Life lessons from bicycles. Dysfunctional males. Where in the world to dodge war and jabs.

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Zoriana took a spill on her bicycle this morning. She was nonchalantly riding with one hand on the handlebars and she went over a speed bump. Bang! As almost always happens, a local came running over to help her as she was hugging my knees and crying. She wanted my sympathy, and after a couple minutes got over the spill and we went on our way.

She went down Friday as we were on our way home from the music lesson. She was zigzagging back-and-forth down the dirt road. My guess is that she hit a patch of gravel or a pothole and lost control. Same story: crying, hugging, and soon back at it.

I am glad to be riding with her, and glad that we are on dirt roads away from traffic. She is not going to get hit by a car. She is also learning, bit by bit. I tell her every day how important the helmet is. I think she is starting to believe me. After Friday’s accident I recommended that she wear gloves. I don’t know if they helped, but she had them on this morning.

I am headed down to pick her up in five minutes. Her chain came off the bicycle this morning. It wouldn’t happen if she were pedaling smoothly, but at four years old you can’t expect that. I have a set of wrenches in my backpack to fix her bicycle as we leave. It was Eddie who adjusted her rear wheel last time to tighten the chain. Although I knew what sizes to bring (14, 15, 17mm and adjustable) I asked Eddie just to be sure and just to let him know I appreciate his expertise.

I am sure there are valuable life lessons in this. Just like any kid, her first inclination is to blame the bicycle. She is learning that blame simply doesn’t do any good. Older daughter Naomi never learned about bicycles. When I was teaching her how to drive a Honda stick shift 20 some years ago she never did give up blaming the car. Zoriana is also learning to pay attention to daddy’s advice about listening for cars as we go through intersections, stopping when we cross main roads and so on. It’s nice that we can do this while she is at an age when she has to ride with an adult.

Eddie noticed that there was a misfit at our Toastmasters party. A guy that just didn’t fit in, didn’t talk to anybody. My guess is that that description alone is enough for you readers to pick him out from among the pictures to which I linked yesterday. I would guess he is someplace on the autism spectrum.

The question of how to accommodate him came up. I offered the opinion that learning public speaking isn’t going to cure a problem like autism. As much as we can sympathize with a guy in that position, we can’t help him. Moreover, working around their deficiencies puts a load on everybody in the club. You can’t give useful feedback to a guy who is simply not in a position to apply good advice.

I write “guy” because it is disproportionately men who fall on the autism spectrum.  We had a fellow named Andrei about six years ago who never managed a coherent speech and always seem to deliver the same one. It was easier on all when he decided to leave. He lives in my neighborhood and I see him at the beach every now and again. He is always hungry for conversation, and as long as we stick to topics that lend themselves to analysis, such as the war, he actually has something to say.

The incidence of autism has increased astronomically since I was a kid. It fairly well tracks the increase in childhood vaccines. At the time I wrote the piece above in the link above about my adult children’s difficulties adjusting to life I attributed it to genetic factors. I am now not so sure – they were certainly subjected to more childhood vaccines than their mother and I ever were. We will never know what makes them the way they are. All I can say for sure is that my young children are unvaccinated (with the exception of one MMR) and closer to what the world would consider normal.

Let me put in a good word for Mr. MIT, the guy about whom I recently wrote, who considers me an irredeemable redneck deplorable. Commenting on the New York Times reader poll of the five best books in the 125 years of their book reviews, he found it regrettable that To Kill a Mockingbird has been dropped by a number of schools and libraries because it contains unacceptable language and descriptions of rape. It’s a classic and it should not be censored. I hurried to second his view, and add that the same applies to Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, HL Mencken and a vast number of other authors who are being condemned retroactively for violating the woke concepts of 21st century America. Don’t hold your breath waiting for my report that he returned the compliment.  My guess is that he considers those three to be real racists.

Whatsherface (and I) have had enough of Covid.  She and I see a couple of continua:

1.       medical -> legal -> personal action.  Covid looked like a medical problem.  Upon examination it is more of a political and legal problem.  It is being fought out in those realms.  But for me, now, it is a personal question.  We dodged the bullet.  How should we now live?

