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Once your home:

Published by Richard Kimball on May 23, 2025

They have itty bitty, tinny weenie, scrappy lives, some leaning female, some male.  Born in captivity, they live for months dreaming of freedom. If released, they are discharged with 10s of millions, all wiggling and straining to find the one home given to the first that gets there.

How can you not have compassion for the littlest losers dying by the millions, lost, starving for love, or just drying up in the bed sheets?

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They have itty bitty, tinny weenie, scrappy lives, some leaning female, some male.  Born in captivity, they live for months dreaming of freedom. If released, they are discharged with 10s of millions, all wiggling and straining to find the one home given to the first that gets there.

How can you not have compassion for the littlest losers dying by the millions, lost, starving for love, or just drying up in the bed sheets?

SavetheSperms.org

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Gotta Love Bees

Published by Richard Kimball on May 19, 2025

The few males in a hive just wander around looking for some queen to stick it too, while the females do all the work. 

If there is trouble, it is the females that have the stinging weapon and launch into battle often giving up their lives, while the bigger males just pretend to be girls to save themselves.

If our hive is to be saved, it will be women that do it!

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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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The Second Coming Comes

Published by Richard Kimball on May 8, 2025

I spent 33 years locked in a promise I made Presidents Ford and Carter. I would not involve myself in partisan politics while running the organization we had begun.

Once retired, I still would not involve in political discussions. That isn’t to say I had nothing to say, it is just after those 33 years of struggling to help people deal with the facts, I am no longer interested in what anyone else thinks.

From where I have stood, no one thinks. Like eating a Big Mack to satisfy their hunger, people have become accustomed to tunning into some political preacher who says what satisfies and then mimics them with “lock box” conviction.

When politics becomes the conversation, I have become a joke. “Mention politics,” they say, “if you want to watch Kimball walk out of the room.”

If I am stuck, as the other day, with a devoted Christian, Trump supporter and close friend, who thought him God’s tool to make things wrong, right again, I simply agree.

Yes, Jesus was selfless, thoughtful, kind, forgiving with endless compassion for the suffering, downtrodden and all those without hope. Trump, his doppelganger – very difficult to see much difference.

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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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Been There Done That

Published by Richard Kimball on May 6, 2025

I was six when I first worried about death. An older brother mentioned we only live into our 60s. It was simple arithmetic – I had only 9 of my life spans left.

So it began, a lifelong, almost daily uneasiness about the time left.

When I was six, I sensed no pre-me, I had been my forever, and time was…well if it moved at all, was sap slow. A school year lasted forever, and the next Christmas was an eternity away.

This is not to say early life was boring, just the opposite. So, sodden I was after that first breath (whatever that freakish experience must have been) with new, never had or imagined intimacies with this thing or that, each one seeming eons from those had just a few moments ago.

The freshly pealed, raw experiences of life began on some supersonic conveyor belt of WOWs.

But as life progresses the belt offers fewer, fresh WOWs and increasing chains of “been there, done that,” repetitions.

As I age, the belt’s “been there, done that,” offerings increase, fatigue sets in and the belt of time speeds up as if to find anything new.

Days become weeks, then months and suddenly another year flashes by.

When as old as me, that first wonderous breath you took so very long ago has been repeated 650 million times and you are good to go.

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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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Ukraine

Published by Richard Kimball on April 23, 2025

Over two years ago or almost one year after Putin invaded Ukraine, I wrote these blogged words in solution to the war, words that I hate as much now as I did when I wrote them:

  1. “The West recognizes roughly 7% of Ukraine as Russian, including Crimea and the Russian-speaking areas of Donetsk and Luhansk — roughly the territory Russia claimed in 2014.
  2. Ukraine, whose economy has crashed, gets to retain all of the territory they had prior to the 2022 invasion, gets peace, and the funds to rebuild, substantially but not solely provided by Russia.“

That is exactly where we head now, only after another 30,000 innocent non-combatant deaths.

It is not a brag, but a cracking volcanic blast at cowering, wimpy Presidents who can’t get off their knees when challenged by a country whose economic power is half that of California’s.

This proposed deal, never needed to happen!

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THE MUSHROOM HAS RISEN!

Published by Richard Kimball on April 19, 2025

A mushroom lives and dies never knowing its own colossal source. Like us, some are nourishing, others poisonous and a few mind-blowing, but neither imagine the extraordinary apparatus that anchors their existence

For the mushroom it can be a fungus that weighs tons, a billion times larger than themselves, living on as the oldest organism on earth.

For us? Well, none know. Like the mushroom, we bloom and are driven to think we are it, our bodies carry all that we know, can know, and think there is. Only with consciousness, we are compelled to conjure hope in one simplistic cult driven God after another. 

While the truth might find our bodies expendable, but our essence eternal, only defused upon death, mixed and redistributed to make bits of us present in an infinite number of new existences just as oblivious of their author as we are today.

I have no faith in what I write here. It just seems more real than all the poppycock fairy tales religions tempt me with.

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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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GAME ON!

Published by Richard Kimball on March 31, 2025

If Trump and his minions think they can devise some way for him to run for a third term, so be it.

I don’t think they will find a way but if they do, they will have to find a way that also strips Obama from doing the same.

If they don’t, well then: GAME ON!

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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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