Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Letter to Rachel Maddow -- Fabulous on Flint
Rachel, yet again you bring home the point to me why we as progressives watch your program faithfully and appreciate the humanitarian impact of your brave voice. Reporting the lead issue in Flint, Michigan as a result of the evil machinations of Republican Governor Snyder shows exactly how low the Republican Party can go and how unethical that Party can be.
When I say you are saving lives I mean it. You are saving lives by the myriad of especially Republican misbehaviors you have exposed over the years.
I know it is your 7th year at MSNBC. My wish for the future is many many more than 7 more in the driver's seat at one of the few progressive networks on the air.
I and I am sure those in Flint owe you a debt of gratitude. I appreciate your voice and I love your articulate commentary night after night year after year. I wish you many more of them!
Monday, December 21, 2015
Russian Warplanes Allegedly Kill Scores In Syrian City
The link to the story: here or http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-warplanes-allegedly-kill-scores-in-syrian-city_56774072e4b06fa6887dc33d#comments
A blogger writes: For those folks in the GOP who were OK with carpet bombing and very probably and frankly, deliberate, deaths of innocent civilians, and this includes our pal Trump, take a long hard look. This is what that policy looks like - a little... now let's see what the blow back looks like - for there will be blow back...
That blogger was correct and I said: So this is who Trump praises? Have to bomb families he says...ooops seems like it's the wrong families. Bombing to prop up Assad?
My post: ALL foreign forces should be out of there to let these people sort out those whom they want in power. One drop more of American blood should not be spilled and those especially Republicrats who want to go in and make the sand red should be willing to put their own lives on the line!
A blogger writes: For those folks in the GOP who were OK with carpet bombing and very probably and frankly, deliberate, deaths of innocent civilians, and this includes our pal Trump, take a long hard look. This is what that policy looks like - a little... now let's see what the blow back looks like - for there will be blow back...
That blogger was correct and I said: So this is who Trump praises? Have to bomb families he says...ooops seems like it's the wrong families. Bombing to prop up Assad?
My post: ALL foreign forces should be out of there to let these people sort out those whom they want in power. One drop more of American blood should not be spilled and those especially Republicrats who want to go in and make the sand red should be willing to put their own lives on the line!
Saturday, December 19, 2015
The Mystery of the Jews -- Part II a better narration
Thanks to my cousin who is a gifted academic of history I was presented with a much more rational analysis for the success of the Jewish people from the Babylonian exile to the Herculean obstacles of exile and near extermination. I thought what he said was an infinitely better analysis than the Youtube presented because he concentrated not on Biblical stories, myths and a few quotes from the famous but the actual history of both the ancient and modern world. I thought it interesting.
I paraphrase him: As with so many ancient histories embellishment too often rules. The most glaring error in the narrative presented in the Youtube was the Jewish population, pegging it at 10 million in 500 BCE (before the common era.) This was just a few decades after the Jewish exile to Babylonia when many perished in their futile attempt to defend their homeland. Then, just thirty years previous to this count, Persia invaded Babylon and the Jews were decimated since many males had been drafted, Jewish women were often raped and many subsequently were killed. I believe that population original figure to be more than quadruple what many scholars would perhaps agree upon.
If one strips away many Biblical myths and other embellishments, Jewish accomplishments were surprisingly predictable.
During the Roman experience Jews were segregated both by their own choice and that of the Romans. Most importantly and perhaps the pivotal rationale for Jewish academic accomplish was that the rabbis of Babylon demanded Jews become literate. They were the only group that a) could read and b) had scrolls that documented, in part, Jewish history. No other group had this advantage, and that, I believe is the root of Jewish academic and other success.
When Christianity arrived in the 4th century, the great majority of Europeans were illiterate, and the Church later decided to enshrine their ignorance into law. In both Matthew and Mark, the verse about being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle that for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven the church made sure that their alliance with the aristocracy would serve both parties at the expense of the unwashed and ignorant masses.
In the seventh century, with the rise of Islam, the Jews of Arabia and North Africa fared exceptionally well, earning the title of "The People of the Book." This singular skill fostered an immutable spirit of inquiry which, in turn, made the Jewish people the only group of certifiable intellectuals in the otherwise barren landscape of ignorance. Is it any wonder that Jews were sought after by the nobility, beseeching them to become their engineers, architects, tax collectors, accountants, scribes, historians, etc?
