So, Buna, Jasper,Newton,Orange Etc. Counties- What Has Happened to Mr. Thomas? The Govteach?

 Facebook finally caught up to my old FB site and I've been kicked off for violating " Community Standards." 

Apparently one of the biggies now is I can't ask you to like the blog.....Never mind, I've been asking you to do so for over a decade.  

For the 4th time in  week, I have new FB site. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572465908828 

And to be honest, I am not sure if this is going to work or not. If you send me a friend request, I will accept whoever , but the last time I did so, FB said, I was "violating community standards."

I am about to switch to YouTube and TikTok, or whatever winds up replacing YT,TT., trouble is I was told I was "Too old to be using YT or especially TT." 

That's reason enough to use it. 

As many of you know, April works for TikTok now, and I am waiting for her to return to the states ( She's training and then visiting family for the " Year of the Snake.") To see about what camera she recommends, if I can afford it. 

I already have headphones and a microphone from the old radio days. 

If I can, I am going to only post on theGovteach Part Deaux. 

I'm pretty aggravated at this point.

Okay, If You Read This, Share. Please

 I am about to see what it is going to take to set up a TikTok and YouTube account.

Facebook keeps shutting down my sites part of it was they did not like me trying to get people to like the blog. 

Just ordered a new camera and will be in , in a few days. 

Not well versed in other social media, but we will see. It will probably be rough, rough the first few weeks. More written word than video. 

The old saying, face for radio, and a voice for print. 

If it doesn't work,.may need to go dark. 

Give me some time. 

New Buna Supt. Of Schools

 I know, I know. I am days behind writing on this. 

Sorry, sometimes in a one man media outlet, well, life happens. Doctors, dentist appointments. Grandma's not been well. 

And the new Buna ISD Supt. Of Schools is from Buna. Julie Motomura.

Good choice Buna Board of Trustees, good choice. You needed to pick someone who knows the community. 

I am hoping for good things from her. That said , you never know. A new Superintendent is always a wait and see situation. 

That said, no matter the amount of time they are in the position, this will probably be their last stop in education, as the amount of time they have in the business, they can see retirement on the horizon, no matter what they might have said, or they, or what people think. 

Plus, there are big changes which we are going to write on in the future of Texas education, if the Texas Senate has their way 

I wish the new Buna Superintendent well, and I hope she treats the faculty, kids, parents of the Buna ISD well. 

1000? Man, Sure Enough, We've Lost Our Way.

 I have been sent several  different links to this " event" that is to take place tomorrow. 

Including one from one of the sweetest girls I ever taught. She was disturbed. 

A British girl is to have sex with 1000 men tomorrow. 

A thousand. 

Why? 

Is it for the Only Fan views? The money shell receive from clicks. 

Now, I am in the business of getting clicks or hits on their website. That said, I receive no money from my site. Wished I did sometimes, but I mostly do it for to get something off my chest, inform others. 

But, sleep with 1000 people? 

I don't know. I've always seen sex as something special, something to emotionally share with someone else. And dont say, " Well, Thomas's chances of romance were slim." 

I hate to tell you, but some of  y'all's moms, grandmas were wild. I had a girl break up with me because I wouldn't sleep with her before marriage. Cute girl from Breaux Bridge, LA. Raven hair, blue eyes, wore glasses. Nerdy girl. I like nerdy girls. Married the biggest nerd I know.

The thing is, another British Only Fans girl has performed this " feat" literally beating to the punch. 

And someone explain this to me, why and apparently, the first girl was " shot " in the face by most of the guys, why do the makers think you're supposed to " frost" the girl's face??

And there has always been girls put in the position of selling their " wares" for economic reasons to survive. 

In the 1970s, I knew guys who would travel to Nuevo Laredo to " Boys Town" to visit the girls in the " Houses." Most of the girls were from poor villages working to send Pesos back home to support the families. These guys kept wanting me to go, How many choices of girls there were.....No, not for me. And as you know, I'm no saint, but this is someplace, well, I want to be with someone who actually wants to be with me. 

