Bill Mahar – New Rule Children and Teachers
Now That Is Different
The picture attached is a picture of the back window of my pickup truck. I’ve had it on 
there since Inauguration Day. Initially I was being flipped off regularly. I have not been done so for several months now.
I am leaving work from downtown St. Louis, and I realize I need gas. I swing off I-64 to a QT close to downtown. This is a particularly busy QT. I get out of my truck, swipe my credit card and start gassing up. I notice a car pull into the pump behind me and someone get out. I am not paying that much attention to them.
I’m watching the numbers spin dollars out of my checking account when I hear, “Now that is different.”
I look up and at the back of my pickup is a middle aged black man with graying hair. I look at him quizzically. He points to my bumper stickers and says, “Now that is different, a black man who supports Trump, and a white man who does not.”
I look at him, and agree that yes that is very different, and we give each other a fist bump.
I want to ask him why, but did not really want to get into a political discussion at the gas pumps in downtown St. Louis. Plus I’m not sure any answer would have made sense to me. It is very perplexing as, IMHO, Trump is a huge racist.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #3,265
yeah I know you did not ask!
What strange times we live in. Here I am rooting for the porn star Stormy Daniels @StormyDaniels over the so called President of the United States Gospodin Trump @realDonaldTrump I so hopes she takes him down. I so hope she demonstrates beyond any doubt what the whole world already knows. That he is awful human being who should be in prison. #WorstPresidentEver
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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #5,199
yeah I know you did not ask!
They used to call Ronald Reagan the Teflon President as no scandal or misstep seem to cling to him. What would you call Effingham Rump? As he said, he could literally randomly shoot someone in Time Square, in broad daylight, in front of thousands of folks, and he would walk away from it without repercussion.
The number of scandals and just pure evil from Effingham Rump’s administration should have been enough to bring down 20 administrations. Yet he rocks on.
God save us from the #WorstPresidentEver.
Respect for the Office of POTUS
I do not think Obama was a great President, but I do think he was a good President. I do believe that if we had not had a Republican congress hell bent on creating a shit-hole of a banana republic out of this country for their rich sponsors, he might have been a great President. He was a bit of a disappointment to me as a progressive as he listened to the military much too much, and I found him to be somewhat conservative. 20 or 25 years ago, his policies would have been Republican policies. Continue reading “Respect for the Office of POTUS”
There are not enough poor folks to satisfy this Administration
Apparently there are not enough poor people in this country to satisfy the Effingham Trumpsters!
The Department of Labor released a proposed rule rescinding portions of its tip regulations, including current restrictions on “tip pooling”—which would mean that, for example, restaurants would be able to pool the tips servers receive and share them with untipped employees such as cooks and dishwashers. But, crucially, the rule doesn’t actually require that employers distribute pooled tips to workers. Under the administration’s proposed rule, as long as the tipped workers earn minimum wage, the employer can legally pocket those tips.
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”
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.