enough of the "dreamers" already!!!

it's INCREDIBLE how less than one million children of illegal immigrants can bring a government of approximately 325 million people to a screeching halt. 

 image by Pax Ahimsa Gethen

File:DACA rally SF 20170905-8471.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!  FIX IT!!! 

a republican in the white house and a republican majority in BOTH houses of congress. republicans can't get it done.

democrats are counting on the election in november to get control of congress and the election in 2020 to win back the white house. will the democrats be able to get it done? not if you look at recent history.

it doesn't make any difference whether republicans or democrats are in the majority--nothing gets done.

meanwhile, the budget, healthcare, immigration, the national debt, national defense, social security, medicaid, medicare, crime, IRS, VA, FBI, Secret Service, drugs, gun control, waste and inefficiency in government in general, etc. all need fixing--but, nothing gets done.

time to try something that might work for a change.

who do you trust? 

1. someone who has values similar to yours?
The good, the bad & the ugly: let's make America great again
2. someone who doesn't?
3. political parties, financed by billionaire corporations and PACs?

here's how government works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIAJl-wZElg

if you vote for a republican or a democrat, then it's not the person who you voted for who is in control--it's the party.

File:Two party system diagram.png - Wikimedia Commons

in the next election--national, state or local--vote for anyone except a democrat or a republican. soon the republican and democratic parties will dry up and die. nothing will be better for the United States of America.

PS similarly, by refusing to patronize dishonest and biased media, they too will shrivel up and die--a triple win for honesty in government, for integrity in reporting the actions of government, and for us. 

racism in America

"Since Harriet’s (Hemings) time, science has proved there is no difference in blood as a marker of “race.” As a biological category, racial difference has been exposed as a sham. Even skin color is not a reliable indicator of one’s origins. As one study calculated, almost a third of white Americans possess up to 20 percent African genetic inheritance, yet look white, while 5.5 percent of black Americans have no detectable African genetic ancestry. Race has a political and social meaning, but not a biological one.

This is why the story of Harriet Hemings is so important. In her birth into slavery and its long history of oppression, she was black; but anyone who saw her assumed she was white. Between when she was freed in 1822 and the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865, she was neither free nor enslaved — yet she lived as a free person.

She does not comfortably fit any of the terms that have had such inordinate power to demarcate life in America. Her disappearance from the historical record is precisely the point. When we can so easily lose the daughter of a president and his slave, it forces us to acknowledge that our racial categories are utterly fallacious and built on a science that has been thoroughly discredited.

Yet as political, economic and social categories, racial difference and its consequences remain profoundly real. White privilege has been much on display in our own day, as armed white men proclaiming white supremacy marched unmolested in the streets, while unarmed black men are shot down by police who are rarely held to account. Politicians run successful campaigns on platforms of racial hatred."
How did we lose a president’s daughter? - The Washington Post

I hope that leaders of the catholic church were listening when Judge Rosemarie Aquilina sentenced sexual child abuser Larry Nassar

"As much as it was my honor and privilege to hear the sister survivors, it is my honor and privilege to sentence you. Because, sir, you do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again," Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said during child sexual abuser Larry Nassar's sentencing.
Read Judge Rosemarie Aquilina's powerful statement to Larry Nassar - CNN 

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina has zero tolerance for those who sexually abuse children. Parents and morally conscious people everywhere share her view--failing to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who sexually abuses a child, or who covers it up, is intolerable. failing to do everything possible for the victims of child sexual abuse is equally intolerable. let's hope that leaders of the catholic church finally get the message.

Hawaii's governor said he couldn't notify the public of the false missile alarm because he forgot his Twitter password

Hawaii governor forgot Twitter password and couldn't stop false alarm - Business Insider 

mind of mush.

image by Dallas Nagata White

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trump and his strange redneck base

it's a strange marriage--"super rich", "super smart" trump and his redneck base.

but, then, "super rich", "super smart" trump was elected because of support from his redneck base. 

"Fire and Fury" and Donald Trump's First Year As President | Time

in the meantime, while the media and democrats and republicans in congress debate whether trump said "shithole", nothing gets done. funding the military and the federal government, immigration and border security, the national debt, health care, social security, medicaid, national security, foreign policy, trade, drugs, crime, etc.--nothing gets done.

we need to straighten out this mess--now. 

how?

who do you trust? 

1. someone who has values similar to yours?
The good, the bad & the ugly: let's make America great again
2. someone who doesn't?
3. political parties, financed by billionaire corporations and PACs?

here's how government works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIAJl-wZElg

if you vote for a republican or a democrat, then it's not the person who you voted for who is in control--it's the party.

File:Two party system diagram.png - Wikimedia Commons

in the next election--national, state or local--vote for anyone except a democrat or a republican. soon the republican and democratic parties will dry up and die. nothing will be better for the United States of America.

PS similarly, by refusing to patronize dishonest and biased media, they too will shrivel up and die--a triple win for honesty in government, for integrity in reporting the actions of government, and for us. 

media: find a better name than "lone wolf"

how about murderer? 
mass murderer?
terrorist?
criminal?
sociopath?

"lone wolf" doesn't convey the same disgust as murderer, terrorist, or sociopath.

get it right, media.