“Bob” Rohloff

This Sunday there is a bit of a twist from my usual Sunday heroes.

The idea of continuing to work after retirement is an issue that some of us   already have or will have to deal with. However, the idea of working after age ninety is most likely something that few, if any of us, will have to deal with. 

Robert “Bob” Rohloff of Appleton, Wisconsin, has been barbering for 75 years, and this year, at the age of 91, he’s fulfilled a bucket list dream by opening his very own barber shop.

Mr. Rohloff says knowing the trade is one thing, but personality is 90 percent of the business. “You have to be a people person,” he told The Epoch Times. “You’ve got to be a good visitor, a good listener, and a good person, and that’s the main thing. My dad was that way, and I grew up that way.”

Mr. Rohloff started his barbering apprenticeship in 1948 as a junior in high school. He attended vocational school every Monday and cut hair in front of a barber board on Thursday nights. Three years later, at the age of 19, he achieved his barbering license.

Mr. Rohloff knows he cannot work forever. But in the meantime, the nonagenarian firmly believes that staying occupied is vital.

“I have so many of my friends that have died, retired being in front of the TV. They don’t last long,” Mr. Rohloff said. “I look at retirement as being able to do what I want to do, but I don’t look at it as quitting working, and I don’t think people should. I think they should work as long as they can.”

Certainly Bob Rohloff is a unique individual, and his philosophy is one that should be admired by many … oops, except by me as I retired at 62y/o!

11/5/23

What Will Biden’s Legacy Be ?

My son is a history teacher and has told me multiple times that something is only considered “history” after twenty-five years have transpired.

On 11/1/23 I read multiple things which made me wonder how history will consider Joe Biden. What will be the thing that history will remember him by? What will his legacy be? 

Perhaps his most formidable memory will be his foreign policy? … including his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Perhaps his shelling out of billions of dollars to an Ukraine-Russia war … a war that could not be won.

Perhaps it be will his inflation. Inflation that was primarily caused by his crippling of fossil fuel production in the U.S. Inflation that will have ruined the lives of many! 

Perhaps it will be the zagillions of dollars that he funneled to Iran even though everybody, except possibly him and his cronies, knew that this money was being used to support terrorists groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. 

Perhaps it will be his inept handling of Covid. His policies ruined many small businesses. Our country’s children will be paying the price for his snuggling up to the teacher’s unions for their entire lives! Our military recruiting is way down, surely partially the result of his heavy-handed military vaccine mandates.

Perhaps it will be the receipt of basic payola from foreign countries that Joe Biden attempted to underhandedly lateral to his son?

Although all of the above will be historical contenders for his failed presidency, after just reading three separate things, I predict that what Joe Biden will be remembered mostly for is something which has not yet occurred. I predict that sometime in the next few years there will be another terrorist attack(s) as a consequence of Biden’s open border policy. After reading the following three things, I challenge you not to be similarly fearful.

First, I listened to Alejandro Mayorkas, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security testify before a Senate sub-committee. During this hearing as headlined by the New York Post, “Alejandro Mayorkas admits 600,000 illegal ‘gotaways’ crossed border in 2023, and calls immigration system ‘broken’” Mayorkas is “in-charge” and by his own statement is clearly incompetent. 

Second,

On 10/31/23 Republican senators sounded the alarm on the Biden administration’s border policies after Border Patrol agents caught illegal border crossers who were carrying explosive devices that Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said were “tailor-made for terrorism.”

Four Republican senators said that over 8 million illegal border crossings have taken place under President Joe Biden’s watch, while asserting that explosive devices found on some border crossers in recent days represent an elevated risk of terror acts against the homeland.

Of the 600,000 “getaways” how many are potential terrorists who have access to explosive devices?

Third, from the Washington Times:

Terrorist threats against the U.S. reached “a whole other level” after the Hamas attack on Israel, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told Congress on Tuesday, saying the big players in terrorism have all renewed calls to attack America and its interests. He said the level of threats has heightened since President Biden took office …”

Ergo, putting these three recent news items into perspective, I feel that Joe Biden will be historically remembered for an upcoming terrorist attack stemming directly from his inane border policies.

11/2/23

82,000 ! … Nefarious or Dumb ?

As most of us remember Hillary Clinton used a private e-mail server when she was Secretary of State.

From the Epoch Times:

“Starting in 2014, the State Department asked Ms. Clinton and other former secretaries of state to hand over any work-related emails they held. As events unfolded, Ms. Clinton revealed she had been using an account maintained on a private server located in her New York residence, raising security concerns.

Ms. Clinton eventually produced 55,000 hard-copy pages of her exchanges, representing 30,000 emails. Investigations would later reveal about 100 emails contained classified information. A further 65 emails had information considered ‘Secret,’ while 22 were ‘Top Secret.’”

I think one could say that Ms. Clinton was either nefarious or dumb … or both!

Government officials’ use of private email for official business is discouraged under the law. Regardless, officials must still preserve all government-related emails conducted on their personal accounts under the Federal Records Act.

Why would a government official have a separate email account in a separate anonymous name? Perhaps one is solely using this anonymous email account to keep in touch with the grandchildren, asking them how their school day went. Actually, I could possibly believe that, as although I do not have a separate anonymous email account that I only use for my grandchildren, I do have a separate recipient group for them.

BUT … Why would government official have three separate pseudonym email accounts? Draw your own conclusions! 

Actually Joe Biden while he was Vice President, had three separate  pseudonym accounts, Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, and JRB Ware!

President Joe Biden sent and received thousands of emails through pseudonym accounts during his eight year tenure as vice president under President Barack Obama.

According to an Oct. 30 federal filing in an Atlanta Court, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has identified 82,000 pages worth of private email exchanges across President Biden’s three pseudonym accounts, Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, and JRB Ware.

Southeastern Legal Foundation has been pressing NARA for information

about President Biden’s emails since 2021, when it initially filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. A second request was sent in June of 2022.

According to the legal advocacy group, the email accounts were used by President Biden to “forward government information and discuss government business with his son, Hunter Biden, and others.”

Hmmm! Three separate email accounts under three different pseudonyms! Could it be that J.B. is either three times as nefarious or three times as dumb as Ms. Clinton? Draw your own conclusion!

11/1/23