But, why do we need to sleep with 1000 guys in a day? And you know they'll be someone try and " do more " is this in the end, all about money? 

What kind of psychological damage is going to appear with her a month, a year, several years from now? I know it is her choice, but what kind of guy will date, or even marry her down the road? Heck, what kind of girl would marry a guy who's slept with a 1000 girls? And how faithful would either be? 

I don't know . I'm living in a world that 67 year old me no longer understands. 

Reader's Mail....And I Get Some Doozies.

 I get mail from folks from time to time. ( Actually I get more letters than I let on......)

And lately I got folks all worried about my " Soul and its Salvation" as the late Billy Graham used to say at least once in his sermons. 

They can't decide if I am saved or lost, or just as I like to say, " Fallen from Grace." ( Or as the Baptists like to say, " Backslidden." Not sure that's even a real word or not? )

Look, I get up every morning and pray for many of you. Several of you literally have "tenure" as you are prayed for every morning. 

And yes, I sin, every damn day, and I used to worry about it, especially when I was younger, but at age 67, well, I still remember the epiphany the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther had in in the toilet, he suffered from constipation, that damn German diet of sausage and lots of awful bread, and cold cuts for breakfast, slices of sandwich meat for breakfast, damn Germans. ( That alone is worth us not going back to Germany, but the damn German I sleep with is to wanting to return to the " Fatherland"so, we are looking to go back....)

So, one of the verses that Luther came across is my favorite verses, Ephesians 2:8-9.

 ⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast himself.

Look folks, I know the Book of James talks about " Faith without works in dead"  and one of these days I need to write on what a knot-head James was.....But I don't have time for a 5000 word blog this morning. And the history behind the Book of James being included in the Bible. 

Look, I can't work hard enough. I may as well enjoy myself. And some of y'all, well, you're doing shit I can't even fathom doing. ( I know more stuff than I let on.)

So, pull than damn plank out of your own eye.....

There is also a rumor that I had a first wife. 

Yeah, I'm still on that first wife. 43 years worth, and this one decides to go, that's enough, well, there won't be wife number 2. I'm done. I figure I'll never replicate what I have now. Why try? Besides, she's going to outlive me by a mile, lots of mileage taken off in my early years. 

So folks, don't about me. Yeah, I know I am coming up on the home stretch, let's face it, no one knows how much time they have left.......

Then there was the PM that wondered if I was a homosexual? 

What the actual cornbread fuck did that come from? 

No, not gay.....Spent too much of my younger life chasing girls, and failing...miserably. I had given up on girls my last years in college  Was seriously looking at an Anglican Monastery in North Texas, when literally my now wife asked me out.....One of those things in my life I am convinced was "foreordained."  ( It and me teaching at Buna HS...as I have told you, I had not put an application to the Buna ISD when I was called in to interview for the "Gubmint/ecocomics" position....Again, I am convinced was "foreordained.")

I am guessing here it's perhaps I have friends who are LBGT, and have for over 50 years. And I am convinced people are born that way, just like left handed people, and in Medieval times they often thought left-handed people were " of the devil." 

But the last thing I'm worried about is my " Soul and its Salvation." 

And as always, you want or need to be added to the 4AM "prayer list" Let me know. Send me a PM, an email to keep people out of your " business." There is always room for one more.

 

 

Seriously

 Seriously folks, 

Be careful over the next couple of days. If you do not have to be out and about, stay home. Catch up on your Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Prime, whatever. 

If we do not lose power and with snow, I am not planning on it, I plan to finish up Vera Season 14 shows on Britbox. I hate to see her show go. ( But, you never know.)

Tuesday and Wednesday both will be stay home if you can days. 

They're talking about teens for temperatures Tuesday night. 

