Introduction
Welcome to my personal blog! Some of you already know me, and some of you don’t. But either way, I urge you to read this (very long) introductory post before you read the regular blog posts. It will lay the groundwork for various topics I’ll be covering, and perhaps prevent some confusion. (Affiliate Disclaimer) I’ve had a chaotic life with…
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History of Presidential Pardons and Clemencies
Political School Daze
That Time I Gave a Bully What For
Christians Only (Update Feb 7)
Links to “Christians Only” posts will be in here. That will make it easy for those who aren’t interested to skip them, and those who want to read them will still find them easily. Every time I publish a new post in that category, it will go at the top of the list. Click the titles below to visit the…
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Fake Auto News
History of Presidential Pardons and Clemencies
Harris vs. Trump: Debate + More
More Doctors Smoke Camels!
A Brief History of Tobacco Tobacco is native to the Americas. It was cultivated and used in pipes, as cigars, and as snuff by indigenous peoples for medicinal and ceremonial purposes as early as 6000 BC. In the 1500s, Spanish and Portuguese sailors carried it to Europe, where it became wildly popular. A French diplomat named Jean Nicot presented tobacco…
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The Joro Spider
Trump the Dissembler
Bioengineered Foods – What’s the Big Deal?
2026 Shooting at White House Correspondents Dinner
I do not readily accept conspiracy theories, but the social media wires are sizzling with questions about this latest assassination attempt, many asserting it was faked. After years of refusing to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner, Trump suddenly makes a big deal that he’s going to go. This does seem like some odd timing. Soon after the…
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Social Issues the Far Right Doesn’t Understand
Vintage Films – A Study in Race Relations
That Time I Gave a Bully What For
All the Wrong Places (Updated April 23)
What we learned at school, what we see in movies and television shows, things we read, experiences we have… we all have an idea of where something is supposed to be. For example, mention of a span of ice stretching for hundreds of miles with no human in sight might make us think of the Arctic or Antarctic. But our…
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MAGAs Were Wrong About Food Stamp Cuts
H.Res.1072 Voting Results
The Trump-Colombia Crisis
MAGAs Outed Themselves on Easter (Updated April 15)
After I published this post, Trump posted his “Trump as Jesus” meme on Truth Social. I’ve added a section about that below the original post. By now, you’ve seen the above screenshot multiple times on social media. I see a lot of memes with fake Trump posts. I always go to Truth Social to see if he really…
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The Trump-Canadian War
Right vs Left and Short Memories
Vance-Walz Debate
Irreducible Complexity & Automobiles
Irreducible complexity: A concept used by proponents of Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationism (YEC) to argue that complex organisms could not have evolved gradually from more primitive forms, because they need all their interacting parts to function. If you remove one part, the other parts will cease to function. Therefore, the organism could not have started with fewer parts.…
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Right vs Left and Short Memories
Just the Bird Flu Facts, Ma’am
How the West Wasn’t Won
H.Res.1072 Voting Results
H.Res.1072 – Directing the Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records of the Committee’s review of violations or alleged violations of clause 9 (as it pertains to acts of sexual harassment) and clause 18 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives. Click for the —> Congressional Summary On March 4, 2026, the U.S.…
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Harris vs. Trump: Debate + More
Right vs Left and Short Memories
Lost and Found Dog
Lost and Found Dog
It happened about 25 or 30 years ago. One day, I heard a scratching at the door. Curious, I went to the door and opened it. An English Setter I had never seen before smiled at me, then happily trotted through the door, went straight to the den, and hopped up on the recliner. Well Hello! Come in and make…
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A Tale of Two Families
Keystone Cops DC Style: The 1st Hundred Days
Mrs. Henderson
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (the SAVE Act)
Much controversy has surrounded this act, since it was introduced. Here’s a brief breakdown. Summary This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. Specifically, the bill prohibits states from accepting and processing an application to register to vote in a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of U.S.…
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More Doctors Smoke Camels!
Christian Nationalism – a Dangerous Movement
Sugar Land
The Forgotten Elderly
When my mother and I signed up to deliver Meals on Wheels, we told the director we specifically wanted a route where people especially needed extra help. There was a slum neighborhood with run down houses that they had a very hard time finding drivers who would deliver there, because it was so dangerous. Most residents were the working poor,…
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Ulysses S. Grant vs. Catholics
The Story of Joseph, Mary and Jesus
The Ben Ben Stone
The Story of Joseph, Mary and Jesus
So many misconceptions about the Biblical accounts; mis-translations, legends springing up outside of anything found in the Gospels. So little knowledge the average person has of the Jewish culture of that time period during the Roman occupation. We have to start with Mary’s pregnancy. An unwed Jewish girl getting pregnant! The Sanhedrin would have been well within the law to…
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The Star of Bethlehem – What Was It?
Social Issues the Far Right Doesn’t Understand
Fox News is Fake News [UPDATE OCT 31]
The Star of Bethlehem – What Was It?
People have different ideas about Jesus. Some think He never existed at all. Some acknowledge He existed, but believe He was just an ordinary man. Some, like me, know He’s divine, and He still walks among us. What most agree with, is that the letters and scrolls which eventually became the New Testament were written a few decades after the…
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Mini Moon Madness
Social Media Experiment
Fox News is Fake News [UPDATE OCT 31]
President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 8802, June, 1941
“Reaffirming Policy Of Full Participation In The Defense Program By All Persons, Regardless Of Race, Creed, Color, Or National Origin, And Directing Certain Action In Furtherance Of Said Policy” This resulted in people of color, and women of any race, being brought out of the “back rooms”, so to speak, where they had been treated as substandard humans. Now their…
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Mini Moon Madness
Right vs Left and Short Memories
MAGAs Outed Themselves on Easter (Updated April 15)
Cathy's Turning Leaves
A Rustling of Thoughts
