Fox News at one level is simply a symptom of the disease overtaking our country. At a different level they are aggravating and are part of the etiology of this malady. The malady is ultra conservatism. The malady is aggrandizing of Trump, unfettered capitalism, racism and pseudo-religious values. The malady is the denigration of immigrants, other religions, people of color, people that do not fit into the Norman Rockwell Continue reading “Dollars are votes for Fox News”
Trump’s Coronavirus Pandemic Timeline
Dec 18th – House Impeaches Trump
Jan 8th – First CDC warning
Jan 9th – Trump campaign rally
Jan 14th – Trump campaign rally
Jan 16th – House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18th – Trump golfs
Jan 19th – Trump golfs
Jan- 20th first case in South Korea
Jan 20th – first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State. Continue reading “Trump’s Coronavirus Pandemic Timeline”
Bill Maher — Worst Responder
Amen… we need to vote them out.
Exponential Threat and other short videos…
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #4,230
yeah I know you did not ask!
Am I the only that finds it ironic that Republicans across the nation and in Washington, the PRO-LIFE party, are willing to sacrifice 1,000s of lives in their attempt to maintain the economic health of the US of A.
I suppose that most of those will be senior citizens makes it alright. And these are the same folks that have been pushing the person-hood of unborn fetuses. A living, breathing person with a network of friends and families is expendable, and the other is not…until they are born.
The other irony in all this is that the religious right has embraced the Republican Party and Donald Trump with both arms and gone “all in” on their bet. The Christianity I learned about was a religion of compassion and caring. That concepts seems to have gone missing from both Trump and the Religious Right.
Heather Booth: The most influential women you never heard of…
Heather has been married to my wife’s cousin for over 40 years. I met Paul and Heather at a Booth family reunion a few years back. I will have to admit I was a little overwhelmed with all the new people I was meeting for the first time. I do remember how proud my wife was of her two cousins.
The film is only an hour long, but details the incredible life of activism of this driven woman. Perhaps someday we will have a society that respects and supports all of us. Until then we need people like Heather Booth to fight the Dark Side.
The film is available on two sites that I know of:
HEATHER BOOTH: CHANGING THE WORLD from Women Make Movies on Vimeo.
And if you are impatient like us and cannot wait more than 2 days for a package and have Amazon Prime it is available there too.
Short Video of the Timeline of Trump’s Lies about Coronavirus
May God save us, said the agnostic…
Ten Commandments for Politicians – Revisited
Ten Commandments for Politicians
Nearly a dozen years I started working on a ten commands for politicians. At that time I came up seven, and I had hoped someone would have helped me round the list out. But I am truly “The Little Known Blogger”. So now I am revisiting that list, especially in light of the corrupt administration driving this nation into 3rd world status.
- First, do ye no harm
- The majority rules, not the dollars
- Ye live in a glass house, act accordingly
- Thou shall avoid in all ways the trough of the lobbyist
- If it looks like pork, if it oinks like pork, if it sizzles like pork, vote ye not on it
- Remember ye that Squealor was not right, “All animals ARE equal, but some and no animals are more equal than others.” This includes politicians, government officials, politically connected business people, and wealthy donors.
- Usufruct – Remember ye that we are but Stewards for those that come after us, as those who came before were Stewards for us.
- Take ye responsibility for thine actions, good or bad. Acknowledge thy mistakes, and better yet, learn from thy mistakes.
- Govern ye by facts, not dogma or “gut instincts”.
- Be thou a leader for all the people, not just thy party or thy supporters. There is but one life boat. We all need to be rowing together.
Coronavirus, are we overreacting?
I worked in Information Technology for 30 years. I was actually on call December 31, 1999. Remember Y2K? Lots of folks felt like there had been a tremendous overreaction to this potential problem. What most people did not see was the 3 years before the change from 1999 to 2000. There was an immense amount of work that went on changing the date routines of uncountable computer programs on mainframe systems. This is when Indian programmers first started coming to this country in large numbers, to work on the Y2K issue. The work was done, and there were very few glitches across the computer world. People then had the luxury of making fun of the whole Y2K phenomenon.
What I am trying to figure out is, are we overreacting to the coronavirus pandemic? The truth is we will not really know until Continue reading “Coronavirus, are we overreacting?”