POST 1115 On the Sunday before last the New York Times published letters from readers that were composed in lyrical form rather than in prose. One was to the tune of the 60s Bob Dylan song, The Times They Are A-Changin’. Here’s it’s opening: Come liars, deniers who call it a hoax And convince us… [read more]
You’re Being Played, But Not Like You Think
POST 1114 An Insidious Conspiracy JD Vance is a guy who compared Trump to Hitler. He said, “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him.” He said lots more that was unlikely to cause Trump to find him attractive. Still, he got the nod, so many were asking why Trump picked him to be… [read more]
Guest Essay – Doses Of Reality
POST 1113 It’s a wonder that in the face of our ongoing gun deaths and the forever heartache attached to them that all we can do is pass a limp-wristed gun safety bill that has no chance of protecting any of us. This stuff is uncomfortably close to my daughter, Amy, and her six kids…. [read more]
What We Wish We Had Heard . . .
POST 1112  . . . in the Bret Baier Interview Harris Tell me, Bret: When you interview Donald Trump do you interrupt him? Do you talk over him? I bet not, because if you did he’d crush you like a bug. Baier Well, no, not really. Harris Then don’t interrupt or talk over me. And… [read more]
Voter Fraud – and Others
POST 1111 One More Look At Our Terrible Voter Fraud Problem You’ve heard the statistics about our voter fraud problem, like that it’s 0.00001% of votes cast, clearly not enough to sway even the election of a candidate for the mosquito abatement board, much less a megalomaniac fraud and sexual assaulter to the presidency. Nevertheless,… [read more]
Endorsements
POST 1110 Jax Pix Here are some of my pics. President Kamala Harris (queue the forehead slaps), because we want our President to be a person who has neither dementia nor a mania to be der fuhrer. We want her to be focused on We The People. Senate Arizona – Reuben Gallego – Good, solid,… [read more]
A Bucketful of Weird
POST 1109 Heart Wrenching Quote of the Week Misty is a teacher in Charlotte, NC. She was interviewed on CNN. She spoke of teachers going to the houses of students to make sure they were okay, as they were living in rubble. One of the teachers is missing and they are surrounded by the disaster… [read more]
An Outrageous Proposal for October 7
POST 1108 Most of us know that an Israeli cease fire won’t get the hostages back, won’t curtail Hamas’ terrorism, won’t stop Hezbollah from firing rockets into northern Israel, won’t stop the Houthis from firing ballistic missiles into Israel from Yemen, won’t stop Iran from firing drones and ballistic missiles at Israeli cities and won’t… [read more]
Odd Critters
POST 1107 Odd Humans Upon seeing him on Bill Maher’s program on September 27, I remembered that Yuval Noah Harari is a favorite author of Barack Obama. I just ordered Harari’s book Sapiens and hope to find a little understanding about humans from those pages. My non-scientific, anecdotal observation is that for most of we… [read more]
The Jax Politix Trump Rally Speech
POST 1106 Late Addition: The Debate Opening We Wish Had Happened “Senator, you don’t know me. We just met, so we’re not close friends. I will address you as Senator. You may address me as Governor or Governor Walz. Not Tim. I’m quite sure I’ve earned that respect. “Three years ago you confidently announced that… [read more]
