I long for the days when each side made a genuine effort to understand one another. In any event, I always seem to prefer the ideas offered by the Democrats.

First, Thank You for creating this wonderful site.

I have been posting articles on Medium for quite a while, about 8 years (before that, I was very active on a site called Newsvine).

I don’t have very many followers and even fewer readers. Even so, I am very grateful to have a place that inspires me to write, and more importantly, exercise my aging and addled brain.

Thank You!!!

Steve Ford, AKA Malamute Man, also just Mal

Chef Balto prepares food for guests at Mal’s new restaurant… The Mute

This is obviously a very popular restaurant. There is only one table open. Oh wait… here comes someone wanting that last table.

Chic A. Dee comments to Sally Sparrow, “Hey Sally, did you see that human over there taking pictures of us bathing. Imagine the nerve… Humph!!!” Sally responds, “Yea, Chic, I saw it. Humans are so rude!”

As if the disappointment of coming in 4th, just out of a medal position, isn’t bad enough, you have devised a way to make it a hundred times more heartbreaking!

Tantalize a competitor by letting them think they won a medal, and then take it away from them snickering, “Oh sorry, our bad… we’re very sorry!” Worse yet, doing so over an absurd rule violation.

You are awarded the first-place medal for worst judgment of all time.

Disrespectfully,
Mal

In 2021 I wrote an article about Joe Manchin suggesting that he is actually a Trojan Horse, a Republican disguised as a Democrat… planted in the Democratic party to make trouble when the opportunity presents itself.

Well… He is at it again.

Joe Biden drops out of the 2024 Presidential race, a very selfless act. He did this knowing his age was going to make it difficult to win, so he put the countries needs ahead of his personal goals. Biden endorses Kamala Harris and it’s off to the races.

Now Manchin jumps into the race, knowing full well that he has no chance whatsoever to win. He is only hoping he can syphon away just enough votes from Kamala Harris to tilt the election in Trump’s favor.

Will somebody please send this guy back to Troy!!!

The challenge goes like this…
1. A “seed” word is given’
2. The author is to write a little poem in which each line of the the poem has a word in it that is comprised entirely of letters found in the “seed” word. Here are two examples that I produced, the first uses the seed word

Actualize

The second uses the seed word

Corruption

See what you can do with these words…

I came across a Medium article written by TaraElla with the title

Two Woke Critical Views on Biden vs. Trump 2024
And why some Democrats are exaggerating Biden’s troubles

It states, “…there’s the difficult task of taking ‘progressivism’ back from the ‘woke left’.”

I know my question is gonna make me look like an idiot… But I have been trying for years to understand what it means to be “woke.” I have a relative who posts on Facebook a lot, and I have asked him. He has made a genuine effort to explain it to me. But I guess I am kinda slow, cuz I still don’t really know what it is. My ideology is pretty far to the left… I am 73… My brain doesn’t work as well as it used to… The dictionary defines it in two ways…

woke

the behavior and attitudes of people who are sensitive to or concerned with social and political injustice

and

woke

the past tense of wake

e.g. “I woke up at 8:30 the morning.”

The second definition is what I have interpreted woke to mean for most of my life. Now, as near as I can tell, the new meaning is a pejorative label aimed at people who are concerned about social and political unfairness. I guess that means I am woke, cuz I am definitely concerned about social, political, and racial unfairness.

We humans manage to find every possible way to hate others, and blame others for all our difficulties.

I am a WASP, actually a WASA (White Anglo-Saxon Atheist). I have lived all over the world. I have seen many people living in absolutely crushing poverty. Most (if not all) of these people were not racially white. This helped me see how fortunate I am to have been born white, and into a family enjoying the privileges that many others do not enjoy.

While I have no wish to forego the privileges I enjoy, I want to do what I can to elevate those who have less than I have… especially those with much less. I have written several articles recounting the poverty I have seen, and my meager efforts to assuage that poverty.

Now, I suppose I should wrap up by getting back to the topic of the article I originally responded to. First, “Exaggerating Biden’s Troubles.” It really doesn’t matter where Biden is actually having cognitive difficulties on not. The problem is that the public perception is he does have cognitive difficulties.

TaraElla, you said, “If Trump wins this year, and leftist ‘leverage’ is considered a factor in that result.” WHAT??? “Leftist leverage” How are us lefties helping Trump? This is an all hands on deck moment! We lefties are Trumps fiercest opponents! I certainly don’t expect to get any of my lefty ideas, but we, left — right — and center need to band together to ensure that Trump’s influence ends… forever!!!

I CAN remember playing at the age of 4 with my toy trucks in our sandy back yard in Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

I CAN’T remember whether I fed the dog or not this evening.

I CAN remember playing outside in a torrential downpour when we were living in the Manilla.

I CAN’T remember where I left my car keys.

I CAN remember practicing Christmas Carols incessantly when I was in third grade in the Canary Islands.

I CAN’T remember where I left my cellphone.

I CAN remember getting to sit on the pilot’s lap as a young boy to pretend I was flying the airplane when we were traveling overseas.

I CAN’T remember what I am supposed to get at the grocery store, cuz I lost my list.

I CAN remember Crossing the Atlantic in 1960 on the QE I.

I CAN’T remember whether I started the dishwasher or not. And because I always wash them by hand first, I can’t tell by whether they look clean or not.

I CAN remember three years as a kid wearing a brace on my right leg.

I CAN’T remember whether I took my regiment of pills or not. Thank God for those daily pill organizers.

I CAN remember playing at the age of 4 with my toy trucks…

Oh wait… I forgot that I already said that! Sigh

I hear a loud chorus of pundits saying it was Joe Biden. Well, sadly I don’t think President Biden’s performance was very good.

Trump, gave a different kind of bad performance. Actually, it was a very typical Trump performance, full of lies and distortions.

But there was one clear standout as the worst!!!!!

The Moderators!!!!!!!!!!!

Good grief!!!! That was the worst moderation… well, if you can even call it moderation… EVER!!! Actually, there was NO moderation. They didn’t even need to have people on stage posing the questions. A large TV screen would would have worked just as well as those “moderators.”

Every morning I grab a cup of coffee, a handful of doggy treats… for maya… not for me… even though I am a dog wannabe…

Then I sit down to read the news… It is so discouraging… It is ALL BAD news… Well… not ALL bad, but mostly bad news.

• The various wars
• The ideological hatred
• The economic disparity
• The racial hatred
• The same-sex relationship hatred
• The religious hatred
• Bigotry

We humans manage to find every imaginable way to hate, disparage and attack one another.

Other creatures attack each other too, but the lion does not attack the leopard just because he doesn’t like his spots. For non-human creatures they attack only for basic survival. But we humans, we find every imaginable reason to hate, disparage, attack, and suppress one another. We spend so much of our emotional energy in negatives activities.

But other creatures manage to find good will for those who are different.

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