I adore darkness. Dark walls and curtains. Dark clothes and places. Dark songs and stories. When surrounded by darkness punctuated with bright small pools of light, I function quite well. I function well, that is, except during December when the sun isn’t around so much. When round-the-clock inclement weather further darken what sun there is. When the twinkle of holiday lights, so joyful for so many, harken flashbacks of evil and dark thoughts of despair. When casually thrown Merry Christmases and Happy Holidays hit me like a bunker buster. During such a time I am without hope, cannot generate a smile, don’t want to go in public, everyone hates me, no one loves me, no one cares for me, I am stupid, worthless, useless, and an idiot. This happens every year so you’d think I would be used to it, could plan for it. But no! I’m not and I don’t. Every year I am surprised. Continue reading Darkness: My enemy, my friend→

With the most sincerest of apologies to Albert Hammond. You know I love you, dude. SCROLL DOWN TO READ MY LYRICS THAT SHOULD BE SUNG TO “NAMES, TAGS, NUMBERS, LABELS” by THE ASSOCIATION AND WRITTEN BY MR. HAMMOND. Names I know a man Who hates all those not of his skin He doesn’t know the spiral he’s in Fanatic Names I know a man Who hates all those not of his class He doesn’t realize he is an ass Extremist Names, tags, numbers, labels Other people preach what you must be If you’re not, they will denounce you Though you try to ignore them as a rule Indoctrination’s taught in state-run schools Tags I know a gal All men are evil and don’t interest her Oppression is her saddle burr RadFem Tags Dictator wannabees They say they are Conservative They’re looking for a House to run RINOs Names, tags, numbers, labels Other Continue reading Fanatics, Extremists, RINOs, LINOs, RadFems, and Losers→

Is NFL game viewership down? Yes. To hear some NFL spokespersons and a couple of networks spin it, it’s a typical down cycle and they were expecting it.  The Wall Street Journal reported other views: “We’re scratching our heads,” said Andy Donchin, a media buyer at Amplifi US, an ad-buying unit of Dentsu Aegis Network, whose clients include General Motors Co. “We cannot pinpoint any specific reason why the numbers are down. It is probably being caused by a confluence of events.” One reason often cited is the election. The Sept. 26 debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump drew 84 million viewers, cutting into ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” While this Sunday’s New York Giants versus Green Bay Packers matchup on NBC will probably fare better, its ratings likely will be impacted by the head-to-head competition with the second presidential debate. Rating declines for Sunday afternoon aren’t nearly as steep as the prime-time telecasts, but Fox and CBS are down, while Continue reading NFL, Colin, Castro, and Fans→

When I was thirteen and new to the community, I was invited to play a Saturday afternoon game of baseball with a group of kids. Bring your gloves. Bring your bats. Of course, I had none of my own. We were very poor. But I showed up willing to play gloveless in the outfield and chase and throw. I could borrow a bat when it came my turn to swing away. The young man who did the inviting seemed to be the mover and shaker behind divvying up the teams. He looked at me and, recognizing I brought no gear, decided it was best the new girl play on the other team, that is the team he wasn’t on, and it would be best to place her at first base. No one questioned his decisions. Somebody hollered, “Righty or lefty?” When I finally realized they were talking to me, I managed Continue reading I was the first to catch his balls→

I’ve been accused of being a contrarian. That is, someone who always will take the opposite view of another just because. I can see how these folks could think that seeing as how most folks are aligned with popular opinion. See how I get along with folks? I can see their point of view and that, of course, is the problem. While I can see their point of view, they cannot see mine. Not only can they not see my view, mine is an unknown unknown to them. That is, they didn’t know there could be another view other than the one they have. Parrots don’t have opinions of their own. Parrots repeat what they hear. Parrots don’t think. So when I hear parrots my finely tuned chucklehead radar kicks in. Just because my radar kicks in does not mean I open my mouth in response. Sometimes it’s just not worth it. Let’s say I’m at a Continue reading Contrarian or simply a finely tuned chucklehead radar?→

Six days after the 2016 presidential election wherein Donald “The Hammer” Trump won, and five days after Killery conceded the race to him, a local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, headed by Milton Tambor, projected a two-word phrase onto a high-rise hotel in Midtown Atlanta. As your Citizen Journalist, I read what I could find on the matter from the mainstream media, and found nothing useful. Therefore, I made calls and did research myself. My first call was to the Crowne Plaza Midtown Atlanta’s general manager, Patrick Palmer. He returned my call saying the company was not happy that their building was used as a canvas for a political message, much less one that featured the ever-popular ubiquitous F word. He further told me that attorneys advised there was nothing to be done about it as it was a free speech matter. He disagreed, but he’s not in the business of Continue reading An attempt to interview a Democratic Socialist: He can’t say I didn’t try.→

“The Hammer” is still Lord of the Ring. To hear the spin the New York Times put on it as they slung their tiny little arrows at him, why “The Hammer” got the shock and awe of a lifetime just from being in the ring with all the lesser luminaries from the reporter pool. Of course I, as your ever intrepid Citizen Journalist (I’ve got the hat to prove it; picture below) read every word of that interview, and guess what I found? That’s right. I found a nice section that might shed some light on the commercial truck sales market. Everybody else just breezed right by that because they’re idiots. You see how awesome I am? The reporters asked about infrastructure simply because it was on their list, but did they expect they answer they got? No, they did not. Trucks? Trucks? What are these things called trucks? And so this most Continue reading “The cheapest trucks and the strongest tires.”→

