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Hobo

Hobo's Journal
Hobo's Journal
March 16, 2016

I got my first post hidden in 15 years

The Bernie people voted to hide it.....

February 25, 2016

So two lackeys from the Washington Post

print a story with "un-named sources" and the Obama haters here start to go ape shit.....What happened to this place?

Way to go

July 6, 2015

United States State Department issues

warning for Americans working or traveling to Qatar to stay stay away from hotels and malls due to extremists threats, especially after Ramadan.

First time I have gotten one of those since I have been here.

To my friends in Doha! Keep an eye out!

Hobo

June 27, 2015

If Senator Ted Cruz (R-Canada)

Wants to remove Supreme Court Justices, why doesn't he get one of his cronies in the house like Goober or King to start the impeachment process?

Wait wait I know, because all his bluster is just red meat for the dwindling RWNJ base.

Think he has the chutzpah?


Hobo

June 15, 2015

I have finally

had enough of the Bernie Bots. May I please join this group of sane people?


Hobo

June 15, 2015

Breaking: According to the latest Straw Poll, Senator Sanders will be elected President

of DU. That and a ten dollar bill will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks......






May 4, 2015

The Clown Car is getting crowded now

Bennie, Carly and Huck.........oh Boy!



Hobo


March 11, 2015

So, Let me get this straight

If I read my constitution correctly, the president conducts foreign policy. If he signs a treaty with another country the Senate gets to ratify it or not. I am sorry but please explain how the opposition party states that it is being bypassed? If or when an agreement is reached the senate gets to vote on it. What am I missing here?


TIA

Hobo





September 9, 2014

I am a Male.

My ex physically abused me during our marriage. Does that make me a fool? Am I less of a man because of it?

When you love someone, someone who for the large majority of the time was a loving person, do you just overlook these outbursts?

I was the bread winner. She worked in the beginning to help make ends meet but after a few years my income rose to the point were she didn't need to work but she continued to until our divorce.

Here is an example of what would set her off. I traveled a lot for work and sometimes I would need to entertain a clients with a dinner and/or drinks, she was aware of these as she accompanied me to a few after work dinners when clients visited our town. I had a company credit card that was used for this purpose and I had the bill for this sent to home, in part so she could see where the money was going each month. I would be reembursed by the company but it sometime took a few days. One month after she open the bill she looked up and just smacked in the mouth. She says she was mad that I spent $900.00 on a dinner and that I had to be cheating on her. In fact it was a dinner in Chicago for a client who invited about 10 members of his team partly because he knew I would be picking up the check.

I was brought up in the 60s. I was taught and I learned never to hit a woman. I can honestly say I have never even clenched my fist in anger toward a female. Even while I was being smacked in the mouth. Sure I would defend myself by raising my arms to ward off the hits. I never retaliated, I know I could have caused a lot of damage, but something in my mind just said no.

Eventually, I grew tired of the outbursts and finally got out.

I know my actions never required these outbursts. I tried then to figure out what the trigger was, but it was always different. After a while I just gave up.

I am not condoning any ones actions, all I am saying is it is not just men who step over line. (I know that someone here will comment on that sentence)




Hobo

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Hometown: Levittown PA
Home country: USA
Current location: San Francisco CA
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