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Diaries published: 759 (560 days since last diary on Fri May 27, 2022 at 12:13 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 12856 (54 days since last comment on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 11:07 AM PDT)
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Frankly I'm a little sick of subsidizing someone else's gun hobby with my tax dollars. HOLY CRAP...all the disgusting tragedy and blood aside...how frickin much money are we splashing around cuz someone else just HAS to keep the most dangerous guns...
by Muskegon Critic
 14 comments
on Fri May 27, 2022 at 12:13 PM PDT
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I just learned today that Michigan’s Democratic lawmakers have decided to take a bold stand to slightly reduce the allowable driving blood alcohol level to .05, the only state in the union to keep up with Utah. This is what we’re blowing our political...
by Muskegon Critic
31 comments
on Thu Mar 21, 2019 at 08:48 PM PDT
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It is a pulling up of weeds. Under the roll of clouds from a temperature differential. Like a Venetian blind of gray rolling along the sky from sunny to rain over West Michigan sugar sands.
The rain is coming.
Petrichore is in the air.
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by Muskegon Critic
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on Wed May 30, 2018 at 09:06 PM PDT
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I can’t take this.
Here is what I got from the Comey testimony on Monday and his actions during the US elections.
“The Russians were trying to influence the election by spreading fake news that, among other things, made Clinton look like a...
by Muskegon Critic
76 comments
on Tue Mar 21, 2017 at 06:20 PM PDT
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I don’t know how to say this.
So I’lll just start. Because I’m going to talk crazy.
We are doing this wrong. Our party. Our ideology. We’re doing this wrong. We are trying to get back to a world we can’t go back to.
This year Wendy’s is putting...
by Muskegon Critic
319 comments
on Fri Mar 03, 2017 at 10:09 PM PST
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Where are the self proclaimed patriots interested in our freedom? When our government starts constructing a 2000 mile wall on our borders, an iron wall with check points, where are the folks who pretend to be interested in American freedom and...
by Muskegon Critic
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on Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 09:58 PM PST
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- It is a miracle that the Ambassador Bridge hasn’t collapsed. On September 11, 2001, as the World Trade Center in New York collapsed, many people in Michigan and Ontario worried that the Ambassador Bridge would be targeted next. Destroying that bridge...53 comments 199 Recs
- I can state the paradox of Joe Biden in four sentences. Everyone frets about his age. But the experience that comes with age has made him the most successful and productive president I ever got to vote for, and I’m 78. He’s far from a brilliant orator;...318 comments 694 Recs
- “I’m outside Barack Obama’s house,” Jan. 6 suspect Taylor Taranto said on Thursday in a livestream as he drove around a Washington, D.C., neighborhood and talked to a Secret Service agent, ...233 comments 510 Recs
- Just when you think they can’t get more extreme and ridiculous, Republicans will come up with something new that simply astonishes. A Michigan law enacted in 1931 makes it a crime for unmarried couples to live together. As reported by Craig Mauger,...123 comments 267 Recs
- Georgians are turning out early for the state’s Senate runoff election between Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and his opponent, the professional bumbler and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker. According to the Atlanta Journal...132 comments 279 Recs
- Worldometers www.worldometers.info/... has been my go to site for tracking COVID cases and deaths, but now I shaking my head about the data reported for Florida. Typically the trend in deaths lags the trend in cases by two or three weeks. The 7 day...237 comments 271 Recs
- Given the horrific fire at Notre Dame in Paris and all the other news of the moment, it’s hard for slow-moving stories to get coverage — so what does an expanding disaster get? A week ago I posted about the second bomb cyclone weather system to hit the...113 comments 263 Recs
- What I do know is that, having just come off with an impressive 48% plus, first place finish and facing a runoff against a Republican in the heavily Red 6th district of Georgia, the last thing he needs is to be turned into a political football for...751 comments 299 Recs
- Midday open thread: Right-wing grift imploding; investors say Trump can't stop renewables revolutionToday’s comic by Matt Bors is When you read a little too much Russiagate: • Neil deGrasse Tyson says he’ll board SpaceX for Mars only after Elon Musk sends his mom to the Red Planet and back. • Right-wing grift is blowing up in the world’s...19 comments 57 Recs
- Occam’s Razor stipulates that the simplest explanation is most often the correct one. As Trump’s apologists, press representatives and cable news surrogates tie themselves into Gordian configurations explaining and re-explaining what he means when...333 comments 266 Recs
