Saturday, December 9, 2023
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I GUESS WE’VE LOST A LOT due to the Covid pandemic since the last Port Townsend Alumni Association reunion and banquet was held in 2019. But the other day I received announcement from alumni, …
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I’m an old (93) white male who’s long been impressed by the growth of diversity in both our government and our society in general. Port Townsend has been a bit slow in diversifying …
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BUT A COUPLE OF STEPS BACK for humanity on the world-wide scene also were reported on the front page of the same daily paper (The Seattle Times) on April 9. Reminiscent of the early days of World War …
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Born Oct. 7, 1952, Vladimir Putin will turn 70 this year. Perhaps he is looking ahead to pages in the book of history on which he would be lauded as the leader who reconstituted the USSR. And who …
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PICTURED ABOVE ARE Christina Park; my great grandchildren Claire (5), Iris (1) and Simon (3); and Taylor Camfield-Bronstein. They represent the Korean and Jewish branches of my family tree for the …
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Tom Camfield
Blogger | 3/31/22 |
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MEANWHILE, A RECENT HEADLINE (also on the Internet) read: “Russia proposes 15-year sentences and threatens 'treason charges' for telling the truth about its war crimes in Ukraine.” The …
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ONE REPLY TO JUNIOR’S COMMENTS that echoed my sentiments was:(@betty bowers) “Your stupid father was busy dismantling and undermining NATO, much to Putin's delight. All of our European …
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WE WILL NOT CONVENIENTLY FORGET during this newest war in which we are involved the years that Donald fought so hard to dump billion after billion into a useless wall with his name on it that did …
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I FOUND ON THE INTERNET a story dealing with the early stages of Putin’s War and an absence of esprit de corps on the Russian side.
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AND JIMMY KIMMEL FIRED BACK: “It takes a special kind of son of a b**** to see innocent people fleeing their homes and think ’How can I make this about me? But nobody does that better …
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Tom Camfield
Blogger | 3/9/22 |
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WHEN ALL HAS MOVED ON ABOUT 34 YEARS, Iris will be old enough to be president, Donald will be long gone and much of the world will have erased the Trump name from things. And, sadly, I won’t …
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SHADES OF JAN. 6, 2021! Syndicated columnist Solomon Jones of the Philadelphia Inquirer casts a more-detailed light on this expression of racism by history’s only chief executive of the U.S. to …
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In one of his usual vacuous replies — to my Jan. 13 blog— Justin Hale remarked, “In an interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday evening, President Trump said: "I've said it many …
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As Martin Luther King Jr. noted, “I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of …
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Will those who follow as I exit stage left face increasing hardships and decreasing lifespans as the years march on and Nature becomes more and more disfigured?
It appears that humankind is …
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Six years ago I scored a 1932 PTHS yearbook on eBay. It was a cheap product that couldn’t begin to match even the annuals of the early 1900s for quality. The resultant blog article also was …
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My days of anticipation of when the carnival arrived in town have long since passed, but I’ll always remember those days of my youth when Washington Street in downtown Port Townsend was closed …
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