The intent of this blog is to promote human equality, human progress, human peace and justice, and optimism. To accomplish this, to encourage the discussion of ideas after identifying and discovering problems, and then creating positive solutions for "we the people," in order to provide for the "general welfare" and "domestic tranquility" of America now and its "posterity" into the future. To encourage an emphasis on separation of religion and state for all, no matter if this is for those "of faith" in a Maker / Creator (Deists, God-loving people, Christians, various people of spirituality) and atheists or agnostics.

Archive for February, 2022

Curtailing Homelessness in NYC (NY Times, Sun., Feb. 6, 2022)

According to a recent New York Times Magazine article, a person in New York City who worked on reducing numbers of homelessness by some figure in the thousands. Kudos to that person, for sure.

What the article attempted to do remains disturbing for me.  Once again, with the help of a society tailored to number-crunching, due to lawyers and accountants which make lots of money while we teachers in Florida made very little, the guy was questioned on “whether the numbers demonstrated whether he had succeeded enough.”  WOW!  Number crunching.

First of all, in my job in a college in South Florida, my colleagues and I faced a number of homeless people, battered women in homes which took care of them, and young people in various other stages of life. Should we have ticked off every one who we helped? Should we have done number crunching?

For instance, I had one young man who had grown up upstate New York along the Hudson River. He was living without a home in the park across the street from the college. There were many homeless folks who were around that college and we knew it. We attempted to go out of our way to help them out, whether that be extra tutoring so as to help such people gain confidence and get set back on their feet in life. The guy from New York had served, under George H.W. Bush, in Iraq with the U.S. Army. He had fallen on bad times, so I was asked by one of my fellow professors and colleagues whether I could tutor the guy. After all, he had been through several attempts to try to write a college research paper and that was the one thing holding him back. Since I worked with students, tutoring them and also teaching them in some classes, I worked with this guy. He learned quite a bit, but I was not able to assess him a grade (number crunching again). However, he ended up submitting a research paper in which he was able to earn an A on the paper! 

Years later, this man came back to my office area at the college and began to tell everyone, students, faculty, and others, how much I had done for him in getting through a tough time in his life and he being able to get an A on his paper. Let’s get one thing clear. Never once did I speak with my colleague who was doing the grading. I only gave him time for tutoring him on what was necessary to do. In his return trip, he indicated he had graduated from the college, gone on to another college to complete his Bachelor’s degree, and was now working in another location, teaching students some of the same skills he had learned from me!  it could have brought tears to my eyes, but I withheld the tears. I was just so happy that a fellow New Yorker (I taught in Florida for some 40 years) had accomplished his goals and was no longer homeless, but doing quite well! 

Number crunch me and that is the only one, I guess. But knowing full well that I taught many students who were homeless, as well as many of my colleagues, one has to wonder how many we did impact? Likely, the number would not be 100% of the homeless. But how many did we help out? Once more. Should we be ticking every person?

As for the battered wife, how many others did we all impact, too? With her, too, I had spent time tutoring her in her research skills. The day she walked the stage at the college commencement and picked up her diploma, I stood up and cheered as loudly and joyously as I could, in celebration of her accomplishment. No numbers. A human being who I had witnessed gaining confidence in a disturbing life and had succeeded.

Secondly, rather than identifying how many this guy in New York City helped out of homelessness, when are we going to come to grips with the factors which, in the 1980s, brought an increase in homelessness. We did as Ayn Rand wanted, reducing public services (mental institutions) and public welfare, speaking out against healthcare for all, Medicare, Social Security. Then, when Ayn Rand contracted cancer, where did SHE go to find the resources and services? She went to the government which she was attempting to knock apart, with the help of her friend, Alan Greenspan who had Reagan’s ear.  Reaganomics, deregulation, supply side economics. All those things were favorable to Ayn Rand. But when the chips were down, Rand took advantage of the very things she barked about being “socialism.” A screwy bitch called Ayn Rand, an atheist out of Communist Soviet Union which was once KGB land with an agent named Putin.

