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Open Thread - 05-09-25 - Timelines

Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joseph Biden, Donald Trump.

These are the presidents I've lived through.

I don't remember anything about Eisenhower, I was too busy being a kid.

The same with JFK, except for the Cuban missile crisis and having to duck under our desks, and when he was assassinated. Oh boy, do I remember that.

Lyndon Johnson. I came of age in the 60s, especially politically, I remember that SOB very well.

Richard Nixon, the crook. Although recently there's been rumors he may have been a victim of the so called Deep State.

Gerald Ford, an attempt to heal the nation after Nixon, IMHO, it didn't succeed.

Jimmy Carter. His heart was in the right place, but he was eaten up by the system.

Ronald "Raygun" Reagan. The start of the celebrity presidents. I remember rough times at the start of his term, who knows who ran the country during his later years as president.

From there on I want to highlight a self conceived pattern. More below.

Open Thread - Thurs 08 May 2025 - 11 Years Old

11 Years Old

Here in the Puget Sound area an 11 year old boy was arrested at a local Middle School (no, not even a High School) for trespassing with knives. That an 11 year old boy, basically a little kid, has to be arrested for knife possession and trespassing is bad, and sad, enough. What it says about society, about some people, parents, children, whatever, in society is awful. But this is even worse.

The same 11 year old was arrested last month for trying to stab a fellow student at the same school. A teacher intervened and stopped it from happening. The attacker fled and was at large for a day before he was turned in by one of his parents and was booked into a local juvenile justice center, for a time.


Alderwood Middle School in the Edmonds School District, WA Image from here

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