The only learning available to the Christian minority was through the clergy, otherwise one was doomed to serfdom (unless of course one had the good fortune to be a noble.)
However, Jewish success helped spread antisemitism, and, within three centuries, European monarchs eyed Jewish wealth with jealous eyes and began their expulsions and confiscations of property owned by Jews. It became easy for the church to mark the Jew as 'the other', making Jews fair game to be maimed, killed and, most importantly, dispossessed.
Europe was hell but North Africa and Spain (the Caliphate) were a Jewish gilded home. While Europe languished in endless wars and so many popes had decimated the population by sending them on six different crusades, the plague and institutional quagmire, Jews flourished, attending the only real universities worthy of the name.
Genghis Khan brought his hordes into Europe and the papacy decided they could no longer afford to pursue crushing the infidels in the Holy Land.
The history of the Renaissance will bring the Jewish people through to modernity and the near annihilation of a people now numbering around 14 million or 0.2% of the world's population. Anti-Semitism will continue into our present time. Part III will be the Jew of the Renaissance to the modern world.
I paraphrase him: As with so many ancient histories embellishment too often rules. The most glaring error in the narrative presented in the Youtube was the Jewish population, pegging it at 10 million in 500 BCE (before the common era.) This was just a few decades after the Jewish exile to Babylonia when many perished in their futile attempt to defend their homeland. Then, just thirty years previous to this count, Persia invaded Babylon and the Jews were decimated since many males had been drafted, Jewish women were often raped and many subsequently were killed. I believe that population original figure to be more than quadruple what many scholars would perhaps agree upon.
If one strips away many Biblical myths and other embellishments, Jewish accomplishments were surprisingly predictable.
During the Roman experience Jews were segregated both by their own choice and that of the Romans. Most importantly and perhaps the pivotal rationale for Jewish academic accomplish was that the rabbis of Babylon demanded Jews become literate. They were the only group that a) could read and b) had scrolls that documented, in part, Jewish history. No other group had this advantage, and that, I believe is the root of Jewish academic and other success.
When Christianity arrived in the 4th century, the great majority of Europeans were illiterate, and the Church later decided to enshrine their ignorance into law. In both Matthew and Mark, the verse about being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle that for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven the church made sure that their alliance with the aristocracy would serve both parties at the expense of the unwashed and ignorant masses.
In the seventh century, with the rise of Islam, the Jews of Arabia and North Africa fared exceptionally well, earning the title of "The People of the Book." This singular skill fostered an immutable spirit of inquiry which, in turn, made the Jewish people the only group of certifiable intellectuals in the otherwise barren landscape of ignorance. Is it any wonder that Jews were sought after by the nobility, beseeching them to become their engineers, architects, tax collectors, accountants, scribes, historians, etc?
The only learning available to the Christian minority was through the clergy, otherwise one was doomed to serfdom (unless of course one had the good fortune to be a noble.)
However, Jewish success helped spread antisemitism, and, within three centuries, European monarchs eyed Jewish wealth with jealous eyes and began their expulsions and confiscations of property owned by Jews. It became easy for the church to mark the Jew as 'the other', making Jews fair game to be maimed, killed and, most importantly, dispossessed.
Europe was hell but North Africa and Spain (the Caliphate) were a Jewish gilded home. While Europe languished in endless wars and so many popes had decimated the population by sending them on six different crusades, the plague and institutional quagmire, Jews flourished, attending the only real universities worthy of the name.
Genghis Khan brought his hordes into Europe and the papacy decided they could no longer afford to pursue crushing the infidels in the Holy Land.
The history of the Renaissance will bring the Jewish people through to modernity and the near annihilation of a people now numbering around 14 million or 0.2% of the world's population. Anti-Semitism will continue into our present time. Part III will be the Jew of the Renaissance to the modern world.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
The Mystery of the Jews
I send this not to everyone on my list but to those who know me to be as egalitarian as it is possible for me to be. Those who know me know I do not select myself or my people, the Jews, for chosenness because it leaves out too many others who have been productive contributors to the humanitarian advancement of man despite great odds.
I would be lying, though, if I said there is not a secrete place in my heart for my people, the Jewish people, who remain remarkable for one important thing: survival and defiance of the odds against it for over 3000 years despite so many attempts at brutal eradication and extinction all over the globe.
