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RickHworth

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RickHworth's Journal
April 21, 2024

Please stop minimizing the seriousness of a crime

It is not "paying hush money" for the sophomoric. It is the charge of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Essentially, business fraud.
It is not "fake electors" it is fraudulent electors.
Today's media, if I were to rob a bank and just so happen to park my car in front of a fire hydrant. Imagine that every network will focus on the legality of the parked car, how far away from the hydrant was the car, how often is that hydrant is in use, was the hydrant properly painted to be recognized as a hydrant. etc. Barely giving mention of the true crime of robbing the bank.
I believe that this no more than the furtherance of the "both sides-ism" that is occurring in MSM just for the sake of getting more revenue.

February 24, 2024

Fun with the Microsoft Copilot (sorta)

Q: What percentage of America is Catholic

A: As of 2021, the percentage held steady at 21%

Q: What percentage of the Supreme Court is Catholic

A: 6 out of 9 were raised Catholic. (not my question, so 66%)

Q: Is there a religious test to be on the Supreme Court?

A: "No, there is no religious test to be on the Supreme Court. The U.S. Constitution explicitly states in Article VI that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States"...

See where this is going?

February 9, 2024

My grandson is a Boy Scout working on Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge

He is 11 years old and has many questions about what is being reported on the "news" on section three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I will let you read the requirements http://usscouts.org/usscouts/mb/mb003.asp
The question that he had was, that why does media keep mentioning about a conviction? There is no requirement of a conviction as a qualifier of disability.
Here it is for all to read.
"Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
He has the understanding from where this amendment came from and how it was necessary at that time and how it was installed to prevent anyone trying to break our union again.
In this case, my grandson is smarter than most of the journalist and Supreme Court Justices.

February 8, 2024

Playing into the fantasy

Why is it the assumption that those that are not from this country, would be so inclined to vote explicitly for the Democratic party?

January 22, 2024

I have a neighbor that lives in a well-known Florida retirement community, part time.

In a completely sober conversation from her, I have learned that we have it all wrong about the education system of Florida.
The teachers are going to great lengths to teach with great explicit means just about every unusual and varied graphic sexual situation to primary school children.
Not only that, but there's also the library books issue. Evidently they are just rife with even more sexually explicit materials, complete with "how to" of all sorts of sexual behaviors. Again in the primary schools.
I started to ask how these books ended up in these libraries in the first place but, I deferred to my better instinct to take her for her word and that she believes this to be factual and not say anything.
I am not sure where she gets her information, she does believe it to be true.

December 19, 2023

yes , lady, who works in media.

why is the media not supporting nor contrasting the idea that immigrants are poisoning the idea that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country?
"Why is the media so timid?" Joy Reid

December 13, 2023

Is this where we are, now?

Just watched yet another commercial advertising Zeba shoes and how you can now just slip your feet into laced up shoes.
I have heard a radio ad for shoes for children that, you don't have to "fight" with your children to put their shoes on, anymore.
My baby, now 32, grew up in the Velcro generation, learned from her best friend next door, that just learned to tie her shoes, taught her to tie hers, reducing my headache by much.
And then, there is my grandson, now 11. Watching him tie his shoes make me think that he will be well suited for a bomb squad. He is my lesson in life about patience, tolerance, and understanding.

December 9, 2023

Just saw the oddest thing on MSNBC

Ari show was actually giving credit of the positive news of the economy. Albeit it was on a few minutes, and I only caught the end of the segment but, it was a little refreshing to hear. As opposed to the constant republican strategy and analysis.

December 5, 2023

It is with the full throated assistance of the main stream media, explicitly

the continued support of the tRump presidency.

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Name: Rick
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Hometown: Maryland
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