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“One for you, 19 for me…I am the Tax Man”

Greetings and Salutations; Just a quick thought in these waining days of 2023… The issue of taxes came up on Facebook, so, I wrote a reply, discussing the various taxes imposed on us by the levels of government in America.  I was … Continue reading

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Are Women equal citizens? or Chattel/Brood Mares?

Greetings and Salutations The world, it seems, is going completely bonkers in too many important areas. I just discovered the story of Tara Rule, who is suing a medical facility and doctor for refusing her care, and needed medications. The … Continue reading

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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 49 – Character Assassination not a new thing in our world!

Greetings and Salutations;It came to my attention that there is a meme decrying John D. Rockefeller floating around the Net! While it seems a bit silly to me to be tearing down a very rich man who has been dead … Continue reading

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Train Wrecks and Regulations!

Greetings and Salutations… I was poking around on the Social Media site Quora, and ran across an interesting question. It proved to be interesting enough that I thought I would add an essay here discussing it. The Post’s article is … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Sifting through the Ashes, part 39 – Economics

Greetings and Salutations; I was just involved in an interesting discussion about taxes and thought I would expand a bit on my opinions here. A major issue in America is the income/wealth gap between the richest and poorest citizens. This … Continue reading

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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 38 – Thoughts on the Impeachment

Greetings and Salutations. Today, February 10, 2021, the Senate Trial of #3×2 started with the House Impeachment Managers presenting some very damning evidence and spirited explanations as to why #3×2 should be convicted, and banned from ever holding office in … Continue reading

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