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I wear this thing on my head. Looking at it now in the photo, it strikes me as enormous, a contraption. I wonder why people don’t just stop in their tracks and ask me what it is. But they never do. It’s like seeing someone with an artificial leg and wanting to inquire about how it works but being compelled to ignore it. What artificial leg? I didn’t see an artificial leg, did you?

This is the receiver (behind my ear) that captures sound that travels through the wire to the round thing (which is actually a magnet) and transmits the signals through my skull to a twin round thing inside my head which then sends the signals along several wires to 22 electrodes hanging out in my cochlea. The electrodes recreate the function of the nerves in my cochlea, sending the sound signals to my brain to be made…

Like a child commenting on a bedtime story, Donald Trump said the Republican Healthcare bill is “mean.” Someone must have finally read it to him. However “mean” it may be, Trump will not attempt change it; he only wants his comment to be on record so he can play both sides of the fence. He wants this bill to pass, because his goal as POTUS 45 is to undo everything POTUS 44 did… and to profit bigly along the way.

This bill is, as everyone knows by now, being crafted behind closed doors by 13 Republican Senators, all men. No one else knows what’s in it. It will be career ending legislation for many of them, as it will be for members of the house who voted yes to pass the first version of the bill, and as it will be for those Republican Senators who vote to yes to…

**Fair warning: philosophical and political musings expressed here are tainted with liberalism.

Today is June 17, 2017, and as has been the case since November 9, 2016, there is an over abundance of news available for me to slant into my (correct) position:

• Donald Trump is now officially under investigation yet he continues to tweet himself into a corner.
• Ivanka, beautiful leader of the faux feminism movement, is now too under investigation.
• Trump continues to ignore the emoluments clause spending 1 of 3 days as president at a Trump property… there’s more, always.

Rather than a specific event, today I choose to complain in general, about how we got into this fine mess (aside from Russia).

Regardless of the chaos in the world today, onlyhalf of the American population has an opinion with regards to politics, the other half is blissfully ignorant. (I too was happy…

Donald Trump’s modus operandi of threats and intimidation isn’t translating to his new job as POTUS 45. While those tactics may work with his immediate staff, it isn’t working with the FBI, and it doesn’t appear to be working with the Senate either.

One would think after the backlash Trump received for firing former FBI director James Comey, he would have learned and adjusted his conduct accordingly, but he who believes he knows everything, has nothing to learn.

In what seems a transparent attempt to test the water, POTUS 45 put word out that he is considering firing yet another former FBI director Robert Mueller, and it is not boding well. Mueller was hired by the justice department to oversee the special counsel investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and whether there was collusion on the part of the Trump campaign. In addition, several of Trump’s associates, including his…

I touched on this topic a couple of days ago, but I think it deserves more attention.

In 2006 Donald Trump said he “sort of hoped” the housing market would collapse. If there is a bubble burst “people like me can go in and buy like crazy.”

Two years later the real estate bubble did burst. It was the equivalent of a sink hole in the U.S. economy. The poor were largely unaffected, because they didn’t have anything to lose, but the rich got richer— at the expense of the middle class.

• Home values plummeted.
• Stocks tanked.
• Retirement savings were halved.
• 529 college savings plans virtually disappeared.
• “Upside down mortgage” became a common phrase: The drastic drop in housing prices, resulted in people owing more on their mortgages than the homes value. Many of those homes went on to foreclose, further bringing down real estate values.

People like Donald Trump…