Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Saturday, October 24, 2020
PARTICIPATE IN DEMOCRACY BY VOTING!
Wouldn't it be great if America had a Participatory Democracy?
One in which all of us, or at least most voted and made their vote count by participating in the government?
There's an old saying; "You don't play the game, you don't make the rules!"
We must update the saying for our current lazy citizens with big butts and bigger mouths: 'You don't vote, You can't complain!'
The highest turnout of citizens for a Presidential election in the modern era was in 2004 at 42.6%!
The average turnout of eligible voters in a Presidential election year since WWII is 38.6%!
THIRTY EIGHT point SIX%!
That means 61.4% of our citizens can't bother to get off their lazy asses to participate.
They allow others to choose who runs our country then complain the leaders don't know what the hell they're doing!
The 2020 election is admittedly the most important one this country has ever had.
Wouldn't it be great if at least half of America chose to participate in the American experiment?
VOTE AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!
VOTE AS IF THE LIVES OF YOUR CHILDREN DEPEND ON IT!
VOTE AS IF AMERICA DEPENDS ON IT!
IT AND THEY DO!
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
HUMANS MUST TAKE BACK AMERICA BUT...
The most likely outcome of today's faux hearings for SCOTUS & the expected (and righteously hoped for) rout of the GOP from nearly every governmental post across America is the Democrats will control Congress and the White House and Putin, the Nazis and the white supremacists will celebrate their hold on the nation's court system.
Democrats may then start to heal America and pass legislations that could and should disinfect the government in the wake (hopefully a double meaning) of dt and his criminal acts.
There will, of necessity be several strategy meetings on how to block or counter the tremendous number of cases the GOP puppet judges hear and send up to the Supreme Court to overturn humane and just laws.
The majority Dems will also have to get to work immediately on redistricting America, or rather fixing the insane redlined districts of the gerrymandered counties across this once great country.
And speaking of the Country they will have to mend its reputation with the rest of the World and reenter the accords we so foolishly pulled out of.
We will have to start tending to and mending
the country's failing infrastructure and reinstating controls over the food we
eat and the water we drink and especially the air we breath!
Then in 2024 Americans, who have tremendously short attention spans, will have to be reminded of all the evil done to the country by the Repubs including their insensitive murder of around a half of a million citizens from the dt virus (by then, if not more.)
Those of us still alive will have to work hard to fight the fake news and hacking attempts by Russia, China, Iran and the rest of our enemies foreign and domestic to ensure the Democrats remain in power.
The voters will also have to be reminded that their healthcare is dependent upon returning all the Dems to government and getting rid of the rest, if any, of the GOP/RWNJs still in power.
By 2028, if the Dems have been able to accomplish all or at least most of the above they and us can start working on the future of the newly admired America and reinstall Truth, Justice and the American Dream for all.
Sunday, September 13, 2020
THE SOUND OF MUSIC FOR OUR TIMES
The Sound of Sour Music
(The Sound of Music)
The
hills are alive with the sound of violence
With
fear and with hate like we’ve never known
The
cause of it is all dt and half pence
They
worked very hard to get those seeds sown.
They
hate all the blacks and the browns and the folks living on only hopes and on dimes
They
love seeing mobs running wild with their guns who commit real hate crimes
They
stoke and they roil and incite and then claim that it’s all just fake news
They
aim to keep power and cheat so that they never lose.
I
fear that the Hill wants them to keep cover
So
crap Repubs do will stay out of view
Then
Putin’s DC little puppet lover
Can
say US is through.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Donald
(Maria)
His swagger is annoying, but it fits his pompous stare
He speaks on every subject but the truth he tells is
rare
And there upon his old head is that really ugly hair
He doesn’t even know our Constitution
He loves to fondle women and then say it wasn’t so
And when it comes to cheating you in business he’s a
pro
The man is really dangerous from head down to his toe
He simply should be in an institution
But Ivanka says a word in his defense
His ouster gets us Pence
How do you solve a problem like the Donald?
