The Trump White House is shuffling the deck as Pit Boss Mueller tightens his investigative noose. It appears Mueller’s investigation is making connections between Agent Orange Trump’s businessEs and Russia. (That E won’t let me make it lowercase…ahh!!!!) The Trumpenstien plan appears to be: Make Mueller look like he is a democratic hit man. This will be a challenge for the orange man with the big plans and tiny hands because when it comes to the old veritas he doesn’t have much experience. (I seem to remember veritas means truth in Latin, but I could be wrong. In these times, the truth takes a backseat to cool looking words…”I know all the big words…I know the Latin words…or not.”) Trump might be playing multidimensional chess, or he might be playing Jenga with the Constitution and USA.
Exxon has been fined by the Trump administration for dealing with Russian while T-Rex Tillerson was the CEO. I’m not surprised. Tillerson was seen taking out his wallet and asking if he could pay in cash. The only thing with more Russian ties than Exxon is Trailer Park Team Trump.
My favorite story in the news is about the Japanese PM’s wife. Trump sat next to her at the G20 dinner and told the NYTimes that she didn’t speak any English…”zero.” There is plenty of evidence of her speaking English to other people. So, was she pretending not to understand so she wouldn’t have to talk to The Orange Julius Caesar? Or…is the real problem that Trump really doesn’t speak English? You be the judge. Read his NYTimes’ interview. Most of his sentences start and then go wandering in the woods. The words are English, but the sentences might as well be Navaho. (Donald Trump, wind talker.)
The lesson we can take away from this is that Trump is easily fooled and doesn’t have the basic life skills to communicate with a lady without getting grabby. If there’s anything I need to grab it’s a souvlaki.
Why is my page titled South of the Strait? Well I live in a far corner of the United States. I live in a small town south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. If I was going to throw a rock across the strait it would land in Canada. I used to be an English teacher. I have worked in Westport, Port Angeles, and Sequim, Washington... and I did two years of substitute teaching in Coalinga, California.
I've moved around a lot, living in: Sterling,Kansas; Chicago; Jordan, Montana; Lemoore, California; Auckland, New Zealand; Spokane, Washington; Gambier, Ohio.
What do I write? For WordPress I used to print once a week for general comments. I wrote reviews of music concerts my daughter made me attend. (Each month she would want us to drive to Seattle to see a music group. I usually stood in the back watching weird stuff.) I also wrote about trips I have taken in Europe where I liked getting lost. I also wrote during the few months when my son was treated for cancer. (He is officially free of cancer of five years.) About three years ago I decided to stop writing blogs so I could concentrate on writing a few books. I have completed three books...or maybe four. I have now compiled my short stories poems and memoirs on Amazon. You can get it at Amazon now..."A Work In Progress"--Jon Eekhoff. I have been very close to getting a printed book called "Lost Summer" but I was never offered $1,000,000.00. (It's set in Paris, 1920's, with baseball, writers, artist, and actually true stuff.) I wrote a book about college basketball called "Laidlaw." It's kind of a mix of "Moby Dick" and a coach who is about to get fired so he takes his team out for a free drive around the West. My most recent book is "California Tales." These are connected stories about the missionary churches in California. They are sad, funny, inspiring, and odd. I had the entire book done in my head and had just one section to finish the next day...and that is when I fell 20 feet from my roof and landed on the cement. (Like a lot of men, I thought I could maintain my own roof instead of leaving it to the professionals.) I don't remember anything about my accident but I am told I was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Though conscious and responsive after surgery to remove part of my skull, I don't remember anything from my first month there. I spent another month of Harborview working on walking, speaking, and writing. That was two years ago. As a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivor, I could have quit writing, but I am not going to quit. I work with the University of Washington Speech and Hearing Clinic.
So, here I am. I am married and live here in Sequim with my wife Cheryl. Our kids live in nearby cities. Writing is now an exhausting exercise, but something I plan to keep working on.
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