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Back from Alaska

Published by Richard Kimball on August 22, 2025

If you’re certain to have little interest in seeing Alaska but enjoy glutinous multitudes fighting for somewhere to sit with a pile on their plates, an Alaskan cruise is for you.

My favorite stop was Hoonah, with a population of 931 or about one third the number that disembarked our ship that day, to see some bear, moose, or maybe a reindeer or whale.

There was no such things, so everyone did what the ship planned for – shopped. The options were mammoth: bear, moose salmon and whale shirts, caps, pants, pajamas with that cute little buttoned back flap, belts, eye wear, undies, and slippers, and, AND if you looked closely made in China.

Most went for some representation of salmon, not in your fresh, local Cosco sense, but dried salmon, flavored salmon, jerked salmon, puréed salmon, salmon spice, even not yet salmon – the eggs, all jarred, canned or sealed.  Given the selection I went for a dozen cans of salmon spread: the pepper garlic, Chipotle and cruise dung flavored, as gifts for friends back home. Those cans seemed the most popular amongst the other cruise ships in port that day and the over 500,000 tourists dropping in to give a financial “high-five” to the 931 inhabitants of Hoonah each year.

One stop was in Juneau, the Alaskan capital. There we were greeted by three blocks of jewelry stores, filled with diamonds and watches, shipped in from Switzerland and Africa, followed by the same mammoth monotony from Chinese fabricators depicting bear, moose, salmon, whales and such!

My life having been spent in various conferences in every state’s capital, each built with pride as monuments to democracy, I decided to visit the only one on the continent that I had not visited.

Finding the address, I looked around, to the right, to the left, down in front, off behind, no, that lump of bricks was actually it, the same old lump you have in your town, in every town.

There was one remote stop, where we sat in the water a few hundred yards from a glacier:  It was a jaw dropper. We hung on the rails as we approached and then glued there for the two-hours our ship stayed, watching a 300+ ft. high glacier calve blocks of ice weighing tons into the ocean.

Me, brother and our loves!

If it were not for that glacier and the chance to spend quality time with my wife, brother and his love, the trip would have been a bust. They made the trip right up until we tried to leave.

All was well as we left the ship for our 2 pm American Airlines flight home. The plane broke before take-off, and a new one was ordered, arriving 6 hours later, that would miss our connection home to Tucson.  The airlines said we had two choices, one, we can get you to Los Angles where you will need to stay two days untill our next Tucson flight or we can get you to Phoenix sometime tomorrow where you will need to use your own resources to find home.

What fun, what experience, what adventure, what learning to just watch Animal Kingdom and be happy.

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The Sludge Flowed Uphill

Published by Richard Kimball on August 1, 2025

Sweet and kind, she sat next to me on the State Senate floor. Her one interest was to end abortions. We agreed on nothing, but I liked her.

She was becoming a rarity in politics, uncomplicated, real and true to what she believed, but about to be screwed by the leadership.

They needed her vote to support a bill, which I supported but that she strongly opposed, again on religious grounds.

On a bathroom break, unknown, only to her, the chair shuffled the agenda to confuse and get her positive vote on what she thought was another bill that she did support.

She walked off the Senate floor in tears.

I instantly felt the remorse, all feel of their silence, when a word of warning was due.

The creeping sludge of most local politics has long made it unlikely that the honorable, dignified people in our communities would enter public service.

That was decades ago, when much of the sludge remained low level, and dignity was still the cream that could manage to elevate to higher office.

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AN UNEXPECTED CONVENIENCE

Published by Richard Kimball on July 29, 2025

For me, in politics, it was always confusing trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.  As Websters says: “Which people or things in a group are bad and which ones are good?”

Is supporting education and science good or bad?

Is fighting environmental pollution good or bad?

Is fighting genocide good or bad?

Is spending trillions you don’t have good or bad?

Goldwater, Reagan, and every other Republican nominee for President screamed GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, AND GOOD!

But every recent poll shows that Modern Day Trumpians scream BAD, BAD, BAD AND BAD!

Knowing who’s who has become so simple.

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Beat the crowd.

Published by Richard Kimball on July 25, 2025

On sale now at Amazon for just $29.90

Tested by Paramount, Skydance, Columbia University, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, McDonalds, Tesla, Melon, Chevron, Major Law Firms, much of the media and a multitude of growing worshipers: The Muzzle That Ends All Your Words.

Get yours, while they still last!

