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It is Not JUST the Man-baby

Everyone talks about hoping Trump can be removed from office. But what needs to be done is to destroy the Man-baby Regime. The entire regime. For the entire regime is a puppet of the wealthy billionaires who are white supremacist fascists. This is thanks to Citizens United and a SCOTUS black man married to a white man, Clarence “Uncle Tom” Thomas. What is important here is to “follow the money” and that goes beyond JUST the Man-baby.

The strategic plan has been written. The plan is to destroy democracy and replace it with a fascist authoritarian regime. Such a fascist authoritarian regime has the same characteristics of King George III, the mentally ill crowned person of Britain which the colonists opposed and defeated in the American Revolutionary War. Had the colonists lost, a large number of them would have been executed by the King George fascist regime of the time period of the 1780s. Thus, while some stupid Americans have no brains so as to be convinced that instantaneous gratification can be done by an authoritarian regime and takes more time with a democracy. But that instant gratification means more than half the population would not be happy. The only peace with justice which could be achieved by a fascist regime is to make false claims and false witness of those who oppose the regime and then execute AND implement genocide among the population.

The Man-baby Trump Regime is a puppet of the money people like billionaires. The only answer is simply NOT to vote for ANYONE who is Republican, especially those who are very open to support of Trump. But all others can easily hide their support of the Man-baby, just to get along with others who don’t like the Man-baby Regime.

It is good for the opposition to raise enough money to oppose the Man-baby. But the Man-baby Regime is made up of cowardly people who have fear that such money can hurt them. Such demonic people are happy to hide their nasty parts and push all the stuff which can put up smoke and mirrors to cover over the true intentions of their strategic plan.

By the opposition pushing to raise tons of money, they also put aside the possibility of educating Americans about the true intent of the fascist authoritarians and what the results can be without a democracy and peace without justice among the population. To achieve peace is to execute and perform genocide. That is a very big lack of justice when it is defined by fake accusations and fake witnesses.

Lee Moran of Huffpost reviewed the Daily Mirror description of Trump and reported on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC reaction. The following is a portion of what Moran wrote:

The Daily Mirror reported on the president’s lie-filled speech to the United Nations on Tuesday via the one-word, withering headline “DERANGED.”

In one subheadline, the tabloid described Trump as the “world’s most powerful man-baby,” a brutal description that O’Donnell went on to use to taunt the president with again and again during his monologue.

It is nice to focus on the “man-baby.” Makes us feel good. At the same time, this example plus many other “feel good” activities draws our attention away from investigating where the money goes to support him or “follow the money trail” and eliminate the money trail.

Is the only thing we can do is keep giving money to defeat the man-baby or more investigation research about that money trail and shut down the trail? FDR shut down assets of those who wanted to destroy democracy and were people who followed Hitler. Teddy Roosevelt filed lawsuits against the wealthy as he was wealthy himself. Are the more wealthy like TR so engulfed in subjugation by ritilin or Prozac so they just cower in a corner somewhere, while the demonic ones with a love of money continue to zap others?

And don’t listen to those who claim, “there is nothing we can do” or “there is no hope.” By people saying this and these all become self-fulfilling prophesies. Rather than people repeating what can be done, they repeat what cannot be done and they predict the future.

A self-fulfilling prophecies being repeated over and over again will validate what is said that “united we stand, divided we fall.” Except the prophecy and prediction come true with a collection of many people using negative self-fulfilling prophecies.

To unify for the good of democracy, we need to be proactive against everything which surrounds the Man-baby and that regime. Period.

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Resounding Loss Statement Means Demonstrating Being a WIMP

​Wimps, wimps and nothing but wimps. Afraid to say emphatically, “Do not vote for Republicans. PERIOD.” Wimps are afraid to say this. But the Republican Party is NOT the Republican Party to which I registered when I turned 18 and registered to vote. IT IS NOT. The Republican Party SHOULD be called the American Fascist Party. PERIOD. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. If you want fascism, you would vote for an authoritarianism which is no different from what Gus Hall and the American Communist Party wanted.

Just because Blakeman has mucho dollars does not mean a “resounding loss” for Governor Hochul. That indicates the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) want to push fear and intimidation about not having enough money to win. In the process, these fascists bury all other issues because they cannot defend the other issues with facts rather than emotions. Get real. Get tough against fascists.

Let’s get real and face the reality of what is happening. Stop being WIMPS. 

