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December 30, 2019

When I was about 8 or 9, we live on the near west side of Cleveland ...

its the gentrifying "Ohio City" now - then it was a "DP" (displaced person) section of town.

Playing Army was a big pastime for kids and for some reason my younger sister, brother and I were the designated Germans. We would establish an ambush instead of going after the Americans. We would wait as long as it took for them to get antsy and come after us. We'd usually win.

One day we found a red flag used to mark a long load. We decided to make a German flag. We crayoned a swastika on it and asked our college freshman uncle to nail it to a piece of 2 x 2" and we marched (not goosestep) around the block. This was in the day where it really took a village to raise a kid and all the neighbors paid attention to the kids.

We got about half-way when we passed a man in his sixties from Serbia who was always giving us things from his garden and would talk to us about the Indians in very broken English. When he saw and more importantly the flag, he ran across his little front yard and vaulted the three foot wought iron fence and grabbed that flag aind ripped it up, all the time saying, "You good kids, bad flag!" repeatedly and very excitedly. He stayed our friend and we never made another "German" flag again. I'll never forget that. I believe that's when I started looking at war and the World WarII, more critically.

I learned racism at my grandfathers knee, I unlearned it at my step-father's dinner table. I began my research into antisemitism when a nice old man jumped his fence and ripped up my swastika.

Laurie Anderson has a lyric that says that when her father died she felt "like a library burnt down". I think that is so true, the Holocaust survivors who passing away these days so quickly are a bonfire of libraries and we are the worst off for it.

December 29, 2019

Alaska is the Westernmost and Easternmost State in the U.S.

Alaska is the Westernmost and Easternmost State in the U.S.
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You may think of Alaska as the westernmost state in the United States, especially when looking at a map, but it's also the easternmost state.

How?

It stretches so far from the west that it falls into the eastern hemisphere. In fact, Semisopochnoi Island, part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, is technically the easternmost spot in all of North America.


What you can learn on a beautiful Sunday morning over a cup of coffee!

December 29, 2019

Talk talk - the Music Machine ...

There is a memorial music post up now that made me think of this song ...


December 28, 2019

TRUMPSTOCK 2019! How did we miss this? Crowds so huge it was held in a pizza parlor!!!!

Demonstration of exactly how unpopular the Orange Shitgibbon is in even Arizona!!!


How goofy can people be to take this crap sooooo seriously?


TRUMPSTOCK 2019!
Kingman, Arizona
Oct 4th-6th

https://trumpstock.wixsite.com/event

THE EVENT HAS MOVED
@Great American Pizza
Golden Valley, AZ

TRUMPSTOCK has partnered with Sky One Radio and the American Perspective Show to bring you all the speakers and coverage LIVE via the player below or download the app. LIVE coverage begins at 5PM PST Friday Oct 4th. There will be interviews with our guests, you can even call in or ask questions in chat.

In Association with
veterans united of arizona

Give a Thousand Salutes

to Our Homeland



There is no country more beautiful and wonderful than the land of freedom and opportunity. Celebrate the joy of being American with TRUMPSTOCK!



We will be holding events all across the United States with the sole purpose of uniting Americans of ALL ages to honor the country together.



This website will have everything you need to know before going to our event in Kingman, AZ Oct. 4-6, 2019.Browse to learn more about tickets, event activities, sponsorship opportunities, merchandise, and hotel discounts. VIP events TBD!

Ask about tickets for the after parties!
Laurie Bezick
President


After parties???? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!


The sponsors:

December 28, 2019

TRUMPSTOCK 2019! How did we miss this????

TRUMPSTOCK 2019!
Kingman, Arizona
Oct 4th-6th

https://trumpstock.wixsite.com/event

THE EVENT HAS MOVED
@Great American Pizza
Golden Valley, AZ

TRUMPSTOCK has partnered with Sky One Radio and the American Perspective Show to bring you all the speakers and coverage LIVE via the player below or download the app. LIVE coverage begins at 5PM PST Friday Oct 4th. There will be interviews with our guests, you can even call in or ask questions in chat.

In Association with
veterans united of arizona

Give a Thousand Salutes

to Our Homeland



There is no country more beautiful and wonderful than the land of freedom and opportunity. Celebrate the joy of being American with TRUMPSTOCK!



We will be holding events all across the United States with the sole purpose of uniting Americans of ALL ages to honor the country together.



This website will have everything you need to know before going to our event in Kingman, AZ Oct. 4-6, 2019.Browse to learn more about tickets, event activities, sponsorship opportunities, merchandise, and hotel discounts. VIP events TBD!

Ask about tickets for the after parties!
Laurie Bezick
President


The sponsors:

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About marble falls

Hand dyer mainly to the quilters market, doll maker, oil painter and teacher, anti-fas, cat owner, anti nuke, ex navy, reasonably good cook, father of three happy successful kids and three happy grand kids. Life is good.
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