New Year's Resolutions

BY THE POWERS VESTED IN ME FROM THE FIRST AMENDMENT THAT HAS YET TO BE REPEALED OR SEVERELY CURTAILED THROUGH CENSORSHIP, I DO HEREBY SWEAR THAT THE FOLLOWING ARE THE RESOLUTION BY WHICH I WILL ATTEMPT TO LIVE MY LIFE DURING THE YEAR:  2021...  and perhaps longer, who knows...

First  --  I will endeavor will all that which is inside me with which one can endeavor to stop being white for the sake of being white and will try to come to terms with my whiteness in that it may be causing harm to those people of color sometimes referred to as blacks or african amerians even after spending a couple of weeks at Myrtle Beach and have received a rather nice tan.

My whiteness is OFFENSIVE to people of color and I am trying to understand that from my capacity of a 73 year old Vietnam Veteran...   even though my entire life has been lived in the capacity of never being in a position to encourage racism...  especially as a liberal minded professor of  liberal minded universities.

Second  --  I will continue to put myself in a position where I will continue to DISLIKE the DEMOCRATIC Party and all that they stand for or do not stand for as the case may be...  and, with the understanding that the Democratic Party has never been the party of JFK after his death unfortunately.

Third  --  I will continue to FIGHT AGAINST SOCIALISM for as long as I live, even past this next year, and I will continue to fight this fight on behalf of the novel ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand who fully understood the importance of Capitalism and appreciated its contribution to society.

Fourth  --  I will continue to exercise regularly and eat healthy and get the required amount of sleep for my age so that I will in a position to continue receiving Social Security Checks each month for a long, long time...  and, each time I cash my check or am told that it has been deposited, I will smile at all the poor souls in the USA who must continue working and who may never receive a monthly check in the same amount of mine if and when they are finally eligible and willing to retire.  It is implied in this resolution that there will always be an involvement of family as that is an important aspect of the survival process, especially as one begins aging towards death.

Fifth  --   I will continue to oppose the Black Lives Matter Movement simply because that movement in and of itself is racist because it asserts quite STRONGLY that the only lives that matter to them are BLACK LIVES...  and, as long as they believe that, the I CANNOT...   I cannot support this, and I will not support this until the movement changes into ALL LIVES MATTER...  not only is that a more unifying movement but it implies that everyone should be seen as SIMPLY AMERICANS.  This should also imply that I don't give a damn about white supremacists either.

Sixth  --  I will continue to post controversial articles to Bipolar Scorpion and My Journal for as long as I can think and have the ability to put those thoughts in a typed format so that they can be posted.  I will also continue to post daily or almost daily on My Cancer Pilgrimage blog as well as daily on my White Scorpion Reflections of my past and current poems with the understanding that all 42,000 of those jokers will eventually be published.

I could write down more resolutions, but the odds are they would all be a waste of time because most of the resolutions made are hardly ever followed...  those resolutions that people simply do without having to put them down on paper are the ones that are most likely to be followed.  My resolutions are nothing more than a continuance of that which I am already doing and have been doing for the last several years.  I did not need to write them down at the outset...  I just decided that they needed to be done and DID THEM...

Similarly, for the last 9-10 months, I have been weighing myself daily and recording the results...  and, the reason what I started doing this is because I also started (at that same time) keeping track of my daily intake of calories.  I created a special EXCEL spreadsheet template that I have been using each day of each month.,

My calorie intake at the beginning was in excess of 2,500 calories per day is the most kind way to put it and gradually I got it down to 2,500 then in between 2.000 and 2,500 then in between 1,500 and 2,000 and now it is in between 1,200 and 1,500.  Understand that the ranges are just that and the count can go over or under and typically goes over more than under especially as the daily amount reduces.

My weight is 25 pounds less than when I started with clothes and 28 pounds less without clothes...   It makes no difference to me how it is calculated, but I used my personal scales for daily counting and then once a month at my Oncologist's office, I incorporate their digital scales.

THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN INTENTIONALLY LEFT OFF OF MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS (other than alluded to in #4) BECAUSE I DO NOT NEED TO SAY I AM GOING TO DO IT, I JUST NEED TO DO IT...  BECAUSE I WANT TO DO IT...  and not because I am trying to achieve something else.