Begin to address civil rights.  Just because a Muslim heads New York City, challenge strongly what the American Fascist Party (aka, Republicans today) are saying about Muslims being “terrorists.”  One Muslim might do something distasteful which is similar to what some white Christians might do. With white Christians then, does it mean ALL white Christian people are bad? Doe it mean all white people are terrorists? Go to hell if you think that because you are letting your EMOTIONS run your brain and with absolutely no logic.

Be strong, not weak.  Don’t be WIMPS.

Challenge the idiocy of “bloody” Man-baby fascists like Blakeman and say they follow a goosestep similar to the one done in Nazi Germany under Hitler.  Hit hard. Does the majority support Nazi or fascist ideas?  What the hell is the fear of saying such things?  If the majority is like that, then I will eat my hat.  Stop being so kind.

Convince New Yorkers that they should NOT vote for ANY Republican at ANY level because they are all in lockstep with fascism and a party claiming to be Republican.  Speak out that the Republican Party should not be called the Republican Party but the American Fascist Party.  Split the Republican Party down the middle.  Be tough.  Be hard.  Don’t beat around the bush.  Give examples of achievements of integration and multi-cultural multi-racial society.  Get tough.  Be hard.

Speak out that the love of money, not just money itself. The love of money is the root of all evil.  Money is what we use to live our lives financially stable, so it is NOT evil. Make the difference. Greed and selfishness go with money-loving jerks. Speak about such people as being money-loving jerks who don’t care if they take from others so as to gather much money together. by means of the free market that despicable freaking lousy Reagan gave to them on their path to amassing money out of love for money, not other human beings.

Speak out that profits are not love of money, but a matter of living financially well in a capitalist economy. 

Speak up that “disposable income” is a lousy term to use to represent PROFITS for the common man and woman. Profits are NOT a love of money but just like “balance” in our personal wealth so we can all live a life of “pursuit of happiness.”  

Paradigm shifts about attitudes need to be said.  DO IT.  

Resounding loss is a pitiful statement from wimps.  Stop being wimps.

Back in the day, Joe Biden should have stood behind Anita Hill at the hearings to confirm Clarence Thomas.  Stop playing Mr. Nice Guy and DO SOMETHING.  NOW before it is too late. How about if we learn from the history of that ordeal and not cry in our milk about something which happened several decades ago?

One writer says, “According to fascists, only those who share the correct attributes can be part of ‘the people’ and therefore true members of society. Others are outsiders, perhaps tolerated as guests if they respect their place and society feels generous. But outsiders have no right to be part of the democratic order: Their votes should not count.”

To be quite frank and to put it bluntly (not mildly), the idea that “only those who share the correct attributes” can be part of “the people” is a BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT statement.

Further, f***ing Tucker Carlson is an asswipe and a traitor. “This helps explain why Tucker Carlson claims “our democracy is no longer functioning” First of all, show us the evidence of this statement that “democracy is no longer functioning.” Secondly, rather than unleash DESTRUCTIVE forces, work together for REFORM of any problems in our democratic government. Find some thoughts from ideas of BEST PRACTICES and invoke them, don’t destroy what has worked for 250 years, you asswipe MAGA Maggots and Tucker Carlson. Go to hell.

The full statement from the author mentioned above: “This helps explain why Tucker Carlson claims ‘our democracy is no longer functioning,’ because so many nonwhites have the vote. It also helps explain why Carlson and others so vigorously promote the ‘great replacement theory,’ the idea that liberals are encouraging immigrants to come to the U.S. with the specific purpose of diluting the political power of ‘true’ Americans.”

This is all a BULLSHIT and treasonous statement made by Tucker Carlson. He needs to be executed for treason. PERIOD. He is worse than Benedict Arnold who defended mentally ill King George III of Britain. We executed Timothy McVeigh for his attack on black people in Oklahoma. Carlson and the fascists are doing nothing more than re-defining the Pledge of Allegiance where it says, “liberty and justice FOR ALL.” And this is why, for more than 20 years now, I have been attempting to highlight this statement in the Pledge and no one pays one damn bit of attention to what I say. Instead they listen to jerks like Carlson.

I have also been highlighting words such as “… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Another wording I have been highlighting is the following three words: “WE THE PEOPLE…” which are the first three words of the U.S. Constitution (Preamble). I usually point out that it does not indicate an aggregate few groups like, “we the billionaires of America” or “we the white folk of America” or “we the fascist thinking people of America” or “we the Bills fans of America” or… so on.

