Frederica “Cowboy Hats Aren’t Just For Cowboys” Wilson is firing back at the White House. She accused Machine Gun Kelly of being a Trumplestillskin puppet and isn’t backing down from her comments about how the President’s comments to the grieving widow were insensitive. The widow,Myeshia Johnson, spoke out this weekend saying that Trumpenstein could not remember her husband’s name. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Trumplestillskin supporters will continue to defend him, it doesn’t matter if there were five thousand incidents like this. (I think we are approaching 3000 incidents at day 276.) Yes, he is an idiot. Yes, he has not empathy. Yes, he has the attention span of a newborn puppy.
John “War Heroes Do Get Captured” McCain sent a volley President Agent Orange’s way when he said that there were people in the highest income level who avoided the draft during Vietnam. I’m sure Trumplestillskin will produce a doctor’s report stating that his bone spurs were the best, most beautiful bone spurs ever. Let’s be honest here, do we really want soldiers like Trump in the armed services? I’m not macho, macho man, but if I were in a fox hole with that guy, I’d be tempted to frag him…and I’m a pacifist.
The congressional investigations into Russian interference are embroiled in internal fighting and will probably produce two different reports when the house committee finishes up. We will get a report from the republicans titled, “Lies” and one from the democrats titled, “We Couldn’t Beat This Guy?” Devin Nunes is still hovering around the committee making it hard to get anything done even though he is supposed to be back milking cows in the Central Valley.
B-52s are on 24-hour alert, so we got that going for us. It might be time to double down on that life insurance you’ve been thinking about. I’m going to double down on 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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