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Month: January 2025

GOLD BAR BOB

Published by Richard Kimball on January 29, 2025

In a normal world someone standing at the apex of political power going to prison for 11 years would saturate the news. After all, Bob Menendez was charged with leading foreign-policy, and overseeing billions in foreign aid, the sale of arms to foreign powers, holding confirmation hearings, NOT the cash discovered stuffed in his boots and pockets or the gold bars anointing him with his nick name.

I have witnessed such sliminess at every level both as a Congressional staffer, State Senator, Corporation Commissioner, a non-profit leader, and as me.

Sometimes the payouts were enormous from those willing and able to dip the largest shovels into special interest public projects.

While others just getting started get their beaks wet with offers of free trips, premium seating or just some movie tickets.   I loved movies, and although I refused all others, I went to see a few free films.

It is a cycle, little known, little written about, but contagious with those elected.  You grow a big head; think you are somehow worthwhile and more deserving than those that voted for you.

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TRUMP IS LEMON REFRESHING

Published by Richard Kimball on January 25, 2025

He does whatever he can to do, what he said he would do, legal, illegal, everything and anything that can be done to do what he promised.  Can you name a single other President willing to do so much for what he said he believed?

What a different world it would be if Obama, Bush or even Clinton had the mind set to be so craven and committed to their cause as is Trump.

If precedent, the rule of law, decency and conscience is going to be so thoroughly trashed, I wish it had been trashed by a President concerned with issues like global warming, an educated citizenry, health care, insurance companies, or just a love of people struggling to become part of this glorious achievement we call America, just as my ancestors and yours likely did.

It is as if a nincompoop stumbled into the Pitt of Endless Disenchantment where eons of candidate elected promises have gone withered and died and came out still simple and with a simpleton’s idea:  I am going to bust ass, on my absurdities, right or wrong and see if we (or I) get traction.

He will find great success, his number of supporters will continue to grow as “America First” takes root and finds purchase, up and until Americans discover they aren’t part of his America.

Richard Kimball

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“THE CHOOSEN,”

Published by Richard Kimball on January 22, 2025

 So says the Bible ! 

Majestic elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado’s highest court said.

The ruling from their Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat when  Happy, Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jubo, pursued a long-held legal process for prisoners challenging their detention in an effort to reduce sentence and live in an elephant sanctuary instead.

The Colorado court said its decision does not turn on our regard for these majestic animals, but because an elephant is not a person, they do not have standing. Thus as Isaiah 46:9 suggests: For we are the chosen and there is no other like us on earth!

So, it goes for the 680 vertebrate creations that have gone extinct and the 4,300 others – mammals, fish, birds and amphibians that have declined from human greed these past 50 years.

“His work is perfect,” says the bible even as we dismantle it, setting ourselves on the throne of judgement.

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CAPTURE THE FLAG

Published by Richard Kimball on January 19, 2025

NO LONGER A CHILD’S GAME

We were all put on notice by those that knew him best:

His Vice President, Mike Pence: “Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”

His Attorney General, Bill Barr: He “shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”Enter your email to sign up for CNN’s “What Matters” Newsletter.

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His  Secretary of Defense, James Mattis: “He tries to divide us.”

His Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office.”

 His Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley,  “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”

His Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson: “His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of US history was really limited.”.

 His Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley: “A terrible thing happened on January 6 and he called it a beautiful day.”

 His National Security Adviser, HR McMaster: “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”

 His National Security Adviser, John Bolton: “I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”

 His Chief of Staff, John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law… God help us.”

 His Acting Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”

 His Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”

 His Communications Director, Stephanie Grisham: “I am terrified of him running in 2024.”

 His Homeland Security Adviser, Tom Bossert: .He “is an utter disgrace.”

 His White House lawyer, Ty Cobb: “Trump relentlessly puts forth claims that are not true.”

 His top aide in charge of his outreach to African Americans, Omarosa Manigault Newman: ” I could no longer be a part of this madness.”

Every thinking American: “THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE!”