The writer of the article continues with: “The importance of seeing the people as an exclusive, privileged group, one that actually includes rather than is represented by the leader, is also at work when Trump denigrates Republicans who defy him, even in the smallest ways, as “Republicans in Name Only.” The same is also true when other Republicans call for these “in-house” critics to be cast out of the party, for to them any disloyalty is equivalent to defying the will of the people.”

What the writer fails to mention is that the “privileged group” today is nothing more than what Europe had with the “privileged group” of the aristocracy and divine right to rule. We fought our American Revolution to tear down that notion. Anyone bringing this up today is a traitor to the U.S. and our American Revolution with the Declaration of Independence of 1776.

All of the quotations above are found in a writing at UC Davis by Mark R. Reiff, 8 November 2022. The writing appears to be somewhat well researched, but could also touch those who are confused by democracy. Therefore, we should share suggestions for reform, not destruction of democracy. First thing is to fully understand how democracy should be best handled and fascism does not do it justice at all. And a democratic leader of the 20th Century made a succinct statement about democracy which people should not just pass off and come to understand it.

Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II (against the Hitler regime) said: “Democracy is a very bad form of government, but all the others [including fascism and Nazism and authoritarianism and communism and autocracy and benevolent dictatorships] are so much worse.”

Taking a closer look at what Churchill said, we can say that “democracy is slow becasue we must attain a consensus and that takes time. Autocracies and authoritarianism has one person to make a quick decision. Don’t argue that. But what if that decision does NOT take into account an overall view of ALL the people, as fascism does? What happens to the portion of the population who ends up getting stamped on by such a hasty decision. Even a declaration of war is a slow process in a democracy and there is a reason for it. The Man-baby’s attacks on Iran have demonstrated this and if you don’t take a look at what has happened, then all I can say is you are a dumb jerk dismissing what I say. Furthermore, it was the Republicans who sabotaged efforts in the 1930s and 1940s to send aid to help protect Britain and other nations in Europe from Hitler’s war to FORCE people to abide by fascism. And what did Hitler do to groups who refused to abide by his dictatorial stink? Genocide. Who can justify genocide when democracy would help to avoid genocide. Reiff of UC Davis never even mentions this in his 2022 article. Gaining peace without justice means people are executed and murdered. Fascism creates such a barbaric society. We can learn from the historical examples of fascism in the Roman Empire. Reiff never touched on these aspects so as to LEARN FROM HISTORY, rather than the f***ing emotions generated because something in democracy does not work for some people.

Which means that Reiff never touched on the ideas regarding civilized society and civility v. barbarism with execution and genocide. Even Cubans displaced by one authoritarian regime when they were living under another authoritarian regime have come to America and MANY have pushed for civility in America. Not all Cubans, like f***ing Rubio, but MANY have done so. But then. What is Rubio’s background? He is not only Cuban, but also comes from an Italian Mussolini fascist background.

Learn from history, Mr. Reiff and incorporate thoughts of civility and civilization which require guidelines with democracy and balance to make life better, as is defined by our American Founding Fathers.

Rather than work for destruction of democracy, here is my list of suggestions for reform. (There are many more which can be added to this list and in a democracy can be added by others who refuse to simply dismiss mine and replace with their egotistical inspired suggestions, as would happen with fascists who survive because they think they are experts or… “drips under pressure”).

