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RickHworth

RickHworth's Journal
RickHworth's Journal
December 6, 2025

It is not simply ending birth right citizenship

It starts the ending of citizenship, selectively.

November 30, 2025

RE Epstein, I have seen this before.

This is a tactic to protect the abuser(s). Expose the name of the victim with the deliberate intent to shame the victim to compliance.
I don't believe for one minute that there will be an "accidental" release of the names of the victims yet no "accidental" release of the perpetrators.
Remembering of how just truly unwarranted accusations of SA, in daycare facilities in the '80s garnered full investigations, honest lives ruined.
We now have credible adults with direct accusations, yet not the same pitchforks for the abusers.
Then again, remember the USA gymnastics team that reported repeatedly the SA to the FBI that never acted up to and until they were sued?

November 4, 2025

There's greater concern for $180 - $360 per month for food.

Yet, not a peep about a single person drawing salary of $26,300,000 paid for by those that pay for health insurance.
Do people understand that it is us that pay his salary?
And EBT/ foodstamps, is almost a rounding error out of my income.

September 26, 2025

About this Jimmy Kimmel show cancellation that I think is being missed.

Even though ABC has reinstated this TV show, Nexstar and Sinclair has chosen to have their affiliates not air this show in certain markets.
My question / concern is, what else is not shown on certain markets that they have enormous control?
I think that this was the first time to see the map of coverage that is held by Sinclair and Nexar along with notation of where they have blocked programming.
Are my concerns valid?

August 20, 2025

A balance of idea

The left and progressives have been pegged with the most outrageous notions and ideas, the six or so trans athletes, the "undocumented" law abiding individuals seeking asylum.
Where is the push back that there is only one party that has the full support of the nazi party, white Christian nationalist, et al.
There is no head of the Democratic party or member of congress person that had a public opinion of anything to say about the tongue in cheek ad of the jeans ad. Yet there is a lack of pushback from this narrative, much less setting the record straight.
A thought in progress.

May 25, 2025

An important lesson that I have learned.

An opportunity to pursue a lifelong dream of learning to fly an airplane presented itself to me. I met who was going to be my instructor, who was a little older than me, very candid and knowledgeable with his hundreds of hours as an instructor.
After completing the prerequisites, came the time to choose my flight instructor, as the one that I was assigned through ground school was much younger and there was a personality clash that I did not feel comfortable with.
The one that was my choice, the older guy, tried to dissuade me because he was getting ready to retire. I pressed him to be my instructor because ideally if I complete all of the training, I will earn my certificate about a month before his retirement day. He agreed.
Everything was going to plan right up to when COVID hit, and it all came to a stop. He then went on to retirement.
A few years later, I tried to get back to flying, had a really good instructor, younger but no nonsense, great at explaining technique. The one thing that kind of bugged me was that he had an occasional tremor. Sometimes it was more noticeable than other times.
Anyway, due to a job change and the expense of it, I had to stop training with quite a few hours before obtaining the certification.
Last year, during an open house at my airport, I found out that my first instructor had Parkinsons disease. It was implied that my first instructor was hiding that he was ill, thus the reason for his retirement just before his physical. Listening to the other instructors and staff pretty much rumor mongering, I remembered that he too had a tremor in his hands on occasion, that was becoming more frequent at the end of our training sessions.
As far as my last instructor, he had moved to another flight school, and no one really followed up on him.
Thinking back on that experience at the open house, it now sounds a lot like this new assault on former President Biden. The questioning about his mental acuity and pulling up speculation of his abilities, at that time. Mind you, I have never experienced anything that would make me question the abilities of my former instructor, even when he had to take the controls from me on more than one occasion. I feel just as confident about then President Biden.

April 17, 2025

I have a question for the John Roberts Supreme Court

Specifically Chief Justice Roberts, you have declared that the President is immune from criminal prosecution as long as he is in office.
You are familiar that there is, in place up until now, a mechanism for the removal of the President of the United States, built into our Constitution, called impeachment.
Can you please, now, explain this process?

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Name: Rick
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Hometown: Maryland
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Member since: Sat Apr 23, 2016, 11:12 AM
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