- Follow Ends and Beginnings on WordPress.com
-
Join 2,333 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 94,954 hits
-
Recent Creations
- Equality feels like oppression
- The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda
- A Poem: A Box of Christmas Memories
- This wouldn’t happen if Trump was still president
- The po-po is chasing him
- Democracy Held Once Again
- Vote like your life depends on it
- A Charade and Witch Hunt
- Hurricanes: The definition of insanity
- The coming civil war
What Others Enjoyed
Tags-Topics-Thoughts
- Alabama
- Alt-Right
- America
- Author
- Balance
- Barack Obama
- basket of deplorables
- Beginnings
- Bible
- bicycle
- Blog
- Blogging
- Buddha
- Buddhism
- Buddhist
- Bully
- Care
- Change
- Changes
- chaos
- Children
- China
- Christian
- Christianity
- Christians
- Christmas
- collusion
- Compassion
- congress
- conservative
- conservatives
- Coronavirus
- corruption
- COVID-19
- Creative Writing
- Cycling
- Cyclist
- Dalai Lama
- Death
- democracy
- Democrat
- Democrats
- deplorables
- Devin Nunes
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump Jr
- earth
- Ego
- election
- Empathy
- environment
- Environmental
- Evangelical Christians
- Evangelicals
- Faith
- fake news
- Fall
- Family
- FBI
- Fear
- Florida
- Fox & Friends
- Fox News
- Franklin Graham
- freedom
- Future
- global warming
- God
- GOP
- Grace
- Greenville
- Guns
- Gun Violence
- Happiness
- Happy
- Hate
- Help
- hiking
- Hillary Clinton
- history
- Homeless
- Hope
- Humor
- immigration
- impeach
- investigation
- ISIS
- Israel
- James Comey
- Jared Kushner
- Jesus
- Jesus Christ
- Joe Biden
- Journey
- judging
- Karma
- Kellyanne Conway
- Kids
- Kim Jong-un
- Kindness
- LGBT
- liberals
- Lies
- Life
- Light
- Lindsey Graham
- Living
- loser
- Love
- Lyrics
- MAGA
- Make America Great Again
- memories
- mental health
- mental illness
- Michael Cohen
- Mike Flynn
- Mike Pence
- Mitch McConnell
- morals
- Music
- musings
- Muslim
- Nature
- North Korea
- NRA
- Obama
- Old
- Opinion
- Past
- Path
- Peace
- Perspective
- Pisgah National Forest
- Poem
- Poems
- Poetry
- Politics
- POTUS
- Present
- President
- Presidential Race
- President Obama
- President Trump
- Putin
- QAnon
- Racism
- racist
- Religion
- Republican
- Republicans
- resist
- Resistance
- Richard Nixon
- Robert Mueller
- Roy Moore
- Rudy Giuliani
- Russia
- russiagate
- russians
- SC
- Sean Hannity
- Sean Spicer
- Seasons
- Senate
- Sounds
- South Carolina
- Space
- Spring
- Steve Bannon
- Stormy Daniels
- Suffering
- Summer
- Syria
- Thankful
- The New York Times
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Thoughts
- Time
- Tim Scott
- Trump
- truth
- tweets
- United States
- Universe
- values
- Views
- Vladimir Putin
- Vote
- War
- Washington
- White
- White House
- White people
- Witch hunt
- WordPress
- Words
- Zen
Archives
- April 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- April 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
Tag Archives: freedom
Democracy Held Once Again
Way back in 1912 former president Theodore Roosevelt lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to incumbent president William Howard Taft. Roosevelt formed a third party called The Progressive Party which was also referred to as the Bull Moose … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged America, democracy, Donald Trump, freedom, GOP, MAGA, Republican, Trump
2 Comments
Vote like your life depends on it
“Let’s say you’re at the airport and you see Mr. Walker and you say, ‘Hey, there’s Herschel Walker, Heisman winner, let’s have him fly the plane.’ You probably wouldn’t say that. You would want to know; does he know how … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Politics, Thoughts
Tagged America, Christians, democracy, Donald Trump, freedom, God, GOP, Herschel Walker, Jesus, MAGA, Republicans, Rights, Trump, Vote
28 Comments
COVID and White People
I am really pushing my memory here but sometime in the late 1960’s or early 70’s my mother gathered up her three young children and took us to the health department where we stood in line with other mothers with … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Politics, Thoughts
Tagged Bible, Christianity, Constitution, COVID-19, freedom, God, GOP, henry mcmaster, MAGA, Natural Selection, NRA, SC, South Carolina, Trumpublican, vaccine, White people
7 Comments
I sent you a truck, a boat, and a helicopter – God
Greenville County GOP leader Pressley Stutts dies from COVID-19 – The Greenville News (8-19-21) Greenville County Republican Party leader Pressley Stutts died Thursday morning after battling COVID-19 for nearly a month. Stutts’ death was confirmed by Dan Harvell, who represents … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Politics, Thoughts
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, freedom, GOP, Greenville, Liberty, MAGA, Mask, Pressley Stutts, Republican, South Carolina, tea party, Trump, vaccinated, vaccine, ventilator
7 Comments
100% of 63%
“One-hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration.” – Senate Minority Leader Mitch “The Turtle” McConnell Think about this statement for a minute. There is nothing specific in it. Not stop Biden’s COVID-19 response. Not stop an … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Thoughts
Tagged ballots, Biden, Brian Kemp, election, freedom, Georgia, Jim Crow, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, MAGA, Mitch McConnell, Republicans, Trump, Vote
Leave a comment
Joe Biden
As I think I have written before, my wife and I asked our kids, young adults but still kids in my eyes, who they wanted us to vote for in the primary. Their candidate, Elizabeth Warren, so that is the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Thoughts
Tagged America, Bernie Sanders, democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, freedom, Joe Biden, President Trump, Republicans, Trump, Trust, Vote
11 Comments
Operation Chaos
Once a month I go to a local restaurant and eat meatloaf. Now I don’t just get meatloaf I also get mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens, fried okra, a wedge of cornbread and a sweet tea. The reason I … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Democratic Primary, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, freedom, GOP, Greenville, Operation Chaos, Republican Party, socialist, South Carolina, tea party, Trump
11 Comments
What the “Enemy of the People!” have in common
“It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.” – Adolf Hitler “Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, Enemy of the People, fake news, Fox News, Free Press, freedom, MAGA, Make America Great Again, make america hate again, President Trump, Press, Trump
5 Comments
I am an American!
A real conversation I had today; Him- “This little Mexican girl that was working at McDonald’s asked me if I could move to a smaller table and I told her hell no, I was here first not my f*cking problem … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged America, American, bigotry, Donald Trump, freedom, Hate, immigration, India, MAGA, Mexico, Racism, Tolerance, Trump
23 Comments
Feeding our fears
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela Each Sunday morning the Pastor … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
Tagged Death, disappointment, Failure, Fear, freedom, Help, Hope, loneliness, misery, Pain, rejection, ridicule, the unknown
6 Comments