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2025/06/122025/06/24

ELUMP – Some Ramblings

Okay I am once again a Johnny-come-lately. This time it is to the awareness that the bromance of Elon Musk and tRump had been labeled Elump by the popular press. I became cognizant of the moniker scrolling through YouTube when a video of Bill Maher’s popped up addressing the subject. I am not as big a Bill Maher fan as I used to be as he has become so self-righteous as to be almost unwatchable, but this video grabbed my attention.

A real bromance?

First, it was a bromance? I do not believe that either of them have any real friends. A real friend being someone you might call if your car broke down on the side of the rode and you needed a ride home. Would either of them do so without asking for gas money? Or perhaps you can identify friends ala the popular test, “the two beers and watch my dogs” type of person. Both of them only see other people as something – yes, something in place of somebody – to be used and exploited for their own personal gain or purposes. A romance… nah. Their toxic masculinity Continue reading “ELUMP – Some Ramblings”

2025/06/102025/06/24

American Tapestry of Song, Allegro’s 2025 Spring Concert

Besides yours truly (smiley face), Señora has a few other passions in her life, her gardens, her ceramics, but above all music. The Allegro Choir is a choir for folks who have obtained at least 50 year’s worth of life experiences. They put on two concerts a year. They have moved to doing two performances each time as they fill up the auditorium for each performance.

If you look real close you can see Señora. She is sitting just behind the piano player and a little to the left.

Enjoy.

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2025/06/092025/06/24

Trump is now Begging Mark Carney for a Way Out of Canada’s “Anti-Trump” Boycott/Tariff War

BREAKING: Trump is now Begging Mark Carney for a Way Out of Canada’s “Anti-Trump” Boycott/Tariff War, in Texts/Secret Phone Calls by Dean Blundell

The desperation is real. Trump’s illegal tariffs are tanking the U.S. economy, and Mark Carney is getting peppered by Trump with texts and late night calls.

Read on Substack

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2025/06/042026/01/19

In America, we don’t do kings — Mass Protests June 14th

We do not need wanna-be dictators in this county, nor con men sitting in the White House and Congress.

Find a protest near you by going to NoKings.org

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2025/06/01

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,366

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.

Plucking a doggie poop bag from the container attached to my end of the leash, I cleaned up Prancess Lily’s offering deposited in a neighbor’s yard, thinking to myself it is amazing how much of our lives we spend dealing with shit.

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2025/05/282025/05/28

Quote of the Day – Socrates

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.

“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children.” ~~ Socrates

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2025/05/232025/06/01

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #3,683

yeah I know you did not ask!

I am still not imbibing news, at least consciously. I do follow my investments on Google’s Finance page which at the end of my watch list always has news stories related to those investments or to the market in general. Today one headline read that tRump was threatening 50% tariffs against our good friends in Europe.

For some reason a picture of the orange orangutan currently occupying the White House came to mind. In this picture he is sit squatting in the Asian manner inside a zoo cage. He is busily flinging his turds at the various zoo visitors passing in front of his cage. For reasons unclear, the zookeepers have removed the glass partition that would have kept his excrement on his side of the wall. His malodorous missiles were landing pell-mell, but damaging those among us in the most need. Maybe if he turned that Bible upright… nah.

Outside of making him and his contemptuous cronies even richer, I am still trying to figure out what the problem is that he is trying to fix. He is making America anything but Great.

While this posting, A Jack Handey Fable, is about addiction, I see MAGA’s devotion to El puta pendejo naranja in a similar vein.

And so it should not go.

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2025/05/18

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #1,646

yeah I know you did not ask!

Recently here in St. Louis we had storms and tornadoes move through the metro area. Except for some limbs down in the yard, we were okay, but were without power for nearly 30 hours.

During this period I discovered that I have basically forgotten how to cook without the use of a microwave. Whether that is cooking or not is a discussion for another day.

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