Category: Politics – a Third View
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Masks and Miller Light
Mask use is not an infringement on Freedom because Freedom is not about the individual without community. Freedom is about what an individual is allowed to do to still be part of the community. It exists in unison with the nation and is part of the contract between government and citizen that has been slowly…
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COVID 19 Theses of Reform
In 1517 Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses at Wittenburg and started the Protestant Reformation fracturing the power of the Catholic Church. We, the people, need to demand change of the federal government so that it better meets the needs of the citizens. Our taxpayer dollars are being misused and misappropriated to help those they…
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COV: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
The good, the bad and the ugly about Coronavirus and the Global Pandemic in reverse order from a bit despondent to a message of angst hope. As Coronavirus makes its way to the far corners of the world, every person is being confronted with the stark reality that death is a part of life. The…
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The Hard Way
Someone asked me a while back what my prediction was if Bernie did not get the Democratic nominee. My answer was simple, the hard way. I am not a fighter but I am sure as heck a survivor. I have had a gun to my head twice. I have survived big wave wipeouts, multiple car…
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Stockholm’s Butterfly
I live on earth so earth is good. I live in a nation so nations are good. I live in a city so cities are good. I live in a house so houses are good. I went to school so school is good. I went to church so church is good. I voted so voting…
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Trump’s Pandemic
Trump’s pandemic was discovered in the Wuhan province of China and is believed to have originated at Jamaica Hospital on June 14, 1946. It lay dormant for many years until becoming active in the 1980s. Now the Trump Pandemic is fatal to those countries with the disease. I use these words in jest but in…
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Communism is Capitalism
To err is human, to forgive divine. All people commit sins and make mistakes. God forgives them, and people are acting in a godlike (divine) way when they forgive. This saying is from “An Essay on Criticism,” by Alexander Pope. I am human and I make mistakes. I do my best at accepting them once…
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Young Guns 2020: The Trump Boy vs The Regulators
Dear Maga and GOP, We need your help today and if you understand the lesson, you will see why. Please read on. Yes, Bernie Sanders is a Socialist Democrat. I will give you that. So is France and I like France a lot in fact. Their food, their culture, their people’s willingness and ability to…
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Mar a Lago Nights: The Ballad of Bernie Sanders
I like to make connections. I find it easy and fun, and sometimes I am on the money and sometimes I am not. Usually, even though my ideas can be out in left field, some truth can be found in them. Unlike most liberals and Democrats in 2016, I was not surprised that Trump won. …
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A Lobster’s Death
How does a lobster die? If it is put into water that it is too warm, it will thrash around violently to struggle for its survival. However, if the same lobster is put into tepid water and the water is slowly brought to a boil, it accepts its fate without care. I imagine…
Observations From the Spectrum 