Sad news indeed
This blog has not had much nice to say about John McCain during the years. There is a reason for that. As someone who shared the same vocation as McCain for a while, and was a member of the same party...
View ArticleAlmost like they planned it that way….
To have John McCain, cast the decisive vote to defeat yet another incredibly shitty bill, that most of the GOP Senators hoped would never become law. I know I was surprised by McCain’s sudden finding...
View ArticleTraveling again
On the road again-had a challenging journey yesterday to the other side of the Atlantic. To start with my ICE train to the Frankfurt Airport was going to be delayed by 90 minutes. That was a...
View ArticleThere is such a thing as decorum.
I once again, marvel at the stupidity of the pro-gun community. The bodies from the Santa Barbara are hardly even cold-and yet we have to hear this: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional...
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The last great President
I made a point of getting home early today so I could watch the state funeral for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States and probably the last President ever that will be...
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While I was out…….
Here it is, May 4th, and I have not made a post since New Years Eve 2018. It was an unplanned hiatus, I assure you. During the past 5 months I have: Been on the hunt for a new and better job. A job...
View ArticleThe prodigal son returns
I’m back in shopping mall this week for a variety of reasons. Had some medical stuff done, did some stuff related to the S.O. Permanent Residence Card, and checked on my house. I also got to sit...
View ArticleAs if things were not screwed up enough.
God decided to play a cruel joke on American politics by holding a recall election of His own. The winner was Justice Antonin Scalia. The loser will be the rest of the United States, that is left...
View ArticleWhistling past the graveyard….
After almost 24 hours of travel back from the Whining States of America, I am back in definitely not sunny Germany. A week in Shopping Mall and then a week out west. The second week was very...
View ArticleStateside Things.
Well, its day two on the other side of the Atlantic. Waking up in an upper hotel floor and having to make myself ready to go work and not having the usual things around. In an acknowledgment to...
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Not a design flaw, but blatant misuse.
The other day, I had to the misfortune to read on another corner of the interwebs, the following bit of incredible stupidity. Referring to this article, describing Trump’s blatant abuse of executive...
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Brief summaries of the age we live in.
It is pretty astounding when you think about it. 243 years of American Democracy have come and gone – and the Republic has withered challenges that it has survived and prospered from. But the thing...
View ArticleWe must persevere.
Wow. It certainly was some week. Not a great week mind you, as far as the history of the United States goes, but it was a unique week. That is, if you are hell-bent on destroying the government of a...
View ArticleThrough the looking glass….
“Keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times. The ride is going to get rocky from here on out.” – Robert Mueller, bus driver. Robert Mueller still has faith in the Constitutional process in...
View ArticleCould not have said it better myself.
As I mentioned yesterday, I have found the current set of depradations of the Orange threat to the Constitution to be exceedingly depressing. Even more depressing from my standpoint and an issue I...
View ArticleIt’s broken all right – they don’t even try to pretend anymore.
Hopefully, you had a chance to read my latest post before this one about how the major machinery of our US government is broken. If you have not, please go here first, then come back and read this...
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There can be no redemption for this.
A worthless man, you know very little about, achieved his long-stated goal of destroying the United States tonight.That man is Leonard Leo, former head of the Federalist Society: Leonard Leo is on the...
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She still has the ring. It still does not mean a thing.
So. It’s 2020 and another election cycle. That means it’s time once again to comment on yet another Nancy Mace political campaign. It’s now been ten years that she has been either running for office...
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Into the home stretch, or into the abyss. The answer is TBD.
I have not had a “normal” Presidential election since 2000, where coming into November, I did not feel anxiety and fear in the lead up to election day. Especially since 2012, when it became apparent...
View ArticleAnd so, once again we are standing at the abyss……..
I wrote this post 4 years ago on the eve of the election. It’s truly frightening that we are here again. Nothing has really changed- and it’s worth re-reading. That’s where the land of my birth is...
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