Then there was DEMOCRATIC PARTY Governor Lawton Chiles and his lawsuit against big tobacco for the purposes of PAYING FOR state government expenses for lung cancer resulting from smoking cigarettes.  Chiles finished his term as governor and was hoping to run for president, but died on Dec. 12, 1998, just before Jeb Bush took power in Jan. 1999. Mysterious, for sure. As Gov. Ann Richards of Texas said about brother George: “poor George, born with a silver spoon in his mouth.” Same thing could be said about Jeb Bush who was one of the many number crunching wealthy ones born with silver spoons who thought “what’s good for business is good for America,” so naturally lawsuits against a BIG BUSINESS were NOT good for America, according to the standards of AWOL man during Vietnam (at a time I knew others who DIED in Vietnam or saw very brutal fighting in Vietnam), George W. Bush.  At least John Kerry, the Democrat in 2004, never went AWOL. Or the guy in Georgia who lost LIMBS during war but was chastised by Republicans because he was a Democrat, did far better than Mr. AWOL Man.

In other words, rather than trying to hold a man in New York City and his feet to the fire with number crunching, how about make changes to rid us of the shit of Reagan, atheist Ayn Rand, and other Republicans which helped cause homelessness in America, overall. 

What ever I accomplished, I am very proud. I am just as proud as the healthcare workers in America should be in handling this pandemic. I am proud of the work I did to help train nurses, nurse aides, radiologists, and others at that same college. When going to a hospital, that was the one time I could hear, “oh, I remember you; you were my professor at the college.” I likely would not remember them, as I sat and waited in a room for an anesthesiologist to sedate me. Somehow, though, I must have made some kind of impression on these people. And that sure does make a professor happy!

I am happy that this guy in New York City succeeded with helping humans numbering in the thousands. Kudos to the guy and stop the bullshit with counting by using lawyers and accountants. How many TRUE accident victims (auto or workplace), not FAKES, did lawyers help? Does anyone keep numbers of those? If we want number crunching, is it not better to keep tabs on the fakes and liars than a person who needs to be measured with regard to ending homelessness. Furthermore, such lawyers and accountants and how many did THEY help in reducing numbers of homeless? Anybody know?

Once again. Kudos to those who play a role in reducing homelessness in New York, Florida, and across the USA.

Stupidity Ruling the Roost?

In case you are so stupid and speak lies about Democrats, let us fill you in. Democrats in Florida gave us across the board Homestead Exemption and a successful challenge to big tobacco for the purpose of paying expenses for lung cancer.

Lies Not Protected as First Amendment Right, So those who Spread Lies – SHUT YOUR MOUTHS

Lies are not free speech. Big mouths spreading lies about Commander in Chief Biden shut up. Work to fix America, not spread lies.

Are You Kidding Me?

Trump and Ire Against Racist DAs? Are you kidding me? (Tues., Feb. 8, 2022).

There are some of us who are not mentally deranged like Trump and have interfaced with both white and black racists, plus other types of bigots. No one pays attention to our wisdom of age, do they?

Trump is mentally ill. He thinks only colored people are racists but no racists exist within the white community. In fact, there are those who have written about his OWN white racism. So, the bastard is projecting his own feelings upon others. That is a mental illness and he needs to be put into a psychiatric unit and tied down.

Black racists might say they don’t want abortion because it’s important for their own race and don’t consider the human race. Trump wants to end abortion because he wants to preserve the white race. It is about time we simply put the human race first. Trump, the John Birchers, the KKK, and others say that only white lives matter. Black people who have faced many obstacles like lynchings and poll taxes to stop black people from voting (today, Republican gerrymandering in Florida to put white folks in office where Democrats outnumber Republicans) turn to Black Lives Matter. Can you blame them? Stupidity of Trump followers cast a blind eye to the fact that white lives HAVE ALWAYS mattered before black or indigenous folks or Latino/a folks.

