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The Pilgrims

 Isn't it odd that a political party would run a one term, defeated candidate against the man who beat him (soundly) once already? And that that second-place finisher, angry at his loss, would have gone on to try a futile, half-assed, violent coup against his country in a ridiculous attempt to change the election outcome and to stay in power; and then run again as if it were normal? That's the stuff of South American or Eastern European countries. In what point in US world history had that made sense or even hinted at happening? Crazy, huh? Yet we have moved on from the ugly events of January sixth as if were just a blip on the radar of democracy. Had it even really happened? Are we sure? Well, thanks to the perpetrator himself we know damn well it happened because he won't shut up about it. With no proof whatsoever, he continues to complain that the 2020 election was *stollen* from him and that the winner- Joseph R. Biden- had been an illegal president, having hijacked the...
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Is This Really Happening?

 We the people are getting regularly chastised these days for not taking the Trump shitshow seriously enough. Many think we should be in the streets fighting ICE and spilling blood instead of getting all excited about college and pro football seasons commencing. Your Ferrerman doesn't really give a shit about college ball, so what's my excuse? Well, I think it is that, even after over ten years of Trump's idiocy, I still find it hard to grasp that billionaires and warped think-tankers would set out in this century to destroy a perfectly OK country like the United States, for fun and profit. Seriously, who does that and why? Historically, revolution, communism or fascism come to the most desperate of countries, not the good ones. You only need to look at Russia, China and Cuba to see how they had no choice but to fight, because they had nothing to lose but their lives. They had been pushed that far.  We haven't been pushed that far yet, I think because we still can't...
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I Don't Hate You. Did You Want Me to?

 Who do you hate? Is the number too many to list or might it be so basic that you are almost embarrassed to say because it's like "Black people, libs, the transgenders...", as per the usual suspects of our nation's primary hate group, the maga republicans? I have to tell you, I hate but one person in life, and that is Donald Fucking Trump.  Now, don't confuse me with Jesus H. Christ with just the one flaw. I don't like a plethora of people for a myriad of reasons. It's just that Trump is the only one on earth I can think of- having thought things through- that I cannot have compassion for despite my level of contempt. And I've been married twice, to two truly awful women! I got some bona fides! I analyze things and people in life to understand not only where I went wrong, but where they  went wrong, whether with me or in their lives. This may not work for you, but it does work for me. I definitely have been told I'm wrong to do this, spend too much...
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The Rest of Us

 Watched a "Soft, White Underbelly" video about a man who escaped from the clutches of John Wayne Gacy, as a young teen. Being of the Chicago area, I've heard of close calls with Gacy for decades, most of which were after the fact and of the nature of: "I ran across this creepy guy, and he turned out to be JOHN WAYNE CACY!" Probably true, but you never know. People like to make themselves main characters and even supporting characters at times. What was interesting about this episode was, it had happened hundreds of miles away from Gacy's usual hunting ground around Chicago. This took place in a state park in Kentucky. And the guy met Gacy there twice in three years. What was this suburban Chicago area contractor doing way down in Kentucky? As he told the boy when he met him, he was "visiting friends". You really have to wonder who those friends were.  Gacy had a lot of friends all over the country, purportedly, friends with the same interests in b...
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We Still Got This

 Let's face it: communism is the last refuge of a failed state. Look at Russia after the Czars. China after the Dynasties. Cuba after the mafia. People get tired of being the majority poor to great wealth, and it's not hard to then accept the concept of everyone being equal, in the same boat, with the same chances in life. It fucking never works out that way, but I at least, can see the attraction in the desperation. It's like the bosses I've had that thought they were clever in saying: "Let's do something, even if it's wrong". Communism is very (and always) wrong, but sometimes the only choice people have after a bloody revolution, and it's always all that they can afford.   In America the republican/maga party is making an insane, comical push to paint democrats as "communists". They do this, to deflect from the fact that they are fascists. Both fascism and communism are extremes in the political sphere and not easy sells in successful ...
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You Can't Beat It

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 When I'm not watching hockey fights on YouTube, my go to for REELS is women's college softball. The REELS are usually set to John Fogartey's "Put Me in Coach" (which fits like a glove) or Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" which doesn't fit but has a good beat and is easy to dance to- at least for him. The REELS are short, but they include dancing in with the exceptional plays. Yeah, I like the dancing, but these ladies play damn good baseball. They know what they're doing. They know how to play the game. It's a smaller field than MLB, of course; 60' between the bases (compared to 90') and the pitcher's mound isn't a mound at all, but a flat circle of dirt, 35-43' from home plate. This is fast pitch underhand of an 11" softball, reaching speeds up to 77mph. Life does come at you fast! The players tend to be very attractive, fit women whom you might look at and think, "Oh, she could be a ...
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I'm Completely Sirius Here

 Over the past few months, the reception in my truck's radio had been spotty. I don't do a lot of serious driving these days, so I didn't hurry to remedy it. I reasonably figured it might be an antenna problem and ordered a new, sleeker, cooler one hoping that might be the cure. Thought then about a new radio. It's an older truck, came from the factory with SiriusXM- the subscription to had long since lapsed- but I thought I might check into that in the near future. I was right about that. Saw a deal from SiriusXM a few days ago where I could get 3 months for $1. How could I not? That wouldn't solve my local station problem, but maybe it would replace it.  I got on YouTube and found a couple few videos that were specific to my truck and my dilemma. Turned out it was a common problem. The videos showed how easy it was to access the radio by removing the portion of the console that housed it. I feared exploratory surgery until I saw the videos and they showed me how e...
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