politics
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Update 12/21/2025
Does Trump support the troops? Note: He has called them “suckers and losers.” And, his VA eyeing 35,000 health care job cuts, drawing rebuke from veterans’ groups. ……………………. Trump, about the Brown University shooting: “Things can happen.” Trump, about murder of Rob Reiner and wife: “He caused anger with his Trump Derangement Syndrome.” When Charlie Continue reading
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Update 12/14/2025
Dad Joke: Why don’t oysters donate to charity? Because they’re shellfish. ………………….. The Supreme Court says it will decide on Trump’s ability to deny birthright citizenship. This is clear in the Constitution. Of course, other things have been too, and ignored by SCOTUS. …………………. The Trump administration removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth Continue reading
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Update 12/07/2025
President Donald Trump granted clemency to David Gentile, a private equity executive, after he was convicted of defrauding thousands of victims in a $1.6 billion scheme. Gentile, 59, was granted clemency just a few days into his seven-year prison sentence, according to The New York Times. Well, dear reader, don’t you just know he had Continue reading
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Update 11/30/2025
Didja Know Dept.: “America (My Country ‘Tis of Thee)” uses the same melody as that of the British national anthem, “God Save The Queen.” And: “The Star-Spangled Banner”: Its melody is the same as the 18th-century British tune “To Anacreon in Heaven,” which was originally a song for a gentlemen’s club and was not originally Continue reading
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Update 11/23/2025
I knew that Ireland was officially neutral in WWII, but I did not know this: About 5,000 soldiers changed from the Irish Army to the British to fight Hitler. When home, they were ostracized. The government outlawed hiring them, even printed booklets with their names and addresses so no one would hire them. Many had Continue reading
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