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Ed Raymond

Ed Raymond is a former Marine officer and school board superintendent, and resides in Detroit Lakes.

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Random Death By Bullets

Ed Raymond

Perhaps at the request of the incoming NRA president Marine Colonel Oliver North Congress should approve grants to study the effect of Ritalin on firearm deaths. North said after the Santa Fe murders: “Young boys who have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten turn into school shooters.”

Armageddon and Rage

Ed Raymond

Because of income inequality several major cities have become too expensive for the lower middle-class and the poor to live in. California, Washington, and Oregon cities have major problems with the poor and homeless. Full-time workers have to commute hours to their jobs. Road rage incidents have become commonplace.

We Aren’t Out of The Trees Yet!

Ed Raymond

A Southern Baptist minister surprised church members by describing a “well-built” 16-year-old girl as “Biblical.” What proverb? What did he have on his mind? Many states governed by Republican governors and legislatures have been preaching abstinence for decades. It has always failed

A Swift Solution for Poverty

Ed Raymond

Southern states, generally led by Republican governors and legislatures, have increased poverty by refusing to expand Medicaid benefits to the poor under the Affordable Care Act and passing anti-union “right to work” legislation which ensures that workers have “the right to work for less.”

Are We Tickling The Dragon’s Tail?

Ed Raymond

Emperor Donald has assumed the mantle of a “religious” cult leader by persuading evangelical Christian leaders to follow him to the Oval Office and Mar-A-Lago. In repeating 3,000 lies in over 2,500 tweets since his crowning, he has proven, according to numerous scholars, to be historically, theologically, morally, and scientifically illiterate.

Maybe We Should Quote The Raven More

Ed Raymond

But incidents with ravens in Alaska indicate an intelligence that is “overmore.” When it really gets cold in Alaska, ravens during the day will fly to streetlights and cover the light sensors with their wings so the lights come on. The bulbs give off heat so the ravens warm themselves. Some of our politicians would never have figured that out.

What Is The Christian Thing To Do?

Ed Raymond

If one lacks knowledge and the intelligence to gain it, one remains ignorant. This includes political judgment. Dunning and Kruger add this shocker: “They’re not smart enough to realize they’re dumb.” Ouch.’

The NRA Gun Lobby And Republicans Pick Guns Over Kids

Ed Raymond

The American Psychiatric Association has estimated that 6% of Americans on average are mentally or emotionally disturbed during any one year. That means that 19.5 million of us require extensive therapy or hospitalization while we are bonkers.

The Beginning And End Of Two Similar Societies

Ed Raymond

Republican President Theodore Roosevelt wrote: “This country would not be a good place for any of us to live in if it is not a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”

A Broken and Bewildered Country

Ed Raymond

“The public no longer believes that America’s major institutions are working for the many. Increasingly, they have become vessels for the few.”

What Military-Style Rifles Do To Human Bodies

Ed Raymond

Since Parkland many Minnesota high schools have had to go on lockdown because of “Jesses” making threats to kill students and shoot up their schools.

When Will The NRA Gun Cult And The Gun Lobby Culture Inherit The Wind?

Ed Raymond

They believe the AR-15 symbolizes the “rod of iron” in the Book of Revelation. My God! What Would Jesus Do?! On the day of the blessing an elementary school a block from the church decided to close for the day. Some church worshippers wore crowns made of bullets! Is LaPierre the new Christ?

A Bloody Stage For Gun Culture-Cancer

Ed Raymond

We have 4.4% of the world’s population and 42% of the guns. The facts are we are ten times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries.

Brave New World, Part Two

Ed Raymond

Perhaps we should take lessons of government from Finland and the Scandinavian countries. After just a century of independence from Russia, Finland has been recognized as the most stable, the safest, and the best-governed country in the world.

Christians Who Raise Cain

Ed Raymond

Trump supporters want to go back before Roe v. Wade when abortion was illegal and women used lye, coat hangers, and other sharp instruments to abort. Wasn’t that a great period?

Will Rogers was right

Ed Raymond

“There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” It’s a tough way to learn.

