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The Geezers’ Crusade

Before we push forward on our dedicated graphics TV channel, I will fill you in on the comments I made on a David Brooks NYTimes articles … The Geezers’ Crusade. Here it is:

“I hope old geezers like myself can make a difference. I’m 79 and I started a blog in 2006 to communicate with our grandchildren, our children and their spouses. (11 grandchildren and 11 adults.) My initial motivation was to see if I could interest a few kids in math & science careers, using the cosmos and human thought as the main subject categories. My last blog I posted was to encourage other old geezers grandfathers like myself to communicate with their grandchildren and immediate family.

When I started writing I felt that the majority of bloggers were more interested in talking  … than listening. And it looks like that is the way it has turned out … at least for my blog. (Which is OK by me, communicating with the kids being the objective). I’ve written 260 blogs with 220 comments from the kids, family and friends … and only one comment from a stranger on the Internet.

Trying to just communcate with the kids was more important than dealing with the Tower of Misinformation on the Internet.

My coming blogs to the grand-kids are on the merits of our dedicated TV channel concept. It will use Perot graphs and charts to address the major world & national issues. It will be like the weather channel … you pop in … get the information you need … and pop out. The difference will be that we will be tracking mid and long term problems on a daily basis. It won’t be boring. The information will be factual. Journalist with technical training will be comparing the latest problem of the day against the  historic data and the forecasts for that particular probelrm.

Thanks David Brooks for your thoughts about us old geezers. Hope is on it’s way. I predict (forecast), the young people who are the age of our grandchildren will someday be known as the enlightened Generation. Kids that are now 10 years old are exposed to all the good and bad to which adults are exposed. They will not be fooled …and they will act before a major crisis occurs.”