FACT: Many of who fled Cuba in 1980 during the Mariel Boatlift were Christians. They were told to get out, stay out, and don’t come back or they would be killed. Further they could not bring anything with them except the clothes they wore and maybe — just maybe — one small bag of personal items. But all their valuables had to remain in Cuba because, said Castro, it was all his anyway. Along with others, including mental patients and criminals that were costing Castro too much money to house, Christians came. These Christians came with nothing except one thing: The prospect of living in a country where they could be free to worship their Heavenly Father without fear of persecution. They came. I won’t say gladly because they had to leave the land they loved, but they came. This Citizen Journalist knows all this because she was part of a Continue reading No love lost on Castro→

From ABC News as published on YouTube.com As of this writing, a transcript of the statement in this video was not available. However, you can read about “The Hammer’s” stand on the Constitution here, SCOTUS picks here, repairing our crumbling infrastructure here, and more than 10 other situation statements here. Hey, y’all, coming up in the next few days I’ve got a surprise interview that was never completed because the guy punked out on me. More details later. What a hoot.

A friend sent me a few links about electoral college members receiving threats to change their vote to Mizz Hill. I read them. Then I asked myself the question, “Has this happened before?” The answer was yes, and it happens just about every election cycle. Another fact: Faithless electors have never changed the outcome of an election. In other words, we’ve got a tempest in a teacup here, move along, nothing to see here, folks. Which is why I’m going to a different topic. (There’s a reward at the end. So make sure you read all the way.) Yes, the top Doms and Dominatrices of the Media Elite were invited to an off-the-record meeting with Donald “The Hammer” Trump. They thought they were there to let their client know how to play the game. But “The Hammer” spanked them instead. “Oh, he’s such a meanie!” they wailed. “Doesn’t he understand how the game is played? Continue reading Media Elite attend off-the-record meeting with Trump and whine he’s a meanie→

“DISCLAIMER: The Resistance may include information from sources that may or may not be reliable and facts that don’t necessarily exist. All articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney.”  Thus said a website whose story about Lady GaGa being spirited away in a black SUV after screaming wirty durds at Mrs. Trump and throwing something her from across the street. This particular story got a lot of play on social media as many shared it as gospel truth. Unlike your Citizen Journalist, these social media sharers did not track down the site and find all this other interesting — and very relevant — information, now did they? No they did not. Here’s more from The Resistance’s site: “We are a group of educated, God-fearing Christian conservative patriots who are tired of Obama’s tyrannical reign and ready to see a strong Republican take the White Continue reading Really? Honestly? What’s the point?→

In my last column, I reported about Obama’s outgoing administration members’ upcoming difficulties in finding a job. There’s more bad news. According to The Washington Post’s Catherine Ho, upon his becoming president, Donald Trump’s administration will enact a five-year ban on becoming a lobbyist after one’s government tour of duty is over. Further, if one wants to join the Trump Administration and one is a lobbyist, one must quit the lobbying game, proving that by signing an affidavit that they have quit and promise to stay quit for five years. Existing rules for becoming a lobbyist after leaving government already include a cooling off period. Further, longer bans for lobbyists are not new as Obama himself did it. But Obama reversed his own ban on lobbyists after he got sued. Judge David Tatel said he wasn’t quite sure how “banning lobbyists from committees composed of representatives of the likes of Boeing and General Electric protects Continue reading “The Hammer” slams a crooked nail. Trump’s lobbyist ban.→

Soft transitions from changover schedules aside, over 500 of Obama’s staff will be out of a job on 20 January 2017. To hear the mainstream media’s take on it, they act like this is something that has never happened before. That somehow it’s that Big Old Meanie who is kicking them to the curb. Obama seems to be acting the same since he is having the big social media companies and Linkedin come to give these 500+ the bad news about the current job market. Are these people so out of touch with the real world that they are going to have to learn how to function in it? Must be so. Of course, they’ve lived and worked in a liberally socialist bubble all these years as one of the elite who worked hard, side by side, to help Obama with all those Executive Orders. They must be so depressed now Continue reading Contract ending after eight years. Time to find a job.→

Around 2009, V.I.C.’s Beast album featured a song produced by Mr. Collipark (under the auspices of Warner Bros. Records), bringing us the iconic Wobble, a popular hip-hop line dance that took all America by storm. In this I want to thank Victor Grimmy Owusu and Michael Crooms for showing us that all races and ethnicities in America are able to get along. Since 2010, just about every week this Citizen Journalist has personally witnessed mixed crowds performing the Wobble together and in harmony on dance floors across this nation. Heck, this Citizen Journalist has even been one of the main proponents of the dance, often teaching the steps to others in the crowd. Americans of all colors, ages, income strata, religions, and of every ancestry-country hyphenation you can imagine regularly come together to Wobble. No fights have broken out. Well, there was that one time when the tipsey girl tripped and fell and everybody thought she was Continue reading Victor and Michael “Wobble” unity.→

Barack and Donald making nice for the cameras in the Oval Office should not be confused with the President-Elect’s acceptance of or agreement with the President’s massive body of unilateral unconstitutional executive orders that have thrown every taxpayer in this country under the bus. According to Marc A. Thiessen writing in The Washington Post, Obama has no one to blame but himself for having his executive orders repealed. Even now, Obama is being viewed as failing to lead as the head of a Republic because, said Thiessen, “Obama built his legacy on the sand of unilateralism, instead of the rock of bipartisan consensus.” Trump knew that if he won he was stepping into a big pile of poo. Like those of us who grew up going barefoot in the summer and know the Poo Removal Dance, The Donald knows it, too. For instance, here’s a video that shows Trump removing some Continue reading Trump knows the steps to the Poo Removal Dance.→