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I made a point of getting home early today so I could watch the state funeral for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States and probably the last President ever that will be able to be spoken of with the words, “great President”. It was with
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In my life I have seen or known of 12 Presidents. For a good deal of that time I was a reliable Republican voter. That is until George W. Bush came to office and let loose the worst instincts of the party , starting a foolish war in Iraq, a
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This has been a busy week, I am in the middle of a heavy travel schedule and have also been just in shock watching the “President” show the entire world how fundamentally unfit for the the job he is. If the last two weeks have not convinced you how totally
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Sorry for the long delay in posting. Was on the road last week to the land of milk and honey and also had a fair amount of work to do. I have been taking a lot of time to do some thinking both forward and back, when a decision is
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America’s descent into madness continued this week. And there is a lot to discuss about it. But today being All Hallow’s Eve and all – and tomorrow being All Saints Day-a German holiday, perhaps something fun is order. Of course it should start with some of this: And then we
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Today, the funerals of Cecil and David Rosenthal were held. Cecil Rosenthal, 59, and David Rosenthal, 54, both of Squirrel Hill, in Pittsburgh, were among the 11 people killed Saturday during a shooting at Tree of Life Congregation in Squirrel Hill. During the course of this week, the remaining funerals
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I apologize for the lack of posts. I have been living out of a suitcase for the last 6 days and had to take delivery of a new CPAP machine before that. Starting this week I intend to resume my series on America’s descent into darkness. But for tonight I
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I have not been posting much this week because I have been watching episodes of The Man in the High Castle. Without giving away too much of the plot, Season 3 is finding the story going more to the science fiction roots that Phillip K. Dick laid for it. That’s
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To Mayrhofen, Austria that is. The S.O. and I are probably long past any point in life where we could even hope to do something reckless exciting like run with the bulls at Pamplona. So this past weekend, we settled for the next best thing. We drove down to Mayrhofen
Continue readingI’m in Austria this weekend, enjoying a land with beautiful mountains, trains that run on time, and has good beer and excellent outdoor activities. There really is not the time to comment on the abomination of a confirmation process that occurred today and during this week. Suffice it to say,
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