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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

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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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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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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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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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It was a spitting contest.

Published by Richard Kimball on June 7, 2025

We both tried to target a stone in the dirt as we swung back and forth on his backyard swing set.

When his globulet grazed the pebble’s side things took a turn. I claimed the need for a direct hit, while he knew any touch would do.

Without warning our spittle went airborne as we plastered each other until we went dry.

Remind you of anyone you know, maybe your President and the richest person in the world.

We were 7, while they will be as grown up as they will ever be.

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“Even a blind squirrel can find an acorn every now and then.”

Published by Richard Kimball on June 6, 2025

And so it is with Health Secretary Kennedy.

Never mind that he claims responsibility for parking dead bears in Central Park. Never mind the worm he claims ate its way into his brain. Kennedy has stumbled on the truth I have long been straining to uncover “Fluoride causes low IQ and brain damage.”

That’s it, that must be it!  Fluoride has made Americans stupid.

In spite, of all those Trump intimates, the Generals, Chiefs of Staff, even Musk, broadcasting Trumps childish, ignorant nature, millions that don’t know him, never worked with him or have ever even seen him, are stuck on him.

Why is it that so many Americans not in the know, without the teensy bit of know, lock on, despite what those in the know are screaming at them.

It has just got to be the Fluoride.

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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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