How do you stop a bigot in his tracks?
How do you dump a loser like the Donald?
Before the GOP entirely cracks
Many a thing the Party tries to tell him
Many a thing the jerk should understand
But how do you make him hear
Impossible I fear
How to his massive ego make a dent?
Oh how can you solve a problem like the Donald?
Vote and make Biden our next President!
When we hear him we’re confused
More disgusted than bemused
And we never know exactly what he’ll say
As predictable as weather
And as smart as pre-tanned leather
He’s a jackass
He’s a moron
He’s Repub
Like a virus he will fester
In real life he’s just a jester
He will put the middle class all out of work
He is evil; he is crass
Has his head way up his ass
He’s a headache
He’s a danger
He’s a jerk!
How do you solve a problem like the Donald?
How do you make him stop and go away?
How do you stop a problem like the Donald?
Before he makes the country go astray!
Many a pol has up and tried to quell him
Many have tried to make of him some sense
But how can we all survive
And live out our peaceful lives?
How can you not see evil with him and Pence?
Oh how can we solve a problem like the Donald
If we all vote America can thrive!
dt's Vice
(Edelweiss)
My main vice
Don’t think twice
Total power is real nice
When I rule
I am cruel
My emotions are like ice
It’s a great thing to be on the top
On the top forever
My main vice
Don’t think twice
Total power is real nice
If you’re in pain I don’t give a shit
I don’t care at all, NO
My main vice
It’s so nice
I’ll be your leader at least twice
dt's Favorite Things
(A Few of My Favorite Things)
Putie & Kim Jong & all other shitheads
Gunmen & G-Men & young girls in their beds
Lying to masses, the anger it brings
These are a few of his favorite things.
Closing our borders to anyone not white
Pander to needs of the nuts on the far right
Hobnob with rulers, dictators, and kings
These are some more of his favorite things,
When he sounds dumb
He won't be glum
No use feeling sad
He simply remembers those showers of gold
He's happiest when he's bad!
Controlling news cycles with mad rants on Twitter
Staying the course to show he’s no quitter
Making his staff think that they will go nuts
These are the reasons they call him a putz
Seeing his daughter dressed up and quite gorgeous
Making believe that his family’s the Borgias
Knowing all Dems really do hate his guts
These are the reasons they call him a putz
Meeting with spies
Telling big lies
Kayleigh then denies
Reporters are mutts
There’s no ifs ands or buts
And so they call him a putz.
Flying down south playing golf where it’s sunny
Ending entitlements to get your money
Raising the debt with his huge budget cuts
These are the reasons they call him a putz
East to west coast
Biden is toast
So now he doth boast
More gold than King Tut’s
And he still love his sluts
And that’s why he is a putz!
’16 Going on ‘20
(I Am 16 Going on 17)
I won in ’16
Went to work in ‘17
Baby can I do harm
The shit that you’ve seen
Is cause I am mean
And I’ve got that sewer charm
When my friends spin
And I do win
Then rule for four more years
Vladimir will grin
As will the trump kin
And all the libs shed tears
Evil and uninformed am I
To run a country true
I will destroy any ally
And Dems will cry boo hoo
I have one job
I must still do
You’ll sob
You know it’s true
Cause that one job
Is quite anti-Blue
It’ll destroy all of you!
