10 September 2026…..what a year

 I noticed this morning that it has been 1 year since the death of Charlie Kirk, when he was assassinated at Utah Valley University.

 One thing that I really liked about him, I did not agree with every single thing he said, but he did have a very keen ability to break down, logically, almost every argument. And the biggest thing that he did was use his First Amendment right of free speech to offer other people that opposed his viewpoint the opportunity to use their First Amendment right of free speech, and they could debate/discuss for a few moments.

 Now, First Amendment is more than just free speech; it's also freedom of religion, and he had his own religious viewpoints. But most of his viewpoints that were, as you might want to say, "political," were also religious. You don't have to agree with everything that he said, but the simple fact is he had the right to say it. And you have the right to say something that other people don't like.

 As soon as it leaves the area of free speech and goes into physical violence or force, or heaven forbid,  using some kind of weapon to try to force or silence a person—that is not really okay.

I am glad we have the Second Amendment, and I think it should be allowed constitutional carry everywhere.

 But back to my point: Charlie Kirk, he was a person who wanted people to have the opportunity to speak.

 If you agree with the opportunity to speak and have your own point of view, you do agree with Charlie Kirk. Maybe not on everything, but on the most important thing, which is free speech and the right to think as you want to think.

The next thing that I have been thinking about is: why do I like President Trump?

He is not a perfect person, and I don't agree with everything that he tries to introduce. The simple fact, he gets things done, or he tries to get things done, that he wants to get done. 

I'll just give an example.

He declared that the capital of Israel should be Jerusalem and moved the US embassy there. 

There had been presidents all the way back to Bush who said they would do that, but none of them did it until President Trump. Now, you don't have to like the fact that he did it, but the simple fact that he did it is a much more pleasing aspect to me. He says he is going to do something, and the simple fact is he does it, or he tries to do it. The courts might say, "Oh, that's not  allowed to do that." And sometimes it goes all the way up to the Supreme Court, and they say "Oh, you're not allowed to do that." And that is that.

One thing I was very interested in was that they were talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and he said that despite the fact that he was suing Donald Trump, Donald Trump still offered to help his family with something.

The simple fact that they both work in a very litigious professions, one thing that is very easy to understand in many ways is that Donald Trump, if he gets sued, he doesn't care. It's just the way things work. If there are personal issues with the why he is getting sued, maybe that's different.

He does not worry too much about being sued because, in lots of ways, that's just how it works.

And so I will say I think that Donald Trump gets things done. I don't have to like everything, but I do like certain things. I will admit I like the fact that he is enforcing immigration. There are lots of people that are choosing to self-deport so they don't get arrested and deported. I think that's great.

I also thought it was funny that there's one conservative commentator, Milo Yiannopoulos, who was deported. He had let his visa lapse, and so he was here illegally. It was kind of funny that such a public figure would get deported like that, but his visa had lapsed. And if you do not have a visa, or if your visa has lapsed, you no longer have the right to be here in the US.

 And honestly, if you want the illegal aliens to stay in the US, I would dare say you should use your First Amendment right and talk to the people in charge and say you want a certain number of illegal aliens at your house, or you will sponsor them and be responsible for everything that they do. If the government accepts your offer—then the people can maybe live in your house or under your supervision. But if they do something—if the illegal aliens do something wrong—you will be held responsible also. The Government could take your money or put you in jail or something.

But that's just my idea.

Do I like everything that President Trump does? No.

Like any politician, I think there are lots of questionable things that most politicians do. And I do not think that any politician can keep himself clean.

If a person is going to wrestle with pigs, they're going to get muddy.

One of the interesting things I saw or understood was that when Mitt Romney was senator for Utah, some people thought he was pretty awesome. I will admit I, in many ways, at one time thought he was pretty great—but the moment he started calling people treasonous I lost respect for his ability to think and govern. I don't know why he decided to call someone a traitor. But I will admit, I'm glad he was never my senator, since I live in Texas and he was a senator for Utah.

Thank you Charlie. 

Thank you Mr. President. 

16 July 2026…..damn rain

I am not a fan of Ted Turner for many reasons, I think CNN, the news station he created, is nothing but a  propaganda machine, but I love one thing he did. He bought a ranch and got rid of all the cows, all the fences, and let buffalo (bison) roam free and help transform the land. He let the ranch do its own thing for a few years and eventually wolves settled in the area by themselves, and Mr. Turner said to leave the wolves alone. Finally he set up legal structures to insure that the land could never be used for anything but a land for bison. If I could, I would love to go hunting there. 

My telling of the story is very simplistic. I watched several videos on YouTube about bison. In Texas, Utah, Montana, Catalina Island. There have been lots of things done with bison over the past century. 

But going back to Mr. Turner, I love what he did for his ranch, but it got me thinking. How was he able to do what he did, I would love to create a preserve than could reintroduce native species, back into the environment.

Money. 

Money is not the root of all evil. Money is a gift from God. 

Money allows all humans to help other humans, the earth, or animals. 

