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Text Box: From; Smokey 12/20/23
I got a day off and I am really pleased to be able to spend it with my family. Sean and I played for a while with our electric trains, and then watched videos with the entire family. 
I got to watch a delightful video from the Dorrance Dance Company. It has been described as “Sweet and Silly.’  It was a tap dance routine and it was fun to watch. It was based on a Duke Ellington version of the nutcracker suite. Both Suzanne and the kids loved it, but my understanding is that the Republicans went ballistic in flinging venom toward this innocent fun dance group.   Somehow I think it was much nicer and much more holiday fun than Trump’s wife Milania’s display of blood red Christmas trees.  

From: R. Patriot 12/13/23.
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump. 
I am looking forward to Mike Johnson issuing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden and his crime family. His family has been allowed to flout the law for years and now it is time for them to be called to task. I have heard plenty of evidence of their crimes on FOX, Blaze, Newsmax and the One America Network. America is a country of law and the Biden Family has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. Ron Johnson has proof, even if it is only broadcast on right wing radio and TV, it is still true and should be able to be used to impeach Biden. . 
I love babies and I am most upset with the left wingers who want to kill them.
The state of Texas is correct in not allowing abortions.  Left wingers make up all sort of ridiculous stories because they want to kill their own babies. As I said before, our county is a country of law and we need to punish these women, their doctors and the hospitals that rip children out of mothers wombs’. 
The Bible says “Thou Shalt Not Kill” and we need to stand up and stop baby killing. These Commie Socialist left wingers are mostly all child molesters who are sacrificing children on the alters of their false gods. They are child trafficking in unborn babies and if you love God and love children, you will work hard to put a stop to their awful actions. 
God is with the GOP and we are all on God’s side. Be sure that you are on the right side and support Republican candidates.
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne 12/13/23
Smokey is celebrating end of the quarter and going on Spring break by working full time at both our St. Helens and St. Johns Restaurants.  He is, at least, working days so that he can have time with the kids. They have set up their electric train, Xmas village and they are having a ball with it. 
I am disgusted with our do nothing Congress. They won’t do anything to help the American people. All they can talk about is impeaching the President, and the stupid thing is that they don’t have an ounce of proof to back up any of their impeachment claims. They can’t get anyone who will be willing to swear to anything under oath. All they are doing is political Kabuki Theatre.
Smokey and I just wrote a big check to Planned Parenthood. We are very upset with the awful thing that has happened to Kate Cox in Texas.  Kate is a mother of two healthy children. Her fetus had been diagnosed with a rare and deadly genetic condition called trisomy 18. Both Kate’s life as well as the baby’s life will be in danger if Kate were to carry her baby to term, not only that but the delivery of this baby may possibly render her sterile. According to the doctors, the fetus would not be expected to live even if she were to carry it to term. 
A court provided her with an exception, but the Republican Texas Attorney General has issued threats. He said that he will go after the hospital and he will jail any doctors who attempt to perform medically necessary abortions.  Kate has sued, but the Republican Texas Supreme Court has for forbidden her to have an abortion. Because her life is at stake, she has left the state. 
If you care about women and their rights, I would strongly suggest that you also donate to Planned Parenthood.  Women should have the right to control their own bodies and should not be forced to put their life at risk. 

From: R. Patriot 12/6/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump. My live in girlfriend is still not feeling well. She got sick with that Chinese flu last year and has had health problems ever since. Her doctor said that she has “Long Covid” (what ever that is). I am glad that I don’t have it, and I didn’t get any of those dangerous shots either. I sure as hell don’t want any of those government tracking devices in my blood stream. 
I am looking forward to attend a “Save America” Trump rally.  Most of these rally's will be live stream, but I am hoping that they will have some of them here in Oregon as well. 
We need Donald Trump.  He will save our nation from run away inflation and a corrupt Democrat party. People need to realize that the Republican party is the party of family values.  We don’t want groomers turning our children into gay or trans and we need to watch the sort of books that we allow our kids access to in our school libraries. 
Evil men like George Soros are spending great amounts of money to promote gay and negro causes. 
They are working to replace us with yellow, black, brown, and Jew people. We need to stand up for white and Christian values by supporting Donald trump and voting Republican. 
We are not racist, but pro Christian.  We need to stop babies from being aborted and put an end to this real holocaust in our state and our nation. 
Soro’s people own the banks, the media and are all part of the Hollywood elite. 
God is with us and the Republican party is the party of God. Vote for the good guys, vote for a white Christian America.
God bless America.  

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 12/6/23
Everything outside is wet. Our fields are wet and what used to be our garden is now under water. I am doing some paintings, nothing spectacular, but I find my use of color to be fun. 
I saw the Fat guys girl friend at Market Fresh yesterday. She looked really bad. I suspect that she has been sick. I feel real sorry for her and I hope that she gets better.
I just purchased Liz Cheney’s new Book “Oath and Honor.” I have not read much of it but from what I have read, she seems to tell it like it is.  I knew that Donald Trump was bad news, but I had no idea how really bad he is and how horrible our America would be if he is ever re-elected.  The man wants to be dictator and he has a number of “enablers” who would be willing to sell out our democracy and our country in order to gain his’s favor .
From what I have heard from Trump, it would appear that his primary motivation is revenge. Both Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, say that he plans to go after the media. He will punish them and many will see jail time. He does not want an independent media or an independent Justice Department. He has plans to make them all completely subordinate to him.
He also plans to fire 50,000 Federal Employees. This way, there will be no deep state and those that want government jobs, will have to take a loyalty test and oath to him personally, rather than to the Constitution. 
Things will be different under the next Trump Presidency and our country will become a far cry from what it is now.
 

From: R. Patriot 11/29/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
The witch hunt against our former President continues and the 91 indictments against him have backfired.  More and more people support our President and more and more people feel that he is being unjustly persecuted. His enemies have tried to gag him and prevent him from defending himself, but he has proven to be unstoppable. When they tried to  stop him from talking about Judges, Court Clerks, and perhaps even potential Jurors, they are attempting to take away his First Amendment rights to free speech. He should be allowed to rally his followers, since they are they only ones who can stop him from being unjustly prosecuted. You would think that this was a third world banana republic the way the crooked Demorats are trying to persecute and level unjust charges against our former President. 
His enemies may soon be sorry, because if President Trump wins the 2024 election, there will be big changes and roles will be reversed. He will jail the real enemies of our nation and we may even see a resumption of executions, possibly even public ones. Real crooks like Hillary and the entire Biden crime family will be called to question, and there will be a complete stop of illegal immigration and gay marriage.  America will no longer be plunged into Socialism and the evils of Obama care will be stopped.  With Donald Trump, our Nation will truly be great again… and no one, no one will trifle with us. God help anyone who crosses Donald Trump, for God is with him.
God bless America. 


From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 11/29/23
Smokey seems to think that I need to write this blog in my own name.  He says that I am more politically astute than him. I suspect that he just does not have the time to write or do anything other than his work and school.  He is going to school full time and working part time. This, and his family duties, take up a good chunk of Smokies time.  
I am concerned about the rise of right wing Fascism in our country and in the world. 
Geert Wilders was just elected Prime minister of the Netherlands and it would appear that he wants to lead his country down the road to Fascism, as does the newly elected President of Argentina Javier Milei. They will join right wingers like Orban in Hungry, Modi in India, Netanyahu in Israel, Meloni in Italy, and Kaczynski in Poland.
Trump has told the world about his plans for the USA.  He plans to place his own people in the Justice Department, and overrule local law enforcement.  He will use the Insurrection Act to seize power, jail his enemies and establish a Fascist like government here in the USA.  
I have always wondered how Hitler was able to seize power in Germany, and now I am seeing it happen here in the USA.  I hope people are smart enough to see what Trump plans to do and will be willing to vote him and his supporters out. With vast amounts of money being spent on elections, voter caging, people being dropped from the voter rolls and gerrymandering of voters, we may see a minority of Fascists seize power here, regardless of how the majority of Americans vote.  
I hope that people will wise up before it is too late to protect their rights, and keep America democratic and free.. 


From: R. Patriot 11/22/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
We have a good reason why Donald Trump is our party leader. He is willing to work hard for us and he is not shy.  He says what he thinks. He is singlehandedly responsible for ending Roe v Wade. He promised that he would appoint anti-abortion justices and did just what he promised. He also, as the good book tells us, wants to punish women who kill babies by aborting them. He also pulled our troops out of Afghanistan, began peace talks with Russian and North Korea and will, like he did in Afghanistan, pull our troops out of NATO. We no longer need NATO and we no longer need wars, like those that Biden and his cronies are waging in the Ukraine. 
He will also work hard to protect our children, by banning books that teach racism, homosexuality, Socialism and pornography. He will jail librarians, teachers and others that refuse to eliminate books that teach this filth. 
He will bring stability to our government in America. He will protect us from the filth and vermin that are infesting us by illegally crossing our southern borders. He has already shown how he plans to accomplish this by utilizing the Insurrection Act, and setting up camps to imprison dissidents and illegal immigrants.  
We will never have to worry about our safety. Under Republican leadership and the Trump family, America will be safe and stable again. 
We all need to support President Trump and his family. Our nation and our freedoms will not survive without them
God bless America.

