“I’ve finished my 3 book Spider Series. If you’re into hot sex and heart pounding adventure please check it out. Available on Amazon. Thank you for your interest and support. D. S. Mitchell aka “Calamity” at Calamity News and Politics.
“There is nothing more inspiring than taking action against injustice.” D.S. Mitchell 2025
“If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out of it.” Will Rogers
“If you can’t be a poet, be a poem.” David Carradine
“No god would want a child killed in his name.” D.S. Mitchell 2023
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.” ― George Burns
“A politician thinks of the next election – a statesman of the next generation.” – James Freeman Clarke
“I want to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” Arthur Ashe
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” ― Albert Einstein
“So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“Let’s just remember that social security is not the government’s money, it belongs to the people who had it taken out of the checks involuntarily their entire working lives.” Mike Huckabee
“I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.” ADELE
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Christian Grey
“My favorite old car had no reverse gear. It taught me I could only go forward.” Flavia
“Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
“Those who think they can control the mob are fools and are often the victims of their own incitement.” D.S. Mitchell 2021
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it.” Nikki Giovanni
“Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is that you are stupid and make bad decisions.” Your mother
“Studying American politics has taught me several disgusting lessons, the first being, money buys friends in Congress. That alone should terrify the American public.” D. S. Mitchell 2021
“My art is my heart.” D. S. Mitchell 2015
“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.” Arthur Rubenstein
“Every lie is like stepping in a quicksand pit. Every lie as dangerous, as telling the truth.” D. S. Mitchell 2020
“Sometimes when challenged we find out we are capable of the unthinkable.” D. S. Mitchell 2022
“Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you.” Anonymous
“Dimming the lights will not hide the social injustice in America.” D. S. Mitchell 2017
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.” – James Branch Cabell
Smile
"If puppies and kittens don't make you smile, you might consider therapy." D. S. Mitchell 2015.
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” T. S. Eliot
“Voting is like a prayer.” Raphael Warnock 2021
“We are all valuable. The problem is not everyone is smart enough to realize it.” D. S. Mitchell 2021
“I wonder, if you were blind, lost and confused, would you care what color the offered hand?” D. S. Mitchell 2015
“Silence in front of savagery is savagery itself.” Abhijit Naskar
“To be happy and contented, count your blessings, not your cash.” Chinese Proverb
“We can never be too busy to be kind.” D. S. Mitchell 2017
RIP RBG
“The rain falls because the cloud can no longer handle the weight. The tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.” The Wise You
“Let my old days be my best days,” Cousin Lucille
“In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.” James Madison
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” Charles Dickens
“Thoughtful people are slow to anger, not necessarily less efficient in their killing.” D. S. Mitchell 2019
“Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.” Kim Harrison
“The United States like so many countries around the world has chosen to give to the few and deny the many.” D.S. Mitchell 2020
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. This is true, its called life.” Terry Pratchett
“Trickle down economics is like having three dogs and giving one of them a hot dog, and thinking he’ll share.” Bill Maher
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“When people start acting as though the past is the same as the present and context doesn’t matter, things start to get dangerous.” Trevor K. McNeil 2020
“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I don’t need to attend every argument I’m invited to.” Unknown
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret between the shadow and soul.” Pablo Neruda
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee
“I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.” Shirley Chisholm 5/21/1969
“The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.” ― George Washington
“We only fail when we fail to try.” Rosa Parks
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The 7 Social Sins are: Wealth without Work; Pleasure without Conscience; Knowledge without Character; Commerce without Morality; Science without Humanity; Worship without Sacrifice; Politics without Principle.” Frederick Lewis Donaldson
“All evils are equal when they are extreme.”-Pierre Corneille
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John F. Kennedy
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov
“People without vaginas shouldn’t be able to regulate them.” Unknown
“What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.” Edward Langley, artist
“Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” Abraham Lincoln
“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.” Chinese proverb
“If people stopped searching for things that offended them and started looking for things that inspired them; what a wonderful world this would be.” Night Owl
A Poem For Don and Vlad
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington
“To argue with a person who has given up reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine
“Imagination is the bridge between the things we know for sure, and the things we need to believe, when our world becomes unbearable.” Staceyann Chin
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Steve Jobs
“Inspiration descends only in flashes to clothe circumstances; it is not stored up in a barrel, like salt herrings to be doled out.”Patrick White
“I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness that surrounds me.” Sojourner Truth
“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” Doug Larson
“Law without humanity is injustice.” D. S. Mitchell 2020
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear, is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato
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Category: Arts & Entertainment
Illegal
Illegal
Illegal
By John Curran
Well, it looked like my chimp Charley was leading the charge, as he’d just slipped his leash and was racing on ahead toward where all the people were already gathering on the Courthouse lawn. It was the Protest, and me and my people were following up behind, me pushing Dave in his wheelchair and Darlene and Vajra carrying the signs and cowbells.