So Long Farewell
So long farewell
Let’s kiss his ass goodbye
Vote him begone
Or USA will fry
So long farewell
Vote every Democrat in
To live we must
Be sure that Biden does win
So long farewell
Our country’s pride will swell
If we all vote
And send dt to Hell
He just must go
All he can do is lie
Please vote for Joe
If you do so will I
So
long, farewell, auf wiedersehen
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
dt's Least Favorite Things (reprise of sorts)
Kids who’re disabled or have trouble in school
Those who don’t like me or call me a sad fool
They just don’t get it; they don’t know the score
They’re but a few things of which I abhor
People with AIDS or some other bad sickness
Those with no money or than me may have less
Of all these creature I ask what they’re for
They’re but a few things of which I abhor
Money that’s spent on the needy or riff-raff
Disloyalty in my party or my staff
That’s when I need a good rally or more
To forget those things that I do abhor
CNN guys
Think they’re so wise
Pointing out my lies
At this point give up boys, it’s really a bore
The TRUTH is what I abhor
Liberals, Progressives and all things Obama
Days without turmoil or traitorous drama
These are the things that I try to ignore
Cause they’re the things that I really abhor
Sessions, McCain and Jim Comey: Disloyal
Causing such grief as they all made my blood boil
I showed them all the quick way out the door
Cause they’re the types that I really abhor
Low IQ Waters and dumb Pocahontas
Go after me with their lies, making big fuss
Calling me racist, a bigot and more
God all these women I really abhor
When the Dems vote
Or I see a note
That reporters wrote
I simply remember the things I abhor
And smile yes my fortunes soar!
Climb Every Molehill
(Mountain?)
Climb every molehill
Crawl lower too
Follow every tyrant
Make them all love you
Climb every molehill
Ford every swamp
Kill every nice rainbow
As their dreams you stomp
Destroy all the dreams
Of the people you lead
Every day of your life
Make America bleed!!!!
Climb every molehill
Crawl lower too
Follow every despot
Till
Your
Dreams
COME
TRUE!
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
THE RIGHT'S ASSAULT ON YOUR RIGHTS!
After Barack Obama was elected by a large majority of voters in America the GOP performed what was famously called an autopsy to find out what was killing their party.
They realized their base was shrinking. Not because of anything they were doing but rather because the so-called minorities of America were growing and they tended to lean more Democratic.
This scared the leaders of the party because it signaled the end of their reign over the masses in the same way Apartheid had ended in South Africa.
So quietly and insidiously they set out, not to change their agenda or make their party more minority friendly but to make it harder for minorities to vote!
On the face of it this would appear to be quite un-American but desperate times create desperate measures and as far as the Repubs were concerned the ends justified the means.
The GOP franchise was in jeopardy unless they disenfranchised African Americans and any other group they considered unfriendly to their cause.
But truth be told this was not really all that new. Ronald Reagan started the GOP's all out assault on unions, which have been considered to be bastions of Democratic leaning voters back in the 80s.
And his 'trickle-down economics' plan, which handed wealth to the already wealthiest among us in the hopes they would hire more workers and trickle some money down to the more needy, was aimed at keeping the middle class and poor down.
But by 2008 it became clear that this was just not going to be enough for the 'Right Wing' Conservatives to hold onto power.
Most white and affluent people tend to have no trouble voting, even though election day is on a Tuesday which happens to be a work day, because they can take a day off and not incur the wrath of the boss.
But if you worked in the mail room or any other entry level job taking a day off could be the difference between feeding your kids and paying the rent!
And do not expect the GOP to ever allow Election Day to be turned into a National paid holiday.
So the assault on the minorities, which were slowly becoming equal if not a majority in many areas, began in earnest.
Keep the Democratic voter away from the polls and you keep power. And if you keep power you can make it even harder for minorities to vote and you can cement your power for decades to come!
Red-lining and gerrymandering were in full swing across America, which allowed more Repubs to be elected in a state even though there were far more Democratic voters there.
But more and harsher methods were needed to keep the voter turnout down.
Some but not all of these tactics include:
- End early voting
- Close polling places, especially in minority areas
- Close polls at 8pm instead of 9pm.
- Have 'security guards' visible at minority area polling places
- Mail-in ballots MUST be received by Election Day &
- Destroy the ability of the USPS to deliver mail on time
- Use any method to shrink voter rolls
- You haven't voted in years
- We thought you died
- You can apply again but won't vote till next time
- We thought you moved
- Ditto above
- You need the new enhanced driver's license
- You don't have a car?
- How abut a gun license?
- You're an out of town student?
- You cannot vote in this State
- You must travel back to your home State
- You're a convicted felon in prison (Florida) so you cannot vote
- You paid your debt to society?
