Author: Richard Kimball

Mom, widowed and worried, couldn’t afford it, but there I stood in front of the greatest present I ever received or ever would receive.

A week earlier in a hardware store, while she was purchasing a screwdriver, I stood transfixed over the most beautiful sight a 13-year-old boy in 1962 could behold: A shiny red and white go-cart, sale price: $125.

Everything about it sparkled and said lightning fast, out of reach, and beyond hope.

But there it was on my 14^th birthday. Not sure why Mom did it and in likely remorse, went through the rules: NEVER ON THE STREET, NEVER ALONE, NEVER ON THE STREET, NEVER AFTER DARK, NEVER ON THE STREET, DID YOU HEAR ME? “NEVER ON THE STREET!”

I was taking it for a spin around our circular driveway when my best friend, Stevie Bogard showed up asking if he could give it a go.  When he was done doing a couple of laps he got out and said we should have races.

“Huh?”

“My big brother just welded together pieces of a rusty bed frame with our old washing machine’s engine,” he told me.

Glancing down at my sleek beauty, I said, “Sure maybe I could tow you around.”

Ya! You guessed it, a day later, on the forbidden street we lined them up, my beauty against a nasty, rusty, pile of ear-splitting, homemade junk.

And just thus, life’s early lessons are learned.

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This week, when asked if there were any limits on his global powers, Trump said, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

To ensure he can do what he wants he just demanded a $1.5 trillion military budget, a 60% increase he will force you to pay for.

Make no mistake, an American that supports this, is no longer an American but an enemy of all that America has stood for.  Government OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people is seeing its end.

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As a Christians we know how humble, kind, loving, tolerant, understanding and forgiving Jesus was.  That is why we hold our President is such high esteem, a man who mirrors our savior and foreshadows his Second Coming!

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The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, has dumped PBS, saying thanks for sending us Sesame Street, Antiques Road Show, NewsHour, Nova, Downton Abbey, All Creatures Great and Small and Ken Burns, but Arkansans will waste no time watching them.

Public media, which MAGA says spreads views adverse to American cultural values draws first blood in a state U. S. News and World Report rates as 48^th in educational achievement.

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Not a single major news outlet knows.  Not a single story? Not an update or mention, he is just gone.

Mass pedophilia over the decades made boring, just like that.

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Websters defines such correctness as “a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities should be eliminated.”

The wave of injustice that washed so much slime over correctness you hear about it no more?  Being a kind, thoughtful, polite and considerate, a listener of anyone thinking, feeling or acting differently than you, correctness, may have its year in 2026.

AMERICA 2025

Abandoning allies – OK

Supporting dictators – OK

Separating parents from their children – OK

Global warming – A HOAX

Putting political opponents in prison – OK

Protecting pedophiles – OK

Overturning government – OK

Ending USAID and 400 thousand children  — OK

Sending citizens into gulags – OK

Ending the Department of Education — OK

Trashing schools, businesses and law firms not bending a knee – OK

Building monuments to yourself – OK

Ending Inspector General’s protections of you – OK

Vaccines that have saved over 150 million lives – A HOAX

Separation of powers – sleeping soundly

Yet at year’s end We The People are finally catching up. Election losses, court losses and Trump polls down by 17 points.

Happy New Year – Bring it on!

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Dimly understood tariffs are the way to go? Trade war Increases costs which increases prices and who cries uncle first, losses.

In a democracy one group or another will always cry first. After all, we are a democracy and even those who would be last in line for a handout, farmers, can cry.

So, Monday, those producers of soybeans, corn, cattle and the like will stand behind Trump for a handout.

Only Trump and his family who are making new millions in deals won’t pay the bill. Those paying the hire costs will be forced to belly up, and that would be you in the price of groceries and now those dollars you handed over in taxes last year to the farmers who never would have needed them.

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As you pass, wish a good morning to a few people you don’t know.

Let that car cut in front of you with a smile and wave of your hand.

If she was kind, helpful and thoughtful with a smile on her face, give her a tip she won’t soon forget.

Pick up that bit of trash when you walk by it.

Don’t just pay for your burger. Pay for that one for the fellow in the car behind you.

Give that guy huddled in the cold, sitting on the curb in his filthy clothes a few bucks, maybe your coat or even a job.

Surprise someone you care for with a gift. Not on their birthday or holiday, just an ordinary day.

Give that bug caught in the pool, struggling for life, a lift out.

