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It's easier to hate than to think

It’s easier to hate than to think

The GOP is like the man who rushes to the emergency room for a paper cut and demands major surgery to fix it, all the while ignoring the stage IV cancer that has spread to every part of his body. The Republican obsession with fighting same-sex marriage, demonizing Planned Parenthood, relentlessly trying to find Hillary guilty of something and the myriad other “the sky is falling” histrionics…

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#Donald Trump #GOP #illegal immigration #Little Rock Nine #Steve Ramos

Normandy beaches and Stalag VIIA — A WWII vet remembers

Following the liberation of Stalag VIIA, a former prisoner of war cooks food on a homemade stove while others examine the contents of Red Cross food parcels.

In 2004, we did a section on veterans and their war memories at the Moore County News Press. The stories were short because of space limitations, but I wish I had kept my interview notes so I could have written more later. I’ve been thinking…

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#DDay #German POW Camps #Moore County News Press #Normandy #POW #Soldiers #Stalag VIIA #Steve Ramos Odelle McAvoy #WWII

The Tucker Redemption

The “Tucker Telephone” was a torture device invented in Arkansas and regularly used at the Tucker State Prison Farm. It consisted of an old-fashioned crank telephone wired in sequence with two batteries. Electrodes coming from it were attached to a prisoner’s big toe and genitals. The electrical components of the phone were modified so that cranking the telephone sent an electric shock through…

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#Arkansas Department of Correction #bipolar disorder #Cummins Prison #Jerry Campbell #Larry May #Prison #Steve Ramos #Tucker Prison #Tucker Telephone

Picture It: Studio One In West Hollywood. 1980

Gary Mortimer tending bar at the Backlot of Studio One with Liza Minnelli the night she bought out the room for Chita Rivera. (Photo by Gary Mortimer)

So, I’m going through my book, I Can See Clearly Now, looking for typos and whatnot. I’ve really had an incredible life. I’ve been at the top, and I’ve been so far under the rubble that I couldn’t see daylight. I’ve dated multi-millionaires (one of…

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#bipolar disorder #I Can See Clearly Now #Prison #Steve Ramos #Studio One #Sunset Boulevard #Three Dog Night #West Hollywood

Religious Freedom: The American Version of the Nuremberg Laws

Facebook is fascinating if you’re a sociologist or a reporter, jobs that pretty much utilize the same human observation skills. Interviewing people for newspaper stories became easy years ago when I realized humans share a small number of personality traits. There are variations of those personalities, but because the foundations of those traits are so similar, it’s easy to predict what people…

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#discrimination #LGBT #Nazis #Nuremburg Laws #religious freedom

We Are A Marvel

All of nature’s wonders — Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, Hawaiian Islands — are the result of powerful eruptions, scrapings and the pressure of grinding tectonic plates. And we marvel at the results.

So it is with beautiful people. Life plunged them in fire until they were moldable and then hammered the hell out of them so the bent parts could be straightened. Adversity ground down the emotional…

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Me Surrender? Nuts!

I don’t wonder what it would be like to have millions of dollars or a Beverly Hills mansion. I wonder what it’s like to go through one day without having to avoid the thousands of mental bomb craters left by a prolonged war with bi polar disorder and PTSD.

When I’m speaking or listening to someone, especially while conducting an interview for a story, I must ignore the ceaseless siege on my mind.…

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#bipolar disorder #mental illness #overcoming adversity #PTSD #Steve Ramos #tenacity

Margaret Herringa still heading 'em up at 83

Margaret Heringa

It is suiting to the owner of the Cross Diamond Ranch that her land would sweep up to the commanding Johnson Mesa. Like her land, the borders of Margaret Smith Heringa’s life aren’t defined by easily plotted precise angles. Her life’s topography, and that of her land, is anything but flat.

The Cross Diamond Ranch spreads to the north of U.S. Highway 87, about five miles east of…

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#Clayton New Mexico #Margaret Heringa #New Mexico Ranches #Ranching History #Raton New Mexico

From 2003 to 2006, Eric Lueshen, and out gay athlete, played for the University of Nebraska under head coach Bill Callahan, now the Cowboys’ offensive coordinator.

#Michael Sam #Eric Lueshen #NFL #Bill Callahan #Dallas Cowboys #University of Nebraska #gay football players #coming out #gay athletes

Cornhuskers had an out gay player a decade before Michael Sam came out

GROUNDBREAKER | Eric Lueshen and his niece, Aubryn, share a moment on the backyard swing. Lueshen…

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#Bill Callahan #college football #coming out #Cornhuskers #Dallas Cowboys #Eric Lueshen #gay athletes #gay football players #Michael Sam #NFL #Steve Ramos #University of Missouri #University of Nebraska

Tooth Fairy Trial Continues, Accused Of Breaking And Entering

Lucy Grabowski, known as the Tooth Fairy, is on trial in Pottsville, Ark., for breaking and…

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#Arkansas #Tooth Fairy

Into The Wild Blue Yonder

by Steve Ramos

His plans to become a pilot didn’t pan out, but C. J. Gresham’s grandfather would…

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#Air Force #Air Force Academny #C. J. Gresham #Dumas Texas #Military #Service Academies

Moore Helping Moore

Cars, battered by the EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla., on May 20, are abandoned in the…

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#Moore Oklahoma #Moore Tornado #Oklahoma Tornado #Steve Ramos #Tornado

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