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 11/22/23
Halloween is over and now we have to get all geared up for Christmas. I think of myself as “spiritual, but I am not a Christian.  I also don’t believe that Christmas really is an actual Christian holiday. The early Christians borrowed from the Roman Saturnalia and pagan Solstice celebrations and replaced them with “Christmas.”  No one really knows when Jesus was born but Christmas was a good replacement for pagan holidays.  Today, commercialism has replaced the spiritual and Santa has replaced Jesus. Christmas is celebrated world wide in a number of Christian and non Christian countries. Merchants are happy to sell things and people, both secular and non secular, are happy to give and receive gifts 
Tomorrow we will be cooking a turkey, watching football on TV and celebrating Thanksgiving. This too, isn’t really a Christian holiday, but we all like food and Football, so what they heck. 
I see that the crooked Texas Attorney General is going to use the power of his Texas government to support Elon Musk in his bogus lawsuit against Media matters. Paxton was indicted for fraud 8 years ago and he has still not gone to trial. 
Multi Billionaire Elon Musk is throwing a slap suit at Media matters because they wrote a truthful article showing Twitter (now called “X”) running Nazi advertisements. Other advertisers read this article and have refused to advertise on “X” anymore. Musk (and Pazton) say that Media Matters is a “Far left organization” that wants to defame the good name of his “X” public media platform. 
It is a bogus slap suit and Musk has little chance of winning his suit, but legal actions can be a very expensive thing for a non profit like Media matters and that is what Musk wants to accomplish. 
Too bad that Musk wont use his money and power to do good things instead of supporting NAZI’s and racial hate groups. 

From: R. Patriot 11/15/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
Hurray for Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullen. He is and was willing to stand up for what is right and publicly challenge a Commie Marxist Labor Leader to a bear knuckle knock down and drag out fight. I think he scared the crap out of the old union guy.
I was disappointed in seeing the Republicans work with the Demorats in approving another “Continuing Resolution.” If they had any guts, they would have stuck to their guns and shut the damn government down until they got their way. I hope that they will show more guts when they have to vote again in January. 
I am looking forward to the November election next year. This will show the world that Donald Trump has captured both the hearts and minds of a Christian America. We will have no more witch hunts, but we will have genuine retribution. Donald Trump will start the purification process and clean America of Union and Marxist scum. He will reform our Civil Service and form a government that will work for America instead of working for lazy “woke” welfare kings and queens. 
Stand by folks for we will see a real work in progress… Donald Trump’s Christian America where the wrath of God will be spewed upon all of the enemies of God, truth and Freedom.
Looking forward to that day
God bless America.  

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 11/15/23
Smokey is working and going to school.  He is serious about what he is doing and is spending lots of his time here at home studying. Because he is busy, I will continue to write his blogs for him. 
Lots of things have happened this last week. Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin  Challenged the Teamsters President to a Fist Fight when the Teamster mentioned that Mullin has acted like a “Greedy CEO.”  It took Bernie Sanders to get them to calm down and act like grown ups instead of middle school brats.  Another Republican, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy elbowed Rep. Tim Burchett because he was one of the people responsible for removing McCarthy as speaker.  
My guess is that Republicans want others to think that they are “Manly Men” when they act violently toward others.
President Trump was noted to be reminiscent of Mussolini and Hitler in his New Hampshire Veterans Day speech. He called his opposition “Vermin, Marxists and radical left thugs”. He dehumanized his opposition and implied that they needed to be eliminated. 
It is no secret that Donald Trump has plans to use the Insurrection Act as soon as he is elected and has plans to construct “Camps” to send his opponents and suspected enemies. 
The Republican party has become not only the party of the wealthy and special interests but now a party of Dictatorship and Fascism.
I find it amazing that the people who support Trump and his preaching also claim to be Christian Patriots. 
If Americans buy this nonsense, then it will be the end of Americas’ two and a half centuries long experiment with democracy. 

From: R. Patriot 11/8/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
We had a great Platform Convention in Pendleton, this last month. Marvelous speakers and a wonderful occasion to be able affirm our stand for election integrity and our belief in law and order. 
I am so pleased that we have a wonderful Chair, Traci Brumbles. She exemplifies all the good things that Republicans Stand for. America, Christianity, and our Constitutional 2nd Amendment rights. 
The witch hunters continue in their battle to discredit and jail President Trump. They have tried to muzzle him and prevent him from using his 1st Amendment rights to discredit the opposition, judges, and court employees. So far they have been unsuccessful and he has managed to let the world know that he is innocent. 
These people had better be careful, because when he is elected again, he will go after all who have opposed him, including Bill Barr and the Biden crime family. 
He is the greatest President our nation has seen in our life times and my hope and prayer is that he will again achieve power and remain President for life. 
God is with us and we need to work hard to keep our nation Christian, white and free.
God bless America. 

From: Smokey (Suzanne) 11/8/23
Smokey is really busy with school and working part time for the Burger Place, so I get to write his blog for him again. I probably should post my name on future blogs since I (his wife) probably will be filling in for him each week 
I have noticed that MSNBC, Yahoo News and the Washington Post have all published stories about Trump’s plans for revenge. According to these news outlets, the first thing that Trump will do will be to sign an Executive order invoking the Insurrection Act. This way he will be able to use the Military to crush any demonstrations, or any attempts to protest his actions. 
Trump plans to fire existing Justice Department Employees and staff it with his own people, people who are loyal to him personally. He has published ambitious plans to take action not only against his political opposition, but also against people in his own party who he feels have been less than loyal to him. He has mentioned a number of people by name which include Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley; Lawyer, Ty Cobb; and Former Attorney General Bill Barr. He has also talked about prosecuting various people in the F.B.I. and Justice Department as well as the entire Biden family.  
If Trump is elected, the man plans to seize as much power as possible under the untested theory of being a “Unitary Executive.” He plans to do this as quickly as possible before anyone can take action to the contrary.
I have often wondered how a Progressive nation like Germany could have allowed someone like Adolph Hitler to come into power.  I now can see how Trump and his MAGA followers may accomplish for the USA what Hitler did for Germany. 
This is a chilling thought and if we are not careful, in 2024, it can happen here.

From: R. Patriot 11/1/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump. I had fun this Halloween. This year,  I didn’t put my dogs on my front porch,  I just posted a big sign that read “Quarantined for Covid”. I didn’t have any little urchins begging at my front door this year but big High School kids knocked on my door. I jumped out and told them that I would breath on all of them if they were not careful. They took off on a run. 
The witch hunt continues and the Demorats are spending valuable time accusing President Trump and his children of all sorts of fake financial crimes. Attorney General Letitia James (a Black Racist) is trying to make people believe that the President’s Children were aware of and knowingly participated in a long running scheme to falsely inflate the Trump company assets to get favorably terms for loans and insurance policies.  This is nonsense, but who knows what James’s Kangaroo court will come up with.  
Obviously we know that everyone is completely innocent
I do know that come the next election, when Donald Trump is put back into power, that there will be a reckoning. Some people had better be very afraid, because Donald Trump is not the sort of person who will abide disloyalty or dishonesty. 
Our nation needs a leader like Donald Trump and he will work hard to make our Country Great Again.  
God Bless America

From: Smokie (Suzanne) 11/1/23
Smokie has once again asked me to write his blog for him.  He is going to school and working part time at the St. Johns Restaurant.  He is pretty busy, but seems to think that he can handle school and still work part time. 
Don Jr. made his debut in court today regarding their fraudulent family business. Eric is scheduled to testify on Thursday. Donald Trump’s turn will be November 6th, and Ivanka November 8. I am particularly interested in what they have to say, particularly since they will all be under oath.  My guess is that they all will have memory problems. Don Jr. said that he never saw any important papers and was not sure what best accounting practices are.  
Donald Trump took time out to blast the judge and seems to think that he is not under any sort of a gag order. 
Listened to MSNBC and it would appear that Trump, if elected, plans to take revenge on all the people that have either slighted him or rubbed him the wrong way.  He, and his followers believe in the Unitary Executive.  He plans to consolidate all power under his control.  His plans are to install lawyers and judges who will support and take orders from him, regardless of the law. 
It would appear to me, that if he is re-elected that he will turn the USA into a full blown Fascist nation. 
Our fathers fought in a great war to stop Fascism, and it would be a shame to see the USA fall to this evil philosophy. 

From: R. Patriot 10/25/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
I am not looking forward to kids trick or treating at my house. Last year I made sure that a couple of my dogs were tied up on my front porch.  If it were not for neighbor complaints to the County, I would do it again.  I think I will just refuse to answer my door when they ring the door bell.
I am thrilled with the selection of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. He is a White Christian, God loving American. He is all that we have ever asked of our politicians.  He believes in President Trump and he knows that our election was stolen. Johnson stands for running our government on Christian principles. I am sure that he will do his best to stop abortionists from legally killing innocent children. Demorats may love child murder, but we Christian Republicans don’t. He also does not believe in fake science, be it the global warming hoax or forcing school children to be given dangerous vaccines. Above all, he will stop our nation from hemorrhaging money with the Ukraine. We need to pull out of that war, we have no business interfering with Russia’s domestic policies. 
It will be good to see our nation run again on good Constitutional principles, and stop the Demorat socialists in their tracks. 
I thank God that we have a Christian Nationalist speaking for our House of Representatives. God will prevail and our nation will again be run as a white Christian nation. God bless America. 

