Doreen Michele

My mother was born October 19, 1936 in Germany. She died recently on her 88th birthday last fall. She lived through World War II as a child in Germany and she could be difficult to deal with which it was easy to chalk up to her misfortune of having been a child in a war zone and having lived in Nazi Germany. Except I grew up in the German-American-military subculture unique to Columbus, Georgia and I knew other German women who were similar in age to my mother. My mother seemed unusually difficult in some ways even for a German woman of that era in spite of being an uncommonly kind, generous person, far more decent and diplomatic than average. My mother definitely had baggage and she was from a previous era and her beliefs were sometimes "primitive" beliefs even though she was unusually smart and she read a lot.  She believed in astrology and she believed in psychic phenomenon and she was always trying to convince people that if she dreamed something was going to happen, it w...

There's a story of two bricklayers being asked what they are doing and one says "I'm building a wall" and the other says "I'm building a cathedral." When I worked at Aflac processing accident claims, reading ER reports and police reports all day everyday as part of my job, coworkers often seemed traumatized by the job. In five years, I think there were between three and five claims that bothered me in a "take it home with you and have it interfere with your sleep" kind of way. I was a former military wife, homeschooling mom of twice exceptional kids and I have a serious medical condition. Most of the reports I read were not enough to get a rise out of me. We were allowed to wear t-shirts on casual Fridays if they had the Aflac logo. One T-shirt some people wore said "Property of Aflac." One of my coworkers one day remarked "I'm not going to wear that one because I already feel that way too much sometimes." I never felt t...

If you are someplace other than the US, Canada, Gaza or Greenland and watching the current political drama and thinking "It sucks to be you." about Canada, Greenland or Gaza, maybe you should read a little history  and contemplate how you will feel if the US successfully takes over those places and then doesn't stop there. I don't know anything about Trustin Judeau, but he's shockingly calm in videos when saying surprisingly diplomatic things like "We're hoping it doesn't come to that." I don't know politics and I don't know him, but I do know something about what it takes to stand your ground diplomatically in the face of enormous pressure. Trump is hoping he's a loser he can handily crush but I suspect he's got more game than Trump.

So I did a  small rant elsewhere  and I think the idea is the US government is planning to force mentally ill people to do farm work to replace the illegal immigrants who typically do it and have for decades, lured here by the implicit promise that their children would have a better future if they did this essential, low paying backbreaking labor that Americans don't WANT to do. As stated previously on this blog, I think Donald Trump is shooting for establishing world government  via asking other countries to join as states and: ... my suspicion is his remarks about FEMA are part of a larger plan to add other countries as US states and tell them "No, the US will not be bled by all the underdeveloped countries for endless aid in the process of creating a world government." IF I'm correct -- retarded idiots reading my blog please note the all caps word IF -- then the problem here is he wants to make all people of planet Earth citizens of the US except Native Americans....

The Nazi Party officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei  or NSDAP) Also from the above Wikipedia page, here is the origin of the term Nazi which isn't actually the acronym for National Arbeiter Zocialist (something) like my brain is determined to believe having grown up in a bilingual home which taught me just enough German to mangle it: Before the rise of the party, these terms had been used as colloquial and derogatory words for a backward peasant, or an awkward and clumsy person. It derived from Ignaz, a shortened version of Ignatius, which was a common name in the Nazis' home region of Bavaria. Opponents seized on this, and the long-existing Sozi, to attach a dismissive nickname to the National Socialists. I've been seeing talk of how desperately America needs a workers party "because Elon Musk and Donald Trump are Nazis!" basically. He who fails to learn from history is doomed to repe...