Every time I mention that ALL LIVES MATTER, what do I get? The eyes of the listeners glazing over and ignoring this plea. Humans first. Race is not as important. Period.

Are you kidding us Trump? Of course he is.

Balance

Ronald Reagan, Jr., is on my mind.

Noticing that is in his commercial, is trustworthy. He mentions “freedom FROM religion,” in defense of activities to work for separation of church and state. As a Christian, I am fully in support of separation of church and state. I always have been supportive of separation of church and state.

Seems strange for Ronnie Junior to say “freedom FROM religion,” while attempting to endorse the ideas of separation of church and state. For separation of church and state is related to “freedom OF religion,” not “freedom FROM religion.”

During the 1980s, I always had a problem with Ronnie Senior and the lip service he played to ridding us of communism. I really did not believe the man with charisma. I felt he was a fake then. Now it is evident, even more, what kind of fake Ronnie Senior was.

My father served with the occupation troops in Japan in 1945 after the war ended. Before my dad passed from us in 2018, he spent time telling me about the trip he and the others serving in Japan under USA Supreme Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, from Tokyo to the northern end of Japan.

If one reads the history of the A-bomb and all else which happened in Japan, one discovers that one thing our leaders wanted to do was to block the Soviets from entering Japan from the north. Was my dad part of those troops who were sent to northern Japan? This is written in the documentation of MacArthur biographer, William Manchester. Manchester also describes the emphasis MacArthur took to decimate the communists in Japan.

A few years later, when MacArthur was put in charge of troops in Korea, what did he want to do? He wanted to send troops north and into China. He was no longer the USA (or UN) Supreme Commander in Korea, so he was not able to do that. In fact, MacArthur was fired for attempting to do it. He had led Japan but was not given the leverage to do the same in Korea. My writing this is NOT to discuss whether this firing and the facts surrounding it are right or wrong. It is a matter of making a comparison between the two commands that General MacArthur had. One immediately after the war with Japan and the other during the Korean Conflict. Today, there is a very lousy communist leader in North Korea, while South Korea has been a successful capitalist democracy.

In fact, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan have all been very successful with bringing down the COVID-19 positivity rate, while the communists and other autocratic SOBs have not. Meanwhile, stupidity in America with DeSantis, Trump and others, is siding with the communists in China, while not fighting the war which needs to be fought against COVID-19.

Back to the discussion about Ronnie Junior and religion. Considering that the Soviets created a “religion” and forced people to abide by this “religion” (which many people have indicated atheism is actually a form of religion), then what makes us believe that “freedom FROM religion” is NOT an autocratic and dictatorial way to force one way upon our American population? What makes this any different from a Matt Gaetz or others who want to force one way for those of us who meditate and seek a spiritual means of life, whether in the name of Christ or any other religious belief, different from what Gaetz wants to force down the throats of Christian believers, is any better than Gaetz? As far as I am concerned, Gaetz is a lawyer / politician who is as much a traitor to the USA as Benedict Arnold, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and numerous others.

How about considering “freedom of religion” among all “religious practices” within a secular society of coexistence? What is wrong with that?

Or else damnation on all those who wish to dictate beliefs to society and upon one another. Period. Damnation to the proselytizers of beliefs about a god or gods as a means of a theocracy, as well as those who wish to dictate an atheistic autocracy upon us.

Too many who are involved in religions use the Bible as a rule book which comes from myths and other writings designed to create a god in the image of men. We have a Creator / Maker / God of love. Humans are made in the image of this God.

The problem lies in those who are hypocrites within religious organizations and turn off people to the true God. This is done in the process of working to maintain power and control over human beings and doing so in the name of a god for which they have made a graven image based on the images of men writing the myths and rule books. Human beings need guidelines for reasoning and common sense in life, not a rule book based on the power of men over other human beings. Men are big on power. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Along with such situations, hypocrisy and a love of money reigns.

Matt Gaetz and other fundagelicals are part of such heathens who do this. The American Founding Fathers, if Ronnie Junior and others were intelligent enough to study them, were more than just Masons.

