Obama Is A Republican (don't laugh... it isn't funny.)
Anybody paying the slightest attention to the past 6 years of the Obama presidency likely has, on more than one occasion, given pause, straining to remember what was spoken so eloquently in any number...
View ArticleThe Most Contemporary Argument Yet for the Separation of "Church" from "State"
Thomas Jefferson got railroaded out of Texas history books for his positions on the place that religion has in politics. Factual historical evidence that demonstrates the damage inflicted on citizens...
View ArticleOn Occasion of the Murder of Abraham Lincoln: 14 April 1865
Beneath the fleuron is an editorial comment taken from the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph dated 24 April 1865, ten days after the actual event. It would seem that not much has changed in 150 years -...
View Article"This Is A G---m FREE COUNTRY! I Got My F--k'n RIGHTS!"
Before my wife and I finally found ourselves in the position to leave the Bay Area behind earlier this year and return to our spiritual home here in the islands for good, she had a part-time job as a...
View ArticleBreaking: They're selling us out again.
Looks like Obama and Boehner are ready to put Social Security Disability and Medicare on the chopping block to fund more war, people. from the Washington Post:Congress and Administration Near Final...
View ArticleTHIS.
I realize that some time back I mentioned that I was going to take a sabbatical from this site because of the disrespectful, churlish and vituperative slander towards myself as well as others regarding...
View ArticleHow Much More Can We Stand Of This?
… way too much acrimony between people and nowhere near enough willingness to sit down, shut up and listen to the adults in the room - and that’s just on this site alone, no less what the rest of what...
View ArticleProsecutors will drop case against former Va. governor Robert McDonnell
This, from Da Washington Whipping Post:www.washingtonpost.com/…If my memory serves me correctly this also happens to be the anniversary date on which Gerald “Mr. Clean” Ford issued his “...full, free...
View ArticleA Comprehensive Requiem for a Nation 20 January 2017
First, let me begin by saying that as a 64 year old student of human history, I’ve learned that it has never been easy or even particularly successful: every time that any group of people has attempted...
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Historic First for Hawaii - Advanced Notice of Incoming Invasive Species
Discovered this today:Who knew that he’d want to visit a place that he couldn’t be bothered to recognize as part of the United States when Obama was in office? He must want some kind of patriotic photo...
View ArticleI wrote this after the last massacre incident...
… and it’s just as cogent today as it was a year ago. Damn it.How Much More Can We Stand Of This?Initially it was written in response to the cop shootings and the cop killings over a year ago, but the...
View Article"SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT!", the Washington Examiner Screams... War Is On The...
Are you ready for this ? Here’s the link to the Washington Examiner:www.washingtonexaminer.com/...The fool who wrote this screed actually has the bald-faced temerity to compare the situation that...
View Article"Collusion"? Before you read this, have some Milk of Magnesia and a Barf Bag...
Follow the link below to a detailed Washington Post article for an in-depth, detailed description of the greatest “bro-mance” of the 21st Century and how important it is that Mueller be as thorough as...
View ArticleLooks like 2018 Is Going To Be An Explosive Year, Folks (LITERALLY)
It looks like since they’ve finished blowing up the middle class with their tax cut they aren’t satisfied: WAIT! That isn’t good enough! Now they want to torch the rest of the human race too. Check...
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Earlier this morning, Awake in South Kea'au, Hawaii
Note: I just got up from a nap after writing the below earlier this morning. Please excuse the delay of timeliness.May 15th, 2018 - 2:30 AM________________Had to get up from bed at 1:15 this morning....
View ArticleCollusion? Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope,...
Only idiots fully saturated with their own stupidity would slap trade tariffs on one’s allies after pulling a stunt like the below and expect people to not notice: Trump Eased Sanctions on Russian...
