There was a terrorist attack yesterday in NYC. An Uzbekistan guy rented a Home Depot truck and ran down a bike lane in the city. A dozen people were killed. He was shot and taken into custody. It appears this guy came to the US about six years ago, was illiterate, moved from Ohio to Florida, and was radicalized once he was in the US by stuff he saw on the internet. President Agent Orange Julius Caesar went to Twitter immediately and called for Extreme Vetting. It’s like our president is one of those pull string dolls that has about ten things he says, “Lock her up…My hands are normal sized…Extreme vetting…I’m going to build a wall…And Mexico is going to pay for it…What the hell is going on…I did not touch that girl…Grab them by the *****…He never said collusion…My daughter, Ivanka, look at that body.” Just a question, how long did it take Trump to respond to the Las Vegas shooting? Why wasn’t he calling for 60-year-old millionaires to undergo extreme vetting? You know the only way to stop a bad guy with a rented Home Depot truck is a good guy with a rented Home Depot truck.
The accused terrorist would have passed Donnie’s little extreme vetting test because he didn’t come from one of the banned countries, had no evidence of terrorist beliefs before arriving, and was radicalized in the USA…just like every doomsday bunker building idiot with ten military weapons.
Don-Fredo, between Googling “How long do you spend in prison for crimes against the USA?” and deleting emails, had time to tweet about socialism. He took a picture of his daughter’s Halloween candy and said he was now going to give away half of it so she could get used to socialism. (This guy should restrict his tweets about candy. Remember the bowl full of immigrants/Skittles?) Maybe she should get used to capitalism. She could have been born in a family who spent all of Halloween working hard to get candy, but only got one piece because they couldn’t afford a good costume and live in a bad neighborhood where no one has candy to give out because they actually WORK for a living. Donnie-Fredo doesn’t even understand that everything he has was handed to him. His silver spoon is stuck so far up his rear it is making his brain waves malfunction.
I’m going to use my silver spoon to eat 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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