The World I Want I want 7.0 A1c level in my blood (diabetics will understand this one). elective abortions a memory The Patriots receiving the Lombardi Trophy. The Cowboys making the playoffs. The 7th Fleet in the South China Sea. The Russians in only their country. A Unified Korea with its capital in Seoul. Bashir Assad and Kim Jong in hell. People in church three times a week. The Dierks Outlaws in War Memorial Stadium in December. My retirement fund bringing in 7% annual returns. Plenty of dried, bailed hay in the barns. Star Trek on network television every year. Star Trek on the big screen every other Christmas. Honor Harrington on the small screen. sexual deviants in the closet. Sci Fi Universe, International Combat Arms, Science Digest on the newsstands Transformers returning to sanity. Really cool Battletech TROs (Technical Read Outs) B-1B bombers hitting targets on three continents. Lorraine Bartlett writing some decent Booktown mysteries. Decent places to buy books and magazines everywhere. Six brand new nuclear powerplants beginning operation every year in the U.S. U.S. astronauts on Mars. U.S. unmanned probes orbiting the outer planets. Cows grazing in the meadows on my farm Ships of the U.S. 5th fleet patrolling the Persian Gulf. A Bush in the White House NATO in Eastern Europe new Ford pickup in my driveway Illegal aliens staying in Mexico presents under the Christmas Tree A big fire in the fireplace in January Liam Neeson in a thriller Harrison Ford in a space opera white Christmas only in the movies Arkansas Razorbacks in a News Year’s Day Bowl God in heaven most businesses closed on Sundays people staying off their iPhone 90% of the time. a 9th major planet in the Sol system detected and imaged. Liberty Hill Church of Christ with 30+ people in attendance every Sunday morning Harmony Grove, Bissell Chapel, Pleasant Grove & Burg cemeteries well maintained a nice updated set of World Book Encyclopedias in my living room bookcase good Star Trek novels six times a year the Abramsverse & Discovery universes completely forgotten a good run of Star Trek comic books same with Transformers comic books all the issues of Hooten's Arkansas football in my possession 55 inches of rain per year from Texas to Nebraska to Maryland to California an effective treatment for Pancreatic cancer three times as many Americans regularly donating blood. No one dying due to needing an organ donation No one indulging in any drug stronger than alcohol Alcohol used in moderation People showing each other respect and courtesy on internet forums Ford tractor company reborn with a complete line of tractors and equipment My dad's restored Farmall cub tractor pulling Liberty Hill float in the Pine Tree Festival Parade. Years with no deadly hurricanes and killer tornados striking the U.S. Congress and the president deserving respect of the American people and...receiving it. U.S. economy growing at more than 5% a year. A full year with no mass murders schools without metal detectors no more conspiracy theories a year where no more plants and animals go extinct America's closest allies being happy with the U.S. an unbiased and fair American news media a puppy for every boy and a boy for every puppy every American getting to take a two-week vacation if they want to the number of atheists in the U.S. & world declining dramatically Presidents Clinton, Obama, Trump & Biden fading from national memories 1,000-ton capacity mine haul trucks in production 1,000,000-ton supertankers in service taking a weeklong cruise every year (this is for my wife Amy) Americans avoiding the use of vulgar and profane language. sitcoms that are funny. homeless people in American cities only in the history books less than 20% of all Americans obese a great comet lighting up the night sky no serial killers active in the United States state lotteries and casinos disappearing New Year’s Day Bowl games that mean something. Citizens (rich ones at least) able to take paid flights around the moon. no sex scandals in the U.S.
I've made your first line. Now to push it down further. There are number of your items I agree with, and I have some of my own. May the road rise up to meet you......
