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    Opinions Jim Thompson 3 December 2024

    Down the lane

    This may seem like a strange recollection for the dark days of December. However, my favorite astrological day of the year is coming soon – Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year.  It is all brightness and renewal after this, just like the Jonquils that thrive in the elements and are not beat down by the winter. The 21st, followed by the 25th, gives this old soul hope.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 27 November 2024
    What can I say about Thanksgiving?
    Over the years, I have eschewed (love that word) offering best wishes at holidays. Maybe this year is different.  
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 24 November 2024
    Pondering graffiti
    Graffiti depresses me and sends a signal to me that there are people who have little regard for the looks of our country. Graffiti is not beautiful and adds to the general malaise in our country.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 15 November 2024
    The litmus test for the quality of life in the United States
    I measure secular quality of life at the bottom of the “food chain,” focusing on highly desired products – tissue – that require just a small income.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 12 November 2024
    The new tyranny
    The new tyranny is not out in the open, but it affects nearly all of us. It is perpetrated in cubicles, offices and meetings involving people invisible to us. Yet, if you have an email address, it reaches you.  
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 9 November 2024
    Honesty
    Honesty is the most valuable coin of the realm. In both giving and receiving communications and actions with others, treat it with respect.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 2 November 2024
    Thanks
    As this election season comes to an end, I want to thank the publisher and especially you, the readers, for encouraging me as I have expressed my opinions.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 29 October 2024
    Long-term voter interference
    I believe it was back in the Obama Administration that they started talking about denser housing in the cities. I have done a tiny amount of research on this and discovered that it appears to have started with the concept of the “15-Minute City.”
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 26 October 2024
    Did you ever tell a lie to get a date?
    Right now, there seems to be a bevy of incumbent senators and a vice president wanting to be president lying about their past records in order to persuade you to vote for them.  
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 23 October 2024
    The 'threat to democracy' rhetoric
    Nearly a third of the people in this country (citizens and illegal immigrants) receive handouts from the government. This is not democracy; this is socialism.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 19 October 2024
    It’s almost over – or is it?
    I doubt that an election decision will be resolved anytime on Nov. 5, 6, or perhaps even Nov. 7. And should the election be dragged out in the courts, bitterness and division will only get worse than it is already.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 14 October 2024
    Opportunities to know the candidates
    What we don’t know is if Harris is saying the things she is saying today just to get elected and if she will follow through with them if elected. As vice president, she seems to have ignored the office and the mandates President Biden has given her.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 12 October 2024
    Everything is just fine, right
    Vacuity, thy name is Kamala Harris. Her objective seems to be one of the cool kids, not offer the voters anything of substance to ponder.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 8 October 2024
    Biden-Harris administration slow-walks Helene response
    There have been all sorts of excuses and denials by FEMA, Biden and Harris concerning the devastation wrought by Helene on Sept. 26-27.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 6 October 2024
    Let’s change the rules
    We have reached a point where the people suffering the pain (taxpayers) are being ignored for the benefit of all others. Time to swing the pendulum back the other way. We can’t take it any  longer.
  • Opinions Jim Thompson 2 October 2024
    Who will your vote protect?
    You need to vote to protect the federal government before it is too late. Vote for federal fiscal responsibility, if you want to maintain your lifestyle in the future. For your children and grandchildren, the situation is even more dire if we continue down this path. 
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