Entries by dickbernard

What can I do?

All very best wishes for the ending of 2025 and 2026.  We need to be personally involved in this. Some ideas follow.  More on photo at end of post; Getting in action: Thursday morning a group of about 25 of us listened to an immigration lawyer talk about the current legal situation in our area […]

Watching MTG

8:15 a.m. CST December 8, 2026: I’m time-stamping this post for a specific reason: I watched the entire Marjorie Taylor Greene interview on 60 Minutes last night, and I want to give my impressions before I see or hear any analysis from anyone else.  You can probably access the interview on-line for a short time. […]

The end of WWII

Recently someone mentioned that there seem to be an unusual number of activities related to WWII.  This year is the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Germany (May 8, 1945) and Japan (September 2, 1945).  Perhaps that is the reason. I don’t know if there are more commemorations than usual or not.  But it would […]

Immigrant/Internationalism

I have always said that we, the Americans eligible to vote, freely chose the mess that we are immersed in now.  This does not go over well with those who voted, essentially, for a reasonably stable nation and world.  The problem is that more people voted for the regime presently in control, and by far […]

Another anniversary

PRENOTE:  Other recent posts: Murder in Washington DC (Nov 29); and Incidents (Dec 3).  I had sent the “murder” post to several who I thought had a particular interest, so it includes several interesting comments. There have been a number of comments to the post on Ken Burns American Revolution (Nov 22) which you may find […]

Incidents

Today is Wednesday and for the last few days and continuing the issue is the extrajudicial killing of alleged drug traffickers in small boats off Venezuela.  In particular the second shot on September 2 – the “kill ’em all” alleged or at minimum implied order to finish off two survivors of the first strike on […]

The Murder in DC, Thanksgiving 2025.

There is a single fact that is undeniable in the recent death of a 20-year old West Virginia National Guardswoman, murdered a couple of blocks from the White House in Washington DC. Odds are virtually 100% certain that she wouldn’t have been in D.C. were it not for a command decision by the President to […]

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving was still two weeks in the future, and Christmas  a month beyond that, and no snow on the ground, but it made no difference.  A cast of 25 brought joy to a packed house at a Middle School auditorium on two successive nights Nov 14 and 15.  The case is pictured below, and all […]

At Thanksgiving 2025.

Have a very good Thanksgiving. We’ll spend Thanksgiving with family in town; and Christmas, still unplanned.  “Over the river and through the woods” will, for us, be about three miles, and no snow, likely chilly.  All very best wishes. POSTNOTE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2025 10;10 PM.  I watched the entire 12 hours of Ken Burns […]

Ken Burns: American Revolution

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2025 10;10 PM.  I watched the entire 12 hours of Ken Burns American Revolution on PBS.  This consisted of six 2-hour programs,  If you missed this phenomenal series, or any part, here are details from PBS and/or check with your local public broadcasting outlet for other arrangements for future viewing.  Every American […]