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Gambling. One of the nastiest monsters of the world. Feed it and it eats your soul. Starve it and it destroys your mind. To a real compulsive gambler the loss of gambling is good reason for perpetual mourning. Every ounce of desire in your body craves going back to gambling again. The adrenaline, the euphoria, the joy of knowing you will be in action is enough to inspire any gambler to gamble again or relapse no matter how much they have lost. I am not just talking about lost money. I am talking about lost health, family, and friends. About losing everything that matters. I gambled for over 50 years and lost it all. In the last nine years I have quit gambling and slowly rebuilt my life. Yet, I continue to long for my greatest friend and unconditional lover. Gambling. But I am no longer owned by that urge. I own it. But, I only own it one day at a time. So I stay on guard and keep working with other compulsive gamblers continually or I know I am doomed. Each day, I commit to not gamblin...

     COMPULSIVE GAMBLING DESTROYS                                                      Update December 12, 2023 The adrenaline, the euphoria, the joy of knowing you will be in action is enough to inspire any gambler to gamble again and again  no matter how much they have lost. I am not just talking about lost money. I am talking about lost health, jobs,  family, and friends.  About losing everything that matters. I gambled for over 50 years and lost it all. In the last 14 years since 2009, I have quit gambling and slowly rebuilt my life. Yet, I continue to long for my greatest friend and unconditional lover.  Gambling. Now, I am no longer owned by that gambling urge. I own it. But, I only own it only day at a time. So, I stay on guard and keep working with other compulsive gamblers continually or I know I am doomed....

          Twitter and Laura Ingraham still SUCK   Twitter is the same liars and low life’s they always have been. They banned me in 2015 about a tweet I posted about Laura Ingraham, the piece of garbage Fox entertainer.  Twitter sent me a letter of apology admitting they were wrong for banning me and they apologized for unfairly banishing me because I violated no rules.  Then, a few days ago Twitter and X said I was fully reinstated. I tried to sign in.  However, they still will not allow me to sign in until I delete the Ingraham post. A post they admitted in writing that they said was not a violation. Can I sue? No. She is still scum as is Twitter and X. They are afraid of liability. They should be.               

What a pathetic joke it is to try and baselessly impeach Joe Biden. I hope the sicko fringe Republicans do not proceed, If the DOJ starts digging into the backgrounds of some of the most radical anti-Biden morons they may end up thrown out of office and impeached themselves for good reasons. Mr. Garbage, speaker of the house Kevin McCarthy a weak, groveling dope  and total Trump loyalist and Jim Jordan, two of the garbage picking Republicans attacking the President and his son both have dirty and immoral backgrounds. Jim Jordan or Gym as he is sometimes called would not act to help his wrestlers at Ohio State University a few years ago when he coached college wrestling when some wrestlers told him of the perverted sexual actions of Dr. Richard Strauss who acted out sexually with at least six of Jordan's wrestlers. Jordan knew and walked away without opening his disgusting mouth while knowing about the sexual attacks on his wrestlers by Strauss.  Cowardly Strauss than choose su...

He quietly dialed the stored numbers of the heads of major US news outlets.  It was 3am Tuesday in Washington.  The same words were said to each startled person with no greetings or apology. “It's the President.”  The voice was unmistakable to the thirty people called from the oversized, greasy, black cell phone.  He ordered each of them to attend an emergency press conference at the White House West Wing at exactly 12pm later that day.   Each call ended with the words “no questions” and an abrupt hang up.  He then called key cabinet members and instructed them to come to the noon conference with the stern admonition “no questions”.  Finally, he called Chief of Staff, Jack King, his oldest, most loyal confidant and only real friend in his 75 years of privileged existence.  He directed him, without hesitation, to have the outdoor West Wing set up for “a big crowd” of reporters and others that would be attending the “high noon” press conference...

The first James Bond movie starring Sean Connery, then an unknown and unlikely actor, was Dr. No and released in 1962.  The first words Sean Connery uttered as Bond was the world famous iconic phrase Bond, James Bond. People, including myself, have thought that Connery spontaneously changed the script from an unknown name to Bond, James Bond. because it sounded better.  However, the famous catchy line was supposedly arrived at by Berkely Mather the co-script writer for Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger which were the first three Bond movies.  Maher was a British script writer.  There were a total of twenty five Bond movies featuring several Bond characters EON Productions Limited produced the first movies. Albert R . "Cubby" Broccoli and Herschel Harry Saltzman were partners for the first nine Bond movies.  Their unfriendly partnership supposedly ended in 1972 by mutual agreement but Broccoli initially would not fulfill  the agreement to sell his...

I am just another guy sitting in my kitchen chair trying to figure out how to become a successful author. I just read David Baldacci's autobiography who is the best selling author and he made writing seem so easy. He made it sound like just telling an interesting story to a friend was the trick. I am a 75 year old male who is retired and disinterested in almost everything I have been doing lately besides talking to my family of kids and grandkids. Writing seems like the one way I can justify an admittedly indulged existence only because of the good fortune of a well endowed family and some lucky business success. Otherwise, I feel very empty sitting out here in Florida far away from my roots in Chicago. I never saw the point in going to school so I en1ded up graduating last in my class in both grade school and high school then got kicked out of 3 colleges and inducted into the army at the height of the Vietnam war. Being scared to death of actually being sent to fight I fooled the ...

Another season of not watching football  for me is here. I have not watched a televised football game for more than 5 minutes since I stopped gambling on football and everything else 14 years ago.  It is so satisfying to not care about which team beats which team the entire season. Good for all the football freaks out there that the now get an unlimited new supply of football to love and cherish. I would rather be playing pickleball, reading, working out, playing golf or doing any worthwhile task rather than living or dying by which team wins a football game.  I know I’m in a small minority of people especially in recent years as football  popularity has blown up to monstrous proportions.  So what? Who cares?  Figure out those spreads.  You’ll do great this season lol.