From: Smokie (Suzanne) 10/25/23
Sean is in school, Smokey is taking college classes and Rosie and I are home keeping things running.  Most everything (including our pumpkins) has been harvested from our neighborhood garden and I get to work on my art, (assuming that little Rosie lets me).
I am disgusted with the Republicans, they have pretty much brought our government to a stand still. We have Tommy Tuberville holding up all of our important military promotions, we have the threat of a government shut down in November, and Republicans have turned our House of Representatives into a clown show. They have finally, managed to select a speaker. The reason why they have taken so long to do so is that they refused to want to work across the isle with Democrats. They don’t want compromise or care about the wants or needs of better than half of America. They picked Mike Johnson from Louisiana. He is a MAGA election denier, who thinks vaccines are dangerous, thinks the January 6th Insurrection was a legitimate citizens exercise, global warming is a hoax, and wants to work hard to pass a national abortion ban.  
I suspect that he also would like to make Donald Trump President for life and be willing to let Vladimir Putin run our nation. 
I can’t believe that the Republicans would be so stupid or disloyal.  I am not looking forward to the next year and a half.  I am afraid that our government may come to a crashing stop. 

From: R. Patriot 10/11/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.  
I am disgusted with the Demorats. They have done nothing to help our nation or the world. They have allowed Hamas to attack Israel and have done nothing to stop this from happening.  As a good Christian, I am concerned about the State of Israel, because that is where the war of Armageddon will be fought and Christ will then again return and rule the earth. Jesus will throw the Communists, Socialists, and Democrats into hell fire and the world will see a rule of righteousness with Republican king Jesus. 
Donald Trump has the ability to bring on the Rule of Jesus. He promises that if elected, he will not allow the evil Deep State to exist.  He will fire millions of lazy federal employees and replace them with loyal Republican American patriots. He has an enemies list and with a new, stronger and loyal Justice department will jail his enemies and perhaps execute them, making it much easier for Jesus to begin his rule.   
If you care about good government, if you care about America, then you really need to support our countries only hope, Donald Trump. 
God Bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 10/11/23
Smokey had a day off on Monday.  No school, and he spent most of his time working around the house. He still asked me to write his blog for him again this week. 
Strange that the GOP is blaming the Democrats for the war in Israel.  In reality, they have no basis for doing this, when the GOP has gone out of their way to disable our own ability to act in the Middle East.  They have refused to approve the appointment of an Ambassador to Israel, and GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville has refused to allow the appointment of an Army Chief of staff or for that matter promotion of 100’s of military high ranking officers.  Our GOP house has not made any attempt to allow money for a military response on our part and seems set on shutting our government down in the next month and a half.  If one didn’t know any better, it would seem that the GOP is following orders issued by Putin’s Russia, rather than the American people.  
The GOP seems to be having a great deal of difficulty in choosing a Speaker for the House.  They have two major candidates, one a blatant racist and the other an insurrectionist. It should be apparent that as far as the GOP is concerned, the days of rational government are over.  The MAGA faction is in control of the Republican party and they don’t give a rip about helping our nation or the American people. They seem to want prevent us from being a functioning democracy and turn us into a racist fascist dictatorship.

From: R. Patriot 10/4/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.  Good riddance to Kevin McCarthy. He refused to do what President Trump asked him to do and went with the Democrats to prevent the government from shutting down. He is a traitor to our Country and to the Republican Party and should not be in as important a position as Speaker of the House.  
Republicans are now considering running President Trump as Speaker. There are no rules that would prevent him from assuming that position. Donald Trump was the greatest President our nation has seen in modern times and he did everything that he told us he would do. He was wealthy enough so that he donated all of his salary to charity.  He built a wall, he shut down our borders, and made illegal immigration very unpleasant.  Donald was responsible for saving the lives of millions of unborn babies and he protected us from George Soros, BLM and ANTIFA.  Donald Trump presided over the greatest economy our nation has ever seen; and yet he is being persecuted like no other former President ever has been. 
A corrupt Biden Administration with a corrupt Justice Department is accusing him of crimes when he has done no wrong. 
We need to stand up for Donald Trump, election integrity and white Christian America. 
Help us to rid America of an old corrupt senile poor excuse for a President. Make Biden a one term President and when he loses, he and a lot of other people really deserve to see jail time. God is on the side of the GOP and we all need to be on God’s side. As Christian Nationalists, let us all stand up for America and vote Republican.
God Bless America. 


From: Smokey (Suzanne) 10/4/23
Smokey is busy with school work, so that I am again writing his weekly blog, We are giving out pumpkins to all of the neighbors and just about anyone else who wants them.  Our community garden has really made a big hit with the neighborhood and we plan to continue with it again this next year.
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner began her show tonight with a discussion of Who will be Speaker of the House.  She mentioned, former House Speaker, Dennis Hastert who in 2015 admitted to sexually abusing a number of young people.  She then said that Jim Jordan, who witnessed and ignored sex abuse by another wrestling coach at Ohio State, and then pointed to Steve Scalise from Louisiana, who formally has been described as a “White supremacist.”   She pointed out that as human beings, Hastert, Jordan and Scalise all have less then desirable traits and (with the exception of Hastert)  want to become Speaker of the House. In addition to these people, we have Donald Trump who is being charged with 34 crimes and has proven to be a serial adulterer and rapist. Trump is now being suggested as Speaker of the House. 
 The House Republicans, under their leadership, have in the last year passed no meaningful legislation and under their lack of leadership are willing to allow our nation to go into default.  This is so disgusting and so very unamerican.  Have the Republicans no shame, are they stupid, or are they really just downright evil? I am amazed that  people will still vote for them.

From: R. Patriot 9/27/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.   

The walls are closing on the Biden Crime family and patriots like Marjorie Taylor Green, and Paul Gosar, are preparing Articles of Impeachment. Biden is probably one of the most corrupt politicians in history. He is not only corrupt, but he is also senile so that he can be easily manipulated by haters like George Soros and the Obama family

This last July, I signed a petition asking for school choice. I believe that parents should be allowed to choose what schools their children attend. I am a strong advocate for Parental rights. We should allow our children to be able to attend Christian schools and we should have them as part of our County School District. 
We need to stand up and prevent our schools from grooming our children. Children as young as 5 are being taught to become trans or gay. They are also being taught bad things about our county. 

If you love America, you will want our children to be proud of our county. We don’t want our children to grow up gay, trans or being Ashamed of America. We need to do as they have done in Florida, Texas and elsewhere, and make sure that our parental rights are heard and our children are taught to become Christian, straight, proud and to marry white. 

We should not allow our nation or our children to become mongrelized. We all need to  stand up for school choice.

God bless America.

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 9/27/23
Smokey is busy doing school work so I am writing his blog (again) this week. 
We have harvested most of our veggies for our neighbors. The remainder has been given to the food bank.  Our pumpkins look ripe enough so that there will be plenty for both our neighbors and others come Halloween time.   

I just read that Florida is leading the country in book bans. PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of bans in public school classrooms and libraries from July 2022 to June 2023 across the county. Out of these, about 1,400 (40%) took place in Florida. Texas registered the 2nd highest number of book bans, with 625 books followed by Missouri, Utah and Pennsylvania. 

The right wing wants to censor the books that people read.  They have banned books that have characters who are gay, trans and (gasp) colored. They also want to ban books that cast a bad light on things that we have done in the past. 
It would appear to me that the right wing not only is opposed to kids leaning about human sexuality, but they are also opposed to them learning about black history or discovering how we have treated native Americans, oriental populations, world events like the Holocaust and our own Internment of Japanese during WWII .  

You would think that we would want to understand history and try and learn from our own mistakes. It appears that there is a national movement, lead by our Republican party, to try and cover up or ignore the mistakes that we (and other people) have made in the past. 

It seems strange to me that our nation would be going down the same path as the NAZI’s and Fascists of Old and ban books, because our children might learn something that a bigot would not want them to learn. 

I believe that our schools should try to expand knowledge, understanding, and compassion instead of allowing for ignorance and fear. 

Book bans are wrong and I hope you are opposed to them as well. 

