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Quite often when someone older passes on...I hear people will say..."He/she had a full life"...

But this makes me confused...and I do have a couple of questions...
1) is there an age limit or minimum (60, 70, 90...) to say a person had his/her life?,
2) will we ever be 'ready' (and not referring to religion or psychological, illness), to die..., and
3), what is the definition of a 'full' life for You?

According to the left, the migrant caravan is harmless and just wants jobs?

Footage yesterday Courtesy of Milenio Televisión.

"Well,one day you will all have to grow va**nas."
Thats probably the one unprintable rant that Ill tell my JP male friends.With all that is going on,the seemingly coming extinction of the male here and the rise of the feminist movement that is encouraging women towards hyper-masculinity....if theres such a word....Anyway,the all too common narrative is, there is a man behind every crime committed by a woman.Murders her kids?Yeh, depression caused by the partner.Yeh,he wanted to leave her.Yeh,he had another woman.Yeh,It couldnt be helped.Etc etc.Women seem to be exonerated from complicity in crimes they commit.Female criminals are victims and male criminals are animals in need of the most severe punishment.My point?Mmmm....I dont have a point but remember Medea by Euripides whose suffering, instead of ennobling her, made her into a monster?A very tricky affair.The victim may just be the victimizer.......


PS Photo©Defrezne aka Mer

Some of the Best Moments in Life

* To fall in love
* To go for a vacation to some pretty place.
* To listen to your favorite song in the radio
* To go to bed and to listen while it rains outside
* To laugh at yourself looking at mirror, making faces
* To laugh without a reason
* To take an evening walk along the beach :
* To laugh .......laugh. .......and laugh ...... remembering stupid things done with stupid friends
* To watch the sunset from the hill top
* To wake up and realize it is still possible to sleep for a couple of hours
* To receive a call from someone, you don't see a lot, but you want to

Our lives are not perfect but we can always be grateful for the perfect moments that make it special.

In this day and age, with so many different people from all walks of life, different levels of education and practical knowledge, and of course, individual taste, opinion, etc, etc one must certainly ask if there is any such thing as informed disagreement? What I’m talking about here is the ability of two or more people to explore any topic without criticism becoming part of the central discussion? One only has to spend 10 minutes (if even that long) watching any news program, listening to talk radio, or any other form of publication and most certainly there will be the individual creators spin on “their opinion” and some critical comment against anyone that dares to question them or refute their opinion. Once more popularly called “Brain Storming”, it appears to be a lost art.

This came to mind this morning while I was reading US News & World Report and an article titled “What color should my pee be”? Now, before you positively explode in laughter understand that I thought to myself, how juvenile, what a waste of editorial space or journalistic talent …. Then it struck me; At 60 I know the answer, but when I look at how many 15, 20, even 30 year olds that don’t even know the name of our Secretary of State, Chief of Staff, or in some cases even the name of the President … I was a bit humbled. We spend so much time, money, and effort trying to discover the next mystery partial of matter that we no longer seem to get around to teaching the basics to our children, possibly in part because we don’t know many of them ourselves! Is it any wonder how many adults die each year simply because they haven’t a clue of the warning signs of pending decline in health? Or the importance of washing your hands regularly. If so, why are so many of us so terribly out of shape and over weight? We should know the dangers of obesity so the question remains: are we stupid or do we simply not care?

Eons ago when I was more involved in the intelligence community I remember a very simple philosophy that was taught to us as a simple “how to” overthrow a government and keep the population under control. It was and remains “keep them stupid and give them time for sex”. Sounds primitive and ludicrous, doesn’t it? The fact is that it works, in fact if you look at the overthrow’s of countries over the past 75 years, it’s there practically every time. Now, look at this country since the 1950’s ….. our department of education continues to dumb down educational requirements, no longer teaches hand writing, advanced civics’, etc.. All those things that expand the knowledge base and colleges …. Only the select ones truly advance the idea of knowledge & philosophy, instead apparently promoting more fraternity parties, keggers, basket weaving as a major ….. yes, yes, I am exaggerating but honestly, there are very few MIT’s left. And sex? Well, look at this splendid 40 hour work week that many corporations want to shorten to eliminate too many expensive benefits so everyone has lots of time to stay at home, run around and feed those basic needs.

If our worlds electrical system collapsed tomorrow, just how many people under 50 could still write out a readable sentence? Look around and see for yourself. How many could build a fire, hunt down game, skin it and prepare it as well as cook it over an open fire? Could they build a shelter or modify their home to continue to provide shelter? Grow crops? Yes, I know those are skills that aren’t really that necessary, but have you ever been lost in the woods, not sure if you would make it out tomorrow or the next day? Could you survive? If we had that big electrical outage, how else would you survive in that big concrete jungle?

With all the possible scenarios that could come out of this next election, good basic survival skills might not be so far fetched. It may be just that ….. a matter of survival.

Dear Wonderful People of Florida USA Greetings from Across the Pond Cape Town hope you Having a Good Day and Hoping winter is almost Over time for Cape Town South Africa To Have Winter Please send winter to Cape Town xoxoox Dave

Do You have a say on this?

In my own opinion Harry & Meghan don't need the other Royals to be popular, the move from the UK to anywhere in the world would be a blessing for them. ???????

I was asked this question by an American on Sunday at a beach bar.

I replied, "have you ever needed penicillin? If so, thank Britain."

Who invented the internet, trains, computers, radar, navigational instruments, threshing machines, the wireless radio, tarmac, television, cash machines, batteries and jet engines? All from Britain!


Without Britain, many "First World" countries would still need to live in mud huts and eat roaches off a stick.

"the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
synonyms: the women's movement, the feminist movement, women's liberation, female emancipation, women's rights; informalwomen's lib
"a longtime advocate of feminism"

May we all agree on one thing.

This is good for what it has done to most people now and in the future. I hope you agree with me.

Any toxic insinuations far beyond this definition fall on the extreme which is expected as downside but must not defeat the truth it stands to represent.

There's always a negative effect on any changes that take place in our society as a whole but through time they are correctable and not written in stone.

May we all live in peace, man, woman or any orientation one chooses to have.

Peace to all.

"The truth is worth it.


Piecing together the facts. Vetting sources. Connecting the details. The New York Times applies journalistic rigor to every topic we cover, in our mission to deliver what is critical to democracy — independent journalism with an unwavering commitment to the truth."

New York Times claim to deliver nothing but the truth.

Really?

If all is said and done are for the truth's sake, from the whole media and broadcasting system, then perhaps we're all enlightened.

I wish.