2.       information -> political action -> family decisions.  When Covid was new we were hungry for information about it.  We are now saturated.  At the world and national levels it is time for political action.  But for me personally, I mainly have to read the tea leaves, decide where public policy is going, and figure out the best place for my family.

With regard to the legal aspect of question one, a bunch of experienced lawyers have completed their grand jury investigation with as to who planned Covid and how it was executed.  It is the grandest conspiracy theory you will ever read.  I was skeptical for the first 20 pages, wondering where it was going. But the remaining 60 hang together remarkably well and give substance to the first. 

How does this affect me?  Assuming they are right, there is a depopulation agenda, my children will grow up intact in a less populous world.  The main question for me is then where we might live.  The war forces me to face that question, but it is bigger than mere war.

What if the Russians take over? Would we stay?  In February, when a quick Russian victory looked fairly likely, my answer would have been to wait and see. If they had enjoyed that quick success, such as they experienced in Crimea, they would have again been careful with American civilians such as me. At a minimum we could have left without much fuss.

If the Russians were to win now, after so much death and destruction, I do not think it would go well for an American in Ukraine. However, it is now clear that Russia could only win after a long hard slog. If the tide of battle changes we will have time to leave. It would mean writing off the real estate we own here and starting over. And that begs the question of where to start over again. What would be the deciding factors? That in turn begs the question of where world trends are taking us. Let’s name the areas of interest.

1.       The surveillance state – freedom of speech and travel.
2.       Threat of war and social violence
3.       Medical mandates – official and unofficial freedom from compulsory vaccinations, Covid and childhood.
4.       Cost of living – a fairly significant factor for a family living on Social Security and savings
5.       Agricultural self-sufficiency – which countries can feed themselves
6.       Conducivity to grandchildren: availability of compatible, traditional and unvaccinated marriage partners.
7.       Education – not such a major issue, as we will probably homeschool
8.       Language – also not a major issue. This family does well with languages.
9.       University and employment prospects. As long as American citizenship retains some value, the children should have the freedom to travel to meet these needs.

Dropping all of these factors into the hopper, Latin American countries appear most promising. Top of the list would be Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Costa Rica. I would not rule out Nicaragua, Brazil and Panama. The first five factors in the above list weigh against other countries in Europe, and number six is questionable.

The thesis of the grand jury investigation is that there is a huge crime afoot, the systematic shrinking of the world population.  The people who are carrying out this depopulation have been at it for a long time and think that they are looking out for the best interest of the world. That is certainly what the eugenicists thought. That is what Margaret Sanger thought when she founded Planned Parenthood. That’s what my former Episcopal Church thinks as they support Planned Parenthood, the LGBT and other allied movements.

Obviously, the people behind the grand jury investigation feel quite the opposite. They consider it a hugely immoral project taken on by self-appointed masters of the universe such as Bill Gates and the Rockefellers.  It is not only immoral, but it is being executed in a fairly crude fashion. The pharmaceutical companies simply don’t know what the long-term effects of their products are going to be.

Today I learned the word transfection, which is the introduction of foreign material into DNA. Moderna and Pfizer appear to have knowingly lied when they claimed that their shots would not permanently affect a person’s DNA. The mechanism was well known. What we don’t know is the extent to which these injectable biological products will permanently alter germline DNA and hence be passed on to subsequent generations.

Speaking of those pharmaceutical companies, it appears that they have a portfolio of about 4,000 patents over 30 years related to Covid. It is not something that just popped up overnight. David Martin, a patent attorney who tracks this stuff, projects that it could result in hundreds of millions of deaths throughout the world.

There are threats to my genetic interest in both sides’ agendas. Per Frank Salter, my interest is represented by all of the people in family, tribe and nation who have some DNA in common with me.  Here is my Amazon video review of “On Genetic Interests.”

That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man is happy to be occupied with small problems like bicycle chains, the good-looking woman is concerned, as she should be, with the children’s education, and the children themselves are a little bit bored. A voice from the peanut gallery just piped in “very bored.”

Graham