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t set me to thinking about life there has been at least one time when i was ready to let go but never a time so far when i ve thought about ending my life whatever put me here was above my grade and i don t feel qualified to say when i m done i do understand how someone might tire and decide to ring out i don t know whether or not ms judd did that and it s none of my business i wish her fair winds and following seas as she continues on her journey posted by harold aq at 11 06 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 07 2020 happy birthday ronni i am obviously not good at all about keeping up my blogging but i want to mark ronni bennett s birthday going back to my beginning here in december 2004 ronni s blog time goes by was my inspiration that this could be a thoughtful forum despite cross country moves and medical challenges she continues to post reliably and thoughtfully she is way more than a blogger and her blog is about way more than aging happy birthday ronni best wishes for a happy life posted by harold aq at 8 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 10 2020 thoughts on karma i ve been pondering since i brought mj home with me of course i ve had outdoor dogs before and max was pretty uncomplicated but i got him at 9 months mj is said to be 6 years i don t know how long she lived on the streets in la although i think it wasn t very long because i don t think she d have been very good at it she only seems really relaxed when she sleeps at night i think about where she s been and how she got there when i m home she never takes her eyes off of me and when i stand she darts over to where i m standing it has occurred to me that one day she ll kill us both by tripping me she s not as anxious when i come and go as she was she s stopped barking but she doesn t let it go when i come back from the laundry room she s standing where she was when i left this morning i was thinking perhaps in a past life mj had been inconsiderate of a pet and she was afraid of that happening to her perhaps that could be my fate as well why not why couldn t the essence of life be non specific to species genera family order class or phyla it serves us to believe that we are of a higher order but is it true posted by harold aq at 12 49 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 29 2020 thoughts on what makes 45 the way he is the fact is that i don t hate 45 i don t love him but i don t hate him either i kind of feel sorry for him i have no idea how a shady new york real estate developer came to believe that being potus was in his wheelhouse but he doesn t appear to me to be having a lot more fun with this than we are i look at him and the sycophants around him and while some of the sycophants appear to be having a pretty good time 45 himself does not i don t know if he has a true friend in the world i m not a shrink but i think a lot of it goes to his emotional reactivity emotionally he s an adolescent i suspect most have noticed by now that his go to move in any contest is to trivialize his opponent with a pejorative nickname that probably served him well through middle school as it does for a lot of bullies but an incapacity to speak to the issues is generally regarded as a disadvantage in the world of adults who is the whistle blower in the world of adults it doesn t matter it could have been completely anonymous and if the information was true and correct it would be actionable intelligence but that s where his brain is stuck he can t get past the personal affront and to him it s always personal what he does on the other hand is just how he does business i don t want to see potus impeached and i certainly don t want to see his vp elevated into that office i want 45 to walk out of the white house on inauguration day 2021 back into his natural habitat and then to think no more about him as we hopefully begin to heal the wounds inflicted on the fabric of our republic and the world posted by harold aq at 11 43 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 11 2019 thoughts on making entertainment our priority some of you who read this may be familiar with juvenal s satires one of which 10 laments that the people now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things bread and circuses recently i ve been seeing hearing a lot of chatter about the world cup and i actually took the time to watch this year s women s final match fans interviewed during wednesday s ticker tape parade gushed about how important this victory was well it wasn t that important the soccer team won a soccer tournament and i m happy for them but it was a soccer tournament nothing has been changed and the whole competition is already well on the way to becoming answers in sports trivia competitions i think that s the big danger of our apparent hunger for entertainment what might have been a healthy distraction has become a priority in society we venerate entertainers including athletes above all our universities are judged on their athletic programs with the passing of ross perot this week i am reminded of a time when we challenged the assumption that we had to choose between a republican or a democrat to represent us certainly neither party is even the least little bit interested in representing you or me but we accept that lincoln was elected president just six years after his party was founded in fact choosing our representatives is something that we do have the opportunity to control especially at the local level but we don t vote in primaries where candidates are chosen or in local elections where local voters can actually make themselves heard posted by harold aq at 10 59 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 16 2019 humanity vs animal husbandry i think i may have stumbled upon the reason religious right men are so fixated on women s reproductive rights or the lack thereof i think they regard women as livestock in animal husbandry the object is to get the most utility from each head of livestock when a hen stops laying it becomes food you don t keep a racehorse after it s through racing unless you can use it as breeding stock have you listened to people talk about their livestock it s not a chicken it s a hen or a rooster and you don t need many roosters it s not a horse it s a mare or a stallion and you don t need a lot of stallions i m uncomfortable with that last analogy because gelding doesn t sound that good in their minds to have a fecund woman not producing offspring offends nature when their wives no longer engage them on that level they have affairs i guess they could do worse i was a bit puzzled at first that these men seem to have little if any concern for any offspring but i m reminded of my foster family s milk cow who was bred as her milk production fell off and the calf was eaten shortly after its birth the offspring are by products a couple of questions come to mind i have no idea why these men s mothers wives and daughters have allowed these men to live so long while they were being totally disrespectful of said mothers wives and daughters humanity posted by harold aq at 1 43 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 28 2019 thoughts on humanity i find myself reacting to