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The Older I Get Hogan—

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:42:12 +0000

Last Tuesday I had my regular six month Doctor appointment. Six months is regulated by a failed thyroid – thus I have lab work and adjust the medication every six months, no big deal. This lady has been my Primary Care Person for many years and we have become close. When we have a visit […]

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The Older I Get Hogan’s Heroes as the Trump Administration—

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:35:20 +0000

Imagine Jimmy Kimmel as Hogan. Hegseth is Colonel Clink. Rubio is Sergeant Schultz, “I know nothing”. Hogan is defiant, even mocking of the fascist regime. Hegseth is the great boot liker. Rubio pretends to be innocent:

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Sam Harris on Religious Irony

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:42:15 +0000

I am using this forum today to simply share a video that made sense to me:

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Ailments, Aging, Attitude

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:00:58 +0000

I am 75 years old. I am also 75 years young. Attitude? My life has engaged a couple of chronic, life-changing, medical conditions. Some are minor, meaning that I just have to take regular medication – Blood pressure and hypothyroidism. Some are more life changing. I have a condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT). It is a […]

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“A Known Homosexual” – It is Time to Protest!!

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:52:00 +0000

OK – I admit that I have a friend who is a ‘known homosexual’. Yes, I admit, I talk to him when I see him, Yes, even in public. He looks like a regular person so people who see us talking probably don’t know – so that makes it OK to speak to him in […]

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Protesting Injustice – the Paradox of Civilization

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:08:41 +0000

I have written about this before. It is a tough subject for me because my judgement seems to fail to understand appropriate degrees of protest. How much can you piss people off before you are deemed ‘across-the-line”? When we speak of social justice we are talking about the advancement of civilization. The more just a […]

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Remembering Mom and Her Music

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:45:12 +0000

I was fumbling around on youtube this morning and found this Patti Page rendition of Tennessee Waltz. My mother introduced me to this song. She was not trying to – this was one of the songs she sang while wringing out the laundry in her wringer wash machine. Hearing Patti Page sing this old song […]

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Taylor Swift is “New Money”

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:17:21 +0000

The headlines state that Taylor Swift gave $100,000 to the family of a shooting victim at the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade. The media reports she is worth around one billion dollars. The media (Forbes) also reports the Hunt family, owners of the Chiefs, are worth around twenty-five (25) billion dollars. There is no report […]

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Pondering the Impact of Individuals on History

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:50:55 +0000

There are two broad categories of historical interpretation. Generally they are narrative history and chaos theory. Narrative history comes into focus with biography. Often a biography of a historical character, usually a leader during times of strife, will suggest that that person was responsible for navigating through the crisis. Chaos theory says that the conditions […]

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The Fireside Continues for another 3 years

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:53:08 +0000

Well, Executive Administrative CEO type decisions have overruled the Operations Manager. The firesidepost has been funded for another three years. Life goes on. It is great, we started this adventure in 2007 – we might make it to 20 years.

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Shutting Down thefiresidepost.com

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:35:09 +0000

The hosting service for this site has become too expensive. Also, bluehost, the host of this site has double billed us – they billed my son and they are billing me. They like to automatically charge your credit card. They did send me a notice saying they were charging me at the end of October […]

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COVID – Three Days In

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:08:30 +0000

Sunday night, January 16, I went to bed with a slight headache. I did not take any medicine for the headache. Fever and chills visited me through the night and Monday morning (MLK Holiday) I went to urgent care. By then my symptoms were headache, cough, runny nose, fever, chills, and some body aches. I […]

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Psychology, Cognitive, Jung, Literature, Astrology – What’s It All About

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:41:30 +0000

My life has been invested in the search for sanity. That search took many paths. Currently my discussion with others on the same journey has included comparisons of the different yet divergent paths. I am a lay person – mostly. After I retired from a career in information systems I entered a counselor-in-training program at […]

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I’LL BE THERE

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:14:54 +0000

DON’T KNOW WHERE THERE IS BUT I’LL BE THERE

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Another Homeless Man Dies

bpc621@gmail.com (bryan clark www.thefiresidepost.com) — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:45:40 +0000

James (not real name) and his younger brother Bud preferred drinking in the shade on a hot day. Their friends Wayne and Keith and other homeless people sometimes joined them. The old police station at 710 S 9th still has the radio tower. The base is about twenty feet by twenty feet and the tower […]

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