From: R. Patriot 9/20/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.   
I was contacted by a corporation asking if I would to sell my rentals to them. I will do that if they are willing to make it worth my while.  It would be one less worry for me.  I would not have to worry about collecting rentals or fixing things that my renters break. 
I just read in AMAC (Association of Mature American Citizens). That crooked Biden is trying to pass a rule to make it harder for any future Republican President to control the left leaning deep state. 
The article explains that of the 2.2 million federal workers only about 4,000 are Presidential appointees.  Of these federal workers over 95% are left wingers. These lefties remain on the job whenever a new President is elected and there is little that they can do to control them. 
President Trump was often frustrated by the deep state and many of his important policies were stopped or at least slowed down by these lefties.   President Trump, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy all have vowed to put a stop to this sort of government abuse. We need to bring Jacksonian democracy back to how we run our government.  
We need to stand up and prevent crooked Biden from permanently establishing this part of his left wing agenda. He is hiring trans, gay and women to jobs that belong to men.   Presidents should be able to again wrest control of the left wing deep state and make sure that we employ only patriotic Americans instead of sabotaging left wing zealots.   
God is with the GOP and we need to do God’s work.
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 9/20/23
Smokey is in school and so is Sean, and little Rosie has her nose out of joint. Since her dad and brother are now going to school, Rosie seems to be having a hard time understanding why she, a “big girl of 3 years” isn’t in school as well.  I guess I could enroll her in either Snoopyland or Creekside Academy, but I really hate to let go of her, 
I’m selfish, I really enjoy being with my little daughter.
I have been listening to the news and I am disgusted with our MAGA Republicans in Congress. It would appear that they are dead set on shutting our government down. They are anti vaccination and don’t want to support flue, COVID or RSV shots.  They don’t want to upgrade our national infrastructure, they are opposed to our supporting the Ukraine and they think that it is awful that President Biden is working to reduce the cost of drugs and supports workers’ rights and unions. They seem to be opposed to consumer protections, and child labor laws. So far, this Congress has not passed any meaningful legislation and it is evident to all that the MAGA crowd does not believe in Democracy, our system of government, or helping average Americans.  Republican Tommy Tuberville refuses to allow our military to promote their upper-level officers and it would appear that he, and others like him, are damaging our military preparedness.  All our MAGA Republicans seem intent on doing is making up untrue stories about open borders and Joe Biden’s son’s criminal actions.  Strange that the actions of Trump’s sons and daughter didn’t bother them at all, and they were (unlike Biden’s son) actually part of Trump’s Administration and actively involved in making policy decision. 
I am amazed that many Americans’ have been fooled by these people who are pretending to be patriots, but are in truth fascists trying to undermine our democratic republic. 

From: R. Patriot 9/13/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.  
I just hired my ex brother-in-law to help me do some plumbing on my rental units.  I have raised my rents, so I have to do some repairs. I don’t want to spend more money than I have to and being a good businessman, I need to cut corners where I can. 

I am pleased that the Patriots in our US House are starting an impeachment inquiry on the Joe Biden Crime Family. It is about time that they do something about one of the most corrupt President’s in history.  I know that this is true, because I have been told all about this on Fox, Brietbart, and Alex Jones network.  Multiple sources mean that the message is true.  You can’t believe the lies that you hear on the Mainstream media, but you can believe what you hear on the media that I listen to. 
We are facing a fiscal crises, open borders, runaway inflation, high gas prices and unjustified persecution of our last (and perhaps greatest) President. 

Biden is corrupt and he is working hand and glove with his crooked drug addicted son . It is about time that Americans wise up and impeach this senile fool. 

We really need to work hard to bring us back to the golden years of the 1890’s. We need to make America Great Again.
We need to be careful on how we vote.  We need to vote GOP (God’s Own Party). We need to save America from racist Commies like George Soros.  We need to protect our children from Child molesting Demorats.   Let us all work hard and make sure that America stays free, Christian and white.  

God Bless America.
 
From: Smokey 9/13/13
All ready for school and my first day of classes on September 26th.  All my books are purchased and I have finalized my schedule. 
We have harvested lots of veggies for our neighbors and for the food bank.  I am pleased that the Burger place is taking care of my neighbor who needed help. I got him a job.  They are happy with him, and he seems to be very happy with his job.  

Suzanne get’s the Thom Hartmann Newsletter and she shared this with me:
House Republicans have revived the infamous Swiftboat lie strategy that helped defeat John Kerry in 2004. In essence, it involves relentlessly lying about a candidate and smearing his or her name and reputation in the hopes it’ll shave a few points off their popularity with independent voters.

While virtually 100 percent of the men who served with Kerry in Vietnam spoke glowingly of his service, a group who did not serve with him made up lies and exaggerations.

Kerry and those who served with him tried to get the truth out, but, as Mark Twain is often credited as saying, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”

While Democrats prefer to win elections based on facts and policy positions, Republicans — not having anything to offer average Americans — instead default to slander and lies. Like with Obama’s birth certificate. Or Hillary’s email and Benghazi.
Wouldn’t most people, after all, resort to lies if all they had to offer was:

— Forcing 10-year-olds to carry their rapist’s babies to term,
— More guns to slaughter more American children,
— Tax cuts for billionaires,
— More fossil fuels to create out-of-control weather,
— A government shutdown to cause a recession,
— And a Russian victory in Ukraine?

I am amazed that people still think that the they are being helped by Republicans. I hope people will be wise in the way that they cast their ballots this next year. 


From: R. Patriot 9/6/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.  
I went ahead and did as I promised to do and evicted three families who have been traditionally late in paying their rent.  You should have seen them howl and their kids cry. I told them that it was my Christian duty to do what I have done. I hope they all learn how to become responsible citizens. Our nation does not need more free loaders.  
Personally, I believe that left wing programs like free kids lunches, food stamps, and free school all encourages this sort of behavior. In the old days people were able to stand on their own.  People would work and save for the future. 
Because of far left politicians, this is no longer so.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is now putting together Articles of Impeachment to remove Biden, a corrupt would be dictator. 
We need to jail both Biden and his crooked son for their misuse of their political office.  Sadly, we now have a senile, brain dead President who is actively conducing a witch hunt against former President Trump. 
Biden is lying about our economy and even when he says it is good, we know that things are bad. What they don’t seem to realize is that the more Biden tries to hurt President Trump, the stronger our former President becomes.  He is a strong man, a strong leader and a man that God has appointed to lead our nation. President Trump, when elected will jail the crooks who oppose him and he will lead us on to great things. 
Under President Trump, America will truly become great again.
God bless America. 

From: Smokey 9/6/23
I am getting all ready to go back to school. I have done most of my advanced paperwork and am ready to hit the books again.  In the meantime, I was able to help a neighbor, who had some injuries,  get a job with the Burger Place.  He was having some financial problems since he was not able to work for a while.  Suzanne and I have helped them buy some groceries over the last few months.  Today,  I was able to make sure that he was employed.  With a job he will now be able to get back on his feet.  
Suzanne says that there is a group called “No Labels” that wants to establish itself as a third party.  They seem to have quite a bit of money, and no one seems to know who is financing them.  She thinks that their purpose is to pull votes away from President Biden and get Trump re-elected. She also wonders if they are being financed by some foreign country like Saudia Arabia or Russia. It is really strange that they won’t tell anyone where there money is originating from. 
My wife also mentioned that there is another group, called “Moms for Liberty.”  This Mom’s group is an active right wing organization and stands opposed to abortion, public education, gays, Hispanics, and other minorities. It is no surprise that, despite their name, they are not for liberty, at least not for poor and working people.
People need to know that the name of an organization does not always say what an organization stands for.
There are a number of right wing organizations that are actively trying to discredit President Biden. They like to make out that he is senile and they tell numerous lies about him and his accomplishments. 
Lots of people don’t realize that under our president, we now have the greatest job growth of any industrialized nation.  We also have the lowest rate of inflation of any industrialized county, the lowest unemployment and the best economy that we have ever seen in the last sixty years.  President Biden, under the “Build Back Better  Act” is responsible for lowering drug prices and bringing manufacturing back to the USA.
Despite right wing lies and opposition, our President has accomplished a tremendous number of good things for our country. 


From: R. Patriot 8/31/23
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
Ha!  I hired a good Jewish lawyer to help me write up new rental leases. There is a shortage of rentals in our community and I see this as an opportune time to be able to raise rents. I have done the paper work to get the Sheriff to evict some of the people who have gotten behind in their rent. I am a Christian man and I don’t believe in supporting free loaders. 
I expect the house to have articles of impeachment for Biden very soon.  He should be impeached for his corruption and Hunters laptop.  Even if he is not impeached he should not be allowed to run again for President.  He is far too old and he is not near as athletic or in as good a shape as President Trump.  Biden is senile and can’t even speak a coherent sentence by himself. A good example is that he can’t ride a bicycle without falling off. On a darker note, he is probably also a child molester. You can tell this by just looking at him and seeing how he fawns over small children and babies. 
President Trump’s doctor has declared him to be in better physical shape than any
Text Box: From: R. Patriot 12/18/24
God bless America, the GOP and God’s anointed, who will be our returning President, Donald Trump.
I am cutting a big check that I plan to send to the “Save America PAC” to help President Trump defray some of his outstanding expenses. Running for President while fighting dozens of capricious court actions can be very costly. The small amount that I am able to send won’t solve his problems, but every little bit will help.
I am looking forward to President Trump making our nation better for all of us. He will make sure that America will again the shining light on the hill that all other nations will look up to. Americans can, again, hold their heads up and be proud.
When you give money to Donald Trump, you are actually doing God’s work, since he is God’s choice to rule America. 
President Trump is appointing the very best and wisest people that our nation has to help him lead our country. He has planned ahead and if Congress does not support his appointments, then he will just make Interim appointments when Congress is not in session. Hopefully, no one will stand in President Trump’s way and try to stop him from making our nation better. He is God’s chosen one and people better not mess with God.
I am looking forward to a bright and glowing future.
God bless America. 


