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Brains: 40,000 years to launch, 1 to destroy.

Published by Richard Kimball on July 14, 2025

List what you can in human advance in all human time, till 1776. Then compare to the last few hundred years, when American’s launched what free peoples could enjoy with the benefits of their own labors.

Nothing of the joys and conveniences you now expect, did not come from that event.

All from what the rest of the world envies and has struggled to send their children to: our systems to develop knowledge.

Responsible for 419 Nobel Prizes, more than the next half dozen countries combined, is our prestigious universities, and the public education system Horace Mann championed 175 years ago.

All now being dismantled by those not in line when the brains were given out.

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WHITE WOMEN

Published by Richard Kimball on July 11, 2025

What has happened to white women?

I have spent almost all my life thinking women were brighter, more thoughtful and compassionate than men.

I suppose that was due to my mother, who was tough but fair in her launching four difficult Kimball boys on her own, into successful lives.

But my view has taken a precipitous drop late in life for many reasons, almost entirely due to white women. So many easily manipulated, flock to jam about this slight or that, then in such parroted confusion as to who’s at fault, most will support a felon convicted of sexual abuse to lead the nation and their families’ lives.

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Let the Hunger Games begin.

Published by Richard Kimball on July 9, 2025

So, it goes in Kerr County Texas where dozens of young women die fighting for their lives due to a bit of money, continually refused for a warning device that would have saved them all. Despite the loss of lives there from a flood just 10 years earlier.

Their Governor, says don’t point fingers at anyone, as he maintains steadfast support for reductions in Medicaid and the end of FEMA whose principal mission is “helping people before, during and after disasters.”

As we are schooled to fight each other, I plead with you to “just follow the money,” an expression I adopted forty years ago, when I was in politics. If you do, you will see the flood of cash flowing to those that least need it from those that most need it.

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One thing says it all about you!

Published by Richard Kimball on July 8, 2025

Are you for:

Coal, Petroleum, Natural Gas and Oil shales, our primary sources of energy, all from the remains of ancient plants and organisms, all polluting and with a dead end in sight — Cheapest but dirtiest for us.

Or

Solar energy, Wind energy, Geothermal energy, Hydrogen energy, Tidal energy, Wave energy, hydroelectric energy, biomass energy, even nuclear energy, all endless and relatively pollution and global warming free — Cleanest, healthiest, and YES cheapest for all those yet to come.

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Back to Square One

Published by Richard Kimball on June 29, 2025

It is unfortunate that Trump got on the Knowledge-Go-Round so late in life.

I was with Trump on bunker busting their nuclear sites.  After all, you just cannot allow such a despicable rouge state with the mantra “Death to America” to have nuclear weapons. Hell, they had built over 3000 ballistic missiles and enriched uranium to weapons grade, far beyond what is needed to generate power.

So, yeah, lets buy some time, bust it up, so we can get back to the Barack Obama deal that Trump trashed, where we do exactly what Ronald Reagon insisted, “Trust but verify.”.

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Hate observes no barrier:

Published by Richard Kimball on June 16, 2025

.By 1922, the Ottomans massacre over a million Assyrian

By 1930, the Soviet Union starves 4 million Ukrainians.

By 1945, the Germans shot or gas 6 million Jews.

By 1979, the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge slaughter 3 million intellectuals, Christians and Muslims.

By 1971, the Bangladesh army ends 3 million Hindus, doctors, journalists, professors in a “classicide” massacred.

By 1994, the Rwandan Hutu’s bludgeon and machete 500,000 Tutsis.

In 2025, 50,000 Gazans have been blown into pieces.

Last week, Vance Boelter, an Evangelical Christian began the murdering of registered democrats.

Today, Richard Kimball, an anti-war pacifist, tried to pick a fight with a fellow tossing a cup from his truck, while his oversized Trump flag flapped off its end.

Luckily, Kimball 76, found his fellow American less angry than he.

All hate begins local.

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How this all came to be: 

Published by Richard Kimball on May 16, 2025

“Let’s hire her, she has the biggest t – – s.”

“It doesn’t matter that the Army no longer needs or wants the armory, we must keep it open to support the jobs. Jobs equal votes.”

“What the Hell? He voted to subsidize tobacco growers? How can that be, we all live in Arizona?” 

“Oh that. We needed to support North Carolina tobacco growers, or their congressmen won’t vote to support our ditch from the Colorado River to Phoenix and Tucson to sell more property.”

I was a young Washington staffer, when I heard such things, they had all been my bosses, all prominent Presidential candidates and Democrats. Yes, it isn’t just Republicans that lack the courage to lead.

Political leaders don’t often stay well-grounded citizen servants. Republicans and Democrats become dizzy under the relentless ladling of self-serving partisan slop that fertilizes big heads.

An 18th century Scottish Historian argued that America’s freedom fighters were anchored in courage and if successful, would find liberty and great abundance, but abundance would lead to selfishness, then a complacency that would return them to bondage.

Hard not to see it in real time.

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Nothing is more upsetting than that moment in a dispute when you realize you’ve been wrong!

Published by Richard Kimball on May 7, 2025

Daily, millions of our fellow citizens enter that condition.

As the absurdity of supporting this quasar of toddler self-indulgent nonsense begins to roost in bank accounts, a day of clarity presents itself.

It isn’t that right wing media begins to crack, or even Congressional fanaticos suddenly skulking for self-preservation, it is The People, whose roots lock back in and the human desire for justice and fair play is renourished.

