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Posted on November 11, 2024November 10, 2024


VETERAN’S DAY



I am the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of military veterans.
My father fought in the Cold War and Vietnam, his father was a colonel in the
Air Force in WWII, including “working for Pan Am” building air fields in North
Africa. Hitler declared war against the U.S. and voila! all those Pan Am pilots
were suddenly officers in the U.S. Air Force. My great-grandfather was an
officer in the Spanish American War and a balloon observer and pilot in WWI. My
uncle was an officer in the Navy, and my dad’s and his cousins were in the Navy
and the Coast Guard. There were so many active duty military on my dad’s side of
the family that my mother, a Quaker , had to request no uniforms at their
wedding. And even with that, my mother is descended from Quakers who broke away
from the Arch Street Meeting in Philadelphia, so that they could fight in the
Revolutionary War, contrary to the Quaker tenet of being conscientious
objectors.

Continue reading “Veteran’s Day”
Posted on November 7, 2024November 7, 2024


SACKCLOTH AND ASHES



The wailing, gnashing of teeth, and the donning of sackcloth and ashes Wednesday
morning continued the Democratic trend of disparaging your opponents,
questioning their morals and intelligence, and generally promising retribution
for the heinous crime of disagreeing with them. It’s very clear that while the
Republicans learned the harsh lessons of the 2020 election, the Democrats have
not. Of course, Biden won in 2020 so the Democrats just knew they had no lessons
to be learned.

Continue reading “Sackcloth and Ashes”
Posted on November 4, 2024November 4, 2024


SQUIRRELS, RACCOONS, AND GOVERNMENT OVERREACH



No, I’m not equating government bureaucrats with rabid squirrels at a rave
(that’s totally unfair to rabid squirrels). Yes, I am going to talk about the
unnecessary and tragic demise of P’Nut the squirrel and his adopted brother,
Fred the raccoon. As most of you probably know by now, a woman in Texas (yes,
I’m sorry to say), got a stick up her ass about the Instagram videos P’Nut’s
rescuer was sharing. She apparently decided that this was somehow an affront to
all that’s good and holy in these United States. So, she filed multiple
complaints with the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation
regarding P’Nut. I am not privy to the details of those complaints, but I assume
she claimed animal abuse or some such. Because a couple of nights ago, the NY
DEC decided to RAID the house, with a SWAT team (as one does when confronting
squirrel rescuers), tearing it apart (yes, they did, you can read the accounts),
and kidnapping P’Nut and Fred, subsequently getting both animals euthanized.

Continue reading “Squirrels, Raccoons, and Government Overreach”
Posted on November 2, 2024November 1, 2024


ANOTHER WTF?? MOMENT FROM THE MEDIA



I read a recap of JD Vance’s sit-down with Joe Rogan on the latter’s podcast. It
was in the Independent (UK) and hysterically biased. They claimed that Vance
“stumbled through” the appearance and was a “rhetorical shooting gallery.”
Here’s the money quote:

Continue reading “Another WTF?? Moment from the Media”
Posted on October 31, 2024October 31, 2024


LOCKSTEP VOTING AND BULLYING



How do you do, fellow bitter, clinging, deplorable, racist, homophobic pieces of
garbage?

Warning: This is a rant and thus may wander a bit. I’m annoyed, pissed off, and
just now caffeinating.

Okay, then. Here we go.

Continue reading “Lockstep Voting and Bullying”
Posted on October 28, 2024October 27, 2024


LET’S TALK FASCISM



There is a lot of sturm und drang (storm and stress – thank you, Goethe) these
days about how a Trump victory next week will usher in an era of fascism in
America. In other words the left is desperately trying (and has been since 2016)
to convince the American voter that a vote for Trump is a vote for a
particularly nasty form of an authoritarian government. But if you ask people
what exactly defines fascism, they can’t really. Oh, you’ll get all kinds of
answers, but what it really boils down to when you parse out responses is “I
don’t like what he says, and because I know that I am a true and moral
progressive, he must be a fascist.”

Continue reading “Let’s Talk Fascism”
Posted on October 3, 2024October 3, 2024


FIX IT…



Kamala Harris’ campaign slogan is “A New Way Forward.” I find this fascinating
because it implies that the last almost four years are NOT the correct “way
forward.” And that’s not even getting into how much that slogan matches the
slogans put out by the Soviets and the Chinese Communist Party (that’s a story
for another post). Harris and her campaign are trying to convince voters that
the problems of the last four years are… checks notes… Trump’s fault. Yes, they
are trying to blame a man who hasn’t been in office since January of 2021, for
everything that has happened since he left office.

Continue reading “Fix It…”
Posted on September 11, 2024September 11, 2024


DEBATE POST-MORTEM



Yeah, I watched the debate last night. I can’t help it. Watching politics is
baked into who I am. I did forget to pop my popcorn, but I’ve seen reports that
Harris is asking for a second debate which means I have more popcorn for that,
if it comes to pass. Okay, let’s get down to my post-mortem.

Continue reading “Debate Post-Mortem”
Posted on September 6, 2024September 9, 2024


CENSORSHIP, SPEECH, AND CALLING THE COPS



I am very aware that people who believe they will disagree with my
comments/statements/arguments will most likely not read my posts because they
already know they won’t like them. However, I will continue to write posts with
the aim of trying to persuade someone to rethink their political beliefs or
stances. I know that many people find politics to be extremely stressful and
disconnected from their day-to-day lives. However, if you do not pay attention
to politics, at some point politics will start to pay attention to you, and I
can guaran-damn-tee you won’t like what it does next to you, your family, and
your day-to-day life. Especially in times like what we are currently
experiencing.

Continue reading “Censorship, Speech, and Calling the Cops”
Posted on August 23, 2024August 23, 2024


ARGUING VS. VENTING EMOTIONS



Screaming your emotions at somebody is NOT arguing. How many times have you
found yourself in an argument or discussion and realized that either the other
person, or you, are arguing/commenting from a place of fact-free, analysis-free,
and logic-free emotion? I know I’ve done it, and I catch myself doing it still
(less often, but it creeps in there). You’d think I’d know better by now, but
emotions can overtake before you really realize what’s going on. Emotions are
also the strings activists and politicians pull or pluck to get you to fall in
line with their side of the issue.

Continue reading “Arguing vs. Venting Emotions”


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