Tag Archives: Presidential Race

Campaign psychology

Posted on January 12, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

“Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to “leak” into the public. One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?” – Donald J. Trump Tweet 1-11-17 My Grandfather was a quiet, hard-working, church going farmer … Continue reading →

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Hope: Political ends and beginnings

Posted on November 9, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela Bonus Quote: “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance the dancing bear will win.” – Nancy Isenberg I had decided after the election, no … Continue reading →

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How do we heal? Some will, some can’t.

Posted on November 8, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up instead of what they have to gain.” – Rick Godwin As I stood in line this morning in the basketball gym of the ultra conservative … Continue reading →

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Get out and vote today!

Posted on November 8, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered … Continue reading →

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Vote early and often (just kidding)

Posted on November 7, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

So tomorrow is the BIG day! A really BIG day! I will be voting in my solid RED state at the ultra conservative Baptist Church down the street from my house for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. I would suspect that my … Continue reading →

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Trump was right, the election is rigged

Posted on November 7, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“I am winning in every poll taken outside of a Cracker Barrel” – Donald Trump (really Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump but close enough) For the last few months Donald Trump has been spouting off about a rigged election. For … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Russia, I mean America

Posted on November 4, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

October 2007: “Look at Putin — what he’s doing with Russia — I mean, you know, what’s going on over there. I mean this guy has done — whether you like him or don’t like him — he’s doing a … Continue reading →

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Peace Through Strength

Posted on November 3, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“We know that peace is the condition under which mankind was meant to flourish. Yet peace does not exist of its own will. It depends on us, on our courage to build it and guard it and pass it on … Continue reading →

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A picture is worth a thousand words

Posted on November 2, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“A black church in Mississippi was burned and vandalized with pro-Donald Trump graffiti late Tuesday.  Authorities responded to the fire at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, Tuesday night. Delta Daily News reports that the majority of the damage was … Continue reading →

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One more week

Posted on November 1, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

“The line it is drawn, The curse it is cast, The slowest now, Will later be fast, As the present now, Will later be past, The order is rapidly fading, And the first one now will later be last, Cause the times they are a-changing” – Bob Dylan  … Continue reading →

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