- So what?
- Before you can vote you must pay court & legal fees first
An even more insidious way of shrinking the Democratic leaning voter rolls was performed by the dt White House earlier this year.
Sunday, July 26, 2020
TO MOVE FORWARD REMEMBER THE PAST
In many cases this can be good as in having to use seatbelts while driving or using a lavatory instead of a stream or field.
Many Americans have come to terms with the hopefully temporary 'new normal' of social distancing and wearing masks in public.
Admittedly washing ones hands often does not seem to be a terrible new way of life.
1 - Healthcare used to be affordable, although fewer and fewer people outside of government have lived long enough to remember that.
- The first health insurance most Americans had was Blue Cross. This non-profit plan made its debut around 1930 and afforded humans an affordable way to get their healthcare without having to sell their homes or declare bankruptcy.
- Blue Shield started around 1940 and the two merged in 1982 to form the familiar BC/BS (or BCBSA) health insurance giant.
- There were earlier plans, such as one in Dallas Texas that allowed teachers basic healthcare in association with Baylor Hospital but it was small and localized.
- In 1994 insurance companies were given the green light to make profits and all hell broke loose.
- Cutting out the middleman mentality of an accountant or an actuary deciding whether your life is worth saving must end!
2A - Education in America used to be a platinum system, at least in communities that were considered worthy by government which funded K-12.
The question is, why did we stop at 12?
- A truly great nation would want its citizens to be the best they can be and that should mean, at the very least, subsidized college, as in K-16 at the very least!
- The 'new normal' is 'for-profit' student loan system that makes higher learning unreachable for many and harms America in the long run!
- We have fallen so far behind other nations that it will take a generation to re-attain our status as a world leader.
3A - Programs that help law abiding Americans live healthy, fruitful and happy lives from cradle to grave are called social programs.
Many were implemented by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
Then came the error (not a typo) of Ronald Reagan and cuts to all of the awful programs such as Medicaid and the war on Social Security.
The 'new normal' is to use the word socialism as anathema.
- Democratic President FDR's 'New Deal' and WPA saw a nationwide system of highways and other improvements come to life.
- Jobs and self respect returned to America.
- They eventually led to the greatest era of prosperity the country had ever known.
- These 'socialistic' programs helped us all and are sadly now in need of round two to repair them.
4A - Taxes are needed to run the government.
But logic dictates government can get more money by taxing the middle class because there are more of them than wealthy people!
And of course the wealthy are job creators.
The 'new normal' says the wealthiest among must get tax breaks and incentives to help the working class.
- And yet the country did it's best during the years after WWII when Republican President Eisenhower used the tax dollars garnered from his top bracket of 90% to move us into prosperity.
- Communities were built and thrived .
- None of the incredibly wealthy folk were hurt financially as they did their patriotic duty of 'chipping in' for a better, greater America!
Thomas Jefferson said that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
In these cases the rebellion would be a great thing and for the good of the majority of Americans!!
Life is too short for us to continue accepting limits cause someone says they're so. Some things we cannot change but till we try we'll never know!*
* Thank you to Stephen Schwartz. You are not "Wicked."
Thursday, July 16, 2020
ON A VERY PERSONAL NOTE
Nearly 20 years ago I was diagnosed and opted for radioactive seed implants to kill the cancer in my prostate.
They did the trick, at least for 18 years.
But when I saw the PSA rise I had my urologist take a look.
I opted for cryotherapy to freeze the unwanted cancer cells on the prostate but after 3 months of healing from the surgery the PSA level has returned to it's higher than acceptable number.
This means the cancer is back and possible spreading.
I will have an Axion Pet Scan to determine the extent of the deadly threat and to see if it is still containable.
As a pessimist I will not bother to type my thoughts about that but I will emend this post in a week or so.
I am typing this to see if anyone actually reads the blog (again, as a pessimist I doubt it) and will comment or send me private messages of support or even good riddance.
Watch this space!