From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 1218/24
School is out for Smokey and it is Winter break. Instead of working at home his employer (which is paying for his school) plans to have him work Summers and during winter break. Smokey, seems happy to oblige so I am writing his blog for him. 
We have been sending money to ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the Food Bank. I hope what I send will help.  I am very concerned about the direction our nation is going, when people elected a man who campaigned on hate, fear and vengeance.  I was told that people voted for Trump because they thought that he would lower the price of eggs. I expect inflation to run wild, if Trump is allowed to institute a multitude of Tariffs on all of our trading partners. 
I am also disgusted with his Cabinet choices. It would appear that his choices are being given as rewards to favorite Fox TV hosts, big contributors, friends and relatives. 
He has picked family, crooks, conmen and sex abusers for high government posts. Not only is he planning to rule like a petty tyrant, but one who only wants sycophants to nod “yes” instead of giving him good advice. 
My fear is that America may not survive the next four years. I do hope that I am wrong and kinder, wiser heads will prevail. 

From: R. Patriot 12/11/24
God bless America, the GOP and our returning President, Donald Trump.
I noticed a bunch of damn kids riding their bicycles in front of my place. It’s early afternoon and I am surprised that they aren’t in school. My live-in girlfriend says that Wednesday is an early release day.
I am a taxpayer and I resent the schools letting kids out early.
I am looking forward to Donald Trump implementing a Department of Government Efficiency. It is about time that we run our nation as a business instead of a service.  We don’t need a Commy-socialistic government of Demorats. We are all paying too much in taxes and it is about time that this sort of crap stops. Thank God for Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.  I bought a mug with both of their pictures on it from Etsy. I bought the mug as a reminder that these  people (along with JFK Jr., Dr. Oz, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and others will help make America great again. 
I trust President Trump’s choices. I am sure that the rest of America will as well. These people are the best of the best and we are so lucky to have them helping our President run the greatest country in the world. 
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 12/11/24
Smokey has finished all of his finals. I asked him  how he thought he did, and he responded with a “I-done’-know” (one word). I guess that is a definite maybe.  I suspect that he did just fine, because he spent a lot of time studying. 
Both Smokey and I are doing well, but I question whether we will have any Social Security or Medicare in our futures.  Trump is appointing both Musk and that rich kook Ramaswamy to form a Department of Government efficiency.  One of their stated plans is to fire two thirds of all Federal workers. What they will accomplish by doing this will be to eliminate almost all government services. They also want to turn Social Security over to Wall Street and eliminate actual Medicare and Medicaid. 
My fear is that old people and the disabled will be turned out into the streets to die, hungry and homeless. They have stated that they plan to do all of this through “Executive Action” rather than by rule of law. They are planning to have our nation’s top executive rule by proclamation...Like a king or a true Dictator. 
I can’t believe that people are this dumb to allow this to happen. They have elected a man who wants to destroy government services to the needy and rule only for the rich and very wealthy.
If Congress allows them to get away with their plans, it will be the death of our American Dream and the end of almost 250 years of our American Democracy. 
 
From: R. Patriot 12/4/24
God bless America, the GOP and our returning President, Donald Trump.
I am really disgusted about hearing that the St. Helens School District is filled with sex offenders. I wonder how these people were ever hired and how it is that they were still allowed to teach.  They need to fire all of the teachers, administrators and their entire school board. 
I was listening to St. Helens Mayor Jenn Massey and I agree with her when she says that the problem could be solved by hiring more police. Thank God that we have Donald Trump as President.  He will make a clean sweep of sex offenders in our government and schools. I am looking forward to President Trump’s big sweep of our government.
In the meantime, poor Rudy Guiliani is being fined millions of dollars that he doesn’t have, just because he asked the wrong questions about the last election.  
There are so many wrongs about our government that need righting.  Thank God that Donald Trump is again in power.  He alone will save us. 
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 12/4/24
It’s finals week at college and Smokey is hitting the books and sweating. He has done real well so far, and I really expect him to do good, despite his worries. 
I sold some of my art, yesterday, and used my commission to send a fairly large donation to Planned Parenthood. They need the money, but I suspect that what I sent was just a “drop in the bucket.” 
President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly and infamously been accused of sexual assault and misconduct, is now filling his Cabinet with multiple men who have allegedly committed the same type of violence. He plans to fill his Cabinet with Election deniers, crooks and incompetents. I believe that what he is creating might be called a Kakistocracy. The definition of Kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. I never thought that we, in our life times, would see this happen to our country. 
My fear is that this may be ushering in the end of what is left of our democratic system of government. 
I hope that I am wrong, and that good sense will prevail both in the Democratic as well as the Republican parties and that Congress will provide a positive check on Trump and his cohorts bad decisions. 

From: R. Patriot 11/27/24
God bless America, the GOP and our returning President, Donald Trump. He is God’s anointed and our creator lifted him up so as to bring America back to the greatness of yore.  
My live-in girl friend and I were disgusted when we discovered that there won’t be any local restaurants open on Thanksgiving. It looks as if we will have to go into Portland and  eat at Dennies, if we want a Thanksgiving meal.  None of my kids want anything to do with me, and frankly, the feeling is mutual.  One positive thing is that I don’t have to buy any of them Christmas presents. 
Great things will be coming to America. No more will we see hoards of brown skinned illegals pouring over our borders. They are (as our New President tells us) “vermin” bringing in crime and disease. They are living on our welfare and our good will and they are misusing our hard earned tax money.  
President Trump will make sure that we will finally see our country prosperous again and we all will prosper with it. We will quickly get out of Biden’s recession and Americans (with the help of our President’s Tariffs) will see our local manufacturing grow. President Trump’s may actually bring about the end to the need for an Income tax and we will find other countries, pay to make our country prosperous again.

I am pleased and thankful that we will be part of MAGA and will do our part to make America great Again 
God bless America.

From: Suzanne 11/27/24
No politics today. We don’t need political pundits telling us how great they will make our country or why a certain political persuasion is better for us than others. 
It is Thanksgiving and our family plans to celebrate the day with turkey, sweet potato’s, pies and appreciation for all the good things that we need to remember.  In Wikka, we celebrate Maybon on November 23rd, the Autumn Equinox, a time of balance when leaves change and all take the time to give thanks. Mabon is a pagan festival that holds deep significance for those who honor the cycles of nature and the divine feminine. We Wiccans use this time to explore the significance of Mabon and try and connect ourselves to the essence of this magical season. 
It is never wrong to give thanks for our creation and for all the good in our world. That is why we also celebrate the traditional American Thanksgiving. 
All peopled, all groups and all cultures celebrate some sort of thanksgiving.  It is in our nature.  It is also a positive thing, and one that builds up and strengthens the spirits of all who take the time to be thankful.  
We pray for hope, and we wish that all will celebrate a time of blessed thankfulness.  
As we say in Wicca: “Blessed be.”  

From: R. Patriot 11/20/24
God bless America, the GOP and our returning President, Donald Trump. He is busy reforming government and will protect our nation and our borders from brown skinned Commie Socialist felons. 
I see that the radical left has problems with his proposed cabinet selection.  I don’t see how they will be able to stop him, since he will just wait until they recess and make his appointments when Congress is not in session.  He can also just appoint them all as Interim members. No matter what, I believe that President Trump will get his way and appoint one of the best qualified and loyal cabinet members in history. 
People need to understand that President Trump will continue to reform the government in Washington.  President Trump always keeps his promises.  He made promises to eliminate the “Deep State” and replace them with patriots who are loyal to him and his ideals.  He has already chosen qualified and loyal Americans like Matt Gaetz, Peter Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  All of these people will assist President Trump in his attempts to make America great again. 
Good times are coming folk. We will expel,  eliminate and exterminate vermin.  We will get rid of immigrant hoards and criminals. We will have an army that is loyal to our President.  President Trump will usher in a nation of high ideals, prosperity and peace.  Our nation will once again become a shinning example of Prosperity and greatness. The rest of the world will look in envy at the new American dream.
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 11/20/24
Just a week until Thanksgiving. The kids are busy at Middle and Pre-school, Smokey is hard studying at the University and I am playing catchup.  I am working on a series of life sized busts and small statuettes for the Oswego gallery. My house needs cleaning, and I plan to hire our 12 year old to do some vacuuming.
I am pretty depressed with the election results and totally upset with Trump’s Cabinet picks.  Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.   None of these people are qualified.  Matt Gaetz is a drug using sex offender and is no way qualified to be our nations leading law enforcement officer. 
Pete Hegseth has been accused of rape. He did serve in the military, but he still has no experience in managing people much less a huge agency like the Defense Department. He wants to fire Generals and only promote people who are loyal to Trump (rather than to the USA).  
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is an avid support of Putin and wants to give the Ukraine to him. She has the support of Russian State TV. Hard to believe that our new President would put a traitor like her in charge of National Security.  
Robert Kennedy is a mess, he will be in charge of our national health programs. He has no real medical training, but that does not seem to stop him from spreading his crack pot ideas.  He is anti vaccine, anti fluoridation. He wants to fire hundreds of senior officials at the National Institute of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.
It should be apparent to all that Trump is planning to undo and end our system of government...God help us all if he succeeds.  


