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Ken D. Schramm

@compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social
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Life-long progressive. Author. Meadmaker. Wine lover. Meadery Founder. Orchard owner. Husband. Father. Grandfather. Fly fisher. Food lover: BBQ, Bread, Pie. Scotch enthusiast. Science lover. Mean Manhattan maker. Even meaner Martini maker. Lover of decency

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day. Labor is the armature over which America is sculpted. If you make it, grow it, cook it, nurse 'em, teach, protect or doctor them, clean it, sell it, bottle or keg it, pick it, process it, deliver it, build it, package it, serve it or put it out if it's burning: Happy Labor Day.
Man on a ladder at the top of a cherry tree, picking cherries, with a smudge of cherry juice on his face.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great Italian. The only place in Detroit where no one ever got their car stolen. Where else would Frank have gone? I don't remember a time when it was not there. Looks like they painted a flag over the word "Cafe" on the awning.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
He is the Great and Powerful Oz!
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Sneering" was never the word I wanted to be the most accurate characterization of our President.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Adrift on a Sargasso Sea of unawareness.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Shamans are not real? How the heck is this guy supposed to serve now?
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sorry, but the misogyny is strong in this one. My money has to be on Karoline or Suzie Wiles. I’d suspect Linda “Mrs. Hulk Hogan” McMahon might be next, but she is so far off the radar that he probably hasn’t thought about her in weeks. Months.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hail, yes.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
AI: Artificial? Absolutely. Intelligent: Not in the least. Meta AI question prompts: Why is this tomato in the road? Indeed. Why is this tomato in the road? I definitely want AI handling decisions about my health. Yeah. Let's infuse HHS with AI. For sure.
On a picture of the Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile, Facebook AI question prompt asks: "Why is this tomato in the road?"
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We never learn.
AP image of Iraqis celebtrating the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Can you imagine being an Egyptian, thinking, "man, this whole Set/Ra/Osiris thing is all just a bunch of concocted bulls#!t." Yeah. That.
Egyptian god Set/Seth.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Here is my recommendation: Buy some of these. They're cheap. Use them when you think you should you should use them. Give them to people you love. Share them in neighborhoods where they might prevent collisions with oncoming "boats." Spread the word. Go.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Here is my recommendation: Buy some of these. They're cheap. Use them when you think you should you should use them. Give them to people you love. Share them in neighborhoods where they might prevent collisions with oncoming "boats." Spread the word. Go.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Holy Mother of the Flying Spaghetti Monster this is exhausting.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Anyone who hasn't dumped TSLA by now is a masochist.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Lines up for close to half a mile on both sides of Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
At least a couple thousand and a lot if support form those driving by at the "No Kings" protest today in Troy, MI.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Lots of enthusiasm (and resistance) in Troy, Michigan today.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Joe, if you want to talk about when my serious engagement started, you're way late. Like, 37 years or so. I donated to 24 candidates this past election. I'm so engaged, I can hardly open my texts anymore.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I feel all better. Do you feel all better?
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Wow! It was obvious that he was not respected in this administration, but this is a new extreme. How much of this are you going to put up with, Marco?
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Aaaaand, look whose "Government Hands" are on your Medicare now. And your Social Security.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Thanks for clarifying that. All this time, I thought he was a vertebrate.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
"For God's sake, when is this going to be over?" You can actually hear his teeth grinding.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is what somebody who very much does NOT want to be where he is looks like.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Read this in your best De Niro/Joe Pesci voice: "Really nice country you got there, at least what the Rooskies haven't stolen yet. Would be a shame if something happened to it. For just a few hundred billion in mineral rights, we might be able to provide you some 'protection' from these people."
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
1,000 words.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
And still, they follow...
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From "The Ciano Diaries." Galeazzo Ciano was Mussolini's Foreign Minister and son-in law. Read that book.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
History may not repeat itself precisely, but it rhymes, right down to the final stanza. You can think of Ciano like Musk. Miller, Bannon, Roger Stone are in there. When all you've got is a "f**k you," everybody ends up getting f**ked. Ciano ended up executed. We know where Mussolini ended up.
The Ciano Diaries, the WWII diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Foreign Minister during Mussolini's time as "Il Duce"in Italy.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If there is a more germane book than this one for anyone to be reading right now, I can't think of it.
The Ciano Diaries: The diary of Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
rev2
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Pies made, turkey in the oven. Sometimes "tradition" is a phrase used to justify unjustifiable behavior, but this is one tradition I can abide. There are definitely things to be thankful for this year. Peaceful times with cherished people to all of you.
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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
One of the worst things? No, Ryan. Three of the worst things, quite honestly.
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