The Intelligence Committee looked at the Russian Facebook ads that help sway people to vote for an orange man with tiny hands and big plans. Some of the ads were pretty clever, others were stupid, but it doesn’t take much to fool some people: Benghazi!
Okay, this is going to sound mean, but would somebody puncture (metaphorically) that human bag of lying garbage Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Every press conference is one lie piled on top of another lie. Yesterday, the Orangutan in Chief said something, Jim Acosta repeated it word for word, and she denied that that Liar in Chief said that. THERE IS A THING CALLED RECORDING! HE SAID IT! How can you sit there with your Wednesday Addams’ face and Easter dress and say, “He didn’t say that”?
You know what else Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad Dumpster Fire and Fuhrer Von Trumplestillskin Von Trumpenstein said? He said that the courts are a joke and that the “animals” who commit terrorist acts need to have a punishment worse than the worst punishment. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, but let’s not head back there at this point in time. I do agree with one thing he said, the court system works a little too slow for my liking when it comes to putting his buddies in jail. Yes, Santa Mueller should be allowed to put all of the Trumplestillskins in Gitmo and then waterboard them until we get to the bottom of what the hell is going on. (Actually, I don’t think waterboarding them is a good idea. Unless we are talking about Bannon and THE KUSH.)
Remember when it wasn’t the right time to talk about gun control right after the Las Vegas shooting? Well, apparently, it’s okay to talk about terrorism right after a terrorist attack. The difference is that one crime is committed by an “animal” and the other is committed by a rich white guy. (I’m pretty sure ISIS has already made ten Youtube ads with Trumplestillskin calling them animals. Woohoo, guy with all the best words.) Let’s make it okay to talk about fixing problems right after they occur. I’m okay with that.
There is only one thing that can be talked about all the time: 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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