Turkey Day Cometh

by on November 26, 2025 at 12:01 am
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Turkey Day Cometh, and this is my last reminder.

Do you have your turkey in the cooker? If you know, you know. If you don’t, you may want to google fast turkey cooking times now…

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Thankful for Charlie

by on November 25, 2025 at 12:01 am
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In this week of Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for Charlie.

He spoke in the most dangerous of places. Liberal colleges. He talked about God and Abortion and faith and anything else young men and women wanted to talk to him about. He answered their questions with grace and kindness. He always sought for a dialogue. Even when he got death threats for it.

He went into the lion’s den again and again and again. He was answering a question about transgender mass shooters when a trans-aligned shooter shot him in the neck and killed him.

He never stopped talking to them, and that’s why they had to kill him. They couldn’t out talk him, but they hated what he said so much that they had to silence him. In any way they could. So they killed him. And their joyous animalistic celebration of his death showed everyone who they were.

That’s not why I’m thankful for Charlie of course. I’m thankful because he gave us an example to live up to and those of us who are human are actually trying to live up to it.

He was a happy warrior who never stopped trying to reach out to those he thought could be turned to our side. And we should never stop.

Just like Charlie.

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Turkey Day

by on November 24, 2025 at 12:01 am
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This is an important day for Americans.

This is the day millions of us begin thawing our turkeys.

If you should be and aren’t, consider this a reminder. 🙂

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Thankful

by on November 23, 2025 at 12:01 am
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It’s Thanksgiving Week in America, and I find myself considering the things I’m thankful for.

I’m thankful for family and friends. The people who choose to spend time with me. They are amazing.

I’m thankful for my health. I can walk and do things. I’m cleaning the house. Getting up and down off the floor and sorting things into keep, trash, and donate. That is amazing.

I’m thankful for my finances. I’m not rich. But I have a home. I have a car. I have a job that pays for all of that. That is amazing.

I’m thankful for life. I have it. I can enjoy it. And that is amazing.

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Babylon 5

by on November 22, 2025 at 12:01 am
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I have been a long term fan of Babylon 5 since The Gathering first aired the original time way back in the day.

It was a truly impressive series, and the fact that they managed to make 4 scenes plus an epilogue season that was better than many say it was is amazing. Assuming you get past the horrible singing of the Telepath arc. The later half of that season had some of the best stories closing out the series. It was just the first bit of the season, where they were having to rebuild sets and get people back to work, that really did suffer a bit.

I have recently, after many years of searching, completed my collection of ALL Babylon 5 DVDs. The original series. All the movies. Crusade. Legend of the Rangers. Lost Tales. Even the new animated movie that just came out. The Road Home.

The movies are better than I thought they would be. I haven’t watched Crusade yet, but it is next on my list. I just watched Legend of the Rangers, and I do agree that the new starship fighting mechanic was… iffy. But short of that, compared with the stuff coming out of Hollywood lately? Dude. I’d take Legend of the Rangers any day.

Sometimes we forget how spoiled we were with good science fiction in the 1990s, 2000s, and the 2010s. Seriously. Yeah, some of the special effects back then are bit… ahem…. by today’s standards, but some of them are better than today’s standards. Disney TV shows, I’m looking at you.

I am happy to be watching Babylon 5 again after many years, and I look forward to seeing Crusade next. I hope I will still be looking forward to it after I start watching. But so far, I’ve been entertained. A telling statement when looking at entertainment media today. 🙂

And The Road Home was an amazing way of priming Babylon 5 up for the kind of reboot JMS has been talking about doing over the last couple years. It gives me hope that something more is coming in the future. I shall await it with great wishes. JMS has not disappointed me yet, and I look forward to give him another chance to entertain me.

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