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Rest In Peace -United States of America

Rest In Peace
United States of America
July 4, 1776 – January 20, 2025
“Even God could not save her from the religious.”

There needs to be some serious soul searching amongst the denizens of this country.  There was no sane, moral or ethical reason for having voted for the chimera that is Donald J. Trump, especially this time around, as his psychopathy had been on full display for years.

If you voted for him because your religion is preaching an Armageddon / Second Coming of Christ fantasy, and he is the the agent that God will use to fulfill those end days delusions, you need to apply critical thinking skills to what they are  spewing from the pulpits and to religion in general.  But then again, it seems to me, the only way for people to be religious is to forego thinking critically about it.  With the Evangelicals embracingTrump as they have, faith has become a four letter word in my book.

God save us from the religious.

For the first time in my life I am truly afraid, afraid of future, afraid of what this country is becoming, afraid of many of my fellow citizens, afraid of what DJT and his ilk are going to do to this world. The only bright spot I can see in this cluster f*** is that I will not be around much longer to witness it.

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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism

Finally, a sane voice from a religious person on this whole nightmare of Christian Nationalism…

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Nothing but the best for yours truly!

Occasionally, occasionally,  when I cannot get on one of the courses where I regular play and my golf addiction is screaming at me, I will go to a course that, in Oklahoma,  we would fondly call cow pasture golf. I am not going to name the course as I am slightly embarrassed to say I even play there

It is very cheap. During the week the green fee with a cart is only $25 for 18 holes.  Most courses anymore are around $40 – plus or minus – during the week for seniors.  Some are much, much more expensive.

The clientele is mostly the very old, the very young, and lots of hoosiers, the term used here for rednecks. At times you will see expensive cars there, but that is generally the very young driving Daddy’s Beemer or similiar luxury vehicle.

I was there a month or two ago, and they had this sign in the club house by the door.  Yup, stay out of the corn and soy bean fields.

Nothing but the best for yours truly.

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Quote of the Day — Robert A. Heinlein

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

 

“Tomorrow I will seven eagles see, a great comet will appear, and voices will speak from whirlwinds foretelling monstrous and fearful things — This Universe never did make sense;  I suspect that it was built on government contract.” ~~  Robert A. Heinlein

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Quote of the Day – Pam Bondi

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.


“You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up, loser lawyer.” ~~ Pam Bondi, Attorney General of the United States in a recent Congressional hearing.

I don’t really know, but I would imagine that Robert’s Rule of Order, used by many deliberative bodies, would frown upon such ad hominem  attacks.  Not to mention the sheer unprofessionalism it displays.  But then again, I am not seeing any other members of this malAdministration showing any semblance of professionalism.

I gleaned this from Paul Krugman’s newsletter on SubStack.  He went on:

“Yet what truly amazed me was her demand that Democrats stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein because the Dow was above 50,000. This plumbed new depths of moral bankruptcy, effectively saying: ‘How dare you complain about child rape when the stock market is up?’”

Oh the times we live in, when this passes for a government in a free democracy.

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Vanity Plate for the Day – MRS 4TH

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

This was on the back of a very new looking Cadillac Escalade.  I found it interesting, but I am still trying to figure out the meaning.  Is this the fourth wife? I am not sure I would be bragging about that. Perhaps her last name is Forth or some variation thereof?  Could she be a big fan of the Fourth of July… born that day?

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #9,306

yeah I know you did not ask!

You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.

Tattoos and piercings are like spices… a little will do ya.

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Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis (Irish Folk Version)

The world is weighing in on the tRumpian craziness…

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This Machine Kills Fascists

The image below is from a phrase Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar. It is very sad that here we are, 75 years later, and we are fighting this fight again.  The reality is that it seems to be a struggle that never ends, the clash of humanity’s dark side against its humanistic side.

As my cousin, The Don Quixote of West Texas, said, “This political nightmare is turning into a field day for musicians.”

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Vanity Plate for the Day – Cremate

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

This was on the back of a – new or nearly new – Lexus SUV.  I did not catch the model number, but it was one of the BIG ones.  It had an Arizona Plate.   Looks like the cremation business is good in Arizona.

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Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

The Boss needs no comment from yours truly. His words say it all. I would say enjoy, but this is a time for action.  This monstrous malAdministration needs to go and like yesterday…

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