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Florida Foreshadowing with the Bush Family and Charles Colson of Naples, FL, One of the Nixon Watergate Lawyers

As a historian, I consider what can be learned from history.  Being an avid viewer of Murder, She Wrote, Perry Mason, and [Ben] Matlock, Poirot (Agatha Christie), Murdock Mysteries (produced and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), I often consider what it takes to research what is happening, both historically and during our current days. Actually, I have been doing research about much of what has been happening with political figures since I was a librarian working at a Florida corporation where Lawton Chiles (“Walkin'” Lawton who won his U.S. Senate seat after walking the entire state of Florida). While I spent most of my time researching environmental impacts of zebra mussels on hydro plants, nuclear energy and cold fusion as an alternative, alternative fuels, and self-insuring the corporation following losses due to Hurricane Andrew in 1992, I was also assigned projects by the CFO of the company who likely got the orders from “Walkin'” Lawton who was serving on our board of trustees after he departed the U.S. Senate and was preparing for a run for governor.  

The assignment was to research the possible impact of Jeb Bush on our company should he run for governor. In the process, I discovered “Jebbie’s” interests were strong in gambling and attempting to make gambling legal in Florida. (“Jebbie” was the name used by a Republican in Florida whom I had known most of my life who had come from Newark Valley – speaking as if he knew “Jebbie’ personally; he may have; coincidence: once gambling happened in Florida, the guy spent a great bit of time at the gambling casino; the CFO of that company was related to the founder of the Publix chain which, along with “Walkin'” Lawton, stood firmly against legalization of gambling; another note: the one from Newark Valley was the widower of a former mayor of Newark Valley; both were in two different political parties, but at that time, I was still a registered Republican; that guy was also a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps of World War II). Apparently there were a number of us who were looking into Jeb Bush and in various arenas in Florida and who knows where else.  

As a result, when Lawton Chiles ran for governor in 1994, his opponent was “Jebbie” Bush.  “Walkin'” Lawton defeated “Jebbie” Bush in that 1990 election.  It likely really angered “Jebbie” and I believe I have felt the target of vengeance, among many others.  For during that time, there was an influx of Republicans beginning to work a hostile takeover of our company where I owned company stock.  They were working with two that I know of.  Kenneth Lay of a natural gas company based in Houston, TX (where possibly – speculative – a NV Baptist and former Democrat racist bigot turned Republican was employed – his family enemies to my mother).  The other person was Charles Colson. Colson had bee released from prison and made his home in Naples, FL.  Other we had not found as much about him in this regard.  My bet is that he was far more involved than we knew.

If one reads the details of Charles Colson in a Wikipedia article, one discovers there is a great deal of connection to both “Jebbie” and George W. Bush.  First of all, Governor “Jebbie” pardoned Colson and returned Colson’s right to vote, in spite of being a convicted felon.  Hypocrite “Jebbie” later created a privatized prison system in Florida for the purposes of jailing black folk.  The reason? To arrest young black folk on misdemeanor charges in which white fold were NOT arrested, putting those young folk in jail with hardened criminals.  Once released those kids were often tied up with the criminals in jail and often got framed for crimes they did not commit and ended up back in jail.  Eventually they became felons who could not vote.  Do we know a church where the pastor was formerly imprisoned and framed after returning to society?  Framing is a common way to put good people away and remove their rights as citizens entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the land with “liberty and justice for all.”  It was a device used in Florida quite frequently, especially with black folk. Our Peace & Justice Ministries, an ecumenical group, worked to fight that as much as we could.  We had Protestants and Roman Catholics all working together to work in the name of Christ and top the BS being done by racists in Florida.  People up here say, “why should we be concerned because it can never happen here.”  Think again.  THINK… as Thomas J. Watson would say.

While president, George W. Bush gave an award to Charles Colson.  Did he deserve it?  Not on your life did he deserve it.

Furthermore, “Jebbie” pushed for a law called “Stand Your Ground.”  It was sold as a means to stop people with guns.  It was actually a law to shoot down black folk.  For example, shortly after the law was passed, a young black man in a car turned the volume of his rap music up to high levels.  Some white guy shot the guy and killed him.  The white guy gets off for murder based on that law in Florida.  Yet, as with Renee Good of Minnesota, the young man never threatened the white man.  

Another example.  A black person in a theater was talking during the movie.  He was shot to death by a white person. Another example. An inter-racial couple at a stop sign in Fort Lauderdale were shot dead by someone “standing his ground” because he did not believe that there should be inter-racial marriage.  

If anyone thinks this “foreshadowing” of events could never happen here?  You are mistaken and we need to be prepared for such.  

One more issue with “Jebbie.” He joined the SAR at the same time I did.  When some of us wanted to admit black folk descended from veterans of the American Revolution, “Jebbie” was opposed to such.  That would mean that my black relatives (inter-racial marriages) in Binghamton would not be able to join the SAR, based on the same ancestors I have.  

Oh, yes.  Can I forget when I was at St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Palm Beach (where “Jebbie” was on the board of directors), I was blackmailed by some woman on staff there who had said she knew “Jebbie.”  Hmmmmm.  Her last name was Ellis.  Do you know what JEB is?  JOHN ELLIS BUSH – related to the Ellis family.  She tried to blackmail me unless I expressed support for Donald Trump.  That was 2018 during Trump’s first term.  Furthermore, I am still wondering why I was carted a long distance by helicopter to St. Mary’s when there was a trauma center within a short driving distance from my home and that hospital was where my own primary care physician worked.  

The question still remains.  In the last month of “Walkin'” Lawton’s term as governor, as “Jebbie” was about to assume the office of governor, he suddenly died.  There has been talk “on the street” that Bush and that family was responsible for the death of Chiles.  But it has never been proven.  After reading the article about Charles Colson of Naples, FL, I have to speculate, based on the number of times that Colson used poisons and LSD against people whom Nixon had a vengeance.  One person was against a reporter named Jack Anderson who had released a defamatory story about Nixon just prior to the 1960 election.  Nixon held a vengeance against Anderson, blaming him for losing that election of 1960.  And even today, we still live with this bullshit with the Man-baby and the Kennedy Rose Garden and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center.  

Do I have proof that Colson was involved with Governor Chiles’s death?  No.  I do not.  Only circumstantial evidence and hearsay “on the street.”  A huge part of the circumstantial evidence is the popularity of Governor Chiles so as to defeat “Jebbie” in 1994.  It was widely known that the Bush family was scared of Governor Chiles as he had plans to run for president in 2000 and the governor of Texas was favored by the Republicans:  George W. Bush.  Chiles could have beaten Bush, for sure.  

It is also said that many who would be good leaders have been frightened by these events and don’t want to get involved in politics.  Is this true?  I don’t know.  

