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If you are an American and watched what happened at the Capitol today – and are not outraged – then you are a defective person. And probably have been for a long time. Soonergrunt, long time commenter at Balloon-Juice, summed up these thoughts of mine very well. The list of
And 2020 was definitely a year that should be stripped from the history books. The question is, will we remember the things we need to remember? I tend to doubt it. As much as I love Christmas, I have come to hate New Year’s Eve – primarily because I am
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I made this video in the run up to the election. It’s reminder of how truly terrible the current President is and why January 20th, 2021 cannot come soon enough.
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Andy Slavitt is a former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a position he held from March 2015 to January 2017. He is also the founder of the company Health Allies and worked as its CEO until 2003. Since 2017 he has been on the
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Seven years ago, I came across this funny little exchange representing the challenges of being Santa Claus in this brave new world. I thought I would repost it today as a humorous break from the current misery. Enjoy. Dear Santa, How are you? How is Mrs. Claus? I hope everyone,
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I’ve been holding off posting anything because I wanted to watch the outcome of Trump’s efforts to pull off a coup de etat following the election. I was anxious and am still worried that Trump would try to steal the election and usurp the results to ensure he stays in
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The 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. Today is Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day. Almost 100 million dead in the Wars of the 20th and 21st centuries-an astounding number. “Either war is finished-or we are.“ I do understand the difference between Veteran’s Day and
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I’ll have several posts up this week commenting on the election and its implications. Celebrating this weekend was awesome – I can’t tell you how much of a weight has been lifted by knowing that the Orange Monster lost the election. (Despite his protestations, this is not 2000, and Trump
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The mission of this Allied Force was accomplished at 11:25 EST, 07 November 2020. It’s been four LONG years. Years of misery and anger. Years of astonishment watching the norms of American society attacked again and again. Watching worthless slime, like Adolf Eichmann Stephen Miller, commit atrocities and crimes against
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I have not slept much in the last couple of days. That comes with repeatedly waking up and hoping that Pennsylvania has been called for Biden and we can send the orange monster on his way to perdition. However I don’t think that is going to happen today and I
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