Old RVs Parked Among Bel-Air Mansions

Ed Raymond

Some areas might go without power for a year because of the inept and often incompetent FEMA of theTrump administration. The only thing our Great Leader has done well is to throw paper towels to desperate people.

Bump Stocks and Muskets

Ed Raymond

We are absolutely nuts to have sold almost 14 million of any type of weapon like the AR-15 in the civilian firearm market. If we are going to stop the present obscene carnage, they should all be melted down and turned into lawn furniture and auto parts.

Dreamers Are Having Nightmares

Ed Raymond

This year the volunteers counted 553,742 homeless in the country on one night. Estimates range to 250,000 more homeless sleeping and pooping in hidden spots.

American Sex, Lies, and Lots of Videotape

Ed Raymond

When 81% of white evangelicals helped elect King Donald they were not making a Christian statement, they were making a political power statement.

All About Disaster Capitalism In A Christian Nation

Ed Raymond

Congress should study the fact why a three-bedroom, two bathroom house in Sunnyvale, California which sold for $27,500 in 1963 was recently sold for $2.47 million. It needed some work. This was almost 100 times greater in the span of 54 years. Worker’s wages only went up ten times in the same time period.

The Trumplestiltskin Era

Ed Raymond

The song “Organized Crime” by Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman outlines the essential problem, using a quote from 19th Century French writer Honore’ de Balzac: “Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.”

The Sacklers: America’s Biggest and Richest “Legal” Drug Pushers

Ed Raymond

Deborah Dowell, senior medical advisor of the Centers for Disease Control, says: “We overestimated the benefits of opioids and underestimated the risks. We assumed without adequate evidence that they would work as well long term as they did in the short term.”

Don’t Want To Be Shot? Get Small

Ed Raymond

Another trauma surgeon with less experience said: “There’s nothing that can prepare you for what bullets do to human bodies. And that’s true for pro-gun people also.”

Norwegians Know How To Govern— Just Ask Ole And Lena

Ed Raymond

King Donald and his “merrie men” of the Manhattan Forest are now discussing “tax reform.” That only means tax cuts for the rich. Although society needs a lot of money to create equal opportunities for all races in America, the billionaires of Trump’s cabinet are already planning to raid our treasury.

What Kind Of Characters Would Charge $99 For A Case Of Water?

Ed Raymond

Finding an identity was big for him, because in some aspects in life, he would get the racist treatment from white people because he was a black quarterback. And some people gave him the racist treatment because he was raised by a white family.”

How You Can Earn $12 Million A Year In The United States

Ed Raymond

“The wealthiest people in our society don’t appear to be improving any lives but their own, and they don’t seem to have special qualities or skills that explain why they’re being compensated so much more extravagantly then the rest of us.”

Can We Learn Anything After We Know It All?

Ed Raymond

“A lesson in physics can be as simple as standing under a falling rock — or pissing into the wind….or attempting to stuff ten pounds of shit into a five-pound bag.” That’s how we often unwittingly learn about the universe.

The World Has Decided King Donald Has Made Us Irrelevant

Ed Raymond

Why isn’t health care considered a public utility like water, sewer, electric power, roads, bridges, and postal service? The Republicans say we have the best health care in the world. The World Health Organization says we are 35th from the top.. below Cuba.

When Have-It-Alls And Well-To-Doers Don’t Want To Share Any Of It

Ed Raymond

Only nursing of the ten fastest-growing occupations today pays over $33,000 a year. Practically all of the better-paying middle class jobs have been outsourced to low-wage countries. General Electric’s CEO Jack Welch wanted to put all of GE’s factories on barges that could be towed to low-wage countries.

Of Mice and Men — and Elephants

Ed Raymond

Many Republican men do not want to pay for health insurance covering pregnancies and births. More immaculate conceptions?!

To Pee or Not To Pee—That’s a Question?

Ed Raymond

Our rich now live an average of 87 years while the poor expire at age 66—and the gap is growing. Every country with universal health care is increasing life expectancy among the rich and the poor.

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