There is also evidence that Teddy Roosevelt may have had ADHD. In those days, there was no medications to curb ADHD, as today.  The claim has been made that those today who are like Teddy Roosevelt with ADHD would be pushed off into a background job of accounting or technology and not seeking leadership positions at all.  Is this true?  I don’t know for sure. TR’s father, Teddy Roosevelt, Sr., like many people of wealth, had purchased his way out of the draft in the Union Army of the American Civil War.  TR reacted to that by insisting, during a later stage in his life, joining forces in the Spanish-American War where he led forces up San Juan Hill in Cuba.  

 But in 2007, Democrat Lee Iacocca wrote a book titled, Where Have All the Leaders Gone? It was not conclusive, but did bring up many questions for consideration.  Iacocca did mention the favored status of the Saudi government by the Bush regime as it exited members of that royal family out of the USA following Osama Bin-Laden’s 9/11 fiasco.  And much of what was happening with the corporation where I was working – Kenneth Lay, etc. – was related to the Saudi Arabians. I have a suspicion that the attack on Iran is more than just Netanyahu and Israel.  Here we are in 2026 and the same ones who gave us high oil prices under Nixon are likely still involved with what is happening today, one way or another.  

Side note:  I have discovered that Lee Iacocca was at Lehigh University at the same time that a former Tioga County legislator from Newark Valley was at Lehigh University. 

One thing about J.B. Fletcher, the character in Murder, She Wrote, was that she had taught English in the Cabot Cove High School. She often used literary elements in her work as a mystery writer and in assisting solving murders.  Often she mentioned the use of foreshadowing in literature and applied it to real life situations.  In this case, I see Charles Colson with Nixon and others, plus Florida events from the 1990s until the present day as foreshadowing what we are seeing now.  People must not be familiar with this idea of “foreshadowing.”  Most of my writing for the past 20 years is meant to be a foreshadowing based on what we all experienced in Florida.  

Instead, I got this.  “Don’t talk to me about politics.”  It’s not politics.  Sometimes what happened in Florida had to do with murder , framing, and blackmail by people who have no morals, scruples, or ethics.  

Rather than look at what I say as a “foreshadowing” and an environment to learn from history, as I pass the historical experiences and information to others, people shoot holes in the information before even considering it.  Listening to one another?  You have to be kidding.  

The Democrats who ran the corporation where I worked often had us doing brain-storming.  NO ONE was to shoot something down and all was to be like placing our cards on the table before even discussion and communication.  But there was NEVER to be shooting at something as if some person’s ATTITUDE was that the idea was stupid.  If that shooting happened, such a person was only thinking about themselves, how THE PERSON could win, and push their narrow part of the world. Such ones had no capability for viewing the wider picture.  

There is too much shooting down of ideas and solutions among the Baby Boomers and younger.  In brain-storming of the 1980s and 1990s, those in the WWII generation were less likely to do such a thing.  They had experienced this nation going through quite a hassle in Europe and the Pacific, besides experiencing the Great Depression.  They had witnessed how this nation had to solve the problems of those days so such WWII people knew what to do in brain-storming.  The idea for researching self-insuring rather than relying on big corporate giants of insurance so as to protect against hurricanes came out of one of the quality circles brain-storming sessions.  Before we could take it any further, the GD Republicans swerved in and shut us down.  An example of how much those bastards only like big corporate billionaires, which was something I viewed in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Florida.  In those years, the Republicans shut down R&D for cold fusion and the R&D moved to Europe where they have made progress in that area, even if it is still not solved.  As with the treatment of Einstein and 19th Century “Clinton’s Ditch” builder, narrow-minded Republicans scoffed at the ideas as if they could not be used to solve problems.  Of course they could not when Republican strategy is to destroy by sabotage, as they have done with forms of public retirement and retirement healthcare which could provide capitalist ROI for retirees.  To Republicans.  It is called “capitalism, stupid.”  Capitalism with balance and profits which is not an evil thing. Meanwhile,  the one-sided lop-sided bulging pockets of billionaires is NOT capitalism. The 1000% PLUS increase in CEO salaries is NOT capitalism.  

Colson did quite a large amount of damage to this nation and then was pardoned with his rights as a felon overturned so he could vote, and then awarded a presidential award.  Life is not about winning and being vengeful when not winning.  Such actions are described in the Hebrew Scriptures with verses about vengeance such as “you must take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”  In this time of Holy Week, we need to remember that Christ overturned that Hebrew Scripture.  Christ also would not have accepted the Machiavellian words of selfishness and greed:  “the end justifies the means.”  Colson and others all follow such a principle or else they would not have invaded the Watergate Hotel and then validated their actions by putting down those who challenged them on their evil actions because “the end justifies the means.”

And with Nixon and Watergate, we thought it was all over when Nixon resigned in 1974.  It was not.  Democrat turned Republican Ronald Wilson Reagan reared his ugly head and challenged Gerald Ford from the moderate wing of the Republican Party, setting up the path for the fascists in that party.  And going back even further, fascist Howard Taft  and Herbert Hoover of that political party.  Taft had challenged Teddy Roosevelt and the party was split in 1912.  The difference was that, in the 1970s, Gerald Ford did not know how to “speak softly and carry a big stick” when Reagan came on the scene.   That was also the beginning of huge increases in CEO salaries for people who don’t know how to make money the old fashioned way – “to earn it.”  

Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty has no idea what it means to “earn” money.  And this was known before he even ran for president in 2016, but did people take it seriously?  Nope.  

There is more. Charles Colson and the Christian Nationalists. Another day. Maybe?

Charles Colson, Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson

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A Little Cheese with My W(h)ine! Media Destruction of Biden

We have this Man-baby in charge. I have never liked the man since using one of his real estate persons in Florida to purchase my first Palm Beach County home. That was 1996. I hoped I could get over the bastard. The bastard returned into my life in 2016. I wanted Hillary Clinton, as did most of those in the popular vote where Hillary won over the Man-baby.

We then had Joe Biden. I had always liked Joe Biden. Maybe there was an imperfection. But overall, I liked President Biden. I liked Vice President Kamala Harris, too. I find it disgusting those who think either one was “not qualified” enough. Usually it was due to some imperfection. Bullshit on imperfection because we are ALL imperfect at some point. But what is the overall picture?

Why have so many Americans lost sight of the appreciation for what America is all about, in SPITE OF IMPERFECTIONS at times? What has caused this?

First of all, it was Reagan/Bush and the removal of the Fairness Doctrine. BTW. When I mention it was Reagan, then someone contests me that it was Bush. I say Bush and someone contests me that it was Reagan. That is another problem with Americans of the Baby Boom Generation and younger. They don’t consider the point being made but feel compelled to shoot something down – perfection babies. That is bullshit. There is not perfection. But by not taking a look at the overall picture with Hillary, Biden and Kamala, we have ended up with this shithead whom a British tabloid called the “Man-baby.” I call him the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty who has falls and everyone puts him back together again.

