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Category Archives: Improving Life
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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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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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
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 40 – Another Cultist speaks up.
Greetings and Salutations…. Of course, the Biden administration has been under constant attack by the Right-Wing since Jan 20. Alas, unlike the previous administration, IT does not deserve all the crap that is being thrown at it. More on that … Continue reading
To Laugh, or To Cry…THAT is the question.
Greetings and Salutations; As I was poking around on Facebook today, I ran across a thread about the ongoing Covid vaccinations. The Original Post was a question “Have you gotten one or both Vaccination jabs?” Well, the following thread, consisting … Continue reading
Covid 19 Thoughts, Part 04, Anti-Vaxxers? WTF?
Greetings and Salutations! Today is April 13th, 2021. The Covid pandemic has been a wildfire raging around the world for over 12 months now. While there are some successes, in that we already have four, very effective vaccines that are … Continue reading
Automation in today’s world! The Tsunami is coming…Our lifeboat may be the UBI
First off, I am going to link to a general overview of the advancement of automation in the world. When watching this Video, I suggest you pay attention to the factory floor in particular. Count the number of skilled and … Continue reading
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 shall set you free”. People always talk … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Ethics, Family, General Thoughts, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil
Tagged changes, colonial actions, Fascism, greed, The Other, violence, war
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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 little bit. This meme is, in my … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations
Tagged Cancel Culture, creativity, Franken, prejudice, White Supremacy
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Sifting 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 successes of the event. … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil
Tagged 2020 Election, cultists, Division, Hate Groups, lies, Militias, politics, problems, Trump, Truth
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Sifting through the Ashes, Part 32 – Good Vs. Evil
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 Harris are the President and Vice-President Elect. I will probably discuss the election … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil
Tagged Election, Evil, good, Nazis, Responsibility, White Supremacy
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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 brought to my attention again, I … Continue reading
Sifting 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 staggering around the path of wisdom like … Continue reading
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 determination. The airwaves have been flooded with … Continue reading
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 are as sharp as they were on … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Family, Humanity, Improving Life, Misc, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations
Tagged elections, Fear, hope, Republicans, Right-Wing, solutions, Terrorism
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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 over 61,000 confirmed cases, and … Continue reading