Not DOA
April 9, 2023 Leave a comment
It wasn’t an Easter greeting card . . . or was it?
The other day I received a mailer from a local cremation-burial company. I hadn’t been online looking for a last responder. My profile must have been purchased on the cyberinfo Stock Exchange: a person of a certain age who lives in a certain area with a certain income.
The letter starts We need your help.
(I haven’t done embalming, but maybe I could help with the flowers.)
We are conducting a survey to determine how members of our community plan for one of the hardest things a family has to face . . . the death of a loved one.
(Who’s this loved one? Let’s find out.)
The end-of-life service wants to assist with sensitive, caring and professional help. . . We need to know the real thoughts and feelings of individuals just like you. Well, there you have it. It’s documented. I have “real thoughts and feelings” just in case you thought of me as plastic and pitiless. I am not penniless, either, and that brings me to their quest for help.
The one-page front and back letter has a survey of nineteen questions and an offer of an ABSOLUTELY FREE! Final Wishes Organizer if I return the completed survey.
The survey, the letter says, is designed to help the service know what I (and not just any member “of our community”) want and need at “this most difficult time”. Well, at “this most difficult time” I want free stuff. But the survey didn’t go there. The first question is a wink and a nod come-on.
How old are you? Are you Under 25, between 26-40, between 41-65, 66 or older?
This service obviously knows my age range, where I live, and that I am retired which means that during “this most difficult time” I am receiving a portion of my life’s hard-earned income back as a monthly “benefit” from the government. The death service wouldn’t buy information that was a dead end.
O Death where is they sting? With the number of online and mail solicitations for life insurance I receive, I get the idea that everyone wants a piece of me during “this most difficult time”. When I’m dead they’ll have nothing of me and I’ll like it. And I better die in the next ten years.
The government-run program designed to protect, provide, help, and secure ECONOMIC SECURITY for people in the United States and which has been tracking my income whereabouts since birth, will be depleted by 2034. Social Security will bite the dust – but not because of me. And, if the tear-it-all-down Democrats have their way, our republic will bite the dust before 2034. To celebrate, they’ll erect statues of a Smartphone, Dylan Mulvaney, Barack Obama, a Black-gloved fist, Chairman Mao, and Martin Luther Floyd. Give me liberty or give me death.
Which of the following would you choose – burial or cremation? Hmmm. I would like to bury the elemental composition of my body, 23% of which is carbon. This last will serve as my offset for a life well-carboned. And I would like to cremate my past. Star dust to star dust, ashes to ashes, and a tick up on my final social credit score. I want to be known as the Environmental Dead Person of the Year. Who wouldn’t?
The survey continues with a range of “Show me the money” questions such as Are you currently employed? Are you aware of prepaid funeral plans? How much do you expect to pay for a funeral? Do you have life insurance, a will? Who’s the money person we should be talking to? And, to expand the scope, do you have a need for a cemetery plot? That’s the last thing I need.
(Check the boxes and we’ll tell you which box is yours. We have convenient layaway plans. Come in and check out our waiting room!)
The last question asks if I want more information about funeral planning and the types of service available. If so, I am to return the completed survey in the postage paid envelope with my phone number and address. Should I throw the service an old bone and complete the survey?
According to the mailer, the free guide “provides insightful information about planning ahead”. The guide, no doubt, nudges the reader into preparing for a tidy prepaid end. One doesn’t want to leave any loose ends. I’m half Dutch, so I’m half tidy and half-loose ends, as those who know me would confirm.
Final Wishes? To not be fed plant-based food, to not be vaccinated and fed with vaccinated food, and to die in the shire.
Planning ahead? I’d like to make it convenient for everyone like with my birthday. But every year I pass my death day and have no clue.
A tidy end? I plan on being there when I die. And afterward. That’s been prepared. I will share in the life of God’s new age and his kingdom on earth.
And, though an old hymn says “I can’t feel at home in this world anymore”, this world is my home. I’m not just passing through. I will return with the Lord and continue to walk around on resurrection ground and reign on this earth as a priest to our God.
You purchased a people for God,
From every tribe and tongue,
From every people and nation,
And made them a kingdom and priests to our God
And they will reign on the earth.”
-The Revelation of John 5: 6-10
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Mr./Ms. Rep./Sen.,
When you use my income to fund government programs that are earmarked to benefit interest groups, e.g., “$3 million for an LGBTQ museum in New York, more than $3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail, and authorization for the creation of a Ukrainian Independence Park”, you are not benefitting Jen Q Public. You are picking winners and losers. And, Jen Q Public is on the losing end.
Taxation means I have less money to take care of myself. With every tax increase I am forced to give less to my neighbor and to those people who need it via organizations that I can monitor and see results. Taking money out of my hands and stuffing it in your coffers is taking away charity, aka love, and replacing it with impersonal bureaucracy.
As spent, every tax dollar benefits your reelection campaign to do more picking of winners and losers. You do not represent Jen Q Public when you spend money like this. You represent yourself.
I want my money back. I do not want your welfare and your public assistance programs and your public health bureaucracy and your earmarks and your wars. I want my money back. I want to take care of myself and my neighbor. Get your hands out of my pocket.
US leads the rest of the world with $196 billion given to Ukraine amid war with Russia | Fox News
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Ornithology Project:
By the streams the birds of the air have their habitation;
they sing among the branches. Psalm 104: 12
A couple of months ago I purchased a Zoom H4n Handy Recorder to record bird song. Below is one of my first attempts to capture local bird song. I am still learning how to use the recorder and the Audacity audio software to filter out distortion, so bear with me.
In this recording, captured this Easter morning about 6 AM in central Indiana, you will hear me walking toward the birds, wind distortion in the middle, more walking and relocating and then a solo bird song against a background chorus of bird song.
Around the 2 min. mark you will start to hear some wind distortion
Around 2:30 I am walking into the wind and relocating
Around 3:20 the wind distortion ends
Around 3:40 a bird solo
These birds actively communicate in the early morning. I’m an early bird, so this research is a good fit for me and my Parrolet Henry approves. Next up: refining my recordings and discerning which types of birds these are.
Just this morning I noticed a nest being built on a wreath I hung on a patio door. the birds of the air have their habitation at my place, too. Soon, new life.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology—Home | Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Informed Dissent:
The Evidence for Antidepressants Causing Mass Shootings (substack.com)
How the FDA Buried the Dangers of Antidepressants (substack.com)
How mobile phones have changed our brains – BBC Future
They are coming for our food . . .
Your brain on COVID-19 vaccines . . .
America Has An Egg Problem And It’s Creating Weak Men | Evie Magazine
Why Reparations are Wrong – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)
American Banana Republic – The American Mind
They’re coming to free speech away:
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“We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” Christopher Hitchens
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The Midwest:
Chicago:
Wisconsin:
GOP lawmaker wins Wis. Senate seat, creating supermajority | News | channel3000.com
Indiana:
In a statement, [Indiana’s Gov.] Holcomb said it is “important that we recognize and understand” that struggles with gender dysphoria are real. But also said that medical transitions should “occur as an adult, not a minor.” . . .
Holcomb signs gender-affirming care ban for trans youth into law (wfyi.org)
Gov. Holcomb – Do not send Indiana money and support to Zelensky. It is not our war!
“In his tweet Gov. Holcomb stated: “We will continue supporting Ukraine’s defense and sovereignty amid Russia’s senseless invasion.”
The Green Religion:
Your property first, Jamie . . .
Ending Racism:
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“All My Exes CHANGED THEIR SEXES” 😂 | Buddy Brown | Truck Sessions – YouTube
Cindy Wity 