Rick McBee's Writings
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Season’s Greetings!
Snowmen on a frosty Christmas Cake Fire Glowing in the hearth Cards coming from Worldwide Friends Doth a Wonderful Holiday Season Make! Happy Holidays to Everyone! 2022-2023
“YES WE CAN!” But – Only if We VOTE! For Solutions!
This was the THEME of former President Barak Obama’s Campaign! America can have whateveer it wants, But – Only if we stand up for what we want and VOTE! For Soutions! American’s Issues: I have already VOTED in this election! I hope you ave… Continue Reading ““YES WE CAN!” But – Only if We VOTE! For Solutions!”
Modern Fables of Back to the Future – What it Will Take! Rents and Housing Prices Have got to Fall or Wages Rise!
How can we solve America’s Problems? Pressure – Pressure – Pressure. Not by Guns, but by asking Congress to get to work and Fix some probems!
Memorial Day – Flag and Flowers
Flying the flag on Memorial Day: our time honored tradition. Remembering my brother and all my H.S. buddies and military friends who are now passed on. On Memorial day I enjoy walking around my garden and looking at the flowers of spring, remembering friends.… Continue Reading “Memorial Day – Flag and Flowers”
Body Counts -Vietnam -Guns -Children
The Statistics are pretty clear – More guns, More killings. Rules apply to every other toy we have so why not guns. This ain’t play when kids get killed!
Congressional Dereliction of Duty at State and Federal Levels: “Well Regulated Militias”
Our Militias in the U.S.A. need to be “Well Regulated” by not doing so, our congresses are shirking in their duty and setting our country up for coups and revolution.
More Spring – Shrooms and Wine!
You can tell it’s Spring when the flowers come out, but there are a lot of other indicators that show us Spring is just bustin’ out all over! The wine from the grapes that I crushed last fall and put to ferment has now… Continue Reading “More Spring – Shrooms and Wine!”
40 Shots across the Bow! Our Constitution still holds together!
Our Constitution of the United States of America has just withstood some forty shots across the bow of Democracy. Fortunately, like its namesake, The USS Constitution, which in the War of 1812 defeated five British warships, our paper document, The Constitution, took some nasty… Continue Reading “40 Shots across the Bow! Our Constitution still holds together!”
Hands off State’s Rights! : Gaming Our Democracy!
Hands off our State’s Rights Mr. President! 10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” You have not been given any rights… Continue Reading “Hands off State’s Rights! : Gaming Our Democracy!”
School Transitions : Leaving the place Prepared for the future, and better than you found it!
I can still remember in the summer of 1949, when Dad and I were driving to Montana from our place in Oakland, California, stopping at a gas station out on that long stretch of road running across the Club Foot of southern Idaho. It… Continue Reading “School Transitions : Leaving the place Prepared for the future, and better than you found it!”
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