On Hope & Change

 I was alone and awake in early morning darkness, when I picked up the first reports coming in today (from two very different sources--The Drudge Report and Citizen Free Press) about the US/Israeli strike on Iran. As I read those reports, I experienced a mixture of thoughts and feelings that included a sense of resignation, uncertainty and trepidation over what was unfolding, and what was yet to come.  With all of it bringing back to mind what I'd felt as I watched the incoming 2020 election results for MI stall in the middle of the night and come back in the early morning hours turned around in favor of Biden.  Back then I knew at the time that something out of the ordinary had happened, but hadn't known what it was or how hugely significant whatever it was would turn out to be for the entire world.  And today, with this new situation and world event unfolding, I'm once again holding all that accompanies the awareness of another significant change underway.   

By the time I read the following statement by President Trump made at 3:37PM today (twelve hours after his first announcement at 2:30 AM), and came to the line, "This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their country",  I was ready to say, "Yes! I hope the Iranian people take that chance" and join President Trump in the hope that the chances being taken by all involved will, in his words, "achieve the objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST, AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!"

On Seeing, Hearing & Knowing Nothing

On Revulsion & Revelation

Whether seated or missing, the Democratic contingent did an outstanding job of revealing their priorities yesterday, providing some memorable visuals to accompany the seeping stench of the lies, fraud and treachery currently being unearthed and exposed. 

On Sewers, Frogs & Toads

 

On Kicking, Strutting & Learing

 

On Boxes & Ballots

 

On Achievements & Aspirations

 

On Wascals & Rotten Peaches

 

On Checks, Percentages & Comparisons

 

On Threats & Reasons

 

Don't get around here much anymore

I have not been posting very much these days. What seemed so important to me has lost a lot of appeal. Plus, I have been pretty busy. 

I have spent a lot of time helping Lisa write and edit her book "The Brooklyn Witch." I hope anyone that reads this will pick up a copy. And please leave a review. It is very important to help the algorithm. We have been doing author visits and book signings and trying to promote it but it's a struggle. Especially for a self-published book. It's very time consuming and leaves very little time for the luxury of blogging.

In my small amount of free time, I get to write my own books. I have five in various stages of completion and hope to turn my attention to them this summer. 

Thanks to Ed and MamaM for keeping this place going. 

Football is dead to me ... and it should be dead to you too!

  

I was a big football fan. I had a season ticket to the New York Giants during the great years of the 1980's when they won their first two Super Bowls. I was glued to the TV every Sunday. I went to the bar to watch Monday night football every week with my cronies. We bet like crazy. On games. Prop bets. Pools. The Super Bowl was a holiday with a party and a big ta-do.

I haven't seen a game in almost ten years. 

On Declarations, Flip Flops, & Trusted Advisors

 

Two favorites above, from Powerline's Week in Pictures Get off My Land Edition

With this view of Rafki, the mandrill and shaman of the Pride Lands, who serves as the king's most trusted adviser--one whose advice is always heeded, adding to this week's surprise with a much needed laugh.

On Chaos & Claims of Incapability