The Fairness Doctrine in the media was put together following World War II so as to protect America against what the Nazis did to Germany. Hitler Propaganda Minister Goebbels utilized a strategy to tell lies over and over again until they become the truth. Propaganda. Americans who suffered under World War II were intelligent enough to see that we needed that Fairness Doctrine. The freaking lousy Baby Boomers and younger cut off their noses in spite of their faces. Thus, they care unable to discern fact from fiction and fall in line, especially the younger ones who were never taught the words of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution or Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, etc., who are not able to discern what is right and wrong with regard to morality and ethics. And these asswipes never learn from history that prohibition (alcohol, gambling and what not) have NEVER WORKED to teach a society right and wrong. That history shows us that censorship does not work, either. In fact, there are European examples today that regulation and moderation education work better than prohibition and censorship. Even Bobby Kennedy, Jr., gave a 2007 speech with FACTS and FIGURES that Massachusetts regulation of abortion did a better job of curtailing the number of abortions than the state of Mississippi (and so many lousy Dixie states from the old Confederacy and still fighting the civil war) did with attempts to PROHIBIT abortions. Stupid SCOTUS with no brains never saw this. And now I guess Kennedy believes “if you can’t beat them, then join them” – with his stupid idiotic asswipe crap about “anti-vax” vaccination position with no facts to back himself up.

Without the Fairness Doctrine, the media has become such an abysmal nightmare, it is unbelievable. During the Biden administration, how many times did the media put out good vibes about Biden’s accomplishments? How many times did the media keep broadcasting all the f***ing crap in front of crowds which the Man-baby gave us? People bought it, too.

How many times did I hear people AND the media complain about inflation during the Biden years? Many times. Yet the facts and figures told a different story and if one just looked at prices on the grocery shelves, one could see where there were increases and where there were not. If one was a skillful intelligent consumer on the DEMAND side of a capitalist market, they could have helped lower inflation even more. But no. Asswipe instant gratification Baby Boomers and younger HAD to have what they WANTED and never considered “what is it I NEED and how does that fall in line with prices?” Had the NEED outweighed the WANT, then one would have seen the price of beef short ribs to be over $10 per pound and dozen eggs to be over $5. There is no NEED for such when there are plenty of other options at lower prices. But no. Let us go along with the media and the result was to lambast Biden, Harris and the Democrats. You stupid jerks who cannot even discern the differences between what was right and what was wrong.

Furthermore, the environment for supply-side Reaganomics monopolies stupifies Americans. It has become far worse now than it was when we had more WWII generation people still with us. Don’t learn from history because the Republicans have done a number on civics and history education, let alone the information specialists in libraries who have been destroyed by the Republicans. Under leaders in business and education who were Democrats, I have witnessed business and education thrive with good results while Republicans worked to sabotage it all rather than work with others who were not so fixated on bulging pockets rather than a simple thing such as PROFITS. Profits not such a love of money that the executives bulge their pockets so much that we have seen an increase since the 1970s in salaries of those idiots in corporate board rooms increase more than 1000%. Ever check to see what has happened to the idea of living wages for common folk in that same time period? Something Bernie Sanders addresses. And where have jobs gone? Few can hold positions at the top and those jobs at the bottom have gone to other nations – nations which provide FREE HEALTH CARE while the billionaires of America with their freaking lousy puppet regime find ways to make it more difficult for common folk Americans to find jobs and receive adequate healthcare without going broke.

No. The reasons today’s fascist Republicans want to stupify Americans in this regard is this. It is all done for the whims of billionaires and others so as to get common folk on board the submarine which is heading for a crash on the ocean floor. And let us get scared by ICE and other maneuvering strategies by billionaires and their puppet regime run by a mentally ill bastard called the Man-baby.

I see the manipulation of the media to always show Trumpty Dumpty’s face on television, while all the good things Biden and Kamala accomplished are ignored, while the media is talking about bullshit like inflation, while it was actually decreasing and the Federal budget heading more towards a balance than towards insolvency which is used as a means to destroy Social Security and Medicare where the common folk have INVESTED their own money and don’t want it used for the Federal general budget items. Musk and others have devised this strategy towards insolvency of a government so as to use it as an excuse to STEAL from common folk and ignore the ROI we all deserve from money we put into that system. It is called SABOTAGE by Republican fascists doing the will of an autocratic oligarchy It is called THIEVERY by Republican fascists doing the will of an autocratic oligarchy. It is called VANDALISM by Republican fascists doing he will of the autocratic oligarchy.

The ones in control and power are the money lovers who stole rather than EARNED their way to the top. They did it to me and others like me in Florida who were laid off – as early a the 1990s. Sure. I should not be asking for a little “cheese with my w(h)ine” because after all, I got through it. I was lucky that I had friends who were Democrats who cared for me more than the Republicans who just went along with the fascists. But not all are so lucky to have had that. And I am not talking about Democrats who were leaders with handouts. I am talking about Democrats who often were NOT leaders but helped blaze a path of OPPORTUNITIES, not handouts. And that is the difference between the thievery of the wealthy who no longer make money the old fashioned way – the “earn it.”

The puppetry of the penis by the autocratic oligarchy needs to stop. Such asswipes make it easy to call Republicans Republi-dumss. Make it easy to see that the word Republican in the dictionary is found between “reptiles” and “repugnant.”

Anyone for cheese and wine, my friends and fellow common folk Americans? I’m ready! The “cheese” I hope for is a return to an environment with a Fairness Doctrine and recognition that hate speech and lying (slander) is NOT protected as free speech. That is my cheese with the wine.

Note: AI is supposed to work in WordPress. Seems it is being used to block me. So….

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I Luv NY

I “luv” NY. I am disgusted at the legislature not protecting products and business emanating from New York. I am told there is free license given to the distribution of California wines and beverages brewed by huge corporations like Budweiser.

For example. Where is Widmer wines? When I moved to Florida in 1983, after many years of the Nelson Rockefeller Regime and then replaced by Carey and the Cuomos, we watched as sales of New York wines in Florida were decimated – by California wines. Even in the restaurants today, IN NEW YORK STATE, try to purchase a glass of a New York State wine or New York produced 1911 hard apple ciders. Why are the huge wineries in California given favored treatment in New York? Why are we limited to big corporate conglomerate sales of hard apple cider? WHY?

Try to purchase 1911 apple cider in stores. Where is it? “We have Angry Orchard.” WHAT? Angry Orchard is produced by Budweiser, a huge corporate conglomerate. 1911 is produced by a company in New York from New York apples.

