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November 27, 2020
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November 26, 2020
Gratitude
Happy Thanksgiving. Have fun. Feed your tribe. Work hard. Advertise. And flyfish.
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November 25, 2020
Trump
Until about 4 years ago I was a loyal, active and effective moderate Democrat. I raised money for Dem POTUS candidates. Tolerated Dems when they demanded speech orthodoxy and abandoned free thought. Voted for HRC. Even worked for her. Sat on Dem boards in California when I lived there. Organized Dems in part of SoCal where there were few who’d even admit it. But watching the transition in 2016 and 2017 changed all that for me. President-elect Trump was treated in November 2016 through early January 2017 like human garbage. Cruelly trashed and pilloried on the way in. It was shameful. Progressives talked impeachment starting mid-November. Let Don Trump treat the Media, SJW Muppets, the Academic Community and Goofy Dems like the anti-liberty robot creeps they are on the way out. Trump’s a Huntin’ Dog. They hate that. Oh God do they hate it. He made his predecessor Barack Obama look like a do-nothing, wimpy shadow. All hat. No cattle. Trump was imperfect but worked his ass off for us.
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November 17, 2020
July 1, 1950. Rivo Alto, Miami.
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November 14, 2020
Kérouac
There is nothing quite like Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (1922-1969.) Columbia gridiron golden boy turned Beat King. Jack Kérouac. Nothing and no one.
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November 12, 2020
12 million immigrants in 32 years.
On this date in 1954, Ellis Island ceased all operations. Between 1892 and 1924, 12 million immigrants entering the U.S. via the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed here under federal law.
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Language
“Language. Mankind’s greatest invention is Language. That we’d keep limiting any of it in any way to control behavior, thought or morality is the real obscenity. It makes one sick to know that, albeit with good intentions, we’re doing just that.”
— Holden Oliver, Salzburg, 2008
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November 09, 2020
Where Americans are....
My take on last week?
1. Looks like DJT took one for the team.
2. Trump down; Trumpism still standing—and maybe stronger than ever.
3. And we Americans no longer know one another. Let’s fix that.
AP: “Referendum on Trump shatters turnout records...”
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November 03, 2020
“What if Trump does a Grover Cleveland?” Grover Cleveland checks back in.
Speaking of come-back kids, Grover Cleveland was president 1885-1889, was out of office for four years, and then president again 1893-1897. In November 1888, he and former Ohio senator Allen Thurman lost to Civil War general and lawyer Benjamin Harrison and future New York governor Levi Morton. In January 1889, the defeated Cleveland went back to New York to practice law. But his new wife Frances told a White House staff member: "Take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house...we are coming back four years from today."
Frances was right. He won again in 1892.
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