Category: Politics

What has happened to this country…

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Active Shooter Drill

I believe the world has gone absolutely, totally off its Effingham rocker.  Today at my workplace which is on the 7th floor of the tallest building in downtown St. Louis we had an active shooter drill.  I understand why the company may have felt the need to do this in today’s environment.  Plus I believe that since one of our primary activities is public transportation, they felt like we might be especially liable to such incidents.  I don’t know maybe.

The way they handled this was to have small meetings before appraising of us of the fact that we were going to have the drill.  They then went over what our responses should be.  Basically it was a fire drill type of situation.  If you can you are supposed to flee. In a non drill situation, if you could not flee then you need to hide. If you cannot hide then, and only then, do you fight with whatever is at hand.

They posted signs at all entrances Monday morning informing us there would the drill this week.  For drill they had St. Louis police there, paramedics, and counselors were to be available afterwards if anyone felt the need for one. Continue reading “Active Shooter Drill”

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 6,587

yeah I know you did not ask!

For the sake of me I cannot understand why anyone who self-identified as a Christian would have voted for Effingham Trump.  He is the antithesis of all I understand to be Christ’s teaching.

I was ruminating on this and I came up with this theory. They actually believe Effingham Trump to be the Anti-Christ.  As such he is going to hasten the days of Revelation that so many them seem to be waiting for so they will be raptured to heaven.  It is the only thing that makes sense to me.

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Flood Trump’s Twitter Feed

I have no delusions that this will go anywhere, but I do wish it would.  I think we need to flood Effingham Trump’s Twitter feed with postings of this sort.  Not sure how much good it would do as he is too stupid and too narcissistic to take a nation hating him to heart.    But I can hope.  Maybe if we overwhelmed his Twitter account, we would not be constantly exposed to his obscene comments.

Add to  this “cluster Effingham” the enabling, bought and paid for Republican Congress and this nation has essentially put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger.

I do wonder how long before I am blocked from posting on Effingham Trump’s Twitter feed. This is not the first time I’ve been outraged and done something like the below.

 

 

Continue reading “Flood Trump’s Twitter Feed”

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Cabinet Can Fire President

“The cabinet has the constitutional power to remove a president by majority vote under the 25th Amendment (if the president protests, this must be confirmed by two-thirds of each chamber of Congress). Such a vote is unlikely, but in the event of a crisis like the one Schlesinger envisioned, it would be essential.”

Of course, if possible Trump has appointed people to Cabinet offices that are bigger bozos than he is.

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Trump has a dangerous disability – George Will Washington Post Editorial

There are very few issues that I agree with George Will on.  However, he is spot on this time.  The opening sentences sums it up perfectly :

“It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either.”

I have so many issues with Effingham Trump that the list begins to become infinite.  Three significant ones are his inarticulateness, his shallow intellectual depth (I once commented he had the intellectual depth of a sewer lagoon), and total lack of a sense of history and what truly means to lead a democratic nation of free citizens.

Another thing that has bothered me about Trump is how he seems to have embraced Andrew Jackson  Jackson was wildly popular in his time, but in retrospect he was not a good man.  He practiced genocide on the native population, he was a huge slave owner and racist, and a proponent of expansion of the country by  military means.

Mr. Will has the my  same concerns about Effingham Trump.  Below is a link to his editorial in the Washington Post:

Trump has a dangerous disability – George Will Washington Post Editorial

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We Need Woody Guthrie and Jimmy LaFave

Last weekend Robin and I made a pilgrimage to the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The reason for this pilgrimage was because Jimmy LaFave was going to be playing there. Jimmy is at the top of my list of favorite musicians.  I have been listening to him for 20 years, and if I do not have all of his CDs, I have the vast majority. His music speaks to me on so many levels.  The fact that he is not more famous than he is, says more about the music industry Continue reading “We Need Woody Guthrie and Jimmy LaFave”

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Checks and Balances, Nukes – A Radiolab Podcast

The best way to tease you to listen to this podcast is their tease:

“President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and – in 20 minutes – kill 60 million people.  Such is the power of the US President over the nation’s nuclear arsenal.  But what if you were the military officer on the receiving end of that phone call? Could you refuse the order?

This episode, we profile one Air Force Major who asked that question back in the 1970s and learn how the very act of asking it was so dangerous it derailed his career.”

The officer profiled in this story was going through the Air Force training to be a Continue reading “Checks and Balances, Nukes – A Radiolab Podcast”

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Why Police Shoot – Tampa Bay Times article

This is a very sad, and a very disturbing article.  There were two things in the story that really surprised me.  First, is that there are no real stats kept on police shootings!

“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement can say how many purse snatchings there were in any given year, but not how many times officers fired on citizens. The FBI’s statistics on police shootings aren’t much better. No one keeps accurate count.

“Embarrassing and ridiculous,” FBI director James B. Comey called the lack of data.

“Unacceptable,” former Attorney General Eric Holder called it.

For the past three years, shootings of unarmed black men caught on video have sparked outrage. But they are anecdotes. Without data, there’s no scope.

“How can we fix what we can’t measure?” asked Vanita Gupta, who headed the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division…”

The second thing that really surprised is the extent of police forfeiture and Continue reading “Why Police Shoot – Tampa Bay Times article”