Michael Blevons

No defendants, no evidence, no lawyers, no courts, no judges, just dead people in the water Trump’s rocket strikes on alleged drug boats in the Western Caribbean and Eastern Pacific are his dream of what law enforcement should be.

They’re shooting boats out of the waters off the coast of South and Central America. How long before someone walking down an American street carrying a sign with an “almost treasonous” criticism of Donald Trump is shot without warning?
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“Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.”
Kinky Friedman, “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”

Good afternoon, Kimm. Thank you, we’re about as well as could be expected. I hope you and David are too. Kris is the obsessed holiday decorator here. As far as the consumer aspect goes, I like giving, especially little things that bring a smile. The rest doesn’t matter.

Good morning!

“To suppress the vote is to make a mockery of democracy. And those who do so are essentially acknowledging that their policies are unpopular. If you can’t convince a majority of voters that your ideas are worthy, you try to limit the pool of voters.”
Dan Rather, “What Unites Us”

Happy Halloween!

“Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.”
Susan Orlean, “The Library Book”

Good morning!

YouTube video by Golden Age Radio The War of the Worlds: Original Broadcast with Subtitles

87 years ago today, October 30, 1938…

Orson Welles and the Mercury Radio Theatre demonstrated perhaps the greatest example of the gullibility of the American public until the presidential elections of 2016 and 2024.

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“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men…”
President John Adams

Good morning!

“In all the universe only the human race has ever reached a high level of intelligence without reaching a high level of sanity. We are unique.”
Fredric Brown, “Letter to a Phoenix”

How I learned that having enough food to eat should be a right, not a privilege Blissful ignorance.

The parade of cars and people and cans and boxes of food, and back in Washington D.C., the SNAP program, even with its struggles, amount to living proof that this country has a soul. Even with all its struggles, that soul is a good one.
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Good morning, Silvia!

Good morning, Kimm. They are fluffy and happily enjoying National Cat Day. Then again, it’s always Cat Day here. How’s Gilda?

Good morning!

For Trump, our despair is the point He does it every day, often several times a day.

Let this be a clarion call to Presidents Biden and Obama and Clinton and Bush. We need you. You were elected by your fellow citizens to lead us while you were in office. We need your leadership now more than ever.
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On this date in 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty.
On this date in 2025, we dedicate ourselves to insuring that tRumpublicans do not extinguish her flame.

Good morning, Silvia!

"They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case."
Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"

Good morning!

“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
President Theodore Roosevelt, Address in Memphis, October 25, 1905

Good morning, Silvia!

Good morning!

Good afternoon, Kimm!

Good afternoon, Maggie.

A nation not of laws, not of men, but of yabbos The question has arisen among sane people again and again over the last ten years: Who are these people?

Who called Black people “monkeys” and “watermelon people” and praised those who believe in slavery as a group of Young Republicans recently did in yet another group text? Yabbos, that’s who.
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