View ArticleMcConnell's Pound Of Flesh: Breathtaking Arrogance
Yes, Trump is what he is — and I won’t attempt to exhaust my limited supply of adjectives here because you can find most all of them elsewhere on this site. I keep myself from going down the rabbit...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Broken Treaty - And This Time, it's the Most Dangerous...
It turns out that our Beloved Leader, Führer Schittfürbrenz has had another particularly significant episode of Cranial Rectosis today:The End of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty With...
View ArticleA Crime Boss and his Posse Have Some Interesting History
There’s been a somewhat incremental uptick here in a couple of recent diaries drawing a few peripheral comparisons between Trump and Al Capone which I find interesting in some ways - and in musing on...
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A 2019 Memorial Day Tribute To An Old Friend
Coming up on 36 years ago this December, early on Christmas Day morning just before I left the East Coast for good, I finally mustered the gumption to visit the (then new) Vietnam Memorial in...
View ArticleWell, the bastard finally went there.
It took him three years… after a House of Representatives impeachment - revelations about timing and authorization of withholding congressionally authorized funds to a foreign country in exchange for...
View ArticleGroundhog Day 1968
A lap around the Daytona 500 - the pardoning of Eddie DeBartolo - commuting the sentence of Rod Blagojevich - an appearance at the Super Bowl - pushing the U.S. Attorney General to interfere with the...
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Whither The Wind Blows In November... Beware.
(If I may I’d like to preface this tome by disclosing that I’m a 67 year old married retired white male. I voted for George McGovern in my first election and I’ve voted a straight Democratic ticket in...
View ArticleLeadership (and "Follow-ship") - Today's Missing Component Was Yesterdays, Too
It’s generally known that among the few books Trump keeps around as his personal reference material is Hitler’s Mein Kampf. It’s obvious (and has been so since before the 2016 election) that he has no...
View ArticleOur Kailua-Kona Costco Run of 31 March, 2020: an Exercise in Reflection
You know, it was like a scene out of a rejected Rod Serling skit yesterday. My wife and I decided to make the 2 hour drive to the other side of the Big Island before the sunrise to take advantage of...
View ArticleDefining "Hero" on Memorial Day
As a veteran from 40 years ago myself, I was thinking the other day that lately the word “hero” has been tossed around again as much as the word “awesome” is today by the kids. Personally, the term...
View ArticleMy "JUNE SWOON" - (...or, anyone have some aspirin for this headache?)
So June has been one helluva month so far. hasn’t it, gang? In spite of the warnings of every educated medical expert on the planet, a bunch of states caved in to greed-head fascist handwringing and...
View ArticleAmerica’s Body Count Amnesia
A peculiar characteristic of America over the last 3 years up until recently has been a subtle reduction of body counts reported in the media; moreover, there’s been an even greater dearth of...
View ArticleAn Open Letter (and warning) for our Democratic Leadership and Candidates
From the recent events in Portland, Seattle, Michigan and elsewhere, you may likely have noticed that America is pretty angry right now. Aside from being physically threatened with a pandemic that’s...
View ArticleExplanations and Admissions: Enlightenment from Different Perspectives of Two...
As a young man 48 years ago I minored in psychology in school and never quite lost my interest in the deviations of the human mind that cause people to do the kind of things they do to themselves and...
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If Ever A Photograph From 2020 Deserved A Pulitzer Prize...
… this one, taken by photojournalist Caroline Brehman on Saturday, November 14th during that crybaby sandbox gathering in Washington, D.C. brilliantly sums up the year 2020 in all its dysfunctional...
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Concluding thoughts on 2020
Like many others here who have been around on Daily KOS for several years, I’m too angry about what has happened to this country over the course of my lifetime to put into words . I’ve been threatened...
View ArticleGinni Thomas Isn't the Only Supporter Of The Fascist Mobs - The Old Guard Is...
As a latter-day follow-up to an old diary written by Rachel Colyer on April 1, 2014 (www.dailykos.com/...), it seems like an appropriate time to update a list she started back then given recent...
