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Trump’s Actual Accomplishments

Copied from a friend’s Facebook post:
BlueDog
Trump’s actual accomplishments: 1.      Taking a country with 4% of the world’s population and causing 20% of the world’s deaths. 2.      Starting an unwinnable trade war with China without our traditional allies that lost more than 36,000 manufacturing jobs and put a large part of the agricultural sector on welfare. 3.      Gave a large tax cut to the wealthy 4.      Temporarily eliminating the payroll tax, the sole funding support for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and unemployment insurance while saying he will make it permanent if reelected. 5.      Our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us. 6.      Nominating a supreme court justice that complained about Chief Justice Roberts vote in favor of Obamacare to end coverage for pre-existing conditions for the insurance industry. 7.      Ignored the Pandemic early and then sold an artificial reality that has destroyed the economy and hundreds of thousands of businesses. 8.      Hurt the credibility of the media 9.      Hurt the credibility of voting and democracy 10.  Killed our allies the Kurds. 11.  Improve the profitability of his own businesses like Mar a logo.

A Halloween Bedtime Story

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A Halloween Bedtime Story

There’s a world that is intangible except at Halloween.
It teems with banshees and with ghosts at other times unseen.
Strange monsters with long fingers and pumpkins for a head
lurk inside your closet, hang out under your bed.

When they finally emerge, it does no good to shout.
They’ll grab you in their mighty grasp and turn you inside out.
Put your arms outside the covers or one foot on the floor,
and you’ll provide a tasty lunch the monsters will adore.

For once they have a single limb securely in their clench,
they’ll have you all in seconds. Your destruction is a cinch!
Though Halloween is much beloved by all you candy lovers,
Once at home and snug in bed, best stay beneath the covers!

Prompt words today are  pumpkin, mighty, intangible, banshee, cinch, inside out.

Hibiscus in Profile: FOTD, Oct 16, 2020

For Cee’s FOTD

Outside of Your Home: Cee’s B&W Challenge

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For Cee’s B&W Challenge: Outside of Your Home.

Cats Trump Dogs: Oct 14, 2020

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Cats Trump Dogs

My dogs are perspicacious with insights most profound.
They’re aware of every flutter, on top of every sound.
Their vigilance professional, with duty it is fraught.
Nary a squirrel has crossed the yard without being caught!

No passerby is overlooked, no lizard, snake or newt.
Their senses are omniscient, their judgments most astute.
They keep my backyard creature-free, pristine for lawn and blossom.
They will not suffer gopher or mole or vole or possum.

Guard duty’s not a hobby. They see it as a task
that they were truly born for. I need not even ask.
The cats they see as horrors—wily and uncouth.
They cannot bear their presence. They see it as the truth

that cats are unorthodox. Not banished to the ground,
they roam the roof and wall and trees, rambling all around.
They tease the dogs from far above, safe from all their fury.
Sauntering off slowly, for they aren’t in any hurry.

Prompt words for the day are professional, unorthodox, hobby, perspicacious, truth and horror.

Pink and Yellow: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink and Yellow (separately or combined)

A Change of Season, Sunday Writing Prompt

This is a post from a few years ago, when it was still possible to travel to a place where there is a notable change of seasons. In my part of Mexico, the changes are not so observable. The hills get lush green in the rainy season and after 6 months or so, get a bit beiger each month until June, when the rain starts and they green up again. Things bloom year round, so otherwise, it’s hard to tell what season it is. For the past 19 years, my years have been broken into rainy season and non-rainy season. Keeps it simple.

For the Sunday Writing Prompt: Change of Season

Thunbergia: FOTD Oct 13, 2020

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Amused: OctPoWriMo Day 11: The Muse

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Amused       

When she enters, I’m in her thrall,
and I have no control at all.
Sometimes she carries a riding crop
and drives me on so I can’t stop.
She rides in smoothly from my dreams
inspiring reams and reams and reams
that must be written when I wake.
I’m driven onward for her sake.

If my muse should feel abused,
believe me, she is not amused.
She mounts my back and spurs me on
until all her words are gone––
released upon the teeming pages
while she rides off to join the sages
sitting there upon the shelf,
and I am left with just myself.

For OctPoWriMo Day 11