Thursday, February 6, 2025

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

DYSLEXIA AND SPELLING.

 



   





I have been dyslexic all my life.   This complicated my learning to read.  The word was might change to saw in my brain, and letters in longer words might switch places.   I was a whiz in math and science, but anything related to reading was painful.

 

At some time during my military career, I taught myself to read.  I do not read individual words.   I read the meanings of groups of words or whole lines.    I am able to devour novels, technical manuals, or research material at a rapid rate with high recall.   This ability made college a breeze; however, my wife, who attended college with me, had to go over my papers and correct my spelling.  This was during the eighties before computers.

 

Occasionally, my wife and I read to each other, but I tend to insert words or leave out words in sentences, and that annoys her. 

 

Even now, when I copy a list of numbers, I am careful that numbers don’t switch. 

 

I understand that misspellings drive the Spelling Police crazy, but some of us are doing the best we can.

 



Famous people with Dyslexia:

Whoopi Goldberg




Richard Branson




Steven Spielberg




Orlando Bloom




Albert Einstein




Muhammad Ali




Pablo Picasso




Cher 




Thank goodness for spell checkers.

The Ol’ Bzzuard


Friday, January 24, 2025

HANDBOOK FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS UNDER TRUMP

 







A voice crying in the wilderness.

Casandra warning

1984

by George Orwell (Eric Blair)

 

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

 

“The enemy of the moment always represents absolute evil.”

 

“If all others accepted the lie which the party imposed – If all the records showed the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became true.   Who controls the past, ran the party slogan, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

 

“Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version.  A great deal of the time you were suppose to make them up out of your head.”

 

 3 SOCIAL CLASSES

“The aim of the high is to remain where they are.  The aim of the middle is to change places with the high.  The aim of the low, where they have an aim – for it is an abiding characteristic of the low that they are too much crushed by the drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything out their daily lives.."


Oligarchy: a small group of people who govern a nation.

 

‘…the deportation of whole populations – not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.”

 

“In the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.” 

 


“Double think: (reality control) ie thou shall not kill but glorification of war heroes.”

 

“Ministrys: (reversals of facts)

Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war.

Ministry of Truth with lies.

Ministry of Love with torture.

Ministry of Plenty with starvation.”

 

INGSOC (the Party)

“The essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.   To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any facts that has become inconvenient…”

 

“The proles are only intermittently conscious of the war.  When it is necessary they can prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods of time that war is happening.  It is in the ranks of the party, and above all the inner party, that true war enthusiasm is found.”

 

“We know that no one ever seized power with the intention of relinquishing it.   Power is not a means; it is an end.”

 

MY COMMENT

1984 is a primer on controlling a population. 

INGSOC (the party) successfully manipulates the mind of the proles (the people) to the point that a person thinks the opposite of what is true: that 2+2= 5

 

INGSOC: Republican Party 2024




 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 







Sunday, January 19, 2025

TRUMP’S INAUGURATION IS TOMORROW – WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

 


 

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

 

I will not watch it on TV tomorrow, and I will not talk about it. 

 

Thirty-six percent of eligible voters did not bother to vote, and a majority of the remaining sixty-four percent overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump.

 

It is what it is.  

 

Our best hope is that it will be a train wreck, and Dems will come together and take over in four years.

 

This time the public will actually see the Emperor without clothes.

 

 




 And it will not be pretty.

 

 the Ol'Buzzard

 

 

 

 


Friday, January 17, 2025

DEBRA AND THE OLD FAT MAN

 

The link below shows the blog as I see it with the Google sign-in. 

Any ideas?



THE OLD FAT MAN 


the Ol'Buzzard

THE OLD FAT MAN ABOUT SIGN IN

 

I am able to comment on every other blog I am signed into except yours.

this is at the bottom of your blog , 

To leave a comment, click the button below to sign in with Google.

and a blue box that says SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE

I am continuing to read your blog but won't be able to comment until I figure this out.

the Ol'Buzzard