Donald “Some Village Frat is Missing its Idiot” Trump Jr admitted to meeting with a Russian lawyer to get dirt on Hillary. This meeting wasn’t reported. The excuse now is that there wasn’t any good dirt given. So, if I break into someone’s house with the intent to rob them, but then only walk around and don’t take anything, it isn’t breaking and entering? Let’s not forget that THE KUSH went to this meeting too (another unreported Russian meeting for him). Paul Manafort also attended the meeting. So, three of the top Trump advisors met with a Russian lawyer, none of them reported it, and we are expected to believe all this? A week later, Wikileaks started dumping the Hillary emails…
Kellyanne “I Spend My Time Not on TV in a Confessional” Conway had another logic bending interview on CNN. Watching her lie and maneuver is a master class in Orwellian Doublespeak. Chris Cuomo nailed her several times mid-lie and she just kept on going.
Running the other side of the deception game is Betsy “I Didn’t Need Student Loans, Why Should You” DeVos. She is quietly dismantling protections for college students so places like Trump University can exist and take money from people. She is also working on loosening regulations on student loans. Pay attention folks because the next rat out of the box is going to be the Trump tax plan that will no longer allow people to write off student loan and mortgage loan interest. Making America Great For Billionaires…the rest of you…sad.
The Orange Trump has suggested working with Putin on cyber security. This was after he gave Putin his passwords and said, “Vlad, I’m not sure how to set up a SnapChat account.” That’s why their meeting took two hours, Putin was helping Trump with his phone apps.
Trump is Tweeting this morning about Comey being a leaker and sharing confidential information in his notes. That’s bad, almost as bad as telling Russians about sources the Israeli government had inside ISIS.
You know what we won’t find inside ISIS? Delicious 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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