From R. Patriot 11/13/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man who will again be our President Donald Trump. He will save our nation from the disastrous recession that Biden and the Democrats have created and make things better for us all.
We will again be able to drill, drill, drill and petrodollars will flow through America.
Project 2025 will be a blueprint for our success. Obamacare will be repealed and replaced with a better system. Social Security will become privatized, given to Wallstreet, where it will earn us dividends. Our nation will become a bright shining example for the rest of the world and everyone will be grateful for what our president creates for us.  Our borders will be safe again and we will see law and order instead of Antifa riots. Inflation will be stopped, our taxes will be lowered and because of new tariffs, American manufacturing  jobs will again become abundant. We will no longer need NATO and other nations will pay their way instead of being free loaders.  
President Trump will bring peace to both the Ukraine and to Israel. 
Life will be better for the American people than it ever has been and historians in the future will look at the Trump Presidency as the “American Golden Age.”
God sent us Donald Trump, God saved his life twice so that he could again save America. Thank you God for giving us Donald Trump.  
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 11/13/24
Smokey is hitting the books and I am in the process of doing some medium sized carvings as part of a commission for the Lake Oswego Gallery.  
I am sending Rosie to a pre-school. She is only 4, but she has already started reading. Sean is 12, growing like a weed and is loving being able to go to Middle School. 
It would appear that I now have time to be creative and make full use of my studio. 
I am very upset with the results of this last election. I am amazed that America voted to elect an old incompetent, would be dictator, to the office of the Presidency. Evidently his being an adjudicated rapist, serial philanderer, cheat, liar, conman means nothing to his followers. They don’t seem bothered that he stole Classified documents and is in support and communication with enemies of the USA.  Trump lacks compassion, humanity and likes to surround himself with other crooks. His last Administration had more corruption than any in recent history. Many of his last cabinet was forced to resign because of their illegal activities. It would appear that some of the same people will be in his new administration. 
Trump’s hand picked Supreme court has stated that a President can’t be held responsible for any illegal actions as long as they are “official acts.” This should scare the crap out of anyone with half a brain.  Giving Trump unlimited power is like giving a Pyromaniac matches and a can of gasoline. 
My fear is that trump and his billionaire friends will run roughshod over America. I hope that there will still be some of our country left after Trump finishes with us.

From: R. Patriot 11/5/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump.
Ha ha. My dogs scared the crap out of all those Halloween brats. My live in girlfriend wanted to give out candy, but I put my foot down and said “no”. Women like strong men like myself. I didn’t have a single kid ring my doorbell. 
My live in girlfriend and I cast our ballots last Friday. I wanted to be a ballot watcher, wear my AR15 and challenge suspicious voters. For some reason some useless cops  intervened and wouldn’t allow me to guard the Courthouse ballot drop box. 
I expect to see Donald Trump win. I am not sure if he will here in far left Oregon, but I expect the rest of the nation to be wise enough to cast a vote for a man who truly loves America. The only way that he would lose is if this (like the last election) is fixed.  If it is, they had better be careful, because the American people will not be quiet.  Donald Trump is an American Success Story.  He has pulled himself up by his own boot straps and become a very successful billionaire. He is a business genius and he will use his genius to run our country in the very best way possible. He will protect our industry with massive tariffs on imports and protect the American people with massive tax cuts… 
His economy will out pace the rest of the world.
God has given us Donald Trump and Trump will save America.
God bless America.

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 11/5/24
Had a grand time on Halloween. Smokey (at his insistence)  took the kids out Trick or Treating.  The kids did not go up on the fat guys porch, since he had his mean dogs tied up to prevent anyone from ringing his door bell. I stayed home and gave out candy and enjoyed seeing kids in costume. Our kids did well, and it would appear that they had enough so that they were willing to share their candy with us. 
Today is Election day.  Both Smokey and I cast our ballots this last week. We took our time and read the Voters Pamphlet and discussed the issues before casting our ballots. We took our ballots down to an Official Dropbox at the County Courthouse.  I love our Oregon system.  This is so much better than having to wait in line to cast our votes. 
I am apprehensive in regards to the election.  My fear is that Harris will get the popular vote, but Trump may get the Electoral vote.  Trump says that he is “Pro America” but he (and Elon Musk) both appear to be supporters of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. 
If Trump loses, the Republican party brand will be broken since Trump has pilfered much of the Republican party funds to help pay off his legal bills. My other fear is that if Trump loses, that he will not lose gracefully and we may see a re-occurrence of something like the January 7th riots… only bloodier. 
Trump is promoting fear, hate and violence, and my fear is that we may see what he has promoted.
I hope that I am wrong and that we will have a peaceful election aftermath.  

From: R. Patriot 10/30/24.
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump.
I am ready for Halloween. I will do what I did last year, and tie my Rottweilers to my front porch. Let’s see how many kids will get past them.
I was inspired by the wonderful turnout that President Trump had at his Madison Square Garden Rally. It was filled with both promise and good natured humor. I was amused when I heard that the Demorats were offended. They are easily offended by anything that President Trump or his supporters say, so this was nothing new. I listened to much of the rally and I saw nothing wrong with any thing. 
Donald Trump’s plan is to do away with all of our taxes.  He will put Elon Musk in charge of reducing the deficit.  Musk has promised to cut two trillion dollars from the budget. J.D. Vance Spoke, Musk Spoke and even Milana got to speak. It was a wonderful event. 
The Washington Examiner says that RFK jr. will also be part of the Trump Administration. He will be in charge of Health and human services. He will put a stop to mandatory vaccinations and other Demorat programs that prevent our nation from being great. He will make sure that our nation remains healthy and strong.
People need to know that Donald Trump Is the promised one of Jesus. He is the man that will save America from the satanic Demorats. He will make us great again.  
Vote for a man of God, vote for Donald Trump
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 10/30/24
I plan to take the kids Trick or Treating tomorrow. Sean (who is 12) wants to go out with his friends, and little Rosie, who is 4, is still too young to go out by herself.  I think I may use the mini-van and take both the kids and their friends out.
I listened to Vice President Harris’s “Closing arguments” speech last night. I believe that this was the best political speeches that I may have ever heard.  The Vice President offered a “Different Path” than Trump.  She mentioned that they both had a list. While Trump has a list of enemies and people who he will take revenge on; Harris has a list of things that she will do for the American people.  
Her message was not one of hate, fear and revenge, but one of help and promise. She promised to be a President for all of the people, not just for those who support her.  She addressed 75,000 people, far more than Trump did during his racist hate filled Madison Square Garden Rally. The New York Times called Trump’s rally “ A carnival of  Grievances, misogyny, and racism.”
I kept on thinking that America is better than what the criminal rapist Trump is trying to serve up. He is promising  concentration camps, enemy lists and even executions.  No wonder many of his former Cabinet members call him a Fascist.  
Harris is truly offering a better path, one that will build and support America and American democracy. One that will help instead of punish people. 
I certainly hope that our nation is smart enough to see the difference. 

From: R. Patriot 10/23/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump.
Damn my neighbor; the mobile home is gone, but there is a big truck parked in front of his house to take it’s place.  I am offended by this and I think he is doing it just to spite me because I called the Sheriff on him.
I am enthused. President Donald Trump’s rallies are bigger than ever and all the polls show that he is going to win. The only way that he could lose is if the Chinese help the Demo-rats, again cheat and steal the election. 
The press is all owned by liberal Jews and they are continually publishing lies about President Trump.  
President Trump is a financial genius,  our nation had the best and greatest economy the world has ever seen. We had no inflation and everyone prospered.  
We are now menaced by hoards of pet eating vermin swarming into our nation. We are being besieged by crime, rape, murder and theft because of Biden’s open border policies. I agree with President Trump, that these illegals are poisoning the blood of our nation. 
Biden, and Harris are responsible for our inflation, Gas prices, grocery prices and the cost of living has grown to record levels under their administration. They have become the enemy of the people. 
People need to realize, that Donald Trump has been sent by God to purge our nation of evil, and purify our nation so that it will forever be safe for our women and children.
God is on our side and so is Donald Trump
God bless America.



From: Smokey (by Suzanne his wife) 10/23/24
Smokey is hitting the books today and I have persuaded him to allow me to write his blog this week. 
Our garden is pretty much harvested, there are still some pumpkins out in the garden and people are welcome to them. I suspect most have been picked over, but there are still a few good ones.
I see Trump is still bloviating threats.  He says that he plans to destroy the “enemies within.” When pressed upon what he means, he says that he plans to enact retribution on Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff as well Obama and the Clintons. He wants to court-martial General Milly for Treason.  He has said that he plans to suspend the FCC licenses of ABC and other networks who have not treated him “fairly.”  He has plans for the New York Times and other news papers that print unflattering news for him.
Trump’s former Chief of Staff General Mark Kelly says that Trump is a “Fascist to the core” and has heard him question why anyone would serve in the military and on occasion speak about soldiers as “suckers and losers.” 
People seem to think that Trump is becoming more and more erratic and certainly more dangerous then ever.
President Biden has brought us an economy that is the envy of the world. We have the lowest inflation in the industrialized world, and crime is at a 60 year low. The Republicans (after being urged by Donald Trump) voted against a bipartisan bill that would have hired more Border Patrol and strengthened our boarders.  Even without this legislation, we still have fewer illegal entries into our nation than under Trump. 
One would hate to think about what will happen to America if Trump is ever put in power again, or would happen to the world if he is ever again given the nuclear codes.
You had better think about this before you consider voting for him. 