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Don’t Kill Trump

Published by Richard Kimball on April 28, 2025

Yes, he wants to end democracy, and YES, his being elected is a compelling argument to do so, but look at who might replace him:

JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kristi Noem, etc. all sycophants, all MAGA, all who either once opposed him or have suckled on the tit of obedience from birth.

Perhaps more important isn’t the MAGA party but the media powers with enormous followings, who will attempt to chisel a new Trump out of his droppings:

FOX, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Laura Lommer, Kevin Roberts, Laura Trump etc.

Kill Trump and you will have crucified him in the eyes of his zealots. Let him live into his onsetting incapacity and his disciples will devour each other.

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Mixed Messaging

Published by Richard Kimball on April 26, 2025

Went to Alice’s funeral yesterday, a remarkable woman. She retired after 22 years as a captain in the Airforce and then committed the rest of her life fighting for world peace.

At her end, dozens said goodbye with the sweetest stories of her struggles to bring calm to an angry world.

Even Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump celebrated her goodness by sending a military guard to send her off with volleys of rifle fire and a slow dramatic folding of the Stars and Stripes.

Which they had presented to Alice’s wife, Cara, from a grateful nation with these quiet words, “On behalf of the President of the United States.”

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GREATEST GENERATION’S ANTITHESIS: US

Published by Richard Kimball on April 3, 2025

They were born inflicted with the effects of “The War to End All Wars”, in adolescence endured The Great Depression, then in adulthood crushed the tyranny of a megalomaniac on path to conquer the world, shamed Soviet tyranny, blazed a path to equality for all in Civil Rights, put a man on the moon, and their children in schools where teachers were the boss while making us the envy of the world.

The Greatest now gone, the pendulum swung to us, a new generation that cuddles suppression, trashes science, education and truth, in an angry, nonsensical tirade where the pain for all has only just begun!

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THE YELLOW HOPEFUL

Published by Richard Kimball on March 24, 2025

NOTHING WILL CONVINCE, NOT EVEN:

Subverting the 2020 Election?

Inciting an insurrection?

 Corrupting the Justice Department to end those opposing him?

Appointing toadies, suckling on the poison of power?

Cuddling with the man’s most despicable dictators?

CERTIANLY NOT WHEN HE SUGGESTS:

We ingest disinfectants to manage what ails us.

That it’s OK to grab someone’s genitals.

That “we could use a big fat dose of global warming.”

That his pennis is long and beautiful.

That breast feeding babies is “disgusting.”

That conviction of sexual abuse is abuse.

IT ISN’T THE PRESIDENT WHO IS ANTI-PROGRESS, SCIENCE, EDUCATION DEMOCRACY AND DECENCY THAT IS YOUR ENEMY, IT IS THAT FAMILY MEMBER OR NEIGHBOR THAT MONOTONOUSLY PARDON THEMSELVES WITH THE WORDS, “OH, I DON’T LIKE EVERYTHIG HE DOES!”

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Putin/Trump: Besties

Published by Richard Kimball on March 3, 2025

Putin is “A thug and murderer,” said John McCain.

Why? Well because Putin’s opponents are murdered, opposition is arrested and frozen in Siberia, minority rights squashed, foreign territory forcefully annexed, brutal dictators slaughtering thousands of their own citizens are enabled…

In 2023, when American’s still fought for the free, 64% thought this newfound “friend” an enemy, now only 34% do, while 50% want Ukraine to stop fighting and let Russia have the territory, they’ve massacred tens-of-thousands to obtain.

When those betraying that 249-year-old, uniquely American cause of freedom are asked, why?  They simply mimic their leader who said, “Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too.”

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Caveat Emptor

Published by Richard Kimball on February 25, 2025

A legion of inexperienced juvenile toadies now locked in place at the head of your Defense, Homeland Security, Education, Trade, Office of Management and Budget, Energy, Labor, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, FBI, Health and Human Services, Secretary of State, CIA, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Environmental Protection Agency.

All parasites suckling on the poisonous tit of a megalomaniac.

All happening, while your protection from Inspector Generals, whistle-blowers and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are deceased.

You are on your own. Caveat Emptor, in all things – good luck!

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Rip Van Winkle Me!

Published by Richard Kimball on February 19, 2025

Wake me up in 20 years when it is all over, the wicked are dead and I can know that somehow democracy pulled through.

List all the human advances you can, for all human time up to 1776.  

 It was 229 years ago that Thomas Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal…” and enterprise by the free was unleashed on a global scale. With little thought, there is not a one of us that would not marvel at what came of it.

Compare your list of what came under every imaginable despot those first 250,000 years of human existence, with what you can list the last 000.01% of it.   Any comparative list would make those first 250,000 years seem devoid of advance in either human comfort, health, convenience, or nourishment. Almost regardless of your circumstance, your life today is with benefits and comforts beyond the imaginations of any ruler in history claiming to be above the law. This relationship between freedom and despotism is no coincidence.

Pride in our forebearers should ooze from every American pore while the return of a despotism boil everyone’s blood.

I’m going to doze off now, but with a hacksaw, on the chance I wake up in a prison.

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ARE STOCKS ON STABLE FOOTING?

Published by Richard Kimball on February 14, 2025

America represented stability in the world, because our institutions were stable, our rule of law was stable, and our separation of powers was able to mute extremists. I believe that is how America provided the safest haven for secure investment and fertile ground for prosperity.

Now with our institutions, the rule of law, the separation of powers being dismantled and a tariff wars kicker, I wonder if the coming pain will root in time for a sleepy self-governing people, charged with running this show, to wake up and save their primacy?

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