The American Founding Fathers were Deists who believed in a powerful Creator and balance in the universe which can be proven. Translating that to democracy, our Founding Fathers established a government with checks and balances.

Adam Smith, a contemporary to the Founding Fathers, established and wrote about ideas for which there is balance in economics, in a system called capitalism.

During the days of Adam Smith, the aristocracy were, as Trump is today, too fearful of losing their power and money, should there be the balance as proposed by Smith and his theories about capitalism. So, therefore, these powerful wealthy ones did everything possible to put their own spin on what capitalism is all about. Many today don’t realize how much they follow along with the spin put on capitalism by the aristocracy of the 19th Century.

That aristocracy fooled a stupid man like Karl Marx and others in the process, mesmerizing them with mind control, that capitalism is the problem. Capitalism is not the problem and in the 20th Century, people like Teddy Roosevelt, associated with his Progressive Bull Moose Party in later years (after being known as the “trust buster”), proved that regulation does work. The founder of IBM, Thomas J. Watson, and others at NCR Corporation ended up serving time for their roles in going against regulations by attempting to destroy competition. Watson eventually turned around and created a great corporation, IBM, in which he rewarded his employees with good salaries and benefits, regardless of whether they had college degrees or not.

Ronnie SENIOR worked to remove that BALANCE in economics by proposing one-sided economics, SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS, based on his attempts to project that all things in America need to be “privatized.” This led to the movement to destroy capitalist competition and many dictatorial businesses with no concern for human beings who work for the head honchos AND no concern for the DEMAND SIDE of a balanced capitalism. Since the time of Ronnie SENIOR, these guys have been attempting to make the government look bad because it is the means for regulating that balance in economics.

Democracy can provide balance. Capitalism can provide balance. Freedom OF religion with separation of church and state can provide balance. Ronnie Junior stating, “freedom FROM religion” and associating it with separation of church and state is no different from what daddy Ronnie said with regard to “government is bad so let’s push for deregulation.” Thousands of Americans were hurt financially by this shit from Ronnie Senior. I was one of them, I know a thing or two.

Ronnie Junior is attempting to destroy balance in a secular society. If Ronnie Junior were truly interested in separation of church and state, he would find allies with those of us who have beliefs in God in order to accomplish his goal. Somehow it does not sound like he wants to work by pulling all Americans together, but has a hidden agenda here.

Ronnie Junior is a “chip off the old block,” in this sense. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Just as Ronnie Senior worked to deregulate and work towards, “freedom by ridding us of government,” Ronnie Junior uses this same method regarding religious beliefs and the spirituality which is very important to so many people.

This crap is nothing but a libertarian and anarchist approach. It is being used as a means to thrust dictatorial ways down our throats. The results of such actions will be barbaric, bullying, and vicious, just as what happened within the Roman Empire with its uncivilized gladiator games and arenas with Christians thrown to the lions.

You might read this and say, “how can this be true?” Trust me. I am not the only one to give warning. Adam Smith gave warning in his writings about “The Theory of Moral Sentiment.” There are many others who have given warnings, too.

For the sake of America and its democracy, capitalist ideas, and spirituality of people, please stop this bullshit. America might not be perfect because we have human institutions and such institutions are not perfect. But let us not destroy the great parts of this system. There are other nations in the world who have worked successfully under such conditions. Stop the destructive aspects based on “individual rights” only which come from libertarians and anarchists.

Come Together and Coexist

I have respect for Ronald Reagan, Jr. Far more respect for him than with Sleepy Ronnie in the Cabinet (Ron, Jr.’s dad).

Recently, Junior has been pleading for continuing separation of church and state. That is great. I learned about separation of church and state from pastors in the religion to which I was born and raised. One such pastor was asked to run for political office and he said he would do no such thing because that would be against his principles for separation of church and state. 