From: R. Patriot 10/16/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump. 
The neighbor still has his motorhome parked on my street overnight in front of his house. I will continue to call in complaints until the police take action. 
I am looking forward to Donald Trump winning the Presidency.  I have learned from him that over 12 million illegals are pouring over our Southern border. They are not the best, but the refuse from prisons and mental hospitals. They are spreading crime and disease across the nation. They are stealing our jobs, our women and diluting the blood of our nation. White people will soon become a minority. President Trump will save America by staging the greatest deportation in the history of our nation.  He will build camps and put illegals and his enemies in them.  He will save us from the “Deep State” by firing 50,000 Civil Service workers and replacing them with people who are loyal to our ideals of good government. Donald Trump has the support of the white African genius, Elon Musk. Donald Trump will incorporate Musk’s genius ideas into making a new and better government for America, a government that won’t be hampered by the deep state and bureaucratic laws.
God has promised us Donald Trump and he will save America from the evils that threaten us all. He will eradicate crime and civil dissent. America will, once again be safe for families and he will protect both our women and our children.
Help America, vote to save America, vote Republican and Donald Trump
God bless America.

From: Smokey 10/16/24
I had a day off this week and I thought that it would be nice to write my own blog instead of having Suzanne writing it for me. 
I have classes in marketing, ethics, finance and business law this term. I have to admit that they are not easy classes, but require quite a bit of study on my part. Despite this, and even though Susanne does a better job than me,  I still like being able to write my own blog.
Suzanne says that Trump wants to change the Supreme Court’s Times vs Sullivan decision regarding political free speech. He has said that when he takes over as President that he plans to have the FCC suspend ABC’s broadcast license, because he believes that the moderators treated him unfairly during his debate with Kamala Harris. Also, according to what Suzanne heard on the Rachael Maddow show, Trump wants to put MSNBC on trial so that he can jail and execute some of their moderators. 
This does not sound very democratic to me, in fact, it sounds like something a third world dictator would end up doing. 
General Mark Milley, Trump’s former Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff, said that Donald Trump is a “Fascist and Dangerous.
Trump responded by implying that Genera l Miley is a Traitor and has committed treason by making these statements. 
This is not the sort of remarks that are made by a democratically elected President or anyone else that has half an understanding of our system of government. 
Be careful this November when you vote. Make sure that your vote does not help put an end to our American system of democracy.   


From: R. Patriot 10/9/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump. 
My neighbor is deliberately trying to aggravate me. The log truck was gone when the Sheriff came by and now it has been replaced with a motor home. I still think I might call the State Police and see if they can do something about him. 
I just purchased for my self a Silver Gold Tone Trump Watch for Christmas. It cost $500 but it is a collectors item and will appreciate in value.  https://gettrumpwatches.com/collections/fighter.  I am sure that I will receive my watch before Christmas. Most of his watches are already sold out. I am still waiting on my “God Bless America Bible.” I expect to get it any day, along with my Trump Sneakers.  All of these things are good investments, because by giving to Donald Trump, I am investing in America. 
Donald Trump is a fighter and he will fight for all of us. He will protect us from open borders and criminal illegal immigrants with bad genes. He will stand up and protect our women from the vermin that is trying swarm into our country. 
Donald Trump is the only one who can save us from Pet eating sub human monsters and trans sexual deviants. Donald Trump will stop schools from operating on our children and changing their sex. He will save babies and put an end to people aborting children after they are born. 
If you want our women to be safe, if you want America to be respected again and no longer be laughed at, then you had better cast your vote for a real American, Donald Trump.
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s Wife) 10/9/24
Smokey is hitting the books and I, again, will be writing his blog.  We took the last of our sweet corn and our poll beans to the food bank. We still have lots of pumpkins for the neighborhood kids.  Other than that, we have pretty much harvested everything from our garden.  
Trump and the Maga crowd are crazier then ever. Trump is spreading so many lies it is hard to keep up with them. He has lied about the Haitians in Springfield eating pets, he has lied that the Haitians were illegal immigrants, he is lying that President Biden is refusing aid to Republican counties hit by Hurricanes, he is lying in telling people that that the immigrants are diseased, criminals, and rapists. He is lying in saying that immigrants are causing an increase in crime (actually crime has dropped substantially since Biden became President).  He lied when he said that Kamala Harris was Biden’s immigration Czar, he (along with his many followers) lied when they said that Biden has open borders… or that Harris wants to legalize Fentanyl.  He isn’t alone in lying either, M.T.G. from Georgia (The lady who told us about Jewish Lazers) said that that the Democrats are directing Hurricanes to hit predominantly red states.  The sad thing is that Margorie Taylor Greene is a college graduate and knows better. Not only does she know better, but anyone with half a brain would know better as well. My guess is that she is directing her crazy lies at her followers, since the majority of them probably have double digit I.Q.’s in order to believe the nonsense she and trump are feeding them.   
Hey, be smart, vote Blue in November. 

From: R. Patriot 10/2/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump.
This neighborhood is going to hell. My neighbor no longer has a boat trailer in front of his house, he now has a log truck.  I Have been calling the Sheriff. This is a residential area, and if the Sheriff refuses to do something, I will call the State Police.  I also found a bag full of corn and tomatoes on my front porch. I don’t know who put it there, but I don’t appreciate people giving me stuff like that, ‘case it isn’t welcome.
I listened to the Vice President debate last night. J. D. Vance made a fool of Walz. He showed him to be a liar when he said he went to Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square demonstration.  Vance made sure that people knew that Illegal immigrants are responsible for violent crime and illegal Haitians are a problem in Springfield. He reminded America that Harris was Biden’s Border Czar and that our nation is suffering from Biden’s open border policies.  He was interrupted by a moderator who tried to illegally fact check him. He stood up and called her on her blatant gaff. The debate was so lop sided. The moderators were terribly biased against Vance and yet Vance managed to overcome their interruptions and clearly ended up as the debate winner. 
We need leaders like J.D. Vance and Donald Trump.  Leaders who are willing to stand up to authority and are not stopped or discouraged by nay sayers or fact checkers. 
God is on the side of the GOP and we now have strong leaders who will stand up to the Godless Demorats and far left commies. We are armed and willing to fight for God and our leaders.
God bless America. 

From: Suzanne (Smokey’s wife) 10/2/24
Smokey started School this week and he is buried in his books so I am writing his blog.  Our community garden is seeing some good use and we brought several sacks of corn and tomatoes to the food bank.  I even left some corn, beans and tomatoes on the fat guy’s porch. There is no reason not to share, even if he won’t appreciate the gesture. 
I listened to the Tuesday night Vice Presidential Debate. Tim Walz came off as a good human being, and J.D. Vance a smooth and soulless debater.  Overall, the debate appeared to be relatively civil, although I was disturbed when I listened to J.D. Vance saying that we have “open borders” (particularly when illegal immigration is lower under Biden than it was under Trump). He also repeated the lies that the Haitians in Springfield are illegal (They are legally there and at the request of the city). The Moderator corrected Vance and he shot back that “You are not supposed to fact check me.”  He then continued to repeat the falsehood that Kamala Harris was Biden’s Border Czar (A non-existent position). 
The worst part of the debate was J.D. Vance’s refusal to accept the January 6th insurrection as an illegal attempt to overturn a legal election. 
On Monday, Rachael Maddow had a segment where she explored some of J.D. Vance’s lack of concern for democracy, our Constitution, or the continuation of our nation’s democratic Republic.  In many ways he appears to be even more frightening than Donald Trump. 
Last word, is that Donald Trump is the oldest person ever to run for the Presidency, he  is overweight and his health is questionable. There is a very good chance that if elected that he might die in office and Vance will become President. 
America Beware!

From: R. Patriot 9/25/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump.
My neighbor still has his boat trailer parked in front of his house. The Sheriff hasn’t done a thing about it.  I noticed that someone let the air out of one of it’s tires. It serves him right, but I won’t rest until he removes that eyesore from our street. 
I love to listening to President Trump. He will do so much for all of us.  He will cut taxes for us all and charge other countries tariffs to bring in more money to our country. Donald Trump will protect us from Marxists like Harris and Walz and will provide us with a health plan that is the best in the world. 
How do I know?  I know because I heard Donald Trump tells that he will do all of these things. He has a number of concepts that he is working with. 
Donald Trump will stop the conflicts in the Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon. He will lower our cost of living.  Donald Trump showed his faithfulness to the American people by fulfilling all of his promises that he made in 2016 and he brought us the best economy our country or the world has ever seen.  All Harris and Walz want to do is turn America into a Commie-Socialist “People’s state.” We need to keep America free by electing a strong leader and stable genius like Donald Trump. 
God bless America.

From: Smokey 9/25/24
I just went to the PSU book store. Next week, I will be in school.  There is nothing cheap about text books.  Our garden is being harvested and we have lots of fresh veggies for the neighborhood, as well as the food bank. We also have a nice pumpkin patch and some really nice looking pumpkins.   
Kamala Harris has a number of good economic plans. She wants to create more U.S. manufacturing. She also is planning to provide subsidies for new home buyers and  programs for child care. She wants to lower taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year.  She also plans to help small companies and family businesses. She also has plans to reduce the price of pharmaceuticals and groceries. 
Trump wants to put massive Tariffs on everything.  It is evident that he does not realize that tariffs are not paid by other countries but by consumers in the USA. New teriffs also mean that other countries will slap tariffs on American goods making it difficult for us to maintain a balance of trade and ruining markets for American products. 
Trump also wants to cut taxes on our wealthiest… Something that he did when he was President and something that did nothing for the majority of Americans. 
Most of Trump’s rantings  are personal attacks, name calling and spreading fear and hate. He offers nothing to help small business and manages to spread outright fabrications about people and events. 
Trump has no plans to help the average American. It is a shame that his supporters can’t see this. 