(1) Eliminate the Electoral College; it is an outdated 18th Century guideline (2) Eliminate gerrymandering; it is an outdated 19th Century guideline. (3) Have the members of the House of Representatives reflect the same percentage of the entire population as the example of our House of Representatives when we began this government in 1790; in this case, we made a mistake in updating the original 18th Century guidelines. (4) Return to the 18th Century definition of the U.S. Senate when governors of each state appoint two senators; too many candidates for the people to vote make the election process confusing – vote for governor and understand the governor appoints the senators. (5) If MAGA and the Man-baby have such a thrill out destruction, then DESTROY THE PACs and put limits on campaign financing so one group of people with all the money CANNOT control our government – oh, I forgot but those asswipes who have all the money are not usually those of color, are they? In other words DESTROY the SCOTUS Citizens United Decision. (6) To put a limit on campaign financing, have members of the House of Representatives serve ONLY one term which coincides with the 10-year census; KISS. (7) While we are at it, stop the “till death do we part terms of SCOTUS.” (8) Change the dynamic nature of changes of congressional districts to one of a static nature and still assure that each House member represents the number of people stipulated by the laws or has a weighted vote according to the population. (9) Return to the days of balance in the economy which were put in place by the Roosevelts: Teddy, Franklin D., and Eleanor. Notice there are Republican and Democrat in those I named, but no fascists. (10) DESTROY ICE. (11) Solidify the voting rights and civil rights acts into constitutional amendments. (12) Resume and/or increase the teaching of history and civics in public education, including memorization of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. (13) Resume and/or increase the teaching of the history of ALL people who have made this nation happen and demonstrate how much we should appreciate what we have in this nation, due to ALL people in this nation. (14) Stop corporal punishment in all American schools because it goes against some people’s religions and our Constitution guarantees a freedom of religion; we CAN create humility for the purpose of having people learn and it can be done WITHOUT corporal punishment or humiliation of people and children so as to create a humility to learn; could be done should we all come together rather than some working to sabotage such efforts. (15) Finally, and most importantly, if we keep ICE, than use it to DESTROY the entire Trump Man-baby Regime, MAGA shitheads, and the American Fascist Party which sabotages democracy. Why do we have the elimination of teaching of civics and history in schools? Because this has been a plan carried out now for decades, since the original fascist, Reagan, who claimed he represented something other than authoritarian Communism. He did not. Sabotage and telling lies over and over again so the lies become the truth has been the Goebellizataion of America since Reagan and no one listened to those of us who pointed it out. We were crazy, don’t you know? Why have we ended up like this? Because of the Bush elimination of the Fairness Doctrine and wimpy Obama, when asked to put it back in place, not doing so. What an example of a unilateral authoritarian mechanism than what George H.W. Bush did, as well as Reagan. We may have delayed much of what we see today by keeping Bush to only one term. The sabotage of the banking industry also began under Bush with his son, Neil and the S&L hoax when Neil was caught with his hands in the cookie jar. What a deliberate way to destroy the S&L and banking regulation created by FDR. And Jeb Bush used it in the early 2000s in Florida (perhaps Trump was also involved?) by manipulating the price of housing so much that in just a few years, prices of housing went up 125%. This was an increase which far exceeded the length of time of a 30-year mortgage. It destroyed the housing market and banks like Chase and Bank of America swooped in to pick up the pieces so as to raise prices to levels so high that only the wealthy could afford the housing while common folk were forced to rent and lose the homestead exemption in Florida.

Side note. Once again, apparently the MAGA maggots have some instrument of destruction on WordPress to block the AI image generation I have used in the past on WordPress. All of a sudden it has stopped. I will continue pointing this out until WordPress does something to sabotage whatever app it uses and destroy and shut down the sabotage. I have tried 20 times to generate an image. I have tried several different types of image generation. Apparently, I am being blocked.

Was Maeleine Albright targeted with bad words because she was too intelligent regarding fascism and the fascists building power and control within the Republican Party were fearful about what she could accomplish? Were too many Americans too stupid to notice or just bent on going about with their partying and sex to take notice? I wonder.

I make no apologies for using words as bullshit, shithead, and hell, so forth. If there was not too much of our media focusing on pushing what the fascists want, I would not be using this language. Until that stops and we return to the Fairness Doctrine in the media, I refuse to stop using vulgar language. Please note how many times I like to use f***ing rather than the true word. I try to stop there.

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Man-baby Trump, Rubio & Stupidity, Autocracy, & Hawks

Most likely, the one behind the Man-baby Trump’s attitude about Cuba is Marco Rubio of Florida. From the time Rubio first appeared on the Florida political scene, he was a detestable character. Before becoming U.S. Senator, he served in the Florida House of Representatives where his attitudes were so noted as being quite lousy. Rubio’s family migrated to the U.S. and if anyone should be the target of ICE (and ICE had existed in those days gone by), it should have been Rubio, except he was not living in those days when his family arrived here. It certainly would make more sense than some of the crap ICE is currently doing. But fascist Cubans are overlooked as immigrants when they are no different than the communist autocrats.

I have spoken with many Cubans because I lived all those years in South Florida. The best person was one who had a great deal of common sense and did not define anything she disagreed as being communist and Castro. She worked for civility and I admired and respected her for doing that.

Rubio is part Italian. He is similar to what an old Italian woman described for me as the Italian named Mussolini and what she remembers from Mussolini’s rise to power in Italy.