What I did not like about his announcements was that Reagan Junior seemed, to me, to identify his ideas for separation of church and state to only be important to atheists and agnostics. Really? He overlooks, entirely, those of us who have a belief in God but do work for separation of church and state. To which, I wish to address Reagan Junior with this. Are you out of your mind and think of those of us with a belief in God and work for separation of church and stare are nothing but chopped liver?

Suppose I analyze what is happening here. Reagan Junior is stupid? I don’t think so, but have to consider whether he is stupid when considering this particular issue. Does Reagan Junior have a hatred for all Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, etc.? Gosh, I hope not, but have to consider this. Does Reagan Junior think only about dictatorial and autocratic control by atheists and agnostics, while the rest of the people be damned, as what has been done in communist states like the former Soviet Union, Cuba, China, etc.? I rather think this is not the case. However, he has spoken out against his father and his father was adamantly against the communists and atheists of Russia.  Interesting that Reagan Senior was against communism, but embraced ideas from Ayn Rand who departed Russia, due to her adverse reactions to communism (and knowing NOTHING about capitalism, the dumb jerk she was on that count). So, it makes us scratch our heads in puzzling thoughts about what Reagan Junior is thinking here.  After all, Ayn Rand was an atheist. 

Having a difficult time in figuring all this out, for sure. AHAH!  Perhaps if we say that Reagan Junior and his statements have to be taken in light of following the money behind what he is saying? Reagan Senior had corporations like GE back him up and most Americans did not know this.  But the money is about helping to put a spin on things in order to help the fundagelical Christians who DON’T LIKE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? By making statements regarding Reagan Junior’s thoughts about atheism and agnostics really puts a thorn in the side of such people, does it not? Therefore, the idea is about playing lip service to the goal of separation of church and state when the TRUE strategy here is to divide and conquer the Christians. Is this not a possible motive? Turn off all Christians to thoughts about someone who identifies as atheist and agnostic. Divide and conquer. By all means, right?This way, it truly promotes atheists and agnostics for grabbing power over our society and thus destroys ALL Christians, even those who are allies of someone like Reagan Junior when it comes to separation of church and state.

Why do Americans never look to a plan to come together and find allies for which we can achieve a goal? This example of separation of church and state will help sustain our society better than any type of autocratic control by the bloody Matt Gaetz or the bloody atheists and agnostics. the ideas here are about advancing the causes of autocracy, whether by one side or the other, with a great deal of fighting going on. 

I am a Christian who recognizes that it is the fundagelicals who push people into atheist environments because people see too much of religious organizations which portray themselves as BEING God. My beliefs are sometimes in line with atheist beliefs because I believe that men created rules in the Bible, from fig leaves to white supremacy to bigotry against the LGBT+ to justification of murder and thievery, to justification of slavery (etc., etc., etc.). Most of the justification is done by mythical elements in what we call “scriptures,” as men tried to portray God as an image of men, not the other way around. Thus, many become fed up with churches and the stupidity of hypocrisy, ignoring the fact that Jesus Christ himself ranted about hypocrisy and money changers ripping off the people.  People like Rasputin of Russia, with his hypocrisy really did a number on a man who HAD been seeking the priesthood in Russia, but then joined the Bolsheviks. That man was named Joseph Stalin.  Just like autocratic theocratic dildo heads within the Christian fundagelicals today, Stalin is an example of working to develop an autocratic government all right. That of a communist state.

Come together and coexist on common ground, before it is too late. That meaning is about coming together to promote a secular democracy separate from church and religion, but with a freedom of religious belief. That also means to not allow any style of brutal autocracy forcing ANY style of religion, whether Christian or atheist (etc., etc., etc.), upon the American population.

White Supremacist Education Fired up by DeSantis (DeSatan)

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” (Søren Kierkegaard).

Governor Ron DeSantis (DeSatan), with the Florida Republicans, wishes to bolster the foundation of the immorality and unethical ways of the KKK and the white supremacists. He wants to eliminate teaching in public schools which teaches about how we need to change from the bad influences of groups like the KKK and white supremacists over colored people, Gentiles over Jews, and white folks over indigenous people in Florida and the USA.

