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Jogging in Your Sixties

A great way to meet people! “Today I met two paramedics, three nurses, a cardiologist, and I almost met Jesus!

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December 17, 2025
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Breaking News for Seniors – Coffee Talk

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October 28, 2025
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Legendary River, Legendary Flooding

The Chehalis River has always been a working river and a legendary one, and its story is braided together with water, memory, and the stubbornness of people who keep rebuilding…

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December 11, 2025
  • Two‑Tiered Justice: Letitia James, Trump, and a System That Picks Sides

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    Two‑Tiered Justice in One Picture If anyone still wonders what a two‑tiered justice system looks like, just put New York Attorney General Letitia James on one side of the scale and Donald Trump on the other. The same political class that cheered when Trump was labeled a fraud suddenly discovered “insufficient cause” and “weak case” language when grand juries were asked to indict the prosecutor who went after him.​ What Letitia James Was Accused Of In 2020, Letitia James bought a modest house in Norfolk, Virginia, and signed a “second home” rider saying it would be primarily for her personal use and enjoyment for at least a year. Federal prosecutors…

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  •  AI Bubbles, Tankers, and T‑Shirt Revolutions

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    This morning, everybody’s yelling about “artificial intelligence” again. Wall Street is suddenly nervous that the AI gold rush might actually have a bill attached to it. Oracle drops earnings, says, “By the way, we’re going to spend mountains of cash on more AI data centers,” and the market flinches. The same people who swore this stuff would “change everything” are now wondering if they just built the world’s most expensive slot machine and hoped it would print money instead of cherries.​ Out here in consumer‑land, that “AI bubble” doesn’t look like a philosophy debate. It looks like every app screaming “AI inside” while they quietly cut prices behind the scenes.…

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  • Legendary River, Legendary Flooding

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    The Chehalis River has always been a working river and a legendary one, and its story is braided together with water, memory, and the stubbornness of people who keep rebuilding in a floodplain that never forgets.​ Long river, long memory The Chehalis Basin spreads across about 2,700 square miles of Southwest Washington, draining hills and forests before emptying into Grays Harbor and the Pacific. For thousands of years, Native peoples along the river told stories about periods when the water rose suddenly, reshaped the banks, and carved new channels, treating the big floods as part warning, part reminder that the river was alive.​ Early recorded floods When settlers arrived and…

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  • Why Can’t We Just Get Along?

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    Sometimes I find myself asking… Sometimes I find myself asking that question: “Why can’t we all just get along?” Conspiracy theory? Or… Here’s how it really works. Outrage isn’t an accident anymore. It’s a business model. And a lot of powerful people get paid when you and your neighbor hate each other.​ Who profits when we fight Media outlets and talking heads don’t get rich when you’re calm. They get rich when you’re glued to the screen, mad or scared, yelling at the TV or the phone, so they feed you the stories that spike your blood pressure.​ Politicians and activists cash in too. Grievance politics keeps their followers angry,…

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  • MS NOW Is Desperate

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    MS NOW is desperate. After years of losing viewers, they spent millions on a flashy rebrand—and now they’re clinging to one story: defend cartel boat crews, scream “war crime,” and hope one more “Get Trump” outrage cycle can save their ratings.​But while they cry on TV for smugglers, families here are burying overdose victims.​ The Crisis MS NOW Won’t Lead With The United States has been losing over 80,000 people a year to drug overdoses, with more than 100,000 deaths at the peak of the crisis.​Illicit opioids and other hard drugs shipped through international supply chains now kill far more Americans each year than murder or car crashes.​ Hitting the…

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  • The Proof Is In the Water, Part 2: War Crimes or Finally Fighting Back?

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    Back in “The Proof is In the Water,” the point was simple: if you want to know what your government is really doing, don’t listen to the speeches, look at the bodies and busted boats floating in our own hemisphere. The new outrage over the Venezuela “drug boat” strike just proves it again. On September 2, a U.S. task force under Operation Southern Spear hit a fast boat the Pentagon says was hauling narcotics out of Venezuela, killing nine men on board and leaving two survivors clinging to the wreckage in the Caribbean. A second strike killed those last two, and that follow‑up is what lit up cable news, law…

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  • 88-Year-Old Veteran Still Working – Community Raises $1.5M to Help Him Retire

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    Ed Bambas served his country. He worked his whole life. At 88, he should be enjoying retirement—but instead, he was stocking shelves and greeting customers at a supermarket. When a content creator walked up to Ed and asked the simple question, “Why are you still working at 88?” Ed’s response was heartbreaking: He couldn’t afford to retire. The video hit social media on December 3rd, 2025, and exploded. Within 24 hours, strangers from across the country started donating. By December 4th, over $1.5 million had poured in from people who wanted to help this veteran finally rest. The Bigger Picture:This story isn’t just about one man—it’s about a broken system.…

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  • Where Do I Sign Up for My Amazon Refund? (Short Answer: You Don’t)

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    Where do I sign up for my Amazon refund? Short answer: you don’t—they’re supposed to find you. Here’s the quick version of what’s going on. Amazon  agreed to a 2.5‑billion‑dollar settlement after the FTC said the company used ‘dark patterns’ to steer people into Prime and made it way too hard to cancel. Out of that, 1 billion goes in as a penalty and 1.5 billion is supposed to go back to customers who got caught in those tricky sign‑up and cancellation flows.​ If you’re in that group, you can get a refund of your Prime membership fees, up to 51 dollars. The first wave is automatic: if you’re eligible, Amazon…

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  • A killers Boarder Crossing

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    Let me get this straight: Victoria Sorocean was convicted in Moldova of premeditated murder with “exceptional cruelty”—torturing someone and throwing them from a ninth-floor window. She got 17 years. But instead of serving her time, she fled Moldova, walked into the United States illegally, and when ICE arrested her in 2020, the system just… let her go. She didn’t win asylum. She didn’t get some special humanitarian pass. What she did was weaponize the asylum appeals process as a stalling tactic—and it worked. After years of legal delays and claims, the Biden administration released her back into the U.S. in 2022. A convicted torturer and killer was walking around Los…

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  • Wake Up! Wake Up!

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    It wouldn’t wake up! Ima tap tap tappin on the keys, and click, click, clickin, the mouse. I reached up over the monitor to hit the power button, it tipped forward and I felt a release… Oh, what was that? How come it won’t come on? Something came unplugged! So I look and I can’t see, it’s kind of dark and I can’t … Oh, there it is… The power transformer came unplugged. Ok, sit down. Sip some coffee and wait. It always feels like forever waiting for a computer to reboot.

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