the inhumanity of humanity people i care about seem to me to make distinctions between humans that i am unable to reconcile with my idea of humanity many people seem to accept the idea of race as a distinguishing characteristic among humans as a given although there is less science to support it than there is to support differences among various breeds of dogs why is that not absurd on its face nationalism makes even less sense especially in a country such as ours where we have gone to considerable lengths to eradicate our few common historical precedents i ve said before that everything european culture has done in american has been built over the dead bodies of the indigenous population and slaves it appears that we gringos brought nothing with us but imperialism and hubris in the absence of science or logic we find ourselves as humans and a nation unable to engage in meaningful discussions of a path forward together that s a shame because as i ve pointed out before there are an estimated 7 7 billion humans on earth of whom about 4 3 are american if we seriously believe we re going to survive separately then i believe we re seriously delusional if we seriously believe that the rest of the world is going to be patient while we get our shit together again i believe we re seriously delusional on the other hand i m five weeks from my 72nd birthday so let me just apologize to my kids again and wish you good luck with that no hay peor sordo que el que no quiere oír posted by harold aq at 11 37 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 24 2019 stop chasing squirrels among the things i believe are bad ideas are spending the next 314 days assigning blame calling one another names and anything else that reeks of early adolescent behavior i generally agree that our 45th american president is a tragic mistake from which it may take generations to recover but we can t afford to spend a lot of time in recriminations there s too much work to be done much of which is time sensitive my only issue with first term senator kamala harris is that she s been running for president ever since she got to washington she wasn t elected to run for president the u s only has about 4 4 of the world s human population and we cannot imagine that the other 95 are going to wait long for us there is no excuse for not putting the house of representatives in order and on the path to a positive agenda if it can t be passed through the senate that s on them if 45 won t sign it that s on him there are always reasons why something might fail but to not even attempt to do your job until you re sure to win is just lame we have the rest of our lives to talk shit about 45 get to work california will hold its primary election on march 3rd 2020 posted by harold aq at 1 41 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 20 2019 thoughts on support systems i was at a meeting at the va medical center in la jolla thursday afternoon during the director s remarks dr smith noted that veteran suicides continued at about 20 a day and that about two thirds of those had not accessed the va health system that set me to thinking and it occurs to me that more than 40 years into the modern all volunteer force veterans are more on their own than at any time in our history i suspect mental health support for the military has always been somewhat problematic even back in my day there were clusters of us doing different things with different levels of stress attached to them an engineman assigned to a patrol boat on the mekong had a completely different experience than an engineman on a frigate out in the gulf i think exposure to combat changes people in ways that people who have never been exposed perhaps cannot comprehend nothing in civilian experience prepares us for what we re going to do in the military all of our training from enlistment through deployment is to temper us as in a crucible to think and react in specific ways to specific stimuli undoing all that has never been given a lot of attention my sense was that when there were hundreds of thousands of us in the community we could always depend on one another as we had done on the line on the other hand when we interviewed a ww ii b 26 pilot for the veterans history project in 2014 he told us as we were leaving that that was the first time he d spoken about his experiences because no one had wanted to hear about it when he got home i don t have a background in behavioral health i do remember a period when i didn t feel as though i belonged here but whether that was due to the seven years in foster care or 1968 69 or some mix of the two i couldn t tell you i don t think we re any more serious about providing mental health support to transitioning veterans than we are about providing rehabilitative medicine posted by harold aq at 10 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 10 2019 farm ed animals i suspect that i m prone to overthinking some things and underthinking others but i keep hearing about the meaning purpose of life and it sends me off into contemplation of where that comes from i m pretty sure 45 sincerely believes he s as fantastic as he says he is so clearly that can t be left to individual decision making i may be wrong but it seems to me that theists cling to a belief that their deity usually an omniscient and omnipotent male crafted fish and then amphibians and then each mammalian species in turn if that were true it would go a long way toward explaining how so many things appear to have been done badly but that s not the point i know that i just jumped right over all the species of vegetation but i didn t want to get too far into the weeds here theology seems to teach that the universe was created by this super entity for the express benefit of earth bound humans and that makes no sense to me i m fairly certain that life is simply life beyond that we re getting into beliefs where am i going with this i think there is a strong argument to be made for animal rights to humane treatment but there s also an increasingly critical question of the expenditure of resources in order to farm animals what nutritional elements do we get from meat that we couldn t get perhaps more efficiently from vegetation don t get me wrong i am a carnivore i went to arby s and ordered their bacon sandwich with extra bacon in a finite environment with 7 7 billion people to feed of which 4 3 live in the u s is there a better way more respectful of our resources and production capacity i don t know that much about farming fish and although i know that fish will learn to recognize people i don t care as much about them i ll always remember when my foster family had the milk cow bred to freshen her milk and then we butchered and ate her calf that seemed harsh posted by harold aq at 12 02 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me harold aq i m of the class of 65 but i seem to have missed most of the fun of that largely due to the needs of the navy and the united states of america now i try to see if i can make sense of what you people are doing and how i might contribute where appropriate views expressed herein are solely mine and are seldom shared by anyone view my complete profile my blog 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