From: R. Patriot 9/18/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should and will be our real President, Donald Trump.
The cops haven’t done a single thing about my neighbor’s boat trailer sitting in front of his house. They were really quick to act when I shot that hippies hat off his head a few years back and even confiscated my gun, but they won’t do a thing about my complaints. I will remember this when I vote against the Jail, 9-1-1, and the Sheriff in November. 
I see that the hippy is having a bunch of people harvesting stuff from his garden. I wouldn’t go near that place, since I was told that he uses lots of “natural crap” on his vegetables, in fact they probably dump effluent from septic tanks on their stuff.. 
I was both shocked and relieved to read that President Trump survived another assassination attempt. I agree with Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson in saying that the problem is our having open borders and unregulated immigration. President Trump will surely put a stop to all of this and arrest the commie demorats who are generating lies and hate for the man who was one of the best Presidents our country has ever seen. 
Come the election some of these people are going to be very unhappy, particularly when President Trump takes power. 
God, guts, guns and President Trump can make our country great again
God bless America. 

From: Smokey 9/18/24
School starts for me at the end of this month.  Little Rosie is jealous of her brother, who started school after Labor Day.  Rosie is 4 and we have one more year before she will be ready for Kindergarten.
Suzanne and the neighbors are harvesting corn and beans from our garden. I think we will also have a good crop of Pumpkins for the Neighbor kids to use for Halloween.
The nasty fat guy at the end of the street has a big banner with a picture of American flags in the background and Donald Trump standing in front holding up a clenched fist with blood trickling down the side of his face.  The banner has a caption on top reading “Fight, Fight, Fight,” and a caption on the bottom “Trump 2024.”
I think we will harvest some sweet corn and beans and put a bag on the fat guys front porch. Suzanne (my wife) says that we should try and be nice to unfriendly people.  These people are unhappy and that is why they act nasty to other people. It is always good to always try to be nice and try to bring happiness to others, even when these “others” aren’t nice back. 
Suzanne has ordered a Harris/Walz sign. I suspect that the fresh veggies won’t help make the fat guy any more friendly, particularly when he sees our political sign. 
Suzanne says that J. D. Vance admitted to Creating Stories about Immigrants eating pets... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGdFGxUAZ-U. It is a shame that the only issues that the Republicans seem to use are issues based on lies. Too bad that they are only concerned about imaginary issues, instead of real problems. We have lots of real problems, too bad we can’t get them to be willing to work on them instead of imaginary ones.

From: R. Patriot 9/11/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
I don’t know what’s wrong with our law enforcement.  I have now called the Sheriff three times. I don’t think the Sheriff  has done a single thing; my damn neighbor is still parking his boat trailer on our street.
I listened to the Debate last night. The moderators were not fair and they kept on trying to correct President Trump.  
Harris was abusive and insulting to President Trump and she got away with her lies about immigration, covid and the economy. We all know that President Trump gave our nation the best economy in the world while he was President, he saved our nation from Covid and what the Demorats have done now is a disgrace. 
President Trump did score many good points letting people know that Harris is a far left Marxist and as Biden’s immigration Czar accomplished nothing. He warned us that Immigrants are eating our pets and committing horrendous crimes. He let everyone know that if Harris is elected, she will take away our guns, allow abortion after the 9th month and help turn our children into gay homo-transexuals. He reminded us that our nation, our culture and our very existence is at stake. He quoted, the highly respected Hungarian leader, Vicktor Orban, who praised him and let us know how the rest of the world looks up to and respects President Trump.  We need President Trump to save us again, so our nation can become great again and no longer be the worlds laughing stock. 
God Bless America.  


From: Smokey 9/11/24
My son is in school now, but I don’t go back to school until the end of the month.  Until that time, I will be working at our local Burger place. 
Our garden is doing great and we will have lots of good veggies to share with the neighborhood.
Suzanne and I watched the Presidential debate. Trump just couldn’t handle it. Kamala Harris kept her cool and all Trump could do was spin lies.  He didn’t answer a number of questions and kept on talking about all the imaginary “millions” of dangerous immigrants from jails and mental hospitals invading our country. He said that they were eating family pets and committing horrendous crimes. He accused Kamala Harris of being a Marxist who wanted to defund the police, take away our guns, and kill children after they were already born. He said that crime was up in this country, even though the F.B.I. has said it was actually down. He also told the lie about schools doing transgender operations on children. 
When called on some of his lies, he stated that he heard about them on TV. Evidently President candidate Trump trusts TV over actual proven sources. 
Trump did not do well, he offered no real plans, he denied knowing anything about project 2025 and even though he was Commander in Chief, blamed Nancy Pelosi for slowing and not stopping the January 6th “Peaceful protest.” 
Vice President Harris pointed out that Trump’s “peaceful protest” put 140 police officer in the hospital and resulted in several deaths.
The Moderators tried to be fair and give Trump extra time. He was allowed 39 times to speak to Harris’s 23.
Kamala Harris appeared to be very much the adult in the room. While Trump bellowed, bloviated and lied, she kept her cool, the entire time. She made it very clear that she is there to help all of the American people, not just a wealthy few. 
I so hope that she will win the Presidency. 

From: R. Patriot 9/4/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
I called the Sheriff about my neighbor parking his boat trailer on my street and so far it would appear that they haven't done a single thing. I think I will call again and complain. 
I was saddened to hear about the most recent school shooting.  I agree with President Trump that the person who killed those kids in Georgia was a monster and should be prosecuted as an adult and the same applies to the 11 year old who shot a former Mayor and his wife in Louisiana. 
Human life is sacred and that is why I support Donald Trump in his opposition to abortion. He said that not only are they killing kids up to nine months, but they are also killing them after they are born. This should be considered murder, but the Demorats have made this sort of murder legal. The other thing that is more dangerous to our children than fire arms are schools teaching children to be trans gender.  President Trump is sending out a warning that Schools are secretly sending out children for transgender surgery.  This is horrifying, to think that a child will go to school as a little boy and leave school as a girl. This sort of a thing is both an affront to children, our society and to God. 
We need to oppose these Demorat abominations. We need to make sure and vote for Donald Trump.  Only Donald Trump and The Republican Party will save us.
God bless America.

From: Smokey 9/4/24
Both Suzanne and I were horrified to hear about the mass shooting in Georgia. A 14 year old boy killed 2 teachers, 2 students and injured 9 others. This is the 30th mass shooting that our nation has seen this year. I wonder where the kid got a gun?
Yesterday a 11 year old boy killed a former Mayor and his daughter in Louisiana. 
My understanding is that the only thing that Republicans have offered are “Thoughts and prayers.” They have no plans for protecting people from further shootings. How is it that kids are able to get their hands on a gun?
Suzanne says that children and young teens do not have fully developed brains and should not be tried like adults. They are unable to think ahead and understand the future results of their actions. Sadly many of these shooters are motivated by hatred...be it of blacks, Mexicans, Jews or other groups of people. Hatred isn’t classified as a mental illness, but it is should be.
Suzanne says that the pro gun people tell everyone that Hitler took away their guns. This isn’t true, Hitler and his NAZI’s encouraged Germans (with the exception of Jews and Gypsies) to have guns. Hitler preached hate and because of him millions died. 
We need politicians who will support love and joy instead of fear and hate.
We would all benefit from background checks and realistic gun safety laws. Right now more children in the USA have been killed by guns than any other source. 
I hope people use their heads before they vote and chose the way of love and peace instead of hate hand fear 

From: R. Patriot 8/28/24
God bless America, the GOP and the man that should be our real President, Donald Trump.
I no longer see a truck on my street, but my neighbor has now parked a boat on a boat trailer in front of his house.  I guess I need to call the Sheriff again and complain. They need to put the guy in jail, besides, I think he has put a Harris/Walz sign in his yard just to provoke me. 
The U.S. National Federation of Republican Assemblies just announced that Kamala Harris is not a Natural born citizen and should not be allowed to run for President. She is not eligible under the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision. This decision has never been overturned and would prove that she does not qualify as a “Natural born citizen.” Her running for President is just one more illegal action taken by a criminal political party. The courts all have a liberal bias and they may ignore it, but real true patriot Americans, like myself and others won’t. 
We expect the Demorats to cheat at this next election, the same way that they did in 2020; but this time we will be ready for them.  We have placed good patriotic Americans on various election boards throughout the county to refuse to certify the vote when this happens. 
There was a reason why God miraculously saved Donald Trump from a bullet  He saved President Trump so that he would be able to save our country in November. Donald Trump is God’s choice for President of the USA and he should be yours as well. 
God bless America. 

From: Smokey 8/28/24
I like my work. I am working at my old restaurant in St. Helens. I am not a boss (I used to be the manager), but everyone seems to think that I am still. Been enjoying helping out. 
School, for me, does not start until the end of September but our kids start back after Labor Day.