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I was watching a video and was going to post a link on fakebook. But I realized that if I did, I would probably receive another suspension! So I'm putting it here.

The Inconvenient Truth About the Democrat Party

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I'm working on two more books, one the sequel of this one. If you haven't read this first one, what are you waiting for?

Poor Jeremy has problems. His dad has passed leaving him to work the farm and take care of his mom, he's got bully problems at school, and now he finds out just where all the vampire legends come from, the hard way!

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Since my last blog entry a lot has happened in my life. My wife of 43 years passed away in January of 2017. A few months later I met a beautiful woman and I married her in October of 2017!

We have now purchased a new home, so we finally have a place we can call ours.

I haven't kept this blog up like I should since Fakebook and Twitter serve much the same function. But I'll try to do better.


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Make a powerful flashlight for just 10 bucks!

 I spotted this on Facebook. The link will take you directly to YouTube. I haven't tried it yet, but I will!







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How do we get our dream back?

I just finished a story by Martin L. Shoemaker called “Not Close Enough” in Analog magazine. It brought me to tears. Now think about what might have done such a thing. What makes a story, a fiction story bring me to tears?

Buzz Aldrin about to step onto the moon

I grew up during the space race. I watched as Armstrong stepped onto the moon, something I had dreamed about but never in my wildest dreams imagined we’d be able to watch it on TV! We were on our way. We true believers knew that space stations and moon bases were right around the corner. Mars would come soon, then missions to the asteroids and beyond!

Now forty years later NASA is a joke—a Muslim outreach organization! We buy trips to space from the Russians!

This story is about the stupidity of politically correct approaches to space exploration. It’s about characters that refuse to comply to the stupidity inflicted on them by a bureaucracy 20 light minutes away. (That’s millions of miles if you didn’t know.) And I found myself in tears. Why? Because we’ve lost the dream!

The shortsightedness of government and the “mundanes” has killed the dream. We should be on Mars! We should have colonies on the moon and at the LaGrange points. But we don’t—why? The irony to many of us is that other true believers support the very politicians that have killed the dream. They themselves are found to be short sighted, because they don’t get it. A welfare state can’t support a vigorous exploration program! Only a rich capitalist society can do that. We used to be that!
Hell! The Chinese are kicking our butts! They’re out capitalizing us!

We need a revolution against our welfare state if America is again going to excel in exploration again!

I am angry right now. I had forgotten the dream myself—or at least pushed it out of my thoughts for the mundane pursuits. But this brought it back, slapped me in the face with it. I cried because we have lost something bigger than all of us. We have lost the dream! Now how do we get it back?

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Teaching isn't rocket science. It's harder!

Wow, this is so true!



"But no one can fully understand how difficult teaching in America’s highest-need communities is until he or she personally experiences it. When I solved engineering problems, I had to use my brain. When I solve teaching problems, I use my entire being—everything I have. A typical engineering task involves sending an email to a colleague about a potential design solution. A typical teacher task involves explaining for the fourth time how to get the variable out of the exponent while two students put their heads down, three students start texting, two girls in the back start talking, and one student provokes another from across the classroom."

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