The Last Ephor

 So i received a message that my blog was made public after being private for quite some time.  I did not change anything and wasn't planning on making things public but I guess here we are.  Perhaps Divine Providence is telling me to write and keep it open to the world.  Either that or just an error of technology and that's that/

 The trip from "I want to spend the rest of my life with you" to "I don't see why we can't still be friends" was a short one.   The worst part is that out last conversation ended with "I guess I need more time" then nothing then a text message saying we can still be friends.   I'm so sad.  I don't want this to end and its harder knowing that it was my fault.  I don't think I'm cut out for a relationship.  I feel like a fool.

 Donald Trump has now been shot once and came very close to being shot again.  During the presidential debate Harris said Trump is a threat to democracy and will be a dictator on day one.  I have not seen one mainstream outlet say anything about those statements and whether an unhinged person might do something dangerous based on such rhetoric. Instead, CNN has decided the storyline is that Trumps is to blame for his own shooting: https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1835416101611589931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835416101611589931%7Ctwgr%5Ea62a556a9d223f4cd78066f68b92023b2ee66630%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Fi%2Fmy If he would stop saying things people didn't like he wouldn't get shot I suppose.  I'm not going to draw any parallels to how women dress and whether that sends the wrong message to bad people.  I have it on good authority from my left leaning friends that only one side is engaging in hateful and/o...

 I really enjoy Jimmy Dore's show.  If you don't watch it, you probably should.  He's a funny guy and his politics usually don't align with mine.  But I think he's honest and has no problem calling bullshit.   Here's a very interesting video he found of JFK's assassination.  I've never seen this footage before and while he may or may not be right this is very strange: I wonder if they ever interviewed that agent.  

 This video  is remarkable.   His own family is saying "whatever time they have left" indicating that they think he's dying?  That is astonishing.  He also says Biden's health is a factor in his withdrawal. If the above is true, this man is unable to run the country.  He should not be in office.  Period. We have a significant number of people in DC who have been telling us, until very recently, that Joe is absolutely on task and the best, most cogent version of himself ever.  Within days of the debate they are all reversing themselves.  They either have to explain how he could have possibly deteriorated that quickly or how they didn't know.  Or, they knew and they lied.  There are no good answers here. How on earth is he unable to run for re-election but absolutely able to do the toughest job in the world?

 We are living in the weirdest of times.  Way stranger than fiction and frankly, if I was reading this in a novel, I'd have put it down as it's too hard to believe. Alex Berenson is a journalist I respect.  That's a very short list and I like him because like Glen Greenwald, he's left leaning and utterly honest.  He has zero problem taking his own to task when they're wrong and that, to me, is someone worth listening to.   I have near zero time for most of the Fox News crowd because they are hyperbolic, uncharitable and frankly boring.   That said... Read this article from Mr. Berenson and see if any of this seem strange to you.   My tin foil hat is ever tighter.  

 Ok, so I'm going to try writing again as an attempt to hash out some things that I think about but haven't given enough effort to untangle.  This is largely based on conversations I have with a left wing person whom I greatly respect and has been good enough to challenge me and my ideas in a most respectful manner.  I find that in our conversations I'm falling short of what I want to say in a coherent manner.  Perhaps I can do that here.   Here's hoping

 Many moons ago, I started reading blogs and shortly thereafter I started reading them.  I became discouraged because I read many writers, far more talented than me and the ease with which they elucidated the very points I wanted to make but so much more elegantly and completely that I just gave up.    Gerard of American Digest was one such writer.  His facility with prose and his ability to evoke emotion was remarkable.  I linked to him once with my nascent blog and he was kind enough to reach out to me and thank me for the link.  I literally had zero readers.  Just like now.  But that was the measure of the man.  He took the time to reach out to me and genuinely thank me for the link.   The closest I ever had to meeting the man was meeting Morgan in person.  Morgan and Gerard were friends.  They had an evident mutual respect for their respective works.   I never met Gerard, didn't know the man personally b...

 Its very strange to me to see some sort of weird binary set up where you have to be either Pro Ukraine or Pro Russia.  You are perceived as either Pro Nazi or Pro Putin/Pro Invasion depending on what your detractors think of you.  Frankly, I'm not sure where I land on this one.  The Nazi thing is more complicated than people realize.  I've read something online (which means it must be true?) that the Nazi imagery goes back to WWII era when the Soviets were very enthusiastically killing Ukrainians and the Nazis were actually stopping them from doing so.  Ukrainians decided to join the Nazis to stop the slaughter.  So it may be this is not really about racial purity or Nazism per se but about countering Soviet aggression.  Is this true?  I don't know but it's possible.   On the other side you have Russians who think the Ukrainians are indeed Nazis and therefore dangerous and need clearing out or this is a convenient fig leaf for re-e...