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I’m beginning to believe that the presidential election is going to go to Donald Trump.  After stating for several months that I believe Harris will be the one who gets sworn in come January.

Harris right now is doing her damndest to appeal to the hard left.  That’s ALL she really has that she’s been consistently running on.  Especially about the abortion issue.  One would easily believe that abortion is her biggest concern.  But those voters were already a lock for her anyway.

Trump meanwhile is doing a very good job getting his message out to the unaffiliated and undecided voters.  The ones who have long been neglected too much by both the Democratic and Republican parties.  They also tend to be the ones in the middle class who have been worst affected by the Biden and Harris administration.

The number of American voters disaffected by either major party is ...

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This is one of my favorite scenes in motion picture history.  From the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian.  Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has just freed Subotai (Gerry Lopez) from certain death.  Here we see them having dinner together.

I’ll let the scene speak for itself.

It’s two fast friends, enjoying a meal in each other’s company.  And the conversation turns to religion.

There is no bitterness or anger.  Not an iota of hatred between the two men.  They are simply discussing their respective faiths: Subotai’s in the Four Winds, and Conan’s belief in Crom.

I like to think that Conan and Subotai each give the other something to think about.  Conan certainly seems impressed by the point Subotai is making about “the everlasting sky”.

Conan the Barbarian is a fantasy movie.  It is very tragic that people in real life can not speak to one another about their differing beliefs ...

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Something that bothers me about vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance…

He seems to insinuate in statements both past and recent that only people who are married and/or have children should be involved in this country’s politics.  They’re the ones who most have stakes in America’s future, he apparently believes.

Well, what about those of us who for some reason or another never got to have that kind of lasting happiness?  Do WE get afforded a say in the matter?

I’ve been as loyal a citizen of this country as one could probably be, without going into the military.  I came up with American values of honesty, hard work, being the best you could be… values that made this country great.  They’re values that culminated in my earning Eagle Scout and I made a commitment long ago to live my life in accordance with those virtues.

Some might call me a ...

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I spotted this clip yesterday and it is definitely one of the better pro-candidate videos that I’ve ever come across.  This is the kind of thing that the more creative types of candidates’ supporters should aspire toward.  For a lot of reasons I really like this one.

Behold “The Dukes of MAGA”:

So, about who I’m supporting in this election.  Something I’ve very rarely tipped my hand about throughout the history of this blog…

As many readers know, I have a rule.  It’s one that I initiated after my own run for public office years ago, and the TV ads I made for that campaign.  Here it is: I do not vote for a candidate if he or she runs a negative campaign commercial targeting an opponent.  I made three commercials and each of them was positive, upbeat, humorous at times and serious when need be.  There was another candidate ...

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In searching around for churches in this area, obviously I’m looking at their websites.  I’m studying a few things, particularly their various statements of belief.  In that regard I’ll simply say this: there are already a number of places of worship which I regrettably cannot enter.  It would be like bringing a blowtorch aboard the Hindenburg.

No disrespect to those places is meant.  I believe they and I worship the same God.  We differ however in aspects of that which while ultimately meaningless, are as unavoidable in this carnal realm as they are indicative of the imperfect nature of the church as the body of Christ upon this earth.

As I was saying, I’m perusing the websites of places of worship.  Looking for certain qualities.  And with the advent of streaming video I’m now able to watch and listen to recent sermons.  Sort-of like the Esper machine: getting to ...

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So… what’s my take on what will happen two days from now at the polls here in the United States?

The Democrats are going to get pounded.  They have basically become the party of three things: Hate Trump, wasteful spending, and promoting what can only be described as child pornography (especially the “transgender” madness).  They believe that anger over Roe v. Wade getting overturned is going to be enough to energize whatever base they still have.  That’s not going to work.  Except in places that are so outrageously blue that they are hopeless (helpless?).

So the Republicans are going to win and maybe become a hindrance for the next two years to Joe Biden, AKA the WORST president in history.

(How anyone could still support a dementia-ridden compulsive lying pedophile is beyond me.)

Yes, the Republicans are going to take the House and the Senate, I perceive.  And that’s going ...

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The following post isn’t going to endear me to some people.  Indeed, I removed it for awhile after it drew fire from some who I greatly respect.  I sincerely hope that, as Thomas Jefferson beautifully put it, this will be no reason to depart from friendship.

I am a historian and an observer of human nature.  And what comes now, is from a place I earnestly believe is an objective perch.  Or at least, I try to be objective.  I will write this and let future readers decide on the merits of this essay.  Because that’s who I’ve always written for as much as those in the here and now.

 Ready?  Here goes:

My friends and family are well aware of a policy I have regarding elections.  It is very simple: I do not vote for a candidate who creates and broadcasts a negative campaign commercial aimed at an opponent.  ...

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It’s a line from a They Might Be Giants song: “Politics bore me”.  And that’s where I’ve found myself lately in life: dulled out of my skull by politics.  Or at least politics as most people buy into.  For quite awhile I’ve noted that I’m more interested in ideas, not “ideologies”.  And one comforting consequence has been that during the past four years I’ve been detached and aloof from just about anything pro or con about President Donald Trump.  To love him or hate him?  I’m not playing that game.  There is more to define a life than which politician a person sides with or against.

That doesn’t mean I’m an uninterested observer of realities.  And in substantial part, I do approve of President Trump’s policies and actions since coming to the White House.  Some still, I do not approve of.  But he’s earned my confidence so far, and much
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What I’m about to say is going to get me in a whole lotta trouble with some people. But it’s way past time that it be said…

There are two groups of people in America who have been taken for a
ride by either of the two major parties. They have been taken advantage
of at practically every turn. They have been promised everything and
have been given nothing.

I speak of Christians being held captive by the Republican party and of those of African descent by the Democrats.

Both of those groups have become the battered housewives of the
Democrats and Republicans. They’ve been beaten and told “where else are
you gonna go baby?”

People like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
have kept their brethren beholden to the Democrats only because it feeds
their own egos. Booker T. Washington warned against such when he said
“There is another class

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…we still woke up. The sun rose again. There was a new morning. Life did go on.

In fact, it couldn’t sincerely be said that much of anything changed at all.

This country, this world even, is not made by the grace of a single man or woman. An individual can render it grievous harm however.

But in the end, America – and every other country for that matter – is the result of the diligence of her entire people. And I tend to believe she is only as good as the lengths her people will go to admit that they are not wise enough to govern this land with mere human reasoning.

Acknowledging that much is the beginning of the enlightenment that the Founders prayed we might have. We’ve lost sight of that, and that has to be said regardless of what “party” we might belong to.

I’m going ...

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