As a gay man, I despise what Castro did in using the Cuban LGBT+ for his purposes and then spit them out like seeds in his teeth. Rainaldo Arenas is one example, but there are more examples.

But with many years after Castro, there are many good examples. I spoke with some who had departed Cuba who viewed a better education system there. Also, the Cuban health R&D has benefited many Americans, including a relative, with the battle with cancer. All I can say is leave that nation alone. F*** Rubio and Trump with their desires as they are autocrats, too, just as Castro was. These detestable ones with the f***ing lousy hawks of a military run by a stupid jerk from Fox News who is a lainbrained idiot who has no fellow feeling at all, but is like all the Man-baby MAGA maggots who only know how to win for their own greed and nothing about how to deal with one another and have a consensus of people, only how to tell everyone how to live lives defined by their stupidity.

End the hawks of America and stop spending American tax dollars in huge amounts on our military. End it now, whether it be Venezuela, Iran, or Cuba. Stop this BS of people who don’t know how to lead America. We want the demise of the Man-baby regime, including the f***heads from Florida, from the Man-baby to Bondi to Rubio.

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Alibaba.com? Za’atar recipe blocked by whom?

Who is blocking my access on the Internet to Alibaba.com? Go f *** yourself. A recipe for za’atar spice is NOT related to a terrorist event, no matter what the name of alibaba means. The spice may come from Islamic nations, but so what, you SOB lainbrains. Go to hell such leaders in the USA and open up our culture to learn from others, not shut down others and shut down one another. Go f*** ICE and the secret police because you are barbaric and against civilized society. F*** MAGA Maggots because you are dumb stupid lainbrained jerks for whom I have no respect. I have no respect for any of this crap, including f***ing Texas Governor Abbott who needs to be removed from political office for not living by the U.S. Constitution. We did not need to take down a leader in Iran. We needed to take down Putin. We needed to take down the top three political offices in America – the fascists. We need to take out Gov. Abbott of Texas and Gov. DeSatan of Florida. Take out the bastards and dump them all into the ocean with Musk. Or put them on a spaceship to Mars with a one-way ticket. They put Napoleon on an island but it is too easy for these asswipes today to get out. Put all the asswipe ICE and MAGA folk on a one-way trip to Mars and let them figure out how they can survive, as they destroy human beings in a CIVILIZED society from doing the best they can to survive.

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Commentary

Precious Memories of Lawrence Welk & Company

Tonight, once again, the Lawrence Welk Precious Memories program was broadcast by Binghamton’s PBS channel, WSKG. It brings back precious memories to me. We should be thankful for such programs, in spite of the cuts in revenue by the Man-baby and stupid fascist Republicans in their cuts to PBS.

The hymns sung on this program brought back precious memories of the last days my Grandma Mary (Albro) Cornwell living at our home at 26 Main Street in the valley. Grandma Cornwell had survived a heart attack and was living with us. At age seven, I would sit with my grandmother as she listened to hymns being sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford. “The Rugged Cross.” “Amazing Grace.” Many others.

The one most remembered was the Church in the Wildwood. It was a brown church. But because we attended the white church next door to our home, I always changed the word in the hymn from brown to white. It was simply because it was a wooden church painted white, not brown. That’s all.

Such programs as Lawrence Welk programs may be of interest to only a minority of people in the media market, but we are important. We in the minority pay for sports, religious programs, and, as with Dish Network, porn. We pay for many programs and have to endure the lousy stupid productions and stupid commercials which are nothing but farsical at most. We in this minority can only ask that we be respected for the low cost programming we enjoy more with PBS. Programs like Lawrence Welk and culture – so forth. If you are unable to give us R-E-S-P-E-C-T, then all I can say is that I hope you can fall flat on your faces.

Neither democracy nor capitalism are about serving a simple majority of people. It is about serving all the people.

My criticism is not about whining. It is about stopping the movement to remove from the minority what we in the minority enjoy. After all, without watching any sports, we still pay for those million-dollar salaries of overpaid athletes. We need to have some of that money back in the form of government funding of PBS, NPR, and APM. Precious moments means many things to many people. The first NFL super bowl might be a precious memory to some. Or the Amazing Mets of 1969 might be a precious memory to some. But for many of us, we have precious memories in media programs like Lawrence Welk or Ed Sullivan or Kristen Chenowith or Renee Fleming or. Perry Mason or MASH or .. others. We are paying for a lot of shit on television which apparently is enjoyed by the “in” crowd for which we are not in that “in” crowd. When we say”life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all,” we mean it. It is not “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the large majority in the ‘in’ crowd.”

