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Todd

Yesterday morning, my gracious host Todd German told me quite a few people have told him they know I am staying with him in his home on Cudjoe Key for a while. Todd said he doesn’t broadcast that, so it means they learned it by reading goodmorningkeywest.com. And, he said, they tell him they think he is crazy for letting me stay with him. I chuckled, asked, then why do they read goodmorningkeywest.com, Are they crazy, too?

Ben Carson

In Key West yesterday, I bumped into an old friend I have not seen in a while, a black Key West native, that is, a Conch. I asked him what he thinks about Dr. Ben Carson, a black retired neurosurgeon running for US President on the Republican ticket? My friend, chuckled, said, he’s heard plenty for a long time about all the black Democrat political assholes, now he’s hearing about a black Republican asshole.

He paused, said, you’d think someone who is really smart, easily understands the theory of relatively, cannot be an asshole, but that’s not true.

Whew! If my life depended on it, I could not begin to explain the theory of relativity.

I keep finding myself thinking the angels are going to tell me to announce I’m a candidate for President in 2016, and I keep wondering how I would go about doing that, since I belong to no political party, and would not join one, and I have no campaign workers, and no grassroots support known to me, other than perhaps the crazy people who, or rather, maybe some of the crazy people who read goodmorningkeywest.com. I suppose some people who read that blog do so only to stay on top of what crazy thing I have said and done since the last time I said and/or did something crazy, mostly likely the day before, or maybe more recent

What, I wonder, would be my campaign platform for President?

I’ll probably have to get back to you on that, after I get out of the nut house :-).

I dunno, maybe the religious right would support my candidacy?

Facebook chat initiated by a Sugarloaf Key lady I’m starting to get to know:

You are very spiritual correct? I have an unexpected EVP after I left my computer on. It says. Yes Jesus Lives. Cool. But then again I knew that 

EVP means Electronic voice phenomena and it was on my computer surveillance. People that investigate the supernatural, ghosts, as it were or demons too I expect, but this EVP said Yes Jesus Lives.

I believe in Angels and I believe in Jesus just don;t know where he is. Perhaps he visits here at his whim. Only god knows. I am a believer.

I admire your faith. I am very spiritual but not a church goer. Don’t believe in organized religion. Grew up Catholic and I tend to stay with those beliefs. You have yourself a good day.

well said. My kind of guy.

But then, maybe the religious right won’t support my candidacy.

More Facebook chatter yesterday:

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  Sloan Bashinsky everyone wants this pill? surely you jest

  
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  Sloan Bashinsky I have done plenty of both, and bums tend to be more fun, and more interesting, but I suppose it helps to be a bum to know, as I recall my Bible reading, Jesus was homeless.

  

But then, I bet the religious right would swoon over this posted into my Facebook timeline by amiga Brenda in north Georgia - Brenda’s in shaman training - about one of my all-time favorite Bible people:

Brenda Garcia shared a video to your timeline.

The Story of Jonah.

I don’t remember ever hearing a story from the Bible “come alive” like this. This little girl is AMAZING! Enjoy it, I sure did!

Sloan Bashinsky my recollection is, Jonah didn’t care for any of it, including how it ended, when God spared the people of Nivea because they had repented their evil ways :-). I lost track of the number of times God swallowed me until I did what God wanted me to do. And I lost track of the number of times it didn’t run out like I thought it should.

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