Finally, we wake up and it is October 2020. It is the last full month before the November General Election and here we are. Many of us are getting that giddy feeling like we can see light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Just about all of us felt this way in the…
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Embracing who and what we are
As summer eases into autumn, we find ourselves six weeks away from what is described by all accounts as “the most important Presidential election of our lifetime!” No doubt the November 3rd General Election looms large ahead of us in the midst of the sinister miasma known as year 2020 CE, but that doesn’t mean…
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Five years ago I commemorated the 70th anniversary of this event with a much of which was dedicated to the service and sacrifice of those whose collective efforts made the end result of the greatest conflagration of the 20th Century possible. True to the title of that entry, I also commented at length regarding America’s…
Continue ReadingFact & fiction about elections, voters & fraud
Voting is the one activity essential to a functional and vibrant democracy. A government dedicated to upholding the first fundamental principle of a democratic society religiously holds periodic free and fair elections where all eligible among the governed have unobstructed access to electing their leaders. Democracy works best when all constituents involve themselves in the…
Continue ReadingRespecting the one in charge
We are well into Summer 2020 and the worst fears of Yours Truly and so many others are coming to fruition in the ugliest of ways. Thanks to weak, misguided or otherwise absent competence in leadership, the USA now leads the entire World in the total number of Covid-19 cases and fatalities! Anyone who claims…
Continue ReadingTulsa: Ground Zero aftermath
June 2020 has arrived and forget the fact we have a local Primary Election on the month’s last day. Unrelated events and their fallout have been coming at us fast and furious. Chief among these has been a surge in Covid-19 cases as the state and city “re-opens” and mitigation strategy has been weakly encouraged…
Continue ReadingRequiem for a declining nation
All democracy is a work in progress. So long as human beings are in charge, all things administered by them will be subject to their frailties and subsequent failings. Many social and political endeavors instituted by visionary men and women have sought to exemplify and amplify all that is good in their species only to…
Continue ReadingSelf-isolating in the rubble of a failed Republic
It certainly didn’t take much to bring down our vaunted House of Cards. Anyone with the slightest bit of foresight within the big picture has understood even before this President announced his candidacy nearly five years ago that we were all basking in the glory of a fool’s paradise. The frustrating part of this whole…
Continue ReadingNavigating through the surreal, unreal and uncharted
Credibility is the currency of leadership. Honesty fosters trust. Adherence to universally accepted facts, even when they do not serve an agenda, commands respect. Believable statements and coherent reasoning by a leader makes them easy to follow. An easy to follow leader instills confidence in all those subject to their decision making. It bodes well…
Continue ReadingA nation of normalized corruption
If you have ever found yourself in the unfortunate circumstance of being in a toxic and dysfunctional relationship characterized by daily physical and/or verbal abuse, public humiliation, intimidation, deceit, infidelity, impropriety at your expense and outright hostility to the point of being in a constant state of fear or anxiety, you know better than most…
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