Consider this. If you say, “nobody listens to Lawrence Welk,” then you are low-life scum because there are many of us who are “nobody.” We can have R-E-S-P-E-C-T for what you enjoy. Now. Have R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the rest of us who are the “nobody” in the world. Otherwise, your words become lies told over and over again to such an extent that it becomes the truth – the truth for those in the “in” crowd who don’t give one damn about those NOT in the “in” crowd. You lack so much confidence that you resort to lying in order to force everyone to believe and enjoy what you do.

What I say is about how to maintain a civilized democratic capitalist society with balance, not a barbaric one like that of the Roman Empire where they got their jollies from watching gladiators kill one another or Christians being killed by lions in an arena or… All as a spectacle in their lives. Barbarism is sick. The entire set of ideas in which our Almighty God wanted us to follow was to love one another. Period. No if, ands, or buts about it.

For me and many others, we learned that principle from the example and Gospel of Jesus Christ. But other religions do teach love for one another. Those precious memories come from family and the religious organization which taught me such principles. Sadly, such teaching has been eliminated today and that needs to be changed. We don’t need to become “churchy” people again. We need to come together to encourage one another to have a love for a deist or god of the universe because that deist or god loves the human race made in the image of such a deist for the purpose of having a civilized human race which loves one another. We can do this in different ways and do not have to fall back on the methods used in the past. By coming together we teach one another and the younger ones the importance of love for one another.

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Steppin Out

On Create TV (PBS Binghamton broadcast channel 46, WSKG), there is a program about travel around the world.  The purpose of the program is to learn about how people live in various places foreign to us and what other cultures are about.  It is titled Steppin Out.  The host is a Cuban-American guy who grew up in Miami named Joseph Rosendo.  We can learn quite a bit.  

Rosendo ends every show with the following quote from Mark Twain:  “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

I am now Steppin Out. The topic is white folk here refusing to become familiar with black folk.  

Sadly, I think this Twain quote needs to be repeated over and over again for white folk here in Tioga County.  The following is the reason why I say this.

Too many times, I have heard some put down black folk in a derogatory manner.  They call black folk in a derogatory manner, “Nigger.” Whether it is local black folk or President Barack Obama, the derogatory addressing of black folk has been used in Upstate New York and by more Upstate New York people in Florida than white folk from other areas (like Ohio or Boston), we have heard such lousy words.  Even a good friend from Crane School of Music, a Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity brother, who grew up in the Seneca Lake region, used such language, to my great surprise and resulting disgust.  I guess I was foolish to ever ignore whether he would have done that in college.    

It goes further than just a derogatory word. How about a statement degrading the practice of having Black History Month each February?  (Sometimes in the same sentence, to degrade having Women’s History Month each March).  One of my replies to such statements is to consider the number of times each year we celebrate White History Month each year?  The summer Friday night NV Depot concerts.  White culture history on display.  White music played and rarely any black culture music from Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Count Basey, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Little Richard, Chuck Berry.  We hear white country music and other genres of white music.  I don’t say this to complain about the choices.  I say this to challenge anyone who puts down the February Black History Month Celebration, for it was at such celebrations at the college where I was professor and helped schedule lifelong learning events, where we heard the Billy Holiday song about “fruit hanging from trees” and learned about Jim Crow lynching which hung the “fruit,” or innocent black folk, from trees in Dixie.  Even at such a Friday night concert, we departed when there was a song about “white” Dixie and the Dixiecrats and the crowd stood.  We only stand for the unity represented by the “Star Spangled Banner,” as much as we don’t like “bombs bursting in air…” We also stand for the “Pledge of Allegiance” where we repeat words like “for liberty and justice FOR ALL…”  This is not an opinion, it is the correct ATTITUDE.  It is not politics.  It is the correct ATTITUDE.  

Our Newark Valley Historical Society does a wonderful job in promoting history of this valley in Tioga County of Upstate New York.  It maintains the Bement-Billings Farmstead.  Who were the owners of the 19th Century Farmstead?  They certainly were not black folk.  So each year, we have the Apple Fest.  We celebrate white culture and its history every year, whether at the Apple Fest in October or all year long when the museum and grounds are open to the public.  