When IBM wanted incentives to remain in New York, what did Cuomo do about that, while other states were offering incentives to leave this state? Purportedly, it was just let go. It is time for a new day of economics and commerce in New York.It is time for someone like DeWitt Clinton who envisioned the development of commerce in New York with something people scoffed at and called “Clinton’s Ditch.” I am referring to the Erie Canal. According to a book titled, Wedding of the Waters, it was implied that even President George Washington was jealous of what Clinton was able to do in the 19th Century because there was no flat lands in Virginia to build a canal heading west. I would wager that it was the ticket George Washington used to convince New York to join with the other states in establishing the Federal Constitution, rather than refusing to join with the union of states we like to say is “America the beautiful,” rather than with a bunch of hawks ruining America with “bombs bursting in air.”

While living in Florida, I heard about Andrew Cuomo’s “economic zones.” When I returned to New York and asked about an “economic zone” in the Southern Tier, I was told, “What? What economic zone? Nothing has been done!” REALLY/

Where is the New York State Department of Commerce in promoting economic planning, growth, and development? When I was living in New York, we often viewed and heard the jingle for

With that jingle the New York Department of Commerce was identified. Where is it? Where are the “economic zones?” Where is the entrepreneurship? Instead, ICE deports a successful business owner of a Chinese restaurant while too many white folk with MAGA act like they are some kind of “victim” when all there is nothing but laziness and no appreciation for what our Forefathers in New York and the U.S.A. have passed on to us all these years.

And when I have asked what Assembly Person Christopher Friend has done for an “economic zone” in this area, I was told, “Friend has done nothing.”

Today, we there is a candidate who could be a TRUE FRIEND in the legislature. His name is Andy Fagan, retired director of the Tioga County Cornell Cooperative Extension. Consider a change. This change after how many years of the current “Friend?” Support Andy Fagan.

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New York Times Book Review (17 Dec. 2023): The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived – Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

The book, The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson, Jr and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age (by Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman) is about Thomas J. Watson, Jr., but also includes information about his upbringing under IBM founder, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and the Watson family. Senior is not presented in the best light and Junior is presented as quite a rebel who initially had no interest in taking the reigns at IBM. 

The review was published in the New York Times Book Review on 17 Dec. 2023. The byline is Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University, New York City. Mr. Wu also recently published, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. We are enticed to purchase both Wu’s book and the book he reviewed.

Much of what Wu writes here makes sense. For instance, he says the title of the book should not be about the “greatest capitalist,” but about the “greatest manager.” The reason is the ability of Junior to delegate rather than dictate. Junior accomplished a great deal at IBM, due to this approach. From the time I led groups as a teen to today, I have always tried to delegate and it works better than fighting between several groups because they “step on each other’s toes.” It was taught to me by my mother, who also had been a leader in our community and church. And I really agree that Junior is not the greatest capitalist who ever lived. In agreement with reviewer Wu, I think there are others who fit the bill for being the greatest capitalist, better than Junior. And many who are made out to be the best capitalist are the ones who only support supply-side Reaganomics and the trusts and monopolies which are evidently discussed in Wu’s book about the “curse of bigness.” Texas big really is bad for America, its commerce, and our economy. Sounds as if me and Wu are in agreement. But I need to read his book.

Related to this idea of bigness is what is learned by Wu in his review regarding AT&T pulling out of the computer business in the 1950s. However, it should be added that, after Junior, IBM became a model of “bigness” so strong that it controlled Reagan and our government. When the personal computer was introduced, AT&T, developer of the Unix operating system at Bell Labs, wanted to enter the PC market. According to a colleague in the corporation where I once worked in Florida, AT&T had a plan to use Unix as an operating system and work from the model of rental of telephones used to introduce PCs. In other words, like phones, AT&T’s vision was to rent computers for the home which would be run by a far superior operating system called Unix. Many people agree that Unix (now Linux) is better than the IBM / Microsoft DOS / Windows operating systems. 

Computer science professors I know are in agreement because Unix is a tight system, whereas the Microsoft “code” is too open and easily changed, thus PCs can be sabotaged too easily. The claim made by such professors was that Unix run by AT&T would be harder to sabotage and PC users would not have as much responsibility to watch over the code on their own computer. 

But why did IBM’s PC begin to predominate and AT&T once again, in the late 1980s, abandoned the market to IBM. Reagan supply-side economics and his friendly relations with GE and IBM. Reagan. The man who said in his 1981 inaugural address that “government is the problem.” Reagan pushed for government deregulation and supply-side economics which help create the “bigness” we see today in monopolistic style trusts. But in 1984, he pushed government to be involved in business, something he proclaimed should not be happening. Reagan. A big liar and hypocrite. 

In 1984, Reagan broke up AT&T. Reagan had the government choose between AT&T and IBM. As a result he forced control of big business be put in one company. He got the government involved rather than allow “free market” to take force. 

I had learned FORTRAN and COBOL while taking computer science courses at SUNY Utica/Rome. At the time, I was working for an U.S. Air Force contract at Griffiss Air Force base in Rome, NY. 

I also took courses learning how to use a DEC PDP-11. I learned Assembly Language on the PDP-11. I also learned Unix because the PDP-11 minicomputer utilized Unix. Sadly, DEC executives made the statement, something involved with really cuckoo vision of the future: that computers would never be used in the home! Where is DEC today?  

When employed by an “IBM shop” in Florida, I found out I was working in a division of the corporation with a vice-president who was pushing Unix and a minicomputer called the Fortune computer. My colleague was working on this and tried to convince this person (me) who has had many friends at IBM, that Unix was better and I needed to use the Fortune machine. At the time, I was not convinced, but I did something many people today refuse to do: I LISTENED to my colleague. In one sense, he made sense and I am open-minded, described by many as “thinking outside the box,” as one of my good characteristics. 

I began at the corporation before Reagan destroyed AT&T. After the destruction of AT&T, the vice-president for whom me and my colleague worked was forced to give up the Fortune Unix machine. In the process, the VP over IT decided to take my colleague into his organization, in return for allowing my VP’s organization to purchase IBM PCs and software with a Novell LAN. Ironically, in later years Novell became involved with Unix when AT&T no longer worked with it from Bell Labs. The full details of the tumultuous history of Unix can be found at a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix 

When I learned to use the IBM PCs with the Bill Gates (Microsoft) DOS / Windows environments, and having knowledge of Unix from my days of learning the system in upstate New York at SUNY, I found that my colleague was correct. The problem was I listened, but never took him seriously. Sadly, that is exactly how I get treated when I write and discuss many matters pertaining to our lives. No listening, only everyone thinking they are experts who dig in their heals thinking they are better than what I have to say. On the Air Force base, we often had a word for experts: ”drips under pressure.” Too many today who are like that, sad to say. 

