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Rants about the stupidity of the politicians


Another Pearl Harbor day ticks by.

Posted on 2015-12-07 Updated on 2015-12-10

Greetings and Salutations…      Today is December 7th,   the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: allegiance, Donald Trump, george takei, Islam, lies, muslims     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     


Send In The Clowns; Watch the Pundits leave!

Posted on 2015-08-07 Updated on 2015-08-07

Greetings and Salutations; Last night was a kind of milestone in television, in my opinion. While most of the  evening… Read more

Posted in Characters, Ethics, General, Political rants, Politics, Ruminations     Tags: Candidates, Daily Show, Debate, Donald Trump, Jon Stewart, Republican, Satire, travesty     Leave a comment     


Some Anniversaries Hurt

Posted on 2015-08-06 Updated on 2015-08-07

Greetings and Salutations;      I am writing this in commemoration of the 70 year anniversary of bombing of Hiroshima… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: atomic bomb, chicken hawk, death, Hiroshima, madness, Nagasaki, President Obama, right-winger     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     


Political Foolishness

Posted on 2014-06-22 Updated on 2014-06-23

     Greetings and Salutations;      There has been a burst of mindless lies and rants from Right-Wingers showing… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, General Thoughts, Humanity, Misc, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Uncategorized     Tags: President Obama, Right-Wingers     Leave a comment     


Life is Complicated…Observations on Jackson Galaxy

Posted on 2014-06-21 Updated on 2014-06-22

     Greetings and Salutations;      Over the past year or so, I have started watching Jackson Galaxy’s Animal… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Heath, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil     Tags: behavior modification, cats, homeopathy, Jackson Galaxy, my cat from Hell, scams     Leave a comment     


Once again, the Politicians AMAZE me.

Posted on 2013-10-09 Updated on 2013-10-10

     Greetings and Salutations;      Well, it is now day 9 of the government shut down, and, I,… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics     Tags: federal government, honor, shutdown, stupidity, tea party, veterans     Leave a comment     


How should we treat the Needy in our society?

Posted on 2013-08-25 Updated on 2013-08-25

     Greetings and Salutatons;      Just a short note about a story I read this Sunday morning.  … Read more

Posted in Ethics, Food, General, Heath, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Uncategorized     Tags: homeless, jack-booted thugs, poltics, Raleigh North Carolina     Leave a comment     


Why should someone have to die because some punk is “bored?”

Posted on 2013-08-22 Updated on 2013-08-26

  Greetings and Salutations; Once again, my fellow Americans have shown that they have the capacity to amaze me and… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: christopher lane, gangsta, homicide, oklahoma     Leave a comment     


To be, or not to be…that is the question.

Posted on 2012-12-15 Updated on 2022-09-12

     Greetings and Salutations; I write this on the morning after a terrible incident in Connecticut, where a madman… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Uncategorized     Tags: Connecticut, gun violence, parenting, rules to live by     Leave a comment     


Screwed by a vendor on Ebay

Posted on 2012-09-26

      Greetings and Salutations      I am going to start off here by admitting that I am… Read more

Posted in Political rants, Questionable decisions, Uncategorized     Tags: ebay, hp 2424m, networking, poor customer service, thieves     Leave a comment     


Initial thoughts on the tragedy in Aurora…

Posted on 2012-07-20

     Greetings and Salutations;      This morning, as insomnia dragged me though the Dark Hours of the Night,… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Heath, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions     Tags: aurora, Batman Movie killings, gun control, health care, macbeth     Leave a comment     


Thoughts on the School Bus (Kind of long)

Posted on 2012-07-01

     Greetings and Salutations;      Well, the record heat and drought gripping the nation has apparently turned what… Read more

Posted in Political rants     Tags: Ilana Mercer, Karen Klein, libertarian society, rants, school bus bullying     Leave a comment     


A Zen moment if I ever saw one!

Posted on 2012-05-12

Greetings and Salutations;      A video of a presentation to the Lincoln City council has shown up on line,… Read more

Posted in Political rants, Uncategorized     Tags: Anti-LGBT, Crazy Blue Lady, dementia, Nebraska     Leave a comment     


Tn. Legislators – April Fools the entire month

Posted on 2012-04-13

     Greetings and salutations.      Well, the headlines are trumpeting the fact that the Tennessee State Legislators have… Read more

Posted in Political rants, Politics     Tags: food, legislators, sales tax     Leave a comment     


I am looking at you, Wingers…

Posted on 2012-03-02

     Greetings and Salutations;      I have been meditating on the political situation in America  over the past… Read more

Posted in Political rants, Politics     Tags: America, left wing, politics, right wing, wounded eagle     Leave a comment     


More foolish federal actions

Posted on 2011-11-23

While reading slashdot.org, I ran across this interesting story about an 88 year old inventor who, some 30 years ago,… Read more

Posted in Political rants     Tags: creeping totalitarianism, DEA, iodine, methamphetamine, war on drugs, water purification     Leave a comment     


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