It is in the spirit of that fact that I send a Youtube that was sent to me entitled "The Mystery of the Jews." Do I think there was divine intervention for the survival of the Jewish people and our so called chosenness by a God whom I do not know even exists? To that I say as Tevya in "Fiddler on the Roof" said: "Dear God why can't you choose someone else for a change?!" I post this video here or below which I will admit, though questioning and doubting much of the religiosity in it, still grabbed at my heart.
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-most-fascinating-video-ever-made-about-the-jewish-people/
I would be lying, though, if I said there is not a secrete place in my heart for my people, the Jewish people, who remain remarkable for one important thing: survival and defiance of the odds against it for over 3000 years despite so many attempts at brutal eradication and extinction all over the globe.
It is in the spirit of that fact that I send a Youtube that was sent to me entitled "The Mystery of the Jews." Do I think there was divine intervention for the survival of the Jewish people and our so called chosenness by a God whom I do not know even exists? To that I say as Tevya in "Fiddler on the Roof" said: "Dear God why can't you choose someone else for a change?!" I post this video here or below which I will admit, though questioning and doubting much of the religiosity in it, still grabbed at my heart.
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-most-fascinating-video-ever-made-about-the-jewish-people/
A Letter to a Friend
Hi Kayhed. I loved the sentiments in your letter "There should not be a place for hate" published in the "Framingham Patch" cited here or below T'were your thoughts heeded by all a more perfect world would result.
What you say I have adopted as my own set of principles. No matter what the threat, and admittedly there are many, I do not waiver from a humanitarian impulse. I must for what reputation does a human being leave if they are not for love, kindness, generosity and peace. All the major forces like Mohamed -- peace be on him, Jesus, and the Hebrew Bible contain many verses of peace. One must just look for them. The Hebrew Bible states "Be kind to the stranger because you were once strangers in a strange land." Biblical texts contain violence, too, if one seeks it out but there is kindness, goodness and love if one chooses those above hate, violence and chaos.
"The Talmud recounts that a Gentile once approached Hillel with the request that Hillel convert him to Judaism. This Gentile did not want to go through a lengthy regimen of learning, so he told Hillel; “I want you to teach me the entire Torah while I stand on one foot.” Hillel’s response endures as a lesson for the generations." Hillel taught “Do not do unto others that which you hate done unto yourself – that is the entire Torah. The rest is commentary, go and study it.” Cited here: https://yourphariseefriend.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/do-not-do-unto-others/
All religious texts contain elements of violence but it is up to others in each tradition to teach the opposite which can be found in those texts as well. I repeat, one must just look for them.
I do know that man does better when he/she learns to work with others. Violence and war beget more violence and more war so that culture never advances, indeed, never can advance.
I have dedicated my life in retirement to writing for humanitarian causes as I want that legacy even if it appears in only one small corner of the universe to stand for who I am and to help those I could.
We must press on no matter the set backs, no matter the difficulty and no matter the hate directed against us. Martin Luther King taught: “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
I am with you!
Best,
Natalie
http://patch.com/massachusetts/framingham/letter-there-should-not-be-place-hate-usa-0
What you say I have adopted as my own set of principles. No matter what the threat, and admittedly there are many, I do not waiver from a humanitarian impulse. I must for what reputation does a human being leave if they are not for love, kindness, generosity and peace. All the major forces like Mohamed -- peace be on him, Jesus, and the Hebrew Bible contain many verses of peace. One must just look for them. The Hebrew Bible states "Be kind to the stranger because you were once strangers in a strange land." Biblical texts contain violence, too, if one seeks it out but there is kindness, goodness and love if one chooses those above hate, violence and chaos.
"The Talmud recounts that a Gentile once approached Hillel with the request that Hillel convert him to Judaism. This Gentile did not want to go through a lengthy regimen of learning, so he told Hillel; “I want you to teach me the entire Torah while I stand on one foot.” Hillel’s response endures as a lesson for the generations." Hillel taught “Do not do unto others that which you hate done unto yourself – that is the entire Torah. The rest is commentary, go and study it.” Cited here: https://yourphariseefriend.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/do-not-do-unto-others/
All religious texts contain elements of violence but it is up to others in each tradition to teach the opposite which can be found in those texts as well. I repeat, one must just look for them.
I do know that man does better when he/she learns to work with others. Violence and war beget more violence and more war so that culture never advances, indeed, never can advance.
I have dedicated my life in retirement to writing for humanitarian causes as I want that legacy even if it appears in only one small corner of the universe to stand for who I am and to help those I could.