After all, we all have something to offer to the lives in our community of people and to society. If one is in error, then it is best for that one person to acknowledge being in error, not cling to it like a “drip under pressure.” 

Related to this book is information from a documentary about Thomas J. Watson, Sr. He pulled himself up from his bootstraps, beginning with nothing, as he grew up here in upstate New York. While working for NCR, he worked to put competitors out of business. The Federal Justice system of regulation, pretty much begun by “trust buster” Teddy Roosevelt, called NCR to task for working to eliminate competition. Watson, Sr., almost ended up in jail, as other executives who were caught doing destruction to competitors. 

Some see this impact on Sr. as a learning experience, as he created IBM. In other words, when faced with jail, he did not dig in his heals, but went along. This is very unlike Trump today who simply digs in his heals for the wrongs he has done in attempting to work against the U.S. Constitution and inspire an insurrection on 6 January 2021. He has even indicated he wishes to be a dictator over the USA. 

Interestingly enough, Trump liked hypocritical Reagan who claimed government should not be involved in business and then got involved, on the side of IBM, in 1984, in destroying IBM’s competition. What if AT&T had NOT been destroyed and did have the opportunity to compete with IBM with phone systems which would be rented. Apple and the Smartphone eventually gave us something akin to “rental,” when we pay those huge costs to purchase a phone over time. I find it awful and would prefer having the AT&T model with Unix, as was a plan in the 1980s. But we will never know about the “what if….” will we? 

However, I look forward to reading this book about Thomas J. Watson, Jr. I agree with the reviewer, Wu, that Jr. might just be the best “manager,” but not the best capitalist. 

I also look forward to reading Wu’s book about ‘the curse of bigness” and what happens with anti-trust in the “gilded age.”

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Background & Solutions for America, Land I love

My American progenitor ancestor was named Thomas Cornell. As feuding began in England between Anglican Catholic followers of Queen Elizabeth and King James, Catholics subservient to the archbishop (?) of Rome (known as pope), and Puritans like Oliver Cromwell. Before Charles I was beheaded and the English civil war was fought. 

Thomas Cornell’s family escaped the tribulations of civil war by moving to Massachusetts Bay Colony and what is now downtown Boston. 

Thomas opened tavern in Boston. By the time Cromwell’s son relinquished position of Lord Protector and Charles II re-took throne, many Puritans fled and moved to Boston. 

As a result, these Puritans were creeps and control freaks with a desire to control other people’s lives by forcing others to do as they want.

People like Roger Williams and Baptists, with Anne Hutchinson. Were banished from Boston. 

Because Thomas Cornell refused to follow orders of anti-alcohol prohibitionists and close his tavern when they ordered it to be closed, Thomas and his family were banished from Boston, so they joined Williams and Hutchinson in the area known today as Rhode Island. 

Cornell built a home on a waterway where there was ease of access to transport commerce.  Thomas died in late 1600s. His wife, Hannah Briggs Cornell inherited home. The oldest son was Thomas Cornell, Jr. 

Thomas, Jr’s line of descent is the line for Ezra Cornell of Cornell University. 

My line of descent is by way of Thomas Cornell’s (Sr) son named Richard. Richard had moved to Flushing on Long Island. Rose were the years of the Dutch colony. Richard Cornell’s name was pronounced in Dutch way as Corne-velle. Thus, our branch became Cornwell. Those who remained many years in Rhode Island continued with name of Cornell, even after moving to New York and central New York following American Revolution.

In Rhode Island, in order to confiscate the Cornell property, puritanical ones were likely behind death of widow Rebecca Cornell and setting up an honest man as murderer of Rebecca. They had Thomas, Jr, wrongly executed with lies based on ghosts or apparitions. 

It is known that puritanical creeps pushed such actions and accusations about witchcraft so as to confiscate property, as puritanical Fidel Castro did in Cuba. Dictators. Pushing authoritarianism based on selfishness and greed, just as Hiitler also did in Germany in the 1930s. Just as Trump, DeSantis, with Republican goons attempt to do by firing up puritanical creepy control freaks today. 

Puritans don’t truly believe in love as taught by Jesus Christ, but believe the world only works well if everyone denounces alcohol, drugs. LGBTQ, abortions, drag shows, true history about people of color and Jews, and immigrants; all who don’t believe as authoritarian Puritans believe. 

MAGA and Trump, with others, maintain and endorse  thoughts just like puritanical dictators of the 20th Century did. As Putin (pu(ri)tin) with puritanical Russian Orthodox church does. 

This “new world order” was pushed by Anti-Christ GHW Bush with his false thousand lights. Too many stupid people, pushed by multi-million dollar evangelists and TV evangelists have grabbed hold of the BS of this “new world order.”

Their method is divide and conquer. They perpetrate the destruction of true Christians, many who endorse progressive Christian ideas, while these true Christians, due to loud voices of puritanical ones, are stereotyped as being evil and chase people away because they are confused about who God is and such people become atheists who even attack progressive Christians. Divide and conquer, in the name of the puritanical Anti-Christ. 

These puritanical control freaks, with divide and conquer attitudes, are destroying America by dividing America. Their methods involve sabotaging good people like President Biden and Democrats in their goals to solve America’s problems by learning from history and applying what is learned in order to help America progress through the 21st Century in a humanitarian way. All for the sake of generations to come.

If I point out how history teaches us that 18th and 19th Century wealthy Americans endorsed paying taxes and contributed their wealth for the sake of America, am I going to be squelched by puritanical ones who defend the wealthy greedy brats today and call my analysis politics and don’t allow my teaching of history? 

Perhaps such puritanical brats won’t allow me to explain how a  wealthy person named Royal W. Clinton gave his money to build a PUBLIC high school after taxpayers voted it down? Because wealthy ones today don’t follow words of assassinated President JFK who said, “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, ” so therefore I am censored because, as puritanical creeps cast aspersions on me as “talking politics?” It is to learn from history, not talking politics, so go shove those thoughts where the sun don’t shine.

Or maybe learning from history is about considering that America was wrongly sent to Vietnam by the influence of greedy Texas oil men, so we need to consider whether we still fight over oil and pipelines for oil? I am squelched, censored in saying this because of finding evidence in history from which America can learn from this history. It is called censorship based on, “we don’t talk about politics.” In other words, destroy democracy by not allowing people to learn from history because it is “politics” and being part of a democracy. 

Politics is democracy so I don’t accept killing politics because it destroys democracy.

It is better to return the Fairness Doctrine which was unilaterally destroyed by fascist loving puritanical control freak and creep GHW Bush who was like the Manchurian candidate. For the Fairness Doctrine was designed to endorse freedom of speech, but to stop lies, hatred, slander from being told by making certain any of that shit had to have a counterpoint with truth or else could not be aired or printed.

