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Why SHOULD Confederate Statues be removed?
Greetings and Salutations; Neo Nazi protesters at Charlottesville, VA This week has seen madness in this Great Land that has not happened in decades. The Events in Charlottesville, VA, are easily...
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Total Eclipse, 2017 – Part 1 – The Science
Greetings and Salutations! . On August 21, 2017, I, along with millions of Americans, made an effort to be in the path of Totality of the Solar Eclipse. I have been witness to a number of...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Massacre
Greetings and Salutations; One of the disconcrting issues of the day is the fact that America is becoming a more deadly place. We apparently have a huge crop of domestic terrorists, who have been...
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Art for Art’s Sake (and I am not talking about Garfunkel, here…)
Greetings and Salutations; Just as a diversion from the ugliness of the day, I want to tell y’all a short story that is at least 40 years in the making. . . When I was in my 20s and 30s, one of the...
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The Annual Whine about names
Greetings and Salutations; Well, Thanksgiving is coming up on us like a turkey-shaped train! This should be a pleasant time of year for us…with good feelings and thankfulness that we have made it...
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December 7, 2017
Greetings and Salutations; Today is Pearl Harbor Day. It is not a holiday for Celebration, as was the Thanksgiving holdiay just a few days ago. However, it is a holiday that is at least as...
View ArticleThoughts on Gun Violence In America
Greetings and Salutations; This thought was generated by a FB article, about the Parkland shooting. Of course this is the topic of focus just now, as it seems to have generated a LOT of discussion....
View ArticleMass Killings – How can we prevent them?
Greetings and Salutations; The recent uptick in violence in America, some of which is real, and some of which is amplified because of the gluttonous need for a story by the several, 24/7 News Networks,...
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Why not declaw cats?
Greetings and Salutations. The following post came to my attention today, and if there is ANY question in your mind as to what the answer to the question in the title is…Read the article, and look at...
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Declawing Cats, Part 2
Greetings and Salutations. I ran across this post to FaceBook a little while ago, and wanted to add it to the topics available. It is not comfortable…or easy to look at…but it should not be, and it...
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Cat Trees – Did the Earth Move for you TOO?
Greetings and Salutations; Just to talk about something more positive than the debacle that is the political world in America these days, I have decided to offer a suggestion on how to make a good...
View ArticleThe Shining City On the Hill
Greetings and Salutations; I ran across a very sad post on Facebook a bit ago, and was moved to reply to it. Perhaps I am too optimistic…but in these days of political madness and Evil, I think...
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Are All white people racist?
Greetings and Salutations. I just read an interesting article on Slate, with the thesis that “Yes, ALL White people are racist”. I thought it interesting enough to discuss the article a bit… Here...
View ArticleAmerica….a LAND of Immigrants!
Greetings and Salutations; I was poking around on FaceBook earlier, and ran across this post. It should be required reading for ALL Americans, I think. It is by John Blumenthal Thank you Mr....
View ArticleWhat it means to be “Liberal”
The following post showed up on my Face Book thread today, and, Mr. Allen (The author) makes just good points that I thought I would repost it here. The current political climate is so extreme it...
View ArticleSifting through the ashes, Part 16
Greetings and Salutations; An interesting conversation arose on FaceBook today, and motivated me to write this entry. A person I was discussing politics with (yes, I know that is a tightrope),...
View ArticleSifting through the Ashes, Part 17
Greetings and Salutations; The debacle that is the current administration continues to sink into the cesspool. The POOO is continuing to get more and more frantic in his attempts to divert attention...
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Some Thoughts On Religion
Greetings and Salutations; As has been true for thousands of years, one of the hot topics for discussion is religion. There are a number of very active groups on Facebook and other Social Media where...
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Gun Clubs for People Of Color
Beau Of the Fifth Column Greetings and Salutations; We are seeing more and more news reports of people of color being gunned down by the police. Common threads in these reports? There are a few:...
View ArticleWhy do some still support this administration?
Greetings and Salutations; I saw an interesting query on FaceBook today, and thought I would say a few words about it. The poster had this question and comments: T.M. Trump is a problem. The GOP is a...
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