Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 28, One More Cultist…
Greetings and Salutations; The other day, I posted an update about the Covid-19 issues to the FB Page devoted to news and discussion local to the Hamlet I live in. For the area, the thread blew up...
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Covid-19 Thoughts, Part 04…The FULL costs
Greetings and Salutations; Time has progressed since the first bunch of cases of this pandemic showed up in America. As the news shows us, it is not improving. For example, as of today, Tennessee has...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part 29 – predicting the future???
Greetings and Salutations; I wanted to take a minute here, to look at the path the Republican Party is on. It is, alas, a pretty self destructive one, it seems to me. Every day the powers in the...
View ArticleTalking about Mental Health…And America
Greetings and Salutations; As I have touched on a number of times on this blog, mental health issues are a serious problem that Americans deal with about as well as they deal with nudity and...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part 30, The Postal Service
Greetings and Salutations… The closer we get to November, the more insane the actions of the administration become. Over the past week or so, it has become obvious that #3 (or at least, one of his...
View ArticleThe Results we get from a crappy educational system.
Greetings and Salutations; I had the following dialogue with a very young lady (who started reproducing very early in life) on a local FB Page. It demonstrates the level of mindfulness that we...
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The Vietnam War – An American View
Greetings and Salutations; I was going to get this post written in April of this year, as a meditation on the 45th anniversary of America’s exit from the conflict. The raw history of the War is easily...
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Some thoughts on 09/11: Are we driven by fear?
Greetings and Salutations; Today is the 19th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Towers by fanatics that had taken over airliners. Even today, the images I saw on television that morning...
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg – A Giant Leaves Us.
Greetings and Salutations; This last Friday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died, of metastatic pancreatic cancer. The fact that she held on so long is a testament to her strength of will, and her...
View ArticleSifting through the Ashes – Part 31. The SCOTUS and the Congress
Greetings and Salutations. The events of these past few years have caused me to rethink some aspects of Government. I have, over the years, felt that the Court, and the Congress, while sometimes...
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Charter Schools – Boon? Or Bane?
Greetings and Salutations; Last year, I wrote an essay on the issue of education in America. I covered many topics there, but, left off the difficult challenge of Charter Schools. Since it has been...
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Sifting through the Ashes, Part 32 – Good Vs. Evil
This Image is available as a poster on Ebay Greetings and Salutations; We are reaching the end of a very long and chaotic time. The numbers are in, and without some shenanigans, Joe Biden and Kamala...
View ArticleSifting through the Ashes, Part 33 – Election Reflections.
Greetings and Salutations… Now that the smoke is clearing a bit, and the dust settling from the 2020 Presidential Election, I decided to take a look at the event, and explore some of the problems and...
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Is “Cancel Culture” a bad thing?
Greetings and Salutations! As I was poking around on Facebook, one of the folks I follow posted this meme for consideration and discussion. I found it interesting enough to discuss here…at least a...
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Ten years later…or how life can go Pear Shaped. Adventures with Hep C
Image Courtesy of Science Magazine Some of the writing here may be uncomfortable to read…fair warning! I am, for the first time, going to discuss my travails with Hep C, and where I have gotten to on...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part 34, More Election Reflections
Greetings and Salutations. This is the Second collection of musings on the political situation in America. My first (somewhat lengthy) discussion is located Here. What would I like to see changed in...
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 35 – INSURRECTION
Greetings and Salutations; It is 2021/01/11 as I write this essay. It has taken me a few days to begin to digest the amazing events of 2021/01/06. I am not fully there yet, but, I have some things I...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part 36 – A Warning to Democrats, Liberals and...
Greetings and Salutations; The smoke has yet to clear over the events of the 6th of January. However, it is obscuring fewer truths. I want to address one issue that has been discussed in a number of...
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Some thoughts on Truth…and how complicated it can be.
Greetings and Salutations. A friend of mine posted the image to our right on Facebook today. It, upon first reading, seems nonsensical. Believers know that Christ says “Know the Truth, and the Truth...
View ArticleSifting Through The Ashes, Part 37 – Should the 2d Impeachment happen?
Greetings and Salutations; Today, #3×2’s remaining lawyers spoke at length on the Senate Floor, arguing that the Senate Trial should not happen at all. They supposedly had two major points to...
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