Category Archives: politics

Calm Before The Inner Calm

November 6, 2024 – 11:00 am

I’m sitting in front of Larina. Calm under a sky deepening to velvet blue. Velvet not dark Not many people on the street. Not many cars either. Calm Maybe the calm before Kamala___ In my mind the USA has elected a woman A hundred and four years After they got the vote___ A warm autumn […]

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US Elections 2024

November 6, 2024 – 9:47 am

Donald Trump has resumed his role as Leader of the American people in a devastating loss for the Kamala Harris. Her Kumbaya Joy campaign after Biden’s protracted abdication coupled with the wars in Ukraine, inflation, and emigration left the Democratic Vice President little time to combat the GOP leader’s headstart. The defections of Latinos and […]

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The Fall of Berlin Wall 1989 – 2009

October 22, 2024 – 8:37 am

“Ich bin en Berliner.” These words were spoken by JFK before the grim barrier in 1961. I have stood at the wall in 1982. Its shabby concrete was graffiti-splattered on the Western side. The other side was a no-man’s land of mines, dogs, and guard towers. I had crossed over to East Berlin via Checkpoint […]

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October 10

October 10, 2024 – 7:50 pm

In two days some of America will celebrate Columbus Day. Many will curse the Genoan On October 10, 1492 the great navigator was two hundred miles from land. In 1973 Vice President Agnew was deposed as Nixon’s vice president for graft. He once said, “An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park […]

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Presidential Photo Ops

October 8, 2024 – 1:09 pm

In late September the extra warm waters of the western Carribean created Hurricane Helene. After hitting Mexico and Cuba the category 5 storm headed northeast. The Florida Panhandle was struck hard on September 26 and 27 by Hurricane Helene dropping twelve inches of rain and pummeling coastal towns with 140 mph winds. Even worst was […]

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