That could be, and probably is, practically impossible for me now days. If I had started thirty years ago. Maybe. Now, almost impossible. But to do what Mr. Turner did you need to have lots of money. 

I remember I cursed myself about 30 years ago. I was sick when I was on my mission in Brazil. I had run out of the local money, so I wanted to sell some dollars so I could get some medicine and juice. So I got the few dollars I had and went to try and sell them. If I had $20, I had a lot. I probably only had $10. But me and my companion at the time had to go to several different places. One place ask how much I wanted to sell. I said $10 or something. The one man said no. I was pretty upset because I felt awful. But that got the idea stuck in my head, “money sucks.”

I eventually came back home, but I never really understood the concept of money. I still hated money and didn’t understand it, even though I didn’t have much. I understand it better now, but I’m sure not as well as others. 

Money is not my favorite thing to think about. I have learned to manage it better over the years but in many ways it’s a constant confusion for me. 

Since I had my stroke everything is more expensive. Don’t recommend having a stroke. 

So my mind was wandering around thinking of all the things I would like to do, have done in the past and stuff I do now, and most require money. Most people want money but not everyone is willing to do what needs to be done for money. That said some luck might be involved. 

I remember I was in my twenties and talking with my cousin about what I wanted to do. He suggested I go into business of some kind. At the time I hated that idea partly because I didn’t have a good idea about what business is and does. At the time I thought everything business was boring. Business is the life blood of society. I would recommend to anyone going to college, major in whatever you want. But minor in business or marketing. 

 Every aspect of society requires business in some form. 

High School clubs. 

Dances. 

Cars. 

Gas. 

Health care. 

Construction. 

Yard work. 

Pest control. 

YouTube. 

Groceries. 

Cleaning. 

Amazon. 

Veterinarian. 

Missionary Work. 

Restaurants. 

Fundraising. 

Science. 

Sports. 

Everyone gets paid in money. If you don’t get paid in money, hmmm. 

 

If money is involved, business is involved. 

Money is a gift from God. He allows each person to demonstrate how he/she will help other people and the planet with what we my have or my not have. 

It makes me think of the widows mite. Jesus Christ said the widows mite was important because she was giving the little she had, and it was a larger percentage of her entire donation compared to her income. But he didn’t not say that other peoples offerings were not important. 

If I want to help build a temple and would say I need the people that have a talent of gold (75-78 pounds) almost 4.5 million dollars. Not everyone can help with such a great amount, not everyone has that much money, but hopefully everyone can contribute the mite. One mite is said to be about 1/8 cent or maybe more, maybe a dollar depending on the mite. If I am trying to to help build a church, temple, or anything. The mites are important but if there is one donor that can share a talent of gold, things can get done faster. 

I would love to be someone that has money that can help fund all kinds of wonderful projects. I would love to create a ranch for bison and occasionally bison hunting. But I need to learn to be content with what I have. I still have more than many people. 

29 June 2026….🥴🥴🥴

My daughter got her learners permit for driving. I’m excited. We were told she can do her driving test in December. You go girl!!!

Now I have to say something. 

 “They” is a plural pronoun. 

Star Trek is one of my favorite shows, and in a recent series one of the characters said “they” was that persons individual pronoun. 

“He” “she” and “it” are singular. 

I hate the way so many things seems to be trying to make “they” singular. Apps, social media. Too many things. I even find myself falling into the trap at times.

I have never been overly fond of English as a subject. That said, “they” was something I used in the singular when I was a teenager, if I was trying to be deliberately vague to my parents or some other adult. I was a real ass sometimes. I’m surprised my parents allowed me to live. 

I was never the best English student. But I do know what a noun, pronoun, and a verb are. Adjectives, adverbs, and some other types of words I have to ask my children. At least they know the types of words.

17 June 2026…still not dead yet.

My doctor finally had me tested for celiac disease. 

The doctor said the test was negative. I do not have celiac disease. But I am going to still not going to eat bread.

 

I love bread and many other things you can make with wheat flour.  But after the last time I ate it, I was so hurting, so I really don’t want to take the risk.

I will mostly eat carnivore. Beef, lamb. Maybe bison. 

Chicken tastes chalky. 

Processed foods lack flavor or have too much flavor. 

I will still drink cranberry juice. Mainly because I had a UTI (urinary track infection) and that hurt like hell and I never want to experience that again. 

Some things I will still eat on occasion because I like them; watermelon. Maybe apples. But most vegetables don’t have enough flavor to be appealing. We put butter and salt and do our very best to hide the natural flavor because most people think vegetables just don’t taste good. Salad dressing, ketchup, they are just sugary flavor enhancers that hide the grossness of something. 

So I will eat meat and the fat. The fat is the most flavorful part anyway. 

I’m sure someone might say if I just eat meat all I am doing is killing myself. Not a big deal. Someday every single person that is born will die. No escaping the fact. 

But in the meantime I can be alive. Yeah, I guess. 

But one thing I learned a while ago is that if you eat more fat you are less likely to get Alzheimer’s. The human brain is made up mostly of fat. So I may not live forever, but hopefully I’ll be lucid. 

