Democrats just love talking night and day about getting the big money out of politics. They constantly rail about elections being "bought" by "special interest groups" and rich donors (they love to demonize the Koch brothers and Wall Street). Their cure for the big money in politics is often "public financing", meaning government support of …
Continue reading So, Democrats…Let’s Talk Money in Politics, Shall We?
If a huge thundercloud isn't transient, nothing is. We outran this one in Iowa in the summer of 2010, on our way to Hillsdale College in Michigan. It nearly caught us when we stopped for lunch, but we got to our destination before the storm broke. I took this picture through the front windshield of …
See the differently-colored punts, all lined up on the banks of the River Cam, in Cambridge, England. They are just waiting for some people to come along and rent them for a lazy trip down the slow-flowing river. Perfect for a summer afternoon. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/order/
The DOJ has communicated to Congress that it is ending the Obama-era corporate shakedown regime, where it forced corporations who paid huge settlements to resolve conflicts relating to the financial crisis, to pay (liberal) third-party organizations as part of those settlements. Billions of dollars were siphoned off to various Obama special-interest groups, in violation of …
Continue reading The Trump/Sessions Department of Justice just did “Justice”!
Today is June 6. 6/6. It is the 73rd Anniversary of D-Day, that momentous day in 1944 when the Allies invaded France to re-take Europe from Hitler's evil forces. But that's not what I remember. In June of 1966, I was a junior in high school in Seattle. I was taking a ceramics class, with …
Continue reading It’s weird the things you remember from days gone by…Tricks of Memory
My friend likes to sit on my lap, whenever I'm sitting down. She leaps very quietly onto the chair or bed I happen to be using, and purrs loudly to get my attention. My lap is always warm when Kikyo the Aristo-Cat is on my lap. She also likes to snuggle up to her glass …
Remember all those who gave their lives, in defense of your Liberty.
I wrote a Ricochet post on the dustup between some students and a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and the total lack of publicity of this by the local "mainstream" media. So now my RB49 Followers can get a taste of Ricochet, since my post was promoted from the Member Feed …
What could be more evanescent than cut flowers? Once cut, they only last for a few days, but those few days immeasurably improve the lives of those who see them. My best girlfriend gave me pretty flowers for my birthday last month, and we put them in a vase on the kitchen table. Remarkably, they …
When I saw these young people at the Grand Canyon, I said a little prayer that no one would trip. They are brave! https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/danger/