View ArticleA Sermon For Those Who Worship Donald Trump
EDIT: Rarely do I yield to the platitudes of people who think that somehow I might be giving some delicate confederate southern flower the vapors by using a vaguely diminutive term to describe them...
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So there you have it, Ladies and Gentlemen....
Now that we have a new administration running the country that isn’t taking its orders from a dark Kremlin basement radio transmission originating from the SVR, we’re now presented with the opportunity...
View ArticleWhy?
Some among us here might remember a television show from the ‘60s called “The Prisoner” which introduced some fairly heady, sophisticated allegorical ideas for its day to a viewing audience and has...
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"Don't trust anyone over 30" isn't aging well, kids: your "posse" might be...
Back in 1972 when I was attending school in Southern California, one of the several missives I found myself reading was “The Strawberry Statement” by James Simon Kunen. Inasmuch as I was draft age, the...
View ArticleSome wisdom of the ages: "Pay attention to what they do - not what they say."
Yes, I’ve read Dan K’s diary claiming that Biden “Gets It”. Well, I happen to be one of those people who believe in the admonition that says, “Pay attention to what they do - not what they say”. Maybe...
View ArticleTired of Whiny Snowflakes Complaining About Mask Mandates? There's a Supreme...
There’s an increasing momentum gathering right now against the anti-vax movement for various (and very obvious) reasons. An excellent example of the kind of frustration those individuals have created...
View ArticleIt's personal now. So: how personal is it?
As each day dawns for me and I go about my morning routine, I’ve learned after some 70 trips around the sun to try to find something good about the day and remind myself how thankful I am to still be...
View ArticleHey, Kids! What Time Is It?
So, kids… What time is it… really?Exactly three years ago today, on July 24th, 2019 — that’s 1,095 day ago, if you’re counting — a shopworn-looking, gray haired man was the subject of a...
View ArticleOur Party Optics and Communication (a reasonably profanity-free rant from a...
On any given morning 8 months ago after I got out of bed, made some coffee and waddled into my studio to check email, I’d see about 15-25 unread emails on various subjects - heart health, dental...
View ArticleBread and circuses, my friends. Bread and circuses.
So here we are, less than 3 weeks before what is likely the most consequential mid-term election in this country’s modern history. At this point we’ve had a fairly definitive A-B comparison between the...
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A (very) Few Thoughts on The Day Before The Election (for those who haven't...
I’ve said a lot about these previous two years on this site — especially regarding the dangers of avoiding the reality of our parallel path toward fascism that so many here have denied or mocked me for...
View ArticleMy Rant Against Our Country’s “Eminence Front”
The Who: Eminence Front PromoNope… this isn’t a screed against that tune by The Who. To the contrary, it’s lyrics poetically describe a root cause of where we’re at today as a nation. One has to be old...
View ArticleAmerica's 21st Century Snit - A Hissy Fit For The Ages
Sometimes in more lucid moments, I allow myself to look beyond the normalcy of what used to pass for the banal and idiotic, and assess just how some components of daily living have become so easily...
View ArticleMemorial Day - Another One of My Rants
Memorial Day. This is the time we customarily set aside for the purpose of remembering the friends, relatives, neighbors and fellow citizens both living and deceased who served in the United States...
View ArticleAnother One Of My Pre-Election Cycle Rants (caution: snark, rage and...
Recent external polls cited here on this site have currently declared that a race between Trump and Biden is either a dead heat or that Trump would prevail. These selfsame pollsters attribute this to...
View ArticleMerry Christmas - If You Dare.
After a year of contentious budgetary sparring and dyslexic priorities, Congress recently passed funding for the Pentagon to the tune of over 800 Billion dollars just a few days before this year’s...
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America's Ongoing Rerun
It’s time once more to slog through another election cycle, as we greet morning email wake ups with another 115 messages begging for campaign money you’ll never see spent — more goofy diatribes from...
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