The other thing is about carnivore diet, some people say it doesn’t have all the other things you need to survive. Want to bet? 

I am doing it for purely medical and health reasons. I started because I was in so much pain. I couldn’t stand it anymore, but then I watched this YouTube video, and I feel like I was inspired to watch it. This one lady had been eating carnivore diet for seven years but now she is slowly adding some things back into her diet so maybe it can be that way for me.  

But if I die be happy because my diet, you can say you had the pleasure of knowing me. 

1 May 2026…….D’oh

So I was reading one the beyondceliac.org. 

I’m supposed to have a blood test Monday. But I was reading on the website that it is best not to stop eating gluten before. I’ve been doing my best to avoid gluten for a month. 

I guess I will eat the lasagna I have. And I need to go in fasting for the bloodwork Monday morning. This next few days is not my idea of a good time. I get to cause myself pain to have a blood test that will tell doctors that I have a condition that causes extreme pain. I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. 

I called my one brother last night because the thought of this scares me to death. Then as soon as I called I realized, there is really nothing he can do for me. I was just looking for a sympathetic ear. 

Life is so unfair. But it can be so fun also. I wish this was not one of the less than happy, more terrifying times. 

30 April 2026

First, Happy Birthday, Dad. I can’t believe it’s been so long. I was 19 at the time. 

My body is tired. My body is getting old. I’m a 52 year old in an 80 year old body. 

My body was hurting. I didn’t know why. Then I saw a video about a lady that has a type of arthritis since childhood. The only thing that helped her was a carnivore diet. She said after seven years she is finally able to add things that aren’t meat back to her diet. But it was and is a slow process. 

So I decided to try carnivore also. My body was in so much pain that day in particular, I was not sure what to do. I ask my wife to make me a breakfast of bacon, eggs, steak and top everything with butter. 

Some people might say, “that’s going to kill you.”  

No kidding. Like dying is a bad thing. Everyone that is born dies. I’m living on borrowed time anyway. If I die everyone can cry for a week and then life will go on. 

But in the meantime I’m alive and not in pain. 

I have had days where I wanted to cry the whole day because I hurt so bad. I started this carnivore diet and I started feeling so much better when I woke up in the morning. One morning I felt positively euphoric. Nothing was hurting. It was good to be alive. 

But I had lots of food in my house, that was not carnivore that needed to be used. I hate throwing food away. It’s a sin, if it’s not gone bad, as far as I’m concerned. And I don’t believe in use by dates. 

I ate a wrap my wife made one day. That night my arm specifically was hurting. 

We made a lasagna . I love lasagna. But something seemed different. The next morning I was in pain. I have a lasagna in my freezer waiting to be cooked. But I was in so much pain after the last, I don’t even want to look it it.

Basically I’ve been eating steak, ground beef, eggs, bacon, cheese and some other things. Chicken is not my friend I’ve decided. It can go straight through my system. Plus I think it is dry and chalky. Maybe I need to try things with dark meat. 

Liver I bought, and my wife was very excited. I read that beef liver is the most nutrient dense food on the planet. My wife made the liver soaked it and cooked it. the way people say to make it better. I still don’t like beef liver. I don’t like the texture. I don’t like the taste. I honestly don’t comprehend how anyone could like it. My mom said she liked it. How? Baffles me. I might try to make liver jerky, but that’s a different story. 

My brother came to visit San Antonio. I went to help them find there way around. They bought me lunch while we were out. Sandwiches for two days. The third day I said I can’t do the bread because I was hurting to bad. So we did something else. Great German food. And I wasn’t hurting later. 

My brother’s wife mentioned that my uncle, my dad’s brother had celiac disease. I did not even know what that was. So I looked it up. Apparently it effects the lining of the small intestine and the body can’t process gluten. 

Not everyone gets it, another brother had a DNA test and it said he was not going to have it. But because our uncle had it we are more likely to get it. What I read 1 in 140 people get it. 

I was kind of bummed about the fact that we went to a church activity and all the desserts were made with flour. That was a bummer. I have made bread for years. I love bread. But I love not hurting more. 

But then the other day I seemed to be having a lot of reflux. That can hurt. So I began searching. Along with that I quit eating anything and only drinking water.   But after two days I found that you should not be drinking  anything while you are eating and then wait about half an hour.  So I tried using that advice and everything is much better.

Do I want to live carnivore forever? No. 

I ascribe to the idea, “Let your Food be your Medicine, and let your Medicine be your Food.”  I used to think it meant having a well balanced diet. But “for everything there is a season.” I love lots of things I’m not eating at the moment. Apples, bananas, watermelon, certain veggies. Plus I love to grow lots of my own food. But if I have celiac disease I need to be more mindful of what foods I eat. 

I will admit I love eating bacon. Bacon is happiness. Eggs, steak, jerky, and other things. 

There are lots information out there that anyone can find it. I would never say people need to do the carnivore diet to be a good person. I want to eat lots of things I know I can’t. But we all need to be more mindful about what we eat. 

Valentine breakfast