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Just more of those black ones!

Published by Richard Kimball on July 23, 2025

Know where Mali and Burkina Faso are? Not likely!

Americans are all hopped up on a pedophile and a comedian.  Epstein and Colbert are better sellers of commercials than the tens of thousands shriveled and dying there from starvation.

No one’s going to care, when it is your empty bowl of gruel.

Hell, even what the U. S. Census Bureau considers white people, in Gaza and Ukraine being slaughtered, take a back seat to the gimmy, gimmy potential of Epstein and Colbert news coverage.

What have we become?

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NEWS IS ENTERTAINMENT

Published by Richard Kimball on July 20, 2025

Just like the sitcoms of my youth, news programming only flourishes if it can attract an audience.

Attracting audience is everything, it is existence, it is another season, it is money.

In news entertainment, you first find a following, then feed it, and if you grow, you prosper.

All ten of the most watched entertainment news programs are now on Fox, because hate, vengeance and any abuse of you sells and demands attention, no less than one screaming SHOTS FIRED, anywhere, any place.

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World Religions: The ultimate in cults!

Published by Richard Kimball on July 16, 2025

Why did an all knowing, loving God create so much unspeakable evil.

Why are so many religions willing to war and kill to prove they’re the good ones?

Why are the faithful praised and the doubtful outcasts?

Why would a God need your worship?

Why does God require so many interpreters?

Why does science contradict so much religious orthodoxy?

Why if born Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, in the wrong location or family, you’re screwed?

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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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Don’t Be Silly!

Published by Richard Kimball on June 30, 2025

It is highly unlikely that any Congressperson will ever read the “Big Beautiful Bill,” not even the President.

These are busy people that have far more pressing, enjoyable options, crucial to their maintaining status and power.  Besides, if they read it, few would be able to digest or comprehend the thousand pages of legalese in which it is written.

How these legislators abide by the oath each took to “well and faithfully discharge the duties of their office,” is to listen to, and adopt the point of view that attracts the largest covey of the subservient.

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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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I CAN’T HELP MYSELF

Published by Richard Kimball on June 28, 2025

He gives up this:

 Mackenzie Scott, who graduated from Princeton, where Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison described her as one of the best students she has ever had, who became a bestselling author, made Amazon by developing its early days with its name, business plan, accounts, even negotiating its first crucial freight contracts. Thus, becoming one of the richest people in the world, who then began infusing the most needy, most promising with most of her wealth.

For this:

Lauren Sanchez, who graduated from Del Norte High School in New Mexico, where she participated in cheerleading and student assembly. Moved to California where she won the international Models World Magazine Cover Girl Competition and entered the entertainment industry. And finally spends 50 million dollars of her fiancée’s money to rent Vence for her wedding.

How can anyone just not want to puke about those suckling fortunes off the masses and creating worlds all for themselves?

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He is not only an ass, but he causes assenicity in others.

Published by Richard Kimball on June 24, 2025

Take just one teensy example, a favorite:  Lindsey Graham, who Trump called a “disgrace, nut job, one of the dumbest human beings,” who is now tethered on the ring Trump had punched through his nose.

Today, Lindsey just hobbles dutifully along, echoing his master’s every whim, just as he did during his long-lost salad days when he did the same for his buddy, John McCain with his spine to crawl up on.

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DON’T assassinate Trump!

Published by Richard Kimball on June 19, 2025

Let me be clear, I think the assassination of Trump would be repulsive.

However, I am surprised that in America, such evil still exists.

Even Hitler had at least 40 attempts, many by insiders, but with Trump no insider will do what over 700,000 of our family members, neighbors and fellow defenders of democracy have done: Die in freedom’s defense.

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THE BLACK HOUSE

Published by Richard Kimball on June 18, 2025
  1. Subverting the 2020 election and having his sycophants attack the capitol.
  2. Abusing his pardon power to release the vilest attackers of democracy.
  3. Using the “bully pulpit” to spread lies and hate.
  4. Withholding funds from Ukraine in support of one of the world’s most hideous dictators.
  5. Hinging all new government appointments to lackeys, compliant to any whim.
  6. Dismissing all whistle blowers, anyone disagreeing with him.
  7. Scrounging what cash he can for his family, off the most need of a hand up.

With a Congress subservient, and the Supreme Court neutered with his appointees, all hope resides, where it has always resided, in the democracy our American ancestors gave birth to, and died to preserve – YOU!

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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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