For now, here’s a link to my YouTube playlists, if you’re interested.  I just got tired of posting to the Other Letter.  I had a good run with this.  This blog has run its course.  I’m not a reporter, I’m not a writer, even.  Yet from time to time, I may post anything that seems pressing, or worth posting (I get a bit of purpose working on this)...

1. D.J. Trump held his pep rally tonight.  A few memorable moments: “Drill, baby, drill!”; “We ended D.E.I. in America!”  (D.E.I. stands for diversity, equality, and inclusion, an affirmative action measure to combat racism in America.)  Trump is spending inordinate amounts of time discussing the American Men’s Hockey Team; the American Women’s Hockey Team, which also won gold, was not present for this hoedown.  Safest city?  Define safe to Alex and Renée, Donnie.  So far, just rally ’round the flag prattle, no state of the Union blather.  Melania Trump was seen in the crowd, she did not look happy, although after the Melania movie, she is the $28 million woman.

   The great big ugly tax bill made people lose their health insurance, after A.C.A. subsidies were ended.  Okay, ostensibly, this leader of the GOP should be talking about affordability, tariffs, Iran, and Ukraine, I am not a waiter, I was entirely unaffected by his tax cuts for the wealthy.  Who’s paying the tariffs, the taxes on imports?  The American consumer does, Mad Man.  Trump may have had a stroke, his annunciation of the TelePrompter does not match what he’s going on and on about.

   “11,888 murders by illegal immigrants.”  This is fearmongering.  “Prices are plummeting!”  Maybe at his super market.  He wants to end U.S.-sponsored, group health insurance.  “Should be my third term.”  He still wants his dictatorship.  The level of discourse, the agitprop Trump spews, is beneath U.S..  Trump is just so skeevy.  Claims he’ll protect Medicare (Social Security not mentioned), even though that was on the chopping block with his big bill.  Fearmongering about Somalis again.  Trump is making me ill.

   He keeps saying open borders, over and over, like a brainwash.  Over half his little self-congratulatory global broadcast is about stopping immigration, dead in its tracks, like he did in Minneapolis.  Trump is the fearmongering president.  This is the Beer Hall Putsch, all over again.  The Klan Rally drones on.

   Voter fraud is a huge concern of Trump’s.  How else can he explain, January 6th, 2021?

   “These people are crazy, they’re not standing up.  Democrats are destroying our country, we stopped it just in time.”

   Some Melania blather, the Slovenian Sphinx, per Maureen Dowd of the New York Times.  Belief in God is on the upswing, he claims.  “We love religion!”  On and on about crime, what about Minneapolis?

   Green energy not mentioned.  What about gun control?  What about rebuilding Gaza, ending his friend Putin’s war on Ukraine?  What does he intend to do in Venezuela?  “No crime in Washington, D.C., how did that happen?”  I don’t know, how, D.J.?

   Unfinished nuclear business in Iran, which Trump is claiming he ended.  “Iran will build weapons that will hit America.”  “We have no choice but to rebuild the military (okay, that’s a partial paraphrase, the rest are pretty much, word for word).”

   “Illicit Fentanyl is now classified a terrorist operation of Mexico.”  What about China where it’s sourced?

   “A big, beautiful, powerful helicopter (those words again, big beautiful), a Chinook.”  I can’t take this guy anymore.  I just want to hear the rebuttal.  This country is going to Hell, courtesy Donald Trump.  Another war battle anecdote, most foul.  Another one, celebrating someone who bombed Viet Nam.  Charlton Heston lives.  “Honor to be in the same room with you.”  Both sides of the aisle on their feet for napalming North Vietnamese.

   All on your feet, for our National Anthem, Trump is still doing his P.R. work for a failed administration.

   See how Trump operates?  What will this demagogue say after the midterms prove how wrong he is?

   2/24/26.

2. One would think that by now, Apple would have figured out how to easily replace lithium batteries in their iPhones.  Why don’t they engineer user-replaceable, snap-in batteries?  What is the most common reason people buy new iPhones?  The battery no longer keeps a charge.  This must be why the batteries are not replaceable, it would be a drain on profits.

