Dave Miller

Post 'em if you got 'em guys. Make sure you don't step on someone else's post   I'll be back Saturday .  Not sure when I'll get back to blogging    … [Read more...] about I’m on Grandpa Duty

I do not like Hillary Clinton even a little bit, and it shocked me when I watched the votes roll in on election night how I found myself cheering for Donald Trump. Donald Trump! I won't go back over what I think of Donald Trump because I've committed to trying to show more respect now that he is president, but the choice was something like choosing between West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease. For me, Hillary was the worst. I find her personally repulsive. Her views are offensive on the issues that I care most about. And I am convinced she committed crimes against the security of this … [Read more...] about A Plea to the President-Elect and Congress: Let It Go – Don’t Let Hillary Be News

Our God is truth but are we in danger of becoming a people who subvert the truth to our agendas? In our theological and political passions, the truth can often be left in the dust. We have a lot of euphemisms for what replaces the truth, but as Christians we only have two options. Jesus said our yes should be yes and our no should be no. He made it clear that the enemy is the liar and that God's people must "speak the truth in love." But we give cover to our lies. Inflated rhetoric. Impassioned, heat-of-the-moment verbiage. Enflamed with righteous anger. Senator Hiram Johnson said, "The … [Read more...] about Telling the Truth: A Great Place to Start the Healing

  If you had asked me yesterday morning who Taran Killam is, I'd have told you I have no idea. Evidently he was on Saturday Night Live, which I haven't watched in about 2 decades - it's still on? He was fired a couple of months ago from that show. I was introduced to him yesterday by an insightful post-election tweet he shared with America. Rural=so stupid. As you might expect, a few rural folks responded. Actually, I was surprised at the reasonable nature of most of those tweets - they weren't insults for the most part (there were a few), but challenges to his prejudice and hatred … [Read more...] about Taran Killam’s Prejudice: An Example of What’s Wrong with America

I am 10 months from a birthday that ends in a 0. I will not be 50 and I will not be 70, beyond that I will not be specific. When I turned 18 I registered as a Republican and voted faithfully as one until this election. I did vote for our senator, Chuck Grassley, but I voted for an independent for president and refused to vote for my congressman (Steve King) because of some unconscionably racist comments he made recently and refused to apologize for. I have renounced my party affiliation and am now independent. My timing is impeccable! For the first time in a long time, the GOP will hold … [Read more...] about The Ball Is in Your Court, Grand Old Party

Congratulations, Mr. President, on the stunning events of yesterday’s election. You shocked the world. Anyone who knows me or reads this blog knows that not only did I not vote for you but I expressed in the strongest terms my belief that you were not qualified to be president, that I was disgusted by your behavior, disagreed with many of your positions, distrusted your sincerity even on positions we held in common such as the pro-life position, and generally disdained your personality, deportment, and conversation. Sir, I determined last summer that this day should not come and that I … [Read more...] about An Open Letter to President-Elect Donald Trump

It's been a long time since I was in school. We had chalkboards and erasers. No one knew what a computer was. Or an overhead projecter. Or a VCR. If we watched a movie it involved film with two big reels. We took recess very seriously. We played dodge ball and Red Rover. Trophies were given to those who won - I don't think we knew what a "participation award" was. I played my first video game (Pong) my senior year of high school, and I became quite good. No one wore shorts to school - it just wasn't done, even though there were no air-conditioned schools. And yes, I walked to school barefoot … [Read more...] about Some Thoughts about Bullying

I have written two posts about the election that I decided not to post - I have post-election burnout and they haven't even started counting votes. I can't wait for it to all be over, except for the reality that we are picking a leader for our nation for the next few years. There's so much that troubles me about this, but I've come to the opinion that further discussion is pointless.  There's more talking than listening going on, more anger than reason, more division than reconciliation, and I'm pretty sure that I'm more likely to give offense than to sway opinions. My real burden all along … [Read more...] about A Plea to American Voters: Let’s Behave as if We Believe

You may be a Trump enthusiast, a reluctant Trump voter, or a NeverTrump hold out like me, but I would guess that we have two things in common: 1. We can hardly wait for the election season to be over. You get no sympathy from me on this. I'm an Iowan and we are blessed to hold the "first-in-the-nation" caucuses, so we start seeing candidates and campaigns before the rest of the country. It's a long campaign. This election has been course and divisive and unseemly. I remember the Reagan campaigns - he inspired a sense of the nobility of the American experiment in all of us. This election has … [Read more...] about The Day after Tuesday…