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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part One
Greetings and Salutations; It has been several weeks since the election and its shocking results. Of course, the chaos continues, and I may speak to that later on. However, right now, I want...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part Two – The Electoral College.
Greetings and Salutations; The Electoral College, as a part of our Presidential Election is rarely a step in the process that anyone cares about. Every four years, there are a few folks whining...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Three – Coup in North Carolina
Greetings and Salutations; Protestors In North Carolina State Capitol It is a busy time here at the end of a long, ugly year. There are too many instances of insanity in the Political World that...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Four – Words of a Wise Woman
Greetings and Salutations; We, in the South, are blessed with some of the best minds in America. A (somewhat distant) friend of mine, Park Overall, is a strong activist for water quality in East...
View ArticleHamilton Weeps…
Greetings and Salutations; Today, the Electoral College met, and, to the disappointment of many and surprise of few, proved it was not what Hamilton had intended for it to be, but, rather, was a...
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What to do now?
Greetings and Salutations; Well, the deed is done. Caesar lays on the floor in front of us, dead from many knife wounds. My question is “What Now?” The donald is, most likely, going to be...
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Making a Difference At Christmas
Greetings and Salutations; Today is December 25th, 2016 Christmas Day . This is always a complicated holiday for me, as there is such a culture clash between what today is SUPPOSED to mean…and...
View ArticleYou Keep Saying That Word “Change”
Greetings and Salutations; Well, it is finally the last day of 2016….New Year’s Eve. I have to say that this year is one that I am just as glad to see the end of. Sadly, we shall start...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part Five
Greetings and Salutations; Well, just a quick update on the progress of the political train wreck that the 2016 Presidential Election turned into. The last chance of deflecting the disaster came and...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Six. – the donald VS The World – Summed Up In...
Greetings and Salutations; The Golden Globe Awards were held last night. I did not watch them in whole, as Meryl Streep at Golden Globe Awards, 2016 I am not a great fan of awards shows. There are...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Seven – What ABOUT Health Insurance?
Greetings and Salutations; Sigh…There is so much going on in the world that it is an unending resource for those of us that comment on society, and the current tidal change in our Political world....
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part Eight….OH! My! GOD!
Greetings and Salutations; This is a painfully long post, but it is important to me to have it here. I found a direct transcript of the Interview that the donald did with the New York Times. It...
View ArticleSifting Through the Ashes, Part 2-A, Instead of the Electoral College, what?
Greetings and Salutations; I have offered some opinions about the Electoral College, how it is supposed to work, and how it actually worked in the 2016 Election back at this Post. However, there is...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Nine – About those Voters…
Greetings and Salutations; The fallout from the Election continues, as the day the donald will be sworn into Office approaches. Last night, President Obama gave a really great, farewell speech, in...
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A Time To Pause, A Time to Assess: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Greetings and Salutations; Today is January 16, 2017, a day that commemorates the life and actions of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As he was a man of Peace, and contemplation, I thought it right...
View ArticleSifting Through the Ashes, Part Ten – Questionable Actions
Greetings and Salutations; Amy Siskind, who has many irons in the fire, is taking time to document the weirdness of the donald’s train wreck. Here are links to her lists. This is important to...
View ArticleA Time to Pause; A time to Assess: Martin Luther King – Letter from a...
Greetings and Salutations; The speech I posted about yesterday was hardly the last important legacy left us by Dr. King. He had seen a document, decrying his activities, and signed by a number of...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Eleven – Should we Change to Survive? If So,...
Greetings and Salutations; Well, one never knows when an interesting topic will pop up. An acquaintance of mine posted a rather thoughtful post on Facebook a bit ago. Dealing with the train wreck...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Twelve – The Power has been Transferred
Greetings and Salutations; At Noon today, the deed was done. President-Elect donald was sworn into the office. This inauguration has been a reflection of the campaign and election. For example,...
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The Woman’s March; What It Said To Me
Greetings and Salutations; Some time before the inauguration, plans grew to hold a Woman’s March in protest against the new administration, on the 21st of January. This idea really caught on, not...
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