Sometimes it's just enough. You need a break. I needed one today. Give yourself permission once in awhile.

The Republican Party has now descended to a point that all they have left is fear. They fear Trump, both his staying in the party and his leaving it, and they fear voters as they try to minimize their numbers.

Fear is also the only policy they have to sell. They have no vision for the country to aspire to, only different types of people to fear and hate.

There are many ways we age and this episode talks about some of the major causes for our wearing out. Though not comprehensive, it hits the major influences on our aging according to the Center for Disease Control. This podcast is based on a wonderful article they have on their website, one of many resources they have regarding getting older. I highly recommend you take advantage of their enormous library of information relevant to us seniors.

The Democratic majority in the Senate is so tiny it doesn't even exist. It is dependent on a tie-breaking vote by the Vice President to tip the scales, and that is if all lines hold! Joe Manchin showed how vulnerable the Democrats are to the whims of any one of them. Listen in and see how the Democrats are now a gaggle of fifty fiefdoms, and why in spite of this I still have hope.

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Hobbies are even better when you are getting progressively older. If you're retired or think you might get there one day, one of the gifts of that is time. Is there something you have loved to do your whole life but didn't get enough time to do it? Is there something you wanted to do but work, kids, house and other responsibilities got in the way and you just never got around to it?

Do it now! Pick up a guitar, a paintbrush, a crochet needle and try it. You're not too old, you're just in time!

Watch this video and I'll show what has held my interest over a lifetime, and they still interest me to this day. What hobbies keep you interested decade after decade? Let me know!

You can watch this episode on YouTube as well.

What did we learn at CPAC? The only issue on the Republican table is power. Power any way they can get it back, by any means necessary, no holds barred. That's it. The Big Lie continues in force and the foolish base continues to take the bait. Take a listen and get my take on what was learned at CPAC, and what we can expect from the GOP going forward.

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Get out and get living! The couch will swallow you and you only have so much time to get out and about. Do what you can now and embrace the gift that is mobility and engaging with the world. It is better to sit on a park bench and watch children play, people walk to and fro and ducks swimming than it is to watch the same things on TV!

Listen in as I take a walk in the woods and embrace this little privilege and recognize it for what it is. Life!

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Opening Theme: Written and Performed by Lincoln Eaton

Musical Ambience: "Cornflowers" by Dee Yan-Key, from the Free Music Archive, FMA

It seems clear that Merrick Garland will be our next Attorney General. The irony is that the same people that prevented him from consideration for the Supreme Court will vote to confirm him as A.G.

The hypocrisy in the GOP just continues with no end in sight. 

Rush Limbaugh is dead. This was the day that cancer was the good guy. The damage one man can do to a nation can no longer be overestimated. His influence on low information people came to its inevitable climax on January 6th, and the rise of the extremist right wing can be directly connected to his invention of a genre of broadcasting that was copied and expanded on the back of Ronald Reagan's elimination of the Fairness Doctrine. He was the first to cynically take advantage of the new freedom to foment hatred through the lowest common denominators of human behavior.

Where we go from here is toward a struggle for decency, and Rush was one of the greatest obstacles to achieving that end. He is gone but the damage has been done and reproduced a hundred fold. in one way Trump was right to give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as a President Trump would have been impossible without Rush blazing the path.

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It may have looked like the acquittal of the former President of the United States, but in fact it was the suicide of the Republican Party.

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