One more time!

I just posted on the blog after everything had vanished numerous times, so I don't know if it's worth the struggle anymore. I'll see if it's still there tomorrow.  

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It is now "tomorrow", the day after my previous statement shown above and after the prior blog posting which is still there as well. So are all previous postings still there, going back for years to when I first started the blog. What does all that mean? I'm not quite sure. How did my blog and all blogs first come about and what keeps them going now? 

And how is it that spelling errors in English, the main language of my blog, are flagged in red? And red appears as well if I make a spelling error in Spanish. How does this system know that I am fluent in written as well as spoken both English and Spanish? A language I can only partially understand is Portuguese, which also has flagged some written words in red that deviate from Spanish. The following appears in Portuguese and the first 3 words were flagged initially in red, as they are not the same as in Spanish. (I am trying to figure this all out, why I get corrected in Portuguese, perhaps because it's not Spanish? I'm trying to read the inscrutable minds of the blog gods.}

Eu saí do parque. “ I left the park.” --that's in Portuguese. In Spanish, it would be "Yo salí del parque." 

The blog gods are silent about this sort of question and many other blog issues. However, consideable commentary and speculation by users about the blogosphere can be found online. 

Below is a message from a reader who warns that a blog may not last forever. It's not like the print copies of my own books now on my bookshelf or of ancient manuscripts that still survive as physical objects. Documents written on papyrus still exist. According to Wikipedia: the oldest known papyrus roll has been dated at around 2900 BC. 

A former neighbor says the following about the  blogosphere.

Remove label Inbox from this conve

you’re not paying anyone for the privilege of posting on that blog. but somebody has to have set it up 

and made it 

available.  that person’s finance$ are prob not unlimited, and somewhere down the path it is co$ting

 someone something.  the blog itself therefore is a limited entity; accept that and you will be less

 frustrated.  

     you are using another person’s entity to promote your point of view.  in a way you are a guest of that

 Other Person.  consider it like going to a neighbor’s house for dinner.  you are not going to stay 

overnight and eat your 

way through dinner and then breakfast, lunch, and another dinner; ad nauseum.  

So, my friend and former neighbor, thanks for that. I'm not sure exactly what she means.

I would welcome other reader comments. What, if anything, is now sustaining so many blogs? 

Is it just whatever sustains the internet and all our computers? We can always go back years to 

retrieve old emails, though changing computers seems to limit that somewhat. 

None of what appears on a computer may last, as it all simply could vanish in a 

nanosecond. If a computer stops working altogether, then everything on it will be lost. 

And what does it mean if we send out an email and there is no reply? Did that person die or has simply 

switched to a new system? Or maybe he or she doesn't want to hear from us anymore? 

Wiser heads than my own have speculated on these matters. 

 

Reurning back now to news of the present:

"Petty Trump Bans Obama’s Intel Chief From Dog’s Graduation Ceremony"
https://www.thedailybeast.com//james-clapper-banned-from-attending-dogs-graduation-ceremony-by-trump/?via=ios

The dog was named Susan for James Clapper's late wife who had volunteered at the shelter. But Trump 

had banned Mr. Clapper from attending the dog's ceremony. Trump even took the trouble to make sure to 

do that. 

Donald Trump often acts vindictively and in such petty ways. It's probably too late for him to change 

now nor apparently he has any desire or ability at his age to become a kinder, more compassionate 

kind of guy. 

At age 79, Mr. Trump seems to have a form of dementia, as he often speaks in gibberish and 

contradicts himself. 

Trump has bragged about "acing" a cognitive test, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), 

a short test designed to detect mild cognitive impairment. I've also taken and easily passed that simple 

screening test myself. Apparently neither of us, neither Mr. Trump nor myself, has anything 

beyond the ordinary mild cognitive impairment associated with aging. But I still am rather forgetful.

And so is Donald Trump. Neither of us is as sharp as we once might have been.

Trump still has plenty of ardent supporters, although 

their numbers are shrinking. Even my own son, a faithful Trump voter, is losing confidence, 

now suspecting, like so many others, that Trump is trying to 

hide something about Jeffrey Epstein's death and his own possible involvement in it. 

Trump says he's gotten tired now of talking about Epstein. Or maybe he just doesn't want it known that 

he sought out prostitutes, perhaps while being married to Melania. But this is a guy whom a 

small majorityof Americans have elected as our president, and with 3 1/2 more years still left in his 

term. That's seems like a long time

And it's not likely to get any better.

Trump files libel lawsuit over Wall Street Journal report on Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday letters

Like a dog with a bone, Donald Trump cannot seem to let the Epstein matter go.

And Trump still wants to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom he nominated himself in 2017 and 

whose term doesn't end until May 2026. Trump has been pressing the Fed Chair to lower interest rates 

or to resign, neither of which Powell has agreed to do. 

For Sale: Trump is leveraging power of his office to reap profits for family businesses

Donald Trump cannot take it with him when he dies, but he is making sure that his family is taken 

care of to the maximum.