We must press on no matter the set backs, no matter the difficulty and no matter the hate directed against us. Martin Luther King taught: “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
I am with you!
Best,
Natalie
http://patch.com/massachusetts/framingham/letter-there-should-not-be-place-hate-usa-0
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Republican debate sum up in one word and one paragraph
One word summary of the Republicon so called "debate": Bellicose. Okay four words -- mean, cruel and unconstitutional.
Most of the so called Republican "candidates" for the presidency want to protect the nation through bellicose lies, eternal force costing thousands more lives, millions more in cash and would keep this nation fighting that war, essentially, forever. "Enduring war depletes the fiscal reserves of a nation," the smartest analysis one blogger wrote. Carpet bombing a nation into submission making the sand glow in the desert while killing thousands of innocents is a war crime and does nothing to win hearts and minds of those a nation bombs. To the contrary it creates more enemies who desire to inflict more harm on this nation. That said the military must appear strong, capable, modern and repaired but that does not mean eternal war. Eternal war decays a fighting force. Yes, we live in a dangerous world BUT our perpetual war actions making great wealth for the war industry and the candidates for the presidency it supports make an even more dangerous world! Why Trump has the support he does I will never understand. He could not answer a question about particular policy and spouts the same sound bite blubber as he did when he first announced his candidacy. Carson who knows nothing either except perhaps brain surgery did not know what he was talking about comparing taking a tumor out of a child's brain to an army killing innocents. Both do not want it done, he thinks, but are glad in the end that it was. Perhaps the relatives of the innocent dead of those bombed into submission would say otherwise. Maybe Carson's brain needs a little help.
DEMOCRATS ANYONE? GET OUT THE VOTE FOR THEM AND SAVE LIVES MAYBE EVEN YOUR OWN!
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
5th Republican Debate -- a Portrait of Hate
Tonight's 5th Republican "Debate" will be the worst assembly of political Cretans vying for the highest office in the land in the nation's history and in our history there have been some doozies. It makes chills of horror run through one's spine to think any of them could step 2 feet near the Oval Office.
When George W. Bush looks good to you you know there is something amiss. The Party of Lincoln bears not an iota of similarity to those who will be the stage-standers at tonight's 5th Republican "debate." As a matter of fact Lincoln would today be a Democrat. The Party of Everett Dirckson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower is no more. Now the Republican Party is made up of Joe McCarthys, KKK members, American Nazis--Stormfront subscribers and the likes of a Steve Scalise Republican Majority Whip who spoke in front of a white supremacist gathering.
The Republican Party is a portrait of hate, exclusion, and unexceptional know nothings who would not have a humane thought in their body politic if you hit them over the head with it!
When George W. Bush looks good to you you know there is something amiss. The Party of Lincoln bears not an iota of similarity to those who will be the stage-standers at tonight's 5th Republican "debate." As a matter of fact Lincoln would today be a Democrat. The Party of Everett Dirckson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower is no more. Now the Republican Party is made up of Joe McCarthys, KKK members, American Nazis--Stormfront subscribers and the likes of a Steve Scalise Republican Majority Whip who spoke in front of a white supremacist gathering.
The Republican Party is a portrait of hate, exclusion, and unexceptional know nothings who would not have a humane thought in their body politic if you hit them over the head with it!
Monday, December 14, 2015
"Naked Among Wolves"--a Film Review
I have seen many films about the Holocaust since the
first documentary newsreel I viewed in a local movie theater at age 10. It showed Auschwitz and other concentration
camps liberated by the Allies at the end of WWII. I could not, then, understand the political
history of what I saw but I certainly understood the piles and piles of dead
bodies who would not experience another sunset, the piles of shoes which would not
walk another step, the piles of spectacles the eyes behind which would not see
another blue sky, or a loved one, or a mother, a father, a husband, a wife or even
see their own children. The children
were prepped by the Nazis for slaughter above all others because those Jewish
children after all would grow up to be adults whom they reasoned – Germans were
so good at reason — would continue to infect all of Europe. I knew enough to know that beast of human
history dedicated to exterminating the entire Jewish population of Europe could
have exterminated my family if my grandparents did not have the foresight to
leave their dastardly Russian pogrom-overrun home 1/2 century before.