Embarrass the one you love by loudly proclaiming that love when you see her at the far end of a hall full of strangers.

I have done all these things, yet not one was an original idea.

It is the one contagion you can catch and pass on, that makes Thanksgiving what it should be: An everyday occurrence.

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Even MAGA will pass.

Most that read my blog are politicos, or at least people flogging themselves with the political filth of our day.

Smart, experienced, and locked-in, they recognize what is trash long before it is bagged and taken to the dump.

Most citizens are not so focused, just concerned about their lives and those around them.

Thankfully they eventually catch up, as they did last Tuesday.

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The happiest, most contented people I have ever known are those who focus on others. The ones that find pleasure in giving, encouraging, supporting others, even some who devote their lives struggling to do the right thing, make the world they found at birth, better by the time of their death.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The negative always focuses on oneself, finds faults in others and rejects responsibility.

Both positive minds and negative ones are contagious, even taught, so choose positive, supportive and happy.  Positive minds produce positive lives, while negative ones produce negative ones.

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So, use tricks!

Generally, my most successful tricks preparing for a new day include standing my toothbrush in my prescription bottle, placing my appointments Post-it on my wallet and my car keys in my coffee cup.

If I am seriously worried about an important event, I will put a book, glass or maybe my shoes where they shouldn’t be as a morning get up reminder.

Warning: that last one can have unintended consequences for those of us that multi-pee each night, the tripping time might not be just right.

Instead, you might try placing some large object that can’t be missed clearly out of place elsewhere and hope a significant other doesn’t correct your “stupidity” before you get a chance to stumble upon it.

Oh Ya! And when it comes to turning on the stove or hose, get serious. Use your phone alarm less charcoal or that cruise turned into a water bill is to your liking.

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The Ryder Cup, golf’s most prestigious team competition, where the best in golf from Europe, compete against the best America has to offer.

A difficult sport that tests patience, control and the mind, rather than brute force athleticism.

Even our President and golf aficionado, appeared to the thunderous accolades of a supportive American crowd.

A crowd that then followed his “America First” agenda, chanting “f%@k you” at the opposition. Screaming as the Europeans tried to take a shot. Even hitting their star’s wife with a perfectly pitched container of beer when she appeared to try and support her husband.

Tom Watson, one of America’s golf greats and our former Ryder Cup captain: “I am ashamed.”

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I was 6, maybe 7 when I learned what a great university was, and its name was Stanford.

Sitting in our game room playing Fish with my best friend, I heard that name. “We can become another Stanford of the west,” my father said, not to me, but to a best friend sitting at the bar.

His friend happened to be the President of the University of Arizona (U of A). He and my dad, once their lawyer, was now Majority Leader of the State Senate and filling the idea with the needed funds.

30 years later, as a State Senator myself, I looked back on their time.

The U of A went from 5,700 students to 26,500.

Growing from 1,100 faculty to 7,500, continually increasing faculty time per student (Stanford).

In their time, ballooning resource and facilities the U of A became a nationally recognized institution and were well on their way.

That was just over 50 years ago.

Last week, the U of A was passed by another 18 universities, dropping to 127^th in national rankings.  

Stanford’s ranking? #4.

Tis no matter, a $285,000 BONUS was awarded the U of A president for his efforts or his attendance.  Not sure which.

Follow the money at your school!

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My wife once led an effort to do oral histories of old timers, the movers and shakers of yesteryear.

I decided to help out, but not with aging movers and shakers of times gone by. 

I started with my barber Johnny Gibson. Johnny had learned his trade as a member of the 101^st Airborne during World War II chopping the locks of those he served with, including the buddy he got shot down with behind enemy lines.

They squirreled together in the rubbled remains of a house for days. Without food they finally made a break for it, back through German lines.

Somehow, they both survived, and Johnny would keep cutting locks at his local shop, becoming the most popular barber in town.

Many years later Johnny had enough money to take a trip back east, see some of the sights he’d missed on his way to war.

In New York, he dropped in to say hello to his old friend from the rubble but was sternly stopped by a matron insisting that he was far to busy to receive any unscheduled guests.

“Well,” Johnny said, “Please, just let him know that Johnny Gibson stopped by to say hello,” and then walked out the door and on down 5^th Avenue.

Two blocks down the road, he could hear his name being screamed as his old buddy came blasting out his store door.

“JOHNNY, JOHNNY WHERE ARE YOU!”

Johnny turned around to see who it was.

Charles Louise Tiffany and he spent the next two days touring New York City.

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