In contrast, I praise the quote from Kierkegaard when he says that, essentially, we need to learn from the bad aspects of the past so as to move forward.  I add to this that we need to move forward for the sake of ALL of us and our posterity and to create an environment of domestic tranquility. Otherwise, those who follow the ways of Ron DeSatan and the Republicans with regard to what is mentioned here, are traitors because they do not even attempt to uphold the words of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. They are traitors who need to be removed from office. I am sick and tired of Democrats sitting back like wimps and not playing hardball in this respect.

Media in Dis-Repair?

​Dear NBC News with Lester Holt:
Recently, you featured some middle-aged people in Pennsylvania being interviewed about their impressions of life over the past year. You had these people bloviating about issues for which they had little or no knowledge and were attacking Joe Biden. It was about the economy and inflation and how costs are going up. Naturally. When there is inflation, with it comes lower unemployment. This is actually what is happening. But the timbre was about just letting these people rant about issues for which they had little or no background. Why? Why is this being done and there is no moderation of what is being presented in the news? I really don’t understand, as I see this nation heading towards being imploded inward as long as we don’t take such actions more seriously and do something to counter it all. 

During this same time frame, I have been reading a newspaper from Pennsylvania. Remember newspapers? Here in Binghamton, Gannett ;is one big fat lump of lard with nothing in it. Many newspapers have been heading in this same direction, condensing their newspapers by removing local columnists who address the area regarding foods, culture, arts, music, science, religion, health, puzzles, advice columns which can give a bunch of immature people a kick in the butte, and various other aspects of LIFE overall in the state, region, and nation. We have experienced these newspapers getting rid of an overall political analysis from various angles, rather than just choosing what to pay attention according to what entertains and keeps shallow people happy. Keep people happy when they only listen to those things to which one agrees and a refusal to learn. There was a time when newspapers were a bigger part of the community and not thrashed by a bunch of fat pigs at the top which are only concerned with their hedge [hog] funds and love of money.  There  was a time when people had a chance to look at headlines and skim an article, deciding whether any article is important enough to pursue more in detail or just skim the article. Snippets on an NBC News half hour don’t allow for that, so I have to wonder why Mr. Holt and others allow people to just speak their mind, rather than doing investigative journalism? Is it to make “we the people” feel happy and no concern whether “we the people” open minds to LEARN?
Nevertheless, the newspapers I have been reading (not Gannett Pravda of Binghamton which just wants to shovel out what it wants in a condensed version), there have been numerous articles written about what is happening now in the economy, with inflation and what may be on the horizon for people. Typically, less shallow people would take much of this information and LEARN form it. What can I do?

Furthermore, the newspaper gave its readers information about personal finance and how to deal with many things which are happening. It is a moderated version of information which is not available on damn mobile phones and computers on the Internet. I know. I have observed much of the crap regarding the TRUE nature of fake news, from the time I did a presentation at a college in Florida regarding fake news during the 2016-17 period of time. Much of it was there for people to make money, including those in the Georgia Republic of the former Soviet Union, plus other eastern block nations like Russia.  Tucker Carlson of Fox claims he could not make money unless he entertained with lies.  I find other outlets like CNN and MSNBC not to be so full of themselves and spreading lies as fluently. Yet, Trump and his followers bully me by sending unsolicited crap with lies. Unsolicited is sometimes ok. But not when it is full of lies. It’s not tough for a couple of guys who are well read to NOT differentiate between lies and truth. We can make mistakes. As editors of newspapers did to moderate stuff, there were “error corrections.” Another nice part about daily newspapers. America is being tarnished by this spin on life with the idea that what comes first is change for the sake of change, especially when it comes to implementing technology so young whippersnappers with no knowledge as to what content is about  and are shallow can run our lives. I don’t like my life being dictated in this manner, so I protest and speak up. Anyone willing to join me in this manner?
I learned quite a bit from the newspaper articles written on various subjects, including business. If one does not agree, one has to ask whether our individual thinking is correct and move from there, not just condemn it because of thoughts about disagreeing. 

