Set Your Clocks Back 300 Years
Passive Aggressive Trump Supporter
Inauguration Day 2017:
I am driving home on Interstate 64 which is 4 sometimes 5 lanes wide as it goes through the St. Louis metro area. Traffic is snarled up. It turns out there is a vehicle in the fast lane driving way below the speed limit which puts him about 20 mph slower than the rest of the traffic is moving.
As I get closer I see it is an older Subaru being driven by an old man. The back of the car is covered up with Trump bumper stickers. In the back window is a big hand lettered sign that reads “Face It”.
I did the only logic thing. I flipped him off as I passed him on the right. It is going to be a long 4 years.
H. L. Mencken on Trump’s Inauguration…
A friend sent me this quote which perfectly describes the inauguration of Donald Trump:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by an incompetent, downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.” — H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
For the first time in my life I am embarrassed to say I am an American. I am thinking about getting a red maple leaf tattoo so people might accidentally mistake me for a Canadian.
What an awful day for our country.
Effingham Trump
A few years ago Robin and I were on a road trip. We passed through Effingham, Illinois. Robin , who is apparently an escapee from an Improv troupe, fell head over heels in love with the word Effingham. Suddenly everything was Effingham. “What do you Effingham think you are doing?” “That is no Effingham way to act.” “I am Effingham exhausted!” You get the Effingham picture.
Recently we have started a new improv act, The Trump substitution game. Anywhere you would use an expletive deleted, we are using Trump. “You piece of Trump.” What the Trump do you think you are doing.” “You Trumping bastard.” (You Trumping Trump??) You get the Trumping picture.
WTF – Trump – May God have mercy on our souls
“A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain.” ~~ from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” ~~ Albert Einstein
I was a military brat, and I was raised Southern Baptist. As such, to a small extent, my foundation was God and Country. Having always been around military bases growing up and seen more than a few military ceremonies of one ilk or another, it was not uncommon for me to get goose bumps when I heard The Star Spangled Banner or God Bless America.
Twenty five years or so ago I made the “mistake” of rereading the whole Bible. When, as an adult, you read the Bible closely it does not stand up. So I started studying other religions which caused me to look at my own religion with the same critical eye. I detailed this in a previous blog article, Rev. Joe Stumbles. The long and the short of it, I lost one of my weak pillars, that of God. My religious faith evaporated. I became a born-again agnostic.
That still left a faith in Country. This had become weakened over Continue reading “WTF – Trump – May God have mercy on our souls”
Donald Trump – Russian Bride of the Year
Three Thomas Jefferson Quotes Needed Today
Here are three quotes from Thomas Jefferson that are much needed in today’s noxious political climate.
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, April 22, 18001
“When I hear another express an opinion, which is not mine, I say to myself, He has a right to his opinion, as I to mine; why should I question it. His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote to bring all men by force of argument, to one opinion? If a fact be misstated, it is probable he is gratified by a belief of it, and I have no right to deprive him of the gratification. If he wants information he will ask it, and then I will give it in measured terms; but if he still believes his own story, and shows a desire to dispute the fact with me, I hear him and say nothing. It is his affair, not mine, if he prefers error. ”
further on in that same letter:
“. . . Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics. In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. . . . Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal. You will be more exposed than others to have these animals shaking their horns at you, because of the relation in which you stand with me.”
– Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph Washington, Nov. 24th, 1808
How To Move To Canada (If Trump Becomes President)
I will have to admit that more than once I have threaten to move to Canada if Trump were to be elected. Alternatively, I have considered taking my social security and pension checks and moving somewhere in Latin America. What A strange, strange pass we have come to in this country… A Canadian friend sent this to me. Do you think she is trying to tell me something? Instead of Yankee Go Home, is it Yankee Do Not Come?
I Had to Walk Away
I had just got done golfing Friday and went into the club house to get my post round 
Budweiser. On the TV, the news was blowing up with latest Donald Trump atrocity. Which one? They one where he got caught on tape bragging about assaulting women sexually.
The gentleman behind the counter was a fellow my age. We have had several nice conversations together. They are however, generally of the innocuous nature of small talk involving cars, golf or the Cardinals.
After watching the TV for a couple minutes I made the comment, Continue reading “I Had to Walk Away”