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<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Last
Saturday evening KRFP FM had its annual dinner and fundraiser.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>I was invited to speak and here are my remarks.
Every Wednesday AM I broadcast as The Palouse Pundit.<span style="margin:0px"> </span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"> This is Nick Gier, the Palouse Pundit,
bringing you breaking news from Washington, D. C.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Remember
you heard it first on KRFP, Radio Free Moscow, 90.3 on your radio dial, now
broadcasting a 1100 Watts.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Autocrat
Donald J. Trump, fearing impeachment from new Democratic Congress in 2019, has
resigned his office and has accepted a position in Russia’s Ministry of
Hospitality.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>He has plans to build Trump
Towers and golf courses all across Russia. He will also build luxury apartments
for Russian oligarchs, good friends who have bought American properties from
him and helped them launder money.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Donald,
Jr., fearing indictment and the continued wrath of his estranged wife and
children, will be joining his father in Russia. (It seems that he, too, had at
least one paramour.) Vladimir Putin has promised protection from extradition
for Trump and his son, as well as any other Trump associate being investigated
by Robert Mueller.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Putin
has promised Trump that he can grab all the pussy he wants, but he warned him
that Russian ladies do not tolerate braggarts and they have been known to spank
blowhards in the past.<span style="margin:0px"> </span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Inspired
by her daughter-in-law Vanessa, Melanie Trump has filed for divorce, and she
anticipates very “stormy” legal proceedings.<span style="margin:0px">
</span>After giving a highly regarded speech on courage at the State
Department, she believes that she is up to the task.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>Admitting that she has no credibility in
dealing with bullies, Mrs. Trump also announced that she will no longer
campaign on this issue. Having once worked as an illegal immigrant, she will
now speak on behalf of the undocumented.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Also
fearing indictment for corrupt real estate deals as well as Russian collusion,
Jared Kushner has taken a position as personal advisor to the Saudi Crown
Prince.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>His wife Ivanka will join him in
exile and she will concentrate on a new line of designer burkas.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Proving
that he never believed in following the Constitution, Autocrat Trump will not
allow Mike Pence to take his place.<span style="margin:0px">
</span>Admitting that he never liked this shiny-faced Christian, Trump said
that he was tired of Pence’s sugary piety and his insistence that they kneel in
prayer before every personal meeting.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Instead
of following the Constitution, Trump has invited Barack and Michelle back to
the White House. He admits that the place is so infused with their virtue,
integrity, and dignity that he actually cannot stand to live there. He was
especially disgusted with their marital fidelity. Trump’s candor was
unprecedented: “How can I live in a place where people always went high, when I
always go so low.”</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>And
now a few comments about what I owe KRFP.<span style="margin:0px">
</span>Over the years, my columns appeared on occasion in local newspapers, but
my regular op-ed writing started at the station at the end of 2005. After
giving a few speeches at local Iraq War protests, Nancy Casey invited me on
Morning Mix for some live commentaries. She said that I needed a handle, and
she suggested The Palouse Pundit and I thought it was just right.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">I then
sent out my op-eds to local and regional newspapers.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>I got a weekly spot at Pocatello’s Idaho
State Journal and a biweekly slot at the Sandpoint Reader.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>I have a few time shares in Cabo San Lucas,
so I also snagged a spot at the Los Cabos Daily News, a local gringo paper.
After the Pocatello editor reduced my columns there, I was hired by the Daily
News for a biweekly column in 2014.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>I’m
still able to publish, on occasion, 2,000-word versions of my columns at the
Idaho State Journal.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">In
addition to Nancy Casey, I owe a lot to Station Manager Leigh Robartas, who was
very patient with me as I stumbled through the early commentaries. I now have a
good sound editor, and on the off weeks, I’ve been able to clean up some
commentaries from the archives for rebroadcasting.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">So thank
you, KRFP, you have made a very rewarding post-retirement writing career
possible. May your 1100 watts pulsate over the Palouse Hills forever!</font></span></p>
<font size="3"></font><font color="#000000"></font><font face="Times New Roman"></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div style="width:auto;height:auto"> <div> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size:13.33px">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. </span><br style="font-size:13.33px"><br style="font-size:13.33px"><span style="font-size:13.33px">-Greek proverb</span></div><div><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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