Trump held a fundraiser for his 2020 presidential run yesterday at the Trump Hotel in WA DC. There are about fifty things wrong with this. Here are some questions I have: Did Trump’s hotel get paid? Did he profit from that payment? Why is he running for president after only being president for 161 days? Doesn’t he realize he will be in jail by 2020? Who is paying to hear the orange faced buffoon talk? When are we seeing his taxes? Aren’t there more important things he could be doing? Couldn’t he just ask Putin to pay for his whole reelection campaign?
If you haven’t figured out that the Angry Orange Julius Caesar isn’t fit for office, take a peek at his tweets directed at The Morning Joe hosts. What is wrong with this guy? Calling someone psycho when your glass house needs a good shot of Windex isn’t very presidential. Calling someone low IQ when you use words like bigly doesn’t build much ethos. Remember, Mr. Trump, you were the one who didn’t know that healthcare was complicated, that North Korea couldn’t be ordered around by China, and that tiny hands make some objects appear larger than they are. Who knew? EVERYONE! And claiming someone has had plastic surgery when you walk around with a haircut designed in a test tube is classless. Where is our first lady who was going to be saving us all from cyber bullying? Melania, America turns its lonely eye to you.
Trumpcare is still bouncing around the halls of congress. It won’t be long until it rears its ugly rear again. Mitch Turtle Head won’t let it die…just like the two times taxpayers saved his life through funding his healthcare. Irony is delicious, but not as delicious as 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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