Even Johnny Appleseed (real name John Chapman,  1774-1845) was a white man.  

I find it disgusting for those who portray “victimhood” upon white people as a result of “Black History Month.”  

As for the history part, should we shut up about a WHITE ancestor to Ezra Cornell (and my own white ancestor), Thomas Cornell, Jr., when he was WRONGLY executed in Rhode Island in the late 1600s?     Yet, a lousy evil man we call DeSatan of Florida tries to stop the history of black folk who have faced the same thing.  Shall we re-write the Cornwell / Cornell history?  Go to hell if you think we should because such people I only hope they rot in hell and their hatred goes with them.  

Sadly, the white people’s area up here in the valley of Tioga County, NY, has some really lousy looking homes which are kept in bad shape. Why? It is a lousy solution to just tear them down. Europe has buildings dated centuries before the buildings here, but are still able to keep them in decent shape and looking good. What is done here? Nothing as they sit there in a dilapidated and disgusting shape. Are white people not proud enough to make things look better? They were when I grew up here in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. What has happened?

In comparison, I recall a white supremacist driving a shuttle to the airport in Florida. We drove through a very attractive looking neighborhood. The shuttle driver began to explain how the neighborhood was a neighborhood of black people. He comments “how lousy the neighborhood looks.” I spoke up and explained how I fail to see how lousy it looks because the houses are well kept, the lawns looked so very good, and the entire area was very attractive.

As I think about that dumb lainbrained shuttle driver and his comments, I think about white neighborhoods here in the valley of Tioga County and how lousy and disgusting the buildings and lawns look. I can also compare the village of this valley which had a business district destroyed by fire in 1981 and how it looks so lousy in this “white” area with everything empty and nothing re-built. Even fires in places like Toronto when it contained a much smaller population were re-built. But not in this “white” community here where it looks dismal compared to the neighborhood of black folk a white supremacist shuttle driver made noises of complaints.

For those who know how to do Steppin Out, such hatred of other cultures is an attitude, not politics, opinions or anything else.  And I might add that I would wager that Joseph Rosendo (host of Steppin Out) would be opposed to the Man-baby’s use of troops in Cuba.  

Mark Twain, who lived some of his life in Elmira, NY, said:  “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”  War, weapons of mass destruction, and troops are fatal to innocent people and children.  Mark Twain is to be respected, with his moral and ethical attitude.  

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Supply-side Reaganomics Bites; It Should Bite the Dust (247 words)

Ny-Quil. Sickness determines OTC purchase and use. Illness ends and bottle saved for next time.

What about higher cost supplies? Supply-side Reaganomics kicks in.

Those of us in the Republican Party were ignored when we put up warning flags.  Republican leaders were/are too enamored with top-down autocracy with love of money, refusing to utilize democratic building consensus methods to address needs of all the people. Oligarchy is limited to needs of money-loving supply-siders. 

Supply-side Reaganomics was built by deregulation. Result was monopolization by the oligarchic billionaire fat cats. Capitalist competition was destroyed. Fat cats call this “capitalism” when it is NOT the balanced supply AND demand defined by 18thCentury writer, Adam Smith.  Capitalism was defined to challenge fat cats of Smith’s days.  “Divine rights” monarchs.

Oxygen and BYPAP purchases?  Regulations are defined by supply-siders, not government. Equipment sales are controlled and only supplied after it is determined the patient has sleep apnea. If patient recovers from sleep apnea, it is no longer needed daily.  However, patients are forced to use equipment daily. Like taking Ny-Quil daily, whether necessary or not.

There is difficulty for a patient to purchase the equipment at capitalist competitive market prices. Healthcare supply-siders coordinate this method with big insurance. Supply-siders blame the government, as Reagan did. 

What billionaires have done is buy the government to do what supply-siders want. The government looks the other way but is blamed. The whole thing bites.

One can only hope that supply-side Reaganomics will bite the dust.

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Healthcare in America: Where is the Single-payer Plan?

Single-payer healthcare would make healthcare available to all Americans, WE THE PEOPLE. PEOPLE – human beings – are not organizational units like corporations, not robots or AI images.

Autocratic oligarchic billionaires convince common folk with big mouths to spread lies about single-payer healthcare.  They have easily purchased elections to push their agenda. Hawkish ideals and scandals are given priority to ignore any possible implementation of single-payer healthcare.

The current Republican leadership is a puppet of the billionaire oligarchy. Elections have been purchased by this oligarchy.