Regarding transformers The Netflix show war for cybertron series was very good IMO Better than the new live action movies That’s all I can help with on your list
Annalee & Brandon having two more healthy kids, including a boy The return of Saturday morning cartoons. Reader's Digest like it was in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. More Christian oriented movies by the Kendrick brothers and Sherwood Pictures. A "humane" broiler barn operational on my farm. More emphasis on military history in public schools. Much fewer R rated movies and Mature television shows. The extinction of vulgar and profane language in public. The U.S. armed services exceeding recruitment goals dramatically. Death penalty in U.S. replaced with life in prison/in solitary confinement. Me being allowed back on TrekBBS, Wordforge.net, Spacebattles.com, & PoliticalHotwire.com Me getting to fly on a new aircraft every year. My Cessna 152 parked at the new landing field at Dierks. More people exploring the Challenger Deep each year. Barack Obama as the new Secretary General of the U.N. The UN headquarters being relocated from NYC to Istanbul A book featuring possible real life starship designs in the future. Chelsea Clinton as the new Ambassador to Ireland. Donald Trump as the new Ambassador to United Kingdom. A model train set of at least 20 cars set up at our house. 100 plants growing and thriving in my house. All 4,000 of my books neatly shelved and displayed at my hours. Minimal racial trouble in the U.S. for a whole year.
I think we should all write lists like this (not necessarily to share). It was enjoyable to read - so thanks.
Lake Mead returning to full capacity. A minimal number of wildfires in the U.S. annually. Americans winning the bulk of the Nobel Prizes. Winter warmer and wetter than average. Summer cooler and wetter than average. Disappearance of Chronic Wasting Disease (afflicts deer and similar wildlife). A good safe place for my wife and mines horses to run. Several dogs and cats. A dog as loving as Murphy, as smart as Oliver, and as fierce and deadly as Sissy. The technology to create interactive holograms of my parents and grandparents. The aforementioned dog having a litter or two of puppies.
I can go along with almost everything to a more or less enthusiastic degree. The one exception is I think we've had enough Bushes in the white house (and I am a die hard Republican). I can personally attest to the pancreatic cancer thing as a surgeon with 350 surgeries under his belt operated on me for the first stage 1 pancreatic cancer he had ever seen.
I'm too much if a realist. I'll settle for an end to abortions that are medically necessary to save a woman's life. And an end to the absurd notion of 40+ genders. If you think you are something you are not you need psychological help not surgery. Oh and most of our problems could be solved by a return to dependence on God for blessings rather than government.
My yard growing lavishly with Jonquils, Cana flowers, Pompass grass and Elephant Ears. A treehouse and a horse for Ellory (and she wears a helmet) More than 200 cows and their calves grazing happily in my pastures. 22,500-25,000 broiler chickens bokking happily in the afore mentioned poultry barn. garage full of firewood for the coming colder weather. no snakes in our yard. Mockingbirds building a nest in the yard and patrolling for intruders. Besides the flowers mentioned, my yard having large amounts of Bermuda Grass. My sisters section of land, Aunt Trecy's place, and Woodrows added to mine. All the land between the southern border of mine and Caney Creek added to mine. A massive solar panel array at our farm at daddys. A backup hydro generator mounted on Caney Creek. A modern twelve gauge shotgun in the Library/Den rifle rack of our house
We live here quite comfortably on our two ss checks. I have everything I need, a grocery store and a used book store I can walk to should I wish or the car breaks down. I never wanted to be rich or wished for the responsibilities that go with it. Seems to me the primary problem we have right now is too many that got rich way too young, and think that means that that gives them the right to run everyone's life. DC these days is full of them
Everyone should have a bucket list. But that's where it should end, "THEIR Bucket List". They shouldn't be able to force it on ANYONE else. Some of the things on your bucket list are on my bucket list, "I" think some of the things on your list are fantasy, stupid or foolish ... or all three; that's OK it's YOUR list. Some of the things on your bucket list are on my phuk-it list; that's OK it's my list. The top "thing" on my list it that we all get along, stop fighting each other and work out what ends up on OUR NATIONAL LIST in cooperative peace. Not all of them.
Yes WHY isn't Honor Harrington on the big screen??? As long as they didn't F with it too much, it would bank!
yeah I don't know why thy wouldn't want a series with a strong female character plus some homosexual characters. Probably due to the obvious militarisism and nationalism of the series.
As a rural dweller myself I would add: Urban dwellers stay where they are and improve things for themselves rather than flee. As for the hay, the first cutting wasn't too bad. The second is in jeopardy because of a serious lack of rain.