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BUT DON’T SHOOT THE DEPUTY – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Monday: BLAST With a blast from his pistol, Blackie blew the bartender through the bottles behind him and left him in a bloody heap. No problem really. What with open carry laws on the books, all...
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PIZZA WITH PINEAPPLE AND CRISIS ACTORS – Marilyn Armstrong
WEEKLY Word Prompt: Question The answer to most serious questions is another question. Serious things don’t have simple answers. For example, “Does this pizza require a longer time to cook or will it...
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99 New: Now – REBLOG – Jan Wilburg
I could not have said it better. Red's Wrap I have only this to say tonight – after a day of news about people murdered while praying. Start where you are Use what you haveDo what you can –Arthur Ashe...
View ArticlePANCHO AND LEFTY: EMMY LOU HARRIS – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango – Pancho & Lefty: The Range Ride the range with Pancho and Lefty. Even though Lefty died in Dayton, Ohio, he had his time with Pancho in Mexico. Now that I’ve memorized the...
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SHARING MY WORLD – Marilyn Armstrong
SHARE YOUR WORLD QUESTIONS: Guns? Are you pro or con? Explain your point of view. I am so anti-gun I don’t even know where to start. I don’t object (in theory, anyway) to hunting as long as the...
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GOT YOU IN THE CROSSHAIRS — Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Crosshairs I know what crosshairs means today, but I got to wondering where the term came from. So I looked it up. So it turns out it was originally a scientific term that came to...
View ArticleBOLD, NEW OPTIONS TO PREVENT MASS SHOOTINGS – Garry Armstrong
School shootings with multiple victims have become an everyday news story in the United States. It’s a boiler-plate political issue with second amendment activists led by the NRA holding fast to their...
View ArticleNOT KILLING THE PHEASANT – Marilyn Armstrong
We had a rifle. It was my first husband’s rifle. It took just one bullet at a time since it was really a competition rifle. It wasn’t intended to do anything but hit targets. Paper targets. It was a...
View ArticleGUN WARS: EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE – BY TOM CURLEY
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … well, actually, it was a week or so ago and it was in Florida (which many could argue, is another world), something really different and really not normal...
View ArticleWHY WE’RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A TRUMP “COUP”– Marilyn Armstrong
What with this mess we're watching in D.C., we wandered into a discussion. "What if Trump decides to take over the country? Like, you know, hold a military coup?" There was a time when this kind of...
View ArticleNOW IS NOT THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT GUN CONTROL … REALLY!? – BY TOM CURLEY
I’m writing this as I watch the news coverage of the most recent mass shooting in Nevada. Mass shootings are almost a daily event in the USA. Think about that. I just read an article from Newsweek...
View ArticleIF NOW’S NOT THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT GUN CONTROL, THERE WILL NEVER BE A TIME –...
I originally wrote this post when I was watching the mass murder in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. I’m now watching the news coverage of the most recent mass shooting in Texas. It wasn’t as big as the...
View ArticleGUNS, GUN SENSE, AND GUNSMOKE – BY TOM CURLEY
A few days ago there was another mass shooting in Texas. Just weeks after the mass shooting in Nevada, which was a few weeks after the mass shooting in … I don’t know. I don’t remember. Pick a state....
View ArticleTHEN THERE WERE SEVEN – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Deep in our mid-November funk, last night we watched a very dark “Longmire” episode. I told Marilyn I was depressed. Looking out at the bleak night sky, Marilyn also said she was depressed too. What to...
View ArticleREACTING, REACTIONARIES AND RIDICULOUSNESS – BY TOM CURLEY
I went to work yesterday. It’s something I don’t do much anymore. I retired a few years ago, so I work part-time. This year, I’ve only worked five days out of the whole year. I’m a director for CBS...
View ArticleTHERE’S GOTTA BE A PONY IN HERE SOMEWHERE – BY TOM CURLEY
There’s an old joke about a psychiatrist who was trying to see if he could change an optimist into a pessimist and a pessimist into an optimist. He took two children, one very optimistic and one very...
View ArticleSTAYING SAFE ACCORDING TO THE NRA
What a shock! The best that our government could offer to Parkland were … you guessed it … thoughts and prayers and of course “it’s too soon to make decisions when we’re still trying to figure out what...
View ArticleSEND IN THE FEDS HE SAID, AND THEN HE DID – RICH PASCHALL
The Streets of Chicago, Rich Paschall When I was in Medellin, Colombia, someone had brought up the name of Pablo Escobar when we were out for food and drinks. Escobar was an infamous drug lord who had...
View ArticleTHERE’S GOTTA BE A PONY IN THERE SOMEWHERE – BY TOM CURLEY
There’s an old joke about a psychiatrist who was trying to see if he could change an optimist into a pessimist and a pessimist into an optimist. He took two children, one very optimistic and one very...
View ArticleUNFILTERED: CULT OF FOX’S VIEW AS VOTING DAY DRAWS NEAR – THE SHINBONE STAR
UNFILTERED: THE CULT OF FOX’S VIEW AS NOV. 3 DRAWS NEARER Following are comments to the Fox News coverage of the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wis., and the aftermath of that shooting...
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