We Are All We Have
Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates and an avid currency historian. His research finds that a monetary policy of cheap...
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Get a Handle On It
In 2014 the US government gave Moderna 24.6 million to help in the development of mRNA research. As part of the emergency pandemic roll...
Godless Industrial Complex
Your representative wasn’t always a cog. Prior to taking office they spoke passionately about our problems and offered up solutions that...
So Help Me God
In a democracy “We the people” are the parents, the disciplinarians. The current state of our nation is a result of an undisciplined...
Time To Act
It’s been two years of Covid, You’ve been vaccinated and have gotten the booster. You hope the mandate will stop the thing once and for...
Based On Need
An acquaintance once told me that he drew his social security at the age of 62. When the first check showed up it was 700 more than...
Completely irrelevant
The Seattle Times ran an article on Providence Hospital Group. Providence is a nonprofit tax-free entity which morphed into a hedge fund...
Bartering
“Follow the Money!” It’s a common refrain and most of us would agree that the money trail begins with the campaign. When I ran for...
Raise Your Hand
Recently there was a leak that exposed a loophole in the tax code that billionaires were taking advantage of. There was an enormous...
Confederacy of Dunces
A CPA explained that the IRS was the employer of last resort for new CPA graduates. As a result the IRS is made up of C students. ...
Check it out
Let’s begin again. It is a statistical fact that 85% of us are good, that equates to 276 million good people divided equally Republican,...
Time to Take Action
The firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11 were both Republican and Democrat. We wouldn’t dismiss an individual’s heroism and...
Embracing the Normal Formula
“We,” are easily contained and manipulated by our political leanings. Consider the mysterious feelings of anxiety or anger you feel when...
A Little Help
The success of Normal is dependent on a super majority of street level Republicans and Democrats. I’ve Formed Normal, have a blog, and...
Costly Message
The average cost of gaining and retaining a congressional seat is 1.6 million dollars. Your voting district is a meager plot of land...
Normal Nation
When I trademarked ‘Normal’ in 2017, it was based on an observation that the nation is split 50-50 Republican Democrat. Delving further,...
Collaboration
I’ve worked on construction projects for some large corporations. On one of the sites hosting a 1000 or more workers you can be sure all...
Beware
Thoreau said “Beware of any endeavor that requires new clothing.” Construction is all I’ve ever known, my apparel day in day out has been...
Embrace Expectations
I worked Don Arndt Masonry as a hod carrier in the 80’s, when things slowed, I then worked for the custom home builder, Mickey Lotz. Both...
THE CANDIDATE
Before anything else, the candidate will be either Republican or Democrat, as such, they will share the sameview as the constituency on...
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