I was trying to keep an eye on Charley, my chimp. He’s a pretty good chimp, but he’s a chimp, in a world of humans. But like I said, he’s a cool chimp. I see him over there. He’s gone right over to that shady patch of lawn where two weeks before me ‘n some other fellas had had a drum circle going. That had been at Protest 2. We were now at Protest 3, and it must be said that at Protest 2 we had sat right there where Charley was now and we banged on our bongos and everything had been fine.
Charley hadn’t been at Protest 2, we’d left him at the ranch, he’d thought he was in love with the neighbor chimp. Now he knew better but that’s another story. Now he was here with us and amazingly enough having gone on ahead with my bongo and his bag full of ping pong balls and was now sitting in the very spot where we’d sat for our bongo party.
And then I saw it all. Charley hadn’t been there ten seconds when up walks this uniformed big white dude acting like Security, saying no one was allowed there buddy, you gotta go in front of the wall like everybody else was suddenly being told they had to do. Well, Charley wasn’t having it and went into full on bad chimp mode. He’s a pretty good actor Charley is and when he puts on this one I gotta say, he’s pretty damn convincing. Anyway you shoulda seen that Security guy step back one time and back his big butt slowly, away from Charley. If he’d had a gun he probably woulda’ drawn it.
Anyway, he hooks up with some other ‘Security’ guys down at the far end ‘n they all come up in a bunch but by that time Charley’s gone right up the nearest tree and he’s throwing ping pong balls down on these guys. I decide at this point I better step in here and declare myself. Well, they told me I could probably be charged. I said, “yeah, I know,” that much I know. They were really kinda’ alright though, we all had a laugh, and Charley came down and acted like he was sorry. Very convincing too, was Charley.
And later, nine days exactly, it was reported in our local newspaper that what the ‘Security’ had been doing telling people (and chimps) that they couldn’t sit on the Courthouse grass had been illegal. I showed it to Charley and he just laughed; as if he had known it all along. Pretty convincing ‘n, I ain’t lying, maybe sometimes even a little scary, in that way. I mean, what is really going on, Charley?
Be Kind
BE
KIND
Our New Pope, Pontiff of Peace
Our New Pope, Pontiff of Peace
“You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent by God. He is sent to test you. And many are failing.”
Our New Pope, Pontiff of Peace
By Cate Rees-Hessel
“Da” Pope
Just like our dearly departed Pope Francis, our brand new first ever Pope from the U.S. speaks the truth regarding the Trump administration and “The Donald” himself. Pope Leo XIV, or “Da” Pope as Chicago area residents are referring to him, I am very proud to say is from right here in the Windy City. As a quote attributed to His Holiness says, “You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent by God. He is sent to test you. And many are failing.”
Only One King
We all know that Donald Trump wants to be the first American king, but unlike the first American Pope, that is not going to happen – there is no king of the United States. There is, however, finally a Pontiff from our country. I am hopeful this new leader of the Catholic Church can an will continue the work of Pope Francis to bring about peace in our troubled homeland and world from his position of power at the Vatican. Whether you are a Catholic, Christian or not, this man offers hope. Here are some interesting facts about Pope Leo: XIV:
- Our Pope Leo began his pastoral career in the southern Chicago suburb of Dolton, IL, where he grew up. Dolton, which is in Cook County.
- His name is Robert Prevost and he was born in the city of Chicago.
- His first words after the conclave elected him were, “Peace be with you all”.
- The former archbishop is also quoted as saying “I offer you the little that I have and am” – a servants heart that is a breath of fresh air in our troubled world.
- He spent extensive time in Peru.
