At Sullie's Place

Written: June 20, 2022 There are thousands of MAGA-MANIACS in this Country who still have not gotten lobotomized (i.e., Lauren Boebert, Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Green) and have shown no discernible differences to those who have.  The 3 Stooges that I have used as examples are known to the general public since they are in the news just about on a daily basis and which I continue to denigrate when given the opportunity.  However, this article is not about them, this is about another nut-job who is neither National News nor of tongue wagging variety but, if he plays his cards right, he soon will be.  He has, however, achieved local notoriety in his home state of Missouri.  Eric Greitens, a former disgraced  GOP Governor, has thrown his flash grenade into the ring and is campaigning for the U.S. Senate.  His campaign ad shows him with a shotgun leading  an armed SWAT team searching for RINO’s.  He states that he is a Navy Seal (former) and wants folk...

Written 6/6/2022 I wish I were in charge, you know, something like the Supreme Commander of the World.  It would be up to me as to who would continue in their position of responsibility or who would be phased out.  If you are a merit able person who is very sensical and uses common sense and sound judgement, you may remain in the circle of sensibility.  If you are in an excellent position to prevent tragedy from happening such as someone in a political position or law enforcement and you fail in using any or all of the above approaches, then you will be made an example of and I mean that in the most negative way.  I, and I alone, will decide what degree of punishment will be served on those ****ups.  These decisions can range from the least stringent, such as being voted out of office to being fired with no unemployment benefits to a lobotomy to bringing back the guillotine.  So, with that said, let the games begin and the heads roll. First off, one must al...

I am trying to dissect in these past 75 years of my life if I have ever experienced a more pile of shit times that I am now living in.  I always considered my folks’ generation much rougher since they experienced both The Depression and World War ll.  They came through it and have since been called “The Greatest Generation.”  What have we learned from History to help us better our lives today?  Apparently, we haven’t learned a thing.  Bigotry is alive and flourishing, Hitler has been re-incarnated and invaded the new Poland in the form of that Putin Puke who ironically claims he is trying to rid Ukraine of Nazis, the Q-Quacks are still running amok and are succeeding in turning conspiracy theories into Gospel, many politicians have turned into morons i.e. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, etc., we still have the virus of the 21st Century making headlines and Trump and many of the January 6th Insurrectionists are still roaming fre...

Russia has sanctioned Hillary Clinton!  Wow, what a gutsy move!  That’s right up there with sending empty CARE packages to the Drug Cartels or maybe invading a foreign country!  She did have a classic retort though when she thanked them for this “Lifetime Achievement Award” with the sound of humorous sarcasm in her voice.  After I read that, I gave it some thought as to what my reply would be if I were to be notified by the Kremlin that I would no longer be welcomed to their country.  Nothing against Hillary’s humorous statement, but I have no idea if it was spontaneous or scripted.  I am not privy to the Clinton conclave and the only camaraderie we shared was when mine and her husband Bill’s birth announcements were printed in the local papers just one month apart.  What I can pretty much guarantee though is that my public statement to “Putin & His Pukes” would be way more sarcastic by at least a factor of ten.  How’s this?:  OH NO, NOT ...

The following is a reprint of part of the year-end family xmas letter in 2009 about a family trip: Washington D.C. is a place that you need to spend plenty of time.  First on the agenda was the National Mall and the White House.  The prez owes me a favor and I went to collect, but he wasn’t home at the time.  He may have heard that I was in town and slipped out the back way.  Can’t compete with helicopters and the Secret Service, so we headed to the Mall.  There were 3 must seers and that was the Smithsonian Institute, Arlington National Cemetery and The Wall.  I was prepared for them, or so I thought.  We got a kick out of the Smithsonian since we had seen the movie, “Night At The Museum” and Trish and I were entranced at Arlington.  We toured the Lee Mansion, but the main objective was the JFK gravesite with the eternal flame.  Had we been there the day after, we would not have gotten near the place as the Kennedy family was there for Teddy...

There is nothing remotely familiar between then and now.  It’s not just politics, if only.  No, it’s life in general.  It would be so expected of me to point to our political scene as the reason for my disenchantment as there is no end to the daily diatribe of dictum.  My sweetie tells me that I need to stop perusing the internet as it only makes me melancholy and I ultimately end up with a case of the collywobbles.  Then again, a shot of whiskey can do that on an empty stomach, which would be better, as I have no control over the News. So, you are probably wondering, where have I been?  There you all were, receiving these daily doses of diction and all of a sudden…….phwet!  Where have the months gone?  My goodness, how time flies when the country is in such peril.  We are into our 3rd year of the pandemic scourge of the century and still stifled with the other pandemic as the Trumpublicans are still being, well, Trumpublicans.  There se...

Please tell me that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops didn’t pull the rug out from under you.  Tell them to take me instead as I would be happy to take one for the team, you know, like a secret service agent, I’ll take the bullet for you.  They can put me through the ringer and I will even run the gauntlet.  Heck, they can rescind my baptism, 1st communion, confirmation and entire 1st - 8th Grade Catholic School education and diploma.  I’ll even take back all those 1,327 confessions if it will set you free. You and Jill are the President & 1st Catholic.  I’m just a wastrel of contaminated and expired holy water.  Please say it ain’t so Joe as, according to UPolitics.com, the USCCB has gone ahead and passed new guidelines that states, “Catholics who disagree with the Church’s position on abortion should not receive Holy Communion.”  Holy Cow!  That’s enough to piss the POPE!  I think the 1st order of business would be for The Vatican...