After three to four years, not just one year (as with Biden) and before COVID-19, there was a great deal of information about an expectation in 2020 and 2021 for a downturn in the economy. We took measures to work with a financial consultant and others who know more about retirement investments, than to blame Donald Trump. I can call the 2008 recession after George W. Bush, but that is just to identify the time eeriod. Rick the Prick Scott blamed his opponents in an election in Florida, when it was actually Republican Jeb Bush and Republican George W. Bush who presided. Rick the Prick blamed Democrats and never said one bad word otherwise.  Trump does the same thing. Then to embolden younger people which are acting like the “Nazi Youth” of the 1930s, NBC News allows some of them to speak out with false information. What is the hope of NBC News to accomplish by doing this? What I see is the ruination of a nation and sending us on the path of implosion which can be compared to what happened when a dictatorial emperor in China made the Ancient Chinese society to implode upon itself.  We should learn from what happened, not live in fear and grab at what ever Fox News or other groups say. 

Newspapers and good journalism was more than just give us the local news. Heck. I can get more local news from a weekly newspaper here in my county than what Gannett Pravda of Binghamton provides for this county. I have explained all the real stuff that newspapers CAN provide, but is anyone in my classroom paying attention? Or looking at their crotches at a hidden mobile phone which gives them NOTHING substantial and can face false crap all the time, without an ability to differentiate between truth and lies.

This nation needs to readjust by making a Middle Class which is knowledgeable. I am not able to find out from young people working in retail outlets where things are located or where there is a business for such and such, or anything else. The teaching of geography, civics, researching the truth, and all those other things have been curtailed by autocratic white supremacists found in the Republican Party leadership. An overall education has been curtailed, thanks to lawyers and accountants used to back up the wealthy administrators over education, as teachers get kicked in the teeth for this lack of overall education which once was a standard in the USA. I have observed this bashing of teachers and professors in some of the written crap on Facebook.  No wonder I feel like kicking those who are kicking me in the teeth.

Nah, nah, nah!  Turn the other cheek, don’t you know? Fine. But what I also see is trends and norms created by wealthy fat pigs who seek power. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Absolute power corrupted the big Philistine giant, Goliath. Tracing the HUMAN lineage of Jesus Christ, we see that King David did not turn the other cheek or he would have died. Collectively, he and others brought the big giant Goliath down. (People will shoot holes in what I say, claiming it was ONLY David who did it; there is proof otherwise in some of the documented evidence, that it was a COLLECTIVE effort; once again, rather than accept certainty as was taught about this event, why not consider seeking wisdom, not certainty?).  And when people do nothing to work collectively, I have to ask, “who needs enemies with such ‘friends’?”
The media needs fixing. We need to return to perspectives with a Fairness Doctrine and the path of journalism which moderated, not censored, what was being written and said. How do I moderate unsolicited bullying crap from Trump in my text messages? I look to unsolicited messages to and fro as being a means for discussing issues about the truth, not bullying others. Shame on anyone who thinks that intelligent discussion is bullying. Shameful people who think like that. Why has the media allowed this? Who and what is truly at fault. I have outlined ideas right here. Who will help pick up the gauntlet and the sling shot to put an end to the centralized big Goliath types and bring local journalism back to the local area and do so, not just for the sake of local news, but for the sake of news, information, sharing of broad commentary, and topics about food, culture, arts, music, science, health, and even the comics and other sources. I might add that there are some sources of free information on the web and yes, some has to do with recipes and information from the ones doing the shows on television. But too many times, we are expected to purchase a publication. Then again. Newspapers also offered such choices, too. Sometimes it was easier to have the pre-set information in print than to go find it in a digital mode.  With this, I address all the side benefits. Just because you find it so easy all the time in digital form does not mean one is correct. The media is in dis-repair. If it’s broke, it needs fixing, for the sake of the American citizens who are confused as hell and sometimes merely turn to shallow entertainment and never discover whether some of the stuff is fake news and information.

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