My Thoughts

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I'm still slaving over a hot keyboard working on my books. I've put the three Everyday books on Amazon, but don't buy one. They look just fine in the Kindle Create previewer, and they look fine on the previewer after I export them to KDP, which is Kindle Direct Publishing, a division of Amazon. But - I bought copies of each to view on my Kindle Fire and they're a mess. Full of indentations which don't show up in the previewers. I got the Kindle app to view them on my computer screen, and they look just fine there. I didn't even try on my Kindle Paperwhite Reader, because who wants to look at photos of tables and food in black and white? And I don't have a laptop to see what happens there.

The reps in the help department at KDP are very courteous and return mycalls promptly, but they're trained for people who are writing novels and such, so they're dealing with mostly words, not photos. They haven't been able to figure out the indentations, but a rep referred it to the Tech department, and I'm supposed to hear back by Tuesday (tomorrow).

I first published the Tea Book as Fixed Format (Print Replica), but couldn't get the Table of Contents to work. I talked to at least four different reps who told me how to fix it, so I'd try his idea, then call another when it still didn't work. This took several days, but I finally reached a rep who told me it wouldn't work because nothing is clickable in Fixed Format. Okay. Problem solved. It's not possible. Then I decided to buy a book in Fixed Format to see how it works. Duh! Why didn't I do that in the first place? I couldn't buy my own book because I had set it to publish at a later date. I actually like Fixed Format, but most everyone is used to clicking, so I redid it in Reflowable. 

I see now why there are few photos in ecookbooks. The cookbooks with photos are "real" books. I could do that, but I'm an amateur, and I'd have to charge so much, it would be cost prohibitive. My idea was to create ebooks with fun table and food photos at a low cost. I guess Amazon needs money, because with all the photos, the minimum price I can charge is $2.99. I'm still digging in, determined to make this work. Why am I going through all this misery? Because she thought she could, and she's not ready to admit defeat. Stay tuned. 

And in the meantime, I'm debating with the phone company over an increase in my bill, the brick over my two-car garage is cracking and needs attention, so I'm getting bids and ideas, and I stumbled into one of those websites where sirens go off, and a menacing voice (a pox on the person who stoops to record these messages, as well as Rachel at Card Services), tells you to go "here" to get help. Total scam, of course, so I turned off the computer and rebooted, but the damage is done. My printer thinks it has no cartridges, and it won't believe me no matter how many times I tell it that it's not true. I'm not even low on toner. I thought 2020 was behind me, but maybe not.

These are bumps in the road. My main concern is the future of this country. 

First of all, I've been trying to figure out why anyone would vote for a man who is older going into the presidency (78) than the oldest former president was when he left office (Reagan - 77), and obviously having problems mentally -  here's what they think in Australia.

Why would anyone, who goes to church every Sunday and professes to be a Christian, vote for a party that condones killing babies in the womb right up to the time of birth?

Why would anyone vote for a party which is rapidly leading us into Socialism? More on this next time. I wonder if they know that Nazi means National Socialist?

In studying why Socialism is on the rise here, I heard one opinion that says, it's because: (1) An upheavel in normal progression, like robotics replacing people for example. (2) Universities because they have to be intellectuals with these new great ideas, because they're so far removed from the real world of business; creating, buying, selling, producing, etc. (3) The bureaucracy because people in government want more bureaucracy.

I'd like to add one more reason - money.

I think it's because the politicians (the bureaucracy) want money (from corruption), and their tools are universities, the mainstream media, social platforms, unions, and so many people working for government at all levels (bureaucracy) who don't understand that capitalism is necessary to produce the funds which allow government at city, county, state, and federal levels to operate. More on this later.

 Actually, we'll never know how many people actually voted for Biden because so many votes came by way of  fraud. 

A look at these statistics should leave any intelligent person wondering.

Trump received more votes than any incumbent presidential candidate ever. He received 11,000,000 more votes in 2020 than he did when he won in 2016.

In 2012, Obama as incumbent won with 3,500,000 FEWER votes than 2008.

Biden had 15,000,000 more votes than Obama. Really?! The darling of the Democrats, blacks voting for him because he was black, and many people voting for him so they could be a part of history, voting for the first black president. He had 15,000,000 more than Hillary Clinton in 2016.

He stayed in his basement, rarely campaigned, and few people bothered to show up when he did make an appearance. 

Trump won the bell weather states of FL, OH, and IA with huge wins. Since 1852, only Richard Nixon lost while winning these states. That was 1960 when JFK won, an election still being questioned (by the public, maybe). I happen to believe that Joe Kennedy bought the help of the mob. More here.

More on fraud later. But for now, Joe Biden says this.

I'll continue on these subjects until (1) I get it out of my system or (2) I become one of those people who get bumped because they mention the word fraud or (3) I'll be in the re-education camp. Is this really America? Sure not the one I grew up in.

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