What I did not see then in newsreels was what it was
like, what it actually was like, to experience a slaughter so barbaric, so
cruel and so sickening perpetrated by so called civilized human beings on an
unfathomable number of 6 – 10 million innocents reflected in the piles of
bodies I did actually see in newsreels which made this 10 year old child sick.
“Naked Among Wolves” was one of the most authentic
docudramas of that accursed time I have seen.
It was about life in the men’s cell block at Buchenwald. It was about men worked to death, tortured
for the slightest perceived indiscretion, shot simply waiting to die in the
filth of their excrement or hoping to live as Allied liberation drew near. They come upon a 4 year old Jewish boy hidden in
a suitcase by his father brought into their midst to save under the gravest most
life-threatening conditions. They try to
save him. You must watch the film to see
if they did.
I am of the opinion that one should not shield oneself
from this and that one must remember history if history is to have any meaning for
us at all.
When I was a young activist
against war I used to say the Holocaust had a purpose, that it was for
something higher and that this was perpetrated on so many for a lofty reason. As I aged and my political thought took shape I asked
where was God that so many innocent human beings were made to suffer for years in
dumb anguish. Now I say god was nowhere
as 6-10 million Jews seemingly died for nothing, that the Holocaust had no
meaning and no purpose. It was about
hatred of "the other." “Naked Among Wolves"
is a film I believe ALL should, especially in our time, see but suspect few
will. I cry useless tears hoping against
hope that human beings will change and that one group will not wipe out “the
other” so that, in time, we will not all perish from the earth.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Something funny for a change!
Something absolutely funny hysterical for a change: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/will-ferrell-reprises-george-w-bush-role-saturday-night-live-n479211
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"I've made a big decision. I'm entering the race for president of the
United States of America," said Ferrell's Bush said in the show's cold
open.
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The "Problem" -- CNN Tapper's Interview with Trump
Again and again the media does NOT
follow up with the correct questions to Donald Trump's outrageous policy
statements. He is always talking about the "problem."
How about asking if Muslims in this country and outside of this country would rail against his policies? Would
those policies provoke violence and not stop it? I suggest his
policies will get people killed and it will NOT have the effect of
stopping the "problem" but will enhance it.
Trump wants to get at the "problem"
and find out what is causing the "problem." Why did not Tapper
introduce the issue of American foreign policy over decades causing the
"problem." Radicalized Muslims hate American boots on their soil. The
US has had thousands of boots on their soil and built hundreds of bases
which create the appearance of permanent occupation all over the Middle
East. Worse, and I aver the etiology of the "problem" began with a
Bush war based on lies against a sovereign nation that did nothing to us
and still worse exploded the Middle East into sectarian war complete
with the entrance of Al Qaeda and ISIS which were never before there.
How about asking Trump if his inane and impossible-to-implement solutions would make the "problem" worse!?
Would American boots on the ground for oil increase
the "problem" and would this nation asking what religion someone is
before entering the country increase that "problem" about which Trump is
inordinately concerned?
The mainstream media FAILS to ask
appropriate questions as if this nation is so innocent of fault for its
present day circumstance. Ask Trump how US foreign policy in the Middle
East has created the "problem." The media avoiding that question is the true political correctness over which boundaries it refuses to step.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
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Monday, December 07, 2015
You ain't seen nothin yet
After the terrorist attack in Paris the true specter
of fascism is alive and well in France, a country which heretofore knew of it
and sent many to their deaths because of it.
Memory is directed to the 1940's French Vichy Regime sympathetic to
Hitler and the Nazis. The emergence in
these times of terror and fear is the appeal of extremist right wing
nationalism as represented in France by the National Front Party of Marine Le
Pen, usually on the right wing fringe, but now winning some regional elections
with its anti-immigrant message. (See
link here
and below.)
In the US the complexion of many ultra conservative
right wing red Republicans in local, state and federal legislatures is seen. Moreover and, in my
opinion, worse is the odious specter of the anti-immigrant nationalist Trump
capturing at least the Republican presidential nomination if not winning the
presidency itself. The Republican wing
in our nation knows little moderation now.
When hard violent times erupt one can always count on
homo sapiens man to do the worst of all possible things and allow the mean,
cruel, mendacious anti-immigrant extreme nationalists to gain power and create
more violence. The authoritarian
personality emerges. Republican John
Dean of Watergate fame said: "True conservatism is cautious and prudent.
Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has benefited from
true conservatism, but authoritarianism offers potentially serious trouble for
any democracy.”
