Interacting With Trump Supporters
Greetings and Salutations; Well, I just finished an interesting interaction with a couple of Trump Supporters, that kind of covers the entire spectrum of their attitudes. JSM is an old friend...
View ArticleThe Storm Is Not Coming…IT IS HERE!
Greetings and Salutations; We are approaching the end of the first full week of the president-elect’s administration. Perhaps to the surprise of some, he is doing exactly what he said he was going...
View ArticleDealing With the donald Cultists….A Bit of Humor!
Greetings and Salutations; Well, the donald cultists cannot get over their humiliating win, and so continue to attempt to attack anyone they can. The following example showed up on my FB page...
View ArticleInternational Holocaust Day – A Memorial and Contemplation
Greetings and Salutations; Bergen Belsen Liberation, 1945 Today, January 27th, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today, we should spend a moment to cast our minds back to the atrocities...
View ArticleThe Insanity Continues – What About Immigration?
Greetings and Salutations; Everywhere I turn there are interesting topics to explore! There is not a dearth of topics, there is a tsunami of interesting issues to explore! It has been a while...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part Thirteen – The Republican Party
Greetings and Salutations; This article “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” came across my desktop today. It was so relevant to the insanity in the Political World today that I...
View ArticleAllegiance? Allegiance to WHAT?
Greetings and Salutations; Today, February 19th 2017, is the 75th anniversary of a shameful event in America’s history. Executive Order 9066 (issued on February 19, 1942), signed by FDR, authorized the...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part Fourteen – Revisiting Health Insurance. A...
Greetings and Salutations; Well, back in January, I wrote a blog entry about the Paul Ryan plan to replace the ACA. That plan was, frankly, bat-shit crazy, in that it was essentially taking us...
View ArticleAn Update On The Bee World
Greetings and Salutations; The world of the Bees continues to be complicated. The issue of bee deaths is a problem still, as the scientists are still trying to understand how the colonies work,...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part Fifteen: Who are the Monsters?
Greetings and Salutations; This post, from Michael Adam Latz, showed up on my FaceBook feed this morning. It is so full of truth and foreboding that I decided to post it here, so, with luck,...
View ArticleWhat Drives Republicans?
Greetings and Salutations; I have been unable to avoid the turmoil over the ongoing madness in the Political world these days. One thing that I have observed is that the Republicans have pushed a big...
View Article“The Other”– What Does This Mean?
Greetings and Salutations; I recently wrote a short entry on the works of Ayn Rand, the philosophy of Objectivism that she created, and, how this philosophy is the tap root that feeds the attitudes...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Returns!
Hillary Clinton has finally emerged into the world again. She had an interesting interview the other day, where she spoke openly about the 2016 election, and discussed the issues and problems that...
View ArticleRemember Luther?
Greetings and Salutations; Here is something completely different that I ran across today and I wanted to share it as it struck a chord in me. One of my good friends shared this on Face Book,...
View ArticleBees….Nature’s Artists!
Greetings and Salutations; Bees are interesting creatures. They sometimes do amazing things, all driven by nothing but instance. We, who are their Guardians, are, at times, amazed by what they...
View ArticleSome Thoughts On Father’s Day
Greetings and Salutations; I thought I would take a moment today, since it is Father’s Day, to talk about something that is not a political rant or a discussion of bees and their world. From Left:...
View Article“how we treat the least of these…”
Greetings and Salutations; This may be a bit of a downer, but it is important…and should not be lost among the tsunami of Evil that is flooding America today. I have been involved, to one level or...
View ArticleThoughts on this Fourth Of July
Greetings and Salutations; As the midnight hour passed this morning, and the 4th of July celebration began, it struck me that there was a huge amount of cognitive dissonance in this year’s...
View ArticleTick, Tick, Tick….A PSA for the Summer
Greetings and Salutations… A small PSA for the Summer. For whatever reason, the flea, mosquito and tick problem is pretty terrible this year. The relatively warm winter, the early warm up to...
View Articlethe donald and the BSA
Greetings and Salutations; Boy Scouts sing and dance to music as they await the arrival of President Trump at the 2017 National Boy Scout Jamboree at the Summit in Glen Jean,W. Va., Monday, July 24,...
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