In all my born days, I have never seen such controversy and chaos on such a grand scale and on so many levels than what is being dealt out in today’s times.  Coming of age in the 60’s could be considered a pragmatic prep period for future events that throw the proverbial “monkey wrench” into our self-serving sphere.  How are we to proceed with our moral obligation to the betterment of mankind when we, ourselves, are bottled up in corrupted confusion in our day to day lives.  Everywhere we turn to in the media is as if we are re-entering the Dark Ages.  I scan the internet on a daily basis and the headlines have become a mind-boggling bonanza of bodacious banter.  The 60’s became a decade of political unrest that grew out of the protests over Civil Rights, Watts Riots, Vietnam, Democratic National Convention & The Chicago Seven, etc., etc., etc., and ending, strangely enough, with 3 days of peace & love at Woodstock.  To say “Times Are A-Changing” ba...

There is an old adage from a Thomas Wolfe novel titled, “You Can’t Go Home Again.”  I don’t think one could take it literally unless home no longer exists.  It’s only a figure of speech since many folks have left, but never left, or left and moved back, or left for awhile and found out they never left at all such as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.  All she had to do in the end is just click her heels 3 x’s and repeat, “There’s No Place Like Home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home……!  I, myself, have come and gone a gazillion times while growing up, however, there is one universal consistency, the older I got, the more I became unattached.  Now that I’m in my 70’s and after being around the world a few times, home has become fluid.  My residential home is in the boonies of Northern Minnesota, most of my time this past year has been spent at our apartment in the Twin City Area and I am writing this article at an A...

We have lost Texas!  Off the top of my head, I would guess that I have written at least 8 articles with references to Texas.  I had totally agreed that when I resided there for a bit of time back in 1978, that they should become their own country before the end of the decade.  They could have acted as a buffer zone to Mexico, you know, sort of going through the back porch before going to the garage.  Texas Senator Ted Cruz had already fallen over the edge and the rest of the state has now followed suit.  Before I get to the meat & potatoes, let me fill you in with a little background.  Some time back, I was visiting with my oldest daughter out in Pittsburgh and my youngest daughter from Colorado was also there for a visit.  One morning, my youngest was chatting on the phone with my son-in-law.  After she got off, I inquired as to how he’s getting along without her.  She replied something to the effect that he’s fine and he and some buddie...

Once again, the government is missing the point.  On a personal level, I don’t care if the Corona virus originated under a natural environment or in a lab.  Whether it came from a wombat, warthog, dodo bird, vampire, werewolf, or Count Dracula himself vs human error in a lab, it’s real and has killed millions of people and isn’t going away.  All these arguments and conspiracy theories are not going to bring these folks back.  What we have, right now, is the ability to defeat this scourge, but we can’t on account of all the naysayers.  It is definitely a sign of the times that whether to take the shot or not is a matter of color: Red or Blue Partisanship.  There are a ton of Republican jokes out there, but the joke of the day: Senator Rand Paul ® Kentucky wins by an eyelash over Majorie Taylor Greene’s mouth.  She’s tempting me with her latest volumes of vulgar verbiage, however, the Senator is a regular moron and MTG is way beyond all that, besides the...

Joe Chyle is a retired gent who lives in Pisek, North Dakota and we do not know each other, that is to say, he has neither seen me nor my photo.  I don’t do Facebook, but he does and I was replying to something my son sent out when I ran across Joe’s page with a profile picture of Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell.  Next to it was a blurb that said, “Well, yes, I was angry when the Capitol was attacked.  Yes, I did speak out against the attack that night.  And yes, I was open to a bi-partisan commission to get to the facts about the attack to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.  But then Donald Trump called and reminded me that he is still the boss and I will do as he says.  So no, no commission.”  I did no research as to if McMaggot actually said that or if Joe Chyle put words in his mouth, but no matter, it pretty much wraps up today’s pathetic blind subservient Trumpublican psychosis.  It reminds me of a moment in time back in 1960 when ...

I imagine that I will have more articles in the future about Insurrection Day 2021 than should probably be allowed by law.  I have already written a few and I have another one now.  There is a good reason for that since today the House of Representatives voted in favor to create a bipartisan commission to study the January 6th insurrection by a vote of 252 - 175.  There are 211 members in the House that are Republicans and 35 voted for it.  That leaves 176 naysayers who voted wrong.  I’m sure some of them skipped class today, however miniscule that number was, but my point here is that over 80% of the Republicans voted no. Why is this of no surprise?  We had an Insurrection and lives were at stake of the likes not seen since the War of 1812.  Will somebody out there tell me as to why I should cut some slack to any of these Pukes?  No one?  Good, cause even if there were any, I’m not going to.  To repeat what I just said, I am not surpris...

What a relief!  It’s been over 6 months since election day and of the 100+ political pages I have produced, not a single one was written that castigated the administration-elect/ administration.  They, in essence, are a complete reversal of the previous administration which had been comprised of a Top Gun and his Hot Shots.  Everyone from Trump on down through his family, advisors and staff were akin to game show hosts.  They took their cue from their leader and became Reality TV Clowns in their own rite, reminiscent of the “Keystone Cops” of the silent film era, except, not so silent.  I find that I don’t have to take deep breaths anymore and sigh over news reports about the present administration like I had to with the previous one on a daily basis.  Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is! Why is that?  There are those right extremist wannabe news outlets that chastise the present White House occupants for being so droll and below the radar, ...