3. There’s a saying that the only things permanent, are death and taxes.  What would you like your eulogizers to say about you, when it’s your time to go; how should your tombstone read; and even, how would you like your obituary to read?  (Sorry, kinda morbid, but making a point, leave behind a legacy — like kindness to friends and family — however small in number, or local, quality over quantity.  God and good fortune shine favorably upon kind people.)

5. If you, or someone you know, has a problem with addiction, such as with alcohol, overeating, narcotics, or gambling, help is available via proven, Twelve-Step programs.  Visit these websites for more information: Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon (if someone you know is a problem drinker), Overeaters Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gamblers Anonymous.  There are more Twelve-Step groups besides these, check your search engine for your affliction.  “Follow the program,” like “one day at a time.”

6. These are news websites without paywalls (although a few may have pay enticements): List of NPR stations; NPR website; Reuters; US News; Huffpost; USA Today; PIX11; 1010WINS; News12; ABCNews; MS NOW; CBSNews; NBCNews; The Hill; Politico; The Guardian; NY Post; Village Voice.

7. Why is Trump so intent on taxing imports, at the expense of the American consumer?  Because his billionaire buddies can ratchet up domestic prices in response to international price increases.  His new tariffs after SCOTUS striking them down, have much less to do with saving face, than with making the wealthy wealthier.

8. Speaking of taxes, why is it necessary to file a return?  Given the I.R.S. has all your tax documents on file, why do we have to report what is essentially an honesty exam?  Since the I.R.S. has to be able to verify your filing for truthfulness, they must know what you should pay in taxes.  Then why put every adult, U.S. citizen through the mill every late Winter and early Spring?  No one would have to learn when to itemize or take the standard deduction, or know the tax code.  The only problem is deductions of charitable contributions from your taxable gross income, which major league philanthropists would have to grapple with.  Or just have non-profits file their donators with the I.R.S., eliminating tax cheats.

9. When I was a young man, my father told me that in the back of our brain, is our consciousness, our knowledge of engaging life.  Outside of circumstance, we are essentially much, very much, alike.  How this arose, was that a man my father knew, noticed how when I was very young, I wasn’t afraid of strangers.  My Dad’s friend said: “He never met a stranger.”  This was in part because my Dad knew good people, and I may have noticed our similarities, not our differences.  (This story may be a bit of a conceit, but I thought it was interesting.)

10. Karen Carpenter, of The Carpenters fame, passed away at the age of 32, or did she?

11. Why do DHS Sect. Kristi Noem (ICE queen), Press Sect. Karoline Leavitt (Trump apologetics), and AG Pam Bondi (Epstein files mess, no prosecutions), all look like supermodels?  (Highlight names, and search images, with your browser.)

12. Ever hear of “Katie Johnson”?  Her lawyer filed a complaint with the F.B.I., regarding D.J. Trump.

13. Hair is not DNA evidence.  It is a follicle’s secretion, it is not made of cells containing cell-blueprint DNA.  There is no such thing as hair cells, hair cannot reproduce, like blood corpuscles can.

14. More proof that we are not just the product of random DNA mutation (as geneticists and evolutionists would propose): ...And we can talk, gees, can we talk (and enjoy music, among a million-plus other activities).

15. Economic slowdowns (such as that caused by government shutdowns), must effect the weather, and slow climate change.  Less greenhouse gas is emitted when the economy slows, travel is at a premium.  COVID-19 was another example of less use of internal combustion engines, and less emission of carbon-based, fossil fuels, and its by-product, greenhouse gases.

16. There is a book called “Silent Spring,” written by Rachel Carson.  It was about how the proliferation of DDT almost made Spring silent.  We may have another silent Spring around here, I just put a squirrel atop my hill.  The birds are not accustomed to these temps, and may join the squirrel atop the hill.  Feed the birds, become a birder, buy some birdseed, put up a bird feeder.  Just saying.

17. We have had enough, repeal 2A.  The Second Amendment kept slaves in check, a third of our Founding Fathers owned slaves, including Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, who owned upwards of one-hundred African-Americans apiece.

18. America was founded on freedom, liberty, and justice for all — such an enviable concept, the standard for the world!

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