And I know if you work at the plants, many of you will be working some serious overtime.....I know at least one person whose job has already rented " Roach Coach Motels" for them to stay at close to the plant. 

Others of you in healthcare, law enforcement and others will have to go to work in the weather. Please be extra careful.

And I know as I am writing this , the school still has not made a call one way or another.   

Just remember, this too shall pass.

Dammit People, What is Wrong With You? And My Take on TikTok....And I Tell Something You Do Not Know.....And I Got to Keep Up With Ex-students...

 So, I generally do not look at Facebook in this morning, and this morning was the same. 

I started off today looking at Fox Brothers Cloths as the British would call it. The tweeds in particular. I love me either herringbone, Hounds-tooth, or gun-check tweed. Wore a bespoke( Don't ask how I got it.) gun-check tweed jacket to my brother's swearing in as the District Attorney out in the Hill Country. The oldest nephew, and recent Tech grad, kept referring to me as " Professor." And I looked British. Checked shirt, tartan tie, flat cap, brogue shoes.  The bunch in Burnet County Courthouse I am sure looked at me and expected either a Highlands or Yorkshire accent. Not the HARD East Texas drawl I actually have....

And Fox Brothers had these three tweeds well, I got more excited looking at them than looking at the Playboy Playmate of the Month back in 1975.......Come on man, old Playboy, seriously, great articles, Karl Hess, Gore Vidal, George F. Will......And turn the page there's a girl with Breastests the size of Ethiopia.

An Autumn Prince of Wales Check, a Hazel Gunclub Check with Apple Green, a Tonal Camel Brown and Pale Blue Houndstooth..... I got to keep up with Bryant Long. He's doing everything he can to out-dress me, and I can't let that happen. ( I tease) The sport coat he's looking at getting is gorgeous.

I got so excited looking at the swatches of cloth, well, I almost had to change my pants.... 

But, I digress......

Got a few dissertations this morning in my PM this morning on Facebook. 

Mostly about TikTok......

I got to be careful. Real careful. My daughter in law now works for TikTok. It is why they moved to Seattle, well, not quite. They halfway expected what is happening to happen. They still have their house in Houston. As many of you know, she completes her second Master's in AI from Carnegie-Mellon in May. She'll get another job in a heartbeat.

April is in Shanghai for TikTok as I write this....And while I am certainly not a Chinese apologist, if you ever go to the "People's Republic" you'll be saying, well, it's their turn. We are too busy in this nation fighting/hating each other. Politically they are still authoritarian( I'll tell you about the 4 Hour discussion on Maoist Political Theory April and I had at my kitchen table one day.....When I got done, I thought," Who else in SETX just had this conversation?" No one.), but the place is so modern you'll be shocked. ( And there are poor parts, like we don't have poor people here.) 

And all over Facebook, people are all upset about TikTok shutting their app down. That said, got a funny feeling the next administration is going to issue some form of a reprieve. 

My question for you people.......Why, just why are you not running a VPN? What is wrong with you?

The ole Govteach has been running a VPN for years. I change it up through various Western nations. I looked up TikTok this morning....Popped right up. ( Running my VPN through Europe)

Again, all upset about the Chinese getting your information, yet X, Instagram, Facebook is okay with getting your info?  Who knows who they are selling it to? Probably the Chinese......

I know a lot of people are switching over to RedNote from TikTok.....Another Chinese owned company.....

As many of you know, I am a First Amendment absolutist. Want to get on TikTok and act a fool? Have at it. I spent about 2 hours on the site one time in my life and decided it was for younger folks than me. 

You got to remember this blog, my time on the radio, are First Amendment protected. And not everyone in the United States understands this.....Not everyone even in the media understands.  

So, what's going to happen in the end? I don't know, nor do you, either TikTok will return, or it'll be replaced by something just like it or similar. 

Okay, I got another blog coming on a second dissertation I got on AI this morning coming in a couple of days.....

I can go back and look at my Fox Brothers Cloths.