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Mushrooms
I’m sure my daughter would tell you that I often try to make a life lesson out of everything…or at least that is how I interpreted the eye roll. When she was a teenager and was beginning her dating experience, one piece of advice I gave her was to look for the guy who would Continue reading
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Some of My Core Beliefs…
NOTE: I wrote this in August 2012, when I first sought elected office. I first took an oath to support and defend the US Constitution when I was seventeen. It was 1976, and I was only a couple of months out of high school when I joined the Iowa National Guard. I celebrated my eighteenth Continue reading
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Who the heck is Igor Panarin?
NOTE: This is something I started back in February 2018 and I’m just getting back to… In June 2010, the Atlantic Monthly published a piece titled, Map of the Day: Ex-KGB Analyst Predicts Balkanization of U.S., that advanced the theory that the US would break up into six regions, each falling under the influence of Continue reading
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Purpose
Today, my daughter walked across the stage at California Baptist University to receive her Masters degree. Every where I looked I saw the tag line, “Live Your Purpose”. I thought about those three works for quite a while. It occurred to me that many people do not have, or do not seem to have, a Continue reading
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Not a real call…but this is how it feels
Police Dispatcher: Police Department, may I help you? Caller: Yes, I just came home from work and found that someone had burglarized my house. Dispatcher: Did they take anything? Caller: Well, I’ve checked everything and I found that my emergency money is missing $485, it looks like they had a good lunch out of my Continue reading
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What if?
–Las Vegas, Nevada January 1, 2021 Staff Reports The Governor of California announced this morning the State of California has, as of 12:01 this morning, seceded from the United States and is now the Peoples Republic of California. He took this action based on the passage of Prop 321, which was approved by the voters Continue reading
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Cold War II
I DO NOT CONDONE ANY FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN OUR DEMOCRACY…but, let’s talk. The world celebrated the end of the Cold War with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break up of the Soviet Union. Study our history and you will find the Cold War was more than occupying land, propping up puppet leaders Continue reading
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Driving…and moonshine
When I was 14 or 15 (in the early 1970’s), my father was teaching me to drive on the dirt roads of Middle Tennessee. During one such lesson, he told me that when he was my age he was running moonshine, but never explained or really mentioned it again. Although, I do recall a trip Continue reading
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Family
My dad died when I was 25 and before he died I never took much interest in family history. Unfortunately, by the time my dad died his older brothers, two of his sisters, and both of his parents had all died. Dad didn’t talk much about the past or family. Added to that, there wasn’t Continue reading
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What?
If you read my profile you will find that it says that I am “a son of Tennessee, born in exile”. You may wonder what that means. My ancestors arrived in Tennessee in 1804 and remained there until 1957 when my parents married and moved from Middle Tennessee and went to the Chicago area, where Continue reading
Tennessee Drifter 