815. Mayday, mayday! It's a National Emergency!
Jeff Noble I'm enjoying the glee with which my "conservative" friends are celebrating the president's declaration of a National Emergency to spend billions of dollars that he first promised Mexico...
View Article816. In response to the president refusing to cooperate with the House...
Who cares?The appropriate response to the White House is "Who Cares?" The House doesn't need the White House's permission to proceed, to consider, to investigate, or to vote. Apparently the president...
View Article817. The Hunter's Moon, 2019
The Hunter's Full Moon arrives tomorrow afternoon at 5:08 p.m. EDT so tonight's view will be great. The moon is currently about 250,000 miles away from the Earth, about as far as it gets. Its furthest...
View Article818. The Winter Solstice, 2019
When the sun sets tonight, it will end the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.Here in Louisville, sunset will occur at 5:25 p.m. I have four friends vacationing in Key West (Ken, Josh,...
View Article819. Mary Margaret Mulvihill, Rest In Peace
Mary Margaret Mulvihill passed away the day before yesterday. She is someone who I've known of all my adult life although we haven't always been political friends. I did not know her the first time she...
View ArticleBetween 819 and 820. I intend to start blogging again.
I haven't regularly blogged in a while and it is my intent to do so again. It may take me a minute to get back in the habit. I haven't posted a picture in years - literally years. But, we'll see...
View Article820. Smartmatic Machines; Trump's mental instability; Trump's supporters...
Here's the interesting thing about the Smartmatic Voting Machines that allegedly changed votes from Trump to Biden. According to Trump and his gang of lawyers, this only happened in states where Trump...
View Article821. Rudy Strikes Out
The president's third attempt to steal Pennsylvania hit another setback with the judge's stinging rebuke. So far he's attempted to steal Nevada, Georgia twice (with another attempt in the works by the...
View Article822. The First Sunday of Advent, 2020 - the waiting begins, in church and in...
The liturgical season of Advent, a part of the church calendar in many (but not all) denominations, begins todays. It is a period of waiting. Waiting, being watchful, and preparing for the birth of...
View Article823. It's going to be a great week in America! Happy 2021.
38-3-51100.305, 321.39, 323.10, 323.12, 323.1335 Pa. CS 7301 (b). You might ask, "What are these cites?"Let me begin by saying starting next week, when the Kentucky General Assembly convenes, the...
View Article824. Another "Antifa" Terrorist and Traitor to America caught in Nashville
Another one of those "Antifa" people, Eric Gavelek Munchel, 30, was arrested this afternoon and booked into a Nashville jail about two hours ago. This is the "Antifa" guy with the zip-ties, allegedly...
View Article825. The Wolf Moon: January's Full Moon, 2021, in Lower Clifton Heights
The snow is still falling here in Lower Clifton Heights*. There are about 2.5 inches of the fallen flakes on my deck. The snow will eventually come to an end in a few hours and when it does we're in...
View Article826. McConnellian.
Linda Blackford, writing in the Lexington Herald-Leader, uses the word McConnellian, writing"McConnell's vote to acquit, shortly followed by a fiery speech denouncing Trump is McConnellian hypocrisy,...
View Article827. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - no, Lauren, Junior, Ted, and Andrew
Last week was a series of misfires for at least four American politicians. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, R-CO3, and a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, featured herself posing in front of a...
View Article828. 2022 - A New Year. Hopefully a new commitment.
Happy New Year's Day! New Year's Day, for most of us, tends to fall in the middle of the actual year in our minds, which in the U. S. of A. runs from about Labor Day to about July 4th (or honestly, to...
View Article829. January's New Moon
The first New Moon of 2022 arrives very shortly, at 1:34 p.m. EST. New Moons hold power according to some, especially the power of renewal, appropriate for the second day of a new year.So, light a...
View Article830. What's in a Zero?
The New Year should necessarily involve making new choices, taking new chances. Most of you all know my drink of choice other than Red Wine - Ale-8-One. I've been drinking Ale-8-One since some time...
View Article831. Republicans and their crayons
There's not a lot to say here. The GOP has full control of Kentucky's legislative and congressional redistricting for the first time in history. They've controlled the senatorial redistricting since...
View Article832. On the passing of State Representative Darryl T. Owens
My friend Darryl T. Owens passed away yesterday after a long illness. He was 84. For many years he represented me in the General Assembly as the 43rd District State Representative. He had previously...
View Article833. A Snowy Day in Louisville - the view from First and Main
Photo by SamHunterPhotoDowntown Louisville earlier today, looking west on Main Street. This is the point from which Louisville's addresses are numbered. The view is west on West Main Street. To the...
View Article834. Senate Bill 3 from the 2008 General Assembly - the Filing Deadline, the...
The first piece of legislation to make it through both chambers of this year's session of the Kentucky General Assembly had nothing to do with the budget or healthcare or education or clean drinking...
View Article835. The Obituary of Darryl T. Owens
Darryl T. OwensLouisville - Darryl T. Owens was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937. He grew up in Fort Hill and recalled those days fondly. Stressing religion, family and education, his mother...
View Article836. Schools closed tomorrow due to Covid.
Jefferson County Public Schools have just announced schools will be closed tomorrow, Monday, January 10, 2022. Schools will move to home school NTI on Tuesday and remain in the NTI through Friday,...
View Article837. A generational end.
Of all of the brothers and sisters of my grandparents, my earliest memory of any of them is of Aunt Virginia Lee Lewis Sharp, my maternal grandmother's youngest sister, who passed away this morning in...
View Article838. Dreaming of a New Map
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