- The new Pope is 69 years young.
- By choosing to be called Leo, he is likely going to build upon previous popes named Leo, especially Leo Xlll, whose teachings centered around social justice.
- He is considered a diplomat in the church.
- The Pope is a Chicago White Sox fan, much to the chagrin of my Cubs fan husband. The White Sox organization sent him a team jersey and cap to the Vatican. His Sox fandom is confirmed by his brother, John Prevost.
- He attended St. Augustine Seminary High School in Laketown Township, MI. He has a BS in Mathematics from Villanova University, and went to seminary at the Catholic Theological Union in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park.
Supporting the Immigrant
It appears that our new Pope is no fan of the Trump administration or JD Vance, especially in regards to immigration. Just like his predecessor, Pope Francis. An article in Newsweek quotes, “In some matters, Leo XIV has aligned ideologically with his predecessor, Pope Francis, especially on the treatment of immigrants and the environment. Earlier this year, Francis criticized Trump over his immigration agenda, which embraces mass deportations.”
Quote, Pope Leo XIV
The rich and powerful
should act with justice
towards the poor, not
oppress them. Faith calls
us to lift the down trodden,
not support those who
crush them.
Pope Leo XIV
Silly Games
Silly Games
Silly Games
D. S. Mitchell
No, Not Today
It’s another cloudy day in Grants Pass, Oregon. The morning news sounds just like last night’s news. Does this mean we are entering an overly long season of re-runs coming out of the Trump White House? It looks like the Orange One has given me enough time to play a game; maybe more than one. If you’re thinking the woman is sounding a bit crazy, you could be right. I need a break from the freaking asshole taking up space in the people’s house. I’m not in the mood to be serious today. I was going to write an in-depth, thought-provoking, political post on Trump’s “emotional” response to the actions of his buddy, Vladimir Putin., instead, I am going to play a game my mother taught me close to 60 years ago.
Rules Of The Game
Here are the rules of today’s game. I will open a dictionary at some random place and I will, from the two open pages, keeping the words in sequential order, write a story. Today’s story will center on a well-known politician and his daughter. I challenge you to do it. It is harder than it sounds.
So, here we go. The dictionary I will be using is the one I keep on the shelf next to my desk in my alcove office. Everyday America English Dictionary, Edited by Ricard A. Spears, et al. NTC (National Textbook Company) 1987. Pages 130-131.
Daddy Thinks he Knows Best
Donald Trump dropped his fountain pen on the desk, and asked, “What’s for dinner tonight?”
“Some form of fowl that Donald Jr, bagged when he was on safari in Texas,” Ivanka snickered.
“You are a fox,” Big Daddy Trump gushed, leering suggestively.
“Stop it, Daddy.”
“Do you know what fraction of the federal budget is being spent on Jr.’s security detail? Some woman reporter asked me today, and I had no idea. Do you know?”
“Oh, Daddy, don’t worry about such stuff. Just say that information is TOP SECRET, and if that ‘fake news’ lady asks again, you just tell her it’s, classified.”
“Of course, of course. You’re right, sweetie. I have more power in my Truth Social finger than ANYONE else in the world! Especially some ‘fake news’ reporter.”
“We should have that finger insured. What if there’s a fracture? It would be a disaster,” she said, bobbing her head up and down in self confirmation.
“Careful, Daddy, that bowl is very old and very fragile. Michelle Obama called it historic. She said something about Dolly Madison.”
“Historic?” Trump repeated, simultaneously tossing the object skyward and catching it with his left hand.
“Daddy, please, stop juggling it. Stop it.”
I’ve Got 25 MORE Reasons to Make You Smile
I’ve Got 25 MORE Things To Make You Smile
I’ve Got 25 MORE Things To Make You Smile
By D.S. Mitchell
I am back at the computer making my second post to my Calamity Politics blog, today. Before I started this blog, I worried that I wouldn’t have enough to scream about, but I’m finding that I could probably do half a dozen posts a day related to the Trump Administration, and its basket of corruption and outrage. But I thought, before I start my rant on the collapse of the progressive agenda. I should deliver something positive and uplifting.
So, here are twenty-five things to make you smile:
- Blowing the wrapper off the straw.
