Author: Richard Kimball

Raising your hand in class! I had actually seen other people do this. I could not understand what compelled them to jump off such a cliff, but they did. Some like Lacy Scanlon, jumped all the time. Lacy, clearly more deserving of existence than any other child I knew, knew everything. All that she did was perfect. I became convinced of this one recess when Stevie Bogard, my neighbor, best friend, and classmate came up with an extraordinary idea.

Until Stevie’s brilliance burst forth, we had been resigned to recess games involving spitting, making fart sounds, or just about anything we could do in the dirt. His idea would require courage, athleticism, cunning and some exhilarating aspect we were not quite old enough to grasp but was very exciting none the less.

He called his game “The Panties Report.”

Understand that this was the 50s and schoolgirls still wore flouncy dresses. The basic idea was to chase each other around, one at a time and at the key moment push or trip whoever’s turn it was and have them roll under some unsuspecting girl. With that you were able to return to the group with the “Panties Report.” The reports were almost always of white panties, color was a rarity, but on one fabulously triumphant occasion I excitedly reported back, “purple polka dots!!” It was so rare as to be unbelieved by my classmates. I was immediately tackled and piled on by every giggling boy in the group. In the dirt and spitting out dust I looked out from under the pile of classmates and across the field, there was Lacy. She was standing with her friends in a crisp clean yellow dress with a satin bow around the waist. All of them were quietly ignoring us and playing a game of hopscotch. As I looked at her from the grit and grime, I knew, as I have known ever since, that Lacy Scanlon and all her kind were of a different, more advanced sort.

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Conservatives once inclined to sustain existing views, conditions, and institutions, were skeptical of change, marked as cautious, moderate even miserly. Dare I say good sense!

Republicanism, once an honored synonyms for conservatism, has vanished or hides in the dark as it’s new standard bearer, spends and spends: their money, their environment, the institutions and the international free trade friendships they held the standard for since the mid-19^th Century.

I miss such honorable advisories.

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History repeats itself the moment numbers of new-born overwhelm those of old-born.

Over the millennia, laborious efforts have been made by the old to transfer what they have learned by experience to the newborn. First tales and legends, then writing and printing pushed what had been learned through intimacy with events forward into the wall of inexperience and innocence.

In the ancient world what knowledge could squeeze forward was reserved for boys from wealthy families (think Plato, Aristotle and Socrates). But in our modern era of people’s government, knowledge amongst the self-governing masses became compulsory.

Public education, first given legs by Thomas Mann in the early 1800s, took off in every state eventually requiring subjects like science, history and the classics.

Once, long ago, so important became the need of an educated self-governing people’s awareness of the past, that attendance in public education became a requirement. Heavy fines, confiscation of welfare benefits, even removal of a child from parents became standard penalties for truancy in virgining democracies.

Today the decline in math and reading skills over the past decade has been well documented.  Less understood is the effect of the over half century decline and now total loss in public civics education.  What was once seen as the purpose of public education, building responsible citizens, is no longer a part of public education.

What that means is that our newborns have been rendered impudent, unfamiliar with such basics as our American Revolution or the Civil War. The fundamental operations of our government like the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, World War II and the reasons our elders built them and fought for them now live only in the twilight that remains from those aging and once exposed to history.

What is now known by tens of millions of new Americans is only what they have experienced, what is their normal and today’s normal has no relationship to the lessons from our past.

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2016: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.“

It’s ten years later and we still don’t get it.

It just doesn’t matter.  He can shoot a person, he can shoot a country, Hell, he can shoot you and it just won’t matter.

A decade of codling dictators, abandoning allies, separating families, pardoning criminals, grabbing p***y and we still don’t get it!

MAGA’S coddling, intractable support, is entombed.

YOU WILL NOT CHANGE THE MIND OF THOSE BRAIN DEAD!                                                                                  

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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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