses obviously should have ethical and moral responsibility to the people they recruit and hire, but the original contracting businesses should also have an equal responsibility for ensuring that people hired for them are not mistreated and exploited by t...

 I guess I like to entertain myself.  Ha ha ha ha.  This is my silly idea.  I would like for Lester Holt to appear at the opening of his evening news one night and say, “It is now official.  Our president Donald Trump has gone insane.”  Come on Lester.  Why complicate a story.  Mr. Donald Trump is not acting as a responsible or reasonable president and leader of the democracy of the United States of America.  He is acting like a self-absorbed, narcissistic, greedy aspiring dictator who wants to rule America and acquire whatever other parts of the world he would like.   He and Mr. Musk need to be removed from the office.  Our country isn’t supposed to be governed under the authority of a dictatorship. The law needs to assert its authority.   Thank you patriot ancestors of the United States of America.  Your spirit and strength is very much needed in America right now.  You fought for our country and you did this with y...

 The news at this time is unreal.  Is this where our country is really at, at this time?!  We just have to wait and see what will happen when a president and one branch of the government attempts to defy and ignore the authority of another?!   Why did so many Americans fail to see the huge red flags that were broadcast by the actions and behavior of Mr. Trump for so many years?????????????????? Why did they think that electing him as president was a good idea??????????????????