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Sifting through the Ashes, pert 48 – a Recap, of sorts
Greetings and salutations; As the year ends, and the election cycle has pretty much finished up, I thought I would post a comment to remind us, once again, why the Republicans have lost their way, and must be turned unto … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations
Tagged #45., lies, Malfeasance, sedition
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“Many Drops Can Turn A Mill…”
Greetings and Salutations; Yesterday, for reasons yet unknown, a young man entered a bar, armed with several guns and started shooting. Several patrons, who had gathered for some fellowship and an adult beverage are dead…their lives snuffed out in a … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Family, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Improving Life, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil, Vaccinations
Tagged altruism, ethics, lgbtq+, murder, stewardship, The Other
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What will the future bring?
Greetings and Salutations! It has been a bit since I had time to update this blog, but it is well past time to do it. In a discussion thread on Facebook, the question arose…what will we do if #45 is … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil
Tagged #45, Democrats, Election cycles, Republic*nts, Voting
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 47 – Election Time Again!
October is ticking away, and in a couple of weeks, it will be Election Day again. This will be an interesting one, and may be a harbinger of things to come. The Mid-Term election is often taken as a snapshot … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Snake Oil
Tagged #45, Blue, Democracy, Fascism, Saving American Society, Voting
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The “Hello Boomer” generation
I was poking around on Facebook this morning, catching my breath after dealing with some chores, and I ran across an interesting post that discussed Sensitivity Training. A somewhat lengthy thread replying to the post got into the tendency of … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Questionable decisions, Ruminations
Tagged elders, empathy, OK Boomer, parenting
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WHAT? Forgive Student LOANS???
Greetings and Salutations; The Biden Administration is pushing ahead and making significant advances in undoing the madness of the proceeding administration, and, dealing some some serious issues facing citizens. One of the long-term issues that has been the subject of … Continue reading
Guns In The House! Guns In The House! Part 02
Greetings and Salutations. We are just a little time past the weekend of 2022/06/04-05, where America saw 13 mass shootings, killing 19 people and injuring 70. This, right on the heels of the shooting at Uvalde that killed 19 students … Continue reading
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 46 – What Republic*nts Want America To Be – And Why
Greetings and Salutations; There are some places on the Net where rational, reasonable, insult free, discussion of difficult subjects can happen. I seek these out, because I find the rest both tedious and annoying. Well, in one of these sites, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil, Vaccinations
Tagged Beat Generation, Education, grifters, Hippies, history, The Other, Voting, Woodstock
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Rescue Is Me…
Sometimes a painfully true and well written reality shows up on Facebook. Here is one I just found. Rescue is so hard. It’s never ending. Rescue is constant poop and litter boxes. Rescue is taking a picture of the poop … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Ruminations
Tagged animal rescue, catio, companion animals, life expectancy
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Mankind’s Inhumanity to Mankind
Greetings and Salutations; I was just involved in a short discussion on Facebook, that left me with kind of a sad feeling about Americans. The issue at hand was whether a 15 year old murderer should continue to receive education … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations
Tagged hate, inhumanity, mindfulness, school shooting
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Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2022
Greetings and Salutations. I did not want today to slip away without some observations on the past, and today. The Holocaust was an obscenity, perpetuated by a fascist, totalitarian dictator on a part of the society for no reason other … Continue reading
About CRT, Part 1
Greetings and Salutations; There is much controversy today over “CRT” – which is an acronym for “Critical Race Theory“. In short, it is a focus on how racism has infiltrated and shaped American thought and law from day one. It … Continue reading
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 44 – Where Liberals Are At
Greetings and Salutations! Yesterday was election day for many states, focusing on local races, up to the Governor. Much has been made of this start of the 2022 election cycle, as many analysts have opined that the results of these … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Vaccinations
Tagged activism, Democrats, Republicants, Voter Suppression, Voting
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Ethical Journalism?
Greetings and Salutations. There are so many folks who are disrespecting journalists and media these days, it is truly horrifying. While some media deserves it, being nothing more than propaganda outlets for a particular agenda, many of the news sources … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Misc, Observations, Politics, Something Good This Way Comes
Tagged Code, ethics, Journalism, Media, propaganda
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 43 – Smoke and Mirrors
Greetings and Salutations; I ran across the following article by Heather Cox Richardson, and thought it important enough to give wider spread to. It reminds us that our Democracy is still in a very fragile state, and if we are … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil
Tagged analysis, politics, propaganda, Richardson, Right-Wing
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 42
Greetings and Salutations. I ran across the following essay on Facebook, and thought it would be an excellent addition to the commentary here. “Dear Republicans, I’ve been wondering the last several days if there was literally anything that your party … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Vaccinations
Tagged Republicants
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FaceBook has no “Community Standards”
Greetings and Salutations; I just got put in FB Jail for a week, because I apparently hurt someone’s feelings. Here is the comment I was responding to: Ginnie Stokley Gorsin NS…so Americans get the vaccine because unvaxed Americans are the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil, Vaccinations
Tagged Community Standards, Facebook, Hypocrisy, Jail
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The insanity over Covid continues.
Greetings and Salutations. I happened to run across a Cultist that spewed nonsense about Covid…The fact that this is happening a year and a half or more into the serious pandemic from Covid boggles the mind. So, while this person … Continue reading
Posted in Heath, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil, Vaccinations
Tagged #45 Cultist, Anti-vaxxers, Covid-19, Denial, Republicants, vaccination
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Still Fighting the Civil War! How This Reflects and Affects us today
Greetings and Salutations;FB is a grand source of interesting interactions that are worth considering, even if I disagree with the person making the points. Today’s topic is the Civil War, and how its echoes and emotions influence, and reflect, today’s … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil
Tagged Civil War, Confederacy, Deniers, Slavery, Southern Apologists
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 41: Protests at the Olympics
Greetings and Salutations;In spite of the continuing pandemic, and Japan’s poor vaccination numbers, the International Olympic Committee has decided to go ahead and allow the Games to go on. They are, I know, impatient, because they were supposed to happen … Continue reading