When did we get to be so damn mean? And so selfish? According to statistics from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as of this month there is a total of $1.75 trillion in student loan debt. President Biden is forgiving a small percentage of that debt — $10,000 each for students below a …
Who would ever have figured it? I have completely changed my mind about building Trump’s wall. Well, not completely. I do favor building a wall people cannot climb or cross, so that it keeps them out of the United States. I just want to build it from Atlantic Ocean, all along the Georgia-Florida border, hooking …
“Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.” The verse is from the King James Bible, Matthew 19:21, and it’s one of the ones most ignored by an awful lot of American Christians. Especially the …
Watering while black? We’ve all heard one story or another about how difficult life can be for African-Americans in dealing with law enforcement. It has been proven that black motorists are stopped by police and state troopers far more frequently than white motorists. In fact, that’s where all this started, with the idea of DWB, …
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“We’ve been friends now for so many years. We’ve been together through the good times and the tears. Turned each other on to the good things that life has to give. “We drift apart for a little bit of a spell. One night i get a call and i know that you’re well and days …
I was watching an episode from the final season of one of my favorite TV shows, “Madam Secretary.” It was one of two episodes in which ’70s rock icon Peter Frampton appeared. It was from 2019 and Frampton was singing his biggest song, “Baby I Love Your Way,” which was a No. 1 hit in …
There are so many great movie quotes. Most fans would recognize the true classics right away. “Gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Of course, there’s always my personal favorite. “You f**ked up. You trusted us.” The 15 quotes I posted …
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It’s always fun to remember the great quotes from our favorite movies. Some of those quotes become so well known to us that we throw them around a lot. I picked these in response to a challenge on Facebook a few years back, and I took sort of a different twist. In most cases here, …
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My daughter Pauline and her husband spend a lot of time in activities with their children. One of those activities is weekly movies. They have six children, so in many weeks they have one film for the older children and one for the younger kids. This week they watched a comedy that is one of …
I always thought Fargo was an interesting name for a city. Turns out I was wrong. I figured Fargo was the combination of two shorter words, because getting there from anywhere already settled was a “far go,” But the city was actually named for William Fargo, a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad and one …
