Category: Presidential election 2024
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Biden’s back in the basement
While Trump was touched by hand of God Our politics has gone full-on Oliver Stone. Wearers of tinfoil chapeaus are convinced the Deep State hired a 20-year-old kid from the next town over to take out the last President before he could become the next President but (somehow) did not let the boy finish the…
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Finally, some justice for Trump
Jim Justice, that is, and his ugly dog! The VHF and UHF dials on the Stately Manor’s b&w Philco spun merrily Tuesday night as the indentured servants scanned the dizzying array of speakers for Day Two of the Republican National Convention just up the road in Milwaukee WI. We’ve attended two Republican national political conventions,…
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He is risen, isn’t he?!
Will bandaged ears become like crucifixes worn in His Name? Donald Trump showed himself to the nation last night 07-15-24 to hosannas from the multitude. No one poked a finger into his side but, Hark! His near-miss survival of a bullet to the head not quite three days (51 hours) earlier is heralded as a…
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Let’s hear it for the quitters!
Just walk away René! The philosopher George Costanza, that reincarnation of Thomas Aquinas, could brag that he was descended “from a long line of quitters.” As an anti- anti-hero, he was a living refutation of that over-used encomium, “There’s no quit in him.” Why do we admire Cool Hand Luke for getting up only to…
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It’s not only the ‘elites,’ Mr. President
who want you to step aside! You may have noticed a full-page advertisement in Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal encouraging Joe Biden to stand down (but not stand by). “The current ticket is headed for a loss,” it warns. The all-text ad asserts “Trump wants to run against Biden,” which appears unassailable. Not a party ‘elite’…
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Blaska had a cold once, too
Didn’t cause any more nonsense than usual! Back when your irascible bloggeur was gainfully employed (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away), a co-worker announced over lunch — in stunned wonderment — that he had been told he had one year to live. Blaska took the check. Cancer, it seems, is cruelest…