“One way or the other,” meaning win or lose, 2024 will be his last presidential campaign, Trump said in a TV interview aired on Sunday, September 22, 2024 (read story here). Trump, who will be 82 in November 2028, is already showing signs of physical and mental deterioration during the 2[...]
Archive for September, 2024
Gov. Daniel J. Evans (1925-2024)
Daniel J. Evans was an old-fashioned Republican, who personified the ideal of what a politician should be. Born in 1925, he had a glowing resume. Descended from a politically prominent family that migrated to the Washington Territory before the Civil War, he grew up in Seattle, was an Eagle Scout, [...]
Vance blames his kid for the plague
J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, wants to compel America’s women to be housewives and produce children (so America’s businesses can fill jobs without immigrants), but he despises his own kids. It was already reported that when Trump called Vance to offer him the veep nominat[...]
September 21st, 2024 - 3:43 pm § in Environment, Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ocean front homes
This is what happens when people build homes where they have no business putting them. Read here about insurance. This photo was taken at Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, North Carolina, in September 2024; some debris from this collapsed home was found the next day over 20 miles away. In my opinion,[...]
September 21st, 2024 - 11:54 am § in Law and Courts
Why do people shoot at cops?
For many reasons, so there’s no single answer. In today’s case study, the shooter was drunk, and acted spontaneously. It started when a neighbor of Joel Berck Young (photo, left), 63, of Maple Falls, Washington, burned trash and the smoke went into Young’s home. Enraged, Young conf[...]
September 21st, 2024 - 11:13 am § in Politics
Why Harris isn’t more accessible to the press
“As journalists, we obviously care about media coverage and how much access reporters have to her. She is tracking well behind Trump and JD Vance in press conferences and interviews. What is the strategy here?” That’s a question that journalist Eugene Daniels, Politico’s Whit[...]
September 21st, 2024 - 12:28 am § in Politics, Republicans
Republicans don’t like elections
They’re suing to purge voter rolls. CNN reports, “As of Tuesday, at least three dozen cases related to voter rolls … are pending in 19 states” (read story here). A voting rights lawyer called it an “assault” on voter registrations and voter lists. CNN added, “Questioning the accurac[...]
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September 20th, 2024 - 7:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot!”
That’s what Kamala Harris said in her Oprah interview, but she later walked it back, calling it a joke. But it’s no joke. Harris lives at Number One Observatory Circle (details here, photo below), the vice president’s official residence, and if somebody breaks in, they’ll get[...]
J. D. Vance is lying about Haitians
J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, is asserting he has a right to “tell stories” about Haitian immigrants. He’s carrying out his party’s campaign strategy, which is what veep candidates typically do. Republicans have made immigrant-bashing a centerpiece of their 20[...]