Really people? We’re still doing this? I not talking about the Souvlaki Hut, I’m talking about our country being run by a four-year-old.
Yesterday, The Carrot Colored Gaddafi met with our military leaders and said that it was the calm before the storm. Is he talking about North Korea? Is he talking about Iran? (He’s calling to decertify the Iran nuclear deal.) Is he talking about the next hurricane winding its way toward New Orleans? Is this what he says to Melania each night before falling asleep in the Lincoln bedroom covered in bits of Lays Sour Cream and Onion potato chips?
It’s probably North Korea. I hope his “storm” planning involves how to remove 20 million civilians from South Korea and 50 million civilians from Japan. I’m certain that the military leaders are saying the same thing Vice President Darth Cheney said before invading Iran, “We’ll be greeted as liberators.” Yep, that’s how it worked. It’s harder than that to change people who have been brainwashed for their entire lives. These North Koreans aren’t just going to set their guns down on the ground and say, “Thanks. I didn’t want to use this anyway.” Kinda like NRA members who, when presented with a logical argument about how guns don’t make people safer, will hand over their AK-47s and AR-15s. They aren’t likely to see LOGICAL thinking and agree that guns do kill people. Or people who support the Mini-Peach-Putin and watch Faux Newz every morning…logic doesn’t stop them in their tracks as they think about how Trumplestillskin sold our election to the Russians, lies on a daily basis, and is doing everything he can to screw the little guy. Nope, people who have surrendered the part of their brain that helps them make logical decisions aren’t going to suddenly see the light. So, if the storm is invading North Korea, then let me just say the same thing I always say when it comes to war…I’m already against the next one.
Everyone’s favorite Racist Elvin cookie maker got out of the closet Steve Road Warrior (I fought the road and the road won) Bannon locked him in three months ago. Mr. Sessions has decided that transgender people aren’t people. At least that’s my legal understanding of what he has said about discrimination laws protecting transgender people. If discrimination laws don’t protect transgendered people then they must not be people in his mind, because there is no other explanation for thinking that they don’t have rights like every American. This is a slippery slope for an elf. I don’t know if elves are protected under discrimination laws either. Maybe we can count elves as 3/5ths of a person and take away their rights too. While we’re at it, can we make a law preventing snickerdoodles from being over-cooked? Come on Sessions! Snickerdoodles are supposed to be soft in the middle…just like 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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