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Month: September 2020

Total 29 Posts

The Vacant Seat

I’m going to say the exact same thing I said when President Obama was trying to fill Justice Scalia’s seat.  The politicians should do their jobs.  When Mitch McConnell stalled the confirmation of President Obama’s nominee, he was wrong.  But, denying President Trump the opportunity to fill the empty seat

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The Truth Will Set Us Free

Most people are bad liars.  They have “tells” that can be used to determine if they’re telling the truth or not.  I know a guy that absolutely can’t lie.  Well, technically, he can lie but he’s really bad at it.  Whenever he says something that isn’t true, he blushes.  His

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Dead Man Voting

I can guarantee you that dead people will be voting in this year’s election. Now, I know that some of you are already starting to compose a reply to this but hear me out. There are approximately 7,500 people that die in the U.S. every day.  This is an approximate

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BLM in School

The National Education Association (NEA) has an entire website dedicated to resources for teaching the message of the Black Lives Matter organization (BLMO).  They call it “Black Lives Matter at School”.  Here’s their stated goal: “The goal of Black Lives Matter at School is to spark an ongoing movement of

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Invisible Things

I remember back in grade school when one of my friends held up a blank piece of paper and said it was a picture of a white cow in a blizzard drinking milk. The same blank piece of paper can be used to show the positive things the Mainstream Media

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Accessory to Murder

This weekend, someone walked up to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s vehicle and fired several shots point-blank into the officers sitting in their SUV. I was reading the comments associated with the video posted on Twitter and saw more than one person one claiming that the shooting wasn’t without provocation

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Just Entertain Me

Athletes don’t have to be particularly bright people.  Some are, but it’s not a requirement for the job.  Their job is to entertain and amuse us by being very good at playing a game.  To do their job, they just need to be really good at one or two specific

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Operation Warp Speed? No Thank You.

In the late 1980’s I was a low-level telecom engineer working in Atlanta.  Shortly after I started working there, my phone rang.  It was a very irate woman complaining to me about how her IUD caused her to get sick.  After a couple of tense minutes, I was able to

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No Words

It has been 19 years since the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.  I’ve been trying for two hours trying to decide what to write.  Today I have no words.  Nothing I’ve been able to come up with has even come close.  There’s simply too much owed to too many

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COVID Testing is Potentially Useless

COVID testing is a huge business and people are making fortunes from performing the tests.  But, any information that can be gleaned from testing is practically useless.  Unfortunately, politicians use that faulty, and misleading data to make decisions that impact everyone. Politicians are using the number of positive tests to

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