Social media is awash with liberal progressive WOKE people decrying Trump's decision to end the American Empire's proxy war against Russia. I certainly understand why liberal progressive WOKE people despise Trump, as I am one of them. However, once upon a time, Democrats were the antiwar party. Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden ended that masquerade. It appears that many antiwar liberals crossed over to the pro-war side. This is understandable to some extent, as the Empire's propaganda machine has been demonizing Putin and Russia for my entire life, as well as convincing the electorate that war is sometimes necessary.

In 1962, President John F Kennedy negotiated an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that had American children learning how to survive a nuclear blast, by hiding under their desks, while their parents absorbed the feeling of helplessness. The threat was very real, as America learned much later that nuclear tipped missiles were already in Cuba, and that ground level commanders were authorized to use them.

Sunday, February 23 @ noon
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Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America depends on it. Follow the story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of Robert Putnam, whose legendary "Bowling Alone" research into American community decline may hold the answers to our democracy's present crisis. Free and open to the public.

During his campaign for president, Donald Trump claimed that he could win the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours. Yeah, right! Now that he's president, he says it might take six months.

A spokesperson for Trump said that only he could get a peace deal to end the war.  That is not true!  The only person who could end the war is the same person who started it - Vladimir Putin!  Of course, Putin doesn't want to end the war if a peace agreement involves retreating out of Ukraine and Crimea, paying war reparations, possibly handing over war criminal suspects for trials, and accepting several hundred thousand ethnic Russian refugees who once lived in Ukraine but are not welcome there anymore.

The cannabis community has recently been a-buzz. On January 29th, Ohio Senator Stephen Huffman (R-Tipp City) introduced Senate Bill 56. (Yes, the same Stephen Huffman who marshalled the medical marijuana program in 2016 by championing HB 523 as a Representative. He is now an Ohio Senator.)  SB 56 would “… consolidate the administration of the marijuana control program, revise the medical and adult-use marijuana laws, and to levy taxes on marijuana.” In other words, rework Ohio Issue 2, the citizen led initiated statute to legalize adult use marijuana that over 2 million voters passed in the 2023 fall election by 57-43%.