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For Your Amusement: THE FOOL ON THE HILL
Day after DayAlone on a HillThe man with the Foolish Grin is Keeping Perfectly Still After a rise in the number of cases of COVID-19 in the states, and more importantly a similar drop in the stock market and poll numbers for THE DJT, the President determined the outbreak may not be a hoax. Earlier this week, he went on TV and announced due to his superior strategy of cutting off travel to China, Americans were at less risk than the rest of the world. But Nobody wants to Know HimThey can see that he’s just a FoolAnd He never gives an Answer Then, he promptly announced a thirty day…
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For Your Amusement: IT’S A HOAX
I’m sure you were relieved twhen The DJT told everyone last week the truth about the coronavirus. IT’S A HOAX perpetrated by the Democrats to bring him down. You may have grown a bit concerned when he handed off the ball to Vice President Pence over the weekend. But don’t be concerned, that’s just to cover all the bases. In reality, all this medical mumbo jumbo doesn’t matter because IT’S A HOAX. We know we can trust The DJT because when he insisted his predecessor prove he was born in the US, he took one look at his Hawaiian birth certificate and proclaimed IT’S A HOAX. When The DJT claimed…
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How to Be an Author: THINK LIKE A READER
For the past two weeks I’ve been sick with what the doctor called walking pneumonia. Between the wheezing, coughing and attempting to catch my breath, I haven’t been doing too much walking. It’s also difficult to concentrate, when your body gyrates from the explosive convulsion of impacted lungs. Without concentration, I’ve found my ability to write has been limited to blogging twice a week and attempting to write a few words in my journal each day. My journal is for my eyes only (Believe me, there’s nothing there you’d want to see.). As the title above suggests and as I’ve written about previously, it is important for writers to be…
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For Your Amusement: INTELLIGENCE
Last week our President, The DJT fired Admiral Joe Maguire, his acting Department of National Intelligence director, who he had appointed after firing Dan Coats the previous DNI director three days after the infamous “perfect call” with the newly elected president of Ukraine. The removal came after a House Intelligence committee was briefed by the DNI on Russia’s efforts to influence the 2020 elections. It was reported The DJT unloaded on Maguire when he learned they were told the Russians wanted him re-elected. He didn’t have any problem with the DNI Intelligence that said the Russians were trying to help Bernie Sanders win the Democratic nomination. But The DJT insists…
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How to Be an Author: THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
When I was growing up I didn’t know any authors. My parents vocations–my father was a firefighter and my mother sold Avon and Tupperware or worked at a number of federal government jobs depending upon the year–didn’t provide a lot of opportunity for rubbing elbows with those scratching out a living by writing. To make matters worse, my elementary school didn’t even have a library. We did have a bookmobile that came around a couple of times a month. To check out a book and discover a new author I’d climb up a couple of steps into what looked like a converted Greyhound Bus and walk down a narrow aisle…
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For Your Amusement: TOTALLY EXONERATED or HOW TO WIN REANOINTMENT
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Our Fearless Leader aka DJT had a perfect phone conversation with his fellow former TV star turned president. We know the ungrateful immigrant colonel along with the disloyal ambassador who only gave a million dollars to the inaugural anointment of DJT were part of the Deep State, which conspired with the dangerous Democrats to drag DJT through the dirt. With his acquittal in the U.S. Senate and TOTAL EXONERATION comes the opportunity to rejoice at the firing of these men and the soldier’s brother. As our undisputed choice to be Leader of the Free World, he is within his…
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How to be an Author: KEEP GOING
One thing every writer does on a daily basis is write and read. We write because we were born to write. Yes, we’re compelled to do it. It’s innate, like Springsteen’s rebel who was Born to Run. There’s no getting away from it. When a writer is not writing he, she, or whatever gender identification or non-identification thinks about writing. Almost all writers reflect elements, styles, techniques, characteristics, attributes, permutations and imitations garnered from other writers. While a conscious effort may arise as a way of expressing appreciation or admiration for a certain writer, more often any similarities come from the subconscious mind. This occurs because, like the audience for…
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For Your Amusement: IT’S THE BUDGET STUPID!
My high school economics teacher was a proud fiscal conservative. He talked about how he never spent money he didn’t have. Setting aside money in a savings or investment account came first in his budget. Paying for necessities like food, shelter and clothing came next. Extravagant purchases, such as luxury automobiles, required disciplined saving. Interest on debt, whether personal, business or government was to be avoided. Needless to say, I’ve followed the advice of my economics teacher to the letter and have amassed millions of dollars–Not! I have stuck to my budget and the only debt my wife and I have besides our mortgage is for three and a half…
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How to Be an Author: CONFIDENCE
Three weeks ago at the last meeting of the Southern California Writers Association, Christopher Reich, the author of Numbered Account and a dozen other best selling thrillers, told us that the number one ingredient to become a writer is confidence. You must believe in what you write. Of course, a little luck and the right connections might help, too. Take for example his story of how he got his agent. A family member worked at an ad agency where James Patterson was his boss. Patterson read Reich’s manuscript and got his agent to represent him. Still, it took him 9 months to sell his first book–for which he received a…
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For Your Amusement: GIDOVAIT
It has come to my attention that while the popularity of The Soprano’s FUHGEDDABOUDIT (forget about it) has waned, there has been a proportional response with Mick Mulvaney (the President’s acting Chief of Staff)’s GIDOVAIT (get over it). A review of the credibility of such an assertion is appropriate given tonight’s State of the Union address, tomorrow’s assured acquittal on the articles of impeachment, and the Democrats flub of the Iowa caucus as the result of a poorly launched app. First up on the agenda will be the ever popular question of whether or not you’re better off than you were four years ago? The stock market has doubled. Has…
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