Eliminate gerrymandering by creating congressional district based on geographic jurisdiction in which boundaries remain static, but dynamic changes made each decade by changing the weighted ratio of each representative when voting. No more gerrymandering, which is NOT a provision of the U.S. Constitution.

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Fascist Tyranny in America

As a lifetime member of NEA/AFT/UFF, I share this information with you.

We have been told that there is an organization with a great name distributing anti-union, anti-collective bargaining leaflets to union members in Florida.  The group calls itself the Freedom Foundation. 

Now, let’s get this straight.  There is nothing wrong with any group distributing information.  Here are two things about this group.  (1) Freedom Foundation sounds great.  A great name.  Everyone wants freedom. (2) the group refuses to reveal its donors. 

In other words.  A negative group of cowards.  Want to remain hidden while trashing unions. 

They apparently may be preying in states like Florida which is a “right to work” state.  But they are a nationwide group. 

All the years I was in Florida, there was a push to maintain “right to work” laws.  What it meant was this.  Right to work actually means “right to work” as long as you have never belonged to a union.  They are scared cowards.  There were a number of us who were never hired at St. Petersburg Junior College for full time positions, due to a coward of a president at that college who checked backgrounds of everyone who applied there and if he discovered you once belonged to a union, he refused to hire full time.  I was one of them.  I had worked in the public schools in New York and was a member of NYEA/NEA here in New York. 

What this SOB of a college president did was force me to pick up my family and move, selling a house which, had I been able to remain, I would have paid off in 2018.  Instead, I still had a mortgage and have one here in New York.  Due to a bastard at St. Petersburg Junior College.

These people are running scared.  I did have a wonderful job at Palm Beach Community College, working both full time and night time.  St. Petersburg Junior College and I was only able to work part time.  But, I worked with some wonderful faculty in Palm Beach as we increased our union membership from 40% to 80%, doubling our membership.  I give myself a pat on the back, along with the others there who accomplished this, as a team.  In other areas of Florida, colleges have brought in unions, one after the other.  DeSantis and company is running scared at this.  In fact.  I am happy to report that just two years ago, St. Petersburg College (once St. Petersburg Junior College) has now unionized.  DeSantis and others are livid.  So they are pulling out all the stops for “union busting.”  It is more than just anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Jewish, but also anti-union.  Sorry to say this, but DeSantis is one hell of a bastard. 

The whole idea of these Republicans, since supply-side economics was pushed, is to remove balance in society.  Unions provide balance, as long as they don’t push the envelope too far and make it unbalanced in favor of unions.  Some might argue that was the problem in the auto industry with the UAW.  Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  But Reagan’s destruction of AT&T was truly about union busting under the guise of “deregulation.”  Deregulation is another form of dis-rupting economic balance, as well as supply side economics which is destructive to the demand side of the market.  Deregulation causes monopolies and centralized control similar to the centralized commune system in the former Soviet Union. 

When the 1% of stockholders in the regulated company for which I worked, were allowed to have “secret” stockholder meetings so as to destroy the company and make it what was good for the wealthiest – with a hatred of Franklin D. Roosevelt who put in place the BALANCES, thousands of us needlessly lost jobs at a corporation which was doing so well, it was considered a “cash cow.”  Ripe for the pickings of greedy criminals with the most money.  The IBEW at that company was also destroyed in the process, although I was not a member of the IBEW.

Now these Republicans are working to destroy balance in organizations with unions.  This is added to the attempts to destroy the very checks and balances built into our democratic form of government, established by our Founding Fathers. 

So, I ask everyone to watch out for a bunch of greedy liars and the “Freedom [NOT] Foundation.  For they are perverted cowards who hide their money.  They would be the first ones to not want money paid to unions hidden.  They think they are above the law.  This group of traitors to democracy and balance need to be stopped.  A vote for a Republican is a vote for fascist tyranny, not “politics.” 

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Federal Deficit

Morning newspaper story. President Biden attempting to work with McCarthy & Repubs on debt ceiling today!

Anybody understand history & what Fed budget is abt? If not, then I advise Americans to learn.

1. The House has say over budget and works it out with President. Why did stupid jerks use a nonsense hatred over Pelosi to put these Goddamn stupid Repubs in charge? Evidently un-intelligent stupid ones putting hatred of individual over process. Congress now seated based on voters with lowest level of intelligence with slander and lies against other human beings (i.e., Molinaro of 19) rather than discuss this isssue of budgeting, with intelligence and reasoning abt issue, not lies abt people. Scumbag liars who we need their heads on a platter.

2. Under Trump, the deficit rose. Since Biden, deficit has improved. Now bastard Repubs blame Dems.  Biden is to blame? You Goddamn bastards who say this.

3. When Reagan was in power, we suffered recession and inflation. Yet, the bastards remains popular and the basis for opposition to Biden. Grow up you snooty snotty little immature brats.

4. Reagan complained because House under Tip O’Neil had such control over budget. In California had line-item veto. Reagan moaned and groaned he did not have this at Federal level. First representation of freaking Repub desire for dictatorship. In other words, get rid of expenditures Repubs don’t like. To he’ll with what Dems who better represent people, not piggish corporate conglomerates (supply side) of Repub selfishness want.

Get a life. Get rid of nasty Repub leadership, before it is too late.

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How Did We Get to Where We Are Today?

I will keep this as short as possible. After all, I am not good enough to have an article the length of a columnist in a newspaper. I am only one of the “others” who writes letters to editors and restricted to a certain length. If more people would read newspapers and the columnists which ONCE were part of the newspapers, this nation might be doing better than it is. Only hope will tell.

The PBS documentary series about Pioneers of Television, like all other PBS documentaries, has been great. A learning tool to enhance the brain cells in our skull! Mom always said, use the brain God gave you. Or. Mind over matter is what Dr. Peale’s message about power of positive thinking was about, not about wishful thinking.

The Pioneers series is on every Monday night. Here in the Binghamton area, it is broadcast on WSKG. Oh, that’s right. Don’t talk about broadcast television because the captains of industry have defined streaming television as what the “in” crowd should like. I don’t follow the “in” crowd, so there. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Each week it is a different topic. The comedy. The drama. The variety show (now there is an antiquated thing) which we need today rather than the manure piled in our faces with violence, violence, and more violence. Guns and bombs, too. No wonder we have a violent society. Blame the guns, but ignore this prevalent manure in the faces of Americans. I don’t blame the guns, except the automatic weapons which should not be available. I blame the captains of industry over the media who find they can make more money from violence and lies on television. Is it that the ones watching are sickos or the ones at the top, with money, are sickos? You might guess my answer.

