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]
Freedom Of Speech
POST 1105 From the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging freedom of speech . . .” To be clear, that has nothing to do with whether the owners of social media sites or newspapers can keep us from speaking on their platforms. They can. That has everything to do with… [read more]
Reconsidering
POST 1104 A Little Founding Father Direction From Benjamin Franklin, 1787: “I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller… [read more]
