Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #8,851
yeah I know you did not ask!
Scary fact from NPR article: What Coronavirus Exposes About America’s Political Divide
From the article:
“Right now, a majority of Americans live in just nine states and so are entitled to just 18 senators (less than one-fifth of the total), according to 2019 Census estimates. At the same time, about 18% of the population is spread out over 27 of the least populous states. So less than one-fifth of the nation’s population has a 54-seat majority in the Senate.”
Further down it continues:
“Defenders of the original Constitution and its view of states’ rights argue that the non-proportionate Senate still makes sense, or that it can be amended through the usual process. But a constitutional amendment requires three-fourths of the states to agree, meaning it can be blocked by as few as 13.”
Our founding fathers got a lot of things right, but there are a number of things, in retrospect, they could have done better. This is one of them. We do not want the urban side running roughshod over the rural areas, but right now it seems the rural is doing that to the urban.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,944
yeah I know you did not ask!
I have two conjoined fears.
First fear: it looks like the total number of COVID-19 deaths will come in lower than the original predictions of 100,000 to 240,000. This is a good thing, but time will tell. Gospodin Trump will use this lower number to tout the success of his “management” of the crisis. The MAGAs and GOP faithful will buy it, believe it and repeat it ad nauseam.
Secondly, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be hitting urban areas the hardest, and especially poor people and people of color in those places. This will result in the cluster fuck of an institution known as the Electoral College electing Gospodin Trump to a second term. See NPR story: What Coronavirus Exposes About America’s Political Divide
If they have a vaccine by then the south of Spain is looking very good. I am sure I could figure out health care options when I get there. I am not sure what the golf situation is in Spain, but I have figured out that most of the golf in Central America is resort golf and very expensive.
Remember when we had leaders that inspired
Dollars are votes for Fox News
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.