The SCOTUS Citizens United decision opened the door for “purchasing elections.”  The decision eliminated campaign fund limitations. The stupidity of that decision was to define corporations as “individual human beings” and therefore protected by the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. 

The SCOTUS decision defined money as being more important than humans. Such ideals signal return to the old concept of “divine rights” for those who have the most money.  The American Revolution rid us of this concept.  Will SCOTUS define robots and “people” created by AI images as having 1st Amendment rights? 

Single-payer healthcare provides equal healthcare for all human beings.  This healthcare can be implemented at either state or Federal levels.  New York State’s population is larger than several European nations providing free healthcare to all. 

It is ironic that SCOTUS considers equality of humans when it comes to campaign finance money. Why is there a lack of equality for individual healthcare?  Is this a deliberate attempt to deny robots healthcare benefits? 

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Born in the USA, Born in the USA; Why Did I Continue to Live in the Country I Love?

In 1977, I was offered three music teaching jobs.  One was on Long Island.  One was in Upstate New York.  The third was in the Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada)  public schools.  I ended up teaching in Upstate New York, completing my graduate work in Upstate New York working at Griffiss Air Force Base, and then taking a job in Florida where I remained for 38 years.

One reason I chose to remain in the USA was due to the land  where I was born, raised, and appreciated for giving me a jumpstart on life.  In spite of all the imperfections about America and its democracy, I still appreciated what was given to me as a result of my dad and mom and others who lived through World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam Conflict, and others. 

I may have found it disgusting to live through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others.  I may have found it disgusting to watch Upstate New York riots due to taunting of black folk by white folk.  I may have found it disgusting to witness “the whole world watching” as college students rioted in Chicago (1968).  I may have found it disgusting to witness the Ohio governor and President “Tricky Dicky” send National Guard troops to Kent State and shoot down students throwing rocks, in cold blood.  So on and so on.  In 1977, I STILL decided this nation was worth remaining here so we can work together to make it better.  “United we stand, divided we fall,” were words we understood.

And then I watched as Reagan, the “Reverse Robin Hood” movement with billionaire wealth, late 20th-Century “Gilded Age fat cats,” worked for deregulation so as to cause supply-side economics which destroys capitalist competition and monopolize business in the hands of a few people (oligarchy), and “trickle-down strategies.” Reagan and company worked to overturn the accomplishments of my Dutch relatives, the “Trust Buster,” Teddy Roosevelt, his niece, Eleanor Roosvelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These folks worked to bring down fat cats from the Gilded Age who had put monopolization into practice. With the lack of capitalist competition and centralized monopolistic control, the economy looked more like that of a communist state than true supply AND demand capitalism. 

Today, there are many times I think about the possible mistake I made in turning down a job offer in Canada.  But I continue to think about the country I grew to love and to make better, even if people are now losing the sense of “united we stand, divided we fall” and are leaving this nation in large numbers, due to the election of the Man-baby with his disgusting cold ICE arms which are needlessly reaching too many American citizens, as well as the immigrants, and putting America on an offensive path with a department called the “Defense Department.” 

I still maintain hope.  My Scottish family motto is “as I breathe, I hope.”  I encourage everyone who is eligible to register to vote and get to the polling places this year and vote to put non-Republicans in power as leaders of our nation.   To overturn what the late Lee Iacocca titled his 2007 book, “where have all the leaders gone?”

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What About Iran?

U.S. Hawks (with the Man-baby in charge) and Israel’s Netanyahu (like Zealot Judas Iscariot) launched attacks against Iran. Was that necessary? No, especially since there has been progress from diplomatic methods.

The Iranian non-religious leader has claimed, “there are no gay folk in Iran.”  Really? Iranian LGBT+ were purportedly brought to the top of high-rise buildings and thrown off the buildings to their death. At the time such events were being uncovered, it was also discovered that many Iranian gay folks were seeking a safe haven in the USA. 

What was done to all immigrants?  Walls were built blocking immigrants from all over the world from entering the “land of the free.”

Attacks like recent events should be halted.  We should seek other solutions for settling our problems with Iran.  We don’t need to end elections but elect better leaders.  Get a larger percentage of good thinking people out to vote; make election day a holiday; continue early voting options; continue voting by mail; continue voting absentee.  Despite the claims, we don’t need cloud fantasies repeated until they become the truth.  Let us set the path in the correct direction by means of democracy and voting. 

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