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Just what I sent my relatives It’s hot here, too, like 88F in the shade at 1000 CDT. Since there’s no A/C like the old days (when there ...

The end of the beginning        I seldom invite myself into the political world, mostly because others, including pundits, write so wel...

The appalling reporting I see and hear all too often             It's funny what can set one off.             In my case it is t...

Who is to blame for the sad state of affairs in the new world USA        Is it the absurd levels of federal laws that bureaucrats have ...

Blue Laws             The term is American. I was exposed to it circa 1959 in southern California after I was moved there. I liked bein...

The Book of Five Rings by Mushashi        Now this book is hundreds of years old, but I prefer it to Sun Tzu's the Art of War , al...

And all I want to do is feed my Family and live        In colloquial English language, we seem to have killed, or are killing,   the go...

On the nature of military service in the USA        We should be pleased as new world USA humans, is my bottom line. Most polls I read ...

Forrest Gump type stuff        Most of us can reminisce.   And so can I, and you, too.             I have seen a lot of change in my...

Flour        As one who is   becoming increasingly worried about the possibility of going hungry in the new world USA, I am amazed as t...

Time for another change        Mostly it is a change in politicians in our governments, in general. Now some politicians are doing pret...

The coming civil war in the new world USA        Lord knows I hope it doesn't happen.             After all, many in the USA bel...

I finally got set off        What got me going was Madonna showing her rear end during her current foreign tour.             Like I ...

Good luck in life        I got a chance today to prove something to myself.             Basically, I was making in my high tech Japa...

Bungee cords        I have an advantage of growing up in America before bungee cords became normal, like we did not have them, or at le...

Change we can believe in        This is what I believe is going on in the USA.   And I have some guesses about the rest of the world, t...

National debt (western style)        It still bothers me that so many people assume we can borrow money to our heart's content. And...

Yippie ki-yay cowboy To put things in perspective, the local electric  plant is already making electricity, like something between 1/2 am...

Thoughts from the Hemlocks        The Hemlocks is in rural east Tennessee, as in Putnam   County.             The Hemlocks presently...

Don't take the bait             By the title I mean don't believe much of what you read, or see on TV.             Now at ag...