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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Four – Words of a Wise Woman

Posted on 2016-12-17 Updated on 2016-12-20

Greetings and Salutations; We,  in the South,  are blessed with some of the best minds in America.   A (somewhat… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Nuttiness, Politics     Tags: coup, Democrats, Fascism, Park Overall, Republicans     Leave a comment     


Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Three – Coup in North Carolina

Posted on 2016-12-17 Updated on 2023-05-13

Greetings and Salutations; It is a busy time here at the end of a long,  ugly year.    There are… Read more

Posted in General Thoughts, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions     Tags: coup, Democrat, North Carolina, power grab, Republican     Leave a comment     


Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Two – The Electoral College.

Posted on 2016-12-15 Updated on 2016-12-15

Greetings and Salutations; The Electoral College,  as a part of our Presidential Election is rarely a step in the process… Read more

Posted in General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Electoral college, Faithless Elector, Hamilton, Winner Take All     Leave a comment     


A Ghost From The Past

Posted on 2016-12-08 Updated on 2016-12-08

Greetings and Salutations;      First off,   this blog entry is likely to be updated.  Civil Discourse is welcome,… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: 9/11, Conspiracy Theories, Loonies, World Trade Center     1 Comment     


Wisdom from Jason Kander

Posted on 2016-11-11 Updated on 2016-11-11

Greetings and Salutations; I ran across the following,  penned by Jason Kander of Missouri,  after he was narrowly defeated in… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Politics, Ruminations     Tags: 2016 election, debacle, elections, Kander     Leave a comment     


The Aftermath

Posted on 2016-11-10 Updated on 2016-11-11

Greetings and Salutations; It is now the second day since the election,  and,  while my mind is in a very… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: America, debacle, demons, President Trump, voter participation     Leave a comment     


“The World Turned Upside Down”

Posted on 2016-11-09 Updated on 2016-11-09

Greetings and Salutations; In the wee hours of this morning,   November 9th,  2016,  the  Presidential election  produced an unexpected,… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Snake Oil     Tags: Clinton, debacle, Presidential Electiion, Trump     Leave a comment     


America – Great? Or not?

Posted on 2016-10-19 Updated on 2016-10-19

    .  Greetings and salutations; I do not know about y’all,  but, as a Citizen of America,  who loves… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions     Tags: America, Donald Trump, great, Hillary Clinton, problems, solutions     Leave a comment     


The Massacre at the Pulse In Orlando – Another observation.

Posted on 2016-06-13 Updated on 2016-06-13

Greetings and Salutations; The attached image is of the Henley Street bridge, in Knoxville Tennessee. The mayor of the city… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions     Tags: LGBT. massacre, Orlando nightclub, Pulse     Leave a comment     


When will the insanity end? Thoughts on the Massacre at the Pulse in Orlando

Posted on 2016-06-12 Updated on 2016-06-15

         Greetings and Salutations;      Once again,  the Mad Flood of hate,  bigotry  and violence that… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: LGBT, massacre, Pulse, Society     Leave a comment     


A Meditation on this Memorial Day Weekend

Posted on 2016-05-29 Updated on 2016-06-15

     Greetings and Salutations;       I have been poking around online, and, on the cable channels this… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Uncategorized     Tags: ChicknHawk, Internment camps, Obama, right-winger, torture, Vietnam, World War 1, World War 2     1 Comment     


Texas Rules The TextBook World (And why this is BAD)

Posted on 2016-05-25 Updated on 2016-06-15

Greetings and Salutations;      Texas shows up again in my sights…and the news from there is mixed.   As… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Misc, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions     Tags: Agenda 21, conspiracies, facts, Illuminati, Pres. Obama, Texas School Board, textbooks, United Nations     Leave a comment     


Take a SMALL step to help keep Earth Clean!

Posted on 2016-05-25 Updated on 2016-06-15

Greetings and Salutations; On this Sunday,  as I take a moment to try and do some Good Stewardship of the… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Food, General Thoughts, Heath, Humanity, Politics     Tags: disposable water bottle, Living Green, Waste Stream     Leave a comment     


Ever Visited an Old Growth Redwood?

Posted on 2016-04-20 Updated on 2016-06-15

Greetings and Salutations;       Some of the most amazing and majestic trees left in America are the old… Read more

Posted in Cosmology, Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil     Tags: death, drought, Dune, Frank, Global Climate Change, Redwoods     Leave a comment     


Brussels Bombed…and Americans say WHAT?

Posted on 2016-03-22 Updated on 2016-03-22

Greetings and Salutations; This morning, three bombs were set off in the heart of Brussels,   leading to the death… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Nuttiness, Politics, Ruminations     Tags: Afghanistan, crusades, greed, history, Terrorism, war     Leave a comment     


Why does the World think America is nuts?

Posted on 2016-03-18 Updated on 2016-03-18

     Greetings and Salutations      The following image/meme was posted on my FaceBook thread today,  with a one… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Snake Oil     Tags: ignorance, Obama, prison state, taxes     Leave a comment     


Muslims in America…we are shameful.

Posted on 2015-12-10 Updated on 2015-12-10

   Greetings andSalutations; I hope, during this Christmas season, that I can post some positive moments from America, to remind… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions     Tags: attacks, Daesh, Islam     Leave a comment     


Reading Comprehension – Harder Than One Might Think!

Posted on 2015-08-21 Updated on 2020-10-02

     Greetings and Salutations.       Although it is many, many months until the Presidential Elections,  the Right and… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics     Tags: 14th Amendment, birth right, citizenship, Constitution, Donald Trump, reading comprehension     Leave a comment     


The Economy – Bees and Humans…

Posted on 2015-07-18 Updated on 2015-07-27

Are These Equivalent? *** Warning! What follows includes factual data, personal opinions and some painting with a broad brush ***… Read more

Posted in Art, Beekeeping, Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Politics, Ruminations, Something Good This Way Comes     Tags: delusions of the rich, economic problems, Pete Seeger, unions     Leave a comment     


Politics…When Did Lying Become OK?

Posted on 2014-08-08 Updated on 2015-07-17

The following is an Email forwarded to me by a friend. Some variation of it has been around since 2011… Read more

Posted in Characters, Ethics, General, General Thoughts, Heath, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Snake Oil     Tags: ACA, barack Obama, lies, Marx, Obamacare, right wing, Socialist, spin, tea party     Leave a comment     


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