At any rate, my messages are long because, as with this last part, I diverged into the topic of variety shows on television. Sorry. My apologies.

What I have INTENDED to focus on is the episode in the Pioneers of Television series on evening soap operas. Those old enough to remember may recall the ones about the elitist fat pigs, or Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest (I loved Falcon Crest because it starred Ronald Reagan’s first wife, Jane Wyman; I loved watching her more than her one-time husband). Middle class (upper) was one titled Knot’s Landing. In these pioneers, I would take a nighttime soap opera out of Australia (ran from 2008-2013), Packed to the Rafters, because it demonstrates the TRUE struggles of the financially strapped Middle Class, not the upper Middle Class. It demonstrated the fighting which can occur within a family, but how ultimately a family CAN pull together. It represents a model of reality which DOES exist in some families. So this program is not an example of “pioneers” of evening soap opera, but mention it as a later edition of evening soap opera, after the 1980s and 1990s.

On this Pioneers documentary, Mary Martin’s son and star of Dallas, Larry Hagman, was interviewed (as were Patrick Duffy who played little brother, Bobby Ewing, and other members of the Dallas cast, during years long after their “pioneering effort”).

Hagman’s comments pretty much go along with the egomaniac character he portrayed, JR Ewing. He bragged that the series Dallas was more responsible for “tear down that wall, Mr. Gorbachev” than the credit given to Ronald Reagan for making that statement.

Perhaps Hagman is correct? Well, by saying this, he identifies one of the problems of America today. One-minded thinking, whether correct or not. Many examples of this exist today Hochul is terrible due to ONE THING. Yet, all the nasty crap Trump, Rick the Prick, McConnell, DeSatan, and others do and we look the other way. With Repugnicans, we look the other way. With Democrats, one-track minds zero in on ONE THING, ignoring all the good things. Hagman may be correct, but there are other examples which validate that wall falling, besides JR Ewing and Ronald Reagan.

1. The Coca-Cola company began to extend itself worldwide. It expanded its sales in communist Soviet Union. The common folk loved it and drank it up, while, according to Hagman, the wealthy at that time (and yes, in spite of claims that there are no classes in a communist system, that is liar, liar, pants on fire).

2. The Coca-Cola company put forth advertisements with the Hillside Singers about the world singing in harmony. If the Soviet common folk viewed the ads, it could have been more from Voice of America, not JR Ewing or Soviet television. Perhaps?

3. It was written that Soviet dictators like Breshnev, like JR Ewing, owned vacation homes. The common folk, or “comrades,” did not because they could not afford them. Do I believe that the common folk of Russia, today, own the same type of vacation home which dictator Putin likely owns? No. Has it improved since the days of JR Ewing? Maybe. But by how much?

4. There were secretive lousy wealthy ones from the Soviet Union infiltrating Western society, long before JR Ewing. So JR Ewing did not create them. They already existed. They were considered better than their “comrades.”

With these four examples (and there could be more), I have to conclude that it is possible Larry Hagman’s remarks are not quite accurate. That historical evidence over time can prove he was not accurate in his statement.

Interestingly enough, the documentary also mentions that brother Bobby Ewing was so popular on the series that when they tried to “kill him off,” fans around the world objected. So, they made the “death scene” a dream, at the beginning of the following series. The documentary goes on to say that Bobby Ewing was the alternative to the greed of JR Ewing. In fact, that Bobby Ewing proved that business could be run WITHOUT greed and selfishness. I was one of the fans of Bobby Ewing, plus his wife (played by Victoria Principal???). I also felt sorry for the way JR’s wife, Suellen was treated by the greedy bastard, JR.

If many fans around the world loved Bobby, the one who proved it does not take greed to run a business, then why do we have so much greed from money-worshipers today who are attempting to dictate our lives? If today’s world and the crumbling of the iron curtain was done because of a love of JR Ewing, who really were the ones who loved him and why do they have so much power, as does Putin and other former communists who run Russia today and work to destroy Ukraine? Greed. Selfishness. Egomaniacs. Sure. Likely modeled after JR Ewing.

But what about the fan base, primarily common folk, who loved Bobby Ewing? They don’t worship money and don’t have as much money, so they evidently don’t have the right to control the lives of the world with a Bobby Ewing attitude. Perhaps Larry Hagman’s statement is correct, but only in the sense that those like JR Ewing and their money worship are controlling society. The influence of Putin over America might be part of it. But what about the wealthy moles in the USA an Western civilization who are lethal to our Western society, out of love for and worship of money? What about the Russian Orthodox and other churches who put more emphasis on money and don’t help those in the world whom Jesus Christ wanted to help, but help the wealthy greedy selfish egomaniac money worshipers/lovers like Putin and others, such as Trump, DeSantis, Rick the Prick, the Bush family… other Repugnicans. They don’t give one damn about the human race, only about their definition of being human. Actually they don’t know what it means to be a civilized human being.

Once again. Perhaps Larry Hagman was somewhat correct in his statement on Pioneers of Television. But he does not have a comment which is the end-all.

Side note. Larry Hagman’s mom, Mary Martin, played the role of BOY, not a girl. Peter Pan. She also was the original Maria Von Trapp in the Broadway production of The Sound of Music. We know about Julie Andrews as Maria in the film version. And Julie Andrews also played a role in Victor/Victoria, too. Stuff that up your rear, DeSatan of Florida.

I am not backing down on pointing out the trash of egomaniacs like DeSatan of Florida. To Jebbie. I insist on standing my ground on this issue, except for one thing. I don’t carry a gun. You perverted ones who work to destroy America and its democracy and replace it with an authoritarian regime similar to the Hitler and Stalin regimes.

You bastard, Tucker Carlson, can invent all the crap you wish to invent about Pete Buttigieg, and then sit behind a smoke screen of hatred for gay folk and homosexuality. That way, you can validate what you say in the form of lies, with that smoke screen present. Also, I have evidence that same-sex couples do a great job of raising their adopted children and those children are NOT always gay. That is because God is the Creator, not humans. I can prove that, in many cases, gay couples do a better job in raising kids than many heterosexual couples, especially those who fear their child is gay and want to ban anything in the schools and in books which might help young kids come to grips with who they are. Fear drives these bastard heterosexuals. Or are some of them doing this because they are actually REPRESSED homosexuals? They are the worst ones. 😊🙏🖖

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Maureen Dowd op-ed, “Tomorrow’s A.I.: Actively Insidious,” New York Times, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023

Dear Editors:

Maureen Dowd was great in comparing an Artificial Intelligence “fantasy” to writing like Shakespeare.  It was rather humorous.  And the point made about how we may all be relegated to being like a “family pet,” was a remarkable comment about what A.I. may do to us all. 

