FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

On September 11, 2001, I was leading a crew of Ratmo painters in the remodeling of the 6th floor of The Ridgeway Hotel, in Memphis Tn. It was Tuesday and we were in good shape, having until that Friday to finish the job. The powers that be were debating whether to remodel all six floors or tear it down and rebuild from scratch.  I think it was heading up on breaktime when one of my guys told me to look at the TV because a plane had hit a building in New York City. I remember assuming that it was probably a small plane, likely tragic pilot error. How else could that happen?  With televisions on in every room, we watched the drama unfold in real-time while we went about our work. We soon learned it was an airliner that hit the World Trade Center; The Twin Towers. How the fuck does that happen? Who makes a mistake like that? What a tragic accident!  Then the second plane hit the second tower. This was no accident. We were watching a nightmare unfold. Soon the bosses came in ...

 Allow me to explain the vast difference between a democratic form of government and a republic. It may take a while. Might blow some minds. Here we go: "Democracy is government where the people decide laws and leadership directly or through participation, while a republic is government where power rests with the people but is exercised through elected representatives. In the modern United States , it’s accurate to say it is both." Huh. Sounds like looking at identical twins to see which one is prettiest. If I had to choose which system we have here in the US, I would say it's a republic, and according to most all the experts I'd be right. YAY! A democracy sounds a bit more hands on perhaps, but a republic sounds just as busy, but without all the personal involvement of every damn citizen, all the damn time. You don't have to vote on every fucking thing. That is up to the representatives in both systems ultimately anyways. So, same thing; not really different, ...

 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...

 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...

 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...

 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...