September 2, 2020

So much needs to be changed about American policing.

At this point, the only difference between the cops and the criminals are the uniforms.
Two pieces on this:

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop


The Case for Ending All Traffic Stops

September 2, 2020

BREAKING: Rand Paul calls for subpoena of Jefferson Starship's

flight records, alleging trips to build a city on rock and roll as Antifa HQ.

Some of the comments are priceless and in a good way.


Stolen from John Pavlovitz on Facebook.

September 1, 2020

How can we 'Santorum' Trump?

His brand is damaged, he's chewing at the restraints, he's bat guano crazy: So, what definition can we come up with that will be as repugnant as 'santorum' and will stick to Sniffles McGolfcart like pig shit to a shoe?

August 26, 2020

This - a thousand times - And shared.

August 23, 2020

I get my Social Security deposited directly into my French bank account.

And when Mrs GoS starts collecting in 15 months, we'll make the same arrangement.

August 22, 2020

I'm so glad that she's learning the French horn.

Here's a bit of fun about learning to play -

August 22, 2020

So, we moved to France 'definitivement' in September 2018 and will die here unless ..

the French kick us out(though we have no place to go).

Recently had a conversation with a friend in California who asked when we were going back to the US to visit. We told him that unless there's a workable vaccine and the US changes, we're never going back. There is nothing there for us. Absolutely nothing.
Which is a tough thing to say. But has to be said.

We Americans have screwed up in so many ways, and I'm not sure that anything is going to get us back on the road to what we could have been. Certainly, as the expression goes, not in my lifetime.

I will add that living here is not a hardship and I'm not complaining. I'm very fortunate. Had we stayed in the US, I'd be dead.

August 16, 2020

This is the USPS Board of Governors. These six men have the power to fire Trump-appointee Louis DeJ

This is the USPS Board of Governors. These six men have the power to fire Trump-appointee Louis DeJoy. They have the power to rollback Trump's hobbling of the USPS. They have the power to save a free and fair election. I encourage you to contact them and explain why mail-in voting matters to you.

#FairAndHonestElections

Robert Duncan:
mduncan@inezdepositbank.com
John Barger:
barger.jm@gmail.com
Ron Bloom:
ron.bloom@brookfield.com
Roman Martinez:
roman@rmiv.com
Donald Moak:
lee.moak@moakgroup.com
Wiliam Zollers:
directoraccessmailbox@cigna.com

I'm told that a couple of addresses bounced. Could be full mailboxes.

Here's a letter that a friend in Philadelphia has written -

Borrow, rephrase, and/or customize.

Gentlemen,
First of all, thank you for your service with respect to the United States Postal Service. The US postal system, established in 1775, is one of the gems of the nation. Established to connect every household in the US to every business, and each other, the USPS (reestablished in 1971) is a gem in the US governmental system. It is a necessity to the well being of our social, economic, and political life.

We NEED the USPS. Many depend on this service as a primary source of contact with medicine, wages, communication with insurance, taxes, the government in general and each other.
The USPS is provided as a self-supporting, not-for-profit service, looking to the well-being of the entire American nation.

There has been a recent move to reconfigure the USPS as something else. There has been an effort to undermine the USPS and its capabilities as a precursor to an upcoming election, at a time during the covid quarantine, when the service will be of utmost importance to the American populace in their ability to vote, an essential requirement of citizenship.

Please don't let the USPS be undermined at this point in time. To do so seems like a purely partisan effort to diminish the clarity and potential of every American to vote, safely. Perhaps there are changes in store for the service, but NOW IS NOT THE TIME to make those changes.

Please reinstate mail carrying efficiency, mailboxes, and the labor force necessary to deliver the mail ontime. I believe it is of the utmost importance. I will not support any candidate that attempts to interfere or allows the service to be undermined at this crucial and fraught time in our nation's history.

PRESERVE AND RESTORE THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. We require it.

Thanks very much for your time.

August 15, 2020

Well, that took me about a minute to figure out who you were talking about.

I'm sorry that you lost a patient. And out of respect for you, I shan't post his name here.

Reading his obit, it's obvious that along with the bad things he did, there was a lot of good there.

Unfortunately he was a dinosaur.

August 13, 2020

What's your NPR newscaster name?

First name - your favorite pattern(fabric etc)
Surname - your favorite deceased singer/songwriter.

'For NPR News, this is Pinstripe Prine.'