President Trumpoo Von Trumpoo dedicated the President’s golf trophy to the victims of the hurricanes. Yep, that’s what these people need, a trophy. (Engrave it with “Participation in a Hurricane, 2017.”) I’m sure all the people in Puerto Rico were pretty pumped when they heard the news…wait, they don’t have power, so they probably don’t know yet. Maybe the Mini-Peach-Putin should deliver it to them. If he filled it with clean drinking water, they might actually be happy.
Gov Kasich says he may leave the GOP unless things change. I’m not sure what he means, maybe he just thinks there aren’t enough racist voters in Ohio to get him reelected.
Steve “Grandma Glasses” Mnuchin says there is no guarantee of a middle-class tax cut in the Trump tax plan. You know what I can guarantee? The rich will do much better in this tax plan than the poor. You know how I know? Trump said the exact opposite. “My friends are going to hate me. They are going to call me. They are going to be mad. This is going to hurt me too, but it’s the right thing to do.” Can anyone lie that much and not burst into flames? Eliminating the estate tax alone will save Trumpoo over a billion dollars. Yeah, I’ll be getting a billion-dollar tax break in the year 4040 when the average income in 600 billion dollars.
It’s probably too early to say that maybe it’s time to think about reducing the number of guns in the US. A crazy white dude just shot over 200 people and killed as many as 50 in Las Vegas. Not terrorism…unless you count every mass shooting as terrorism…which I do. Terrorism is what happens when someone from the Middle East kills people. This is just another day in the USA, where guns are like hamburgers. You want it your way? Well, here you go. Get one with lots of bullets so you can shoot that bad guy with a gun.
“If you don’t like it, move somewhere else.”
“Okay, I’m looking for a place where I can get a souvlaki and they have reasonable gun laws…so just about anywhere in the world.”
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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