Fantasy and reality are important aspects of this issue.  Many of us found reality being pulled out from beneath us as Reagan implemented his “Star Wars” program in the military.  It cost the taxpayers much money and was worth nothing.  At the time, we were working with a U.S. Air Force project to examine the best practices for reliably producing software with consideration of the most productive software engineering practices.  Reagan “Star Wars” ruined the project for reality by using “fantasy” for nowhere’s ville. 

We need reality.  President Joe Biden talks about working towards reality by proposing infrastructure work to improve the semiconductor industry which barely exists in the USA and is threatened by a takeover from Communist China of the Chinese island of Taiwan where most of the semiconductor industry now operates.  The USA would be more controlled by Communists than the conspiracy lies indicate by attacking one another in America and falsely calling some people “communists” or “socialists.”  President Biden is wrongly labeled as “Sloppy Joe” and God knows what other crap hurled at him.  He wants to improve the needs of this nation, economically, and does not wish to be affixed to Communist China when our military needs semiconductors.  It makes more sense to call President Biden Proactive Joe. 

Similarly, a Democratic Party Congressperson in upstate New York loses to Trump-funded Tenney in central New York, after successfully working to have military contracts handing out money to foreign nations and bringing them back to USA concerns in upstate New York.  The man loses to Trumpster Claudia Tenney by how many votes?  Something like only 100 votes, after the recounts?  Hope that I am correct on that count of numbers.  So Brindisi gives up and moves on to something else.  When I wanted to give up on something and do another activity, in high school, I had a high school teacher convince me that we don’t give up.  Perhaps Brindisi needs to learn what the late Nick Rucco taught me. 

With both of these examples, I have to ask the nerds of Silicone Valley how they intend to do well with A.I. if the semiconductors and other “digerati” obsessed are produced outside this nation?  Oh, I get it!  That way the stupidity of those supporting Trump, Repugnicans, and digerati can blame the fantasy world they create on a sloppy Joe, right?  Gosh.  To lame things on a roll stuffed with ground beef and sauce.  How humanly intelligent.   And, as Maureen Dowd concludes, “then we’ll need our dog bowls.”

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Thank you, Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi was correct in her statements about Google monopoly. Any company like Google which makes the consumers on the demand side of the market feel helpless by changing settings without the permission of the person who owns the computer is in violation of that person’s right to run the computer as the person sees fit to do. What is worse is the way the installation of an app on a person’s computer is hidden so one cannot remove such a Google app. Go to uninstall and try to do an uninstall of Google Drive. What is the message? “Program is still active so cannot be uninstalled.” ACTIVE? WHERE? Try to find where it is active. All designed to confuse the consumer in the same way as Trump snippets and other crap from Repugnican hateful liars, slanderers, or those who use baseball bats against human beings, like the Mafia, in order to scare people into submission. If one is not a wimp, as are some in the Democratic and Republican Parties (remain nameless), then you are safe. Otherwise they fear those who stand up for what is right, like Nancy Pelosi, and dredge up lies and baseball bats to try to win – as with Machiavellian theory – the ends justifies the means. That means, it matters not how vicious, vengeful, and barbaric Repugnicans can be, the end justifies the means.

I am a Lincoln Republican who got sick of the Repugnican Party of Florida. I am a proud Yankee who is sick and tired of Repugnicans and their lies, slander and libel which is used with snippets on Facebook or Twitter to attack those who take a stand for the people. I take a stand for WE THE PEOPLE. I believe in what Thomas Jefferson wrote, “all men are created equal.” Except I put that in the context of the 21st Century and say, “all human beings are created equal.” Thomas Jefferson got a fight in the 18th Century in trying to put it that way. Where did the trouble derive? From Dixie states of Georgia and the Carolinas where the white male bastards were fearful of what it meant to be equal to others. Sad to say. But by building up Dixie over the past 50 to 60 years, America is heading back in the same direction of what Thomas Jefferson faced in the 18th Century.

Repeat. I am in favor of WE THE PEOPLE, the first three words of the U.S. Constitution. I am in favor of the statement, “all human beings are created equal.” And to take it one step further and be real blunt. If an older woman is raped (see Stanley Kubrik’s A Clockwork Orange) and ends up pregnant, the life of the fetus is NOT MORE IMPORTANT than the life of an older woman. Medical science can prove the risks to an older woman’s LIFE due to a pregnancy at an older age. This example points out a life and death circumstance for older women.

But it applies to any woman because their life CAN be threatened, especially under any circumstances.

In my mind, there is a fine line when considering no threat to the woman and no rape. In this case, there are more PROACTIVE choices for contraception and abortion becomes a reactionary choice.

An interesting point. The ones who support reproductive rights are considered liberal or progressive (socially progressive as we were called when I was a Republican). That is also referred to as being proactive or, as taught in the Boy Scouts, “be prepared.” Abortion as a contraceptive choice is reactionary, not progressive and proactive. Who are the ones opposed to abortion? Those who love being reactionary. Abortion as a contraception choice is reactionary, not proactive. No consistency which can create something called, “common sense.”

Makes me wonder whether it is the reactionary ones, opposed to abortions, who are secretly obtaining abortions. Possibility because I recall Roman Catholics who claimed to oppose contraception but used them anyway. We were told to keep that information”a secret.” “Keep it a secret when some Roman Catholic guy had a vasectomy.”

Jesus Christ called such people hypocrites. So, we have five Roman Catholics on the SCOTUS. I can stereotype them as all being hypocrites. Should I? Most were placed there by Repugnicans, with the help of big business PACs who put money before the interests of the people of America. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union… All human beings are created equal.

And the love of money is evil and usually behind the promotion of waging war. Putin, an atheist, uses the Russian Orthodox Church to promote his war. Cannot criticize the Russians without pointing out how much Repugnicans in America use Christian churches to promote war among our own people. Or. To point out how Texas oil men used money as the basis for sending Americans to Vietnam in the 1960s.

We the people and we are all created equal. The foundation of America. Go ahead. Hate what I say. Or perhaps hate ME because I say it. If it bothers you when I say this, perhaps it is because you just want to have fun in life and what I say might interrupt your fun? Your life of putting a foto of the food you ate last night on Facebook. Just what we love to see, right? But hey, it’s fun!

And when such hate permeates America to such a large degree, what will America get? Something better? ‘Splain it to me, please.

Thank you, Nancy Pelosi, for your service to we the people, all created equal as children of God. Thank you, Nancy Pelosi for not being a Democratic Party wimp who turns over and plays “dead.” Sorry there are so many Repugnicans in America who are afraid of people who promote “we the people” and that all human beings are created equal, the foundation of America. My ancestors who were wealthy in America and helped build this nation (not avoid paying taxes), lived and died for this nation, would be pleased.

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