- Sunsets over water
- Wraparound sunglasses
- The Science Channel
- Kite flying contests
- The Muppets
- Astronauts
- Blowing the wrapper off the straw
- Winning at Monopoly
- Astronauts
- Blowing the wrapper off the straw
- Barhopping
- The sound of your lovers voice
- The clatter of skis being loaded
- The rumble of a train as it passes
- Walking in the rain
- The imagination of a six year old
- Margaritas at midnight
- Blowing the wrapper off the straw
- Volunteering for a cause you believe in
- The smell of a new car
- Roller skating
- Memories of your first grade teacher
- A good book
- Daddy’s wisdom
I know this Thursday distraction did little to take your mind off the continuing chaos in the Trump White House, but if it gave you a couple minutes of respite, that’s a good thing. Have a gem of a day and never forget to blow the wrapper off the straw.
Join the New Resistance
Calamity Clown/AKA D. S. Mitchell
WORD CHAIN-Black to White
WORD CHAIN-Black to White
WORD CHAIN-Black to White
By D.S. Mitchell
Political blogging requires mostly research and the desire to tell the world all of your political theories. Ideas you are driven to share with people who may or may not support your theories. I try to provide discussion, analysis and relevant topics from current U.S. political news. But, sometimes, I like to play, so for this session here are a few word chains, related in some twisted way, to the current political situation. LOL.
I can change black to white, by changing one letter at a time: black, blank, blink, clink, chink, chine, whine, white
I can change give to take, by changing one letter at a time: give, live, like, lake, take
I can change tears to smile, by changing one letter at a time: tears, scars, stars, stare, stale, stile, smile
I can change poor to rich, by changing one letter at a time: poor, boor, book, rook, rock, Rick, rich
I can change hate to love by changing one letter at a time: hate, rate, rave, cave, cove, love
Fun and amazing, huh?
I wonder if Donald Trump can change treason to impeach by changing one letter at a time, or impeach to imprison?
Join The New Resistance; protest, protest, protest. I want to encourage all of those who aren’t hospitalized or dead, to hit the streets on June 14th, 2025 to protest Trump’s 92 plus million dollar military-personal birthday parade. Millions of dollars for phony adoration while his administration terrorizes our veterans, the disabled, the sick, the poor, the disenfranchised, hungry children, and the elderly, with loss of funding for basic health care and other safety net services. We as a nation don’t have to take this shit. Destroying our democratic government and promised benefits for millions of Americans in exchange for tax benefits and special government contracts to a handful of sociopaths and oligarchs seems out of balance. It is clear that the billionaire values his needs above those of his country and his fellow equal citizens. There are more of us than there are of them. It is time we remind them of that fact. Show your outrage; make a sign, find the sneakers, and tell Trump, Musk, and that whole billionaire cabinet to suck dick.
Calamity Clown/ AKA D.S Mitchell
**Thank you Rod L Evans, Ph.D for your permission to use your work on this website. (Displayed word chain taken directly from his book Tyrannosaurus Lex). Look for it.
You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age, Once Again
You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age, Once Again
You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age, Once Again
Editor: Thank God, we can take a five minute break from the Orange One. Hail, Cate! Thank you.
By Cate Rees-Hessel
- If you ever used Dep or Aqua Net, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you refer to your hair style as a “do”, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you own a flip phone, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If Jean Nate is your go to fragrance, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you had to remove shoulder pads from half your wardrobe, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you ever had a plastic rain bonnet in a plastic container in your purse, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you ever drank from a collapsible cup, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know what rag curls are, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you set your hair on frozen orange juice cans, or beer cans, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If Great Lash is your go to mascara, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you were ever a candy striper, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know that bunny ears have nothing to do with rabbits, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know what Emerson College is, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you have heard of Ned Nickerson, Bess, George, or Hannah Gruen, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you had white patent leather gogo boots, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know what a gogo girl is, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you have LPs of the GoGos, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know what an LP is, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you ever had your daily sprinkle, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know who Midge and Alan are, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If your Skipper doll grew boobs, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know you can dance to it, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you know the Bangles are not a set of bracelets, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you had a Spirograph or Light Brite, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
- If you had a Rainbow Brite doll, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
SAVAGERY
“Silence in front of savagery is savagery itself.”
Abhijit Naskar