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GONE ARE WE

Published by Richard Kimball on January 15, 2025

If you are old, or as in the eyes of a teenager, about dead old, pitied, if cared about at all, you might remember stories from long ago parents: the miles walked to school, the starving children of China, the unfortunate pagan babies of Africa or just the garbage you could buy labeled, “Made in Japan.”

If you really get into those long-gone times, you might remember the joy found with an old board and a few nails making your palace in the trees, or one made from boards, sticks and rock dug into the dirt.  You might recall playing chaises with marbles and capturing someone’s prized steely, maybe demonstrating your turn around skills at Hopscotch, jump rope, or being cast off a merry-go-round, or that time jumping off a titer toter that seemed a good idea, maybe that swing where your mind sailed you to a new Olympic distance record.

Perhaps you can close your eyes and think back when it was too cold or wet outside, so you made do with that cozy little in-door house your parents let you create out of cushions, pillows, sheets and towels.

Playing house, dressing up in parents’ clothes come to mind.  Girls played hopscotch, jacks and jump rope while boys, if not playing football or basketball, found delight in who just farted or just some good long-distance spitting.

 For me, I add a kitchen knife and a game of splits, or  seeing what I could do to a stone with my dad’s eight iron.  

There was kite flying, bicycling with playing cards clipped in the spokes or just being Robin Hood with a tree branch and OH GOD his bow and arrow. Stevie Bogard, my best friend and I couldn’t hit a living thing that wasn’t a plant that Christmas morning with our new bows. When frustration set in, I challenged him to who could send an arrow the highest without a thought of its return trip when we panicked slamming into each as the arrows plunked into the dirt.

Our childhoods were stuffed with our imagination, glories won and lessons learned in a cacophony of gregarious social interactions.

ALL NOW GONE AND REPLACED:

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IN THE END A HORSE’S ASS

Published by Richard Kimball on January 11, 2025

I always wanted to be her hero, her knight errant off on the road to right all wrongs, vanquishing any detractor, asserting my love month after month, year after year, to win her. I felt my efforts knew no end, no plan too distant, no event to extreme, just a perfect knight exemplar fighting her every foe to win her love.  In all, a life well lived only to find at its end, I was no knight. To her I had been, always been, damaged goods. I was to her not a hero, but a grief.

Such a blow one cannot bear.

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I AM HEADED TO JAIL?

Published by Richard Kimball on January 10, 2025

I was young in 1974 when President Ford granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Richard Nixon.

I thought that first punch in the face that we are NOT ALL CREATED EQUAL a freak occurrence!

Some have wealth, some do not.

Some wealthy earned it, some did not.

 Some have little but worked like dogs.

Some have nothing and did nothing.

What time has taught me is that what makes us equal is that none of us are equal under the rules of law.

Trump is not, you are not. There is not a single other one of us that would not be headed to jail this very day!

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THE TALK

Published by Richard Kimball on January 5, 2025

As the word penis came out of her mouth, I would have willingly stretched out underneath an elephant turd and hoped its owner would take a step on it.

When a widowed mother asks a 13-year-old Catholic boy to take a seat “for the BIG TALK,” low organs will crinkle up into raisins frantically looking for somewhere they won’t exist.

It was some years earlier that my older brother Bobby, flatly stated, “Dad put his penis in Mom’s pussy and because of that I came out.”

“NO, NO! Say it isn’t so!”

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BUCKLE UP: GOING TO BE A BUMPY YEAR!

Published by Richard Kimball on January 4, 2025

LIKE TITANIC WE CALMLY SET SAIL WITHOUT BINOCULARS

Good people with thoughtful hearts seldom recognize how horrible an event can be and when they do, most sit frozen, drop jawed, as their heart is slowly eaten.

Titanic, The Gulf war, Deep Water Horizon, Pearl Harbor, Challenger, Chernobyl are amongst the many sufferings that could have been avoided if our better angels were heeded.

Now the most odious flight of all is about to take wing. As it has slimmed its way above to lord over us all, those saddened, thoughtful hearts hide in the cracks dreaming that lucidity and sanity will magically reappear.

No massive demonstrations planned, no public outrage evident, “Brownshirts” have won the day and there will be Hell to pay.

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