Go ahead, elect the extreme Republican right. I can assure you as bad as the violence is
now nationally and internationally if the anti-democratic extremist right gains
immense power in western civilization as Al Joson would say "You ain't
seen nothin yet!"
IT
WILL BE UP TO ALL OF US TO ENSURE THIS NOT HAPPEN. THE PERCENTAGES OF
THE REPUBLICAN EXTREME MAY SEEM GREAT BUT, IN TRUTH, IT IS NOT
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LARGER MUCH LARGER NATION ITSELF. WE ARE THE
MAJORITY BUT WHOSE VOTE HAS BEEN CO-OPTED BY GERRYMANDERED DISTRICTS
DRAWN BY REPUBLICANS. IF THE VOTE WERE FAIR DEMOCRATS WOULD HOLD THE
LEGISLATURES EN MASSE. THE ONLY WAY THESE REPUBLICAN MALEVOLENTS WIN IS
FOR DEMOCRATS TO STAY HOME. DON'T! GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND GET
TO THE POLLS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY! AND OH YES, WATCH OUT FOR THE
FRAUDULENT REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED VOTING MACHINES THEY WILL STEAL YOUR VOTE IF THEY GET THE CHANCE.
Sunday, December 06, 2015
A Pic to Ponder
Send that around the web!
Snopes
says the picture is untrue. I do not know if Snopes is correct. If it
is I apologize which is MUCH more than Trump would do about any of his
plethora of lies.
Saturday, December 05, 2015
Strange Bedfellows
The fact that this nation invaded Iraq a country that did nothing to us and the fact that we have been involved in the heart of the fragmented Middle East with its sectarian warfare for 14 years because of it, refugees from those wars will seek asylum. The wars in which this nation involves itself produce refugees who seek safety from constant mayhem and death. The more this nation is involved in and making policy for foreign lands risking the fragmentation, dismemberment of populations and the constant war it engenders the more there will be refugees whom we have the moral obligation to help. There are and will be many Middle Eastern refugees because we are in that part of the globe involved in its eternal civil wars often the result of US foreign policy gigantic error.
Now we must worry about strict immigration policies for those refugees from those areas and worry about visas which provide free access to this country by those who were born here and the wives/husbands picked up along the way who obtain automatic citizenship through those marriages.
The fault dear Brutus said many times is not in the stars but in ourselves for our crushing Middle East policy over what else? -- OIL, money and the power it brings not to mention the evil side effects of climate change oil helps create. It is sickening.
I am NOT a Trump supporter but he is quite right when he says we are a nation that has been controlled by stupid people who cannot think more than 10 minutes ahead as to what the ramifications of its violent Middle East policy for a “new American century” will be.
My mother used to say “whichever way you make your bed that is how you will lie in it.” This nation’s policy makers made the bed and must lie in it. The problem is all of us must lie in the bed with them!
IF YOU THINK THE STATE OF THE WORLD IS BAD NOW JUST WAIT UNTIL A BULLY AND WARLIKE REPUBLICAN IS ELECTED PRESIDENT. AS AL JOLSON USED TO SAY: "YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN YET!" ELECT DEMOCRATS TO ALL POSITION OF POWER OR RISK THE END OF OUR NATION AS WE KNOW IT AND THE END OF THE PLANET ON WHICH WE ALL RESIDE. WE ARE, AS THE GREAT HELEN CALDICOTT, SAID ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT!
Friday, December 04, 2015
A Republic IF you can keep it
The Republican Party and its political shill the corporate media especially Fox Faux News FAIL to give the American public the rest of the story. There are many sides to our current political morass and some of it, perhaps much of it, is in reaction to toxic American foreign policy over decades perhaps centuries. I am convinced of it.
What you do not know about what your government is doing in your name particularly in the Middle East, particularly for oil and the power it brings may in fact dramatically hurt you, the nation and the world. In pertinent part it may get us all killed.
You must not be ignorant of facts, you must maintain your humanity and our majority must elect a government that promotes these ideals and NOT succumb to extreme fascist-like demagoguery of the extremist Republican Party in our midst. The politics of a Donald Trump and his supporters are a cancer flowing through the national veins. It must be electorally exorcised and separated from the body politic or we will succumb to its metastasis.
As Dr. Benjamin Franklin said in response to a question when he was asked during the creation of our Constitution: "Well, Doctor, what have we got a Republic or a Monarchy?" He answered "A Republic IF you can keep it!"
IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER THAT YOU KEEP THE PRESIDENCY IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS, TAKE BACK THE SENATE AND ERODE REPUBLICAN TOXIC INFLUENCE IN THE HOUSE. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT ABOUT YOU! GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE
What you do not know about what your government is doing in your name particularly in the Middle East, particularly for oil and the power it brings may in fact dramatically hurt you, the nation and the world. In pertinent part it may get us all killed.
You must not be ignorant of facts, you must maintain your humanity and our majority must elect a government that promotes these ideals and NOT succumb to extreme fascist-like demagoguery of the extremist Republican Party in our midst. The politics of a Donald Trump and his supporters are a cancer flowing through the national veins. It must be electorally exorcised and separated from the body politic or we will succumb to its metastasis.
As Dr. Benjamin Franklin said in response to a question when he was asked during the creation of our Constitution: "Well, Doctor, what have we got a Republic or a Monarchy?" He answered "A Republic IF you can keep it!"
IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER THAT YOU KEEP THE PRESIDENCY IN DEMOCRATIC HANDS, TAKE BACK THE SENATE AND ERODE REPUBLICAN TOXIC INFLUENCE IN THE HOUSE. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT ABOUT YOU! GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE
Thursday, December 03, 2015
MADNESS: 14 Dead at Social Service Center in San Bernadino
My worst fear that the attack would be terrorism by an indigenous Middle Eastern person(s), born here basically undetectable. It is my worst fear because I worry for those of Middle Eastern extraction who will be swept up with one brush of hostility, accusation, and discrimination of innocents especially by those on the right wing extremist part of our political spectrum which in our time is increasingly the majority of the Republican Party.
We still do not know if the shooter who was employed by the Social Service Center had a workplace grievance. For some it will not matter as the name will confirm all their prejudgements and hate. We of good will must be slow to judgment and all must learn somehow in some way to live together.
As JFK said in his commencement speech at American University, June 10, 1963:
"... So, let us not be blind to our differences — but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”
To that I say Amen!
HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO GET OUT THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS? VERY.
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Refugee response or lack of it
Although I loathe the author of the post, Douglas Feith, and all the other neocons who besides the incompetent George W. Bush and his administration, are responsible for the utter explosive chaos throughout the Middle East and its blow back on the west that is ENORMOUS, the Wall Street Journal (admittedly a paper I do not usually read) oped makes some points as to the Gulf oil sheikdoms response or lack of it to the Syrian refugee crisis.
We have been in bed with pythons that I hope will not ultimately devour us because of what else the filthy planet polluting oil. Climate change and oil are the AK47's pointed at our heads! The Middle East mayhem, climate change and oil are intricately intertwined and IF we keep electing science denying idiots to positions of power then we deserve the utter destruction we WILL ultimately get. Science always has the last say and does not care about religious nonsense, mythological irrationality or money making gluttony!
HOW MANY REASONS DO WE NEED TO KNOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF LIES IS THE POISON IN OUR MIDST? GET OUT THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS. AS I HAVE SAID SO MANY TIMES I AM DEMOCRAT BLUE IN THE FACE. NOTHING LESS THAN OUR LIVES AND THE LIFE OF THE PLANET IS AT STAKE!
here or http://www.wsj.com/article_email/an-obvious-unused-home-for-refugees-1448928225-lMyQjAxMTE1MjAzMTkwODEyWj
We have been in bed with pythons that I hope will not ultimately devour us because of what else the filthy planet polluting oil. Climate change and oil are the AK47's pointed at our heads! The Middle East mayhem, climate change and oil are intricately intertwined and IF we keep electing science denying idiots to positions of power then we deserve the utter destruction we WILL ultimately get. Science always has the last say and does not care about religious nonsense, mythological irrationality or money making gluttony!
HOW MANY REASONS DO WE NEED TO KNOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF LIES IS THE POISON IN OUR MIDST? GET OUT THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS. AS I HAVE SAID SO MANY TIMES I AM DEMOCRAT BLUE IN THE FACE. NOTHING LESS THAN OUR LIVES AND THE LIFE OF THE PLANET IS AT STAKE!
here or http://www.wsj.com/article_email/an-obvious-unused-home-for-refugees-1448928225-lMyQjAxMTE1MjAzMTkwODEyWj
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